Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A little wind chime we got in Taos many years ago.

It's hanging on a wall in the family room so it doesn't do a lot of chiming.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Another horse hair pottery turtle from Madrid.

Others of the herd can be seen here.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

From my underwear drawer.

(Sensitive people who have been living in a cave for the last six months should not click on the following link!)  Does anybody need an Anthony Weiner-like shot of these?

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A plaque from our recent visit to Taos.

Magic Meryle Cohen on the Rosie Show

Remember the exciting news about Ms. Magic Meryle Cohen, Cohen the Violinist, being filmed by the Rosie Show's crew? Be prepared for more excitement!

We set our DVR to record each episode of the Rosie Show so we'd be sure to see Magic Meryle. The show runs each weeknight. I had a bunch of the shows recorded and finally decided that I needed to free up the DVR's disk space. So I started playing the shows. I'd start the playback then hit the fast forward button a couple of times. Each episode would fly by in just about two minutes. I'd go through a couple of weeks of shows each evening.

Last Friday night I was coming to the end of what we had recorded. I was flying through the show recorded the night before and there she was! Magic Meryle Cohen! On coast-to-coast television.

Meryle had sent me a note before Labor Day asking if I knew anyone who could record the Oprah channel. She didn't say why she wanted to know but a Google search filled me in. I told her that my friend Ray gets that cable channel and has a DVD recorder. Meryle didn't get a message from Rosie telling her when her segment was going to be shown. Neither did I. So I hadn't known to ask Ray to record that episode. I thought that we were going to have to get our DVR and Ray's DVD recorder together.

I sent Meryle a note saying that I had recorded her episode and I would need to arrange to get it recorded when I could get our DVR over to Ray's DVD recorder.

Then it occurred to me that the Rosie Show was probably repeated. Sure enough, the Thursday episode was reaired three or four times on Friday. But that was too late. Well, lordy, it was aired one last time Saturday at noon!

I discovered this too late to make phone calls to see if Ray could record it for me so I sent emails and text messages. Fortunately, Ray was able to set up his DVD recorder to record the Magic Meryle episode before he left town for the afternoon. Thanks, Ray!

I made a couple of copies of the show for Meryle.

This evening Jerry and I took the DVDs over to the Oceanside Sunset Market. Today is the first Thursday of the month, the day that Meryle said she plays there. I had sent an email asking if she would be playing there tonight but I hadn't gotten a reply. We went up and down all the streets of the market, DVDs in hand, looking for her but Magic Meryle was not to be found.

I didn't want to lug the DVDs around so we took them back to the car then went back to look at the booths of the market. Jerry bought something that might show up some Tuesday.

After we had seen everything a couple of times we gave up hope and were about to leave. We decided to make one more loop around the market.

As we passed by one booth Jerry grabbed my sleeve and said "There she is!" She saw me and excitedly introduced me to the vendor she was visiting. She hadn't been playing yet because the tips aren't too good for the first couple of hours of the market.

We learned that the day they filmed her was a really nice day. They filmed several hours of her day. It was edited down to four minutes or so. They thought that some of what was recorded that didn't make it to the show would be posted on the Rosie Show's web site. But, alas, that doesn't seem to have happened.

Magic Meryle was amazed that they would send a crew out to California to film her. Apparently Rosie is going to do this with other of her pen-pals. Oprah must have deep pockets.

We went back to the car to retrieve the DVDs. Magic Meryle was thrilled to get them. She hadn't yet seen her network television debut. I hope she's happy with the result.

Here's the Magic Meryle Cohen segment of the Rosie Show.



I thought the tune she plays at the end was an odd choice. Magic Meryle explained it. Now it makes sense.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A soapstone plate from Kenya, seen with a soapstone egg and Eames elephant we've seen before.