An Amazing Afternoon In The California Desert...

Did You Know? - Shrimp cocktail, also known as prawn cocktail, is a seafood dish consisting of "shelled prawns in mayonnaise and tomato dressing, served in a glass". It was the most popular hors d'?uvre in Great Britain from the 1960s to the late 1980s. In North America, the sauce is red, essentially ketchup plus horseradish. In other areas, the sauce is pink, based on a mixture of ketchup (tomato sauce) and mayonnaise, which can be called Marie Rose sauce , although it is commonly referred to as Thousand Island dressing, even in the UK.

Shrimp Cocktail a' la' Kuhn is a secret receipt only known by Vicky Kuhn but rumor has it that it contains the normal ingredients plus Tequila, eye of newt, frog toe-nails, hummingbird tounges, and boiled-out table cloth stains.

Did You Know? - Wayne Pulcini, singer, songwriter, sax player, keyboardist, music arranger.? Wayne has been performing almost all his life.

Born in Philadelphia, PA., he honed his skills at an early age playing piano, then clarinet in the school band.? His first paid gig was with a quartet of kids including Joe Vega, drummer and understudy for movie star Sal Mineo.? They played the Famous Papa De Carlo?s Restaurant in Los Angeles, a known hangout of Franklinites, Dino, and the Rat Pack.? At the age of 10, Wayne wasp art of a troupe of young musicians playing venues in and around L. A.? They also performed for the troops in Oceanside in the late 1950?s.?? .?
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One month before the age of 18, Wayne was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War.? That same year he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Earning the rank of Staff Sergeant, he ultimately became a maintenance crew chief on B-52 bombers. During his years in the service, he also managed to form a band and played N.C.O and Officers Clubs throughout the U.S. and overseas.
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After his discharge in 1970, Wayne moved back to Los Angeles.?He performed in local clubs, wrote jingles for commercials, did some studio work and finally got noticed.? Wayne signed his first recording contract in 1971 with a small company from Hollywood.?After some minor success and a couple of regional hits around the country, his contract was bought out by a larger record company.?Many more regional hits followed.?

Wayne toured often, playing venues from coast to coast gaining a big fan base while promoting his record releases all over the U.S. ?His home was Los Angeles where he performed for years in clubs and theaters.? ?As it so often happens, timing and big breaks were not in the cards.? He took a sabbatical and moved to New Mexico in the mid1980?s.? He concentrated on writing and performing in a less hectic environment while starting on a new path into the restaurant business.?After years in the food business, the stage again was calling and opportunities came along once again to travel and play music.

Did You Know? - Paul teased Monica about the Keen's raising pet Aardvarks... In the corral below the dance floor area.

It is sometimes colloquially called "antbear", "anteater", or the "Cape anteater" after the Cape of Good Hope. The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means "earth pig" or "ground pig" (aarde earth/ground, varken pig), because of its burrowing habits (similar origin to the name groundhog).

The aardvark is not closely related to the pig; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae. The aardvark is not closely related to the South American anteater, despite sharing some characteristics and a superficial resemblance.