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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both backwards and forwards, and now it is time for you to post until the backwards cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: GAMBOGE!
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Morning all.
That is all.
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I guess I've become the new morning man by default.
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Back to my oatmeal with pecans, cranberries and cinnamon and coffee.
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Best of luck on your signing today, BK.
I'm sure it will be a SMASH!
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I'm in Los Angeles, but still on Austin time.
Saw my friend, Michael Ansara, yesterday. Had dinner with my son and brother.
A very nice, albeit tiring, day.
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Good morning, all! I slept late. Last night I dreamed I was a policeman and I was shot in the back of the head while I was sitting in a police car. The person also sitting in the car held me down while I was shot several times in the back before the coup de grace. It was an unsettling dream and the second one I recall about my being murdered. The other dream, in which I was dismembered, happened while I loved in Ohio, around 35 years ago.
I still don't know why yesterday was such a long and exhausting day, but I am not happy about it. I am happy the miners were rescued.
DR Jose, I think the soprano problem is solved,although with recording schedules and vocal problems I won't be certain till it's over. Last night, my bass sent me an email; asking me to send him three of the seven of the songs he's recording since he's misplaced his copies. I can pull the music and run to Staples to copy them but I have no idea where to send them until I hear back from him. I don't know if he's in Buffalo or in Manhattan singign BORIS GODUNOV at the Met. So, I wait for further information.
DR cillaliz, Little Ricky has got me very much wanting a kitten, which I cannot do, so you need to post more photos of him.
Beyond that, I've got some work here. First, breakfast and coffee.
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Listening to Russell Davies on BBC Radio 2
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What a dream Larry! What will JR say about it?
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Question for BK: What do you think of this open investment plan for the upcoming GODSPELL B'way revival (http://www.peopleofgodspell.com/)? Do you think you might put in $1000?
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That was one disturbing dream, DR Elmore!
I've had dreams in which I murdered someone, but not getting murdered myself...
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And the word of the day is: GAMBOGE!
GAMBOGE--wasn't that a 60's suspense/thriller starring Michael Caine and Audrey Hepburn?
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And the word of the day is: GAMBOGE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: MELLOW YELLOW
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My question for BK: With all the interviews, readings, and press your autobio is getting are you noticing a considerable uptick in sales from your previous books...and has it helped the sales of your other books as well as the autobio?
I certainly hope so!
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GEORGE-
Received THE package
The Transfer is Great
I Thank You Greatly
There Should be Something Coming Your Way Pretty Soon
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I was awake every hour on the hour from 4am on. . .yet, when I was sleeping, I was sleeping well.
Had one very odd dream about my meds being the wrong meds, and another one of all of the neices on my father's side of the family welcoming me into a house on a hilltop. . .
Bad sinuses this morning, but a salt-water gargle and a very hot shower has helped.
A little bit of diverticuli spasms, but, I'll knock that feeling out with a Tylenol or two.
Off to the library for now.
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Feel better vibes for DR John G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I'm sort of annoyed with NBC. I have been watching the Event on Saturday nights and it was scheduled for this saturday. Then yesterday they cancelled the new show The Outlaw (is that the name?) and are running the last 4 episodes on saturdays. So they are taking off The Event. If they had done this before the show aired on Monday I could have recorded it on Monday. I guess I will have to watch it online instead.
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DR ELMORE - the Dream O Matic 6000 says that your dream is about your feelings of being stabbed in the back and hindered for doing your job well, and that knowing more than others makes you a target.
DR td - your dream shows lack of confidence in your doctors or perhaps feelings that they are treating only a portion of your symptoms, also a change is in order for your life, though you are not sure what it is.
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
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Book signing attendance vibes for MR BK - and casting vibes as well.
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LA vibes for DR DRUXY.....when is your M/I signing?
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Kind of quiet today, although I expect a houseful of company and I have no place to go to get out of it.
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Feel better vibes for DR JOHNG.
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Thank you, Jennifer and JRand. I'm able to focus a little more this morning. Hopefully, I can get some work done today. Head still feels like a pinata that's been whacked a few too many times.
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My question for ASK BK day.....what is your favorite Ronald Stein score? And your favorite Les Baxter score?
SADISMO is most entertaining, to be sure.
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td, I think I'm going to follow your lead on the hot shower and gargle. both sound wonderful. Glad they helped you.
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LA vibes for DR DRUXY.....when is your M/I signing?
Sunday (17) at 2 pm.
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Friday Night is Music Night!
I know, I know, it's Wednesday. But I'm on BBC iPlayer.
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Page 1 but not for long
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And here we go.
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A Portrait of My Love for a tribute to Matt Monro
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Good Morning Ben
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thanks DR DRUXY.
Matt Monro - what a terrific singer!!!
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DR ELMORE - the Dream O Matic 6000 says that your dream is about your feelings of being stabbed in the back and hindered for doing your job well, and that knowing more than others makes you a target.
DR td - your dream shows lack of confidence in your doctors or perhaps feelings that they are treating only a portion of your symptoms, also a change is in order for your life, though you are not sure what it is.
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
Wow! DR JRand60, that's an amazing analysis. I have to say that while your analysis was something I'd never reach (I aways fear it's a premonition), there is much truth to your comments on several of my jobs.
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Morning Arnold!
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DR ELMORE - the Dream O Matic 6000 says that your dream is about your feelings of being stabbed in the back and hindered for doing your job well, and that knowing more than others makes you a target.
DR td - your dream shows lack of confidence in your doctors or perhaps feelings that they are treating only a portion of your symptoms, also a change is in order for your life, though you are not sure what it is.
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
Wow! DR JRand60, that's an amazing analysis. I have to say that while your analysis was something I'd never reach (I aways fear it's a premonition), there is much truth to your comments on several of my jobs.
That's why I get paid the BIG BUCKS.
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DR BEN now I want to find my Matt Monro LP's!
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thanks DR DRUXY.
Matt Monro - what a terrific singer!!!
I agree. I was introduced to his recordings by the wonderful Judy Haring, who owned Associated Music the company that printed beautful music paper. Judy's late husband Robert was a music copyist who worked for Robert Russell Bennett and Hershy Kay.
But I digress. Did you know that Matt Monro was one of the boyfriends of British physique photographer John Barrington, the man who discovered and uncovered John Hamill, DR MBarnum?
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DR JRand60, what did you think of the Dorothy Provine transfers?
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DR George!! Thank you SO MUCH for the deeveedees! Can't wait to share them with my peeps!
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Wednesday morning greetings! After today's cardiac rehab session, I have the challenge of visiting my mother. She seems to think I'm some kind of invalid and shouldn't be driving and such. What she either doesn't understand or doesn't want to think about is that I'm probably in better shape than I was back in June when I drove her to Illinois and back.
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DR JRand60, what did you think of the Dorothy Provine transfers?
Sweet and lovely.....thanks for sharing!
Didn't know about Mr Munro and Mr Barrington.
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DR George!! Thank you SO MUCH for the deeveedees! Can't wait to share them with my peeps!
DR EDISAURUS - Amazon.com has the COMPLETE original OUTER LIMITS series for less than $30!
http://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Original-Complete-Box/dp/B0016MOWNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1286981073&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Original-Complete-Box/dp/B0016MOWNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1286981073&sr=8-1)
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I'm escaping Vampire diaries for a few days (sort of...I'll still be working remotely) to attend the Jax Film Festival. We're showing J AND B TOMORROW AT 10AM! Yawn...I wonder what kind of crowd that will draw, if any?
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DR George!! Thank you SO MUCH for the deeveedees! Can't wait to share them with my peeps!
DR EDISAURUS - Amazon.com has the COMPLETE original OUTER LIMITS series for less than $30!
http://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Original-Complete-Box/dp/B0016MOWNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1286981073&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Original-Complete-Box/dp/B0016MOWNM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1286981073&sr=8-1)
Done! Thank you, JRand!
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I am going to be on a documentary panel tomorrow where the subject is "immersion". Hope they're not going to baptize us!
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Interesting info on Matt Monro....one of my favorite singers!
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DR JohnG, I hope you are feeling better today!
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One of my favorite things to do is speaking in public...NOT! Hope I don't puke! I really hate it and have a lifelong fear of it.
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and vibes to all!
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JRand, not sure what my favorite Ronald Stein score is...he scored many of my favorite films, but none of the music really stands out for me other the INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN. I will need to pay more attention next time I watch one of his films.
As for Les Baxter, PANIC IN YEAR ZERO is by far my favorite!
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DR EDISAURUS I am sure you will have a big audience....and do well onstage!
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I like Baxter's Beach Blanket Bingo score....and Stein's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
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Interesting info on Matt Monro....one of my favorite singers!
Can't find anything on the net.....must be INSIDE INFO from DR ELMORE.
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And the word of the day is: GAMBOGE!
GAMBOGE--wasn't that a 60's suspense/thriller starring Michael Caine and Audrey Hepburn?
Yes, the sequel to GAMBIT, which also starred Caine and paired him with Shirley MacLaine.
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DR George, your packet arrived! Thanks!! I shall have some fun viewing this weekend!
And now there is a packet on it's way to you!
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DR EDISAURUS I am sure you will have a big audience....and do well onstage!
Ditto!
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Interesting info on Matt Monro....one of my favorite singers!
Can't find anything on the net.....must be INSIDE INFO from DR ELMORE.
I think it's mentioned in Barrington's biography by Rupert Smith which was published aroound 15 years ago.
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Interesting info on Matt Monro....one of my favorite singers!
Can't find anything on the net.....must be INSIDE INFO from DR ELMORE.
I think it's mentioned in Barrington's biography by Rupert Smith which was published aroound 15 years ago.
Which I just purchased on Amazon.com
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Pwoject Wunway:
Semi-SPOILAGE
Weighing in on this season after a few weeks, I'm trusting that folks here still watch it. This has been the year of "The Near-Assassination and Persecution of Michael Costello by the Inmates of the Project Runway Competition at the Parsons School of Design in New York as Performed by a Few Inmates, Most Notably Ivy Higa and April Johnston."
I am now the de facto President of the Alameda County "I Hate Ivy H" Committee. If she were spotted walking down the sidewalk and I could get to her, I'd verbally bitch-slap her until hell wouldn't have her.
After weeks of being tormented by designers "no longer in competition", Michael C. not only remains a viable contestant but he has won the respect and (somewhat) grudging admiration of "most" of the remaining designers. Only April, whose attitude is unfathomable given that she sent an adult diaper down the runway in the first challenge, remains a holdout and is vitriolic when the subject arises. Her contempt was spawned by Ivy H -- a Parsons "graduate" who believed herself the most accomplished practitioner of design arts on the show. It is she about whom Michael Kors declared -- after yet another "dismal" design -- "She's not a designer...she's a 'seamstress'". Ivy remains clueless about why she is no longer on the show...and remains unconvinced that Michael C. "earned" either of his two runway challenge wins. Michael C is "self-taught". He's been sewing since he was 5. He doesn't "do" patterns and doesn't have "designer" terminology tripping lightly off his tongue (Ivy was fond of making designer-esque pronouncements about applications she would be "introducing" into her design, from week to week. None of which, by the way, ever got noticed or earned compliments from the judges).
What was revealed in the last episode is that the designers would be doing a look to add to Heidi Klum's "New Balance Amazon.com line". Several of the existing designs were sent out so the contestants could see what they needed to complement with their own offerings. Her entire line is muted beiges, browns and greys, with blacks and whites used sparingly. As Mondo Guerra lamented, "There's no color in it."
Heidi made an early assessment of what was being done and wasnt pleased with several of the designers' early outfits.. After that, Tim announced they'd all be doing "two more looks". Back to "Mood" they went to correct earlier misgivings and to get more fabric. Happily (?), Heidi had provided bolts of a grey fabric that she had in excess in one of her warehouses. Tim also told them they would get "help."
And there it was: All the demons who had earned their early departure and deserved future anonymity returned...and to a one, they were all "after" Michael C. Ivy H led the charge insulting/berating and accusing him of cheating. Somehow, had Michael not "cheated" and "undermined" (that last term is Ivy's speciality, by the way), "more deserving" designers (meaning "her") would still be in the compeition. Funny, though...it wasn't Michael C. up on the runway as one of the two choices when Ivy was eliminated.
No...the truth was out. Ivy H., in the eighth week competition, had discovered some double-sided tape in the "women's" restroom and concluded that Michael C. had obviously been the one to use it for his design for the Jackie Kennedy "look". She told all the other designers at that time, and as they had all been "down" on Michael C. and criticized him at every turn before, this incident justified, in their minds, that he was not to be endured. For the Jackie Kennedy challenge, he had done an open-sided, but very well-fitted, blue cocktail dress. Ivy H believe that only Michael would have needed this tape to prevent his model's boob's from popping out the sides. As Michael pointed out, however, his model used special "pads" that prevented such a disaster.
Tim gathered everyone and said the allegation had been made and that a review of all tapes, including workroom, fittings, makeup and runway, had been made...and that NO EVIDENCE of any kind existed to indicate Michael or his model had done anything illegal or untoward. The judges, Tim asserted, would most definitely have noted such subterfuge had it been perpetrated. The judges have complimented his work and, in deliberations, have been openly supportive of his skills...especially given his lack of training. Tim Gunn also praises him in front of the others.
He also reminded everyone that it had been weeks and weeks since this challenge and that the time for accusations would have been "then" and not "weeks later."
The judges are well aware of the "mindset" that has prevailed among the contestants since day one. Gretchen has been a ringleader in being "judgmental" about the talents of others, but Ivy H has been venomous. Gretchen has openly challenged the judges' decisions/taste levels in awarding Michael C. two wins on the runway. The thing that sticks in their craws, IMO, is that Michael C. has no formal training, yet somehow makes up to five different looks before he settles on "one". They spend all their time slaving over the "one" design they initially sketch out and pattern...and then have difficulties fitting. Michael C. works fast and is very flexible and it's something the others cannot abide for whatever reason. Michael C. has a fan/friend in Mondo Guerra...who does not sketch...he does it all in his head. He's also won three consecutive challenges and is the frontrunner to take it all, IMO. Likely to move forward to Fashion Week as contestants are Gretchen, Mondo and Andy South, whose work has been "hit-and miss" all season. It's either really good or it's hideous. Michael C. is not the best...or even one of the three best... designers. But he's very good. April is also very, very good...and is an outside contender for the final three.
The Heidi challenge was won by Andy...and all three of his looks will be available in the collection on Amazon.com (they were going to choose just one, but Heidi loved them all).
By the way, it was Christopher (who every week said he hoped he wouldn't be eliminated because he hadn't yet shown what he could do) who was chosen to be evicted. The judges simply felt he'd never made an impression on them and that his looks in this challenge were probably his worst...poorly styled and executed. And who had been his helper? The incredible Ivy H, of course, who styled all his designs.
It's never dull!!!
End SPOILAGE
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Page Three.
That is all.
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Question for BK: What do you think of this open investment plan for the upcoming GODSPELL B'way revival (http://www.peopleofgodspell.com/)? Do you think you might put in $1000?
No. Not. Won't.
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My question for BK: With all the interviews, readings, and press your autobio is getting are you noticing a considerable uptick in sales from your previous books...and has it helped the sales of your other books as well as the autobio?
I certainly hope so!
I don't think it's helped the other books, but yes, this book's sales go up every time one of these things hits.
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My question for ASK BK day.....what is your favorite Ronald Stein score? And your favorite Les Baxter score?
SADISMO is most entertaining, to be sure.
Ron Stein - Dementia 13 or whatever it's called.
Les Baxter - Master of the World.
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Oh, and I'm up. I did sleep for a little over eight hours, so that's good.
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DR cillaliz, Little Ricky has got me very much wanting a kitten, which I cannot do, so you need to post more photos of him.
I'll take some more photos tonight, or maybe even this noon. I did have some very good news, he is negative for feline leukemia. So, we don't have to worry about that. I've decided to quit worrying about the athlete's elbow (sounds better than rignworm) which I'm beginning to believe it really is. If I get it I get it. I'll keep him isolated and try to keep the girls away from him, but beyond that, I'm not going to worry anymore, just deal with it.
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And my mind if still processing "Kraft".
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DR elmore - RE: The music for your bass - Get them scanned. Save them as a PDF to a disc or stick-drive. Email him the PDFs.
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~~~~~VIBES~~TO~~ALL~~ALL~~WHO~~NEED~~THEM~~~~~
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I'm sort of annoyed with NBC. I have been watching the Event on Saturday nights and it was scheduled for this saturday. Then yesterday they cancelled the new show The Outlaw (is that the name?) and are running the last 4 episodes on saturdays. So they are taking off The Event. If they had done this before the show aired on Monday I could have recorded it on Monday. I guess I will have to watch it online instead.
As the hashtag on Twitter goes: #firstworldproblems
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OK, time to go home for lunch. I need to change clothes, spend time with Ricky, change clothes spend time with the girls....get something to eat and come back to work. Whew!
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I'm not surprised The Outlaw is cancelled, it was really bad
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And I really like Jimmy Smits, but may the show stunk
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Last night was the first run through of Act One for Sunset Blvd and to use one of my favorite quotes from "Arthur" - it didn't suck. In fact, it has potential. Of course "Let's Have Lunch" was a disaster as know one knows their entrances, I'm getting a little frustrated with that. I'm trying to figure out a way to make it easier for them. But there are big holes where people forget where they are. That's my biggest concern at the moment.
More later...
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Re: last week's Project Runway.
Favorite moment: the brilliant editing of Ivy bitching that karma was going to bite Michael C., followed immediately by the needle on her sewing machine breaking and hitting her in the eye. ;)
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Today's paper said people who regularly get 5.5-6 hours of sleep a night live longer. So I guess I'm immortal.
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DR ELMORE - the Dream O Matic 6000 says that your dream is about your feelings of being stabbed in the back and hindered for doing your job well, and that knowing more than others makes you a target.
DR td - your dream shows lack of confidence in your doctors or perhaps feelings that they are treating only a portion of your symptoms, also a change is in order for your life, though you are not sure what it is.
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
Wow! DR JRand60, that's an amazing analysis. I have to say that while your analysis was something I'd never reach (I aways fear it's a premonition), there is much truth to your comments on several of my jobs.
And don't dress as a policeman for Halloween.
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DR EDISAURUS I am sure you will have a big audience....and do well onstage!
Thank you JRand, but seriously...my brain and tongue freeze and I can hardly form a coherent sentence. And it's too early to start drinking! :-)
So any and all vibes for travel and eloquence would be greatly appreciated!
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One of my favorite things to do is speaking in public...NOT! Hope I don't puke! I really hate it and have a lifelong fear of it.
I'm sure you will do fine. The hardest part is the five minutes before it starts. Then just run on the adrenaline. And the mental image of the audience wearing nothing but Sarah Palin tattoos.
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I must catch up on yesterday, which turned out to be an odd day.
I must also thank people for the anniversary wishes, before my tardiness in doing that becomes a running gag.
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Ron P - to quote Gittel in SEESAW - "well said, well said"
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One of my favorite things to do is speaking in public...NOT! Hope I don't puke! I really hate it and have a lifelong fear of it.
I'm sure you will do fine. The hardest part is the five minutes before it starts. Then just run on the adrenaline. And the mental image of the audience wearing nothing but Sarah Palin tattoos.
Actually, that would be sort of frightening! I will just imagine they are an audience of DR's and then I might feel safer.
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Off to the airport while my DH holds down the fort. The cat I give pills to is all over me; he must know he's safe for today---he won't expect Greg will do the deed!
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Re: last week's Project Runway.
Favorite moment: the brilliant editing of Ivy bitching that karma was going to bite Michael C., followed immediately by the needle on her sewing machine breaking and hitting her in the eye. ;)
Yes, that was a HIGHLY ENJOYABLE moment.
The previous week's previews were edited in such a way that gave me the impression someone had thrown something at her. That was followed by a scene NOT in the last episode in which Tim was telling someone off camera that he or she was no longer associated with the show! Perhaps we'll get a clue tomorrow night.
I'd love to have a freeze-frame of Ivy with her head turned and her face all screwed up....and under it the caption "You shouldn't talk about 'karma'...you'll put your eye out"!
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One thing I found yesterday in storage was a program from some new musicals thing in NY from, I don't know twelve years ago or something - it had an original by someone named Skip Kennon, and also an original with music and lyrics by someone named Fred Landau - so I guess I saw a Fred Landau musical all those years ago. Who knew?
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Ron P - to quote Gittel in SEESAW - "well said, well said"
'kew!
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Had a nice visit with Jon Burlingame, and I guess I'll think about jogging, maybe eating a light meal so my stomach isn't growling later, and then doing some errands and whatnot.
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Received a few more e-mails from people not coming this evening.
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Had a nice visit with Jon Burlingame, and I guess I'll think about jogging, maybe eating a light meal so my stomach isn't growling later, and then doing some errands and whatnot.
Was any mention made of a publication date for "The Newmans of Hollywood"?
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DR ELMORE - the Dream O Matic 6000 says that your dream is about your feelings of being stabbed in the back and hindered for doing your job well, and that knowing more than others makes you a target.
DR td - your dream shows lack of confidence in your doctors or perhaps feelings that they are treating only a portion of your symptoms, also a change is in order for your life, though you are not sure what it is.
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
Wow! DR JRand60, that's an amazing analysis. I have to say that while your analysis was something I'd never reach (I aways fear it's a premonition), there is much truth to your comments on several of my jobs.
And don't dress as a policeman for Halloween.
I leave all uniform fetishes to DR MBarnum. I'm sure there's a scholarly tome!
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DR EDISAURUS I am sure you will have a big audience....and do well onstage!
Thank you JRand, but seriously...my brain and tongue freeze and I can hardly form a coherent sentence. And it's too early to start drinking! :-)
So any and all vibes for travel and eloquence would be greatly appreciated!
It's not too early to start drinking. It's already October.
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Thunder!
Nice cat avatar, DR CILLA LIZ!
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DR RP gave a precise summation of PWOJECT WUNWAY......I am hoping Gretchen goes home this week, but April's same dress every week is also getting boring.
I think Tim's comment about "not returning to the show" was about Chris' model who had a family emergency......
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GLEE had some good songs last night and a couple of performances that grated......but it's because the performer involved is so annoying......not the character.....the performer.
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Hello, everyone.
I watched Act One of SOUTH PACIFIC last night. What a fine production! Wonderful voices! Thanks again, George.
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FEEL-BETTER VIBES TO DR JOHNG.
Continued health vibes to DR TD.
REEELLLLLAXXXATION vibes to DR EDISAURUS.
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DR cillaliz, Little Ricky has got me very much wanting a kitten, which I cannot do, so you need to post more photos of him.
I'll take some more photos tonight, or maybe even this noon. I did have some very good news, he is negative for feline leukemia. So, we don't have to worry about that. I've decided to quit worrying about the athlete's elbow (sounds better than rignworm) which I'm beginning to believe it really is. If I get it I get it. I'll keep him isolated and try to keep the girls away from him, but beyond that, I'm not going to worry anymore, just deal with it.
That Little Ricky is looking more and more like our DR Cillaliz every day!
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BOOK-SIGNING VIBES to BK!
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Of interest to some DRs, perhaps, and certainly a good value at 6 Warner Bros movies for under $18.00. THE SMILING GHOST alone is worth the price, IMHO.
http://www.wbshop.com/WB-Horror-Mystery-Double-Features-6-movies/1000180248,default,pd.html?cgid=ARCHIVEPRE&AID=10280984&PID=3792338
(http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aacm_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-WB-Site/Sites-master-catalog/default/v1286993804824/Images/ProductImages/1000180248_f.jpg)
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thanks DR DRUXY.
Matt Monro - what a terrific singer!!!
I agree. I was introduced to his recordings by the wonderful Judy Haring, who owned Associated Music the company that printed beautful music paper. Judy's late husband Robert was a music copyist who worked for Robert Russell Bennett and Hershy Kay.
But I digress. Did you know that Matt Monro was one of the boyfriends of British physique photographer John Barrington, the man who discovered and uncovered John Hamill, DR MBarnum?
Barrington discovered MBARNUM? And here I thought HHW discovered him.
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What a deal, DR MBARNUM!!! I already ordered the Allison Hayes movies.....so this one may have to wait.
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Thunder!
Nice cat avatar, DR CILLA LIZ!
It's Little Ricky!
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GLEE had some good songs last night and a couple of performances that grated......but it's because the performer involved is so annoying......not the character.....the performer.
Hmmmm....it's not Artie, is it?
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Ron, I didn't ask.
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Back from bacon and eggs, and a visit to the Gap and Banana Republic for my once every two or three years buying of some pants and a few shirts.
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Back from CR and a little outing with my Mom. She's very skittish around me - I think she expects me to keel over at any moment.
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GEORGE-
Received THE package
The Transfer is Great
I Thank You Greatly
There Should be Something Coming Your Way Pretty Soon
You're welcome and I can't wait! :D
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DR George!! Thank you SO MUCH for the deeveedees! Can't wait to share them with my peeps!
And you're welcome!
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DR George, your packet arrived! Thanks!! I shall have some fun viewing this weekend!
And now there is a packet on it's way to you!
You're welcome, too! And thank you, too!
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ASK BK
Have there been any theater pieces (play/musical) that you saw in previews and really liked, but by the time they opened turned out really bad?
Along these same lines:
A movie seen in a sneak preview but ruined by tinkering due to audience comments
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I've had an hour walk up Columbus Avenue to 94th Street, across 94th to Broadway and down Broadway to home, with a stop at the market. I want to catch TOP CHEF: JUST DESSERTS tonight for last week's rerun of Seth Caro's meltdown and departure. He was giving the term "high maintenance" new depths
I've also packed up and sealed up the final six cartons of books, scores and CDs to go to Ohio. I can't be around all day any other day this week, and next week I'm in the recording sessions, so my best day to ship them off is Friday, Oct 29. I'll just let them set in a corner till then. Who knows? I may have a seventh carton by then!
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ASK BK
Have there been any theater pieces (play/musical) that you saw in previews and really liked, but by the time they opened turned out really bad?
Along these same lines:
A movie seen in a sneak preview but ruined by tinkering due to audience comments
Not really. The sneak previews (and I saw a lot of 'em) were all helped by any post preview work - the two that benefitted the most was the first of the Pink Panther revivals in the early 70s (huge changes) and The Sandpiper (a third of the film was reshot). I really haven't seen enough musicals in previews to be able to speak with any authority.
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Here's the alternate ending to "Little Shop of Horrors," which I thought more alive (better?) than the rest of the movie.
http://www.bluegobo.com/content/production.php?var=2883457
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Here's the alternate ending to "Little Shop of Horrors," which I thought more alive (better?) than the rest of the movie.
http://www.bluegobo.com/content/production.php?var=2883457
It's actually the original ending from the movie, isn't it? The preview audiences didn't like Audrey and Seymour dying so it was redone. I prefer it.
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I think we'll have at least four people at the signing tonight. I'm not so happy with my LA denizens right now - and they will RUE the day, oh, yes, they will RUE the day, especially those who live in close proximity to the bookshop, those very same people who always use the Glendale excuse for not showing up there.
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Here's the alternate ending to "Little Shop of Horrors," which I thought more alive (better?) than the rest of the movie.
http://www.bluegobo.com/content/production.php?var=2883457
A prime example of not going with your gut. This is how the show ended on the stage. Of course a little more elaborate for film
It's actually the original ending from the movie, isn't it? The preview audiences didn't like Audrey and Seymour dying so it was redone. I prefer it.
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DR ELMORE - the Dream O Matic 6000 says that your dream is about your feelings of being stabbed in the back and hindered for doing your job well, and that knowing more than others makes you a target.
DR td - your dream shows lack of confidence in your doctors or perhaps feelings that they are treating only a portion of your symptoms, also a change is in order for your life, though you are not sure what it is.
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
Wow! DR JRand60, that's an amazing analysis. I have to say that while your analysis was something I'd never reach (I aways fear it's a premonition), there is much truth to your comments on several of my jobs.
That's why I get paid the BIG BUCKS.
Jrand, perhaps you should start collecting your fee before you give your analysis. You might be very wealthy by now.
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Here's the alternate ending to "Little Shop of Horrors," which I thought more alive (better?) than the rest of the movie.
http://www.bluegobo.com/content/production.php?var=2883457
It's actually the original ending from the movie, isn't it? The preview audiences didn't like Audrey and Seymour dying so it was redone. I prefer it.
They also didn't like the black and white, so it was colorized, too. Both failed to get what the movie was supposed to be. Would love to see the whole movie with the original ending in black and white.
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DR John G, I think the ending was in color. It was my nderstandign that one of the reasons the original DVD of "Little Shop" was pulled from release was because Frank Oz was pissed they had used a work print and not the film footage. I could be wrong, but that's my memory. Even though I didn't have a DVD player at the time, I bought the DVD ASAP.
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DR John G, I think the ending was in color. It was my nderstandign that one of the reasons the original DVD of "Little Shop" was pulled from release was because Frank Oz was pissed they had used a work print and not the film footage. I could be wrong, but that's my memory. Even though I didn't have a DVD player at the time, I bought the DVD ASAP.
Actually it was David Geffen who had it pulled I believe. It was because it was the work print and I believe he had the rights to the excise footage. I think the color footage is considered lost. If you also watch carefuly the sound effects are also absent
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VIBES
To JohnG.
To Edisaurus
To BK
To td
To anyone else that I may have missed!
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Thanks for the vibes and for straightening me out on Little Shop.
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How strange! Deep Discount has a sale on the Columbia Pictures Classic Collection. Among the titles is THE LOVE MACHINE. What I find interesting, besides the fact that anyone considers THE LOVE MACHINE a classic anything, is the fact that the cast is listed as:
Jackie Cooper, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan
Whoops, I think they forgot to mention John Phillip Law who happened to be the star of the film.
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One of my favorite things to do is speaking in public...NOT! Hope I don't puke! I really hate it and have a lifelong fear of it.
If it's not too late...
~~~Safe Travel and No Puking Vibes for DR Edisaurus!!~~~
;D
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One of my favorite things to do is speaking in public...NOT! Hope I don't puke! I really hate it and have a lifelong fear of it.
If it's not too late...
~~~Safe Travel and No Puking Vibes for DR Edisaurus!!~~~
;D
Save the barf bag, DR edisaurus, and send it to someone you dislike with the note "thinking of you."
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DR John G, I think the ending was in color. It was my nderstandign that one of the reasons the original DVD of "Little Shop" was pulled from release was because Frank Oz was pissed they had used a work print and not the film footage. I could be wrong, but that's my memory. Even though I didn't have a DVD player at the time, I bought the DVD ASAP.
I bought the "special edition" DVD on eBay several years after the recall...and I certainly paid for it. ::)
;)
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Hello, everyone.
I watched Act One of SOUTH PACIFIC last night. What a fine production! Wonderful voices! Thanks again, George.
My pleasure, Jeanne!
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I got my SE DVD of LSOH on eBay for a rather surprising $15.00 years ago.
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George, your package (so to speak) arrived today. Thanks. We are looking for fun keychains for you.
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Well, we're finally within one performer of being cast - right now we've got a terrific foursome - Dan Callaway (lots of LA musicals, including Irma La Douce recently at MTG), Doug Carpenter (recently in See What I Wanna See and Camelot at the Pasadena Playhouse), Jane Noseworthy (recently Carrie in the Reprise Carousel opposite Andy Taylor), and Alet. One more gal and we'll be done.
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Great news on the casting, bk.
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Gal casting vibes for BK
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BK - Was the program from the Triangle Theatre by any chance?
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FJL, do you remember the musical I spoke of - the one you wrote that I saw?
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Has BK or anyone else ever posted this (and there are more for the other books):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbPg3KUuYQ
I don't remember us ever having discussed these, but then again, I don't remember what we're discussing today. :)
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I brought it home - I'll find it and tell you - Skip's show was Plaisir d'Amour, and yours had music and lyrics by you, I think.
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Has BK or anyone else ever posted this (and there are more for the other books):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbPg3KUuYQ
I don't remember us ever having discussed these, but then again, I don't remember what we're discussing today. :)
I never posted it because I hate it. I was a test case for them - they usually charge thousands of dollars for those, but they used me as a guinea pig - I didn't have the heart to tell them how bad it was - I could have written them something great and would have narrated it for free.
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I got the new BD set of the Back to the Future films. Two initial thoughts: there are going to be complaints again. It is Universal, after all. And WTF has Claudia Wells done to her face? The 2010 interviews look like a completely different person, and she was a STUNNINGLY beautiful young woman in the first film. Why mess with success?
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I got the new BD set of the Back to the Future films. Two initial thoughts: there are going to be complaints again. It is Universal, after all. And WTF has Claudia Wells done to her face? The 2010 interviews look like a completely different person, and she was a STUNNINGLY beautiful young woman in the first film. Why mess with success?
I believe Claudia Wells is out of the "business" and owns a clothing store on Ventura Blvd in Studio City nearby where BK lives
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Anyone planning to go see The Sound of Music in HD on Oct 19th or 26th? An one night only (x 2) event. Its a Fathom event. Fathom usuually does The Met broadcasts and concerts.
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George, your package (so to speak) arrived today. Thanks. We are looking for fun keychains for you.
Nice! Thanks!
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Anyone planning to go see The Sound of Music in HD on Oct 19th or 26th? An one night only (x 2) event. Its a Fathom event. Fathom usuually does The Met broadcasts and concerts.
I'm thinking about it. :)
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There have already been complaints about the Back to the Future set, all based on stupid screencaps. The FILMMAKERS profess themselves extremely pleased with the transfers and say they look better than what the film looked like back in the day - and I'm sure they're right because what no one remembers (because there was only VHS back in the day) is that this film never looked very good - the mid 1980s' film stock was just not great and I remember it looking very grainy and probably not at all like what the camera negative looked like.
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Shortly I shall be on my way to a book signing. Send your most excellent vibes and xylophones, please, because two more people just cancelled - it really could be me and about three others and I will not be happy about it if that's what happens.
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There have already been complaints about the Back to the Future set, all based on stupid screencaps. The FILMMAKERS profess themselves extremely pleased with the transfers and say they look better than what the film looked like back in the day - and I'm sure they're right because what no one remembers (because there was only VHS back in the day) is that this film never looked very good - the mid 1980s' film stock was just not great and I remember it looking very grainy and probably not at all like what the camera negative looked like.
I'm talking more about artifacts like aliasing and shimmer. Rampant.
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ALL 33 MINERS ARE OUT OF THE GROUND!!!!! Now they just need to get the 5 rescue workers down there and it's over....
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VIBES THAT EVERYONE IN LA CELEBRATES THE MINERS GETTING OUT OF THE GROUND BY GOING TO BK'S SIGNING
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That's the least everyone can do :)
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Shimmering and aliasing have happened on lots of transfers - even at 1080p it just seems to be a fact of life with certain patterns.
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Shortly I shall be on my way to a book signing. Send your most excellent vibes and xylophones, please, because two more people just cancelled - it really could be me and about three others and I will not be happy about it if that's what happens.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vibes for an audience and a good reading! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I had my SE of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS' dvd before I had a dvd player.
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Thanks for all the vibes! The first half worked in that I got here safely. Now if I can overcome my fears tomorrow I can party down at opening night!
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Vibes for BK's signing and vibes for Edisaurus' forum. Both will be great.
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ALL 33 MINERS ARE OUT OF THE GROUND!!!!! Now they just need to get the 5 rescue workers down there and it's over....
It's about time they got those under aged people out of the ground
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DR Edi - just remember that no one in the audience knows your material as well as you do!
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G'night!
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ALL 33 MINERS ARE OUT OF THE GROUND!!!!! Now they just need to get the 5 rescue workers down there and it's over....
It's about time they got those under aged people out of the ground
I have no idea what this means!
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ALL 33 MINERS ARE OUT OF THE GROUND!!!!! Now they just need to get the 5 rescue workers down there and it's over....
It's about time they got those under aged people out of the ground
I have no idea what this means!
He's trying to be funny about minors/miners
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VIBES THAT EVERYONE IN LA CELEBRATES THE MINERS GETTING OUT OF THE GROUND BY GOING TO BK'S SIGNING
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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I had my SE of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS' dvd before I had a dvd player.
I was buying CDs four years before I had my own CD player.
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And now, I'm leaving work and going home.
Just had to share. :)
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I have more photos of Little Ricky. I'll post them in a little while. I was in his room earlier and he's getting restless. I came back down to a VERY jealous Boo. She's sleeping on my lap right now. We've been watching the rescue.
I brought some reading home from work so I'm going to go give Ricky his meds and put the cream on his leg that he will lick off even though he shouldn't, then sit in there and read for awhile. I was going to give him a bath tonight, but deicded to wait. I think it looks better today than it did yesterday. Not leaps and bounds but a little better, so I'm going to proceed slowly and not freak him out totally by pouring water over him. He's really a good boy.
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How old is Little Ricky?
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Interesting bit on the origin of the Tea Party name in an interview Peter Filichia did with playwrite Ian Kelly:
IK: I’m writing a biography of Samuel Foote, the British one-legged comedy superstar of the 18th century. He’s not well-known over here. I came across his story while researching Casanova, who knew him. The irony is that Lee got interested in him without any input from me, and is now writing a play about him, too. We often run into each other in the book stacks in the London Public Library. We’ve discovered that Foote was arrested in 1776 for buggery and his trial became such a sensation that London paid too much attention to it and not enough to the American Declaration of Independence.
PF: You mean we somewhat owe this man for our independence -- and one of our best musicals?
IK: There’s more. At the Haymarket he would do political comedy shows and serve tea. They became known as tea parties – and the expression became so famous that that’s why that incident in Boston Harbor in 1773 became known as the Tea Party. All thanks to a man whom many considered a sexual deviant.
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Good Evening!
Well... I'd have to say that Fall has most definitely moved in to NYC. Today was sunny, cool, and breezy.
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I'm trying very hard to make it to the end of the third and final episode of God in America and as soon as it's over, I'm outta here - 'night!
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I was watching TOP CHEF: JUST DESSERTS, the picture froze for about three-five minutes so I changed stations and now I have no picture at all. I can play DVDs and videos. Hmmm . . .
I would guess Time Warner crashed and burned but my computer service, which is Time Warner, is fine. I'll worry about it tomorrow. I have to be up at six for the McGlinnventory.
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Started "OSS 117: Lost in Rio." Great opening, but I'm afraid I'm a little to tired to stick with it the rest this evening. It certainly is a lot cheerier than the other offering for the evening, "The Road."
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ALL 33 MINERS ARE OUT OF THE GROUND!!!!! Now they just need to get the 5 rescue workers down there and it's over....
It's about time they got those under aged people out of the ground
I have no idea what this means!
He's trying to be funny about minors/miners
i guess i didn't succeed
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One more rescuer, then it will all be over.
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I was watching TOP CHEF: JUST DESSERTS, the picture froze for about three-five minutes so I changed stations and now I have no picture at all. I can play DVDs and videos. Hmmm . . .
I would guess Time Warner crashed and burned but my computer service, which is Time Warner, is fine. I'll worry about it tomorrow. I have to be up at six for the McGlinnventory.
It appears the Time-Warner had a city-wide outage. Mine went out too for about 25 minutes.
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Whew!
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I tried the tv again about 15 minutes after it died and it was still out. I just now tried it and the service is back.
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I tried the tv again about 15 minutes after it died and it was still out. I just now tried it and the service is back.
Yep... Just checked the Twitter, and Time-Warner is majorly efffed-up all over Manhattan tonight.
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HI ;D
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My doc (who I really like) ok'd my not taking any more pills after I called Kaiser today. I was afraid of falling asleep on the freeway, it was just too hard to stay awake from 5AM to 6PM when I got home, and almost impossible any later if I wanted to do something. Seems that any pill with a warning label MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS just really is not for me. AA really cured me of wanting the feeling of not being in control. Yea for AA.
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How old is Little Ricky?
The vet said he's probably 10 months. Sometimes he looks full grown and sometimes he looks like a kitten. He's at an awkward age which can be pretty funny
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Now I'm :) going to sleep it off for the next few days. I hope a really strict diet will work instead. If not I'll try another prescription in a week.
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I want a kitty. 8)
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Hope bk had a good book signing. I'm sorry I could not be there, he is quite funny and entertaining. ;D
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I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooo tired.
Goodnight everyone. ;)
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VIBES FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS THEM. ;) ;) :) :)
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He looks older in this photo
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I love his tail
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When we played toys tonight and he was tracking the toy around, he suddenly became crosseyed. I've read that it's no biggie if he's crosseyed, but it looks pretty crazy
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I uploaded a video of him playing on my facebook. Not sure if I can link to it, but I think most of you are my friends on FB so you can see it if you want to. If we're not friends on FB send me a request and I'll add you
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Many many thanks for the anniversary wishes the other day, so thanks to Jose, JMK, Ginny, MBarnum, JohnG, Arnold, TCB, Larry, George, Cilla, KevinH, Ben. Dan, vixmom, Jennifer, BK, TD, Laura, Sam, Jrand, Jane
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BTW< his eyes went back to normal after a little while. He and Callie were nose to nose through a crack in the door. I so want to let him out to run with the girls and he really wants to get out. I've put the cream on his arm for 3 days now. If it is athlete's elbow, I wonder if he's still contagious....DR Laura, DR Edi...what do you think? It's not that much better so I'm going to stop the antibiotics tomorrow as suggested by the vet if it wasn't cleared up in three days.
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The battery operated candles in the background of the first photo are being used as his night light :D
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OK, I have to get up very early to get all my chores done before going to work ...night
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Nice pictures, Cilla! He's a cute kitty.
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Shimmering and aliasing have happened on lots of transfers - even at 1080p it just seems to be a fact of life with certain patterns.
That doesn't mean that we have to like it, or that people won't complain about it. ;D
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Back from the signing and some food at the nearby Hamburger Hamlet. The signing turned out fine - we had over fifteen people, which actually filled all the chairs they'd set up. I read a little, answered questions, and it was a lot of fun. Had everyone who said they were coming actually shown up, well, it would have been VERY crowded. I'm just so over LA people, especially those who live near the store, not having the ability to get off their collective complacent ASS and show up. But for those who did, a sincere thank you for the support. The store seemed very happy and we actually sold quite a few books.
I just hope that these perpetual no-shows never expect me to show up at their stuff ever again, because I simply will not. In fact, I got an invite from a gal today asking me to come to her book signing on Sunday - I wrote her back that I'd be happy to if she came to mine - she didn't - I won't.
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I was especially happy that there were people there that I didn't know - that's always fun.
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Great that it went so well, Bruce