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Well, you've read the notes, the notes started and dry and boring, but then soon became something other, and now it is time for you to post until the dry and boring cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: DINGLE!
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The dingle ate my baby. Who am I, Meryl Streep all of a sudden?
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Who needs writers:
From last night's TAR
Nathan: I don't know much about Taiwan, but I like Thai food.
der Brucer
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And the word of the day is: DINGLE!
"The dingo ate my dingle" - John Wayne Bobbit
der Brucer
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And the word of the day is: DINGLE!
Song of the Day?
"John Jacob Dingleheimer Schmidt"
der Brucer
Now don't dingle, Amaryllis
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And the polls never lie!
Poll: Fox Most Trusted News for Americans (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/fox_news_trusted/2008/01/13/63997.html?s=al&promo_code=42E1-1)
Fox News has supplanted CNN as the 'most trusted' news source for Americans, a new nationwide poll finds.
The poll conducted by Sacred Heart University, found that the most trusted national TV news organizations, for accurate reporting, in declining order included: Fox News (27.0%), CNN (14.6%), and NBC News (10.90%). These were followed by ABC News (7.0%), local news (6.9%), CBS News (6.8%) MSNBC (4.0%), PBS News (3.0%), CNBC (0.6%) and CBN (0.5%).
der Brucer
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My goodness, it's quite late. I got caught up in reading interesting things on the Internet. I shall now go get my beauty sleep.
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And the polls never lie!
Poll: Fox Most Trusted News for Americans (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/fox_news_trusted/2008/01/13/63997.html?s=al&promo_code=42E1-1)
Well that has to be just about the most revolting thing I've ever read! :-\
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I'm back. AND I'm all caught up. Sheesh! It never pays to get very far behind at HHW.
Thanks to DRs DakotaCelt, Jane, JRand57, Jose, Miss Karen, Edisaurus, der Brucer, Ron Pulliam, and all and sundried here at HHW, including those DRs that I have previously thanked! Your support means the world to me!
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DR Julie - so sorry to hear about your computer. That is most upsetting. ***TECH VIBES*** to you!
DR Ginny and DH Richard: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
DRs Jeanne and Singingnymph: ***FEEL BETTER VIBES***!!!
DR Edisaurus: CONGRATULATIONS on your award!!!! :)
DR Singingnymph: You are a Goddess now! CONGRATULATIONS! Sorry to have missed your ascension! I'm sure it was accompanied by a heavenly choir!
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A belated
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to DR TPUNK!!!
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SAG-AFTRA feud escalates over 'Phase 1' (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/01/shell-for-verri.html#more)
der Brucer
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For your morning critter entertainment:
TURTLE TRICKS (http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/12/31/turtle-taught-tricks/)
A man spent 10 years teaching his turtle named Florida dog tricks. Florida has mastered how to roll over, shake, and play dead. Fido's got nothing on this turtle! The owner, who is a doctor, says Florida helps shy patients come out of their shell. Aw!
der Brucer
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DearReaderLaura - Listen up!
ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322443,00.html)
'Give Us a Shot': N.C. Church Hands Out Shot Glasses at Bars
Sunday , January 13, 2008
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —
To get people to attend his new church campus, Robbie McLaughlin is sending his message out to where the people are.
Next Friday, staffers from Next Level Church of Matthews will go to bars in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte to hand out shot glasses which ask patrons to "give us a shot" and bear the slogan, "Real church for real people."
The idea is to draw people to the Ballantyne campus, which opens next month.
McLaughlin is the pastor, and said he is confident that it will be controversial, but he said the goal is not necessarily to impress people who already go to church. He said it's to impress people who don't.
Next Level is a nontraditional church that encourages members to dress casually and snack on coffee and doughnuts during services.
McLaughlin said the idea has caught on, and in two years, the church has grown from a handful of members to more than 700.
der Brucer
Hey, SlingSlaw - any thoughts on good choral music to accompany Dunkin' Donuts?
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Hey, SlingSlaw - any thoughts on good choral music to accompany Dunkin' Donuts?
Well, for starters, there's always J.S. Bach's "Coffee" Cantata... :)
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Guess I'd better turn on the television and find out about this major snow storm that was supposed to materialize overnight. Is it still on the way? It certainly ain't here yet. This "alarmist" trend in weather reporting is so annoying!
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Guess I'd better turn on the television and find out about this major snow storm that was supposed to materialize overnight.
NYC:
Monday: Scattered flurries and snow showers. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Monday night: Scattered flurries and snow showers. Low near 30F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Tuesday: Considerable cloudiness. A few flurries or snow showers possible. High around 35F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday night: Partly to mostly cloudy. Flurries or snow showers possible early. Low 28F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
der Brucer
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"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
Observation:
If you don't recall the plot details from T-II, you can get a bit lost. They attempt to fill in some backstory but it barely succeeds.
der Brucer
It was fun to watch, however.
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TOD
The special effects never worked for me even when I was a kid. Godzilla and friends were always men in costumes running through toy cities. Them were laughable and non scarey.
Then there are the films with regular size animals placed inside toy size sets like Nightof the Lepus. (The only reason I saw it was its stars were Janet Leigh and Deforest Kelly
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There was a Jungle ant movie from the 50', with Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker, about ants cutting a swath thru south American. These ants were so smart that when Chuck put a moat around his hacienda, they chewed leaves off the trees and floated over the moat.I remember it also because the alter boys from the parish were on vacation and this was the movie night movie, ideal for 50-60- screaming adolescents.
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The latest from WhackoWorld:
(http://worldnetdaily.com/images2/jan08wbA.jpg)
der Brucer
Would make good reading for Sandra at work.
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TOD:
I don't remember any scary insects but "The Birds" still gives me the creeps and the leeches clinging to poor Bogart in "The African Queen" are certainly cringe-worthy!
der Brucer
On the other hand:
The insect-oid larva in Five Million Years to Earth (AKA Quatermass and the Pit - 1967) are pretty creepy.
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And the word of the day is: DINGLE!
And The Songs Of The Day Are:THE FARMER IN THE DELL and DOWN IN THE VALLEY
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I literally have nothing to post.
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T.O.D.
THEM
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Snow, what snow???
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I literally have nothing to post.
Which makes today different, how?
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I was all prepared for 5 to 6 inches of snow this morning. When I went to bed last night it was raining and all the weather reports said that was a precursor to the expected bad snowstorm. I put out my Wellies and a thermal undershirt to wear under my flanned shirt and jeans and I had my real winter coat with the hood and the big scarf. I got up at 5:30, looked out the window and saw...nothing. The rain had stopped and the streets were damp but that was all. Now I'm not wearing my Wellies, just tennis shoes, a flanned shirt and jeans. It's almost 40 degrees and no sign of snow. It is supposed to get colder this week but who knows what will really happen.
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Happy Birthday to T Punk/Antonia
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We are still without computer at Chez Ben and Anthony
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Good morning, all! Today, a trek to Toyland and then back here to finish up things for my accountant. All that's left is the out of town receipts: trains, planes, hotel, and car rentals.
I'm still pondering PERSUASION, and I think I prefer the Amanda Root-Ciaran Hinds version frm the 1990s. I remember laving the theatre and thinking how well done it was, and last night I turned off the tv, thinking "same problem as the Kiera Knightley PRIDE & PREJUDICE; they needed 15 more minutes." And that said, there were some wonderful things in last night's adaptation, like Anthony Head's Sir Walter and her two snobby sisters.
TOD: All I can think of this morning is THEM! and TARANTULA.
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We might have had one Sunday morning because the new hard drive arrived from Gateway on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, they sent the wrong hard drive. Wrong on two fronts. It was the wrong type of hard drive (we need a PATA not a SATA) and it was too big. No one caught that one. We assumed, since the first tech person we talked to said we could get it, that a 500 gig hard drive would be nice to have. The second techie, even after calling up our system specs (it's an older computer from 2003) said Sure, you can use that. When the hard drive came and we opened it to begin installation we noticed a problem. We called tech support and the third tech person said, yes, you have been sent the wrong hard drive and no, because of your computers specs (including the bios) your system can't support a 500 gig hard drive. So, we still don't have the new hard drive and we have to return the old hard drive. I read my e-mail this morning so I could get the instructions on returning the hard drive. The memory we ordered should be here today and the man at Gateway said the new 250 gig hard drive should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday so if we're lucky we might have a running computer by Thursday or Friday!
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I'm going to the theatre tomorrow and Wednesday so we won't be doing any computer work even if the parts arrive today and tomorrow.
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Tomorrow is the newly discovered Mark Twain play, Is He Dead? starring the wonderful Norbert Leo Butz.
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Wednesday is the Roundabout Theatre's production of The 39 Steps. It opens Tuesday but I haven't heard anything about it, good or bad.
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Lar, Anthony watched Persuasion. I don't know what he thought because I was asleep by the time it was over. I will ask him at lunch.
He watched the last two weeks (was it Pride and Prejudice last week) and really liked it. He will be watching the other adaptations as well.
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And the word of the day is: DINGLE!
I took my mom to the Dingle peninsula in Ireland a few years ago. So beautiful!
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DR Singingnymph: You are a Goddess now! CONGRATULATIONS! Sorry to have missed your ascension! I'm sure it was accompanied by a heavenly choir!
Ditto, and congratulations, DR SingSing, on your impressively large, round millstone!
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your impressively large, round millstone!
Thanks, DR Edisaurus. I'd like to work on whittling that down a little! ;) But eating these Hershey's Peanut Butter Kisses is probably not helping any. :P
It's great to see you 'round here again! :)
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Lar, Anthony watched Persuasion. I don't know what he thought because I was asleep by the time it was over. I will ask him at lunch.
He watched the last two weeks (was it Pride and Prejudice last week) and really liked it. He will be watching the other adaptations as well.
DR Ben, I believe P&P isn't showing till February. Last night was the first of the Austen series. Afte the glorious BLEAK HOUSE, I expected the BBC would do better by Miss Austen on PERSUASION. A major part of the reason that I long for a bit more liesurely pace is that much of her wit, along with her sympathies, comes from that tension of being in a society ruled by etiquette wherein the most god-awful insults and putdowns are committed under the guise of polite conversation and her observation that most snobs are fools, inferior to the folk they look down on. Her heroines are usually the victims of such behavior - well, Emma's an exception - and her romantic gentlemen are never snobs, if noblemen, and always intelligent enough to eventually see things accurately.
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T.O.D.
THEM
That scared me to death when I was a kid!
"Them!" "Them!"
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Thanks, DR Edisaurus. I'd like to work on whittling that down a little! ;) But eating these Hershey's Peanut Butter Kisses is probably not helping any. :P
It's great to see you 'round here again! :)
Awwww...thanks! It's good to be back! I have a reprieve today while the techincal problems that gave me the day off get worked out. The later I start though, the later I finish...probably after midnight.
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Thanks for the weather report, DR dB! Like DR Ben, I am wondering what happened to the 8+ inches of snow that were predicted.
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TOD--- definitely "Them!" a clasic if there ever was one!
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Good morning, DR Rally Moole!
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...probably after midnight
:(
OK, everyone...
A rousing chorus of Round Midnight...
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I learry rike that gleat guy Rally Moole! :)
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Evelyone, larry alound Rally!
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I missed DR Ben, but I hope that he and Ant don't take their Christmas tree down until after I get to see it!
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I learry rike that gleat guy Rally Moole! :)
Thank you, DRs singdaw and edisaurus! That was one of my more peculiar recording sessions.
I had weird dreams again last night: one about The Brain From Planet X and beng in college - was it the same one in which my underwear was on backward? - and several others.
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was it the same one in which my underwear was on backward?
Well, at least you weren't going "commando"! :)
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The talk the other day about Milhaud---one of my favorite composers--reminded me that I never ordered that two piano/4 hands version of le Boeuf sur le toit. bk might like that, too, if he is a fan of Milhaud and 2 pianos.
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Can't wait to see DR Edisaurus and her ever-lovin' DH Greg! :) :)
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Can't wait to see DR Edisaurus and her ever-lovin' DH Greg! :) :)
DITTO!
DITTO!
DITTO!
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Senator Larry Craig's latest staff meeting:
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_TmUBWwWLKUU/R4pex5R9uTI/AAAAAAAABIE/8xOWp_N6SwA/s400/caroline+harvey.jpg)
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Well, at least you weren't going "commando"! :)
At our group meeting for our neighborhood website, we talked about whether our animals wore collars with ID. I said than mine were all indoor cats so they always went commando. Everyone looked at me like I was insane---I don't think they knew what I was talking about!
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Everyone looked at me like I was insane---
Umm...
There could be another explanation...
;)
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Umm...
There could be another explanation...
;)
Well, yes... there IS that!
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Good morning, fellow Dear Readers. In an hour another Window Man is coming to measure again.
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Senator Larry Craig's latest staff meeting:
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_TmUBWwWLKUU/R4pex5R9uTI/AAAAAAAABIE/8xOWp_N6SwA/s400/caroline+harvey.jpg)
Well, that made me laugh!
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Measure twice, cut once, I always say! :)
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Believe me, Edi, the tree will be up. If Anthony had his way it would stay up until June!
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I participated in a "World House Concert" yesterday at a local synagogue in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. It was an interfaith event, and was overall quite moving.
The program opened up with a Buddhist drumming group that was really quite astonishing. The beats pulsed through our bodies and really got the adrenaline and endorphins pumping!
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Hi, Ben!
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Yo, stringbow!
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Is it really Monday already?
Sigh.
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Greetings, Good Sir DR Ron Pulliam! :D
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I won't say with any certainty that this will be a tired-butt week.
But I do have a dental appointment with my endodontist tomorrow morning...and that's not my idea of fun.
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Knit one, Purl two
Elmore, Yoo-Hoo!
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I, too, watched last night's airing of "Persuasion."
I was a tad irritated by the unsettling opening of Ann moving through her house. The hand-held camera jumpiness as she raced down the stairs and to the door was most distressing. I was almost put out by it until it dawned on me that the filmmakers "wanted" us to feel Ann's jitteriness.
There was much to admire throughout this film, although some creative decisions seemed a bit odd. I'm in agreement with someone else's comments about Ann's dashing madly about Bath in the final 10 minutes or so. But there were some rather wonderful creative decisions, too....Ann giving the Captain the "look" he hoped she'd give him of her interest in him; and then there was that almost-didn't-happen kiss on the street.
It was a rewarding way to spend 90 minutes, IMO.
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I needs must hie my butt hence to the workplace.
Later on, amici.
Ciao-ders
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As for the TOD, I'm almost certain that BK knows that after THEM! my favorite insects run wild movie is THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
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Greetings Ron, from Snowless New York City
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I'm already down at the rehearsal studios... And it appears that we're not starting until 11:00 today... Hmm...
*I actually found out about the later start last night from the musical director, but I'm sort of surprised I did not get my usual confirmation e-mail/phone call from the office like I usually do. -But I did call the office this morning once I got here, just to confirm for today and tomorrow. And Wednesday - when I'll be doing some pre-production work on DR TCB's beloved LuPone Gypsy. ;)
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And, yes, alas... No Snow. :(
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TOD: All I can think of this morning is THEM! and TARANTULA.
That's all I thought of because in my opinion, they are the two greatest BY FAR.
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Good morning!
Colder than the last week but an absolutely beautiful morning otherwise. Not a cloud in the sky and there are promises of highs in the low 50s.
The rain predicted for us yesterday never arrived.
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As for the Topic of the Day...
Ah, Bug Films!
There were a couple of ants ones. -And I do remember the one that bk watched last night. Then there were all those killer bee ones, particularly "The Swarm". And wasn't there also one called "Buzzzzzz"? Something akin to that snake movie "Sssss"? I dunno.
And what was that cockroach one... I think it might have been a made-for-tv deal. They were "Fire Cockroaches" - they would actually burn and bite at the same time, and the movie had this crazy apocalyptic ending where the cockroaches started spelling out what they wanted to say to the "hero" of the movie. Crazy stuff I tell you!
*I also "fondly" remember bug movies since my brother, Don, was deathly afraid of them. Well, more like "hively afraid". He would actually start to break out in a rash whenever he would start to see all those thousands of creepy-crawling things. Heck, sometimes even the "white pattern" on the TV would give him the oogies. He just thought it was a lot of bugs.
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Umm...
There could be another explanation...
;)
"The Amy Linton Touch"
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This is going to be an insanely busy week for me. I have SIX films coming in for viewing and write-ups plus I'm in the midst of evaluating THE GAME PLAN on Blu-ray now, and it will likely take me right up to TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES tonight.
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Hmm... There's a maintenance man in the room now... And he trying to put some hangers on the coat rack... And he seems to be having quite the difficult time doing so... Hmm... ???
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And I have HAWAII FIVE-O sitting here waiting for viewing. All six of the films coming in plus THE GAME PLAN I'm watching now and HAWAII FIVE-O come out next Tuesday.
Ah, the joys of the working man!
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TV Reminder:
In addition to SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, PRISON BREAK returns tonight (I don't watch it), and there are new episodes of CSI: MIAMI and
MEDIUM!
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I don't remember whether I said anything about SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES last night or not.
I thought it was well produced for TV and picked up well from the end of TERMINATOR 2 with the mother and son well cast as replacements for the original movie players.
But week after week of chase and destroy? Hopefully, they're going to find other ways to put these characters into interesting situations that don't every single week find them battling a new terminator.
The idea of making the teenage girl the good terminator was a novel approach that I liked a lot. Gives John someone his own age (kind of) to relate a bit to.
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Well... Everyone else is starting to come in to the room, so...
Laters...
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"The Amy Linton Touch"
I'm still waiting for the post house to call me to see if the "little people" can received the Amy Linton touch.
Can I get arrested for that? :o
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Good morning, fellow Dear Readers. In an hour another Window Man is coming to measure again.
I hope he measures up!
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I'm back. AND I'm all caught up. Sheesh! It never pays to get very far behind at HHW.
Thanks to DRs DakotaCelt, Jane, JRand57, Jose, Miss Karen, Edisaurus, der Brucer, Ron Pulliam, and all and sundried here at HHW, including those DRs that I have previously thanked! Your support means the world to me!
And another goal in my life has been fulfilled...the non-athletic supporter!
:D
(And you are most welcome, singdaw!)
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TOD: Arachnophobia -- made my skin crawl.
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Let us move on.
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Welcome to Page 4
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I'm having lunch today with best friend John so I need to head down now and clean up a bit.
WBBL.
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I think I'll start meandering towards work. See you later, I hope!
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Window Man has measured and left.
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I went to my first toga party yesterday. No, it was not a "Let's get down and par-tay!" type of thing but a kid's birthday party wher the adults and kids all were askled to dress in togas. Quite a group! A few of them knew each other from a community theatre group, so they had access to the costume department. I knew that I wasn't going to convince anyone that I was a real gladiator or even a real frat boy, so I didn't feel compelled to get me some knee lenth sandals and a chariot. I decide to keep on a layer of clothing on underneqath, although the weather here yesterday would have been fine had I foregone some of the layers. Last year, at this kid's party, we were in the middle of a cold snap, and that was the coldest day. They had a magician out to a show for the kids by the pool, and the poor guy could not unfreeze his hands enough for much of it and to go warm up a lot. It was a little too cold for the rabbits and birds, too.
This year, it was quite lovely, and since the kids are getting older, it involved more contests of skill (or actually taking time to think-- how to build a freestanding building out of nothing but balloons an scotchtape).
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I am so excited about the premiere of TRADING SPACE (january 26th) with Paige Davis returning.
I was a huge fan of the show. But stopped watching when she left.
I actualy saw a promo for the new season when i was watching something else on TLC. I can't wait.
Btw, has anyone else been watching it this whole time? Which of the designers are still there? My favs were hildy and laurie.
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Does, "The Fly" count as a mad insect film? Quite good and tame despite its hype.
There was one those ABC movies about bees I think that had Buddy Ebsen, Gloria Swanson, someobody like Linda Blair (a real typical ABC Movie cast-- one from Column A, two from Column B type of things).
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DR Ben & DP Ant, functioning computer vibes!
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THEM! is the greatest "insects run amok" movie of all time.
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TOD:
# 1 favorite: EARTH VS THE SPIDER (1958) starring Miss June Kenney and Mr. Eugene Persson.
runner up: THEM
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Hi Druxy.
I didn't watch bug infested scary movies until Keith insisted-LOL. Most I don't remember, or sort of avoided watching. I do remember "them, them". It was kind of funny.
Once Keith turned on something about bees, I was so relived by the end of the opening credits he had had enough of bee's flying around. ;D
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I didn't watch bug infested scary movies until Keith insisted-LOL.
I still have never seen one! I'm just too much of a wimp. :P
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TOD: the leeches clinging to poor Bogart in "The African Queen" are certainly cringe-worthy!
And the expression on Bogart's face...He definitely deserved his Oscar.
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Singdaw, IMHO, you aren't missing anything. ;D
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I loved Arachnophobia :) Even though I have a terrible fear of spiders.
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Ole' Bruce Kimmel had a site,
E I E I O.
And on that site he had some cows,
E I E I O.
With a moo, moo here
And a mu mu there-
Here a moo
There a mu
Everywhere a moo-mu
Ole' Bruce Kimmel had a site,
E I E I O.
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Bryan leaves today for his first interview. We should have given him a roll on bag for his birthday. He never got one & will be checking his luggage, along with his new interview suit. I'm nervous since he has an odd history of lost luggage.
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I've never seen a moo moo gathered at the bottom like that. It is cute.
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***TRAVEL & INTERVIEW VIBES***[/size]
for DS Bryan!![/size]
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Thanks Singdaw. We are very excited.
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And another goal in my life has been fulfilled...the non-athletic supporter!
Why I declare, DR Ron Pulliam...you're making me misty-eyed! ;)
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Hmm... There's a maintenance man in the room now... And he trying to put some hangers on the coat rack... And he seems to be having quite the difficult time doing so... Hmm... ???
Perhaps you were distracting his thoughts?
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I am so excited about the premiere of TRADING SPACE (january 26th) with Paige Davis returning.
I was a huge fan of the show. But stopped watching when she left.
I actualy saw a promo for the new season when i was watching something else on TLC. I can't wait.
Btw, has anyone else been watching it this whole time? Which of the designers are still there? My favs were hildy and laurie.
Hildy and Laurie and Doug....I am SO OVER them.
And Mindy Paige Davis Page was never a favorite.
Vern Yip was the one, decent designer they had.
But truly, the show went south when it became a personality show rather than a "how-to" show. When they stopped showing us how to do stuff and began concentrating on personality conflicts it became a dull thing, indeed.
It's dead to me. Ptooi!
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I've never seen a moo moo gathered at the bottom like that. It is cute.
That's the mu-mu chemise, yes?
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I loved Arachnophobia :) Even though I have a terrible fear of spiders.
It was a bug movie with a "heart", IMO. With the leading actors, you just knew things were going to be all right, but I was right there with Jeff Daniels in the squeamish/frozen-with-fear department.
And it didn't hurt to have the comic relief of the coroner (especially when he and his wife died with their hands in a tub of popcorn watching "the Wheel"! LOL.
And John Goodman as the exterminator/terminator...with a large show for just-in-case!
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TOD:
The only Bugs in the cinema that I ever cared for was voiced by Mel Blanc.
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Monday morning greetings! Richard's busy week of liturgics has begun. I was supposed to receive a conference-planning phone call at 8:30am, but instead received a call from the person's assistant asking to reschedule to tomorrow afternoon (sick child at home).
The wireless is not working in our apartment, so I got myself cleaned up and decided to head out to find someplace where it would. First step out the door, I locked the keys in the apartment and had to get maintenance to let me back in. Anyway, here I am in the beautiful atrium of the library with a very reliable wireless connection.
In about 45 minutes, I'll meet Richard and his classmates for lunch in the Refectory and attend an orientation to the library's new electronic resources. Then, I'm going grocery shopping and try to get some more AAUW conference work done.
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What did the oil driller reply when asked, two days after the rainstorm, how his work was progressing?
"Dry and boring".
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Good day one and all from cold North Dakota...
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The latest from WhackoWorld:
(http://worldnetdaily.com/images2/jan08wbA.jpg)
der Brucer
Would make good reading for Sandra at work.
Those fingers in my hair
That sly come hither stare
That strips my conscience bare
Its witchcraft
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And the polls never lie!
Poll: Fox Most Trusted News for Americans (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/fox_news_trusted/2008/01/13/63997.html?s=al&promo_code=42E1-1)der Brucer
Cough!!! I cant believe I just read that... What did they do the respondents, give them drugs?
Revolting!
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Nice way to start page five. :D
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I had a date for the hop last night
Up to her door everything seemed right
But to my surprise as I opened the door
I couldn't tell the front from the back
"Cause she was wearin' a sack dress
Whew what a mess!
The last time I saw her, man what a shape!!
And now she's got a shape like an egg!
No chemise, please, not for me, please
Well you can take back the sack, leave it hangin' on the rack
And bring a sweater back!!
When we arrived at the hop
We started in doin' the stroll
I told her I wanted to stop
But she wanted rock and roll
I told her forty times and it really was a crime
I was talkin' to the back of her head!!
No chemise, please, not for me, please
Well you can take back the sack, leave it hangin' on the rack
And bring a sweater back!!---yeah
(instrumental interlude)
Sure would like to find the creator
Who covered up my baby in this tent
He musta been a woman-hater
I keep wonderin' where the wiggle went
So won't you change the fad, have pity on me please
Put 'er back in her dungarees
No chemise, please, not for me, please
Well you can take back the sack, leave it hangin' on the rack
And bring a sweater back!!
No chemise, please, not for me, please
Well you can take back the sack, leave it hangin' on the rack
Bring a sweater back!!
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SAG-AFTRA feud escalates over 'Phase 1' (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/01/shell-for-verri.html#more)
der Brucer
oh joy.... I have been hearing that there is a possibility that they may go on strike in late spring or summer. Now add the writers strike and new programs and movies will really be at a standstill.
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NYC:
Monday: Scattered flurries and snow showers. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Monday night: Scattered flurries and snow showers. Low near 30F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30%.
Tuesday: Considerable cloudiness. A few flurries or snow showers possible. High around 35F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday night: Partly to mostly cloudy. Flurries or snow showers possible early. Low 28F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
der Brucer
The temps sound nice and they are about 40 degrees warmer than here....
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I took my mom to the Dingle peninsula in Ireland a few years ago. So beautiful!
My friend Maureen has been there several times. It is a beautiful area.
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Interview vibes to Jane's son, Bryan!
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I believe I'm up. I, too, had an evening filled with quite weird dreams. First seeing four older Jewish comics in a tiny club and them asking my opinion about their show. Charlie Brill was one of them. Then I was doing a play at LACC (I think) and the opening was for some reason on a Friday afternoon. Wherever I was coming from the traffic was horrible and then I couldn't find a place to park and I ended up walking into the theater ten minutes before curtain. Men and women were all in the same dressing room which, unlike LACC, was located down some stairs under the stage. The costumer found my costume, which I'd never tried on before. He/she (it kept going back and forth) had bought me size forty underwear and I kept saying I didn't need such a size and they kept saying I'd look better. I got my shirt on and then they had me put on pointy glossy black shoes, admonishing me to not squeeze into them. I then put my gray slacks on over them.
All during this I kept asking everyone for a script, as I could not remember one single line. No one seemed to have a script. I asked if they play had started and it had. We could hear one of the actors playing the piano and singing and getting a huge ovation. I finally found a script but by the time I found my first scene it was almost time for my entrance. I went upstairs and got ready - I found my first line in the script (which I was now carrying in a prop grocery bag - my brilliant idea of how I could have the script onstage with me. Something had happened to my shoes, however - I was barefoot, and I quickly ad-libbed "It was so hot I took me shoes off" as I entered, speaking in a cockney accent for some reason. And then the phone rang.
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Come to me, my melancholy baby.
Cuddle up and don't be blue.
All your fears are foolish fancies maybe.
Don't you know that I'm in love with you?
Every cloud must have a silver lining.
Just wait until the sun shines through.
Smile, my honey dear,
While I kiss away each tear,
Or else I will be melancholy too.
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The Charlton Heston film that brian referenced is called The Naked Jungle and its based on a quite famous radio play called Lonegin (sp?) and the Ants. It's directed by Byron (War of the Worlds) Haskin.
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Travel, interview, and no-lost-luggage vibes to Bryan, DS of DR Jane!
Off to lunch with the seminarians - bye for now!
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I found this game over at the BBC, the Doctor Who themed MonsterMatch (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/advent06/flash/monstermatch.swf).
This morning, I discovered that der Brucer has also been playing it.
Warning: It is quite addictive, particularly in the timed version.
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Tonight, I'm going to roast a chicken.
I just haven't yet decided on what tricks I'll be playing with it.
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I don't believe I've ever seen an insect movie.
I might like a butterfly movie. It could hardly be scary.
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They forgot the period after "Best". :)
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It is a beautiful day out today, although a bit breezy. DR Sandra has the day off, and we walked over to the sandwich shop for breakfast. Well, she had breakfast; I had coffee.
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They forgot the period after "Best". :)
And after "The". :o
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They forgot the period after "Best". :)
And the periods after The.
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I am still de-groggifying. I'll start writing in about fifteen to thirty minutes.
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Btw, has anyone else been watching it this whole time? Which of the designers are still there? My favs were hildy and laurie.
Hildy, Laurie, Frank and Doug are back, plus there's a new guy named Goil.
'Nuff said...
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I loved Arachnophobia :) Even though I have a terrible fear of spiders.
I liked Arachnophobia, too. Then I finally met Jeff Daniels and wished the spiders had killed him.
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Vern Yip was the one, decent designer they had.
And the one who is not coming back, AFAIK...
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plus there's a new guy named Goil.
That's the title of my next novella, a lurid tale of transgendered shenanigans...
A New Guy Named Goil.
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Apparently, he enjoys being a goil.
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Maybe Goil is the new Yip?
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An over-eager mohel
Made him a goil...
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Ben might like an Ant movie!
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An over-eager mohel
Made him a goil...
Morey!!!
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For an extensive history of the backup group The Ants, ask DR Tomovoz...
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Der Brucer wants to use the computer.
I want him to get dressed so we can explore the town a bit, something we haven't done for a while.
Maybe we'll take turns in getting what we want.
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And I started another page!
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Me, in my caftan and planning a brunch:
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_HtSvr0DEcpc/R4llpFumxgI/AAAAAAAAAn4/z-6dO35QxAo/s320/amazons.jpg)
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I found this game over at the BBC, the Doctor Who themed MonsterMatch (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/advent06/flash/monstermatch.swf).
This morning, I discovered that der Brucer has also been playing it.
Warning: It is quite addictive, particularly in the timed version.
I saw that game a couple of weeks ago.. .it is addictive
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Hildy, Laurie, Frank and Doug are back, plus there's a new guy named Goil.
'Nuff said...
I like Frank... Wish they had Edmund back. I liked some of his stuff.
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Thank you DR’s Dakota & Ginny.
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Hi, Dakota!
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I don't believe I've ever seen an insect movie.
I might like a butterfly movie. It could hardly be scary.
I'm sure it could be made scary. I never would have thought a movie about birds could be so frightening. For the longest time after seeing THE BIRDS I would jump when startled by a bird ;D
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I have to say that Paige Davis defines the word "perky"!
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TOD...
I had to think about this a bit...
BUGS - I was completely creeped out by this as there is one scene I recall where giant cockroaches were coming out of the ground. It was creepy...
ANTS
Day of the Animals
Arachnophobia - That movie scared the crap out of me.
Night of the Lepus
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Hello Edi, you have been missed...
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vibes for Bryan, son of DR Nursie! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ and What's-His-Name! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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We might have had one Sunday morning because the new hard drive arrived from Gateway on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, they sent the wrong hard drive. Wrong on two fronts. It was the wrong type of hard drive (we need a PATA not a SATA) and it was too big. No one caught that one. We assumed, since the first tech person we talked to said we could get it, that a 500 gig hard drive would be nice to have. The second techie, even after calling up our system specs (it's an older computer from 2003) said Sure, you can use that. When the hard drive came and we opened it to begin installation we noticed a problem. We called tech support and the third tech person said, yes, you have been sent the wrong hard drive and no, because of your computers specs (including the bios) your system can't support a 500 gig hard drive. So, we still don't have the new hard drive and we have to return the old hard drive. I read my e-mail this morning so I could get the instructions on returning the hard drive. The memory we ordered should be here today and the man at Gateway said the new 250 gig hard drive should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday so if we're lucky we might have a running computer by Thursday or Friday!
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Great game....Monster Match!! Wow!
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Looking forward to Paige Davis coming back - saw the promo for the first time on Saturday night - but I am sorry, I won't be watching.
Bitchy untalented Hildy, abrasive Doug, and lazy ass Laurie killed the show for me. Hate their designs and hate the personalities they display on the show.
So....no more Trading Spaces for me either, I am afraid.
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Not unhappy with the three teams still on TAR. I will miss the team that was eliminated....although they could also make me CRAZY.
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TOD:
The Beginning of the End
Earth Vee Ess the Spider
THEM!
The Deadly Mantis
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The great big city's a wonderous toy
Just made for a girl and boy.
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy!
* * * *
The city's glamour can never spoil
The dreams of a boy and goil
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy!
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although they could also make me CRAZY
It's not a long trip! ;)
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It's not a long trip! ;)
Well there is that. ;D
I got a new Astral Travel CD.....
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Cough!!! I cant believe I just read that... What did they do the respondents, give them drugs?
Revolting!
You prefer Lou Dobbs over at CNN?
Or Nancy Grace at CNNH?
Or Keith Olbermann at MSNBC?
der Brucer
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Oh, DR FJL...really.
A tramp at the Omni? ;D
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I've done five pages, and this afternoon I'll begin a new chapter and maybe do two more.
I've also almost finished revising the lyric I've been slaving over.
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Er, singdaw, that wasn't me, that was some other BklynBoy.
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Every time I watch the Lansbury HEARN Sweeney Todd, I see something new and interesting and different.
Remarkable.
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I've done five pages, and this afternoon I'll begin a new chapter and maybe do two more.
I've also almost finished revising the lyric I've been slaving over.
Are the chapters titled or numbered?
What characters are being revisited?
Will all questions be answered later rather than sooner?
Is the PIANO a character? ;D
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Are the chapters titled or numbered?
What characters are being revisited?
Will all questions be answered later rather than sooner?
Is the PIANO a character?
And...
What about Naomi?
;)
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Ole' Bruce Kimmel had a site,
E I E I O.
And on that site he had some cows,
E I E I O.
With a moo, moo here
And a mu mu there-
Here a moo
There a mu
Everywhere a moo-mu
Ole' Bruce Kimmel had a site,
E I E I O.
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Nice gams of yours in the mu mu!
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Need to dash and start the car.... I pray the poor thing starts in this cold...
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Alright, DRLaura: "There are so many old lady names, and I can only eat so many sandwiches."
--DR Sandra
I have to ask.
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And...
What about Naomi?
;)
I don't know, but if you find Ruth, you'll find Naomi :D
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Naomi was in the parachute, dangling from the tree, when she was happened upon by Charlie, Desmond and Hurley. Mikhail soon came out of the jungle.
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The Charlton Heston film that brian referenced is called The Naked Jungle and its based on a quite famous radio play called Lonegin (sp?) and the Ants. It's directed by Byron (War of the Worlds) Haskin.
Actually, the original idea was the short story "Leningen Versus the Ants" which I taught to my eighth graders for many years.
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It was warm enough at lunch for me to wear no jacket and merely a turtleneck sweater. But it's slated to get much colder as the week progresses.
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I spent most of the afternoon after I returned home watching the bonus features on THE GAME PLAN Blu-ray disc. Most of the features were in HD as well, always a nice feature since you've just watched the movie in HD and when you go back to SD, it's very disconcerting. Of the features on the disc, only one was in 480i. Everything else was HD.
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The Blu-ray had one exclusive feature which is not on the sDVD version of the movie: an audio commentary which also allows the director and star of the film to pause the movie and draw marker notations on the film to emphasize something they want to comment about.
It's a jokey commentary without much real information: everybody's great to work with and there are lots of in-jokes about man jewelry and apples on the set (real green apples, not euphamisms for something else); funny to them but not so much for the viewer. And the marker circling idea was gimmicky without really adding all that much.
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They got Marv Albert from ESPN to narrate the blooper reel. That was something different, but his talking sometimes got in the way of hearing how the actors were fouling up the take.
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I concluded my afternoon by skimming through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. No Luke or Noah, and they weren't in the previews either (though Lily was).
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DR elmore, thank you for the big vibes.
Bryan is having the reverse situation Craig did, his first flight was on time & his second is late-without a new departure time. At least the airline should have had plenty of time to transfer his luggage!
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Back from lunch in the refectory and a grocery-shopping trip into town. Snow is falling here, but not accumulating on the roads - yet. I'm back in the library atrium, where I noticed it's not as bright as it was this morning. That's 'cause the skylight is now snow-covered.
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Hi Ginny. It sounds like you are having a nice time, even if you are working while on vacation.
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Bryan's flight update time has been changed from 1:35 to 2:05, not a good sign. I hope he is in the air long before I return from dog training class.
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Thanks for the updates, DR JANE....
DR GINNY - have fun!!!
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Hi Ginny. It sounds like you are having a nice time, even if you are working while on vacation.
Hi, Jane - I'm not working on work work, just on the AAUW/Ohio conference, which is actually volunteer work. Just got some very good news from the state president on that front.
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At our group meeting for our neighborhood website, we talked about whether our animals wore collars with ID. I said than mine were all indoor cats so they always went commando. Everyone looked at me like I was insane---I don't think they knew what I was talking about!
That's pretty funny! ;D
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DR GINNY - have fun!!!
DR JRand - well it's not a laugh riot, but the change of scenery is nice and it means a lot to Richard for me to be here with him.
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~~~Travel, Luggage and Interview Vibes for Jane's DS Bryan!!~~~
;D
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I found this game over at the BBC, the Doctor Who themed MonsterMatch (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/advent06/flash/monstermatch.swf).
This morning, I discovered that der Brucer has also been playing it.
Warning: It is quite addictive, particularly in the timed version.
Speaking of Doctor Who, today (I had it sent to my work), I received the animated series, Doctor Who : Infinite Quest (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Infinite-Complete-Animated/dp/B000U55U82/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1200347014&sr=1-1). Also in the same shipment was the London Palladium cast recording of Scrooge (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scrooge-Original-Cast-Recording/dp/B000WFFO5O/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1200347185&sr=8-5) with Tommy Steele, and the original London cast recording of Parade (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parade-Original-Cast-Recording/dp/B0010RD3EC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1200347243&sr=1-1).
I've got me some listening to do. :)
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You all may have seen this but my mom just sent this to me. A 7 year old with an amazing voice!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/7-year-old-sings-national-anthem/40945200
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It's that kind of day...
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One more Julie Andrews CD down. This one just arrived. All I'm missing now is the second album for RCA, on which she sang the wonderful Coward song "Matelot." I have it on LP but I want a CD. I don't understand why RCA's been dragging their feet about releasing them in the US.
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Apparently, many animals "go commando".
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Also in the same shipment was the London Palladium cast recording of Scrooge (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scrooge-Original-Cast-Recording/dp/B000WFFO5O/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1200347185&sr=8-5) with Tommy Steele....
And speaking of Scrooge, the item number on the CD is BK002CD and it's released on BK Reocords! What a coinkydink!
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It seems as though it was only issued in Japan and now it's OP! Damn.
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It's that kind of day...
(http://www.haineshisway.com/community/attachments/singa.jpg)
This has just become my desktop wallpaper on my computer, here at work! :D
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Alright, DRLaura: "There are so many old lady names, and I can only eat so many sandwiches."
--DR Sandra
I have to ask.
I'll tell you if you answer a question for me.
It's not haunted-- it's just brown?
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And I notice that Kerry doesn't seem at all confused by my quote. Maybe he can explain it to me. I was a part of that conversation, and I'm not sure I understand it entirely.
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Good Afternoon! Good (Early) Evening!
WHEW!
Well... "An American in Paris" used to be my favorite music. :-\ ;)
*I lost count after the first 80 time I played the opening 40 measures... over and over and over and over again and again and again and again...
But, of course, it will be my favorite piece of music again come tomorrow morning! ;D
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However, it was great playing a dance call that called for ballet! You don't see technique like that anymore on the Broadway stage. -Well, there are those girls in The Phantom of the Opera, but... ;)
But, boy, do those sixteenth notes get more difficult to play after the umpteenth time in a row.
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This has just become my desktop wallpaper on my computer, here at work! :D
It is absolutely hilarious.
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And now, I'm off to meet my friend, Sean, for dinner, and then we're heading to Carnegie Hall tonight to see/hear Rada Lupu in recital. A Schubert Sonata and the second book of the Debussy preludes. :)
I shall have to catch up on the posts later. I hope everyone has been having a wonderful non-vibe-needed day.
Laters...
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The library here on campus closes at 4:30pm CST, but faculty, staff, students and spouses have 24/7 access. The assistant librarian just came through and turned off a lot of lights, but told me I could stay as long as I wanted. Now I know what the homeless stowaways in my library feel like!
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Page Eight Harry Potter Dance!!!
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I'm heading downstairs to begin the viewing for the evening.
Yes, I'll be starting with the sDVD version of THE GAME PLAN which came in the mail today. Hopefully, I'll be done with it tomorrow when Criterion's THIS SPORTING LIFE and FOUR FILMS OF AGNES VARDA should arrive.
WBBL
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I'm going to join the seminarians for Evening Prayer and see what they have planned for dinner.
Bye for now!
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And speaking of Scrooge, the item number on the CD is BK002CD and it's released on BK Reocords! What a coinkydink!
I looked into buying that, but it seemed like it would cost a fortune to get it!
Where did you buy yours, George? And does Tommy Steele play Scrooge? He seems so...I don't know...un-Scrooge-like!
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I looked into buying that, but it seemed like it would cost a fortune to get it!
Where did you buy yours, George? And does Tommy Steele play Scrooge? He seems so...I don't know...un-Scrooge-like!
I got it from Amazon.co.uk. It was £10.20 (or 13,63 Euros), which is about $20. And shipping for the three items I got (this plus the Dr. Who animated series and London cast Parade), was about $10. When you buy several things at once, it seems to be a slightly better deal on the shipping.
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And the one who is not coming back, AFAIK...
Vern left YEARS ago. He turns up on HGTV from time to time. Vern is a "hot designer" and I'm guessing "Trading Spaces" was not lucrative enough after folks saw what he could do.
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Me, in my caftan and planning a brunch:
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_HtSvr0DEcpc/R4llpFumxgI/AAAAAAAAAn4/z-6dO35QxAo/s320/amazons.jpg)
Golly, singdaw. Even "I" know that's not a CAFtan!
:-*
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I like Frank... Wish they had Edmund back. I liked some of his stuff.
I'd like to walk up to him in a public place and snip off that gosh-awful pony tail.
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It's been a crappy day at the office. Crappy, crappy day.
But I guess you'se could all tell.
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For any snappy comebacks, I have this one thing to say:
[size=8] Bite me! [/size]
And to DR Jose, I'll add:
"In the foyer!"
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That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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Am looking forward to this evening's new "Medium."
In the early evenings, I've "Brothers and Sisters" to watch, plus one of three remaining "Maisie" films to process into the ether after playing it.
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By the way, if anyone ever gets a chance to see "Ringside Maisie", it's a totally cool HOOT.
Virginia O'Brien plays herself and sings a nifty song.
Robert Sterling is Sothern's co-star, but George Murphy is her romantic interest in the end. And Murphy has some really confrontational dialogue with Maisie whom he initially sizes up as a golddigging floozy looking to hook up with his prize fighter (Sterling...who was, or later became, Sothern's husband and father of Tisha).
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RLP is catching up on his Masie movies and I am catching up on my Penrod and Sam movies.
Isn't TCM wonderful!!!
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(((DR Ron Pulliam)))
I've had those days, too. Did they yell at you?
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I FINALLY got a library card today. Since I've lived here in Sioux City, I've always just bought books. Now that the library is just across the skywalk from my office I decided it's time to get books there. So, I'm back to being a library user. It's been years
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RLP is catching up on his Masie movies and I am catching up on my Penrod and Sam movies.
Isn't TCM wonderful!!!
It TRULY is! :)
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(((DR Ron Pulliam)))
I've had those days, too. Did they yell at you?
No, but I did have some sharp words with a co-worker who, on occasion, presumes to know what I'm thinking when she asks me a question and then throws a little hissy huff and says I'm giving her attitude.
Generally speaking, all I'm doing is sitting there turning her request over in my head so that I can give her the best possible response. She doesn't like the way I look when I do it, though, and makes up elaborate lies about never supporting her, not wanting to support her, she KNOWS that look, she never gets any help from me, etc., etc., etc.
It's all bollocks. She's a very disturbed (and needy) individual.
But nobody "yelled" at me.
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How can it be four o'clock??? I have finished seven-and-a-half pages and will probably finish the half-page at some point this evening. I had to go out for a little research field trip for some descriptive prose about a specific neighborhood here in the Valley. It's amazing how you can drive past a neighborhood 10,000 times and never really see it. I took lots of notes, and even though the descriptive prose only amounts to about a page and a half, it will be very accurate.
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I made a steak and baked potato for my meal o' the day.
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All packages have arrived - whew!
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Will we never get to page nine?
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Listening to a marvelous Mantovani two-fer I had no idea existed - two of my favorite childhood movie theme albums.
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Hey, Mikey! Is Race Gentry one of your faves?
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Listening to a marvelous Mantovani two-fer I had no idea existed - two of my favorite childhood movie theme albums.
Do either of them feature the music from the Mantovani "Exodus" album, including "Mr. Wonderful"?
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Yep, the Exodus album is one of the two, the other has incredibly nice themes from Fanny, Barabbas, Advise and Consent, Goodbye Again, Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, etc.
In great remastered sound on the Vocalion label. They've done a ton of the London Phase four recordings, and a lot of easy listening from the London label. They also did Mantovani's marvelous Stop The World/Oliver combo platter. The Exodus CD is available on amazon.
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It seems as though it was only issued in Japan and now it's OP! Damn.
Ask and ye shall receive:
http://cgi.ebay.com/JULIE-ANDREWS-Sings-JAPAN-only-CD-1958-oop-rare-RCA_W0QQitemZ170183423470QQihZ007QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Hi, Jane - I'm not working on work work, just on the AAUW/Ohio conference, which is actually volunteer work. Just got some very good news from the state president on that front.
Guess I missed that important piece of information. Nice you have good news, best of luck with all the planning.
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I FINALLY got a library card today. Since I've lived here in Sioux City, I've always just bought books. Now that the library is just across the skywalk from my office I decided it's time to get books there. So, I'm back to being a library user. It's been years
It's about time!
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You all may have seen this but my mom just sent this to me. A 7 year old with an amazing voice!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/7-year-old-sings-national-anthem/40945200
Wow! It kept pausing & I almost turned it off before the end, so glad I didn't.
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Hey, Mikey! Is Race Gentry one of your faves?
He most certainly is!
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It's about time!
;D
I have a card for our local library which I have seldom used, and not in years. It does make a difference when the library is convenient. My brother walks past his almost everyday, so of course he uses it on a regular basis.
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Thanks George.
Bryan’s flight has made up some of the lost time, currently he is only 2 hours late. He will be staying with a friend, and said friend is picking him up at the airport.
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He most certainly is!
That lobby card is on eBay at the moment....auction ends tomorrow evening.
Is Gentry on the far right, or can you tell from the photo?
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It's about time!
I've had one everywhere else I lived. I just hadn't done it here. This will save me tons of money, lol
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;D
I have a card for our local library which I have seldom used, and not in years. It does make a difference when the library is convenient. My brother walks past his almost everyday, so of course he uses it on a regular basis.
The library is now between my office and the federal building and is the end of the skywalk. So I literally walk through the library to go outside part of the time. Couldn't be more convenient
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Couldn't be more convenient
And it's so qui-et! :)
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Thanks George.
Bryan’s flight has made up some of the lost time, currently he is only 2 hours late. He will be staying with a friend, and said friend is picking him up at the airport.
Is this spate of flying Bryan is doing something that will end soon, or is it going to be more frequent?
And if it's the latter, are "we" all going to be obsessing over his flights' timetable each time he flies?
;D
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Are we STILL on page nine?
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Listening to Johnny Mandel's glorious score to Agatha.
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Yep, the Exodus album is one of the two, the other has incredibly nice themes from Fanny, Barabbas, Advise and Consent, Goodbye Again, Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, etc.
In great remastered sound on the Vocalion label. They've done a ton of the London Phase four recordings, and a lot of easy listening from the London label. They also did Mantovani's marvelous Stop The World/Oliver combo platter. The Exodus CD is available on amazon.
Found it, bought it...thanks for the heads up!
The "Exodus" album was an LP present to me from my grandfather on one of my birthday's circa 1962 or 1963. I played it to death and then some. I found it on a rather good stereo LP six months ago, but I long for something truly CLEAN to hear!
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Sweeney Todd in about two hours.
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Ron, the other one I'd really recommend is a two-fer of Herrmann's Hitchcock album (Phase Four - this is the best of all the remasterings), with a brilliant Ernest Gold theme collection from London Records, conducted by Gold. Fabulous sound.
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I'm sort of logey from the steak and potato. And it would just be so easy to put my head on the keyboard and let Mr. Mandel's incandescent music put me to sleep.
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Me, in my caftan and planning a brunch:
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_HtSvr0DEcpc/R4llpFumxgI/AAAAAAAAAn4/z-6dO35QxAo/s320/amazons.jpg)
Looks like your toga to me (although, what happened to your puce-colored one? ... hmmm?
-- and by the way, you're most becoming as a red-head, DR Bear Claw....
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It's been a hectic day in which I've surprisingly accomplished a lot. It's been nice to have the internet for mental respites.
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Is this spate of flying Bryan is doing something that will end soon, or is it going to be more frequent?
And if it's the latter, are "we" all going to be obsessing over his flights' timetable each time he flies?
;D
Let's hope he will be flying more frequently, just in the near future, to many school interviews.
We don't have to obsess over his flight timetables each time ;D
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;D
I have a card for our local library which I have seldom used, and not in years. It does make a difference when the library is convenient. My brother walks past his almost everyday, so of course he uses it on a regular basis.
Our library system has an option that if you want, all your library materials can be mailed to you so that you don't actually have to go to a library building. You can choose what you want on-line and when you're done, just mail it back...postage paid. It's mainly for the elderly and disabled.
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Our library system has an option that if you want, all your library materials can be mailed to you so that you don't actually have to go to a library building. You can choose what you want on-line and when you're done, just mail it back...postage paid. It's mainly for the elderly and disabled.
Not for the lazy? ;)
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Ron- I'm not obsessing, this one is for Dakota.
Bryan is currently flying over South Dakota.
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Paging Larry Moore!
I have the Julie Andrews cd - well, I do have a copy of it. . .
Need I say more. Mr. Moore?
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Oh, and DR George - Is there a PARADE in town, London town, that is? ? ? ;)
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Are we STILL on page nine?
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Paging Larry Moore!
I have the Julie Andrews cd - well, I do have a copy of it. . .
Need I say more. Mr. Moore?
I'm glad to know that you do, and if I'm unsuccessful in my attempts to get the real mccoy, well . . .
DR Jose, yes to the concert on Thursday night!
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It didn't dawn on me until I saw BK's post with the Ebay link, that I actually did have that particular cd. . .sometimes I'm dense. . .
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I'm just sitting here like so much fish.
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I guess maybe I'll write that rest of page eight, then I'll be done for the day. Good day's work, and great to finish that lyric, too, and finish adjusting the music to it.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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At long last page ten.
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Will we never get to page eleven?
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Not for the lazy? ;)
Well...I don't know if anyone has been turned down, but I think that it's supposed to be for people who really need it.
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Oh, and DR George - Is there a PARADE in town, London town, that is? ? ? ;)
And I also just got the French movie (16-track) soundtrack to Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" from an Amazon Marketplace seller. :D
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Well, I need to go. There's a condo board meeting tonight at 6:00 pm, and I'm still here at work. Until later. :)
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Ron, the other one I'd really recommend is a two-fer of Herrmann's Hitchcock album (Phase Four - this is the best of all the remasterings), with a brilliant Ernest Gold theme collection from London Records, conducted by Gold. Fabulous sound.
;D
I got this one after you raved it about it several months back!
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And I also just got the French movie (16-track) soundtrack to Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" from an Amazon Marketplace seller. :D
Oh, George, the way you talk! ;)
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Ron- I'm not obsessing, this one is for Dakota.
Bryan is currently flying over South Dakota.
Is it on schedule over South Dakota?
;)
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Well, I need to go. There's a condo board meeting tonight at 6:00 pm, and I'm still here at work. Until later. :)
Congratulations on your NEW MILESTONE, DR George!
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Have a milestone, DR George!
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Well...I don't know if anyone has been turned down, but I think that it's supposed to be for people who really need it.
;D I think it is very nice. If Keith's brother weren't there to take my mother-in-law to the library I don't know what she would do. It is too far for her to walk anymore, especially carrying heavy books.
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;D I think it is very nice. If Keith's brother weren't there to take my mother-in-law to the library I don't know what she would do. It is too far for her to walk anymore, especially carrying heavy books.
Well, there's the Amazon kindle...holds 200+ books and magazines, delivered wirelessly, and the font size can be increased for better readability! :)
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CONGRATULATIONS, DR GEORGE[/size]
On your amazing new lofty plateau! :)
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ROTFLOL. I doubt she would ever use that.
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Is it on schedule over South Dakota?
;)
;D
I did hear heavy snow fell in Seattle, not long after his plane departed.
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You all may have seen this but my mom just sent this to me. A 7 year old with an amazing voice!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/7-year-old-sings-national-anthem/40945200
This kid really has personality. Check him out on ELLEN.
(http://video.aol.com/video-detail/anthony-gargiula-performing-on-ellen/3253114437)
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Holy moley on rye, I mis-added - in fact, I wrote over ten pages this day - which I think is a record in my novel writing.
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Congrats on your milestone, George
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Holy moley on rye, I mis-added - in fact, I wrote over ten pages this day - which I think is a record in my novel writing.
Nice! :)
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Ron, don't read this... ;)
Bryan's plane landed, after circling for half an hour, so now I can turn off the computer.
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'night
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;D
I did hear heavy snow fell in Seattle, not long after his plane departed.
There is no snow falling in South Dakota today...
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I'll tell you if you answer a question for me.
It's not haunted-- it's just brown?
I want to live in your house for a week
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And...
What about Naomi?
;)
It's a terrible thing to admit about a very fine actor, but every time I see Morgan Freeman I think "...and what about Naomi?"
Good Ol' Easy Reader
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
what am I, chopped liver?
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Well I think I may wander back out to join Vixdad in his viewing of all the goodies contained in his BladeRunner Briefcase... one of his Christmas gifts from his loving wife
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I spent the early part of the evening watching THE GAME PLAN again, this time in standard definition. Close-ups fine, medium and long shots soft and a bit smeared. Color OK, but the ballet sequence, which really pops on Blu-ray, was flat and drab on sDVD.
The Blu-ray has a commentary missing on the sDVD, and there are 9 deleted scenes instead of the 12 that are on Blu-ray.
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I had about 30 minutes before my TV for the evening was to begin, so I took out the 1998 Olympic Figure Skating DVD which I hadn't watched in awhile. I wish they had done the complete performances of Lu Chen but they only showed very brief highlights of her and Maria Butyrskya (hopeless). The only complete female performances are, of course, by Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski, but at least they do show both their long and short programs, and you can use the angle button on the remote to see alternate camera renderings of the programs.
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I watched the second episode in TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. Good show; exciting without the constant attack/destroy of the premiere episode. Looks like it's going to be more like THE FUGITIVE.
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I certainly enjoyed MEDIUM tonight.
I figured out the Ariel car crash scenario before the first half hour was over, but that was a very neat twist ending I didn't see coming.
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Page Eleven Ron, Semus, and Harry Dance!!!
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Will we never get to page twelve?
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I'm observing Sweeney Todd's ten minute intermission.
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That lobby card is on eBay at the moment....auction ends tomorrow evening.
Is Gentry on the far right, or can you tell from the photo?
If recollection serves me (I think I have the 8x10 still of that shot), Gentry is on the far right.
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I want to live in your house for a week
My former mother-in-law (who I will see this week forher birthday) once described a house in her nighborhood as being haunted. She then clarified, that "It's not haunted; it's just brown." ????????? I actually had to run and write that down so I wouldn't forget it.
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Did I mention, also, that I am very pleased with the final 3 on TAR?! Well, I am...and I couldn't have been happier with the team that got eliminated.
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Had a nice long chat with my good buddy Kevin, who I had not talked to or seen in about 3 years. He and his new wife and kid are doing great...travelling a lot...and he is going to come over and help rid my lawn of moss at some point in the next few months.
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I need to write a bit, so I'm logging off now.
Good night!
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Did I mention, also, that I am very pleased with the final 3 on TAR?! Well, I am...and I couldn't have been happier with the team that got eliminated.
ME TOO!!!
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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And where in tarnation IS page twelve?
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Good Evening!
I'm back from Carnegie Hall... As well as post-recital cocktail or two at Landmarc... (Ah, Armagnac...) So...
Time to catch up. I think. I hope. We'll see...
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Oh phooey, I missed American Gladiators tonight. BUT, I got some new work clothes! The distributions dept. at Kaiser has an opening for a clerk & the manager sounded very interested in me. Send me job vibes!
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OK... All caught up. So, let's see...
OH!..
Rada Lupu's recital at Carnegie Hall was quite wonderful. The first half, however, was a bit so-so, but only because the music was a bit so-so (imho - and some others hold that opinion too). He played one of Schubert's "great" sonatas, the one in D Major. However, it's always been considered the "lesser of the greats". It makes for some interesting listening and analysis, since it just seems to wander from idea to idea, from motive to motive. -Heck, even the program notes mentioned the fact the first movement contains no "real" extended melody, it's all bits and pieces. And then the whole things ends quietly - and sort of puzzingly too. However, it was a good performance, and I give Mr. Lupu major props for not making the 40 minute duration of the piece - he took all the repeats - seem like 40 minutes. ;)
The second half was devoted to the First Book of Debussy Preludes. -I had thought it was the Second Book he was playing tonight, but since I love Debussy... I don't think I've ever heard Rada Lupu play any French repertoire before. He's known as a Classicist - lots of the standards (Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, etc.), but his playing of the Preludes really showed how coloristic his playing can be. "Des pas sur la neige" ("footprints in the snow") ends in a series of ever-softer pianissimos and pianississimos, and he brought out each and every gradation of sound, while imbuing the notes with some wonderful textures and colors. Truly impressive. -And to these ears, sort of pleasantly unexpected. And in the more overt selections, his virtuosity and control was unquestionable.
His first encore was one of the Preludes from Book Two, after which I turned to Sean, and said, "Hmm... I wonder if he's just going to go ahead and play the other 11 for the rest of his encores." ;)
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After the concert, we headed over the Time-Warner Center to grab a drink at Landmarc. Amy, our bartender was a hoot, and took care of us for the two hours we were there nursing out libations. -She even brought out some free cotton candy (today's flavor was "Wacky Watermelon"), and gave me some of the house-made caramels for the road. And about those caramels....
Hmmm... I've had them there before - they're offered gratis when they present your check, but tonight's batch was truly scrumptious. Not overly cooked, caramelized, they weren't too soft, nor too hard, they were just right. Even Amy thought tonight's batch was exceptional. The balance of butter and sugar and caramelization was perfect too - not cloying at all. Sean almost did not have one, but after he took a nibble, he promptly snatched his second one of the plate (we were given four). -And then after I asked very kindly, Amy gave me a nice handful for the subway ride home. Actually, I didn't have of them during the ride home. I am saving them tomorrow - they will make the perfect amuse bouche between rounds of "American in Paris". ;)
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And now...
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Perhaps you were distracting his thoughts?
God, I hope not. ;)
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Hildy, Laurie, Frank and Doug are back, plus there's a new guy named Goil.
'Nuff said...
Yeah, Goil! I wonder if he'll be as manic as he was on "Top Design". ;)
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Now I know what the homeless stowaways in my library feel like!
And now the Real Reason why you "chose" to accompany your husband on this trip.
;)
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For any snappy comebacks, I have this one thing to say:
[size=8] Bite me! [/size]
And to DR Jose, I'll add:
"In the foyer!"
DR Ron Pulliam - You want me to bite you in the foyer?
*And is it a "Foy-Your", or a "Fwah-yay"?
;D
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I'm glad to know that you do, and if I'm unsuccessful in my attempts to get the real mccoy, well . . .
DR Jose, yes to the concert on Thursday night!
Well... The concert is actually Friday night. However, Thursday is the open rehearsal during the day. I have the option to attend both, so... We'll talk.
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Well, there's the Amazon kindle...holds 200+ books and magazines, delivered wirelessly, and the font size can be increased for better readability! :)
...As well as Sony's Portable Reader, which Border's features in their stores:
(http://www.kevinscrate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/sony_reader1.jpg)
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And for a comparison of the two products...
Amazon Kindle vs Sony Reader Bitchfight (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/poll/amazon-kindle-vs-sony-reader-bitchfight-324481.php)
;)
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Had a nice long chat with my good buddy Kevin, who I had not talked to or seen in about 3 years. He and his new wife and kid are doing great...travelling a lot...and he is going to come over and help rid my lawn of moss at some point in the next few months.
Couldn't you just ask your neighbor across the street to see if he's interested in helping you get rid of your moss?
;)
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And since it is now 2:00AM EST, and since I have to be back down at Ripley-Grier in 9 hours... And since I actually may head down to Chelsea to get my haircut before tomorrow's auditions...
Goodnight.
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Oh..
BK - As far as the DGA, WGA... Gotcha. Once I re-read your post, it all made sense to me. I was filling in words that weren't there.
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Well, I need to go. There's a condo board meeting tonight at 6:00 pm, and I'm still here at work. Until later. :)
Congratulations on your NEW MILESTONE, DR George!
Thanks, but I'm not actually on the condo board...I just went to the meeting. :) It was somewhat informative, but there was nothing earth-shatteringly important.
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Have a milestone, DR George!
???
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CONGRATULATIONS, DR GEORGE[/size]
On your amazing new lofty plateau! :)
Oh my goodness...I'm such a dolt! :P
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Congrats on your milestone, George
:-[ I finally get it!! ::) I hit 16000+ Posts! ;D
THANKS Ron, TD, Singdaw and FJL!! :-*
;)
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PAGE 12 DANCE!! :D
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Hehehe! Tired much, DR George?
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Hehehe! Tired much, DR George?
Just a touch. :)
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You prefer Lou Dobbs over at CNN?
Or Nancy Grace at CNNH?
Or Keith Olbermann at MSNBC?
der Brucer
They all annoy me... I just want the news
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I got it from Amazon.co.uk. It was £10.20 (or 13,63 Euros), which is about $20. And shipping for the three items I got (this plus the Dr. Who animated series and London cast Parade), was about $10. When you buy several things at once, it seems to be a slightly better deal on the shipping.
I am interested in hearing more about the animated series George
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Congrats George on your new plateau!
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JOb vibes to singingnymph
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We had sundogs in teh sky today... A harbinger for what is coming down the pipes by the middle of the week. They are predicting -20 to -35 for the weekend....
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and of course.....
We will share this lovely weather
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Since it will be so cold this upcoming lovely three day weekend, I plan on holing up in my apartment and do some reading, homework, and some writing.
Copious amounts of coffee and hot drinks will be consumed.
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DBF was commenting how nice it was today and he was only wearing a sweater and not jacket...
I told him he should be here... for it was much colder...