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Well, you've read the notes, you've travelled far and wide with the notes and now it is time for you to post until the global cows come home. To it, I say.
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Jose got in under the wire, which makes him our Limbo poster.
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That's an idea for a Friday - let's play the Limbo game. I just did the Limbo - the stick was quite low to the ground but I managed to get under it - just. Who here can give us the lyrics to the Limbo song.
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Jose got in under the wire, which makes him our Limbo poster.
Whew! I never knew I was that flexible!
-Calling DR TCB. Calling DR TCB!
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I'm not even going to admit how long I was refreshing the last page of the Notes in B, wondering why people had stopped posting...
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I do wonder how TCB's show went tonight...did he post about it and I missed it?
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...Actually a better response would have been...
Whew! I never knew I could go that low!
-Calling DR TCB. Calling DR TCB!
-Hindsight is definitely 20/20... Or at least 20/40 in my case - whatever the heck that means...
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I see the Pogue family - is Tewkes reading, too?
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I cannot think of any snacky food to go with my cherry water. Would rice work?
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Rice is a snacky food. Too bad you're not here - you could have a biscotti.
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Where is Chubby Checker? (not to be confused with Fats Domino). I think he has been doing the Limbo Rock and the Twist and the Pony and generally Messingaround in OZ lately.
Let's hit the floor like we did before - let's limbo some more.
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I do like biscotti...although it would go better with coffee than water
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Isn't it something like "Here we go Limbo-lou"?
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I just did the Limbo again and I'm lying on the floor unable to get up (I typed this post with my feet - honest).
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BK - I totally understand what you mean by getting your diet started. I'm in the same boat. I guess a week ago I declared right here on this very site that one of my New Year's resolutions was to lose some weight - at least 10 "solid" pounds over the next 10 weeks - just in time for Jewish Thighs On Broadway...
Well, I've thought a lot about that over the past week, and I've tried here and there to make a very concerted effort to eat better, get some exercise, etc. But all I've done is "think" about it. Not "do" it. So...
I've also been eating very bad that past week. I almost felt like I was eating self-destructively at times. Of course, the reason - a.k.a. excuse - was that the donut, cookie, bowl of ice cream, serving of french fries, etc. - I was eating at the time was going to be the last one for a while. My sort of farewell to "bad food" for the time being. Sometimes I would have a few "farewells" in one day. -And I did have that pizza after the show tonight. So...
Part of what I was just researching on the net were some exercise video/DVDs that I've been looking at for a while. I've used some of them in the past, and I wanted to get some of the more advanced workouts. So... I just ordered a set, and I also got another workout video for my Pilates machine. -I like Pilates for the built-in stretching aspect of the workouts - my flexibility is practically non-existent right now. And after today's shopping trip to the commissary with my father, the fridge and freezer is stocked pretty healthily too. *It actually helps that my father is on sort of a restricted diet during his recovery period - it's a very healthy, "normal" diet.
So, I guess today is my "First Day"...
-OK - Time to step out of the confessional... and I already know what my penance will be. ;)
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Most recent DVD (last night): an audience with Kenneth Williams. Very funny.
Cds: "Thrillington"
"Full Circle" Birtles, Shorrock, Goble.
Both reasonably obscure Cds and very enjoyable.
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Should I change my avitar to something other than my face? It's a bit odd stting here with my eyes staring at me...
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Don't you dare change it - I love that photo.
Jose, your penance shall be sending me ALL the biscotti.
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Mrs. Pogue left the room - or she's doing the Limbo.
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La Jolie Femme here. Hello! Sorry to have missed yesterday entirely. I have no idea how to navigate these posts. Sing though I may, I have no control over my Dell Inspiron, and I haven't read a response today for fiddling about like so much fish.
Here's as much as I know:
Every limbo boy and girl all around the limbo world
Come and do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock,
Limbo ankle, limbo knee, bend back like a limbo tree
All around the limbo clock, come and do the limbo rock.
And then, something about a limbo moon above, we will fall in limbo love.
I DUNNO! It's all so much white noise. I was seriously smashed on Purple Passion at the TKE autumn shindig when I first staggered through the elegant and fanciful limbo. The words, like the night, fade into blissful amnesia. Nuff said.
Night.
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Limbo lower now! How low can you go?
Where is Chubby Checker now that we need him...and just how low can a guy named Chubby go anyway?
MattH, I think I voted for 3 of the 5 Turner DVDs being released: The Letter, Ivanhoe, and Random Harvest. I may have also voted for King Solomon's Mines which, though I love the book, I don't think is a particularly good movie. There has never been a good movie version of the book.
Yesterday, I saw Frank Thring in THE VIKINGS. DanssssesssssSalome! Today I watched one of the great Boetticher/Scott westerns, THE TALL T with Richard Boone as a wonderful lead villain with his two henchmen Skippy Hoemeier and Henry Silva. Good stuff, though I have no idea why it is called The Tall T. And tonight we watched one of our favourite westerns TOMBSTONE.
I have not yet decided what will be in my DVD & CD yet. Perhaps in the video, TWELFTH NIGHT with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, & Ralph Richardson...or maybe Sir Peter Hall's Orestesia done at the National. On the nightstand, THE PRETENDERS by Henrik Ibsen which I will now reitre and try to finish reading.
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Frank Thring! We must have a Frank Thring festival. And a Rondo Hatton festival.
We must all play the Limbo game, and the WUSSBURGERS will be so unhappy they missed it.
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Welcome nine GUESTS. We're doin' the Limbo.
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Tomovoz, Kenneth Williams uttered one of my favourite movie lines of all time in CARRY ON, CLEO: "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got in for me!"
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I love Carry on Cleo and own it on DVD. I love when Kenneth sits on a laurel and says "Ooh, I'm sittin' on me laurels."
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Lovely photos yesterday - familis Kimmel.
Hmmmmmm...
DVD - TROY
CD - A Broadway Christmas (I know it is late)
VHS - TROG
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Who does Frank play in THE VIKINGS? Why don't I remember him? I must not have watched that movie as closely as I thought I did.
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How low can you go?
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And now I'm truly wussing out, going to bed, and reading. Though I think the lovely wife may now be hooked and never come to bed again. I'll find her tomorrow in front of her computer, HHW on the screen with her eyes fried, mumbling, "What is it, fish?"
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Chubby could go pretty low as I recall. I've gone lower, however. And recently, too.
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My rice snack was very tasty. I flavored it with a little soy sauce and some pickled ginger. When I was done, I set the bowl down, and Buster made sure I wouldn't have to wash it...much. ;D
Buster is also my popcorn pal. If I nuke a bag of popcorn, he knows what is happening and will sit in the kitchen, watching the nuker. Our deal is, I get a small handfull, and he gets a piece. (That's because I'm bigger than he is.)
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After that last post, the Page Two Dance is...
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=20]The Mashed Potato![/size][/move]
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Frank Thring plays Aella, who throws Ernie Borgnine (Ragnar) into the wolf pit....DanssseDouglasssss! Now, really, I'm outta here. G'night!
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Well, there really was nothing lower than The Hitchiker...he's was pretty much reaching for a dance craze by then. Now, really! Really! I'm off! Gone! I'm no longer here! Nighty-nighty! ZZZZZ! See! I'm asleep already!
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I don't think I've ever danced the Mashed Potato...I've eaten them, though...I love mashed potatoes
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Time for my evening viewing. It may be "Taboo" (the Boy George musical). How low can I go? I not, it may be the video of "Dance Of the Vampires".
A night of culture.
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I just did the Limbo again. I'm getting quite limber doing the Limbo. Ann, do the fershluganah Limbo, will ya?
Julieanne, do the limbo.
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LJF, here.
I currently have "The Fool on the Hill" (Brazil '66) on my CD in the car, plus a lineup of "Night of the Hunter", "Floyd Collins" and "Mundo". I'm in an existential, Latino, Mardi Gras kinds mood ( and aren't we all, in this weather?) I cannot line up anything on the DVD as The Brave and Handsome Husband has total control of that device. Westerns. Randolph Scott. (Not that I've anything against him, nor would want to now that he's expired.)
Still reeling from Jerry Orbach's death, so am playing "The Fantasticks" like mad...and "Promises, Promises"... I DON'T CARE! I dare you to go on the Tonys and make a hook shot with YOUR raincoat.
Night again...and Tewkesbury knows better than to stay up reading this stuff..lucky Tewkes!
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I have not done the limbo in a long time...I'm not sure I'm that flexible.
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Media: I'm reading Phillip Pullman's The Subtle Knife, the second volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy. But it feels strange, reading fiction. I'm usually a non-fiction guy.
I haven't popped in a DVD for quite a while. Der B's been watching movies on cable. He says that Fletcher has been insisting on watching them, not he, but I don't believe him. Fletcher is deaf, after all, and they haven't been watching the films with the subtitles turned on.
::)
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O.K., BK...I'm limboing like a crazed thing! And, yes, beginning to Feel The Beat. OOOH! How LOW can I go?
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Love Randy Scott, especially Seven Men from Now, Commanche Station and Ride Lonesome. However, his finest hour is Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, Ride the High Country with the equally great Joel McCrea - we'll finally have it on DVD this summer.
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Jed has told me you are quite flexible, dear reader Ann.
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We've got a lot of shopping to do tomorrow (or later today) so I everyone will excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable and wussburger.
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Last danced the Mashed Potato in 1963, with my BROTHER at the spring dance. Does that tel :-\l you anything about my early teens?
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We are bringing back the LIMBO. Where else on all the Internet can you do the Limbo? I truly feel that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.
The Jolie Femme, how low did you go?
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I'm sleep-posting. I'm not really here. I told a lie. Didn't Chubby have another dance song called The Popeye? That was as low as he could go.
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I've slipped into something more comfortable, my lounging pyjamas. It's ever so much fun to do the Limbo in one's lounging pyjamas.
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I think we've got a Pogue doppelganger here.
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Biscotti are calling me, but I shall refrain because I'm doin' the Limbo.
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I wonder if any of our five GUESTS is doing the Limbo. Or watching Frank Thring. Or wondering how flexible Ann is.
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I need to slip into something more comfortable too...it's time for pjs
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I hope the pjs are flexible.
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BK, I went as low as the California law allows. Seeing my chiropractor tomorrow, so he can show me how to go a little bit lower now.
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perhaps I shall do the limbo while I put on my pyjamas...that would surely prove how flexible I am..or am not, as the case may be
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I'm quite flexible myself, what with all this Limboing. Maybe Kevin Spacey will make The Chubby Checker Story next.
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Has Ann caught up?
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I am now wearing my sleep clothes...I did the limbo whilst putting them on, and am now feeling quite limbered up, or limboed up...one or the other
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Are Pogue and The Jolie Femme doing the Limbo together?
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All: I'm thrilled to know that your lives are as empty as mine, and that we will don pjs, limbo, and laugh until the Apocalypse. No, really. I know I'm not alone. That I will never walk alone...or limbo for that matter. That I will Climb Every Mountain, and limbo high and low, that "Limbo By" will soon be a David/Bacharach oldie, and that the new Disney film, "Limbo"- about a big eared
circus monkey that loses his mom- will surpass even Spider Man on first week-end.
Charles commands me to bed.
All limboed out....LJF
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Excellent, Ann. I'm sure you were quite flexible.
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Well, might as well do the Weekly Media Check before heading to bed:
DVD - Empty - The same pile from four weeks ago is still on stand-by.
VCR - Empty - I hardly ever use it now anyway.
CD Player - Here we go again...
Cast Recordings:
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (OBC-reissue)
Sherry! (Studio Cast)
Bugsy Malone (NYMT)
Flower Drum Song (OBC)
Contact (OB?)
Anything Goes (Studio Cast - Kim Criswell, Cris Groenendaal, etc. - John McGlinn)
Notre-Dame de Paris - (English Language recording - I don't have any other recordings, so I'm not sure if there's a French recording, but there probably is - and I may track one down sometime in the future... The English lyrics are just plain bad in some places, and awful in others. And the music... Hmmm...)
Classical:
-Lutoslawski - Piano Concerto and other works (Zimerman, Lutoslawski) - I could do without the "other works", and I think the Piano Concerto works better on paper than on disc - imho. *It really is a fascinating score to follow.
-Arleen Auger (soprano) - "The Art of Arleen Auger" - Songs of Larsen, Purcell (arr. Britten), Schumann and Mozart. Sadly, Miss Auger passed away in 1993 after a battle with cancer - I believe she had a brain tumor, if I'm remembering correctly.
-Marilyn Horne - "Rossini Recital"
-Emanuel Ax - "Haydn Piano Sonatas", Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35, 49. His third disc of Haydn sonatas.
-Jose Van Dam - Orchestral Song Cycles by Martin, Ravel, Ibert and Poulenc (Opera Orchestra of Lyon, Kent Nagano). -It's nice having the "competing" Don Quichotte settings of Ravel and Ibert on one disc. Martin's "Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann" are fascinating - I need to try and track down the piano and voice originals one of these days; and Poulenc's "Le bal masqué" is quintessential Poulenc.
Pop, Jazz and Other:
-"Appalachian Journey" - Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor
-Rare Silk - "New Weave" - I saw this vocal group a few times at Blues Alley while I was in high school. Three woman, one man. However, the best time was when when they were the opening act for Freddie Hubbard at the Carton Barron Amphitheatre. It was a free concert! They did a full hour for their opening set. Then Freddie Hubbard played almost two hours non-stop. -Oh, and Michel Petrucianni was touring with him at the time. And then for the first of a couple of encores, Rare Silk came back out and performed Mr. Hubbard's "Red Clay" with Mr. Hubbard.
-Billy Joel - "52nd Street" - So many great songs on this album, my favorite being "Until the Night".
-Janis Siegel and Fred Hersch - "Short Stories"
-Ben Folds Five - "Whatever and Ever Amen"
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The Pogues are off to bed, having Limbod until the cows came home.
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flexible I might have been...graceful I'm not so sure about
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You are entirely graceful, like a gazelle in a Maidenform bra.
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Pogue, I think the fun might just be beginning.
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Perhaps Ann should do the Dance of the Seven Veils.
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I mean, she's already done the Limbo and that might be a good followup.
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I am my own frenzy.
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A gazelle in a Maidenform bra? What an interesting mental image that conjurs up...
I don't think I own a Maidenform bra, though...I bought a very nice strapless one yesterday, though. I had a Target gift certificate to use.
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Wow!
4:00AM and already on Page 3?!?!?!?
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hooray for late night denziens
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That's what I'M talkin' about.
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We'll stay all night and we'll sing 'em all.
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what are you talking about, bk? late night denziens or bras? Or perhaps late night denziens wearing bras...
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Here, let me sing Pogue's favorite song:
Who's got a face as funny as Pepe
Who's got a smile as sunny as Pepe
Who's the comical little clown
There with his trousers falling down
Goin' hippity-hop like a busy be-ee-
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I myself am wearing a bra, with a heavenly uplift.
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Welcome six GUESTS. We're doin' the limbo and wearin' bras.
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Finally caught up with late last night and today. (Still haven't read all of yesterday.) Lots of posts for 1:20. I went to bed at 10 - earliest in a LONG time. Took an Advil for the headache I've had all day on and off - and went to sleep. Ahhhhh. ...Except that I woke up at 1. Nothing like a solid 3 hours.
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I myself am NOT wearing a bra.
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Oh, and that reminds me... catching up from yesterday - or was it the day before... In any case...
"The Skin of Our Teeth" is one of my favorite plays too. I loved the one that was broadcast on PBS a couple of years ago from the Old Globe in San Francisco. Blair Brown was Sabina, and Harold Gould and Sada Thompson were Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus. Rue McClanahan was the Fortune Teller, and John Houseman appeared via video tape as a TV announcer.
-Wow, just Googled the title... It was originally on American Playhouse back in 1983! -I guess so, I was still in high school. I even did a project on in for my senioe year AP English class. It was interesting comparing some of the small changes that appeared throughout the various publised editions.
And it's also available on DVD from the Broadway Theatre Archive... Hmm... Maybe I'll be adding another DVD to the pile...
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Ann is not wearing a bra. I am wearing a bra with heavenly uplift and I do believe my close personal friend Jose is wearing a bra with the revolutionary cantilever principal.
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OK- I was supposed to go to bed about two hours ago...
I shall Limbo in the morning as part of my morning ablutions...
Once again, Goodnight.
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And now, let's all Limbo!
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Ann is not wearing a bra. I am wearing a bra with heavenly uplift and I do believe my close personal friend Jose is wearing a bra with the revolutionary cantilever principal.
I'm your "close personal friend" now, huh?
Hmmm... Maybe sending you the biscotti was a good thing after all... Or not...
Oh, have you tried the other cookies? If so, do you like the other cookies? -They're the same ones I sent you last year for your Christmas Partay, but the batch this year was actually made correctly. -I ran out of maple syrup last year, and just added some extra brown sugar and a few more tablespoons of butter. They were close, but no cigar. In any case...
Do you think there would be a correlation between the number of biscotti you consumed and your number of posts and corresponding dances?
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At a party last weekend a few male friend of mine were discussing something called a "bro" which is apparently a male bra...they swear it actually exists
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I just Limbod three times.
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A bro bra? I like it.
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I don't think I have any Limbo left. I may have to go to bed now in my lounging pyjamas and bra with heavenly uplift.
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....Sheesh!! And "Flower Drum Song" is not even on tonight!?!?!?!?
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Page Four?!?!?!?!?!?
:o
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And one for Mahler.
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I'm so glad that I read the notes and all the posts so that I understand what's going on with all this bra stuff. ;)
I, myself, have never worn a bra, but I have done drag...several times! Just bra-less, though. The performances (in local AIDS benefits) that I've done were not "true drag," in otherwords, I wasn't lip-syncing to any recording. I sang out, Louise. "Beauty That Drives a Man Mad" from Some Like It Hot: The Musical. We transcribed the London version of the song and it has a much better ending that the Broadway cast recording of Sugar, I think.
Anyway, what I've discovered is that no matter how good or how bad one is as a live drag performer or even a lip-sync drag performer, audiences love to see a man in a dress! ;D
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Page Four?!?!?!?!?!?
:o
Who'da thunk it??
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I wore a lovely bra in The Ratings Game, along with a nice skirt and blouse.
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Wait till people log on in the morning - they won't know WHAT the hell happened.
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I wore a lovely bra in The Ratings Game, along with a nice skirt and blouse.
I can see it (a Fantasticks reference!)
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Someone needs to take some meds.
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Can we do the Lindy? Or the Lindy Hop now?
Or shall we do something more classic? Like a Minuet? Quadrille? Passepied?
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Now I must leave and sleep, perchance to...sleep. If I have dreams, I rarely, if ever, remember them after I wake up...or not long enough to even remember that I had a dream. Weird, huh? Anyway, good night!
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JosePiano, if you sent me cookies, I'd be more than your close personal friend...I'd be your slave for life :)
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Someone needs to take some meds.
And maybe someone else has been off their meds...
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And maybe someone else has been off their meds...
;D ;D
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JosePiano, if you sent me cookies, I'd be more than your close personal friend...I'd be your slave for life :)
Just PM me your address and I'll add you to the list... And something tells me I'm going to have a long list...
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My friend taught me the Lindy Hop...I do enjoy it. I like all forms of partner dancing, especially swing.
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~~~~~~GOOD WRITING VIBES FOR DR PANNI~~~~~~
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Thank you, DR Jose!
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JosePiano, if you sent me cookies, I'd be more than your close personal friend...I'd be your slave for life :)
Hmmm... I wonder if I sent Mr. Kevin Spirtas some cookies if he'd be my slave for life.
::)
DR MBarnum - Please note: I would send you cookies, but I also know you're dealing with your diabetes, so... If I come up with a good sugar-free recipe... Would you be my slave for life?
:o
;D
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Well, I must wussburger at last...I have job applications to pick up in the morning, so off I go.
Goodnight all
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Now you've gone and done it... All this talk of dancing...
I have Robert Russell Bennett's "Suite of Old American Dances" going through my head. I played this when I was in high school band - alto saxophone. I still remember it took me a long time to get the hang of some of those syncopated eighth note figures.
...I haven't thought - nor heard - of these pieces in years! Years, I tell you! So who knows if what I'm hearing in my head right now is actually the correct music?
Madness, I tell you. Madness!
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Ann has gone off to Limboland.
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OK - Courtesy of http://www.weddingvendors.com - and Google...
Chubby Checker - Limbo Rock
Every limbo boy and girl
All around the limbo world
Gonna do the limbo rock
All around the limbo clock
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock
Limbo lower now
Limbo lower now
How low can you go
First you spread your limbo feet
Then you move to limbo beat
Limbo ankolimboneee,
Bend back like a limbo tree
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock
la la la etc (instead of instrumental break)
Get yourself a limbo girl
Give that chic a limbo whirl
There's a limbo moon above
You will fall in limbo love
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock
Don't move that limbo bar
You'll be a limbo star
How low can you go
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It almost scans like The Lambeth Walk.
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And now courtesy of http://www.heptune.com
Lil Armstrong - Lindy Hop
If I could lindy like Melindy when she lindy hops,
She makes all cats in the ballroom stop;
Hmmm, just look at that style and grace,
How that gal keeps up that pace!
Now, if I could lindy like Melindy when she lindy hops,
She won't even stop if you call the cops!
Just look at the twinkle in her eye!
Ahh, how that dress quivers around her thigh!
Now, if I could lindy like Melindy when she lindy hops,
Makes all cats in the ballroom stop;
Look at him throw her out and bring her in!
Now, the way them cats dance is a sin!
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And for DR Pogue...
Popeye (The Hitchhiker)
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Popeye
Standing on the side of the street
Uh Huh
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Popeye
Clapping both his hand to the beat
Oh Yeah
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Hey
Popeye
Tryin' hard to bum a ride
Popeye
Tryin' but none come around
They go by
Hey
Popeye
Well now clap your hands
And thumb your thumbs
Thats how the Popeye dance is done
Popeye
Standing there and its gettin' cold
Oh Yeah
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Popeye
Shakin' now to warm up his soul
Uh Huh
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Hey
Popeye
Double turn [and with the thumb]
Popeye
Tryin' but nobody comes
They go by
Hey
Popeye
Well now clap your hands
And thumb your thumbs
Thats how the Popeye dance is done
Yeah
(Instrumental Break)
Popeye
Standin' there and its gettin' late
Oh Yeah
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Popeye
Dancin' there and he's movin' great
Oh Yeah
Hitchhike Hitchhike
Yeah
Popeye
Shes a gorgeous chick [all fine]
She just stops and hollers hi
That lucky guy
Dont cha know
Popeye
Well now clap your hands
And thumb your thumbs
Thats how the Popeye dance is done
Fly
Hey
Popeye....fade
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Jose, I think we BOTH need meds, don't you?
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Biscotti
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Limbo
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I'm faaaaaaaading...
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Jose, I think we BOTH need meds, don't you?
...And plenty of 'em!
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This is not a test... This is not a test...
This is really Page 5...
And it happened just past 5:00AM EST...
I repeat...
This is not a test.
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OK...
So the question is...
Nytol or Vivarin?
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WOW! BK - I know I stay up late... even this seems late for you... Do you have drive yourself anywhere tomorrow? Any appointments besides Mr. Mac Man?
-Don't forget to set your alarm. *And there's an alarm feature on the Mac - just click on the clock/time display.
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oohh... I wonder if BK did faaaaaade away.... ??
In any case...
As I've been saying for the past three hours...
Goodnight.
-Something tells me I should adjust my alarm - No need for it to go off at 8:00AM this morning now...
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Nytol. Mr. Mac Man doesn't get here till two. Until then, I'm on my own.
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Good morning, all! When I logged on and found 120+ postings for today, I fell down! I don't know where I landed on the Richter scale, but we lost several trees in Central Park.
So, how did we end up with a zillion posts last night? Is some sort of astronomical, astrological or meteorological phenomenon happening in the West Coast atmosphere?
DRJose, I have the full score for the Russell Bennett "Suite of Old American Dances" in its full orchestral version, which has never been recorded. I have a recording of the band version, performed by the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music concert band, I believe. I don't think the old Frederick Fennell/Eastman Wind Ensemble recording is on CD yet from Mercury.
Didn't Arleen Auger have a beautiful voice? She died far too young. I may have to pull some of her CDs.
Dear Friend BK, if you come back for a reading at The Drama Book Shop, I most likely won't make the event, but I do look forward to seeing you in the City.
TOD:
CD: right now I'm listening to Ron Raines singing Jerome Kern
JEEPERS CREEPERS
CIMAROSA: IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO (with Arleen Auger)
DVD: I've still got DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS waiting as well as THE MASK OF FU MANCHU which DRMichael Barnum burned for me
VHS: Nada
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DRANN - I think the "bro" is a joke from the SEINFELD show - a cursory search on the internet shows NO SUCH actual garment, although there is a white upper support garment sold for men in sports.
My sister and I demonstrated BOTH the limbo and the mashed potato on television!
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Oh, my, what a surprise to find 125 plus posts and it was not even 7:30am. It took me this long to get caught up.
Right now I'm listening to Malcolm Laycock on BBC Radio 2. No CDs yet and I don't know what I'll listen to yet. I may go back to BBC and catch up on some of the shows I missed while away.
We will watch DR Larry's DVD copy of What If this weekend.
Anthony is also watching Prime Suspect episodes in fits and starts. Since I go to bed earlier (sometimes) and sleep much more soundly than him, he often gets up and watches a video while I am asleep.
We had a wonderful meeting with my cousin from Sheffield last night. Went much longer than I thought it would. Even though we've never met, we talked for hours. One of his aunts even remembers my father who was in England during WWII. He was able to look up relatives in Sheffield (where my grandmother, his mother, came from) and spent a few days with them. I think all the other relatives from that time have passed away but she remembers my father's visit. She must have been a young child at the time. Ray (my cousin) is a great guy and it was a real treat to meet him.
Another New York reading and signing? Wonderful!!! This time I can attend and even go to Joe Allen's afterward (if that would be the plan).
I must be off to work. I feel it will be a record day for HHW (or at least close to a record).
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What the--? Did I oversleep twelve hours? Page Five at 8:20 in the morning?
I guess those kids stayed up all night drinking Redbulls!
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I walked the dogs. I fed the dogs breakfast. I poured myself a cuppa joe. I log on and what do I see? Five pages of posts staring at me!
media:
DVDS last watched: TROY, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, THE LION KING
CD PLAYER: ELLA SINGS BROADWAY, LATTER DAYS SOUNDTRACK.
VCR: THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead).
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Wow 5 pages and 128 posting by 8:30am est! This just might be a record breaking day.
And talking about Bruce in a bra
(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/ratinggamebrucedrag2.jpg)
(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/ratingsgamebrucedrag3.jpg)
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As Phoebe said in Friends
"My eyes! My eyes!"
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Update on my listening pleasure. I will be migrating to Donald's Best of 2004 show as soon as I post this.
Bye.
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While we're all waiting for our cones and rods to function properly again, I'll present my Media Check:
CD Player (at home): Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill -- this is a copy I burnt from my vinyl LP of the show. I don't think they ever released it on CD.
CD Player (at work): I am about to listen to Martin Charnin's Upstairs at O'Neals. I wasn't crazy about this the first time I played it but I'm going to give it another try.
DVD Player: Disk Three of The Dean Martin Show. Funny and wonderful stuff.
VHS: The String Band segment of this year's Mummer's Parade.
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Good Morning, Ben and Bruce.
CD's: Kristin Chenowith and Peter Cincotti-- no not singing together
DVD-- Second Season of Soap with "Brief Encounter," "Shop Around the Corner," and "Celluloid Closet" waiting in the wings.
VCR- Still "Occurrence at Owl Creeek Bridge" I need to tape the song which has gone through my head off and on since I saw the thing the first time in 1965 or so..
"I see the trees, I hear the [something]......"
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VCR- Still "Occurrence at Owl Creeek Bridge" I need to tape the song which has gone through my head off and on since I saw the thing the first time in 1965 or so..
"I see the trees, I hear the [something]......"
"...wooden chickens"?
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Well, I've been in the middle of a snowstorm and my car doesn't warm up enough by the time I get to rehearsal to listen to anything in the cd player. But, if I had a cd in there, it would be Applause. I have no time for DVD's right now. Hopefully will after we open and then I will rejoin Netflix.
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Hmmm... I wonder if I sent Mr. Kevin Spirtas some cookies if he'd be my slave for life.
::)
:o
;D
I just logged on this morning and I don't know what the hell is going on!!
If someone sent me Mr. Kevin Spirtas I'd be their slave for life
or his
does he limbo?
or wear a bra?
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Doris Day limbos.
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No bra ever for me either. When I played Greta in BENT, the dress had cleavage sewn into it. Greta's breasts were made of birdseed. Yep!
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Friday Media Check:
CD - ASSASSINS (new Broadway recording which is in no way, shape, or form a replacement for the original CD. The original voices were, without exception, superior to the new cast.)
ON THE ROAD with Hope and Crosby (soundtracks to the first five ROAD pictures)
DVD - COLLATERAL
STAR TREK - Season 1 - episode #7
DVR - last night's WILL & GRACE and WiTHOUT A TRACE
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If I remember correctly, I voted for THE LETTER and KING SOLOMON'S MINES for sure and probably RANDOM HARVEST, but I remember not being thrilled with the alternatives either.
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Wow, what a partay of posts last night/this morning! I missed out!
Boy, Jose, I so wish I was not diabetic...those cookies sound delicious!!
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Yes, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how many messages were waiting to be read after reading today's notes. Amazing!
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Media check:
CD: The latest CD from Amr Diab titled LEALY NAHARY.
DVD: THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL
VHS: VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT
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AMR DIAB, the Egyptian Ricky Martin!!
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OMG - I thought that was LaWanda Page!
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How about a LaWanda Page Dance?
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TOD
In CD player at work. Fairport Convention Rhythm of the Times
CD player at Home BK / Borders Compilation CD (Sampler CD, I forget what it's called)
DVD Player at home LOR ROTK extended version ( all 4 discs) and Shrek 2
VHS at home I think its empty
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Anal retentive post alert: I managed to stop myself from correcting whoever called an original cast recording a soundtrack a while ago, but as the resident Sergio Mendes freak here, I must state for the record (Fool on the Hill, according to La Jolie Femme) that he spelled his band with an "S", not a "Z"--Brasil '66. However, it is very interesting to see some of the CD reissues of his work, where both his surname and his bandname are spelled with a "Z". As the Great Beast Aleister Crowley so wisely prophesied almost 100 years ago, "Spelling is defunct." (Though I don't think he meant that kind of spelling, LOL).
La Jolie Femme, you can see a picture of me with Sergio at:
http://hometown.aol.com/jmkauffman/page1.html
This is the same page that has a nice picture of our very own BK at Jerry's in Encino, and that picture in turn has a little Afikomen (the Jewish Easter Egg) that you can look for and find.
Jose: yes, thanks for your help with the Confession stuff. What I was actually wondering was if there were rote *amounts* of Hail Marys and Our Fathers that were routinely given as penance (e.g., "Do 500 Hail Marys and 17,000 Our Fathers", etc.). But I think I finessed that section of the book.
Now I am waiting for DR Francois (how does one do a cedilla online? I can't get the Ctrl+',C to work when I'm online for some reason) to answer my IM for help with the French sections. Maybe La Jolie Femme would like to step into the fray?
BK: check your email. I gave you the wrong name to drop yesterday. Sorry.
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Elmoore: I scored the David Maddux CD on eBay yesterday. Hopefully the rest of his stuff is wretched so that I can commiserate with you. ;D
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I am my own mini-frenzy.
Media check:
CD: I've been on a Gilberto kick for the last two days. Yesterday I did Bebel (well, I listened to Bebel, anyway). And this morning I have her Dad, the great Joao, on that fantastic World Pacific CD that has his first 2 LPs on it, the ones that started the Bossa Nova craze in 1958. What fantastic music.
DVD: I am kind of loathe to admit I'm watching the Mummy sequels from the Universal Legacy collection. They're so bad they're enjoyable. Is that Arnold Moss playing the sneaky Arab (was there any other kind in movies back then) in The Mummy's Hand? Haven't had a chance to look on IMDb yet.
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I did watch "Committed" last night...and as it followed the lethally dreary "Joey," it practically shone.
I had two laughs...both involving pies...Poston got one and Newhart got the other (laugh and pie). The rest was okay, but seemed strained. Nice bit with the mailman and the ditz's friend (sorry, but recalling their names at this point isn't worth my energies), The animosity between the lead and the handicapped man tries much too hard and, as a result, fails to amuse.
NBC, at one point, promoed an "all new 'Committed'" following "Will and Grace," but it was a repeat of the first episode. (Does anyone else think the cast of "Will and Grace" is looking decidedly older/chunkier? Earlier this season, only Debra Messing seemed bloated...now they're all looking that way).
DVDs: I'm delighted to see that the fourth (and arguably BEST) season of "Frasier" is forthcoming on DVD. This is the season that produced "Ham Radio," the ever-hilarious episode in which the radio station attempts to recreate "live drama" with Frasier "directing and starring" in a tale of mystery (and much, much WOE).
It's also the season that begat the episode in which Daphne discovers, in one of Martin's boxes in storage, a electric shaving cream dispenser. She decides to try it out and plugs it into the guest bath. Late in the episdoe, one of the great comedic sight gags ensues as Niles emerges covered in hot foamy shaving cream.
I've preordered this, plus the fourth season of "Oz" and the two MGM musical 2-DVD sets coming out in the spring -- "Easter Parade" and "The Band Wagon."
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Good golly, miss (unsinkable) Molly! Much too much time taken from work to read through all of the morning's notes.
CD Player: Haines His Way (to hear the Natalie Toro track again: we just caught her playing Mary Magdalen in the JCS tour... imagine, if you will, three orthodox Jews at a production of JCS, and all of us apparently knowing more about Christianity than the yapping couple behind us... "Yes! That's where communion comes from, and that's where the expression 'Judas kiss' derives from.")
DVD drive: most recently "Kissing Jessica Stein" (good lord, but there's a lot of my favorite Jewish stage actresses in this thing... Tova Feldshuh, Idina Menzel, Ilana Levine, Jackie Hoffman... also, how often does a guy get to watch lesbian action in a "chick flick" with his wife? :) )
Okay, time to put the yoke back on...
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I am wearing a bra with heavenly uplift and I do believe my close personal friend Jose is wearing a bra with the revolutionary cantilever principal.
As designed by Leonardo Howard Hughes:
Hughes designed a better garment to show off Russell's cleavage in 1943's "The Outlaw." Hughes built aircraft and interested some of his best engineers in designing the first cantilevered bra for Russell.
The bra, which lifts and separates the breasts, helped Russell to become a legend.
(Above courtesy of CNN STYLE (http://www.cnn.com/STYLE/9608/17/bras/))
However, he never did design a ball-stretcher.
der Brucer
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Mawnin', mawnin'!
Wow - it has taken 2 cups of coffee to get through these fershluggeneh notes!! Does no one sleep???
Just checkin' in before heading off to the parents. Thanks, all DR's, for such nice vibes yesterday. Actually, it isn't bad over there. We all move as if under water, so slowly... and time whizzes past in a flurry. Who will I be when I am not Their Daughter any more??
DR VixMom!! I read your post from yesterday, asking about my show... sorry to have been unclear for our Noo Yawk DR's... I hesitate to self-promote too much on this site (yeah, right) - but I can guarantee a wonderful evening, full of laughs and music, at the Clurman Theatre March 16-27. My show is JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY, based on my novel of the same name. DR JoseSPiano is Music Director. Tickets are already on sale at TicketCentral. Butts in Seats!!! I will be posting more about the show as we get closer.
Okay, off I go to the p's for the final time before I head back to the greatest city in the world. Another leave-taking. Have a good day, friends.
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The "bro" may, indeed, exist in real time, but it was an "invention" on the comedy series "Seinfeld," created by both Kramer and George's dad.
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DR VixMom!! I read your post from yesterday, asking about my show... sorry to have been unclear for our Noo Yawk DR's... I hesitate to self-promote too much on this site (yeah, right) - but I can guarantee a wonderful evening, full of laughs and music, at the Clurman Theatre March 16-27. My show is JEWISH THIGHS ON BROADWAY, based on my novel of the same name. DR JoseSPiano is Music Director. Tickets are already on sale at TicketCentral. Butts in Seats!!! I will be posting more about the show as we get closer.
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Well I will see if I can get myself (and a few others) there, if nothing else maybe, I can get WFO to join me. It would be lovely of we could arrange a Hansie/Kimlet meet! :D
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However, he never did design a ball-stretcher.
der Brucer
Perhaps he had no need of one.
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A plan is afoot to make cast replacements in long-running Broadway shows eligible for Tony Awards:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01072005/entertainment/37801.htm
Personally I would love it if they did this.
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New slogan for HHW: The Site that Never Sleeps!
Friday media report:
CD (car) - The bk/Borders compilation that was discussed here earlier this week and mentioned by DRvixmom this morning.
DVD - PBS' Broadway: The American Musical - finally came in on my library request list. I've seen bits and pieces as it's been broadcast on our local stations, but I'm looking forward to the bonus features.
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We had a wonderful meeting with my cousin from Sheffield last night. Went much longer than I thought it would. Even though we've never met, we talked for hours. One of his aunts even remembers my father who was in England during WWII. He was able to look up relatives in Sheffield (where my grandmother, his mother, came from) and spent a few days with them. I think all the other relatives from that time have passed away but she remembers my father's visit. She must have been a young child at the time. Ray (my cousin) is a great guy and it was a real treat to meet him.
How wonderful. I'm still looking forward to a trip to England to meet long lost cousins.
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For Jane and others in Oregon:
On Fridays, I spend a lot of time here at work catching up on my book selection tasks (I select all of the 900's - history - for the library system). In one of the vendor magazines there is a 2-page profile of Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis. Sounds like a very cool place in a very nice college town. Has anyone been there? Makes me want to take a trip back to my birth state (I was born in Portland) and meet all of you who live there.
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Matt H, we finally disagree on a show. Granted we didn’t give COMITTED much of a chance and turned it off after a few minutes.
Ann don’t change your enchanting avatar.
I have mentioned this before but since the subject was mentioned, I spent a very fun evening dancing the Mashed Potato with Jeff Bridges.
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Ginny I have never been to Corvallis but it sounds like fun if you will be there.
Must do errands before we get snowed in.
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
WOW! I wake up this morning, and there are already SIX PAGES of posts!...
;)
...Well, I need to head downstairs and mix up my oatmeal...
As one of my refrigerator magnets says: "Out of my mind... Back in five minutes!"
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A plan is afoot to make cast replacements in long-running Broadway shows eligible for Tony Awards:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01072005/entertainment/37801.htm
Personally I would love it if they did this.
It would be interesting to see if this ever came to fruitition. I wonder if such a rule would actually influence the original cast members to stay on longer. I dunno... But then again, it could also bode not so well for future star and stunt casting.
Alas, it could not take effect this season due to the Tony procedures - it would have to be voted on and put into effect before the start of the season rather mid-season. Sorry Harvery Fierstein and Brooke Shields.
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I'm still looking forward to a trip to England to meet long lost cousins.
Would it not be best to delay your trip until they are found?
der always-helpful Brucer
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Okay, time to put the yoke back on...
Is this "gimme" set up for "The Yoke's On You"?
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WARNING - BLITHERING NONSENSE AHEAD!
MOVE OVER TINKY-WINKY!
An alert from WhakosRUs (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/42005c.asp):
Researcher Says Children's 'Tolerance' Video Promotes Homosexuality
Latest Version Going Out to Public and Private Schools Nationwide
By Jim Brown and Jody Brown
January 4, 2005
(AgapePress) - A pro-family group is accusing homosexual activists of using popular children's TV characters to indoctrinate young children into their lifestyle. Specifically, the group is questioning the intention of a new children's video featuring those characters.
SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney the Dinosaur, Arthur, Dora the Explorer, JoJo, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Big Bird, Bob the Builder -- those and many others are among the characters starring in a music video remake of the 1970s song "We Are Family" that is designed to promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom.
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Ed Vitagliano, a researcher for the American Family Association, questions the motives behind the project. The problem, he says, is that it is an "open door" to a secondary discussion of homosexuality.
"When you go to the We Are Family Foundation website, there is a 'tolerance pledge' that children and others are encouraged to sign, which includes sexual orientation," he explains. That, he says, is the crux of the problem. "While we want everyone to respect other people's beliefs, we do not consider it appropriate for children's television to be used in an effort to indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality."
The pro-family researcher sees an age-old tactic being employed by those behind the project. "This is a bait-and-switch approach. It's been used for years," he says, "and homosexuals are now using well-known and beloved children's television characters in an effort to use [them] as bait and switch."
der Brucer
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In one of the vendor magazines there is a 2-page profile of Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis. Sounds like a very cool place in a very nice college town. Has anyone been there?
Yes, I think I went in there when I was playing a show in the beautiful restored theater there I mentioned to MB the other day (as opposed to the rundown, funky one in Salem, LOL). It's an OK used record store, nothing too amazing. Portland has tons of used record stores, though, and it's one of my favorite pastimes to browse amongst them. There are four or five of them downtown within a stone's throw of Powell's, the biggest bookstore on the planet.
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Well I will see if I can get myself (and a few others) there, if nothing else maybe, I can get WFO to join me. It would be lovely of we could arrange a Hansie/Kimlet meet! :D
I am on the telephone with WFO now an we are going to try to arrange a double date, he and his Joe and me and my DH, to see the matinee performance on the 26th, we just have to finish checking our respective calenders before we buy the tix :D
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I've also been eating very bad that past week. I almost felt like I was eating self-destructively at times. Of course, the reason - a.k.a. excuse - was that the donut, cookie, bowl of ice cream, serving of french fries, etc. - I was eating at the time was going to be the last one for a while. My sort of farewell to "bad food" for the time being. Sometimes I would have a few "farewells" in one day.
::Von Trapp Children enter from stage left; each child bears a bowl/plate/basket brimming with yummylicious delectables. The children parade past the piano player, leaving their caloric offerings on the Steinway, while they sing::
"Farewell, Adieu, obesity for you-ou"
der keeping-the-day-job Brucer
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
WOW! I wake up this morning, and there are already SIX PAGES of posts!...
Well, when you go to bed at 3 am and get up at noon, it happens! :-*
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Just to confirm what Jose said, the possibility of replacements being eligible for Tony Awards won't happen this year. Here's a link to an article from Playbill On-Line regarding the issue.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/90509.html
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Elmoore: I scored the David Maddux CD on eBay yesterday. Hopefully the rest of his stuff is wretched so that I can commiserate with you. ;D
DRJMK, I hope the rest of the CD is as delightful as the track you sent me. I've just never liked the arrangements of his that the New York City Gay Men's Chorus did. Or the man.
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JMK said:
"Portland has tons of used record stores, though, and it's one of my favorite pastimes to browse amongst them."
Well, that makes a reason to come visit Portland, besides a surfeit of HKs living in the surrounding area. Anthony and I LOVE used record stores.
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Dear DerBrucer:
The really big mind explosion reading that article was that I can't think of "We Are Family" without thinking of the last scene from "The Birdcage"... I just had an image (WARNING! BAAAD VISUAL ahead) of Spongebob, Big Bird, Bob et al dancing down the street in drag (Actually, Big Bird would look pretty good in sequins... *smacks head* "no! Bad visual-thinking brain!")
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..I may have also voted for King Solomon's Mines which, though I love the book, I don't think is a particularly good movie. There has never been a good movie version of the book.
It seems Classic Reader (http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.22) agrees with you:
The author's fantasy and myth-making later inspired several film directors. Allan Quatermain (1987), directed by Gary Nelson, was a follow up to 1985's King Solomon's Mines (1985), directed J. Lee-Thompson and starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. The favorite adventure novel has been filmed half a dozen times, but none of the films have captured the spirit of Haggard's original work.
Perhaps "someone" needs to take sylus quill fountain ball-point mouse the appropriate tool in hand and "write" this wrong.
der prodding Brucer
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It would be interesting to see if this ever came to fruitition. I wonder if such a rule would actually influence the original cast members to stay on longer. I dunno... But then again, it could also bode not so well for future star and stunt casting.
I think just the opposite would happen. I wouldn't doubt that this would encourage producers to grant only one year contracts to middle tier stars just so they could recast the roles and have the show become eligible for more awards for a second season--all for marketing's sake.
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JMK said:
Anthony and I LOVE used record stores.
And a good thing, too. If they were not used, they would go out of business.
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Well, when you go to bed at 3 am and get up at noon, it happens! :-*
Umm.. Correction here...
I went to bed at 5:00AM EST, Thank You Very Much!
:P
;)
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WARNING - BLITHERING NONSENSE AHEAD!
MOVE OVER TINKY-WINKY!
An alert from WhakosRUs (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/42005c.asp):der Brucer
Ya know, I always thought Dora the Explorer was a bit of a dyke.
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DR Elan - I meant to ask you yesterday... Did you know Brad from 88's? He would run sound, bartend, bus tables, etc... He was also Ellen Greene's personal assistant for a while. The last time I heard from him was too many years ago at this point. He had just started a nice cushy gig at one of the resorts in the Carribean - the postcard had me pondering switching careers too. ;)
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Limbo!
I'm up. I was up earlier, briefly, but was too tired and had to go lie down again. Boy did we have fun last night. I don't really know how it happened but it just kept on going. I'm quite sore from having done the Limbo numerous times.
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And that photo of me in a bra from The Ratings Game. What is that wig? What was I, Barbra Streisand all of a sudden?
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elmore, I know you won't go to The Drama Bookshop - she'd actually called there on her own. Who knows if it will even happen. But you can come to the other signing, because there will have to be two for me to make the trip. And then there will be our marvelous get-togethers. I may be in for PennyO's show, too.
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What's more interesting than the five pages of posts by two am is that this morning we've only had two more. I guess many of the participants in the madness slept late.
Limbo!
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Topic of the Day: Revised. We ended up watching "Phantom Of the Paradise" last night. A lot of fun. I have not seen it before.
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Forgive my ignorance, but was this some sort of strange hybrid combining Salome with Little Black Sambo? It sounds delightful. :)
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BK, last night I watched the documentary (Dollars and Donuts?? I forget the title) that is on the FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL dvd....that was so much fun! You know, Cindy Williams just seems like she would be such a blast!! And Stephen Nathan seems really nice...and interviewing a couple of the dancing dildos actors...that was priceless!
I might add, as I had not yet seen you as you look today (other then your avatar), you have grown into a very handsome man! But boy, were you a VERY young looking 27 year old in that movie!
Anyway, the stories told in those interviews were great!!! If I have time this weekend I will watch the movie again with the commentary.
By the way did you ever get yourself a copy of the DVD called JEW-BOY?
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KEEP THE PERVERTS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!
Teacher Accused of Molesting Two Boys
Friday, January 07, 2005
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A 28-year-old English teacher was charged Thursday with 20 counts of lewd acts for allegedly having sex with two of her former students when they were between the ages of 12 and 14.
Sarah Bench-Salorio was charged with molesting the boys between May and December of last year.
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Defense attorney Alan Stokke said Bench-Salorio is embarrassed.
"She is very embarrassed and wants everybody to know she is very embarrassed by what has happened," he said outside the courtroom. "She's sympathetic toward the families of the young men involved. She's sympathetic because of the effects this is having on her school."
(Above extracted from an AP Story (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143650,00.html))
Surely this is cause enough to ban heterosexual women from teacjhng in our schools!
der Brucer (is it telling that she is not sympathetic toward the abused kids?)
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No, I've never heard of Jew-Boy.
Glad you liked the documentary - we had a lot of fun doing it. There are two commentary tracks - one with me and Nick Redman, and one with Cindy, Stephen, and I. And there's an amusing commentary track on the documentary - a first - and all I'll say is it's VERY irreverant.
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The rain is back and has been since about six this morning (it's why I woke up early).
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KEEP THE PERVERTS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!(Above extracted from an AP Story (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143650,00.html))
Surely this is cause enough to ban heterosexual women from teacjhng in our schools!
der Brucer (is it telling that she is not sympathetic toward the abused kids?)
I think she will get a lot of sympathy because she's "sorry." Of course, it's sorrow for being caught and embarrassing the school. She doesn't give a flip about the boys.
Had it been a male teacher with a female, there would be more outrage. And a male teacher with boys? Well, chemical castration and hanging party would have been suggested as "too good for the likes of him."
Yes, we live in a society with oddly perverse double standards.
The sad upshot of it is that many folks will believe this is acceptable because "the boys were abused 'heterosexually' EVEN IF they WERE abused."
Gettin' all wound up here.....
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Forgive my ignorance, but was this some sort of strange hybrid combining Salome with Little Black Sambo? It sounds delightful. :)
I didn't pay attention to her webpage of origin. I am like the white slavers of old--I just take 'em and display 'em.
I wonder if she has a sister named Salimbo?
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vixmom, your book is on its way.
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Interestingly, it's not only rainy here in Los Angeles, California, USA, it's also windy. We don't usually have that combo.
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Yes, we're being whammied by a major winter storm all along the California coast.
Here's that rainy day....
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I'm listening to a wonderful CD that a dear friend sent me:
Patti Cohenour/American Theatre Orchestra: TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, The words of William Butler Yeats; John Aschenbrenner, composer.
Next up on the CD player is PAINT YOUR WAGON.
What the connection is between the two is anyone's guess.
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Here's That Rainy Day - my favorite rain song. I also like Isn't this a Lovely Day (to be Caught in the Rain). What are other favorite rain songs.
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morning all .... just awake down here in OZ (6.30am)
let's see ....
dvd player =
The Hammer Horror movie series (scared the $@& out of me when i was a kid - now very funny)
cd player =
1. Alessandro Safina (self titled cd)
2. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Ann Margret)
3. 2004 Eurovision Contest (double cd)
4. Filippa Giordano (self titled cd)
5. Teddy Bear's Picnic (some friends know exactly the right songs to put on cd's)
Trust you are all well.
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We're all well and we're all doin' the Limbo.
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As for movies, I'll be watching TARS AND SPARS (1946), which is on Cool TV tonight (I don't subscribe, but I think they're giving us a free month). I'm looking forward to hearing Alfred Drake's splendid voice and seeing Sid Caesar's solo turn. From IMDB:
A high point in this film is Sid's interpretation of a war movie called "Wings Over Boomerschnitzel." He does the entire film in one shot, with sound effects, in about three minutes.
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Soon It's Gonna Rain (and it is scheduled to do that here in NYC after midnight)
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Also, It's Raining in My Heart from Dames at Sea
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"I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" - Dusty Springfield's version. Darin does it well too.
Rainy Days & Mondays - (Carpenters version)
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Has it snowed yet in NY? I remember there were snow predictions when I was there signing, but it didn't happen.
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Never fly to Barcelona when there's a storm. As we all know ....
... the rain in Spain stays mainly on the (plane) !!
Sorry - I have no idea where THAT came from.
My humour is better than that, generally ... i promise!!!
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This has been the biggest rain season in the last two decades here in LA. I think one year it may have been worse, but not much worse.
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Welcome eight GUESTS. We're doin' the Limbo, wearin' bras, and watching the rain fall.
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"It's Raining Memories" from NEW FACES OF 1952. (Though "Here's That Rainy Day" is my favorite rain song, too.)
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You should have seen Jose doing the Limbo, not to mention the Pogues. Even Ann did the Limbo in her pyjamas.
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Why can't I think of any more rain songs? I know there are hundreds.
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speaking of limbos and dances, did any of you know that the stage version of DIRTY DANCING recently premiered in Australia?
It is heading to Melbourne mid this year.
As there are lots of Australian backers involved it is doing it's "pre-broadway" try out here in Oz before heading to the Great White Way.
By all reports, it is having a very successful run.
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Ya know, there are times when a little bit of censorship is not entirely a bad thing:
Mickey Rooney Super Bowl Commercial (http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=USATODAY.com+-+Butt+out%3A+Fox+nixes+Super+Bowl+backside+ad&expire=&urlID=12799112&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fsports%2Ffootball%2Fnfl%2F2005-01-07-super-ad-booted_x.htm&partnerID=1662)
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Considering what they DO air on that network (and other networks) in prime time, it seems a little ridiculous to NOT show the commercial. BUTT - it would not have been pretty.
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Shortly I shall have to do some errands in this rainy rain. I don't want to be out long, however, that much I can tell you.
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Good Afternoon!
Well.. All is right with the world again... The strains of bad karaoke backing tracks and my father's voice are again echoing through the house...
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Man, is my back sore! The Lovely wife tells me that even though I went to bed last night, that after I sleep-posted, I sleep-limboed until the early dawn. How low did I go? Apparently even the animals...Tewkes and Mosby...limboed. We were a limboing family! Then we did the Mashed Potatoes and The Pony. We did not do the Popeye?
Jose, were the Popeye and the Hitch-hiker one and the same...If so, then Chubby goed lower than I thought....
So there was Fats Domino, Chubby Checker...Whatever happened to Pudgy Parchessi? Corpulent Croquet? Jumbo Jacks? Lard LaCross? Paunchy Ping-Pong? Mammoth Mumblety-Peg? Stout Skittles? Tubby Tiddlywinks? Hippo Hopscotch? Beefy Badminton? & Portly Polo? All great singers in their own right?
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We have had dustings of snow and for a day there was actually some on the ground but it's been fairly mild. There have been a few days w/low temperatures but we are not (so far) having a bad winter in New York.
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Well.. All is right with the world again... The strains of bad karaoke backing tracks and my father's voice are again echoing through the house...
Is there such a thing as good karaoke backing tracks? (Other than any that you've recorded, naturally...)
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50 posts and still a newbie? Sheesh... :-\
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ah, so 51 is the magic number... wow, I haven't been a junior anything in some time now... :)
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Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught in the Rain...from one of your favourite composers, Mr. BK.
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And my second-favorite rain song:
Right as the rain
That falls from above
So real, so right
Is our love
It came like the spring
That breaks through the snow
I can't say what it may bring
I only know, I only know
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And one more:
I’m gonna love you like nobody’s loved you,
Come rain or come shine.
High as a mountain, deep as a river,
Come rain or come shine.
And I guess when you met me
It was just one of those things.
But don’t ever bet me,
’cause I’m gonna be true if you let me, let me.
You’re always gonna love me like nobody’s loved me,
Come rain or come shine.
Happy together, unhappy together,
And won’t it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny.
We’re in or we’re out of the money.
But I’m with you always.
I’m with you rain or shine.
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Listen to the rain on the roof go
Pit-pitty-pat--
Pit-pitty-pat--
Pitty--
Sit, kitty cat,
We won't get home for hours.
Relax and
Listen to the rain on the roof go
Plunk-planka-plink-
Plunk-planka-plink-
Planka-
Let's have a drink
And shelter from the showers.
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Pogue, I have all the 45s of those singers - they're marvy.
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Of course Right as the Rain - wonderful song.
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speaking of limbos and dances, did any of you know that the stage version of DIRTY DANCING recently premiered in Australia?
It is heading to Melbourne mid this year.
As there are lots of Australian backers involved it is doing it's "pre-broadway" try out here in Oz before heading to the Great White Way.
By all reports, it is having a very successful run.
Do you happen to know if it's the "environmental" version they were workshopping Stateside a few years ago? The audience were seated at tables as "guests" of the resort, and the show took place around and among them. I just remember the casting notices at the time describing the ideal physical and alluring traits of the leads... Always good for a laugh.
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I went pretty low myself last night, but could possibly go lower today.
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Welcome ten GUESTS. How's tricks?
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It Looks Like Raindrops Falling from My Eyes...Did Dee Clark ever have any other hits?
Rain...by Sinatra, on his "Where Are You?" album...
With The Wind and The Rain in Your Hair...Helen Forrest?
Blue Rain
What Do They Do In A Rainy Night In Rio?
Rainy Night In Georgia...by the late, great Brook Benton
Kentucky Rain...by the late, great Elvis
I'll Do My Crying In The Rain...The Everly Brothers
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And speaking of CDs and casting breakdowns...
What's the deal with the liner notes for "Notre Dame de Paris"? The character descriptions read like they were taken from a casting breakdown:
Esmeralda - A young gypsy, she sings and dances in the square in front of Notre-Dame. She is the archetypal stranger in town. Her exotic beauty casts a spell on every man. But she is fatally attracted to Phoebus.
Quasimodo - Twenty-year-old giant of a man, severely disfigured, the limping hunchback. Enslaved by Frollo, he is the bell-ringer of Notre-Dame. His impossible love for Esmeralda will lead him to the ultimate sacrifice.
Etc., etc., etc....
???
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OK... Now my Dad is really starting to worry me...
For the past couple of minutes, he's been trying to master Barbra Streisand's "A Woman In Love"?!?!?!?
The karaoke system has a scoring system. It somehow "listens" to you as you sing along, and gives you a score after the song finishes. Well, so far, he's stopped the track about half-way through and restarted it in order to help his score... At least four times...
Madness, I tell you... Madness...
-Oh, he made it to the modulation this time... Or maybe not...
:-X
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Jose, Didn't this same Notre Dame de Paris get laughed off the stage in London? I know it got excoriating (a BK reference) reviews.
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Or maybe it's all just a sign telling me to attend to some stuff I should have taken care of earlier in the week...
Hmm...
Laters...
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Jose, Didn't this same Notre Dame de Paris get laughed off the stage in London? I know it got excoriating (a BK reference) reviews.
I dunno. I got the CD a few years ago as a freebie, so... One of those CDs that's been sitting on the shelf for a while and finally unwrapped and put in the CD player...
However, I believe some of our Canucks here on HHW may have a better knowledge of the show. I believe it's touring Canada this season or next.
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Do you happen to know if it's the "environmental" version they were workshopping Stateside a few years ago? The audience were seated at tables as "guests" of the resort, and the show took place around and among them. I just remember the casting notices at the time describing the ideal physical and alluring traits of the leads... Always good for a laugh.
the production is being staged in proscenium theatres - as for the leads, the male lead is an ex Sydney Dance Company member (getting rave reviews) and the female lead (I think) is an ex soapy star (also rave reviews). Reports from friends who have seen the show in Sydney say it needs a little trimming but is very entertaining and full of energy. Apparently the audiences go crazy when the line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" is said. It seems to be garnering a bit of a cult following already.
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Oh, one of my favorite sixties songs - Rhythm of the Rain. I also like Neil Sedaka's Laughter in the Rain.
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hmmm... Page 9 Dance...
Everyone get your fringe out...
The Shimmy!
(http://www.musical-world.de/DVD/DVD-Rocky/DVD-Smokey/Smokey7.jpg)
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Oy vey. I go to sleep and leave you guys alone, and while I'm gone, you do the limbo in the rain in your bras?
All morning, I've been trying to get through more of this reading for school. I would rather be doing the limbo in the rain (wearing a little more than a bra, though).
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As for "Notre Dame De Paris" - i have the dvd of the French arena production - not totally satisfying but there are some solid moments and some good tunes. The choreography is a bit all over the place, however the production is impressively staged. I understand this production was replicated as closely as possible for London.
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In the long shot of the shimmy I thought it was Phyllis Diller for a second. Okay, I'm gonna brave the rain and I hope to not be out and about for more than fifteen count them fifteen minutes.
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This has been the biggest rain season in the last two decades here in LA. I think one year it may have been worse, but not much worse.
AP report:
Since July 1, the start of the rainfall season, Los Angeles has received 15.68 inches of rain — nearly four times the usual rainfall for the period, and more than the city normally gets in a year. San Francisco has received 14.23 inches of rain since July 1, about 165 percent of normal.
der Brucer (gee, "San Francisco" and "normal" in the same sentence!)
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Crisis Averted/All Clear
I’m please to say that Mom is doing well now. I can’t thank you all enough for the wonderful vibes that I am sure helped.
I, on the other hand, look and feel like I’ve to heck and back. You have no idea how scared I was when I found her crying and saying she would call an ambulance after I left for work. That woman won’t even go for a flu shot so you know she was in some major pain.
I was up most of last night so please pardon me while I go crash for about an hour or so. I shall try to catch up with posts then.
Thank you all once again for the caring and concern. This really is the best site on the internet and the people are why.
:)
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Danise, I am so glad to hear your mom is doing well. We should patent these vibes of ours and sell them as a miracle cure on an infomercial.
For those of you who care about these things, I am now eating a sandwich and a Cherry Coke, and my mom and I are watching Family Feud. (I apparently have given up on this reading stuff).
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Here's That Rainy Day - my favorite rain song. I also like Isn't this a Lovely Day (to be Caught in the Rain). What are other favorite rain songs.
I like the choreography Fred and Ginger danced to (or am I misrememberin it and it was only Fred???).
I'm partial to "Soon It's Gonna Rain", as well...and I adore those great Jonathan Tunick orchestrations in the film version of "The Fantasticks."
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Good news to hear, Dr Danise. Get yourself some rest, now, ya hear?
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AP report:
(gee, "San Francisco" and "normal" in the same sentence!)
Makes sense to me...as long as "normal" stands for tolerance of all people regardless of race, religion or sexual bent, and freedom from prejudices that belong only in churches that practice such things and not in the government or on the streets, then San Francisco is VERY normal!
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I am reluctant to go to bed tonight for fear that on awakening tomorrow morning I will spend the entire morning reading posts from yesterday that were posted after I go to bed (even though it's not yesterday today, it's today and it won't be yesterday until tomorrow, does that make any sense ;-)
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Why can't I think of any more rain songs? I know there are hundreds.
What if I mentioned "Don't Rain On My Parade"?
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I saw Dee Dee Lively do that very shimmy in Smokey Joe's Cafe right down here in Hollywood at what I still call the Huntington Hartford Theatre.
But the picture reminded me of that heart-throb of many an adolescent boy who watched Hullabaloo...flame-haired Lada Edmunds, Jr. Whatever happened to her? Bet she could make a mint at the Ray Courts Show, BK...if she is still with us...
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We must find Lada Edmunds! And Joey Heatherton. Although that might be scary. Is she still with us?
It is really raining out. I just did two errands and ran back to the home environment.
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(even though it's not yesterday today, it's today and it won't be yesterday until tomorrow, does that make any sense ;-)
I suspect so - in Australia! (Tho it does sound like a Danny Kaye lyric)
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Joey Heatherton is still around - there is a website devoted to her.
Lada Edmunds, Jr was a STAR.....one of the reasons I watched HULLABALLOO...much better dancers than SHINDIG! Haven't heard much or ANYTHING about Lada....hmmmmmmmm...
The Rain the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills
Rhapsody in the Rain - Lou Christie
Bus Stop - The Hollies
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Actually, doing a little search...there are more entries under Lada Edmund, Jr. as opposed to Edmunds with an "s"...
Joey has actually done the Courts shows before and looks a little ragged...for a woman I used to think was so hot...I was dismayed when I saw her.
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We have our memories, though. Hip-O Select is selling a Joey compilation CD of her sixties tracks - the cover features a bare-breasted Joey in her prime. Which was PRIME, let me tell you.
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Eating biscotti and sipping Diet Coke and watching the rain. Mr. Mac Man will be her within the hour.
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And speaking of old sixties dances, no one could frug better or more enticingly than Lada Edmund Jr. She did it ceaselessly, constantly in that cage on Hullabalo. Hubba-hubba!
She apparently parlayed this one remarkable talent (and her frug was remarkable) into a brief fling in movies and records.
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(http://www.bigmattress.com/weblog/images/then_&_now-tm.jpg)
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Yes, Joey's assets were very PRIME. I remember her Playboy spread.
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Of course it was Lada Edmund, Jr w/o the 's'!
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It is not raining here, but it is very cold. We're supposed to get some snow tonight
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Re: Notre Dame De Paris
I know a lot of people dislike it. But the show has a huge fan base. I saw the show in London twice, and my opinion was a lot different when the original cast was all there. I thought the understudies were quite bad. I actually prefer the show in french. Actually it's one of my favorite musicals.
Btw, if you're looking for snow we got a LOT here yesterday!
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On Varese
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I spy a TCB. Have we gotten a report on the show yet?
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Who who knew Lada was Penelope Ann in the movie BYE BYE BIRDIE - and does anyone have the HULLABALLOO box sets?
I am thinking that show would be very difficult to explain today....and I wouldn't want to be the guy in the meeting who had to pitch it to the execs! 8)
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And Joey Heatherton. Although that might be scary. Is she still with us?
(http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ti/000001c8.jpg)
Scary is right: (From PerfectPeople (http://www.perfectpeople.net/biopage.php3/cid=681))
In 1971, her marriage to football player Lance Rentzel ended in tabloid scandal when he was arrested for indecent exposure in front of a young girl. The 70s also brought an end to her popularity. Her look, style and attitude went completely out of vogue and she found herself unwanted and unemployed. Mounting problems with drugs (cocaine) certinaly didn't help. She was arrested multiple times for possession and the effects of her addiction started affecting her mental faculties. An eating disorder ravaged her once dynamite looks and nearly killed her. A few attempted comebacks have been abortive. For someone who had the world on a string, she certainly is a prime example of how luck can change so quickly in Hollywood.
(http://www.swinginchicks.com/joeyheathveil.JPG)
Hmmm..seem she took BK's seventh veil!
der Brucer
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DR Danise, good news about your mom. So what was wrong with her?
DR Jose, I know the french version of NDDP will be playing here this summer.
And yes I think the version in London was pretty much the same version as the dvd, except the show was in English.
I've seen the show a few times here in french. And loved it every time. When it went to London, of course I wanted to go, and made me and my sister enter a local contest (to win tix to see it in london). The funny thing was that I entered every single day (you had to call in a clue seen on tv). I gave my sister the clue one day. AND IT WAS HER CALL THAT WON.
You know how when they reveal winners on tv, they make it look like the winners don't know. Well that wasn't true. They had pulled her name days before it was drawn. The only problem was that she was out of town on a trip with her boyfriend (now husband). The people doing the contest needed to check some things before giving her the prize. And I was terrified that a) they wouldn't be able to reach her in time and b) that my sis would not take me on the trip. :)
Luckily for me, my sister's boss was able to give the info. And when she called home we gave her the news. And I guess since I had made her enter (and since her hubby had no vacation time) we had agreed that she would take me.
So we got to see the show and go backstage and meet the cast!
Oh and they paid for the whole trip (hotel/flight/tix to show) ... everything except all the other shows we went to see! (although they did give my sis spending money).
Geez, didn't mean to ramble so much.
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JRand54,
Yep, that's Joey today when I see her at the shows...as BK said, Scary...and sad...
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Well….. Hello! (a Sunset Blvd reference)
First of all, last night’s performance went very well. We played to a somewhat small, but enthusiastic audience, including several local dignitaries. The final scene of the first act (one of the two scenes I worried about), received a very enthusiastic response. Will I still be nervous about tonight’s official opening night performance (you’re damn right)? However, I do feel a little more comfortable after getting through last night’s performance. It must have been all those positive vibes from all you lovely people.
Secondly, I found myself taken down a peg this morning, but in a good way, I suppose. For the past week or so, the unofficial murmurs and rumblings about my performance in this production have started to build to an audible level. Friends have called to tell me that they have heard this or that about my performance second or third-hand from other friends or associates. Last night, one of the dignitaries at the show, turned out to a local theater director whose opinion I value. He actually waited around until I came out from backstage to tell me that this was, without question, the finest work I have ever done on stage. I was, naturally, humbled and quite overwhelmed by his response. But, by the time I got had gotten home last night, my humility had given way to rather enthusiastic optimism and ego-building.
Well, this morning, a preview / review / article / playwright interview appeared in the entertainment section of our local newspaper. I had been told that it would be in the paper, so I probably grabbed the newspaper from in front of my apartment with a little more swagger than usual. The article / interview was extremely positive, recommending the show highly to baseball fans and non-fans alike, as well as just about anyone who appreciates good and inventive new theater. The article rightfully mentioned several of the actors in the show, and in particular, the actor playing Jackie Robinson.
And as for me? I was mentioned once, only in passing, as the actor appearing in one of the scenes with the actor playing Jackie Robinson. I sat there kind of staring at the article for some time, until I started hearing a very strange sound in the room. I eventually figured out that the sound was nothing more than the sound of the excess air being let out of my, apparently, over-inflated ego.
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Perhaps TCB has been tarred and feathered and unable to post.
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Forget that!
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Gald to hear it went well TCB. Break your other leg for the official opening.
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KEEP THE PERVERTS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!
Reminds me of one of my college classes, EDCS444: Education Issues and Law. Generally referred to by us education majors as "Don't Sleep With Students 101."
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(http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ti/000001c8.jpg)
Scary is right: (From PerfectPeople (http://www.perfectpeople.net/biopage.php3/cid=681))(http://www.swinginchicks.com/joeyheathveil.JPG)
Hmmm..seem she took BK's seventh veil!
der Brucer
Not to mention my bra.
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How long does the show run, TCB?
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Reminds me of one of my college classes, EDCS444: Education Issues and Law. Generally referred to by us education majors as "Don't Sleep With Students 101."
A class many teachers in the system today apparently slept through...
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Interesting turn of phrase Ann.
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TCB - I'm so glad the performance went so well! I intend to catch it sometime during the run. Don't pay much heed to newspaper reviewers...only one person's opinion and all that.
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Interesting turn of phrase Ann.
Ha! Unintentional, I assure you.
My stomach is suddenly not feeling well. Either my emotions are getting the better of me, or I've really got to lay off the bottled coffee drinks...
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Joey's bra may be lifting - but it ain't separating!!! Must NOT be Howard Hughes garment!
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I tell you - the Limbo, Lada Edmund, Jr., Joey Heatherton, rain songs, an excellent performance by a hainsie/kimlet... Where else on all the Internet can you read such wonderful things?
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Ann, don't let your emotions get the better of you. You get the better of your emotions.
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Mr. Mac Man is on his way from West Hollywood, but given the rain and traffic, he may be a bit late.
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Great news DR DANISE!
Great news, DRTCB. Been there - newspaper wise - disheartening, but surely there will be other reviews - and it sounds like the focus of the review was on the show's subject and the actor playing it.
As for it being a World Premiere - it was on the Upperstage at the Indiana Repertory Theatre last year.
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Last night, one of the dignitaries at the show, turned out to a local theater director whose opinion I value. He actually waited around until I came out from backstage to tell me that this was, without question, the finest work I have ever done on stage. I was, naturally, humbled and quite overwhelmed by his response.
TCB, That's high praise indeed. You should be extremely proud of your performance.
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Hmmmmmm can't find it on the IRT site - maybe it was a different play about the same subject....but I remember some of my friends in the show....hmmmmmm....two plays about the same thing.
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Lada Edmund, Jr. appears in the ABC Stage 67 show On the Flip Side with Ricky Nelson and Joanie Sommers, directed by Joe Layton, with songs by Bacharach and David - which I just happen to have on DVD and will play later today - she's listed as playing a role so it should be easy to find her.
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And yes, praise from peers counts for MUCH, DR TCB!
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After Mr. Mac Man comes, I'm going to put in some more CDs into iTunes - I want to make a Bacharach playlist of all my faves. And certain soundtracks which have songs mucking up the works - I'll just nuke the songs and have just the score.
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I loved ON THE FLIP SIDE! That ABC Stage 67 was a blast! Very uneven....but a lot of fun.
Was that Robert Morse - E.J. Peaker show part of that series?
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Welcome seven GUESTS. We're talkin' about the Frug, Lada Edmund, Jr., Joey Heatherton, and much more.
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Unclear on the concept?
My sister called this morning, complaining that her younger son hasn't been phoning lately (or returning her calls). I reminded her that the kid and his wife have a new baby, plus my nephew is trying to expand his business and is working long hours. I told my sister that she should really learn how to use a computer. Given my nephew's situation, it's so much easier to communicate via e-mail. A little later my sister phoned me back. She had a brilliant idea. My nephew could e-mail her - via me. (And I would then phone in the e-mails to her.)
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While on ABC, That's Life, starring Mr. Morse and E.J. Peaker, was not part of Stage 67. One wanted to like That's Life, but the songs weren't good enough and it was just too arch. Still, I never missed it.
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Oops (spoo, spelled backwards), as soon as I mentioned seven GUESTS, three GUESTS disappeared - like clockwork.
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What's even more fascinating is that certain people on my "Buddy" list disappear at exactly the same time. I keep many interesting names on my "Buddy" list.
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How long does the show run, TCB?
Sadly, NATIONAL PASTIME is part of the theater's "Second Season" made up of several smaller works and not part of their regular season. So, the show is playing only eight performances -- six regular performances and two Command Performances purchased by organizations, like last night's African-American Museum fundraiser. We are also giving two school performances as part of a Federal grant we received. Given some of the show's racial language, the school performances will hopefully be for older school children.
Sadly, for me, the show will be just a memory following the matinee on January 16. A lot of work for so few performances, but the experience of a lifetime.
As I think I mentioned last night, NATIONAL PASTIME is scheduled for its professional theater premiere, March 18 at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena.
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DR RLP wrote earlier today:
"NBC, at one point, promoed an "all new 'Committed'" following "Will and Grace," but it was a repeat of the first episode. "
On the East Coast, we got a WILL & GRACE rerun after the new show (I think; I was watching CSI amd recording the new W&G).
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Forgive my ignorance, but was this some sort of strange hybrid combining Salome with Little Black Sambo? It sounds delightful. :)
Back from B&N, and my feet ache! DRJMK, if memory serves, SALAMBO is one of those "exotic" novels, like THAIS and SAPHO, from 19th Century France, by Anatole France, I do believe. Perhaps Pierre Louys wrote it, one of those "decadent" writers.
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elmore, I know you won't go to The Drama Bookshop - she'd actually called there on her own. Who knows if it will even happen. But you can come to the other signing, because there will have to be two for me to make the trip. And then there will be our marvelous get-togethers. I may be in for PennyO's show, too.
Dear Friend BK, I'll follow you anywhere in NYC except for The Drama Book Shop, but any trip you make East is a welcome event. I think the Eastern contingent of HHW should book the opening night of Penny's show.
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Congrats on the preview performance, DR TCB, and here's wishing you another broken leg for opening night!
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Hmmmmmm can't find it on the IRT site - maybe it was a different play about the same subject....but I remember some of my friends in the show....hmmmmmm....two plays about the same thing.
I know there are several other recent plays or productions about Jackie Robinson. One is called EVERYBODY'S HERO and another is called STEALIN' HOME. I believe that the March production in California is the first professional theater production of NATIONAL PASTIME.
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I was supposed to have a date tonight, and yet here I am. Why?
Canceled! But we've rescheduled for NEXT Friday night. Hmmm. This may be the date that never happens.
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Here's That Rainy Day - my favorite rain song. I also like Isn't this a Lovely Day (to be Caught in the Rain). What are other favorite rain songs.
SOON IT'S GONNA RAIN
I LOVE TO WALK IN THE RAIN
RAINING IN MY HEART
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Thank you, one and all, for the broken legs. They are much appreciated.
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That's it....I think STEALIN' HOME is the play I am thinking of ...thanks TCB!!
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Sadly, for me, the show will be just a memory following the matinee on January 16.
So, what will you be doing on The Night of January 16 (an Ayn Rand reference)? ::)
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SOON IT'S GONNA RAIN
I LOVE TO WALK IN THE RAIN
RAINING IN MY HEART
Does IT'S RAINING MEN count?
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So, what will you be doing on The Night of January 16 (an Ayn Rand reference)? ::)
Actually, JMK, I will probably spend that evening quietly with friends. It is the 11th anniversary of the day my Mother was killed.
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Crisis Averted/All Clear
I’m please to say that Mom is doing well now. I can’t thank you all enough for the wonderful vibes that I am sure helped.
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DRDanise, good news!
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I am reluctant to go to bed tonight for fear that on awakening tomorrow morning I will spend the entire morning reading posts from yesterday that were posted after I go to bed (even though it's not yesterday today, it's today and it won't be yesterday until tomorrow, does that make any sense ;-)
DRBen, you sound like Gertrude Stein.
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DRBen, you sound like Gertrude Stein.
That's amazing, because I make brownies just like Alice B. Toklas! ;D
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Good Afternoon! Evenin'!
Whew! I've spent the past few hours go through various small bundles of mail. One bundle=the mail I picked up back home in Richmond on Mondays. I had more bundles than I should have had at this point. Thankfully, there were no "surprises", and all my bills seem to have gotten paid on time. -Of course, there was all the junk mail and end of year solicitations from various organizations. *I've always wondered if it would be possible to have a "Only ask me for money once a year" option for certain organizations. I would like to give more and more often, but I just can't. I'm sure others are in the same boat. I bet all those pennies saved from not mailing out solicitations every few weeks would add up. In any case...
I just made some dinner, some frozen Italian chicken and sausage concoction. Actually, quite tasty.
My Dad headed out to the Korean market. If he's not back in 20 minutes then I'll head out myself. -It's only three blocks away, so...
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DR Danise - Great news about your mom. Hope you're able to get some rest this weekend.
-Btw, is your Mom perhaps interested in a slightly used karaoke machine?
;)
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DR TCB - Congrats! And Merde! for your official opening.
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I Love To Walk In The Rain...great Shirley Temple song.
I do not love walking in the rain today,however. The Lovely Wife and I were thinking about shooting down the hill into Hollywood and going to see Sideways at the Arclight. But I shot over to the driveway with Tewkes just now and got drenched while he took a loooong wee before his bladder burst and that was enough rain for today, thank you.(Tewkes looked very trendy in his yellow rain slicker and hood).
Have we forgot that classic Kelly song, "Singing and Limboing in the Rain"?
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That's amazing, because I make brownies just like Alice B. Toklas! ;D
But you don't swallow!
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Hi Folks!
Wow! What a lot of posts!
So ya’ll were dancing the night away! I don’t remember seeing any of you doing the Pony. Can we dance the Pony next?
Dear TCB, I’m so sorry for the let down on the review. At least it wasn’t a bad review.
I hope all is well for you, DR Penny O. Having older parents is such a mixed blessing. I swear sometimes I feel like the parent. I’m sure you do as well.
I wanted to tell you that I used to go to “Rocky Horror” quite a few times in my younger years as well. I remember borrowing my Mom’s lighter and taking the toast, toilet paper (Scott’s, of course), rice, newspaper, squirt qun, and I can’t remember what all else to the show. Ours was very interactive. I would have hated to be the one who had to clean up afterwards.
I also have to say that I love “Lost”. It’s the first show that I look forward to seeing in a long time. I still watch “Joan of Arcadia” and “Jag”. Some of you are teaching me to like TAR. I haven’t seen it from the beginning but have seen enough to enjoy it. That catch up show was a BIG help.
I forgot about “Medium” so I didn’t see it.
For my California friends:
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Is that what is raining like? ;D
DR Jose, hummm, I don't know about Mom but I might be! ;) :D
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"Singin' in the Rain" the way Judy Garland sings it in LITTLE NELLY KELLY.
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OH! One of the things I took care of over the past few hours was cancelling my Cable TV service in Richmond. -It will be effective this coming Tuesday. -Slowly breaking the chain... Since I'm only back on Mondays, and there's not much on Mondays that I like watching - not even some cable favorites... Maybe I'll finally get some DVD watching done! -And my roomie was interested in setting up his own cable-modem account... And now he can.
Best of all, I get a nice refund (since they pro-rate the bills) and the deposit back from my cable box!
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You know, Tom....sometimes critics have a hard time appreciating characters in plays that they despise.
It's not the actor playing the part, but the part itself...and it's hard for the writer to praise the actor even when the actor has made the character breathe!
Stick to your performance...
Re: Lada Edmund Jr. and "Hullabaloo"...I'm shocked, I tell you... SHOCKED...that no one has mentioned the OTHER featured "Hullabaloo" dancer...one Miss Donna McKechnie who got equal prominence so far as I can recall. Lada got attention for her name and her hair, but both dancers were front and center...and McKechnie was, to my mind, the better dancer.
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RLP...You were gauging their dancing ability...? Most of Lada's fans were obsessing about other things.
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DR Jose, hummm, I don't know about Mom but I might be! ;) :D
Sssshh... I won't tell if you won't...
:-X
;D
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RLP...You were gauging their dancing ability...? Most of Lada's fans were obsessing about other things.
:D
Go Figure!
Lada, as I recall, appeared nearly flat-chested. Donna had the nicer rack...
(Apologies all around for the sexist comment)!
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OK... Time for me to get ready to head in...
Laters
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OOH!!!
PAGE 12!!!!!!
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And per DR Danise's request:
THE PONY!!!
*Someone else can find the proper graphic or animated .gif...
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OOH!!!!
And I've had a Sugar Free Day today! (So far - looks like I may have to stay out of the green room tonight - way too many temptations.)
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Is the Pony the dance that Richard Simmons does?
So I was just at the store looking for folders for school, and this guy walked up and said, "Hi, stuff." I figured he was just talking to the merchandise and didn't say anything. Turns out he was calling me Steph because he thought I was somebody named Stephania. Wasn't this a great (although pointless) story?
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Would it not be best to delay your trip until they are found?
der always-helpful Brucer
;D Still working on finding more of them, so I guess my statement isn't completely off.
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I'm at work and have not had much chance to catch up (or even ketchup) on the notes. I'm just starting page 6. I figured I'd better do the media check before it's too late!:
In my CD player at work: The Apple Tree, the original Broadway cast. I've never had this and I just got in from the BMG Music club...buy one get THREE free!! After that will be the OBCs of Pipe Dream and Allegro. I got these from eBay from the same seller.
In my DVD player: "Head On (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YKR4/qid=1105140811/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1363129-2088719?v=glance&s=dvd)." It's sort of a gay, Australian Zorba the Greek. The lead, Alex Dimitriades, is absolutely gorgeous! (and he gets totally nekkid!! :o ;D) But it's appropriate for the character! No, it really is! ;)
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I couldn't find a dancing pony but I did find two things I would like to share-
One is for BK since he has discovered the joys of scanning:
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AND I hope you know that you really should still be singing the notes BECAUSE it isn't over until........
Wait for it..........
Wait for it...........
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The FAT lady sings!
You may now stop singing the notes, if you so desire. ;D :D ;D
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No bra ever for me either. When I played Greta in BENT, the dress had cleavage sewn into it. Greta's breasts were made of birdseed. Yep!
I've heard of the girl with the flaxen hair before, but the girl with the flax-seed hooters?
:o
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And wasn't Michael Bennett on HULLABALLOO as well? It was broadcast/taped in New York City....and of course SHINDIG was broadcast/taped in LA.....
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Limbo! Mr. Mac Man and I did the Limbo - he's quite good at it. He showed me the things I needed to see, helped me through some programs I hadn't explored and answered all of my questions. I downloaded the contents of one of my home grown DVDs and am about to rip a copy - a first. I also went through iMovie and iDVD, and man, am I going to have some fun. Also got a twin-pack DVD of those swingin' sixties movies One More Time and Salt and Pepper, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford. Oy. And the other Hullabaloo dancer of note was Michael Bennett. His rack was pretty small, too.
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You guys want a dancing pony? OK, here you go.
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(Does anyone else think the cast of "Will and Grace" is looking decidedly older/chunkier? Earlier this season, only Debra Messing seemed bloated...now they're all looking that way).
It's a tribute to Classic Star Trek, particularly to William Shatner, who would get a little that way mid-season every year.
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Did you draw that picture, DR Sandra?
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Did you draw that picture, DR Sandra?
No I didn't. I wouldn't know how to go about drawing a dancing pony.
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WARNING - BLITHERING NONSENSE AHEAD!
MOVE OVER TINKY-WINKY!
An alert from WhakosRUs (http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/42005c.asp):der Brucer
I've always kinda wondered about Big Bird. But Bob the Builder could recruit me any day!
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I've paused from the 45 minutes it has taken to read pages 1-9 today to post that it is indeed raining here in the Bay Area. It has actually rained most of the week, but today, it's windy also. A good night for staying in. More later when I finish reading the posts!
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Now I am waiting for DR Francois (how does one do a cedilla online? I can't get the Ctrl+',C to work when I'm online for some reason) to answer my IM for help with the French sections. Maybe La Jolie Femme would like to step into the fray?
type Alt + 0231 on your number keypad. ç It's easy.
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Why can't I think of any more rain songs? I know there are hundreds.
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, I love the Eurhythmics' "Here Comes the Rain Again."
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Does IT'S RAINING MEN count?
YES! ;D
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Finished the post. Will take the rest of the day/evening to take care of the DP as he seems to be ailing from something. He's sleeping now. Nothing to report for the media check as everything has been on the iPod... Oh, we are watching Sex and the City Season 6 part two on DVD.
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I'm currently ripping a DVD. It takes a while - there seems to be three long steps - the image transfer, the track transfer (which took the longest), and something called verifying. Of course, by long I mean it's taken about fifteen minutes to do a two hour DVD. It should be through in about three minutes and then we'll see if it actually worked.
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I have only eaten a couple of biscotti all day. I must decide about my meal. Don't really want to go out, but I don't really have anything in the house.
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Limbo! Mr. Mac Man and I did the Limbo - he's quite good at it. He showed me the things I needed to see, helped me through some programs I hadn't explored and answered all of my questions. I downloaded the contents of one of my home grown DVDs and am about to rip a copy - a first. I also went through iMovie and iDVD, and man, am I going to have some fun. Also got a twin-pack DVD of those swingin' sixties movies One More Time and Salt and Pepper, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford. Oy. And the other Hullabaloo dancer of note was Michael Bennett. His rack was pretty small, too.
You and Mr. Mac Man doing the Limbo together??? BK, I am shocked.
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type Alt + 0231 on your number keypad. ç It's easy.
DR George,
I had mastered all these when I used WordPerfect, and haven't bothered to re-learn them for Word. Do you have a checklist with the various codes? Thanks.
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DR Matthew (or anyone else who has SEX & THE CITY season 6 part 2). Can you go into detail about the alternate finale endings.
I think they showed one on Entertainment Tonight, that showed all the girls sitting at a coffee shop with Carrie saying that they would all be marrying her (or something stupid like that).
I am very curious. Thanks
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type Alt + 0231 on your number keypad. ç It's easy.
OK I'll try. A
It shows up as a capital A right now. Maybe it transmogrifies magically after I press post. Let's see.
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Evidently not, LOL. One more try:
ç
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I think I transposed some numbers the first time. :)
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Btw, for those who are interested, PBS is showing CANDIDE January 12th (or check your local PBS station's listings).
Btw2, I got to watch the WHAT IF dvd. And I really enjoyed it. My favorite parts were the Yiddish Sondheim, the opening and finale We're gonna do a revue, and the Phantom What If.
I think my favorite solo performance was Alet singing "When you're waiting for him." (by BK).
I think I was most impressed with Alet. She's so beautiful and consistently knocks everything she does out of the ballpark.
I will say more tomorrow. But I wanted to say one thing about Ryan. While he was probably the most uneven of the group, he was also the funniest. His Phantom imitation, and "Don't Rain on My parade" antics were hysterical.
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Well….. Hello! (a Sunset Blvd reference)
TCB - Very LOL, and touching too! :D
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Sounds like a movie "Cedilla: the Hunt" ç ç ç Anthony Quinn.
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DR George,
I had mastered all these when I used WordPerfect, and haven't bothered to re-learn them for Word. Do you have a checklist with the various codes? Thanks.
As far as I know, it's not a "Word" function, but a Windows function (I have no idea about a Mac equivalent). There's a program that's pretty much standard on any PC called "Character Map." Usually, if you click on the "Start" button in your task bar, then go to "Programs," then "Accessories," it should be listed there. If not, search for the file "charmap.exe" and that's it. When you call it up, it lists all the fonts installed on your computer and all of the characters within that font. When you click on a (non-regular) character, the Alt+ keystroke combination is shown on the bottom right of the window. Hope this helps!
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Limbo! Mr. Mac Man and I did the Limbo - he's quite good at it.
Nice to know you've got a MacMan who's willing to bend over backwards for a customer!
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No, I've never heard of Jew-Boy.
bk, JEW-BOY is the DVD that you pick up and comment on in the documentary...from that rack of DVDs sitting behind you.
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Oh, yes, now I remember.
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I think I have to brave the rain and get some food, because I'm feeling a little light-headed.
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Sounds like a movie "Cedilla: the Hunt" ç ç ç Anthony Quinn.
No, no, no--everyone knows Cedilla Hunt starred Lloyd Bridges. Remember, no groaning allowed here at HHW.
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Wow!! 13 pages and 627 or so posts! I thought we'd get that many and we have. The night is still. I wonder if we will get to 500 or dare I saw 600????
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In my car cd player the new Jane Mondheit cd.
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And in the dvd player a dvd I bought for my neise to watch. James Bond with Peirce Brosnan and Michelle Yeough. The name escapes me at the moment.
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Let's not forget the two female leads in The Importance of Being Punctuated, Gwendolen and Cedilla.
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This a male bra
(http://www.namaste.com/nm/media/new_media/product_images/nm/70x70/C19004_70x70.jpg)
and this the description
A set of strings for a male tanpura. This set contains one brass string and three nickel strings. Note: This product ships separately.
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And in the dvd player a dvd I bought for my neise to watch. James Bond with Peirce Brosnan and Michelle Yeough. The name escapes me at the moment.
Ah, yes, Tomorrow Never Dines. Bond and Wai Thin (his Chinese counterpart) foil a fiendish plot by media magnate Roast Carver to starve the world while making them watch Emeril Live.
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DR George,
Thanks (again) for the computer help.
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More men in bras
just like the old tv commercials where women wore the bras over the clothes
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Started watching my Bollywood movie for the weekend, JAANI DUSHMAN....a very B-movie-ish horror film about a snake-woman who gets revenge on a group of college students.
Although the main characters are young college students, the actors playing them are all in their late 30s!
(http://216.247.121.93/dvdImages/b4714.jpg)
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Dr Matth, I am sorry that your date was cancelled. I hope the same does not happen to me as I have an early date tomorrow with a guy I met at the New Years Eve party...his name is Heath...(yes, his mom was a fan of THE BIG VALLEY!).
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Confidential to DR Jane...you are welcome and I know you will enjoy them!!
PS: Your in-box is full! LOL
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I am now going to BIG LOTS to buy some toiletries.
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Bruce I hope you get a second book store in NY and time it for Penny’s show.
RLP I would be outraged if that happened to my sons. No double standards for me and I find it very sad.
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What an amazing number of posts! Just saying hello. Will try and catch up later.
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And I must go out now and get some foodstuffs. I so wish I had something here to make but I just don't so I won't because I can't and I shan't. I'll be back shortly.
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I'm partial to "Soon It's Gonna Rain", as well...and I adore those great Jonathan Tunick orchestrations in the film version of "The Fantasticks."
I love that song. :D
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I am reluctant to go to bed tonight for fear that on awakening tomorrow morning I will spend the entire morning reading posts from yesterday that were posted after I go to bed (even though it's not yesterday today, it's today and it won't be yesterday until tomorrow, does that make any sense ;-)
Yes ;D
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Unclear on the concept?
My sister called this morning, complaining that her younger son hasn't been phoning lately (or returning her calls). I reminded her that the kid and his wife have a new baby, plus my nephew is trying to expand his business and is working long hours. I told my sister that she should really learn how to use a computer. Given my nephew's situation, it's so much easier to communicate via e-mail. A little later my sister phoned me back. She had a brilliant idea. My nephew could e-mail her - via me. (And I would then phone in the e-mails to her.)
ROTFLOL
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Dan in Toronto: You have one heck of a unique sister. Nothing like getting everyone involved in acquiring what she wants for herself!
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JRand there must be a better photo of Joey Heatherton than that!
TCB I’m chuckling over your post-glad the show went well.
Charles Pogue will you show us a picture of Tewkes in his rain slicker?
Will I ever catch up! I must take a break and wash a few of the new pots and pans we purchased, inspired by Jose to rid ourselves of pealing Teflon pans.
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Jane: I'm sure plenty of parents would be mad as hell at any female teacher who "raped" their sons...but the police and the press and the juries always seem to go easier on the heterosexual female offenders than they do on any of the male offenders.
It's a double standard, of sorts, that implies that when a woman sexually abuses a child, it's somehow LESS significant than when a man does it.
I hate that!!
I realize there is a difference between "assaulting" someone and having consensual relations. If I understand the law, a minor's consent has no validity in a courtroom.
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And now for something completely different (almost a Spamalot reference!):
It's been two very strange days at work (today and yesterday). We're getting an entirely new computer system and my department's (acquisitions) access was taken down yesterday. The new system will not be available until Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong. The new system (Horizon...and Windows-based) is the next generation of the old (Dynix...and Linux-based). HOWEVER, there are some things that are not good. Little things like you can't right click at all! You can't highlight, copy and paste text! Who in the world designs a program that's supposed to be Windows-based and makes it so you can't do those very basic Windows functions?? The other thing is that in Dynix, when I place an order for an item, it can take maybe 8-15 seconds per title. In Horizon, we figure that it could potentially take as long as a minute per title!! That's ridiculous!! Which means we're going to have to substantially revamp our work procedures. I hate that. :P
And the worst part is that the "training database" was not set up the way we're going to have the real thing set up. It's so different that there really was no point to try and even use it. We had their training, but it was almost like them saying "this is how you do the things that we want to show you" and not us being able to ask "how can we do this?" mainly because we don't know what we don't know and don't know what to ask. :-\ Very frustrating.
However, I am the kind of person who can let go of work when I leave (and it helps that I have that kind of job)! I will have absolutely no problem NOT thinking about this at all this weekend. ;D When we get back to work on Monday, we will just have to deal with whatever we get. As I've said to many people here, "It'll be what it'll be."
And now, I'm off to get something to eat.
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Just stopping by one last time tonight. I should have taken a picture of Bear when I put my bra on him on time as a joke. Needless to say, he was NOT a happy dog.
He was very angry with Mom today for leaving him. He sat on the couch and stared up into space when she tried to talk to him so I patted her arm and said "Poor, Mom, Bear is sooo mad at you!" and she pretended to cry. He jumped down off the couch and came right over to her.
I shall paraphrase what I told him, "It's better to be peed off then peed on."
Have a good evening all!
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Matthew good health vibes to DP.
MBarnum, I think Heath is a great name (I was also a fan).
I will empty my box now. Thanks.
RLP I think the double standard, or I should say I hope it has changed with the teacher who went to jail. I do believe the age of those boys should make a difference in this situation.
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Wow, I did it! I'm caught up now. :P ;D
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Hi François & DiT. Now I’m caught up it is quiet here and I will also be leaving.
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But Jane, did you Limbo? Did Keith Limbo? Do you have photos?
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We did limbo. Keith says he was great at it-right! ;D
I wasn’t too bad. It helped being short. There was a time when I danced and I could go back very far which helped with the limbo.
I remember Bryan winning a few limbo contests at Bar Mitzvah’s, including his own.
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No photos. You also caught me just as I was about to shut off the computer.
Goodnight.
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I guess I need to reasd all the posts now... I think I've covered up to pages 5 or 6. But i don't want to miss hitting 400. A quandary.
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Still here.
JMK is BeeJee still ringing the doorbell? Say hi to Betsy from me.
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Well, now we are three closer to that goal of 400.
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Oops, someone posted before me.
François was here and now he's gone. Sounds like a song.
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Oh, hell. I might as well
400 at 10:43 pm EST (even though it says 10:41:21, my computer clock is a couple of minutes ahead)
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Bravo!
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Jane, I will if I can ever get The Lovely Wife to take a pic on her phone and then email it to me.
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Well, we braved the rain and went and saw SIDEWAYS. Glad we did. Well acted, well written. Very funny and touching.
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I haven't caught up on all the posts yet, so maybe somebody has done this... The deluge outside made me think of rain songs... Some favorites out there?
For me, off the top of my (wet) head:
IN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN
SEPTEMBER IN THE RAIN
STORMY WEATHER
I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS
FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT
APRIL SHOWERS
HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY
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I'm just now reading Page 7 and I see that favorite rain songs were requested there... Ooops (spoo).
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I've been playing with iMovie. Very fun. I'm just doing stupid stuff, and getting used to how it works. For example, I created a montage of stills from the Ray Courts shows accompanied by Guy Haines singing You Must Believe in Spring. I need about fifty more stills, however, to make it through to the end of the song. I've got lovely cross dissolves built in between pics and the "Ken Burns" effect is on (slow zoom in to the photo). It's lovely.
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And lest we forget, the night is young, which is more than I can say. There is lots more Limboing to be done before the next craze kicks in at midnight.
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Isn't that an Irving Berlin song?
I'll be seein you
Sideways
I'll be seeing Sideways in just over a week when the DGA does their week-long screenings of the DGA nominated directors.
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Dr Matth, I am sorry that your date was cancelled. I hope the same does not happen to me as I have an early date tomorrow with a guy I met at the New Years Eve party...his name is Heath...(yes, his mom was a fan of THE BIG VALLEY!).
I was a fan of the actor playing Heath, too. Also a fan of the actor playing Nick! Those were two really sexy men.
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Since a friend asked to see COLLATERAL tomorrow night at my house, I put it on hold and pulled SOYLENT GREEN off the shelf. Looked pretty good in anamorphic widescreen.
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Still an incredible amount of post. I have to wake up early to take D Mom & D neice to the airport so they can fly back to Montreal. It was nice seeing them So keep on posting DR. I think we will get 500 posts and more!!!
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Okay, I'm caught up. Wheww!
Congrats TCB and Merde for tonight!
Good news, Danise.
And more rain songs I like but didn't list were mentioned.
My eyes are really tired - I've been writing on and off for the last 12 hours, so it's time for a break. I might come back later, but maybe not.
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Good Evening!
Back from the show... Two more tomorrow, two more on Sunday, then a Day of Baking - formerly known as a Day Off. ;)
And then the weird schedule starts at Arena. We have a Noon show next Tuesday but no Tuesday night show. Then the rest of the week is "normal". The following week we have an evening show on Monday night - which happens to be Martin Luther King Day as well as the day of the Inauguration festivities. Apparently, some school group bought out the house. The audience will be comprised of middle-school and high school students. Said students will have spent all day attending the Inauguration. Then they will be coming to the show for their evening activity. Ugh.
These types of audiences are never good - they're tired, they smell - god forbid it rains that day, they did not pick to go to the theatre, etc... It's gonna be "fun". Ugh...
And then we're off that Tuesday (instead of being off that Monday), but we come back Wednesday for another Noon show with a show in the evening.
And then the week after that...
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Oh...
Barry Manilow's "I Made It Through the Rain"
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It's been two very strange days at work (today and yesterday). We're getting an entirely new computer system and my department's (acquisitions) access was taken down yesterday. The new system will not be available until Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong. The new system (Horizon...and Windows-based) is the next generation of the old (Dynix...and Linux-based)...And the worst part is that the "training database" was not set up the way we're going to have the real thing set up.
DR George - Oh, I feel for you! The library I work for migrated just a year ago from DRA to Horizon. I'm in reference and was both on the team that selected the system (took some heat from my coworkers for that!) and a trainer for public service staff. The "training database" set-up was such a joke. Our tech people were not amused when I started referring to it as the "pretend" database! It's not fatal, though, and we've adapted pretty well. Now we're on to other challenges like patron-initiated state-wide resource sharing and 24/7 online chat reference. Oh, and we just converted to Windows XP and MS Outlook. Wonder what's next...
Anyway, good luck and keep your sense of humor (you'll need it).
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And I must go out now and get some foodstuffs. I so wish I had something here to make but I just don't so I won't because I can't and I shan't. I'll be back shortly.
What about the cookies and biscotti? Or do I need to send more?
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Dr Matth, I am sorry that your date was cancelled. I hope the same does not happen to me as I have an early date tomorrow with a guy I met at the New Years Eve party...his name is Heath...(yes, his mom was a fan of THE BIG VALLEY!).
Nick! Heath! Jerrod! The barn's on fire! The barn's on fire!
(Errr, don't do that on the date...)
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Do you have a checklist with the various codes? Thanks.
When in Word, pull down INSERT, select SYMBOL, select either Arial or Times New Roman as a font, and all the short cuts are there for the pickin'.
N.B. You must use the numeric keyboard, not the numbers keys on the main keyboard - when undergoing sterility treatments using a laptop, use the same pull down sewuwnce and after slecting your desired charter, use he INSERT button at the bottom of the Symbol pop-up menu.
der Brucer
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Biscotti are long gone, cookies are going fast. I was trying to watch an Edgar Wallace movie (boxes one and two arrived today, although only four of the eight movies are subtitled and have dubs). I'm watching the first of the series, but I kept nodding off and you can't do that in these movies. So, I'm refreshing myself and will try again.
Has Ann caught up?
I'm wearing my Limbo bra and am ready to rumble.
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Ann has finally caught up.
Today has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day...to quote the beloved children's book of my youth. Too many details to explain. I need a hug. Or a strong drink. Or both.
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The best of warm and supportive thoughts to you Ann.
Find a friend to drink with - TCB may not be busy. Hang around the stage door.
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Sending Ann a hug and a strong Diet Coke. Doing the Limbo might just help.
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FATHER KNOWS BEST
(From the AP (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143745,00.html):)
Italics mine.
Rosemary Kennedy Dies at 86
Friday, January 07, 2005
WASHINGTON — Rosemary Kennedy (search), the oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, died Friday. She was 86.
Kennedy, the third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy (search), was born mentally retarded and underwent a lobotomy when she was 23. She lived most of her life in a Jefferson, Wis., institution, the St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children.
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But as she got older, her father worried that his daughter's mild condition would lead her into situations that could damage the family's reputation.
"Rosemary was a woman, and there was a dread fear of pregnancy, disease and disgrace," author Laurence Leamer wrote in an unauthorized Kennedy biography called "The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family." He wrote that Rosemary had taken to sneaking out of the convent where she was staying at the time.
Doctors told Joseph Kennedy that a lobotomy, a medical procedure in which the frontal lobes of a patient's brain are scraped away, would help his daughter and calm her mood swings that the family found difficult to handle at home.
Psychosurgery was in its infancy at the time, and only a few hundred lobotomies had been performed. The procedure was believed to be a way to relieve serious mental disorders. Leamer wrote that Rosemary was "probably the first person with mental retardation in America to receive a prefrontal lobotomy."
I bet Jeff Kauffman could have a few pointed comments to add!
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Oh, BK, you're gonna die! Talking about Lada Edmund, Jr. doing the Ray Courts show, reminded me that they should have one coming up soon (they do; mid-February). The celeb list is starting to fill in; no great surprises other than Yma Sumac and...are you ready for it?...HALEY MILLS!
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Hayley did the show a year ago. I tried to get to her table to say "hey" but it was madness, and I assume it will be the same this time. I should see if Ray'll let me have a table to hawk Writer's Block.
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Sending Ann a hug and a strong Diet Coke. Doing the Limbo might just help.
Ann, try some of this in the Coke:
(http://store1.yimg.com/I/randalls_1827_16358901)
der "Doctor-Is-In" Brucer
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I'm getting my second wind - I just did the Limbo whilst eating a cookie and humming the theme from SWAT.
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PEACE VIBES FOR DR ANN ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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Talking about Lada Edmund, Jr. doing the Ray Courts show, reminded me that they should have one coming up soon (they do; mid-February). The celeb list is starting to fill in; no great surprises other than Yma Sumac and...are you ready for it?...HALEY MILLS!
(http://www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/garlan2.gif)
Friday February 18th, 2005
Noon - 9:00pm
Saturday February 19th, 2005
10:00am - 4:00pm
You forgot to mention: Golden Boot Award Winner Jane Russell! Maybe bk can get an autographed bra 8)
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It's almost ten o'clock. How did that happen?
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I'm getting my second wind -
Oboe, Bassoon, Flugelhorn - please be specific.
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It's almost ten o'clock. How did that happen?
Well, there's the sun, the earth, something called centrifugal force, and something else called gravity...
Unless...
Well, there's a little hand and big hand...
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Oboe, Bassoon, Flugelhorn - please be specific.
Um... Not to nitpick here, but, technically speaking, a Flugelhorn is not a wind instrument. A Flugelhorn is a Brass instrument.
Now as for that second wind, I was thinking more along the lines of an E-flat Clarinet or and English Horn. Yes, an English Horn is a wind instrument.
...OK... I thought I knew where I was going with this, but obviously I don't, so....
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I'm getting my second wind - .
Try doing the Lambada with this "second wind":
(http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/Images/BandOrchestra/Product/Main/YSH411_main.jpg)
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You should see if Ray can get you a table next to Haley. Maybe you'll get some of her overflow trade. Or maybe she'll get some of yours. Maybe you both can perform a duet of "Let's Get Together, Yeah, Yeah Yeah." Maybe you'll both flirt outrageously with each other and then that HHW wedding you've been waiting for will become a reality.
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The Lovely Wife was demonstrating the frug a moment ago-go.
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We need photos of said Frug.
I'm getting my second Alto Flute, actually.
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Um... Not to nitpick here, but, technically speaking, a Flugelhorn is not a wind instrument. A Flugelhorn is a Brass instrument.
Yeah - well Mr Yamaha (http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Catalog/Catalog_GSMOCX/0,6366,CTID%253D236800%2526CNTYP%253D,00.html) catalogs it as a wind - along with Tubas, Trombones, Saxaphones, French Horns and other brassy guys.
I suspect the distinction is "wind", not "woodwind".
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Well...
I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a Supreme Wussburger with Cheese tonight... A Supreme Wussburger with Cheese Product... A Supreme Wussburger with Velveeta! in fact...
I'm tired. My sleep schedule has been soooo weird this week. My sinuses are giving me heck - the weather this past week has just been plain ugly...
OK - I'm kvetching. I'm OK. Just tired. And I have two shows tomorrow... So...
Goodnight.
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DR Ann - De-Stressing and Tranquility Vibed heading your way~~~~~~~~~~
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Yeah - well Mr Yamaha (http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Catalog/Catalog_GSMOCX/0,6366,CTID%253D236800%2526CNTYP%253D,00.html) catalogs it as a wind - along with Tubas, Trombones, Saxaphones, French Horns and other brassy guys.
I suspect the distinction is "wind", not "woodwind".
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Yamaha? What do they know!?!?!? They cater mainly to Band people! (as opposed to Orchestra people)
-That was supposed to be sort of a joke. Well, if you're an uber-music geek - like I am/was - then I guess it could be funny... Or not...
Wasn't I heading to bed?
Yes, I think I was. And that would be a very good idea to carry through with that plan...
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But before I go...
Now all those punny band t-shirts and bumper stickers are going through my head:
I'm Oversaxed
Drummers Do It With Rhythm
I'm a Little Bit Horn-y
Care To Blow My Horn?
How Big Is Your Bell? (trombone bells, etc.)
Marimba Players Use Both Hands
Support the Arts, Kiss a Musician
etc., etc., etc...
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DR Panni - How did your writing go today?
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And once again... In his final appearance this evening...
-I'm starting to feek like Cher's Farewell Tour...
Goodnight.
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A cyber-hug to DR Ann.
I just took the Wonderdog out and it is WET out there. My car, which is parked in front of the house, has a raging river running under it. I hope it doesn't float away by morning. The City of Studio does not have the best drainage system in the world. Actually, most of LA is in that boat, so to speak. A friend of mine who works in Beverly Hills said the police station was giving out sandbags (Gucci, of course).
I barely slept last night (no pj's) - so I'm going to lie down and read, listen to the rain. Going to try not to fall asleep for a few hours or I'll wake up at 1 A.M..
Laters!
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DR Panni - How did your writing go today?
It went well. Thank you for asking, sir. As I think I posted earlier, I wrote on and off for 12 hours, so now I can barely see and my back is a mess. I still have quite a bit left to do, but it's getting there.
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Ann has finally caught up.
Today has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day...to quote the beloved children's book of my youth. Too many details to explain. I need a hug. Or a strong drink. Or both.
Do you need a Cherry Coke? We went to the grocery store to get Cherry Coke, and there wasn't any. Can you believe that? No Cherry Coke! ??? :o :'(
In other news, there is no other news and this whole post is, in fact, entirely pointless.
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What better post than a pointless post?
I just took a really hot and really long shower. It was gloriously glorious. I'm listening to Bacharach and have no patience for a movie.
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I just noticed that Sandra has underpants in her avatar which is, after all, a fine place for underpants.
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I just noticed that Sandra has underpants in her avatar which is, after all, a fine place for underpants.
Good night, everybody!
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Sad to be all alone in the world. No one here to Limbo with.
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My goodness - page sixteen. I declare.
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How doing the Watusi...Wa...Wa Oooo Wa...tusi...!
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We need PHOTOS!
Ann is back. I wonder if she's caught up.
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I guess people are too pooped to post.
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Or, maybe people are too post to poop.