Good morning, all! Thank you, DRGinny, for the email. I'm awake, sitting by the telephone, and waiting for news. I'm all packed and ready to go.
Last week I reported on a certain Maestro of unlimited arrogance, ego and gall who was begging for money. He has been bailed from the threat of eviction by a charitable act on the part of a kind acquaintance of mine who has long been a victim of the Maestro's arrogance and scorn. Unfortunately, humility and generosity will never be a part of this arrogant conductor's vocabulary, although a passing acquaintance with such words might have been beneficial in his short career.
Is it who I think it is?
I know what you mean DR RLP.
Well, get this...the good Prince Martz of Abidjan (formerly the Ivory Coast) needs my assistance with a financial matter...my assistance! Who would have ever guessed.
I will surely have to reply to his kind and thoughful e-mail! LOL!
And to think that just last week the widow of some guy in Ghana asked me for assistance also...!
Don't you hate that when you buy a DVD that you already have!
Which reminds me...JRand, you will be having a few things coming to you in the mail very soon! LOL!
I almost bought two B/W Japanese movies,...
Are We Safe?
In a two-day period in March, alarming reports revealed that "dirty (radiation) bombs" easily entered the country in car trunks in tests, that one-third of U.S. civilian nuclear research reactors were insufficiently secure, and that concerns were heightened about the 2,000 shoulder-fired missiles said to be unaccounted for in the world's arsenals.
On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times reported that the fishing village of Dillingham, Alaska, at least, is secure, now that a $200,000 Homeland Security anti-terrorism grant has paid for 60 "downtown" surveillance cameras (with 20 more to come).
Dillingham (pop. 2,400) is about 300 miles from Anchorage, with no roads linking it to anywhere.
[USA Today, 3-27-06] [USA Today, 3-26-06] [ABC News, 3-27-06] [Los Angeles Times, 3-28-06]
Depending on how you choose to read their home page, we appear to be the top selling show CD of the week.
The young man at our church has a broken pelvis. I will go to see him this afternoon.
The Christian Diocese of Mizoram in northeast India, which was established by Welsh Presbyterian missionaries who worked the area from 1840 to around 1960, announced in March that it would send a missionary back to Wales because it was clear that the Welsh are in serious spiritual decline. "The Mizos," said Rev. Zosang Colney, "have a burden to do something for their Mother Church in Wales," since fewer than 1 in 10 Welsh regularly attend services. [Daily Telegraph (London), 3-6-06]
(1) A 40-year-old man in Cedarburg, Wis., was arrested on suspicion of DUI when police noticed the severed hose of a gas station pump sticking out of his car's fuel door. (It belonged to a Kwik Trip station.)
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2-26-06]
(2) Daniel Nordell, 52, with a history of DUI, was arrested in March when police saw him driving through downtown Waupaca, Wis., in reverse (because he said the other gears wouldn't work).
[Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.), 3-3-06]
(3) A 44-year-old man was arrested for DUI in Australia's Northern Territory in March after he asked a police officer how to get to the hard-to-miss Uluru (Ayers Rock, the huge, 1,000-foot-high rock formation that appears red in sunlight), which was about 300 feet in front of him, illuminated in his headlights. [Reuters, 3-29-06]
Recent drivers who decided, for reasons known only to them, to get naked before taking the wheel:
(1) A woman, her toddler and her mother (all naked), Norwood, N.Y., sitting in a parked car (February). [New York Daily News, 2-13-06]
(2) John Persico, Providence, R.I., smashed into several cars naked (February). [WKMG-TV (Orlando)-AP, 2-23-06]
(3) Natalie Peterson, 23, Roy, Utah, shucked her clothes after an argument with her aunt (March).
[KTVX-TV (Salt Lake City), 3-26-06]
(4) Eric Wayne, 57, Pocono Township, Pa. (An officer who knew him said Wayne "tends to get a little weird" when he's been without sex) (arraigned in March).
[Pocono Record (Stroudsburg), 3-16-06]
(5) A man and woman, ages 59 and 70, Cologno al Serio, Italy (joyriding nude) (March). [Reuters, 3-16-06]
Brian Blair is now a Republican county commissioner in Tampa, Fla., but before that was a professional wrestler for 20 years.
He now says it wasn't the dropkicks, pile drivers or neck breakers that ended his career, but rather tripping over a tray of dirty dishes at a Carrabba's Italian Grill in Tampa in 2001, which he said injured his head, shoulder and knee, and his lawsuit is still pending.
(His previous lawyers resigned in March.)
Blair wrestled for four months after that injury, but said the matches were the less-strenuous "tag-team" contests.
Also, hospital records show a blood-alcohol reading of 0.089 90 minutes after the incident, though Blair told the Tampa Tribune he only had a sip. [Tampa Tribune, 3-9-06]
I almost bought two B/W Japanese movies, but decided to go with one HIGH AND LOW and a color spectacular TALES OF HOFFMAN. I am sure I don't own either of those.
Off to THE SOUND OF MUSIC - round two.
You know what to do.............
Don't you hate that when you buy a DVD that you already have!
Which reminds me...JRand, you will be having a few things coming to you in the mail very soon! LOL!
Post office was out of control - at least thirty people in line, none of them, of course, prepared. I hate that most of all and I'm afraid I'm quite vocal about it. How hard is it to fill out paperwork in advance (if doing delivery confirmation or certified or whatever) - they have the forms online, and it saves so much time when you're at the PO. But, nooooo, no one is prepared (except me), and we wait and wait while they ask their inane questions and fill out their forms.
Don't you hate that when you buy a DVD that you already have!That's why I keep a database of all our discs as they come in.
Is it a Rainy Night DR George. I Love a Rainy night. With Easter next week Rabbitt does seem appropriate. Don't it make your brown eyes blue?
Well, as many guessed, the big news for der Brucer and myself is that we have a new girlfriend.
Her name is Angelina, and she is a very pretty black Lab mix, four months old. She is one of a group of dogs that the SPCA was going toput to sleepeuthanizeexecute. She's still a little shy, but is adapting to her new home more quickly than we expected. Right now, she's sitting on the couch, cuddled next to der B, swatting Mikey in play.
She's got gigantic paws!
We'll get pics posted when we get a chance.
Well, as many guessed, the big news for der Brucer and myself is that we have a new girlfriend.
Her name is Angelina, and she is a very pretty black Lab mix, four months old. She is one of a group of dogs that the SPCA was going toput to sleepeuthanizeexecute. She's still a little shy, but is adapting to her new home more quickly than we expected. Right now, she's sitting on the couch, cuddled next to der B, swatting Mikey in play.
She's got gigantic paws!
We'll get pics posted when we get a chance.
I should point out, Angelina is a foster puppy, our sixth. With the exception of Bruno, who died of Parvo within a day of our rescuing him, we've had a good record in placing the dogs who have come to live with us. Zeus, Peggy, Baxter and Benedick have all found wonderful homes.
Angie has decided that der Brucer is a most wondeful chew toy!
I wish that I spoke cat, so that I could just explain to them what exactly was going on and avoid any unpleasantries.
We had a cat growing up that my mom would have to sedate in order to take her to the vet. After a while, she decided it just wasn't worth it and stopped taking her for checkups and shots. The cat lived to be 20 just out of spite.
And that is why I love cats.
Yes, I confess. I am a tree-hugger...
Well, April in Paris has been lousy so far!
Cold and rainy; feels more like autumn (in New York!) and I have a sore throat...
We'll get pics posted when we get a chance.
Ok, this one is great Penguin Happy feet
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/64831/happy_feet_penguin_dance/
LOL! Nilla is only 5 1/2, but all his internal functioning tests that were off kilter last time he had teeth removed are all normal now.
LOL! Nilla is only 5 1/2, but all his internal functioning tests that were off kilter last time he had teeth removed are all normal now. He'll be a toothless wonder, but will undoubtedly grow to be an old man. Like the human old men who run around without their false teeth!Oooh, the images that conjured up. Sorry, but it was a deal-breaker for me back when I was dating.
I drug my friends Ron, Mark and James to go see it and guess what...they all really enjoyed the movie! As did I
Cilla!!! Happy for you and Nilla - poor little toothless guy! Oh, give him a squeeze for me! Can't wait to get all the dirty deets about your trial!!! sounds so fun! Attorneys and juries - talk about performance art!!! Hahahahahahahaaa!!!!!
Forgot to mention that tomorrow night I am seeing Debbie Gravitte (aka Debbie Shapiro Gravitte aka Debbie Shapiro) in concert.
I have always enjoyed her singing, but I have never seen her in concert. I did see her on Broadway twice though, in They're Playing Our Song and Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
She is the last performer in the Broadway Cabaret series that I subscribe to and this is the one I wanted to see most!
Now I can get her to sign all those cd inserts!
Michael S: I don't mind Andrea's profanity, which in context I found very amusing. If you thought Carole could be better, you should have heard the fourteen minutes I cut out.