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Title: GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 12:10:28 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes had a general unease not unlike mine own, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they, too, are feeling a general unease and are moving about lethargically, like a gazelle in pasties.
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Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 12:10:51 AM: And the word of the day is: GESTICULATE!
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 09, 2006, 12:23:42 AM: The should of course be a silent "u' in guesticulate.

At times my Teachers would say that to me on noticing my tardiness.

Guest I C U (R) Late.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:09:22 AM: I know precisely the feeling of unease BK is experiencing.

I've experienced it a few times in my life, as well. It's most unsettling. I normally slap myself out of of it...err...oh! I typed "slap" but I meant snap...yes, "snap" myself out of it.

Unfortunately, the amount of effort that can take truly depends on the root behind the unease (or dis-ease, which is a perfectly good word for it, if pronounced properly).

I hope you either shake it off or discover its cause and eradicate it, Bruce.

I'm rather wondering if it isn't simply because things are -- from my viewpoint -- going so professionally well for you that your unease may be that you're waiting for something to happen to disrupt it all.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:15:18 AM: I had a most interesting Saturday at home.

Interesting to me...I daresay it's of relative disinterest to many.

I spent the bulk of my day listening to CDs....piles of CD that hadn't even been opened NEEDED listening to.

After all...if something is wrong with one of them, one must know about it so that it can be sent back for a replacement. I need to keep that in mind for my DVD piles, as well.

At any rate, I truly needed no prodding to sit and have a listen to my new 3-CD original soundtrack recording of the musical "Goodbye, Mr. Chips." I had read on another messageboard that some folks had discovered they had a disc in their sets that would not play or would skip around. I wanted no such silliness coming out of my set, I can tell you.

And none did. All three discs played beautifully. And I have to say it was a mesmerizing listen, all three discs. And there were some emotional moments, to be sure, hearing this stuff sound this good. All the alternate cues and the interview tracks and the demo recordings rather make a sumptuous wallow for a true fan of this film (which I believe myself to be).

Now...if only someone could release the stereo recording made of the original score Andre Previn wrote for an earlier version of the project...wow!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:22:00 AM: Another CD I spent a good deal of time with is the glorious score written by Marvin Hamlisch for "The Swimmer"...lyrical, melodic, lush and unsettlingly moving. Orchstrators Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes doubtlessly worked some major miracles for Hamlisch's first foray into film scoring...there are nuances upon nuances and incredible emotional rushes throughout this wonderful score.

From "The Swimmer", I moved into "House of Bamboo" by Leigh Harline...the latest stereo 1950s score to be issued...and a real beauty it is. It arrived in today's mail and it's a stunning score, with interesting occidental accents and strong melodic writing by Harline (Harline is known to most of you by his music for "Pinocchio", for which he won an Oscar for best score and another Oscar with Ned Washington for Best Song).

I then turned to Harline's equally wonderful, but considerably different, score to "Warlock"...an unusual western from 1959 that is mostly forgotten today but packs a considerable dramatic punch and has this marvellous score. On the same CD with "Warlock" is Hugo Friedhofer's excellent score for a film called "Violent Saturday."

So...Bricusse dressed up by John Williams, and Leigh Harline and Hugo Friedhofer consumed my afternoon, engaged my senses and left me wonderfully drained.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:35:47 AM: But that wasn't enough. Oh, no. I decided I had to watch one of my newly acquired DVDs.

So...what was it going to be?

I opted for one with a score I've long admired, but isn't available on a commercial recording...a score by composer Leonard Rosenman.

The movie was "Making Love." I recall at the time it was released that the studio (Fox) felt it was doing something daring, but I never got that from the film. I don't think the critics did, either.

It's a decent enough story, but it has these two marvellous characters played winningly by Michael Ontkean (Zach) and Kate Jackson (Claire). It's their relationship at the beginning of the film that draws you in and convinces you that they're meant for one another. And it's that relationship and the actors' performances at the end that break your heart because they cannot be together and cannot remain close friends because their love had been so special and strong.

It's what happens in the middle that becomes a muddle for me...despite what was established between him and Claire, Zach starts flirting with a latent homosexuality. Of course, Claire doesn't have a clue. But she starts suspecting something...because her "soulmate" has shut her out. An affair is what she thinks he might be having, and she tries very hard to get him to open up. Meanwhile, Zach's trading quips and "instructive" monologues with Harry Hamlin (Bart) in an attempt to both instruct and engage the audience into the complexities of (1) coming out, (2) being totally honest with everyone in your life, and (3) painting a portrait of two mean -- one of whom wants a lasting relationship with a man and another who is content to engage in hedonistic one-night stands.

And it's that middle bit that destroys the relationship we latch onto at the beginning and that breaks our hearts at the end.

Throughout it all, Rosenman's score is simply beautiful -- engaging and uplifting and heartbreaking in its own right.

I have a soft spot for Kate Jackson.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:42:06 AM: And there you have it...my day...plus some intermittent watching of various programs on TV in between CD listening and DVD watching.

And I have not yet been to bed, but am about to put my tired bones away for the night.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:42:59 AM: What I have waiting for me when I get up: Doing my taxes!

(And no, I didn't wait too long. They're simple. I OWE and that's that.)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:43:27 AM: I must also have my weekly chat with mom at some point during the morning hours.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:45:20 AM: Meantime...the mattress warmer is doing its job. It's not cold, but it's cool.

It's also not raining right now, but it's gonna start soon.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:46:02 AM: Since no one is around...and since I have just four more posts till I turn another corner...
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:46:16 AM: ...I'm gonna do a few short posts...
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:46:29 AM: ...and get myself to where I want to be.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:46:39 AM: Ta-da!
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 05:13:47 AM: Allergies! I hit the bed around 1 am, knowing I had to be up by 8 am, and spent more than an hour trying to relax while that damned blooming tree ouotside my window kept sending me little pieces of itself to clog my sinuses and throat. I have no idea when I finally passed out, but I am not functioning at my normal already lowered capacity. I would love to spend the day here, but there are friends to be seen and fun to be had.

I'll start a topic and see how it fares: our DR MattH wasn't convinced about Gilbert & Sullivan after Friday night's PINAFORE, which I consider one of Gilbert's least successful librettos cmpared to GONDOLIERS, MIKADO, IOLANTHE, or PATIENCE, which DR Danise and I saw last year at New York City Opera. I love PINAFORE's score, although Sullivan's greatest, in my bbok, is IOLANTHE or YEOMAN OF THE GUARD. Which Gilbert and Sullivan operas have you DRs seen, and were they professional or amateur performances?
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Post by: Jennifer on April 09, 2006, 05:55:32 AM: DR George, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is not on tonight. They have a 2 hour Extreme Home/makeover show on instead.
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Post by: Michael on April 09, 2006, 05:59:16 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 05:13:47 AM
Which Gilbert and Sullivan operas have you DRs seen, and were they professional or amateur performances?

The Mikado (Doyle Carte Opera)
Pirates of Penzance (NYCSC)
HMS PInafore (amateur, but very very good)

and various shoiws made for Canadian TV which I believe are on DVD
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:00:04 AM: DR CILLA LIZ - oh my! Hopefully it will be a more peaceful cat day today...and Nilla will feel better.

DR MARIA & Co. have a great time in NYC!!
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:01:42 AM: HMS PINAFORE....and I own a lovely recording of it that was recently recommended right here on HHW!

The store was CRAZY yesterday....and people want to shop even though they know the store is CLOSED! I guess they figure as long as they can get in the door by 7 pm, they can stay as long as they want.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:01:56 AM: BRB....I am trying something.
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Post by: Jennifer on April 09, 2006, 06:02:43 AM: DR MattH, I wanted to ask you something about this week's VERONICA MARS.

spoilers.

Okay first off, if you want to see how smart I am, I actually watched the first 40 minutes, came online to post, and started reading your VERONICA review for this week (totally forgetting that i hadn't seen the last 20 minutes). Duh!

Anyhow, you said the end had a shocking ending. What exactly do you think happened?

I really didn't get it the first time I saw it. But anyhow, it seemed like Logan pushed the destruction button. And then we saw that the Thumper guy was in the bathroom, which we didn't realize was in the building. Okay i think part of what confused me was that they then showed veronica watching the destruction on tv, but i thought thumper was watching the tv (they didn't change the scene).

And then we see weivel at confession.

So the Fitzpatricks put thumper in the building, and weivel is confessing to setting thumper up to get the fitzpatricks to go after him (thumper). I'm assuming weivel has no idea that thumper is in the building, right?

Sometimes i feel like you need to be really smart and quick to pick up on everything.

Another question, so the motorcycle that was in the building, who put it there? And why? At first i thought that woody (is that the guy who logan was working for?) was involved. The witness veronica found mentioned the bike (it belonged to thumper). So we're to assume that thumper killed felix (the guy logan was blamed for). But what does this have to do with the bus crash?
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Post by: Jennifer on April 09, 2006, 06:03:18 AM: DR Cillaliz, sorry about your cat. Hope it gets better.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:12:05 AM: Loved the buff pics, DR DAKOTA CELT....although that sounds a bit risque.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:17:12 AM: I got an email from the director of SEUSSICAL last night about 11 pm. He is having special auditions for the Cat in the Hat in the middle of THE SOUND OF MUSIC auditions today and Monday - because he has to know if the Cat will be cast as a male OR female (I know, I know).

His choreographer is my cousin (yes THAT Madame Rose) - whose main job as a dance teacher is dragging her poor students to these dance competitions all over the country that mean absolutely NOTHING....but a run by profit-making exploitation cheaters....but THAT is another story. Anyway, of course she is out of town at a "competition" - so he asked me if I could come in and do the dance part of the audition.

Well - my opinion of the score is nil because I am completely indifferent to the show....but I have been working on a bout 32 measures of some song from the CD....so hopefully it will be all right.

Other than that, I am just going to waltz with the adults auditioning for MUSIC and listening to them sing. One woman called the director and asked him if it would just be all right if her daughter sang "Happy Birthday" - the director said, no. And the woman said the daughter just wanted to be in the children's chorus..... And the director had to break the news to her: There is no children's chorus in THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:19:12 AM: We are having renovations (more than a vase of flowers, DR GEORGE) done to the back yard and when I come home from the Cat Box this evening - here is what I will have:

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Blue Moon. ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:19:59 AM: Hmmm....none of my pictures are attached lately...and I get no error messages, but DR DAKOTA CELT's pictures were fine...

I don't understand.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:20:21 AM: That is a picture of my new doggie....a husky....but you can't see it.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 06:21:56 AM: Off to shower and then to auditions..... Now I think of WHAT IF? everytime I say that word.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 06:25:27 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on April 09, 2006, 06:17:12 AM
he has to know if the Cat will be cast as a male OR female (I know, I know).

JRand, the Cat in the Hat is male.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 06:32:49 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on April 09, 2006, 06:19:59 AM
Hmmm....none of my pictures are attached lately...and I get no error messages, but DR DAKOTA CELT's pictures were fine...

I don't understand.

DRJRand55, the other day I was unable to post a photo as well. I think it's the ozone.
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:42:47 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on April 09, 2006, 06:01:42 AM
The store was CRAZY yesterday....and people want to shop even though they know the store is CLOSED! I guess they figure as long as they can get in the door by 7 pm, they can stay as long as they want.
We get that at the market sometimes, and our doors close at 11 pm. Fortunately, I'm not usually on that late a shift, but I have worked 'til closing a couple of times. And we're open 24/7 during the summer. :-\
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:45:59 AM: Patience, college production.

Mikado, college production, stage managed.

HMS, D'Oily Carte in London, found it too hammy.

And I've got the Papp Pirates on DVD, terrible taping but it gives a good idea of the fun of the staging.
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:49:17 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on April 09, 2006, 06:17:12 AM
I got an email from the director of SEUSSICAL last night about 11 pm. He is having special auditions for the Cat in the Hat in the middle of THE SOUND OF MUSIC auditions today and Monday - because he has to know if the Cat will be cast as a male OR female (I know, I know).
Neutered or spayed, what a decision to have to make!

;D
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 07:30:32 AM: Thanks to all for the good thoughts epecially Francois, you are a dear. I hope you are right about Nilla not remembering. Nothing will change today. The vet will be stopping today while doing his rounds to check on Nilla at the vet hospital, but he's not coming home today. I feel very sad and drained but I have to get everything ready fro my trial tomorrow, so I need to focus. I think I may take a walk....I found out yesterday that all I needed to do was wear my earth shoes and I feel no pain in my feet. At least that's something
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 07:32:53 AM: I had breakfast with Paul this morning. I told him I really didn't need all that to happen right now, while I'm prepping for a trial. He said "So when exactly is a good time to be attacked by a cat?" LOL, he did make me laugh. Sort of like people saying they didn't need to get hit by a tornado today. There never is a good day for that either
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 07:43:57 AM: Good morning!

Gorgeous day out but very chilly. Not supposed to get out of the mid 60s today, but not a cloud in the sky and very bracing to walk around in the cool spring air.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 07:45:16 AM: Last night, DR George wrote:

"I taped but haven't watched last week's "Desperate Housewives." My mom borrowed my tape and hasn't gotten it back to me, yet. If I'm not able to get it tomorrow, I'll have to tape tomorrow night's show and watch it after I get last week's episode. I don't feel that that's the kind of show that can (should) be watched out of sequence."

No sweat! DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES doesn't come on tonight at all (a two hour EXTREME MAKEOVER takes the time slot), so you have some leeway!
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 07:56:38 AM: DR Jennifer, the shock for me was that THumper was in the structure that was demolished. I thought that maybe that was the school bathroom or something innocuous to humiliate him. But these guys don't play the humiliation game when one of their own got killed. It's an eye-for-an-eye with them.

I do think Weivel knew THumper was going to be killed. Whether he knew the method or not isn't important, at least I don't think so.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 07:59:49 AM: I think I'm a little more even tempered today and can watch the heartbreaking BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN to its conclusion (I just couldn't handle that yesterday).

I think I'll put BLONDE VENUS from the Dietrich set to watch. I've had it on laserdisc for a long time, so I'll be anxious to see how they compare.

I think I'd also like to watch the 1969 GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS on laserdisc since there has been talk recently about this musical.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:02:38 AM: Yesterday, a friend and I were talking about THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE, a movie I haven't seen since I saw it at Radio City Music Hall back in the 1960s. My friend had it on laserdisc, but I don't.

Last night, I searched the internet and found the LP soundtrack (which I already have) but not the laserdisc of the movie which I was interested in buying.

Lo and behold, I see that the movie is coming on TCM this week, and I can burn my own DVD copy. Doesn't look like Warners is in any hurry to issue this on DVD. (I'm assuming the MGM film is under their control.)
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:04:01 AM: I'm also going to be able to burn a DVD of LOVELY TO LOOK AT this week since it's also coming on TCM (tomorrow, in fact). I have the restored Technicolor enhanced videotape, but the sound on it is sometimes kind of funky, and the DVD will have much high resolution, so I'm eager to get that done, too.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:07:09 AM: I have that live recording of the Papp PIRATES OF PENZANCE, too. Not because I like the piece, but one suffers through most anything to see Kevin Kline in his true heyday.

Before Brent Barrett assumed the title of WSMA, I think Kevin Kline was right up there among the finalists.
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 08:15:10 AM: Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday was a wilder-than-usual Saturday at work, which is why I didn't have time to log on here. Even my lunch half-hour was cut short. DH Richard met me at the end of my work day and we walked to the restored

Old Court House (http://www.daytonhistory.org/oldcourt.htm)

in downtown Dayton. There we attended the To Kill a Mockingbird gala, the finale to our second annual Big Read. It was quite a sparkling event, with great southern food, presentation of 6 Atticus Finch Quiet Hero Awards (one to a favorite nonprofit client of mine), and, of course, Tequila Mockingbirds to drink (actually a watery Margarita, but fun nonetheless!).
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 08:21:06 AM: DR Cillaliz - I was sorry to read of your cat difficulties last night. Hope it all turns out OK.
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 08:24:05 AM: Today I'm planning to take it easy, maybe watch a DVD or 2, before I have to pick up my mom and her sister at 5pm. We're joining their neighbors on the Otterbein Retirement Community bus to go to Music Hall in Cincinnati for the Pops' celebration of Erich Kunzel's 40th anniversary with them. Guest conductor is Keith Lockhart (on whom my mother has a terrific crush) and guest performer is Faith Prince. Should be a great show!
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:30:29 AM: Heading down now to start laundry and then start lunch preparation.

WBBL.
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 08:48:56 AM: Well, Ginny! Enjoy the concert! sounds like it will be a lot of family girl get-together fun.

I went with my two sisters yesterday to look at slabs o' granite, for my younger sister's kitchen re-do. Gosh, slabs of stone!! I was enthralled. Slice into a mountain, and see eons... it was deeply spiritual for me... my sister's were a little perplexed by my reaction to potential counter tops...

Cillaliz! Sorry about the cat stuff. I am very respectful of cats - I don't really understand them; they are more like lizards or insects than other mammals I've known. An alien life form, revered and approached with great humility. My friend Eva Moon, the singer songwriter, has a song called Ankle Biter about one of her cats.

It's kind of a muted, cloudy day here at Playa Vista. Silence, except for the hummm of certain appliances and the computer. No random voices from the complex - people with day jobs sleep in on Sundays, I'm guessing.

I remember Sundays - my dad played softball and we played in the park, picked those little lawn-daisies, climbed oddly-shaped trees we gave names to - like Bigfoot - while he argued with umpires and focused on the ball. Then, stopped on the way home at the Jewish Bakery to get bagels and rye bread and challah, rugelach and walnut coffee rings for the week - the baker used to hand us those wonderful little butter cookies to keep us quiet. Then to the deli for pickles and smoked cod and lox and a pint of that whipped cream cheese. Then the news stand for the Herald Examiner and the LA Times - about 15 pounds of newspaper, gift-wrapped in Comics!!!

Then brunch and papers on their big bed, with dogs and kids, and fighting over the comics. How did I miss all those details back then? Well, if I can see and smell it all now, I guess I didn't really miss it - I just didn't have a clue, back then, how important the memory would be this Sunday...
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 08:51:02 AM: Good morning, Ben.
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 08:56:13 AM: The ex saved a phone message from New Year's Eve 1990. I found it and played it last week - it was my dad, calling to say Happy New Year - the whole message is just him, singing Auld Lang Syne. The first and only time I ever heard him sing in tune. He actually had a voice. He used to pretend to think music was just for women and fairies - but secretly loved it. Oh, how he enjoyed the family dinners when Grandma would play the piano and we all sang. After he had had a couple of drinks, he would sing with us - his head shaking to the rhythm of his vibrato - never in the same key as the rest of us - transported and happy. He had us as proxies for a lot of his appreciation of beauty.
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 09:05:51 AM: Oh! Speaking of the ex!!! He came into town on Friday night, for an audition on Saturday. Then hopped into the ol' CRX to drive back to Phoenix immediately. Well, the car gets somewhere between 42 and 47 miles per gallon. So he filled it when he left Phoenix on Friday, drove to Agoura Hills to stay at my sister Rikki's place over night, drove to his audition in the morning, then put ONE GALLON of gas in for the drive back.

Chuck, ONE GALLON?? yeah. See, he had 3 one-dollar bills, and a few twenties... instead of breaking a large bill, he just got $3 worth. Oh, okay, I get it. Makes sense, now.

Anyhow, I'm talking to him on the phone, when I left my sister's and headed back to the Marina. He's in the middle of the desert, somewhere between California and Arizona. He suddenly says - there's something strange happening with this car! It's making odd sputtering noises.

And it sputtered for a couple of minutes, and then just stopped. It COULDN'T be outa gas - he had only driven 523 miles, and he HAD just put a whole gallon in. Maybe he had miscalculated! Hahahahahahaaa! At least he laughed about it when I did the math for him (he has always been a bit a-numeric...). So he called 911, and a smokey stopped by, and called a guy, and within half an hour, a truck came with a gallon of gas for him. Only cost him $110.

Chuckie relayed all this info to me laughing, in that sonorous baritone, when he called me back. He used to not have such a sense of humor about life -
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 09:06:23 AM: Hi, Penny! You have lovely memories and express them beautifully.
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 09:07:42 AM: Oooohhhh - time for another cuppa java...
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 09:08:10 AM: Thank you, Gins!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on April 09, 2006, 09:25:03 AM: G'morning, General Unease; Corporal Queasy here. So...what were you doing in the recording studio with Mr. Guy Haines? Recording, yeah, I know...But what? Despite my hopes, it sounded like a one-shot deal and not another album. What was it? What was it for?

And remember: When you tell a story, amourous or gory, you can tell it best, if you gesticulate!
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 09:27:57 AM: hi, pogue!
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Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 09:52:37 AM: We're thinking about issuing the Sondheim benefit from SF on CD. It will all depend on the final edit and sound, but they've gotten it to sound pretty decent from what I've heard, there are a lot of good Sondheim songs, and I wouldn't mind having a Sondheim album on Kritzerland. When Guy did his number "live" he insisted on having balloons, which always seemed to be in front of his face. When you have a head mic and sing into balloons the sound phases out and sounds grotesque, hence we had to replace the vocal. Guy was marching around the room and was able to match what he did vocally during the show.

If I am to be honest (and I am), I don't know that I've ever seen a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta on stage. Maybe I saw a touring version of the Papp Penzance, but that would be it, I'm afraid.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 10:13:43 AM: I'm back from a lovely brunch with DRs Maria, Jose, and his charming friend Andy, and a good time was had by one and all. I am now going to read today's newspapers and perhaps watch that Rosie O'Donnell documentary on HBO. New York is beautiful today, after being quite ugly yesterday. The taxi ride back to the Upper West Side filled me up with love for this City, which I don't always have, and this is my time to chill out for a bit.
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 10:15:49 AM: Elmo - I LOVE noo yawk! A beautiful day in the City is unlike any other beautiful day anywhere else!!! Oh, Happy Sunday!
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 10:22:28 AM: TOD seems to be G&S - I loved the Joe Papp Pirates with Kevin Kline as the Pirate King. Seen a Mikado or two, Pirates in other productions - good and bad - and Pinafore, the score of which I consider perfection, indeed! Seen Yeomen and Ruddigore and Gondoliers. Sang in Iolanthe a couple of times. Sang Mabel and Josephine a few times. Heard some - egad!- Excerpt concerts. LOVE the Mikado performance backdrop to the final scenes of the Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase film, Foul Play!! I am a G&S fan, but not so fanatic as some of my acquaintances! I pay my proper homage in a few chapters in Jewish Thighs.
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 10:40:38 AM: G & S: My intro was attending productions of the Ann Arbor (MI) G & S Society when I was a student. The ones I remember were Pirates of Penzance and Princess Ida.

In my community theater days here in Middletown, I got to be a bridesmaid in Trial by Jury, directed by our very own DR Elmore. It was so-o-o-o much fun!

The now-dormant Sorg Opera Company here in town did HMS Pinafore and The Mikado, which DH Richard and I enjoyed.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 10:41:15 AM: Out of bed at last. A bit mopy...and not looking forward to the wrangle with IRS and California tax forms. But...whachagonnado!

I've been enjoying the USA Network promos for their upcoming airings of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The first promo is hysterical inasmuch as it shows how many falls, plunges, knockdowns, attacks Frodo endures....a whole lot...and that's just in the first movie.

The outro line:

"'It sucks being Frodo'....all next week.'

:D
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 10:46:32 AM: Cillaliz, at first I thought Nilla had already had the surgery and was having a reaction to the anesthetic. This is very strange behavior and I agree, something is wrong with him.

After reading your second description of his behavior I agree he was just trying to convey something is wrong and not to hurt you.

Good vibes all is well when he returns-it should be, or if not immediately, it will be.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 10:55:30 AM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 07:32:53 AM
I had breakfast with Paul this morning. I told him I really didn't need all that to happen right now, while I'm prepping for a trial. He said "So when exactly is a good time to be attacked by a cat?" LOL, he did make me laugh. Sort of like people saying they didn't need to get hit by a tornado today. There never is a good day for that either

I've just caught up and GOLLY!

I had a kitten who acted in a similar way once...although with differences. He was hissing and pooping and peeing and throwing a fit and hiding from me because I was trying to get him and hold him....and -- after about 10 minutes -- suddenly just snapped out of it and looked around as if to say, "What was that?"

After I thought about it for a while, I realized it was shock. Earlier that afternoon, my kitty had encountered -- for the first time -- a much bigger cat in our yard. My little "Dickens" was the master of his domain and tried to defend his turf. I'm positive the other cat, a bit startled, just swatted him away. Dickens was ready to come in when I went out to investigate his cat-erwauling.

It was suppertime, anyway, so I put out a dish of food...and several minutes later, his little "hissing fit" started. I'm thinking he was reliving it in his little head and possibly thinking of what he "might" have done.

Once he snapped out of it, though, he was fine...and ready for lots of schmoozing and cuddling and an early bedtime.

I'm thinking that your Nilla, Cillaliz, must have been enduring some sort of trauma...and that the dental pain is probably what sent Nilla over the edge.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 10:56:41 AM: I also had a cat bite once. Finger swelled up to more than twice its size...I was hospitalized and put on IV for several days. When that didn't work, the finger was cut open and cleaned out. I was bitten on a Sunday afternoon and didn't seek help until the next morning. BIG mistake. Doctor told me the first thing I should have done was to take a bottle of saline solution (the kind you use for contact lenses) and direct the stream into the bite....and to use the whole bottle to ensure the wound was cleaned out...and THEN get to a doctor to make sure.

Cat bites are exceedingly dangerous. Seek medical attention immediately.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 11:05:33 AM: DR Penny, lovely memories...

DR Elmore, it sounds like you had a lovely brunch with Maria and Jose. Glad it is lovely day in NYC...

We may actually approach 70 here today..
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 11:07:44 AM: Penny, my Sunday memories changed over the years. The ones yours triggered are slightly reversed, reading the comics in bed before going to the bakery and deli with my father. He always let me have extra treats at the bakery but I had to wait until dessert for the halvah. Brunch was a big affair eaten around the dinning table-mustn’t leave out my mother’s perfect scrambled eggs. After the dishes were done my mother stayed home while the rest of us walked to the tennis courts at Rancho Park. How we could play tennis after all that food amazes me.
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 11:10:06 AM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 10:56:41 AM

Cat bites are exceedingly dangerous. Seek medical attention immediately.

Any bite is and the hand is especially prone to infections from bites.
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 11:10:27 AM: DakotaCelt enjoyed the pictures (my favorite might be the small “cute” one, not that I would call it cute.) but the Van Gogh one is creepy. ;D
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:20:50 AM: Thanks again for the advice on Nilla. I am feeling pretty down and worried about it. I drove past the vet hospital hoping I may catch the vet doing his rounds, but no such luck so I went to Dairy Queen

I'm really afraid nilla has something fairly serious wrong. He had an elevated creatinine level last time he had teeth removed which is a sign of kidney problems. I've been doing some research and he is having several other symptoms of kidney disease. They had planned to a thorough blood level check before surgery, so I'm sure they will. I'm just being a worried Mom today.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:22:36 AM: Nilla didn't bite me, but I'm on pretty strong antibiotics because i was having some of the same symptoms as my niece, who we later discovered has a form of pneumonia that is contageous and not viral. So luckily, even before they told me I could catch this, I went to the doc and he gave me the same antibiotics she's on
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:23:58 AM: Actually the only scratch I got out of the whole deal, I think came from the carrier and not from him.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:25:31 AM: Well, thanks again. I was pretty upset a little while ago, but after doing research and reading the posts here, I know I did the right thing getting him to the vet hospital and having him stay there until they can find out if this has a medical origin.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:26:08 AM: Dakota - how long are the buffalo roaming?
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 11:26:37 AM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:20:50 AM
Thanks again for the advice on Nilla. I am feeling pretty down and worried about it. I drove past the vet hospital hoping I may catch the vet doing his rounds, but no such luck so I went to Dairy Queen

DR Cillaliz - You should be wearing my sweatshirt that says, "There's nothing wrong with me that a little ice cream won't fix."

That's my not-so-new philosophy.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:29:33 AM: Quote from: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 11:26:37 AM
DR Cillaliz - You should be wearing my sweatshirt that says, "There's nothing wrong with me that a little ice cream won't fix."

That's my not-so-new philosophy.

LOL I have that t-shirt!!! I got it at the Ice Cream Capital of the World
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:49:55 AM: Ok, no more cat talk for awhile. I'm feeling better about this. Besides, they gave him a shot of pain killers and he's probably sleeping like a baby and has forgotten the whole ordeal. Back to trial prep....the show must go on
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 11:53:45 AM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:29:33 AM
LOL I have that t-shirt!!! I got it at the Ice Cream Capital of the World

LOL - We should wear them together in NYC and go to Ben & Jerry's on 8th Ave. - or some other ice cream place that I'm sure DR Jose could recommend!

Oh, and now we'll have to go back to The Today Show to see Meredith and Matt.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 11:58:25 AM: Quote from: Jane on April 09, 2006, 11:10:27 AM
DakotaCelt enjoyed the pictures (my favorite might be the small “cute” one, not that I would call it cute.) but the Van Gogh one is creepy. ;D

I also found the Van Gogh one ot be rather creepy...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 12:01:05 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:26:08 AM
Dakota - how long are the buffalo roaming?

Through the summer.... I think they go on display in May. I will need to double check that. I see the site has not been updated since the end of February.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 12:02:00 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 11:49:55 AM
Ok, no more cat talk for awhile. I'm feeling better about this. Besides, they gave him a shot of pain killers and he's probably sleeping like a baby and has forgotten the whole ordeal. Back to trial prep....the show must go on

(( hugs ))
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 12:08:44 PM: Quote from: Jennifer on April 09, 2006, 05:55:32 AM
DR George, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is not on tonight. They have a 2 hour Extreme Home/makeover show on instead.
I realized this just a little earlier, when I went to check on what I wanted to watch tonight. Thanks. :)

Quote from: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 07:45:16 AM
No sweat! DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES doesn't come on tonight at all (a two hour EXTREME MAKEOVER takes the time slot), so you have some leeway!
And thanks, too!
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 12:09:57 PM: ~~~Continued Cat Vibage for Cillaliz!!~~~
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 12:14:24 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 06:25:27 AM
JRand, the Cat in the Hat is male.

David Shiner played the role on Broadway and Cathy Rigby played it on tour. It looks like local productions have the option of casting either a man or woman (one of the few times where that is an option), but need to get the score in the right keys.
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 12:17:06 PM: Quote from: bk on April 09, 2006, 09:52:37 AM
We're thinking about issuing the Sondheim benefit from SF on CD. It will all depend on the final edit and sound, but they've gotten it to sound pretty decent from what I've heard, there are a lot of good Sondheim songs, and I wouldn't mind having a Sondheim album on Kritzerland. When Guy did his number "live" he insisted on having balloons, which always seemed to be in front of his face. When you have a head mic and sing into balloons the sound phases out and sounds grotesque, hence we had to replace the vocal. Guy was marching around the room and was able to match what he did vocally during the show.

I certainly would love to have a Sondheim CD from Kritzerland!
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 12:19:56 PM: Tonight the competition heats up on the Next Food Network Star. After laughing about this when I first heard it was going to be on, I've found I really enjoy it
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 12:20:49 PM: Thanks DR George
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 12:49:21 PM: DR George - your Wicked theater party with co-workers sounds like fun. Your library must have a completely different "corporate culture" than mine - I can't imagine anything like that materializing among my co-workers. In fact, when someone mentions corporate culture, I say, "We have none."

Anyway, you'll probably see the same Wicked company we saw last month in Cincinnati. It was outstanding!
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 01:06:58 PM: Quote from: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 11:53:45 AM
LOL - We should wear them together in NYC and go to Ben & Jerry's on 8th Ave. - or some other ice cream place that I'm sure DR Jose could recommend!

I want one too and we can wear them to Carvel's-I don't need Jose's advice for this one. :)

Keith says ice cream is one of the five main food groups.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:15:16 PM: Good afternoon!

Stunningly blue skies continue to be ours, and it seems a bit warmer than the 65 they said it would be today. Haven't taken a walk yet but may later. I've been watching/recording videos all day.
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 01:15:39 PM: Quote from: Jane on April 09, 2006, 01:06:58 PM
I want one too and we can wear them to Carvel's-I don't need Jose's advice for this one. :)

Keith says ice cream is one of the five main food groups.

What are the other four?
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Post by: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 01:16:47 PM: In honor of page 4, I need to dance out of here to pick up my mom and my aunt.

Bye for now.
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 01:19:21 PM: Quote from: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 01:15:39 PM
What are the other four?

popcorn
brussel sprouts
peanut butter
tofu
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:21:21 PM: I started the afternoon with the HBO documentary detailing the Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell cruise for families and friends of gay folk. Surprisingly moving in many spots, and one can understand how special these people feel surrounded by love and support and nonjudgmental people. When they reach Nassau where a couple of churches are staging very ugly gay protest rallies, the idyll of the cruise is shattered momentarily by rank hatred and prejudice. Still, I quite enjoyed the ninety minutes.

DR George, the DVD was dubbed while I watched, and it's set to go out into the mail to you tomorrow.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:27:53 PM: Next, I watched the musical version of GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS on laserdisc.

This has to be the weirdest photography ever for a big budget roadshow musical. I can understand how the screen goes to soft focus in MAME when Lucy Ball has a close-up; they were trying to disguise her true age. But unless this is just a miserable laserdisc transfer (and parts of it are stunningly colorful and crisp) isolated scenes are washed out and soft, and I don't just think it's a bad print used for the transfer. It looks like the focus of the photography was softened, but I can't figure out any reason why particular shots were done that way and not entire sequences. It seems like haphazard decisions were being made on the fly. Of course, I've never thought Herb Ross was that great a director anyway.

This isn't the first time I watched this laserdisc, but it's the first time on the bigger screen TV, and I guess that's why I noticed it this time and not the other dozen times I've watched the film.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:31:15 PM: Since I had about 20 minutes left before getting on-line, I put in another widescreen movie I hadn't watched on the bigger screen TV - HOW THE WEST WAS WON.

Imagine my astonishment to note that this DVD was NOT enhanced for widescreen TVs! Wonder why I had never noticed that before? Big, big disappointment about that. This is a film desperately in need of a new DVD transfer. The print they used was very dirty, so there are spots and speckles all over the place. And the sound is only Dolby Prologic which also deserves a much fuller sound design for DVD.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:32:16 PM: Right now, I'm dubbing over the Margaret O'Brien version of THE SECRET GARDEN to a DVD. Only saw it recently and rather liked it, so I get it oin the DVR this morning and am duping it as I type.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 01:46:26 PM: What a relief! I discovered 3 business suits that fit me. Now I know I'll be ready for the trial. Everything has gone casual for day to day businessm so I normally wear a jacket and pants (and shirt and shoes) to court. But I think jurors expect a suit. So tomorrow I shall be suited.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 01:47:38 PM: It's a cloudy but not bad day here. Looks pretty breezy. I haven't been out since the ice cream this noon. I'm thinking I don't want to cook tonight, but since I don't have much of an appetite, not sure what to eat
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 01:49:18 PM: I don't know why I have "Home on the Range" running through my head. But growing up I always thought "where seldom is heard a discouraging word" meant that on the range the word seldom was considered to be discouraging.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 01:50:32 PM: Oh lets make it 100 posts
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 01:50:53 PM: Hi elmore, how are you today?
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Post by: MBarnum on April 09, 2006, 01:55:02 PM: DR Cillaliz,

I am so sorry about the scary time with Nilla! Good vibes being sent that it is nothing serious.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:56:05 PM: Heading down now to get started cleaning the hall bath.

WBBL.
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Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 01:58:35 PM: Cillaliz, good trial vibes!
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Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 02:18:13 PM: Have written two pages, jogged, and am now going to help Miss Tammy Minoff with a project.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 02:27:06 PM: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Damn TAXES!

Sigh.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 02:27:35 PM: Quote from: bk on April 09, 2006, 02:18:13 PM
Have written two pages, jogged, and am now going to help Miss Tammy Minoff with a project.

Has the sense of "unease" abated?
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Post by: FJL on April 09, 2006, 02:28:38 PM: Tax season is drawing to a close, with this being the next to last working weekend for many months. The timing of the holidays is particularly bad this year, with the Orthodox Jewish co-worker with whom I share a workload being out Wednesday, Thursday and Friday because of the main holy days of Passover and then also on Saturday because it's Sabbath. And many people will be taking off Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
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Post by: FJL on April 09, 2006, 02:38:52 PM: Skip's off to see CARNIVAL! at Paper Mill tonight. I saw it on Thursday night, but we tend not to do this kind of road trip together because of our preference not to leave the dogs alone for the seven hours or so such a trip takes as a whole. Despite tax season, or perhaps because of it, I've still gotten to see a good deal of theater this past week.

Went to see our dear neighbor Yolande Bavan in BERNARDA ALBA at Lincoln Center on Friday night, and she's still got everything she had so many years ago as a singer and performer; plus by happy coincidence another dear neighbor Bertilla Baker happened to be going on in one of the other roles that night, so we cabbed home with Yolande and Bertilla, and had a lovely late-night drink at Le Madeleine with Yolande.
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Post by: FJL on April 09, 2006, 02:40:42 PM: Cillaliz, wishing you all the best both for the trial and for Nilla.
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 09, 2006, 03:05:29 PM: Quote from: George on April 09, 2006, 12:14:24 PM
David Shiner played the role on Broadway and Cathy Rigby played it on tour. It looks like local productions have the option of casting either a man or woman (one of the few times where that is an option), but need to get the score in the right keys.
Cathy played it on Broadway too as did Rosie!
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 09, 2006, 03:14:40 PM: G & S.
Patience is my favourite of the ones I have seen.
I've seen professional productions of Patience, Pirates and Pinafore. I've seen non professional productions of Pinafore and Pirates too

I saw the "Black Mikado" in London many years ago (mid 70's) and remember it as being fun. I've not really enjoyed Mikado much otherwise.

I have Pinafore and Jury on DVD (The Anthony Warlow versions) but have as yet not watched them. I also have the video of Pirates (with Linda & Kevin) and the DVD of the stage show.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 03:32:21 PM: Thanks FJL, MBarnum and Jane. I'm feeling much better.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:50:33 PM: Taxes done for another year!

:P :P :P :( :( :( >:( >:( >:( :-\ :-\ :-\
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 03:50:52 PM: Sigh.
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Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 04:01:13 PM: Cil! What's your case??? Are you allowed to tell???
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 04:12:06 PM: Quote from: Ginny on April 09, 2006, 12:49:21 PM
DR George - your Wicked theater party with co-workers sounds like fun. Your library must have a completely different "corporate culture" than mine - I can't imagine anything like that materializing among my co-workers. In fact, when someone mentions corporate culture, I say, "We have none."

Anyway, you'll probably see the same Wicked company we saw last month in Cincinnati. It was outstanding!

I can't wait! But I must...it's not coming until September.
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 04:24:26 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 01:21:21 PM
I started the afternoon with the HBO documentary detailing the Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell cruise for families and friends of gay folk. Surprisingly moving in many spots, and one can understand how special these people feel surrounded by love and support and nonjudgmental people. When they reach Nassau where a couple of churches are staging very ugly gay protest rallies, the idyll of the cruise is shattered momentarily by rank hatred and prejudice. Still, I quite enjoyed the ninety minutes.

DR George, the DVD was dubbed while I watched, and it's set to go out into the mail to you tomorrow.

Again, Thanks!! ;D I saw a clip of Rosie on "Good Morning America," talking about that incident. She said that Kelli (her wife) advised her not to get off the boat. Also on the cruise was Malcolm X's eldest daughter, who Rosie knows, and she went and spoke on Rosie's behalf in support of the cruise and (I'm guessing) gay people/parents.
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Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 04:26:42 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on April 09, 2006, 03:05:29 PM
Cathy played it on Broadway too as did Rosie!

True! Very true! :D

I saw the national tour with Cathy Rigby and thoroughly enjoyed it. ;D
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:27:17 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 06:25:27 AM
JRand, the Cat in the Hat is male.

I know about Rosie O'Donnell's sexual orientation but... hasn't she played the part, and, to my knowledge, isn't she still a woman? :D
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:28:06 PM: Gesticulate?

Oh... a Kismet reference!
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:28:54 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 06:32:49 AM
DRJRand55, the other day I was unable to post a photo as well. I think it's the ozone.

The system won't accept cheap porn pics!! :o ;)
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:33:47 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 07:59:49 AM
I think I'm a little more even tempered today and can watch the heartbreaking BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN to its conclusion (I just couldn't handle that yesterday).

I think I'll put BLONDE VENUS from the Dietrich set to watch. I've had it on laserdisc for a long time, so I'll be anxious to see how they compare.

I think I'd also like to watch the 1969 GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS on laserdisc since there has been talk recently about this musical.

You should see ALL the French chats that have been created dealing with Brokeback Mountain: that movie has moved quite a lot of people the world over! I did not know that a movie could affect so much still in our days and times!
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 04:34:30 PM: Quote from: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 04:01:13 PM
Cil! What's your case??? Are you allowed to tell???

Sure, my client is charged with conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine or over 50 grams of pure methamphetamine and possession with intent to deliver 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine. Both counts carry a minimum of 10 years, but with the quantities involved, it's more like 20-25 years.

The government claims my client did a hand to hand sale with a snitch under surveillance, had an apartment rented in his name where meth was cut with MSM and then sold (no furniture there, just the stuff for the drugs - oh yeah, and my client's fingerprint on the bag containing drugs) and that he was having people make trips back and forth to california for him to bring in pounds of meth.

Let's just say this is one of those cases that my client is getting his right to a jury trial because he wants a jury trial. I'm not expected to win, which actually makes it more fun for me. I can be creative, go out on a limb and really try to stir things up. I've won some that way and lost some that way. If I win, I'm pulling a rabbit out of my hat. If I lose, well it's what people thought would happen. The pressure is on the government because this is considered a slam dunk for them. There is no pressure on me and I really do have some legitimate things to argue about. Maybe enough to create doubt, not sure....I'll find out in the next couple days.
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:45:33 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on April 09, 2006, 03:05:29 PM
Cathy played it on Broadway too as did Rosie!

Oops! Sorry I came in too late! :-\
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:48:30 PM: Cill! New page!

Shall we dance?
Let's do some entre-chats?! LOL!
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Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 04:49:18 PM: I'm waiting for some always witty puns from FLJ!
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Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 04:51:47 PM: Yes, the sense of unease has abated somewhat. Part of the sense of unease is of my own making, and I just have to stop doing it.

Tammy had to put herself on tape for some film audition (the people are in NY), so she came here and I did that for her, as well as directing her - she did well, and I think the tape is good. I'm not sure she's the type they're going to be looking for, but she spoke the lines well and her characterization was good.

I'm now officially starving and am trying to figure out what to eat.
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 04:57:07 PM: Quote from: François on April 09, 2006, 04:48:30 PM

Cill! New page!

Shall we dance?
Let's do some entre-chats?! LOL!

Would love to dance, but I need to watch the Next Food Network Star. Of course I could be that. I dance and cook at the same time...wouldn't that be a fun new show
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 04:58:10 PM: I'll be back. I need to get away from the computer or I'll never get anything else done today!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 05:01:50 PM: Quote from: George on April 09, 2006, 04:24:26 PM
;D I saw a clip of Rosie on "Good Morning America," talking about that incident. She said that Kelli (her wife) advised her not to get off the boat. Also on the cruise was Malcolm X's eldest daughter, who Rosie knows, and she went and spoke on Rosie's behalf in support of the cruise and (I'm guessing) gay people/parents.

Nice to know about Malcolm X's daughter. I hope the people listened to her.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 05:06:58 PM: Cillaliz, very interesting & thank you for sharing.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 05:10:38 PM: Quote from: François on April 09, 2006, 04:49:18 PM

I waiting for some always witty puns from FLJ!

Well, FLJ has left the room so I need to do some more waiting I guess!

"Waiting, Waiting!"... Oh.... a King & I reference!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 05:20:34 PM: Very short staffed tonight and lots to do... I have two student workers that did not show up for their shifts... Needless to say I am not thrilled...
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 05:22:24 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 01:46:26 PM
What a relief! I discovered 3 business suits that fit me. Now I know I'll be ready for the trial. Everything has gone casual for day to day businessm so I normally wear a jacket and pants (and shirt and shoes) to court. But I think jurors expect a suit. So tomorrow I shall be suited.

You have a very good point. The work place has gotten very casual. I can wear jeans to work and sometimes I do if I am doing shifting or a lot of lifting but I try to dress nicely.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 05:24:34 PM: Quote from: Jane on April 09, 2006, 01:06:58 PM
I want one too and we can wear them to Carvel's-I don't need Jose's advice for this one. :)

Keith says ice cream is one of the five main food groups.

AS is Chocolate!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 05:25:50 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 02:27:06 PM
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Damn TAXES!

Sigh.

I send you good luck vibes Ron!!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 05:28:21 PM: Quote from: bk on April 09, 2006, 04:51:47 PM
Yes, the sense of unease has abated somewhat. Part of the sense of unease is of my own making, and I just have to stop doing it.

Tammy had to put herself on tape for some film audition (the people are in NY), so she came here and I did that for her, as well as directing her - she did well, and I think the tape is good. I'm not sure she's the type they're going to be looking for, but she spoke the lines well and her characterization was good.

I'm now officially starving and am trying to figure out what to eat.

I wish Tammy well with her audition....
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 05:28:58 PM: Good luck with the case Cilla.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jane on April 09, 2006, 05:30:47 PM: I’m having soup for dinner, it feels so good. All day I have been drinking tea, eating watermelon and taking Cold Eeze (zinc lozenges).

While it is never fun to be sick, Tuesday night would have been far more convenient-I have activities the next two days which can’t be cancelled. For one I need to bake goodies & prepare to host & lead my book discussion group which will meet here on Tuesday morning. It should be a fun activity not a chore.

In the larger scheme of things this is a minor disappointment, nothing compared to what Cillaliz when through……..still it’s a pain. ;D
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: FJL on April 09, 2006, 05:40:59 PM: SHAKIN' AND BAKIN' - that's the title of the pilot for Cillaliz's cooking and dancing show, the show where disco meets Crisco
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: FJL on April 09, 2006, 05:43:41 PM: Or where cha-cha meets focaccia

Or tango meets mango, for a fruit-themed episode
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: FJL on April 09, 2006, 05:46:52 PM: MOVE YOUR CANS TO THE MUSIC - the show where the contestants do routines while cooking stuff that's been sitting in the cupboard.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 05:49:16 PM: Please send good vibes out Arizona way. Our newest church member (one who walked in the first day we opened) was trimming a palm tree and fell out of the tree. He was complaining to the paramedics of back pain -- at least he has feeling.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 05:49:50 PM: Any of you theater-tech people --

Do you know how to make a cave?
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 05:59:15 PM: I've never built or designed a set, but probably with chicken wire and papier-mâché.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:11:04 PM: Quote from: FJL on April 09, 2006, 05:43:41 PM
Or where cha-cha meets focaccia

Or tango meets mango, for a fruit-themed episode

I'm tempted to say

"Last Tango Meets Parisian Margarine" but this being a family site....... :D
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 06:11:31 PM: THat would be my guess also George...
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:12:27 PM: Quote from: George on April 09, 2006, 05:59:15 PM
I've never built or designed a set, but probably with chicken wire and papier-mâché.

I don't mind the papier, it's the mâché that hurts!
"Have a bite!" Oh a Snow White (paper) référence! Mais oui! ;)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:15:43 PM: Quote from: George on April 09, 2006, 05:59:15 PM
I've never built or designed a set, but probably with chicken wire and papier-mâché.

With Tuppence of Paper-Mâché and Strings
You Can Have Your Own Set Of Chicken Wings!

(Oh.... a M.P. reference! Mâché Papier? ;))
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:16:11 PM: Step In Time Dance!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:17:23 PM: Der Brucer and I may have an announcement to make tomorrow.

:o
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:17:39 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 05:49:50 PM
Any of you theater-tech people --

Do you know how to make a cave?

I don't know a hole lot about it, nope! ;)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:18:21 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:17:23 PM
Der Brucer and I may have an announcement to make tomorrow.

:o

The sun will come out?! ;D
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 06:21:59 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 05:49:16 PM
Please send good vibes out Arizona way. Our newest church member (one who walked in the first day we opened) was trimming a palm tree and fell out of the tree. He was complaining to the paramedics of back pain -- at least he has feeling.

Trimming a Palm Tree on Palms Day???!

French Horn and vibes to Arizona^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: George on April 09, 2006, 06:24:11 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:17:23 PM
Der Brucer and I may have an announcement to make tomorrow.

:o

I hope it's good news! :-\
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 07:06:43 PM: Vibes to the Palm Tree guy in AZ
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 07:08:44 PM: Have no idea how to make a cave, other than covering a car table with a blanket
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 07:16:17 PM: I've just spent a lovely evening at "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," courtesy of our wonderfully generous and kind DRWilliamFOrr and his handsome everlovin' Joe. DR Ben made up the fourth of our party and DR Jose and his friend Andy also showed up. I don't know homw many DRs have seen the show, but it's quite delightrful: very funny and full of heart and humanity, I've always liked Bill Finn socially but I haven't been a fan of his work; I loved everything about this show, and I thought Bill's work was quite wonderful.

I've just packed my bag for an emergency flight tomorrow to Ohio, if I have to make the trip, and I plan to spend the first couple of hours tomorrow morning here by the phone. My father's surgery is scheduled for 7 am. I will chill out now and read a bit of my new book on Mozart's operas. As I think positively about tomorrow.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 07:22:42 PM: DR LAURA - Palm Sunday vibes for your church member. ;D

Try this link - these people do nice work.

http://www.foamtecinc.com/ (http://www.foamtecinc.com/)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 07:24:31 PM: Positive thoughts for DRELMORE who is heading my way....but not quite all the way.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 07:24:52 PM: Thanks for the vibes, folks. I haven't heard anything yet.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 07:25:21 PM: Sondheim release on Kritzerland label sounds nifty to me.

As Lauren Bacall just said on television: The great thing about a bear trap is that you don't have to catch a lot of them...you just need to catch one BIG bear.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Ben on April 09, 2006, 07:28:16 PM: Good evening to you all. I had a wonderful evening with Dear Elmore. (hugs and best wishes to your father), WFO, Joe and Jose. It was an unexpected pleasure and I thank William for the kind thought of a ticket for me.

I must get to bed. It's 10:25 and I have to be at work tomorrow. I have a big presentation to make in two weeks and I'm working on it right now. It's more a re-working of an old PowerPoint presentation showing some new staff how to do what it is we do but replacing some of those PP slides can be a pain in the butt so I need to be alert and alive tomorrow.

Hello, Dear François, I wish I was spending April in Paris (there's a song cue if I ever heard one :-)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 07:31:46 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on April 09, 2006, 06:17:23 PM
Der Brucer and I may have an announcement to make tomorrow.

:o

MORE puppies?? Adding ponies? Donkeys? (Love them little donkeys...) No, wait... you're moving to LA!!! WITH the puppies, ponies, donkeys! oooohhh, the suspense!!!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 07:34:03 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on April 09, 2006, 07:16:17 PM

I've just packed my bag for an emergency flight tomorrow to Ohio, if I have to make the trip, and I plan to spend the first couple of hours tomorrow morning here by the phone. My father's surgery is scheduled for 7 am. I will chill out now and read a bit of my new book on Mozart's operas. As I think positively about tomorrow.

Oh, honey, my best kindest thoughts your way. Peace to you and yours.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 07:36:03 PM: Y'all see what I mean about my tech challenges... see above. Oy.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 07:38:56 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 04:34:30 PM
The government claims my client did a hand to hand sale with a snitch under surveillance, had an apartment rented in his name where meth was cut with MSM and then sold (no furniture there, just the stuff for the drugs - oh yeah, and my client's fingerprint on the bag containing drugs) and that he was having people make trips back and forth to california for him to bring in pounds of meth.

Let's just say this is one of those cases that my client is getting his right to a jury trial because he wants a jury trial. I'm not expected to win, which actually makes it more fun for me. I can be creative, go out on a limb and really try to stir things up. I've won some that way and lost some that way. If I win, I'm pulling a rabbit out of my hat. If I lose, well it's what people thought would happen. The pressure is on the government because this is considered a slam dunk for them. There is no pressure on me and I really do have some legitimate things to argue about. Maybe enough to create doubt, not sure....I'll find out in the next couple days.

Wow! Makes G&S sound so - ummm... well, SILLY!! Good luck! Have a blast, kiddo!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 07:42:06 PM: Went and had a lovely Taco Bell feast, then turned on Hands Across The Table and promplty fell asleep.

Will now try to brave Narnia.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 07:42:54 PM: Vibes to DR Elmore's father!! I hope all goes well....
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 07:45:20 PM: Quote from: Ben on April 09, 2006, 07:28:16 PM
Good evening to you all. I had a wonderful evening with Dear Elmore. (hugs and best wishes to your father), WFO, Joe and Jose. It was an unexpected pleasure and I thank William for the kind thought of a ticket for me.

I must get to bed. It's 10:25 and I have to be at work tomorrow. I have a big presentation to make in two weeks and I'm working on it right now. It's more a re-working of an old PowerPoint presentation showing some new staff how to do what it is we do but replacing some of those PP slides can be a pain in the butt so I need to be alert and alive tomorrow.

Hello, Dear François, I wish I was spending April in Paris (there's a song cue if I ever heard one :-)

Hello, Ben!

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...

Today was the Paris Marathon... and while they ran I slept!
It's 4:45 am right now and I have 2 radiators working full blast next to me!
Of course the runners now sleep but I am NOT running... just my nose is... (Sorry!)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 07:47:28 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 07:24:52 PM
Thanks for the vibes, folks. I haven't heard anything yet.

Well, I've been blowing my French Horn hard though! ;)

(Gee! I'm sort of "glad" TCB can't "get" me for this one!! :D)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 07:51:34 PM: Quote from: Ben on April 09, 2006, 07:28:16 PM
It's more a re-working of an old PowerPoint presentation showing some new staff how to do what it is we do but replacing some of those PP slides can be a pain in the butt

"PP Slides Can Be A Pain In The Butt"

next title of my book of poetry! ;D
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 07:56:57 PM: Quote from: bk on April 09, 2006, 07:42:06 PM
Went and had a lovely Taco Bell feast, then turned on Hands Across The Table and promplty fell asleep.

Will now try to brave Narnia.

Better than having a lovely Taco Fell Beast!! ;)

Good luck with NARNIA: Narnia gave me a hernia! :-\
And that Snow Queen left me totally... cold!
The kids, most of the time, are left without any direction at all, and only the youngest one acts well!

But then what do I know.... me and my tacky titled book of poetry! ;)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 07:57:57 PM: Like that song: Hands Across The Table!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 07:59:00 PM: Well, SAY something! I won't bite!
I'm not Cillaliz's cat you know!

Meow!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Jrand73 on April 09, 2006, 08:03:06 PM: Miss Blue Moon is asleep in her brand new dog house in her brand new run in the back yard. She is very interested in the neighborhood.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 08:07:33 PM: Hands across the table,
While the lights are low,
Though you hush your lips,
Your finger tips
Tell me all I want to know.
Hands across the table,
Meet so tenderly,
And they say,
In their little way,
That you belong to me.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:10:57 PM: I did finsh BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN early this evening. Wept as before, perhaps a little more quietly this time. It is still a very moving piece of filmmaking.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: François de Paris on April 09, 2006, 08:13:08 PM: Blue moon

You saw me standing alone (In My Dog House!)

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Blue moon

You know just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms will hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me

And when I looked to the moon it turned to gold

(Don't I love Your Neighbourhood???!!!)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:13:52 PM: I aw the first 20 minutes of NARNIA at my friends' house on Friday afternoon. Of course, I actually got glimpses of it while hearing occasionally more information about their breakup, so to say I was distracted while watching is an understatement.

I'll have to find a used copy and try it again here.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:15:29 PM: I assume the Masters Golf Tournament ran long since COLD CASE was delayed from its 8 p.m. starting time. So, I put CAPOTE back into the player and started watching it all over again. Such an interesting film.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:16:37 PM: I watched LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT in the 9 p.m. hour. Alice Kriege and Julian Sands were the primary guest stars this week, and it was a pretty interesting case.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:19:12 PM: And then finished my evening's viewing with CROSSING JORDAN. Again, not the most compelling case they were investigating. More interesting was the subplot involving Jordan trying to become a foster parent.

My viewing was somewhat spoiled by the idiots at the local NBC affiliate forgetting to kick over to high definition once the first set of commercials was finished. They will be getting an e-mail from me about that.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:35:17 PM: Guess I'm off to bed now. Need to try to get more than 6 hours of sleep for a change.

Good night!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 09:01:02 PM: Quote from: PennyO on April 09, 2006, 07:38:56 PM
Wow! Makes G&S sound so - ummm... well, SILLY!! Good luck! Have a blast, kiddo!

Which is precisely why I love books, theatre and film....it isn't real life. It may mirror or explain things that happen in real life, but it's a world of its own - delightful, silly tragic, scary whatever you want and when it's over, barring something tragic, the audience, the cast and crew go back to their lives, hopefully changed a little, but even if it's REALLY bad, no one goes to jail...well not for the quality of the show anyway ;)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 09:03:43 PM: Quote from: François on April 09, 2006, 08:13:08 PM
Blue moon

You saw me standing alone (In My Dog House!)

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Blue moon

You know just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms will hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me

And when I looked to the moon it turned to gold

(Don't I love Your Neighbourhood???!!!)

Hoooooooooooow! (Blue Moon howling at Blue Moon)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Cillaliz on April 09, 2006, 09:04:04 PM: DR Elmore - vibes to your dad and safe travels
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 09:29:09 PM: Quote from: JRand55 on April 09, 2006, 08:03:06 PM
Miss Blue Moon is asleep in her brand new dog house in her brand new run in the back yard. She is very interested in the neighborhood.

WHat kind of dog is she?
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 09:30:28 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on April 09, 2006, 08:10:57 PM
I did finsh BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN early this evening. Wept as before, perhaps a little more quietly this time. It is still a very moving piece of filmmaking.

Sadly I wont get to entertainment movies until after the semester ends in about a month, but I will add it to mylist.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 09:32:40 PM: Quote from: François on April 09, 2006, 08:13:08 PM
Blue moon

You saw me standing alone (In My Dog House!)

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Blue moon

You know just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms will hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me

And when I looked to the moon it turned to gold

(Don't I love Your Neighbourhood???!!!)

HOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(http://www.sellshareandexchange.com/artads/imagesart/howling.jpg)
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DakotaCelt on April 09, 2006, 09:34:05 PM: I also enjoy books, music and theatre... I am also love history and learning about different cultures.

I am also fascinated with popular culture.... Not sure why but I am curoius as to why people do somethings and try somethings..
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 09:48:18 PM: My very best wishes to Larry and his family in the successful surgery and quick recovery of his father.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 09:50:09 PM: Today, in addition to taxes, I managed to strip my bed, flip my mattress and remake the bed. I also washed sheets and clothes and pillows and dried all...only just finishing after having started around noon.

There was a lull or two when I forgot what I was doing, like the couple of hours I spend on taxes.

But it feels good knowing I have a freshly turned mattress and clean sheets/pillows to sleep upon!
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 09:52:53 PM: I don't know whether to now pop another DVD into my player or just watch reruns of CSI....

I could have gone to bed one hour ago, but I'm now alert and wide-eyed.

Oh, well.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 09, 2006, 09:54:27 PM: Does anyone else think this weekend passed by too quickly?

Where did it all go?

There's so much I still want to do.

Drat!

I'm off now. Ta-ta till the morrow...
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: DearReaderLaura on April 09, 2006, 10:23:09 PM: Good vibes to Elmore and Mr. Elmore Sr!

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Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 11:20:02 PM: Everything passes so quickly these days.
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 11:20:20 PM: My goodness, that was profoundly profound, wasn't it?
Title: Re:GENERAL UNEASE
Post by: bk on April 09, 2006, 11:20:52 PM: I'm trying to get in the mood to write the notes. Moooood.