And now - Dino at the piano.Oh, I did! And oh, I hope so too! I rather miss living in LA (actually it was the Valley, but close enough).
I hope new dear reader singingnymph will figure out that the topic changes at midnight when the new notes are posted. And I do hope singingnymph will stick around and join our merry troupe and perhaps even come to LA to see The Brain From Planet X in December.
Jeff Harlan - perhaps my favorite Dancing Dildo.Hehehehe.
And the word of the day is: SAPIENT!Casey would waltz
No plans this weekend to watch or listen to anything. I am off to the "wilds" of Canada to visit my parents and other family members in Montreal. This will be the last time this year and probably will not get up there until the spring.
Therefore I cannot guarantee I will be around much here for the next few days, but I will try.
Jeff Harlan - perhaps my favorite Dancing Dildo.
And the word of the day is: SAPIENT!
S.C. Man Gets 20 Years for Trying to Dig Up Girl's Corpse to 'Take Her Home and Have Fun'
Thursday , November 02, 2006
YORK, S.C. — A 23-year-old Clover man who police say tried to dig up the grave of a 12-year-old girl after seeing her picture in an obituary has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Bryan Nicholas Garcia never did find the girl's grave and told investigators he wanted to "take her home and have fun," Clover Police Lt. Randall Horn said.
Garcia pleaded guilty but mentally ill Wednesday to two charges of destruction of a graveyard. Circuit Judge John Hayes sentenced Garcia to 20 years in prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender.
Two mental evaluations found Garcia has a chemical imbalance in his brain that makes him want to have sex with corpses and children, defense attorney John Rhea said.
Garcia hasn't decided whether to appeal, Rhea said.
Garcia was arrested in May 2005 after running through a grocery store where he once worked in a full-length green coat, black sweater, camouflage gloves and a mask.
Officers searching his car found a black plastic bag, shovels, a pickax and other digging tools, prosecutor Dan Hall said.
Garcia then told police he was embarrassed because he had been trying to dig up the girl's grave, Hall said.
"He had seen the name of a little girl in the obituaries in the paper," Hall said. "He thought she was cute and he wanted to take her home."
Deputies went to the cemetery and found a hole about 3 feet deep. Garcia told them he dug at the cemetery twice, but never located the girl's body, Hall said.
Garcia, who was a National Merit Scholar at York High School, told the girl's family he was sorry. "I apologize to anyone I've hurt with my actions," he said.
Clover is about 20 miles southwest of Charlotte, N.C.
Looks like GREY GARDENS got some very positive reviews in the places I've looked. I don't know how commercial the show might be, but with reviews like that, it looks like the show will get Tony consideration regardless of its run.
I think Ebersole is the foregone conclusion for winner in Musical Actress already.
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DVD: just finished Leave Her to Heaven. My, my, my Darryl Hickman's just the tiniest bit bitter in his commentary.
After all the discussion yesterday, i think i'm going to wear a clean shirt to see my brother today. Or at least a clean sweater.
Strange Happenings in the Carolinas!
Associated Press (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227047,00.html)A few things come to mind:
20 years in prison for digging a hole is ridiculous!
I doubt any prison time will act as a deterrent to future criminals.
On the surface it would seem the guy is a certifiable nut! Why don't we tuck him away in a humane institution where he can at least get some treatment?
Did this guy have an adequate defense? - something our system should grant to the most egregious creep.
der Brucer
Media: CDs: well right at this moment I'm listening to the Celtic fusion band Kila. But I've been trying to catch up on OCRs that I've gotten over the past several months (years? :o ), so this week I've listened to Billy Elliot (fair to middling, better than most of John's theater stuff), the 70s Candide (oy--those Hershy Kay re-orchestrations make me kind of cringe, sorry--usually love Hershy), Grey Gardens (repeatedly), and, in the from the sublime to the ridiculous department, Debbie Does Dallas. DDD was pretty bad, IMHO, but I LOL'd on track 69, the Orgasm Medley, because Blanche perked her little head up and started staring at the stereo (or, stereoing at the stareo) due to all the screaming and moaning emanating from it.
DVD: just finished Leave Her to Heaven. My, my, my Darryl Hickman's just the tiniest bit bitter in his commentary. And Schickel actually managed to complete one or two sentences without 25 "ums" and "uhs" in between. ;)
JRand - I haven't worn a media in a long time. My shirt is at least an extra large.
A convicted murderer paroled from another state, killed a 16 year old girl in Indiana earlier this week.
DR MattH, that was Alan Tudyk last night? I missed the cast credits. I saw him last year in SPAMALOT, and he was wonderful (Lancelot, as I recall).
ABC Wins Wednesday; CBS's 'Criminal Minds' GainsBy James Hibberd
CBS's crime drama "Criminal Minds" continued to gain steam Wednesday night, becoming the first scripted program to top ABC's "Lost" in total viewers and matching its best adults 18 to 49 delivery, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 9 p.m. drama's 5.0 rating helped CBS take second place for the night, along with 10 p.m.'s "CSI: NY" (5.4) and 8 p.m.'s "Jericho," which matched its lowest season-to-date performance (3.0).
Critics stumped -- `Criminal Minds' no loser
Up against the popular `Lost,' CBS drama steadily gaining viewers
SCOTT COLLINS
Los Angeles Times
HOLLYWOOD - CBS's "Criminal Minds" is a gory, creepy, serial-killer show. It's dissed by critics as a stapled-together knockoff of the network's many other crime dramas. Its mirth-free tone is epitomized by Jason Gideon, the grumpy, taciturn FBI profiler played by Mandy Patinkin. And it's up against the ultimate water-cooler show at 9 p.m. Wednesdays, ABC's mythologically complex "Lost."
Yup, conventional wisdom would dictate that "Criminal Minds," in its second season, should be moldering on TV's rubbish heap.
So why is the series growing into a bona-fide hit that last week delivered its most-watched episode, with 16.8 million total viewers, just a shade behind the still-formidable "Lost" (17.1 million), according to Nielsen Media Research?
I started watching that TCM child stars interview the other night...I must say that Darryl Hickman and Margaret O'Brien have both aged mighty well! They both look so young!
Der Brucer - our current criminal justice system has nothing to do with deterrence, it is only about retribution.
Der Brucer ... Because mental health is so underfunded for some the only way to get mental health treatment is in prison, being sent to a facility without a conviction isn't in the budget.
This guy pled guilty but insane, that's great where you can do it, he will get treatment
Margo Channing: Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.
What would a play titled INTIMATE APPAREL be about, I wonder?
What would a play titled INTIMATE APPAREL be about, I wonder?Lingering in the Lingerie?
MR BK - there's a "buy" in your great book-signing email that should be a "but."
Well that ain't the way it's 'posed to be!
Seriously, is the fault:
DA's reacting to perceived public opinion?
Vengeful jurors?
Reprehensible Judges>
(We'll give incompetent defense a pass, for now).
der Brucer
Are you sure? There was a recent case that caused a lot of commotion over at "The Factor" where the judge sent the convicted sex-offender out on probation because he would not receive treatment in prison. (The state appealed, the prison system agreed to provide treatment, and the judge changed his sentence to imprisonment).
der Brucer
PS It also seems that someone who is truly mentally ill should be treated in a very different environment than the usual prison. (And yes, I'd pay more taxes to make it so!)
Are you sure? There was a recent case that caused a lot of commotion over at "The Factor" where the judge sent the convicted sex-offender out on probation because he would not receive treatment in prison. (The state appealed, the prison system agreed to provide treatment, and the judge changed his sentence to imprisonment).
der Brucer
PS It also seems that someone who is truly mentally ill should be treated in a very different environment than the usual prison. (And yes, I'd pay more taxes to make it so!)
I just had breakfast for lunch. I was starving for a big breakfast so I had 2 eggs over medium, wheat toast, sausage patties and hash browns with a piping hot cup of coffee. Yum!
I want a place that serves sushi & tiramisu.
I topped it off with 2 snack size Snickers bars left over from Halloween
How about tiramisushi?No thanks.
No thanks.
....'cause I'd have had to suggest they might originally have been a piccolo player!Well, the only good piccolo player *is* a dead one, after all. ;)
I LOVE breakfast for lunch. And for dinner, as well.
It's a good thing you didn't say those sausage patties were piping hot....'cause I'd have had to suggest they might originally have been a piccolo player!
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yumYum, bring me back some dolmas & baklava! ;D
I love Greek food!
Awwww....nobody ever wants to try anything different!You go first.
:-\
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yum
I love Greek food!
Hey, watch what you say...I was a piccolo player
I love a good spinach pie and Moussaka
They have a great festival every summer and someone always sneaks some real Ouzo in from Greece. Boy will that knock your socks off
DR CILLALIZ - I always appreciate hearing from those in the trenches - who know more about EVERYTHING than those elected to an office....and stop listening to anyone....
Now, I'm not chiding, oh, no, I'm not chiding, buy many of you dear, dear people have NEVER attended a signing...
And nothing tastes as good to me as a Greek salad with the pitted black olives and feta cheese.....Just hand over the feta. YUM
Just hand over the feta. YUM
MR BK - there's a "buy" in your great book-signing email that should be a "but."
PARDON ME! Pedantic nit-picking is my job.
der Brucer
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yum
I love Greek food!
I presume a "Fall" dinner at a church would involve lots of apples ::)
der Brucer
I was trying to find the words the the poem that ends "And there I stood with my piccolo" not sure if Meredith Wilson wrote it or just used it in his autobiography. I love that.
"An old Moravian flute player once told me a story that went like this: ‘A very important king hired a whole orchestra to play for him one night during his supper, just because he felt lonesome. The orchestra played great, and the king was so delighted that he said, ‘Boys, your music was great, and just for that, you can all go to my counting house and fill your instruments with gold pieces.’
"I can still hear that clatter as sack after sack of golden tiddlies streamed into the tuba and slithered down the neck of the bassoon and spilled out over the bells of the French horns.
"And there I stood with my piccolo."
PARDON ME! Pedantic nit-picking is my job.
der Brucer
Unless you're "Curly Lip" Haggard, or whatever that mega-church loser is named. He "fell" in a, shall we say, different way. ;)
Evangelical leader steps down amid allegations
The Rev. Ted Haggard denies a man's public charges that the pastor of a mega-church had been paying him for sex.
By Stephanie Simon
Times Staff Writer
November 3, 2006
DENVER — The president of the National Assn. of Evangelicals resigned Thursday after his Colorado Springs, Colo., mega-church opened an investigation into allegations that he had repeatedly paid for sex with a male prostitute.
The Rev. Ted Haggard, who regularly consults with the White House on policy matters, told a Denver television station that he "never had a gay relationship with anybody" and had been faithful to his wife of 28 years.
[I believe him. Trading dollars for a BJ with a whore is not a relationship.]
A father of five who dresses in blue jeans and drives a Chevy pickup, Haggard is well-known, and widely praised, as an energetic, charismatic pastor who has pushed to expand evangelical
A lengthy profile in Harper's magazine — which is quoted approvingly on Haggard's website — recounts how he built New Life Church in part by hanging out at gay bars and inviting the patrons to come to his sermons and be saved.
[If I had a buck for every time I heard "I’m not queer, I'm just writing a book" I'd own a tropical island!]
...
Under Haggard's leadership, the National Assn. of Evangelicals, which has 30 million members, reaffirmed a policy statement that describes homosexuality as "a deviation from the Creator's plan" and calls same-sex relations a sin that, "if persisted in … excludes one from the Kingdom of God."
[And no doubt, puts them in the Ninth Circle along side the Elmer Gantry preacher-hypocrites that solicit sex from prostitutes ]
...
"We owe it to him to hear from him," Cizik said. "Let's not crucify the man until we've gotten the facts."
[I'll supply the hammer and nails!][size]
Evangelical Leader Accused of Gay Affair Resigns(http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/images/haggardposter.jpg)
By CATHERINE TSAI, AP
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 3) - The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has given up his post while a church panel investigates allegations he paid a man for sex.
The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after being accused of paying the man for monthly trysts over the past three years.
…
Church member E.J. Cox, 25, called the claims "ridiculous."
"People are always saying stuff about Pastor Ted," she said. "You just sort of blow it off. He's just like anyone else in the public eye."
[Seems some other things are getting "blown" off!]
Haggard, 50, was appointed president of the evangelicals association in March 2003. He has participated in conservative Christian leaders' conference calls with White House staffers and lobbied members of Congress last year on U.S. Supreme Court appointees after Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.
And to quote Carly Simon, "Nobody does it better!"
;)
Twenty minutes on the Pro Form Air Walker....whew!
And now for twenty more with your Accu-whatever 8)
der Brucer
Jesus’ earthly representatives have a long history of blowing it. First, there is Peter...and then every other disciple follows his lead.
I use something else I bought from a television pitchwoman!
Thank you, ThighMaster. 8)
Log Cabin Republicans – Los Angeles Chapter[/size]
November 2006 Meeting
Featuring
Marc Cherry
Creator & Executive Producer of the hit television show "Desperate Housewives"
Monday, November 27
I presume a "Fall" dinner at a church would involve lots of apples ::)
der Brucer
Wilson wrote:der Brucer
I use something else I bought from a television pitchwoman!
Thank you, ThighMaster. 8)
Republicans have, however, focused their efforts on a constitutional amendment—that’s an amendment to the Constitution —when existing law has already decided the homosexual “marriage” issue smartly. They have touted an under-funded, over-hyped and possibly “virtual” border fence that should do a fine job of keeping dangerous Americans from sneaking into Mexico. Last and quite possibly least, Republicans have banned the export of horsemeat for human consumption, thus eliminating one of our most satisfying exports to France.
Wasn't there actually a parody circulating called "The Worst Thighs in London," where Mrs. Lovett bemoaned her lack of, er, companionship?
The original production used a 27 member cast, and a 27 member full orchestra. This new production has merely ten cast members. To make things slightly more interesting, they are also the pit. Yes, that's right...Patti LuPone, playing Mrs Lovett, runs around stage hauling a tuba...in a miniskirt...showing off "the worst thighs in London". Yeah.
Since you brought it up:
LA TIMES (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-evangelical3nov03,0,5544522.story?coll=la-home-headlines)
[my comments]
AOL (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/evangelical-leader-accused-of-gay-affair/20061102182309990027?ncid=NWS00010000000001) chimes in:
der Brucer
Hope this makes MusicGuy's day.
Haggard told reporters that he bought the methamphetamine for himself. He says, "I was tempted, but I never used it." Haggard told reporters he bought the meth because he was curious -- but that he then threw it away.
He also says he never had sex with Jones. He says he received a massage from him after being referred to him by a Denver hotel.
So he bought - bought - crystal meth, and was alone naked in a hotel room with a male massage therapist who says he is a male prostitute. But he never snorted and he never screwed.
...was not a homosexual encounter -- that it was simply physical not emotional.
Ah...well, in that case...
The "mysterious" WhiteSheik has sent me another typo:I guess there is no "but"s about it, I'm a STICKLER.
der Brucer (P.I.T.A.)
From movie to musical, Oscar and Tony-winning ‘Spider Woman’ returns
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’
Through Nov. 25
Onstage Atlanta
(http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/11-3/locallife/theater/thea-spider.jpg)
Brian Porter (right) says that playing Molina to Luke Dreiling’s Valentin requires subtlety.
[/url]Perhaps Edisaurus can report back on the "subtley".
Good thing I'm NOT a stickler orDerBrucer's error ...
Now what? Did I spell that wrong, too?
Spelling is defunct!!
I think many DR's would enjoy his song, "Defenders of Marriage".
I think I'll go with conspiracy:
Heterosexual men oppose gay marriage because they fear it will remove their "boy friends" from circulation.
der Brucer
Powerful ‘Kiss’
(http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/11-3/locallife/theater/theater.cfm)Perhaps Edisaurus can report back on the "subtley".
der Brucer
Now what? Did I spell that wrong, too?
No, but....GASP!....der Brucer did...!
;D
From CP:
Shame on you, Elmore! Make her read the book! but, of course, if anyone knows the Arthurian myths, they all know they are one big dying fall...and it ends badly for pretty much everyone.
DR Jane, they don't ALL die in the end of the book, but the Arthurian legend doesn't end very happily for anybody.
Before you can:
(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/12217421/201643132.jpg)
you must Save the Cheerleader!
der Brucer
Now you're talkin'!
I've acquired, over the years, autographed photos of some of my favorites... Peter Brown from "The Lawman,"
Sherlock needs attention, but before I go…..
While searching down memory lane I found a home-made birthday card, for my 16th or possibly 17th birthday. It even has a cute poem:
There once was a girl
Who ran in the rain,
Everyone said,
She was insane-
Except Bruce knew
Insanity wasn’t it-
Bruce knew she was a twit
Wasn’t that sweet!
On a happier note, in 5 days the election will be over and the political ads will be off the air!
How about tiramisushi?
Well, it's official...Doogie Howser has finally come out! This is from Comcast's (http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/11/03/513290.html&cvqh=itn_doogie) short article:Does he need a hag? ;)
Well, it's official...Doogie Howser has finally come out! This is from Comcast's (http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/11/03/513290.html&cvqh=itn_doogie) short article:
LOS ANGELES - Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary. "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.
The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent "speculation and interest in my private life and relationships."
Harris stars on the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother." He started on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series "Doogie Howser, M.D."
Click HERE (http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1554852,00.html) to read the People magazine article.
Many of us knew this already, but I'm pleased Neil felt the need to set the record "straight" once and for all.
MBarnum-Since I can’t find my autographed photo, I’m beginning to doubt my memory that Darryl Hickman was my father’s patient.
I found autographed photos to me from three hunks, Jack Kelly, Clint Walker, & the one I had a crush on…
”To Jane
Best Gal
Ty Hardin
Bronco”