Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on July 24, 2004, 12:01:33 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've understood them despite they're being crooked and skewed, and now it is time to post until the cows that couldn't see straight come home. :o
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Tom - Here's the non-answer to your last question: I know nothing about turtles or their desires. I don't even know how they do "it" with those shells on. Do they come out? Does one go into the shell of the other. "Come and see my pad, sweetheart..."
I am ignorant of such matters. And on that note (b-flat) -- good-night.
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I am still very much a tea drinker. I still hang on to old values. I still brew tea in a tea pot and do not use teabags. It is getting more difficult to buy leaf tea these days.
I still prefer the Twinings method of tea making (I have milk) and I put the milk in before the tea. I noticed that Harrods use this method too! I do not have sugar in my tea.
I do drink coffee - with or without milk but usually with sugar.
I drink wine at times but not often. Usually only when we have guests for dinner. Coke (diet often!) is my "soft" drink of choice. I have always prefered it to the other cola drinks.
Often I will order a lemon, lime and bitters as a refreshing drink.
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Oh - As for beverages, in the morning I drink coffee - half-caf, half-decaf. I drink quite a bit of water with lemon. I also like Diet Cherry Coke with lemon. My favorite drink as a kid was rasberry syrup with soda water. Yum. Other wildly interesting drinks will follow tomorrow which is actually today. Again, good-night.
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Thank you Panni. The non answer is I am sure just as interesting. I now wonder if there are gay turtles who "come out" too.
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Water is the most delicious beverage of them all, when you get right down to it.
Of course, I prefer it cold.
I am quite mad about iced tea, too! No sugar, though. I love the pure taste of the brew!
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Gay turtles, TomovOz?
I wonder.
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Good Morning! Good Early Morning!
-I'm a bit tuckered out myself right now. However, I'm not seeing anything crooked. Hmmm... I wonder if there's a connection between seeting things crooked and drinking Diet Coke? ;)
Rehearsal was good tonight, and we were pleasantly surprised by one of our cast member's work tonight.
As for favorite beverages... Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Vanilla Coke, Diet Vanilla Coke (which I prefer over the regular stuff), Root Beet, Ginger Ale, Ginger Beer, Grape Nehi, Orange Nehi, Dr. Brown's Black Cherry, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray, San Pelligrino Limonata, Orangina, iced tea, green tea, etc...
There's a line of "sodas" that started in Richmond that is actually just carbonated fruit juice. I can't seem to recall the brand name right now, but they're quite good - and they just got a boost in business after being approved for sale in school cafeterias (since they're really just juice and not a sugar-loaded soda). And there's Cricket Cola which is a green tea based cola.
OK - Well, now I'm just not seeing anything now and then... since my eyelids keep closing... Time for bed...
Goodnight.
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I love choreography!
Crooked notes....well....in spite of what may be going on....I think WHAT IF is well ahead of schedule!
FAvorite beverage Diet Pepsi, Diet Vanilla Pepsi, lemonade, Diet Vernor's, Diet Dr Pepper
AND when I was little Root Beer Kool Aid
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Does any DR have any special method to use to learn lines for a play? I expected to play a SMALLER part!
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Hmmm... Let me think... What could possibly be my favorite beverage?
Oh yeah...
Cherry Coke!!
My second choice is usually Minute Maid orange soda. Grape Nehi is also very good, but hard to find.
And then of course there's the Cherry Coke float. It's like a root beer float, only with Cherry Coke and mint chocolate chip ice cream.
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From Montreal
One of my favorites and I don't see it in Many stores in Florida is Black Cherry. I used to drink it any time I had a smoke meat sandwich at the Main or Schwartz's. So I settle for Cherry Coke when I am in the states.
But other wise I perfer Diet Coke over regular coke (or any cola).
But other favorites from time to time are root beer, strawberry, orange.
I enjoy white wine over red. And when I have "hard" liquor which is rarely I prefer scotch.
I do enjoy milkshakes and my fav flavor is moca. (Only place to get it is Arby's) Next fav is strawberry.
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From Montreal
Does any DR have any special method to use to learn lines for a play? I expected to play a SMALLER part!
Do what Sean Combs did in the recent revival of Raisin In the Sun. Have an earpiece and have someone feed you the lines.
Although one time he did say send a taxi to 244 east 49th Street. (Which wasn't a line in the play)
It seems the radio frequency got mixed in with the taxi calls.
Othe wise. Line by line repeatition. Get the first line down and when you do, add the next one and so on and so on.
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"Settle" for Cherry Coke?????? :P
We passed through Texas yesterday and stopped at the world's largest cross. Has anyone else seen this thing? I'll post a picture later.
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Dang! It's cold and windy in the Bay Area this morning!
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
After checking a few online "home" pages....
Why is it, I wonder, that I don't personally know a soul who "cares" one whit about Paris Hilton or any of her activities?
Should I really know -- or care -- who Nick Carter is? I see the pix on TV and online and they look so vapid and vain and void of anything remotely resembling "interesting" characteristics.
I realize, certainly, that the media is NOT any longer catering to my generation/age group -- but is the current target group as shallow as their idols appear to me to be????
Sigh...............................
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Favorite beverages include iced coffee and hot coffee. I also enjoy fresh-squeezed orange juice, carbonated water with lemon or lime, and Dr. Brown's Black Cherry and Cel-Ray Tonic. I like green tea and some herbal teas. I don't care for any diet drinks. I enjoy a glass of cold ale on a hot day. I generally prefer red wine to white. My favorite cocktail is a Seabreeze.
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I've watched a few musicals on DVD this week, in addition to "les parapluies de Cherbourg":
"Half A Sixpence" -- annoyingly bloated when it might have been quite charming. The dance numbers just go on and on and on....
"Victor, Victoria" -- This remains, for me, a total joy! Great performers in terrific roles...a mostly wonderful music score...I only want Julie to be a bit more believable as a "man", appearance-wise. I buy into the conceit -- and gladly -- but it's like the dilemma with "Superman" -- are people REALLY so easily fooled?
"Mary Poppins" -- fresh, invigorating and rapturous -- mostly. This movie works better -- IMO -- than "My Fair Lady" on most levels. "Mary Poppins" is an enchanting original.
I have also watched a Canadian DVD of the film "Tim" with Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie. A not-bad presentation, albeit a full-screen version of the 1979 Aussie film. It's a tightly edited wallow with a fine early Gibson performance. You see the "promise" of his coming career in every scene.
On deck: "Soap" -- the Complete 2nd Season.
On CD: A 3-CD Bacharach set called "The Look of Love" featuring a slew of artists performing their "hit" versions of the songs. Also, the BK-produced "Burt Bacharach Album."
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Thank you Panni. The non answer is I am sure just as interesting. I now wonder if there are gay turtles who "come out" too.
They probably do come out, but do so very slowly.
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They probably do come out, but do so very slowly.
I think the message here is, "Don't sit by the phone waiting for one of them to call you."
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"Victor, Victoria" -- This remains, for me, a total joy! Great performers in terrific roles...a mostly wonderful music score...I only want Julie to be a bit more believable as a "man", appearance-wise. I buy into the conceit -- and gladly -- but it's like the dilemma with "Superman" -- are people REALLY so easily fooled?
Yes, they are, and there has been proof of this for decades. It's called politics! ;D
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Good morning. Anybody ever drink soda water in the special seltzer bottles where you pushed down on the handle on the side and the water came out? I'm sure some DR will post a picture of what I'm talking about. That's what we always had around the house when I was a child in Hungary. In Toronto we had them, too. There was a Hungarian company which delivered "soda viz" once a week in wooden crates with ten bottles to a crate, as I recall. You returned the bottles at the end of the week and got a nice new batch.
Off for a walk before it gets hot.
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Re: Drinks
I limit myself to red wine these days, for the most part. It's that chronic-depressive-self-medicating thing, so I have to limit my hard liquor consumption. I still like Manhattans, but can't consume three or four the way I used to.
Non-alcoholic can be good. I'm with RLP about unsweetened iced tea. I don't understand the Southern thing about drinking sugar syrup, I really don't. And we just bought a case of Diet Pepsi for me to take with lunch for work. (At Sam's Club, a case of twenty-four 24 oz. bottles went for about 50 cents per bottle. Compare that with $1.25 per from the vending machine! That's a lot of mark-up!)
One new discovery this year, something I hadn't tried until we moved, is Birch Beer! It's smoother than root beer, and very nice. I don't know why we never saw it on the left coast.
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...Must've been every OTHER week. Ten bottles a week seems excessive, even for Hungarians.
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As it happens, Panni, we sell cartridges at the store, ten per box, which charge bottles of water with CO2. There's another cartridge for charging cream, I'm not sure what's in them, probably just oxygen. They come ten cartidges per box; I'll check on how much the box costs.
I'll also check on what the bottles that hold the water cost.
The one thing that's rather sad is that the bottles these days are made of metal, and look nothing like the pretty crystal bottles we see in the movies of the 30s. Nick and Nora would be heartbroken.
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Have to get going. I've got a full day at work scheduled, and it's raining! So, with it being a weekend, and wet, there's going to be a lot of business going on!
What fun! :D
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Almost got eight hours of sleep. Nice. Or, as the kids say, sweet.
Trying to figure out how to kill time because frankly I've had it with time. I hate these Saturdays where I have to kill four hours - sometimes I have a lot to do and it's fine, but today I just want to relax yet I must be out and about or even about and out. And next Saturday, when I could relax because she of the Evil Eye will not be here, I have to rehearse.
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Good morning. Anybody ever drink soda water in the special seltzer bottles where you pushed down on the handle on the side and the water came out? I'm sure some DR will post a picture of what I'm talking about. That's what we always had around the house when I was a child in Hungary. In Toronto we had them, too. There was a Hungarian company which delivered "soda viz" once a week in wooden crates with ten bottles to a crate, as I recall. You returned the bottles at the end of the week and got a nice new batch.
Off for a walk before it gets hot.
Reference: Mr. Allan Sherman's parody of "Water Boy": "Seltzer Man."
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Favorite cocktail: Negroni.
One part gin (Beefeaters is my preference), one part Compari, one part sweet vermouth, dash of bitters. Shake with chipped ice and strain into martini glass. Serve with slice of orange or lemon twist.
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For a glass full of pure nostalgia, nothing compares to an egg cream.
(And I will state once again for the record that said drink contains neither egg nor cream.)
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I used to have egg creams all the time when I lived in Brooklyn in 1969.
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And one for Mahler.
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For a glass full of pure nostalgia, nothing compares to an egg cream.
(And I will state once again for the record that said drink contains neither egg nor cream.)
Along the same lines ( ;D), "shoo-fly pie" contains no flies.
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What a time I had logging on! I just bought a scooter at a garage sale.. Like I used to have when I was kid. only made of steel. Photo later.
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Okay, she of the Evil Eye has arrived and I must hie hie hie (that is three hies). I'll be back around one. Keep the home fries burning.
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Dr. Pepper definitely tops my list, anytime anywhere.
Also enjoy root beer, Coke, or Sprite now and then in the soda department. Oh, and ginger ale. Iced tea another favorite (add me to the list who wants mine unsweetened, with a bit of lemon). Lemonade always quite nice, as long as it's not that pink stuff. I'm also a sucker for Kool-Aid during summer, particularly orange or cherry. Rarely ever a coffee drinker.
As for alcohol... red wine over white anytime for me, with a zinfandel or syrah being tops on my list. Always enjoy a good beer, Alaskan Amber being my most frequent choice. As for hard stuff, can't go wrong with a margarita, or I'll often go with a whiskey sour.
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Re: Drinks
Non-alcoholic can be good. I'm with RLP about unsweetened iced tea. I don't understand the Southern thing about drinking sugar syrup, I really don't.
Speaking as a native southerner, I have to weigh in with my own opinion on this: For most of my early life (1950s & 60s), the water that came out of our taps was pretty ghastly -- often labeled "hard" or "soft" dependent upon the mineral content, insult was added by chlorination and, in some cases, fluoridation. More often than not, drinking plain water left you dissatisfied, but it slaked thirst. It was not the religious experience I enjoy now when drinking water. Iced tea became the main beverage with meals because sugar allowed you to disguise/hide the ghastly mineral taste. Same thing applies to coffee -- sugar and cream provided the mineral camouflage.
Most southern water utilities now filter out the minerals and you get decent tasting water in your home. The taste for sugar water, however, seems to have lingered...primarily (again IMO) becase most southerners don't concern themselves with how to properly brew the tea, meaning that most of it turns out bitter and lots of sugar disguises the bitterness.
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Will be taking off later on this morning for the wedding of two good friends of mine. Should be a wonderful time, with many of my closest college friends in attendance. Just hope it's not too unbearably hot out!
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NEWLYWEDS LEAVE DAVENPORT FOR HOT SPRINGS ;D
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Coffee in the wintertime, black.
Iced tea in the summertime, plain.
Any diet cola any time of year.
I have a date today with a nine-year-old friend, who is accompanying me to The Music Man.
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NEWLYWEDS LEAVE DAVENPORT FOR HOT SPRINGS ;D
:D
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I have a date today with a nine-year-old friend, who is accompanying me to The Music Man.
Unchaperoned?
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Favourite Drinks (non-alcoholic):
Morning: Coffee with 2% milk and sugar
Afternoon and Evening : Diet Coke with Lime, Dr. Pepper, Spruce Beer (it's a localized type of soda) with salt, Iced Tea with a little bit of sugar
Favourite Drinks: (Alcoholic)
Lime Margaritas, Rye Whiskey and Ginger Ale, Smirnoff Ice (when I feel nostalgic for my CEGEP days) and Amaretto Sours (Ditto)
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For some reason, this picture of a ferret drinking Perrier out of a glass made me laugh.
Thought I'd share it with you all:
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/offbeat/gallery/2004/0721/05.ap.jpg)
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Some beveridges I simply adore, of the non-alchoholic variety:
Water.
Vernor's Ginger Ale. I ordered a 24-pack online a while ago, and I only have four cans left...this could get ugly.
Egg Nog. (Has anyone else here made Egg Nog Cheesecake? It's to die for!)
Apple juice, cranberry juice, cherry juice.
I used to drink a lot of Coca-Cola (and Cherry and Vanilla Coke, but most just the Real Thing). We're talking a two-liter bottle. A day. The caffiene was getting to me, though, so I weaned myself off of the stuff...and lemme tell ya, those caffiene withdrawal headaches are brutal.
And now, some more spirited fare:
White Russians, Black Russians, Black-and-tans, just about any drink made with rum or tequila. I used to drink this concoction at a DC gay bar made with crushed ice, pinapple and apple juice, rum vodka, grenadine, and a cinnamon stick...can't remember for the life of me what it was called, though. Something fruity, no doubt.
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I took Echo for a long hike on Mt Ashland this morning. It is really too hot here. I wasn’t feeling well during the night and didn’t wake up much better. I barely made it home. The drive down the mountain never seemed so long. The wild flowers were incredibly beautiful and I’m sorry I forgot my camera.
At least I kept Echo out of the mud today.
Danise & RLP don’t forget you might be able to record Atlantis on Tuesday. We watched MONK instead of SG 1 last night. I’m glad I have a good episode to look forward to.
DRLaura how is your leg today?
Tomovoz, this is my face at the thought of more bird photos from your yard :)
That’s it, the thought of anything, even drinks, going down me right now is making me sick. I’m going to bed.
Emily the photo is really cute.
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I thought ferrets preferred Evian....whew!
My Kroger store was OUT of Vernor's this morning. It has rows and rows AND rows of Coca Cola...even C2...and rows and rows Pepsi...even Vanilla Diet Pepsi...but only ONE row of Vernor's and Diet Vernor's...and they were both SOLD OUT!!!!
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For some reason, this picture of a ferret drinking Perrier out of a glass made me laugh.
I stopped buying bulk food when I caught a ferret helping himself (with his owner's encouragement) to trail mix.
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Good decision, DiT.
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DRPANNI - is this the kind of bottle you were talking about? ;D
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My Kroger store was OUT of Vernor's this morning.
It's always out here in Minneapolis...oh, wait...that's right, no one actually carries it here!
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Crooked notes?
Do
Re
Mi
Fa
Sol
Do!
Aaaaaahh Come on! "Half a Sixpence" is NOT that bad!
A wonderful experience for me in a movie theater in London back in 1967! There's so much JOY in that pic, even if the musical numbers seem to drag on and on, they're exhilarating and the arrangements are fantastic!
Great moment --- subjective, of course! -- is the "If The Rain's Got To Fall..." NOT "Singin' In The Rain" but......
Favourite drink: chilled water!
I like a Kir now and then -- black currant with White Wine -- I try to stay away from sodas; have a regular Coke when I don't feel good - stomach problems -- and it works!
I like decaf coffee with lots of milk and some sugar; i try not to use sugar but I don't succeed....
You see; drinkwise I'm no fun and you all had to know about it!
"If I had money to burn
-- a hole in the pocket!"
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Good Afternoon!
Ah, sleep.... Sooooo nice!
Once I got up today (around 11:30!! ;)), I decided that I would have a rather "domestic" day. So, I went to Albertson's and picked up some groceries and supplies; I'm doing some laundry; I'll be cleaning my room in a little bit; getting my hair cut later (YEAH!!!); and I may even bake something later!!! -Although, I think I'm just going to take a walk down to The House of Pies. :D
My brother, Jay, is supposed to be coming up from San Diego late this afternoon, and I may be catching up with him and my cousin, Angie, later tonight. There's supposed to be some sort of family gathering tonight, but, apparently, they're still deciding which family/house/city will be hosting it. ??? We shall see... Otherwise, I'm just going to be enjoying my day off.
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Ohh.... Birch Beer! YUM!!! I love the canned/bottled varieties you can find here and there. But there was this New York style deli I came across in Ft. Myers, FL, of all places, and they had it "on tap". Sooo good!
Very close to the flavor of Birch Beer is CheerWine. The 7-11s in Richmond used to carry it, but now I can only get it when I take a trip down to North Carolina, but it's even hard to find down there sometimes (at least for me).
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I'm back from committing a homicide on "time". I've killed time and now I'm back in the home environment. Here's Richard Valley's review of Kritzer Time, which will appear in the next issue of Scarlet Street.
KRITZER TIME
Bruce Kimmel
1st Books Library, 2004
356 pages—$19.95
All good things must come to an end, but at least with a trilogy it takes longer. Bruce Kimmel’s autobiographical fiction Kritzer Time brings the curtain down on the adolescent adventures of Benjamin Kritzer, begun (appropriately) in Benjamin Kritzer (2002) and continued in Kritzerland (2003). Put these volumes all together and you’ve not only got one very big book, but you’ve got a vivid, moving evocation of a special time and place in our country’s troubled history.
The time is the early sixties, when traces of the fifties still lingered in the wings and no one would ever have guessed that the decade would end with the Vietnam War, with protests, with love-ins and flower power, with gay rights and the women’s movement, with X-rated films starring actual movie stars, and with a crook in the White House. Disaster sets the stage for this dark future, though, from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas—an event that Benjamin, try as he might, cannot view as anything other than remote—to a terrifying, tragic incident that hits harder and closer to home. Home, by the way, is Los Angeles and environs, a sprawling landscape undergoing nearly as many changes as the now-teenage Benjamin.
It is with Kritzer Time that Kimmel plots the rest of Benjamin’s life. Those familiar with the author’s own career prior to his authorship know that Benjamin’s destiny lies in the arts, as an actor, songwriter, singer, producer, director. In Kritzer Time, we move beyond those tentative steps as an entertainer taken by Benjamin in the previous books; when the final pages are at hand, when it’s time for his literary 11 o’clock showstopper, Benjamin has hit his stride and there’s no turning back. Not for nothing is one of his favorite show tunes “Hey, Look Me Over!”
As in Benjamin Kritzer and Kritzerland, the cultural details—the signposts up ahead—will bring a gentle smile or a nostalgic sigh to anyone who grew up in the same decade as Benjamin. The cultural colors with which Kimmel paints his novel include television’s THE TWILIGHT ZONE, MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE, and MAVERICK; the songs “Wooly Booly,” “Pocketful of Miracles,” “Firefly,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” and “Moon River;” the films SCENT OF MYSTERY (1960, in Smell-o-Vision), WEST SIDE STORY (1961), THE PARENT TRAP (1961), GYPSY (1962), THE MUSIC MAN (1962), and BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (1962); telephone prefix letters, Columbia House Stereophonic Record Players, summer camp, summer stock, Freddie Blassie, Phil Silvers, Judy Garland, Haystack Calhoun, Dave Brubeck, Gorgeous George, and Hayley Mills.
Kritzer Time is, in a way, twilight time—the end of an era and the end of a heartwarming, endearing series of books. Still, as Benjamin, not without a trace of sadness, learns, life goes on. Let’s hope that it goes on to include further novels from the talented Mr. Kimmel.
—Richard Valley
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And I still remember "making" sodas in my 4th grade science class. We had bottles of various flavored syrups, and a seltxer bottle and CO2 cartridges. Who knew science could be so delicious and refreshing!
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Used up some credit and got DVDs of The World of Suzie Wong, They Came to Cordura, Lilith and a couple of others. Going to watch a couple of DVDs at least, my favorite way to relax and clear my brain. Currently in the player, The Onion Field which I've never seen and which I'm enjoying a lot.
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I think the message here is, "Don't sit by the phone waiting for one of them to call you."
Yep!
You'd better do the calling yourself! :)
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Watching KING KONG on TCM. Still one of my favorite movies!
Did any other DR here at HHW enjoy the series DUE SOUTH? I liked it a lot, and taped some episodes when TBS ran it on Saturday mornings a few years ago. Paul Gross was very good, and though the cast went through a few changes, everyone did a nice job.
And it was always funny when the show ended, and Fraser would look at the picture of Queen Elizabeth and say: "The things I do for you...."
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Well, well, well (that's 3 wells) Vernor's was mentioned, 3 times, even. My parents grew up in Michigan and I still have relatives there so I'm very familiar with wonderful Vernor's Ginger Ale. Haven't had it in years. I also have fond memories of Faygo soday. Faygo Rock & Rye. I also have vauge memories of a soda called Uptown (live it up, up, up with Uptown I seem to remember). Don't drink much soda anymore. I'm more of a water and fresh brewed iced tea man. Also fresh brewed herbal tea (I know, I know, there is no tea in herbal tea). I have cut back on coffee from my younger days. Now I have one or two cups a day at the most and sometimes on the weekend I don't have any unless we're going out. I also don't drink much alcohol though when I do I go for the sweet things, like Sweet Vermouth (the red one) or Bailey's Irish Cream, Amaretto, stuff like that. I don't know from good wine or bad wine. It's all the same to me. Fermented grape juice. I'll just eat the grapes, thank you.
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From Montreal.
Well caught up with a friend I haven't seen in 7 years and it was so nice to see him again. I have invited and his partner to come and stay with me when they visit florida. My friend would love to move down to the USA in three years time. Either to my area of Florida or Long Beach, CA where a mutual friend of ours used to live.
Tonight the family is celebrating DAD birthday which is tomorrow. Thinking back to May when he almost didn't make it to now.
I am sure it was all the good wishes and vibes that all DR sent during that trying time that I am here today to celebrate.
Thanks Again for the healing powers of Haines His Way.
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And one for Michael Shayne's Dad!!
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The official Topic of the Day: Water is always good...and I drink diet colas at restaurants, but otherwise I prefer Diet Pepsi. I do, however, drink much too much of it. I usually have a 24-pack case at work and stock the fridge there so that I'll always have a cold one at the ready. Once in a while I'll get a case of caffeine free Diet Pepsi, but I've never had any withdrawal symptoms, at least that I've noticed.
Does any DR have any special method to use to learn lines for a play? I expected to play a SMALLER part!
What I've done is to get 3x5 cards that are attached by a wire coil and I'd write the cue line (or several lines) on the front of the card, then write my line (even if it's only one word) on the flip side. I'll also add some blocking cues when we get to that point, to help with memorizing, as well. AND since it's on the wire coil, if I drop them (which I have done many times), they all stay together!
Will be taking off later on this morning for the wedding of two good friends of mine. Should be a wonderful time, with many of my closest college friends in attendance. Just hope it's not too unbearably hot out!
Yesterday, it got to 99° F at the Olympia Airport, which is two miles away from my house. They're predicting near 99° F today, also! AARRGGHH! It's too darn hot! (a Cole Porter reference)
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Drinks:
Soft drinks: Diet Coke is my usual. But I do do forays into Root Beer (Barg's and Dad's my favs...of the Diet variety); I'm quite a fan of Ginger Ale and would probably switched it to my main drink of choice if I could find it in bottles or plastic and of a Diet Variety. The only Diet variety we have that I've been able to find in LA anymore is Vernor's. And while Vernor's used to be my favourite Ginger Ale, over the years it's gotten a little too sweet for me. I used to be able to get Canada Dry diet at Smart & Final, but no more...and it is my Ginger Ale preference. But trying to find a Diet Ginger Ale other than Vernor's out here is damned near impossible. I'll still drink Vernor's though (it's also more expensive than most soft drinks).
I try to avoid soda in cans as I heard it can contribute to Alzheimer's (I guess all that carbonation eroding aluminum or something).
Beverages of the alcohol variety...Hard liquor I pretty much eschew (occasionally Vodka); but I do dabble somewhat with wines. Like both good whites and reds, but my preference is Red. I love particularly a good Shiraz or Syrah. Australian Shirazs, for the most part, are damn near infallible...In fact, the Aussies also have delectable whites and other reds as well. I like their Chardonnay-Semillions.
All around alcoholic drink for me is still bubbles. A nice champagne is always the perfect choice of beverage for me. I also like a good Procesco..which is the Italian version of bubbly.
I love Milk Shakes. Vanilla is my preference. The best I've found in LA is at the Beachwood Cafe up in Beachwood Canyon in Hollywood (comes with whipped cream on top and a cherry). A vanilla milkshake and the Milton's DeLuxe Cheeseburger platter (comes with fries and slaw) at Beachwood is just about as perfect as lunch gets.
I also am a sucker for low-fat chocolate milk. There used to be a product out here I adored called CHUG. Though nationwide, it was distributed through local dairies. Chug was the best chocolate milk around. I don't think anyone distributes it here locally anymore though. I can no longer find it anywhere.
Robin mentioned Egg Nog. Thank God, this only comes out at holiday time. Or else I'd be big as a house, lapping it up all the time. Love the stuff.
I'm now going to post this and watch my computer act up once more and tell me "an illegal operation" has been performed and either promptly freeze on me or not be able to bring up any page from any internet site without me shutting the whole computer off and starting it up again. We think we may be a victim of someone's spyware. Computer guy comes Monday.
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Isn't it funny about Diet Ginger Ale. I, too, only really love Canada Dry, and I know I used to get it in Diet version, but I haven't been able to find it in years. Can anyone ascertain that it's still made?
As to water - not for me. Just don't like it much, even bottled. It's flavorless and does nothing to quench my thirst, but that may be from all my years of soda drinking.
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Isn't it funny about Diet Ginger Ale. I, too, only really love Canada Dry, and I know I used to get it in Diet version, but I haven't been able to find it in years. Can anyone ascertain that it's still made?
Sometimes ginger ales are stocked in the supermarkets not in the soda aisle but rather with the bar mixers in the liquor section. Check there the next time you go to the store.
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I just checked my mail (out on the street in the VERY hot weather) and I got the (new) original Broadway cast recording of Assassins! I might be able to listen to it today...I have nothing planned for the VERY HOT day.
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Just dropping by to say hello. Hope to back in a few hours. No news.
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BK - I am absolutely positively sure that they sell Diet Canada Dry... mainly because I invariably end up buying a can from the dep beneath my office most afternoons.
The Canada Dry label is owned by Cadbury's which might explain the limited availabilty you have to it.
They sell it both in the canned and 1/2 litre bottle variaties in supermarkets here.
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I've been invited to a friend's house on Steamboat Island, which is about 20-25 minutes away. She lives very close to the water and it's supposed to be fairly cool where she lives! I'd heard that it's supposed to get up to 99° F today (again) and being next to some nice cool water will be much better than sweating in a sweltering house. I'm going! And my car is air conditioned...it'll be a nice drive. I'll be back later tonight. Have a good day, everyone!
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We shopped in Chinatown this morning and bought a fruit called "rambutan." It's like a lychee, but red and hairy.
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Dan!
This is family-friendly site, por favor! :o
Wonder what TCB's gonna make of that pic!! ;D
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Talk about Chinese Food -- fruit!-- In Bed!! ;)
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Might I just ask where in tarnation IS everyone? This is most unseemly. I myself just finished watching The Onion Field. I am now attempting to watch The Sting II but I'm afraid it's already one of the worst movies ever made after ten minutes.
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Hello From Dollard Des Ormeaux, Quebec
There is a party going on.
BK I will buy you some cans of diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale and bring them back with me to the USA where I will send them to you/
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DiT - that looks like a toupee I saw for sale on EBAY! :o
Great KT review from Mr Richard Valley. Lots of nails hit on lots of heads.
DR GEORGE thanks for the coiled index card idea....never thought of ....very good.
And DR BEN thanks for reminding me of Rock & Rye....haven't had it for many years - but now I WANT SOME. :P
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Well MR BK....I am not sure....but check here at BEVMO....there seems to be locations all over California. They list Canada Dry Ginger Ale but not the Diet Brand specifically....but it would hurt to ask. They DO have the Diet Vernor's Ginger Ale!! A worthy substitute.
http://www.bevmo.com/homefind-Bevmo.asp?area=more (http://www.bevmo.com/homefind-Bevmo.asp?area=more)
And DRJAY is correct, it might be in the "mixers" section rather than the soft drink aisle. I should have known he would know where to find the boys AND the booze! :P
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I'll try the mixers section of various and sundried supermarkets. The Sting II continues to stink, but it's one of those awful movies that you just can't help but watch. It's appalling to think that the man who wrote the original The Sting wrote this. Every scene has a con in it, unlike the original film, and therefore you just assume that there is a con and you figure it out and it's a total bore. It doesn't help that Jeremy Paul Kagan was one of the worst directors around at the time of this film.
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DR CharlesPogue I have just ordered your HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES and I got it with the HERE'S LUCY soon to be released box set, so I won't have it for a few weeks....but I am anticipating it!!!
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Today is Amelia Earhart's birthday.
Salute to an American Flying Pioneer and Heroine! ;D
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Let me know if you find the ginger ale before I go out and buy them tomorrow before I leave for the airport
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I won't find it before tomorrow, that's for sure.
And, of course, our very own dear reader Panni wrote a TV movie about the famous flyer.
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Exactly!
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Greetings from Scottsdale, Arizona! That's right, I'm home. My mom isn't, though. She must still be out with her nine-year-old friend.
Not much has happened since wherever I was in New Mexico. Just a lot of sitting in the car.
But here is the picture I promised of the world's biggest cross.
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And a close-up.
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Diet Canada Dry is sold at my local Safeway! In fact, they're more often out of regular and the diet cans /bottles are all that is left.
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Watched DVDs today:
"Funny Girl" -- IMO, tied for the greatest performance by a musical performer ever committd to film (with Garland in "A Star is Born")..
"Il Gattopardo" -- Criterion issue of "The Leopard" -- I watched the restored Italian version. A STAGGERINGLY BEAUTIFUL FILM!
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Congrats on the review, bk!
Yes, Jrand - that's the bottle.
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just got back from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. It was magnificent!
To prove I was there...
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Spooky! Looks like I'm underwater...
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I haven't gotten around to The Leopard yet - it's sitting on the shelf like so much fish. I did check out the transfer, however, and it's brilliantly brilliant looking. I had the region 2, which is anamorphic but the 35mm ratio of 2:35 which is incorrect. It's 2.20, which Criterion is (on the restored Italian). Also, the color on the Criterion blows the region 2 out of the ginger ale.
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I believe Barbara had A LOT of "rehearsal time" for that movie role -- Funny Girl -- ;)
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New page!
Let's do the "Crooked Notes" dance!!
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Has anybody seen that wonderfully moving Miramax produced film: Il Postino (The Postman)?...
Has Anybody Seen My Ship? --Ooops! Don't mind me!
I believe (again!) that movies were created to produce movies like this one!
-- Not new, I know but saw it on TV during my vacation! --
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Panni,
You look like you could be in the cast of A Little Night Music!
-- make that FOLLIES!..... to fit the song selection!!
Hmmmm.... what would you be singing?
How Could I Leave You?
In BK's Eyes?
I'm Just A Screenwriter, Baby! ?
I'm Still Here!
Going Out Of My Script!
Ah, Ah, Panni!
Your choice!
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Am I having a good time or what?
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DR PANNI lovely photo and DRSANDRA....it is just like being there!!!
I think tonight we should have life lesson's night. We have such a variation of experience among the habitues (and sons of habitues) at HHW, that each of us should tell something we have learned to perhaps help another NOT make the same mistake.
Okay, I will start. I am a gymnast and a dancer and taught both disciplines.
NEVER NEVER NEVER spot a teen age girl learning a back handspring when she is wearing a tube top!!! ;D
Now you know.
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BK: The ball sequence is too incredible. So many details, including a rest room wih dozens of ceramic "pots" set out to accommodate the hundreds of guests. It's a film that delights all the senses, too. You see not only the splendors of a bygone way of life, but you get a full whiff of the discomforts people endured to be fashionable.
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OK, Jrand 53!
NEVER believe that, because it's printed in the Papers, it has to be the truth!
NEVER tell a friend
"Please, keep it to yourself and don't tell anyone!"
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Jrand53:
Excuse my being French but do you mean:
Never never never spot....
or
Never never never stop?....
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DR FRANCOIS - to SPOT someone who is learning a backflip - you must hold onto that person's clothing. A tube top sometimes does not do the backflip its wearer does!
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Here is DRPANNI all photoimpressioned!! 8)
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The "The Leopard" ball sequence was filmed in a real Mansion owned by some wealthy Italian businessman whose wife is.... French and sees to the refurbishing of the place...
They're having all the window shades redone; the two artists doing the job -- husband and wife -- have been working at that for 3 years now and may take two more years to complete the restoration.
That's one of the few very informative programs I saw on TV during my recent holiday!
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Jrand53,
Thanks! I knew what you meant but ignored the expression....
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LOL....quelle frommage!
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AS you can tell, I don't have a show to do tonight LOL.
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Artistic liberty?
Quel fromage!
Don't ask me why, but fromage is "masculine" in French....
BUT...... you're doing a show RIGHT here, me dear!
--- standing ovation! ---
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Tomovoz I’m surprised you find it difficult to buy loose tea, especially Twinings. I just like sugar in my tea, and like you I do not care for tea bags. Half the fun of tea is making it. I do travel with tea bags.
My favorite beverage is water. I also like white wine. I don’t think I’m up to discussing the hard liquor I like.
Sandra drinks something besides cherry coke 
We have a storm brewing. The wind is blowing the trees and I can hear thunder.
Bruce, nice review. I hope it sell lots of books.
JRand I was a big fan of DUE SOUTH.
Ben we lived across the street from one of the Vernor family homes. I kept getting promised a tour of the house but it never happened. It was a beautiful home.
Michael Shayne have a very nice birthday celebration with your father.
Sandra and Panni, cute pictures.
That’s all. I’m going back to bed. Goodnight.
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Good Afternoon/Evening!
Yeah! I got my hair cut! Well, technically I went to get a haircut, but I got my hairs cut...
I had heard about this place from various people, and had seen blurbs about it too on the web and in various magazines - Rudy's Barber. It's part of chain that started in Seattle. It's right on Sunset, just near where Sunset and Hollywood intersect. It's in an old warehouse/garage type space - very open. You just walk in, leave your name at the desk, and wait for your name to be called.
When I checked in, the "receptionist" said that "technically" there was a two hour wait for a cut - Rudy's is apparently a very "in" place - but that since a lot of people weren't waiting inside, that I would most likely get seen by someone in about 30 minutes. So, I decided to wait. And about five minutes later, I heard my name called! :)
Dominique cut hair, and she was kind of amazed at how easy it was to cut my hair - I just need a standard clipper cut - 2 on the sides, 4 on the top. My hair is very straight, and it basically sticks straight out of my head, so it's very easy to clipper cut it with the guides. -And it's also very easy to see any spots that you may have missed. So, after getting shampooed after my cut - I just like getting all the "chaff" washed out, I was out of there about 15 minutes and $15 dollars later. Not bad at all.
They had a nice display of indie mags and some funky clothes too. As well as a big display table of flyers for various events around town. I'll be sure to drop off a stack of What If? postcards there once we get them.
Oh, and I got a nice cut too! Not too many "strays" which is usually the case with my hair - sometimes a couple of my hairs are "sleeping" during the cut. ;) And I definitely feel cooler in the heat - and it's also nice to feel the wind on my scalp again.
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DRJOSE is becoming one of the West Coast In Crowd!
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After getting my hairs cut, I decided to walk around the neighborhood a little bit and so some exploring.
I went a few blocks down Sunset, then turned around once I realized there really was nothing around the bend - at least nothing worth checking out. Then I made a brief pass through Circuit City just to scout out some things. Then it was over to Von's.. Which I then realized was/is/used to be/?? as Safeway - at least there were many Safeway brand items on the shelves...
OOHH!!!
And I'm pretty sure I saw Canada Dry Ginger Ale on the shelves there. The next time I head back there, I'll double check just to make sure.
Then it was over to Rite Aid...
Then over to Jon's... I didn't walk in, just by it... Now, did Jon's take over the Winn-Dixie chain out here? Some of the signage looked the same.
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Eventually, I made my way back over to Hillhurst, and I decided to check out this Filipino place I had noticed on the walk down. The signage on the building said it was the Philipine Art & Commerce Center. But once I walked in, it was a nice Filipino store, Tatak Pilipino. Apparently, it's part of a national chain. -Who knows, maybe there are offices there for the Art & Commerce Center, but I didn't notice any.
They had the usual selection of Filipino knick-knacks and religious items - which, unfortunately, are traditionally on the tacky side. They also had cookwares, plates, clothing, and a small selection of Filipino snack foods - I really had to resist stocking up on dried mango and caramelized pili nuts. I was hoping to come across some Filipino pastries/baked goods, but they didn't seem to carry any - I should have asked if there was a store nearby.
The top floor of the place was filled with DVDs, CDs and karaoke supplies. The selection was quite nice, and I may have to go back and pick up some of Lea Salonga's CDs - they were only $11.99 there compared to the usual $20.00 and up I see them at elsewhere. There were a few more CDs from various Filipino Broadway babies - Paola Montaban, etc... However, I didn't see Jose Llana's new CD. In any case...
Along one wall upstairs was a selection of books. Childrens books, art books, dictionaries, and cookbooks. The selection of cookbooks was quite nice, and I'll definitely have to browse some more later and pick up one or two.
There was actually quite a nice bunch of people shopping, and the staff seemed really helpful too. I've never really been into investigating my cultural background (I know, shame on me), but it did feel a bit "homey" being in there for a couple of minutes. I'll definitely be making a return trip or two there - I have a feeling I'll be able to find some nice gifts for my parents, and some childrens books for my nieces and nephews.
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And for Diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale in general... I know it's available in Richmond at my local supermarket since that's what I usually buy. -I also like their Cranberry(?) Ginger Ale - or is it Cherry?.. well, it's some pink fruit.
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Hmmmm... Just realized that I haven't heard back from my brother or cousin... hmmm...
Ah, well... A nice quiet evening at "home" watching "Trading Spaces" does have it's charm and appeal too.
Of course, there's always PIE too!!!!
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RE: Rambutan - I usually see it - and order it - at Thai restaurants. Then come canned in syrup - like lychees do - and they sort of taste like lychees - and look like lychees. I've also had them mixed into custards too. I've never had fresh ones - but if they are anything like fresh lychees, I'm pretty sure I like them. Otherwise, the canned ones are pretty good.
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A questions for the Los Angelenos, Los Feliz habitues and/or anyone else who may know....
What "language" is it I'm seeing on some of the store fronts in the area. I noticed a sign for "Little Armenia" posted on Sunset and Vermont. Does Armenia use a Cyrillic type alphabet? The script is very fancy, and I just can't tell what it is. Anyone?
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I feel as though I have just been shopping...and I haven't left my chair.
Thanks DRJOSE! And are you learning those dances as well?
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And this now brings to a close my portion of "I Am My Own Frenzy" for this portion of the evening... Time to get some dinner...
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As for learning the dances...
I've actually been a dance captain for two shows before. Mainly because I was the only one who had actually sat through all the dance rehearsals, and could see everyone.
I can never remember the french terms and such, but I have at times had to demonstrate - or approximate - the moves for people.
So... I'm learning them in my head. *I'm one of the few pianists who actually likes playing for dance rehearsals. Yes, they can get tedious at times, but it's fun watching them being put together. -And if there happens to be some nice eye candy... well... ;)
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I know I love dance rehearsals, too. And I remember that you talked about being the Dance Captain before....so be ready to step in!
DRJOSE are you "in the pit" or "onstage"?
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and tthat will end my frenzy as well
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As it happens, Panni, we sell cartridges at the store, ten per box, which charge bottles of water with CO2. There's another cartridge for charging cream, I'm not sure what's in them, probably just oxygen. They come ten cartidges per box; I'll check on how much the box costs.
I'll also check on what the bottles that hold the water cost.
The cartridges for seltzer, CO2, cost $3.50.
The cartridges for creme, N2O, cost $7.99.
We don't carry the bottles that hold the water, or the cream. Which strikes me as a strange contradiction, but there it is.
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Page Five Dance:
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Favorite cocktail: Negroni.
One part gin (Beefeaters is my preference), one part Compari, one part sweet vermouth, dash of bitters. Shake with chipped ice and strain into martini glass. Serve with slice of orange or lemon twist.
Negatori on Negroni, at least for myself. I can't stand gin, never have, never will.
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Along the same lines ( ;D), "shoo-fly pie" contains no flies.
Nor shoes!
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Test Test Test
Had trouble posting before and I want to see if it works now
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Greetings from Scottsdale, Arizona! That's right, I'm home. My mom isn't, though. She must still be out with her nine-year-old friend.
Not much has happened since wherever I was in New Mexico. Just a lot of sitting in the car.
But here is the picture I promised of the world's biggest cross.
Der Brucer and I drove past that thing on our eastward trek.
There's something wrong with the entire idea, people having to have "the world's biggest cross."
I'd think they'd get the hint, during a lightning storm sometime, but they'd probably take the hint in the wrong way.
Sad.
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Good Afternoon/Evening!
Yeah! I got my hair cut! Well, technically I went to get a haircut, but I got my hairs cut...
Dang, on every first and third Thursday Eves you could have dropped by the Faultline (on Melrose, just west of Vermont) and had a good cropping done by the Clippers (Roger and Jarod). And you could have told them that Woody and Bruce sent you (they used to know us regularly over at the Crest).
If you get a chance, drop by and give them our best.
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I'll have to call it an early night, and everyone else can call me a wussburger. We're having a drippy weekend, and that means extra business at the store. Plus, I'll be there for the entire day tomorrow, staying extra busy since there will be just two of us working the entire day.
Sigh "Yannara!"
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And thus endeth MY frenzy for the day!
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I should be frenzied, but I cannot do frenzy as one arm is incapacitated and one cannot do proper flails with only one arm, IMO.
I can do male model posings, however, as my right arm is fixed in its splint with a bend at the elbow. It's perfect for those bent-arm poses you see with the arm dramatically poised across one's midsection.
Thus, I am my own modelling session in lieu of a frenzy.
Of couse, if my name were Dan I could pull off being harried....harried Dan, as it were.
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Dang, on every first and third Thursday Eves you could have dropped by the Faultline (on Melrose, just west of Vermont) and had a good cropping done by the Clippers (Roger and Jarod). And you could have told them that Woody and Bruce sent you (they used to know us regularly over at the Crest).
If you get a chance, drop by and give them our best.
I shall keep them in mind for my next cut. Thanks for the tip!
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My goodness, where in tarnation IS everyone? I may have to get out Ye Olde Bitch-Slap Machine (YOBSM, in Internet lingo).
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Relax I'm back!
Went to a collectables fair - why did I throw so many things away 30 years ago?
The price of things that were "free" with meals at fast food outlets -amazing.
Did I buy anything? No.
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Has anybody seen that wonderfully moving Miramax produced film: Il Postino (The Postman)?...
Has Anybody Seen My Ship? --Ooops! Don't mind me!
I believe (again!) that movies were created to produce movies like this one!
-- Not new, I know but saw it on TV during my vacation! --
Wonderful film and great score. (IMHO)
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I had a lovely afternoon with my nine-year-old friend. He loved The Music Man.
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DR Jane: Even the varieties of Twinings availabe are not what they were and the price has doubled! Have difficulty finding "Assam" which is my favourite and also "Orange Pekoe". Earl Grey is usually available but I do not care for it - oily and too aromatic.
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I'm soooooooo tired.
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It always seems slightly strange to comment on posts from hours ago - I hope people go back and read the posts of "yesterday".
Must catch up with "The Leopard". The reviews of the movie release (the recent one!) were excellent.
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JRand - May I ask what bizarre thing you did to my face in your Impressionist's view of Panni visits Little Night Music? I look mighty weird, mon ami.
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SWW - One day - not tonight - I will tell the story of how soda water bottles kept us eating after there was no money for food.
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Well DRPANNI....it was a little bit of this and little bit of that....and then...well it was like the makeup counter at Saks. I changed your hue and saturation and got your color a bit dauncy - but well....you look happy to be there! LOL, and we can see your shoes now!
Now you know how Oprah felt when they put her head on Ann-Margret's body and put the whole thing on the cover of TV GUIDE. She knew it was her...but....
RLP would be a perfect bitch-slapping machine with his arm in that splint!
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I've been invited to a friend's house on Steamboat Island, which is about 20-25 minutes away. She lives very close to the water and it's supposed to be fairly cool where she lives! I'd heard that it's supposed to get up to 99° F today (again) and being next to some nice cool water will be much better than sweating in a sweltering house. I'm going! And my car is air conditioned...it'll be a nice drive. I'll be back later tonight. Have a good day, everyone!
I just got back from my friend Sally's house on the water and it was a wonderful place to be! Sally and her husband Don have very tall trees all around their house and since they're directly on the sound, the temperature was perfect! [It got to 99°F today at the Olympia Airport (which is where the Official Olympia temperature is taken)! It broke the record for today, which was 95°, set in 1965.] We (Sally, our other friend Holly, Don and I) just sat around drinking (I got a Diet Coke from Jack in the Box before I got there and Holly drank water) and talking. We walked down the rickety stairs to their beach area and it was just a great place to be to get away from the hot temperature! I was able to catch up with Sally and Holly (I don't know Don very well). The three of us met in 1991 in a production of Camelsnot...I mean Camelot and have been great, close friends ever since.
Anyway, that was my evening.
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DR GEORGE thanks for the coiled index card idea....never thought of ....very good.
Jack, I have learned...from experience! When I first started doing shows, I used to just read the script and cover the lines with a piece of paper. Then I started to do the 3x5 card thing, but I didn't even know about the coiled index cards. After dropping them a few times during several different shows, I got the idea to number the cards. I still dropped them, but they were numbered...I knew what order to put them back into! Then for one birthday, just before I was to start rehearsal for another show, a friend of mine gave me a couple of packs of the coiled cards as a gift and I thought that it was brilliant! :-* I've been using those ever since.
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I am buying some tomorrow!!!
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DRPANNI - Prepare to be shocked! You won't believe your unbelieving eyes....
Here you are - PHOTOIMPRESSED DE-LUXE!!! :o
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Very artistic, Jack! And glad you like the idea of the cards with the wire coils.
I am now going to wuss-out and go to sleep. It's much, much, much (that's three muches) cooler now than it was this after (99° indeed!) and I'm just plum tuckered out. Night all!
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Jrand - I think the BLOB is coming to get me!
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I thought the shot was a left over from "Don't Look Now" JRand.
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I thought the shot was a left over from "Don't Look Now" JRand.
The midget in the red cape! Scarier than the Blob!
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Great use of the colour red in the movie too - stained glass, coloured slides, boots, etc.
One of my favourites.