Hmmm....lamest Christmas prezzie?
Probably socks - although I know DR RLP loves socks.
DR MATTH - RE:My Life With Judy Garland
I think I wrote when I got the DVD - a friend of mine who is a friend of Thea Gill (she played the blonde Lesbian on QUEER AS FOLK) - told me that Thea had signed on to play Lucille Bremer in the "Meet Me In St Louis" sequence of said project. They were shooting her only scene, the mirror scene - and the SAME thing that happened to the real Lucille happened to Thea. Judy Davis complained loudly that Thea was getting in her way and getting between her and the mirror....it was quite the contretemps....and in fact...you guessed it, got cut from the film. I was hoping we would see that in the Deleted scenes, but we got nothing that interesting.
Is there any end in sight to the NYC strike? That $1 million a day fine should get some people moving, but it seems to have only made them more resolute to resist.
DR JMK: Ha! I used to do the same thing. Actually, I did it just last year... :-X
This is my coloring book. Color me fucking pissed.
Nope, not mine! Lanny Meyers, maybe? He's awfully good! Aren't the singers Charles Kimbrough and Beth Howland? I didn't work on the CHRISTMAS IN HOLLYWOOD album, although I do own it and play it, so everything's a guess about the personnel. I'll have to pull it off the shelf and see.
I'm listening to the Broadway Radio Show "A Very Kimmel Christmas", which is just fantabulous. However, Donald doesn't do his usual identification of performers and albums.
I know I have a good number of these on "A Broadway Christmas" and "A Label-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Be-Mentioned Christmas". But some are mystifying me.
Can anyone tell me who the hilarious performers are on the sex-reversal version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside"? I think I recognize Karen Morrow's voice, and the guy sounds really familiar...
And that wonderful up-beat "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm". Debby Gravitte? A Larry Moore orchestration?
Hooray for the new car DR JRand55! What a nice Christmas present to yourself!
I stopped at a Select Comfort store the other day while my mom, my aunt and cousin and I were at a mall in Greenville SC.
I was tested for my "sleep number" and was VERY impressed with the way the bed felt after my number was selected.
I'm a "55"...which was odd for the tester, because I told her I was a side sleeper and she told me most side sleepers are "35s" or lower.
I'll probably test a couple of other beds before I make a purchase, but I'm read for a new bed and the Select Comfort tickles my fancy.
TOD: I've repressed the worst gifts. And now that I'm senile, I don't remember the good ones either.
JRand congratulations on your new car. May you have many good years together. Might a new bed be next on your shopping list? ;D
What the Mona Lisa does when the Museum is closed. ;D
Great new car, DR JRand. May it give you years and years of trouble-free service.
BTW, is that WHITE GRASS you're standing on. We have only the green kind in the Carolinas.
Roger Toussaint is on television quoting Rosa Parks and demanding respect for his workers. They're not all black, but he is, and he's carrying on about Ms Parks and Martin Luther King Day. To hear him rave, you'd think all the workers were waiting for Abe Lincoln to show up and free the transit workers from their harsh treatment. I don't understand all this griping about the "treatment" of transit workers: they applied for the job, they're making relatively good money, and they've got insurance for themselves and their families. It may not send their kids to an exclusive private school without scholarship, but it isn't sweatshop work. I hope this strike, if nothing else, forces the union to get rid of this jerk.
Damn, I thought the new car would make me look skinnier.
Roger Toussaint is on television quoting Rosa Parks and demanding respect for his workers. They're not all black, but he is, and he's carrying on about Ms Parks and Martin Luther King Day. To hear him rave, you'd think all the workers were waiting for Abe Lincoln to show up and free the transit workers from their harsh treatment. I don't understand all this griping about the "treatment" of transit workers: they applied for the job, they're making relatively good money, and they've got insurance for themselves and their families. It may not send their kids to an exclusive private school without scholarship, but it isn't sweatshop work. I hope this strike, if nothing else, forces the union to get rid of this jerk.
I agree. Any sympathy I had for the workers and their union (I hate the MTA) has completely dried up and blown away due to the ianane anctics of this moron.
Were these transist workers forced underground to take these menial. well paid, jobs complete with guaranteed health benefits, vacations, sick time, comp time, lifetime employment and pensions? Where do I sign up?
Lipstick lesbians don't like Old Spice. ;)
Congrats on your new ride, DR JRand! And how very smart to buy a car that matched your outfit!
And speaking of that, the actor who played Mark Herron was simply amazing-looking. I'm sure I've seen him guest-star on other shows, but he was really a knockout.
Something Herron, himself, never was...not for a single moment in his life.
My Christmas is set, and I am doomed.
On Sunday, we (der Brucer and myself) shall trek to the home of his daughter, where we will be treated to a standing rib roast.
While the idea of how she can ruin a standing rib roast is frightening enough, she has also invited her hubby's parents to dine.
We have met them, of course, but she and her hubby have been very careful so far as to not explain to his parents what my relationship is with the family. This doesn't bother me in the slightest; while they may be rednecks I have found that such are far more aware of what is going on than often given credit for being.
No, the doom is that daughter and son-in-law will insist that no hint of discussion of my relationship to the family be made. As a result, all at the table will be quite uncomfortable, nerves will fray...
And daughter has this terrible habit of shreiking at the top of her lungs when her nerves have frayed.
As I stated earlier, I am doomed.
True Select Comfort Story: I was taking the kids to the mall one day and there were these two people in a VERY heated argument outside. They actually began fist-fighting each other--a man and a woman!! (I should mention they were fighting as they were both smoking cigarettes, or at least attempting to (you would think they would have just thrown the damn things down so that they could properly fight)--your first clew as to their general comportment). I kind of hustled the kids to the side to get around them but I noticed they were both wearing Select Comfort shirts and as we ran by them I heard they were arguing about how one of them had been treating a customer!! So anyway the kids were pretty flipped out and I wasn't too happy about it, so I managed to find the phone number for the guard of the mall and got through to him and started to tell him, at which point he said, "Is this about the Select Comfort employees? We've already received 5 or 6 calls about it!" So it had evidently been going on for some time before we even got there!
I used to enjoy driving around Indianapolis in the snow...and I got huge kicks out of the morons who tried to pretend they knew what they were doing when matching/exceeding speed limits. I saw so many of them go down in humiliation...off the road, up against walls and into ditches.
It does get old, however, getting up to go to work and finding you have about 30 minutes worth of ice removal to do on your car (if you are not lucky enough to have a garage), and then find you have to shovel your way out of your drive because the plows have already been through and you have a three-foot barrier or dirty snow blocking your drive.
Lesbians like Old Spice, don't they?
DR GEORGE - you REALLY have to be lucky to win the lottery without buying a ticket!
Is there any way you could slip her a mickey? Or a valium?
Or...maybe some super-strong egg nog...force-fed?
Denial is not just a river in Egypt! ;)
Well it's not as exciting as DR CILLA LIZ buying a house, BUT I bought a new car today. I had my Pontiac Grand Am for MANY years (if you are thinking about it, don't buy a Pontiac)....
So here I am....it's not as lovely as the NEW BLUE car that DR MBARNUM bought, and it is not a 1958 Imperial like Allison drove in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman but it is:
Lesbians like Old Spice, don't they? Or is that Grey Flannel...? :-XJason, Old Spice is an aftershave. Just what are they supposed to be shaving?
Well that explains it, then--I wear Old Spice, and it's obviously because I'm a lesbian.Well, the not shaving fits in...
Well that explains it, then--I wear Old Spice, and it's obviously because I'm a lesbian.
Jane, I think that was me with the UPS runaround due to the horrible state of emergency that FedEx somehow managed to handle easily.
And yes, the package was delivered today. :)
...they lied and would use quotes in their flyers and ads from some of our ex-employees...of course these were all ex-employees who had long histories of being disciplined and or were just plain kookie!
It looks longer than it felt, if you can believe it...
Here's a map showing the route I had to walk to get home. It looks longer than it felt, if you can believe it...
The walking on water part is so very appropriate for this time of year, don't you think? ;D
I like Old Spice... is that becasue I'm a lesbian?
I have not completed getting my Christmas cards and things in the mail.
I think I shall send New Year cards instead!