Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on April 18, 2024, 12:41:16 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes circumvented the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the circumvented cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ERUDITE!
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Topic of the Day: I must confess that I don't really know from Mahler and Rachmaninoff. :-\
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Wordle 1,034 4/6
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Good morning, friends.
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I would like some soup.
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Soup for breakfast would still be OK in my book.
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Is that the Wichita lineman?
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Who decides these things?
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Who could forget La Fogata?
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It's not Taco Tuesday, but so what?
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Maybe it's Thaco Thursday?
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~~~CONTINUED MULTIPLE MODERN MAJOR MIRACLE VIBES~~~ for the likes of BK!!!!!!
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Good morning, all!
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I slept terribly. I usually do when it's an Access-a-Ride day.
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I was supposed to see my podiatrist last week, but the building management screwed up my week by putting in a new sidewalk. The jackhammers and workers drove the cats crazy, and I didn't want to step outside with the walker and get trapped in the mess, so I rebooked all my appointments except for the podiatrist, since I needed to see her ASAP. I called yesterday, got the appointment for this morning, and called Access-a-Ride. The worst part is, the office is down on East 22nd Street, and with traffic I could be there forever before I get home.
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On my way home, I will stop at Staples and scan the new Charleston Finale. Doug is eager to see it and get it into the score.
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Good morning
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TOD
I am not a fan of Mahler's symphonies, but I love his orchestral song cycles Kindertotenlieder, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
I also like his completion of Weber's comic opera Die Drei Pintos.
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Vespers, The Isle of the Dead
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I woke up with the lines
Though April showers, may come you way… they bring the flowers that bloom in May
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That is all I know of that song, the bit which my grandmother woukd sing when anyone complained about it raining
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It’s raining
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Now I mean
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As it has been doing lo these many days
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Poor Vixdad had to go to Brooklyn this morning
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I , on the other hand, am scheduled to go to Mattituck
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Which could be a lovely trip on a warm, sunny spring day
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Not so much in the rain
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But for now I shall sip my coffee with hazelnut creamer
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And attempt a Wordle
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Ooh I found page
totootwo!
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It’s raining
It's raining men?
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I wonder if I can do connections too
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It's Thursday here.
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Probably where DR Ron Pulliam is, too.
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Perhaps.
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Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
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It’s raining
It's raining men?
Alleluia!
( no!)
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~~~TRAVEL & ERRAND VIBES~~~ for DR elmore3003!
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Connections
Puzzle #312
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TOD:
Rachmaninoff:
All-Night Vigil (choral a cappella)
Cello Sonata in G minor - full of the most gorgeous tunes throughout
Preludes (piano)
Mahler:
All of it: the symphonies, the orchestral song cycles
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Ugh! The litter was particularly gross this morning, but it's finished and kitty cleanup is over.
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Good morning, all.
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Zenith stereo sounds as good as it looks.
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Why not get the best?
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A real time-saver! Now you can do two morning ablutions at the same time.
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Good morning, all.
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I understand the convenience but the lack of privacy bothers me.
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Thursday.
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Really early Mahler recordings can be painful. (As can early Stravinsky or just about anyone, before orchestras got the music in their ears and fingers and could read and play them halfway decently.)
The most execrable Mahler I knew was this recording of the Sixth, the only one the school library had before the Leinsdorf and the Bernstein ones became known to us. It was 1968 and we had just experienced the Szell performances in Severance Hall, and this was all we had to go to for more. I always wondered how it came to be on the Epic label, but maybe they published a bunch of things like that, and who cares, really.
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A real time-saver! Now you can do two morning ablutions at the same time.
I guess the shower could function as a bidet while you shave or brush your teeth?
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Why not get the best?
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I believe it was Tevye's daughter Tzeitel who said "Because you're a girl from a poor family. So whatever Yenta brings, you'll take, right? Of course right!"
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I like Mahler, but I listen to it much less frequently than I did "back in the day". I do love the song cycles that DR Elmore named.
As far as participation goes, in school I loved playing celesta in the Sixth, I played organ in the finale of the Second in rehearsal (the Allen organ literally crapped out on us just before the performance began), and I accompanied at least one choral rehearsal for the Eighth at the Cincinnati May Festival in the early seventies.
I don't know those Rachmaninoff pieces DR singdaw named, but I like Isle of the Dead and The Bells. I actually know the more common pieces very little.
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Bring on the tacos. Please. I could use a circumvention right about now.
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TOD sidestep:
In what movie, and from which character, did we get the line: "Wouldn't you just DIE without Mahler?"
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Probably where DR Ron Pulliam is, too.
In fact, despite it FEELING like a Friday, it is most assuredly Thursday.
And you know what THAT means, do you not?
It's cubed steak at The Triangle for lunch! Oh, joy!
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman?
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Yesterday was Wednesday here in the CSRA.
I had an afternoon podiatry appointment at 3:30 p.m. I left at 1 p.m., drove to Aiken SC (where my appointment was) and went to The Fresh Market forthwith.
There, I purchased some yummies for dinner and later, and then drove to my appointment. I was a half hour early, but I had my cell phone.
It was a busy afternoon in that office, and a lot of people were waiting. I soon found myself to be among them as I wasn't called in until 4:18 p.m. and didn't see the doctor until 4:43 p.m. Yes, I was checking the time.
The doctor was really pleased with my foot (the one that had an ulceration alongside a large callous two weeks ago). She did a bit more trimming and suggested I not allow a new callous to go too long before coming in for another treatment.
She is a pleasant young woman with a 12-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter. They all went to Disney World last week. I pried that info out of her since she would have seen me last week but for her family's vacation. I wanted to know how it all went.
My drive home was better than I thought it would be given the time factor (I left a little after 5 p.m). Traffic moved nicely and my trip went smoothly.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman?
Ummm...you would certainly know if that was so.
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This is the scene if you don't know the answer to my Sidestep:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z53la
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Yesterday I caught up on a project that had been put off since probably before the holidays. DR Elmore had recommended the Robert Irving/NYC Ballet Orchestra recording of The Nutcracker, and I found the reel-to-reel tape on Discogs. We wondered if there were cuts made on the tape as opposed to the LP. It is indeed a very full reel of tape. Belatedly, yesterday was the day to get out the score and listen to it at last.
There are eight short "judicious" cuts made where there's sufficient repetition within a passage to get away with it. We're talking literally eight bars or so, each, and not in the popular excerpts. The one lack of a repeat where I know I would have detected something possibly amiss without following the score is the "Tempo di Gross-Vater" where we have the stately 3/8 theme followed by the quick 2/4...and the recording goes on without going back to the 3/8. That's always been a distinctive moment to my ears, and I do miss that one.
Three other written repeats not taken are in Act II, Scene 10 (in the Dover score these are the first-endings on pages 271 and 285) and in "The Apotheosis" (page 505). This all amounts to just the shaving of - what, a minute? - off the recording, and listening through headphones I didn't detect any edits in those spots. I wonder if the LP is the same, or even if any of those are traditional cuts - although I wonder why they would be. Or was this done to literally help prevent the tape from spilling off the reel? Don't you love a good mystery?
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Jrand, hoping you're feeling better today, and the pain pills either worked or are working.
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Ron, that seemed like quite a long wait at the doctor's office, but glad it was a helpful visit!
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This is the scene if you don't know the answer to my Sidestep:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z53la
It felt like something from a horror film, talking about dying without Mahler.
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Random thought:
If Hal Prince had just had James Earl Jones Jones record the voiceover for the A Little Night Music movie trailer, perhaps the film would have succeeded.
...In a world where princes are lawyers...
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A real time-saver! Now you can do two morning ablutions at the same time.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7571.0;attach=21713)
Umm...nope! :o
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Yesterday was Wednesday here in the CSRA.
I had an afternoon podiatry appointment at 3:30 p.m. I left at 1 p.m., drove to Aiken SC (where my appointment was) and went to The Fresh Market forthwith.
There, I purchased some yummies for dinner and later, and then drove to my appointment. I was a half hour early, but I had my cell phone.
It was a busy afternoon in that office, and a lot of people were waiting. I soon found myself to be among them as I wasn't called in until 4:18 p.m. and didn't see the doctor until 4:43 p.m. Yes, I was checking the time.
The doctor was really pleased with my foot (the one that had an ulceration alongside a large callous two weeks ago). She did a bit more trimming and suggested I not allow a new callous to go too long before coming in for another treatment.
She is a pleasant young woman with a 12-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter. They all went to Disney World last week. I pried that info out of her since she would have seen me last week but for her family's vacation. I wanted to know how it all went.
My drive home was better than I thought it would be given the time factor (I left a little after 5 p.m). Traffic moved nicely and my trip went smoothly.
Sounds like you had a great appointment, Ron!
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This is the scene if you don't know the answer to my Sidestep:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z53la
I knew that that line sounded familiar! ;D It's been years since I've seen it, but I really liked it. :)
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Random thought:
If Hal Prince had just had James Earl Jones Jones record the voiceover for the A Little Night Music movie trailer, perhaps the film would have succeeded.
...In a world where princes are lawyers...
:))
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Random thought:
If Hal Prince had just had James Earl Jones Jones record the voiceover for the A Little Night Music movie trailer, perhaps the film would have succeeded.
...In a world where princes are lawyers...
:)
And I'd bet James Earl Jones could make the raisins-liaisons rhyme really work.
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From Bruce:
No glasses call - something to NOT crow about and I will now be proactive in the morning - we're going on a week and a half now.
I am not surprised. Vibes they arrive today.
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Thank you DR Vixmom.
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DR Ron I'm glad the news was good at your follow-up appointment yesterday.
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I love the Titan, Mahler’s first symphony, best. I also heard it first, at an outdoor concert. Highly memorable. Like ChasSmith, I liked the rest more back in the day.
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TOD: For Mahler, Symphony No. 2, with No. 9 and No. 8 close behind. We've been spoiled over the years with fantastic performances by MTT and the San Francisco Symphony.
For Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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No. 5 seems to have been enjoying a lot of popularity these past few years.
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I'm up, I'm up - rough night in Jericho. Maybe five hours of sleep.
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No glasses call. I'll give her till noon, then I'll call.
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I'm up, I'm up - rough night in Jericho. Maybe five hours of sleep.
Better sleep vibes for BK!
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A devastatingly gorgeous day outside. The birds are singing their hearts out and have been since early morning. A big pine tree is on the pond shoreline not 10 yards from my den, and I can hear every twitter.
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It is currently 88 degrees and sunny.
Low tonight should reach 62 degrees,
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Ron, that seemed like quite a long wait at the doctor's office, but glad it was a helpful visit!
I thought so, too, but I understood the doctor was playing catch-up, and some of those folks were in need of a lot of attention.
I'm retired. I can wait.
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DR Ron I'm glad the news was good at your follow-up appointment yesterday.
Me, too. I am determined to be far more attentive to my feet from now on.
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Listening to Ravel’s Piano Concerto for Left Hand. Evokes Into the Woods.
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Stuck at a train.
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Ron, that seemed like quite a long wait at the doctor's office, but glad it was a helpful visit!
I thought so, too, but I understood the doctor was playing catch-up, and some of those folks were in need of a lot of attention.
I'm retired. I can wait.
What a great approach to take!
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Page Four seems so close
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Let's get there
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Page Four!
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I've been home for about two hours, and it's been a long, long day. Traffic was lousy and the AAR driver, who would have got me home earlier if he'd taken the West Side Highway, followed his GPS through NY traffic madness.
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DR ChasSnith, can you convert that Nutcracker tape to mp3? I'd love to have it.
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For dinner i ordered three tacos from Nina's Great Burrito. I haven't had Mexican food in ages, and it was so good!
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A devastatingly gorgeous day outside. The birds are singing their hearts out and have been since early morning. A big pine tree is on the pond shoreline not 10 yards from my den, and I can hear every twitter.
Lovely.
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Glad you are home safe & sound, DR elmore3003.
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Loved the recording analysis, DR ChasSmith. And who doesn't love a great mystery?
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My dream house has a huge kitchen with an attached library for cookbooks, and a media room with all the sound equipment and an attached library for scores.
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Probably every room should have an attached library.
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Ron, that seemed like quite a long wait at the doctor's office, but glad it was a helpful visit!
I thought so, too, but I understood the doctor was playing catch-up, and some of those folks were in need of a lot of attention.
I'm retired. I can wait.
You are more patient than I am, however, it does help when apologies are made and you are told there will be a wait. Most of all, it helped that the doctor gave you the proper attention once you saw him.
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My dream house has a huge kitchen with an attached library for cookbooks, and a media room with all the sound equipment and an attached library for scores.
It sounds great.
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We have a new work colleague joining our team on Monday. We are told that their pronouns are they/them. I like a good challenge. But I find it hard to adapt.
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As do I. I would prefer saying "theys".
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We have a new work colleague joining our team on Monday. We are told that their pronouns are they/them. I like a good challenge. But I find it hard to adapt.
They’ll be fine. Your grammar may suffer.
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;D
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I believe there will be popcorn tonight.
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I believe there will be popcorn tonight.
Enjoy!
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I keep looking at "circumvention" and stalling.
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I want it to be "intervention" or "circumnavigation."
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I also want to be on page five.
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I believe there will be popcorn tonight.
Enjoy!
I will thank you.
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But that doesn't appear to be in the cards.
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I was careful what I ate this evening so I could enjoy the popcorn without it upsetting my stomach.
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As I'm not playing with a full deck.
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All hands on deck.
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Hit the deck.
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Deck the halls.
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That was a short sprint.
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Or, like that John Adams concert piece, a short ride in a fast machine.
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One more.
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FIVE
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Good night, friends.
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FIVE
I knew you could do it.
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'night
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Good evening.
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I believe there will be popcorn tonight.
Had Mexican street corn tonight.
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I did go to Mattituck
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It drizzled the whole way there and back
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Good evening.
Hi, DR Laura.
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The sun broke out when it was just getting ready to set
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Maybe tomorrow the sun will come out
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Hello, Vixmom!
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Maybe tomorrow the sun will come out
Oh, Annie! Sing it, sister.
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Maybe tomorrow the sun will come out
Oh, Annie! Sing it, sister.
If this were page 6, we could sing:
Page seven, page seven
Where are you, page seven?
You're only a page away.
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But it's page 5, not page 6
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And BK, the tale as old as time tells us, does not care for page 7 anyway.
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Good evening.
Hi, Laura.
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I did go to Mattituck
How far was the drive to Mattituck?
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To get to page 6 quickly, how about the list of the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the US?
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10. New Orleans, Louisiana
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9. Chicago, Illinois
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8. Sacramento, California
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7. San Diego, California
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6. Los Angeles, California
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5. Denver, Colorado
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4. Portland, Oregon
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3. Las Vegas, Nevada
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2. Hartford, Connecticut
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And #1
1. San Francisco, California
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Is page 6 anywhere to be found?
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Page Six!
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A lot of California cities are on the list of the best ten cities for LGBTQ people!
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These were named the LEAST LGBTQ-friendly cities in the US:
Memphis, Tennessee
Houston, Texas
Jacksonville, Florida
Birmingham, Alabama
Miami, Florida
Dallas, Texas
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Tampa, Florida
St Louis, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
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Three mentions of Florida on THAT list!
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Finished with my viewing such as it was.
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I began at around seven with The Zone of whatever it's called - dozed off right after the first minute.
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Next thing I knew, phone was ringing - nine-fifteen.
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Now I'm listening to the last couple of Ormandy in Minneapolis albums - Strauss waltzes right now.
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A lot of California cities are on the list of the best ten cities for LGBTQ people!
Not surprising! :D
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These were named the LEAST LGBTQ-friendly cities in the US:
Memphis, Tennessee
Houston, Texas
Jacksonville, Florida
Birmingham, Alabama
Miami, Florida
Dallas, Texas
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Tampa, Florida
St Louis, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Not surprising. ::)
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Page six is surprising, but George was here so perhaps he'll return and make with some postings.
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I'm back. ::)
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Tomorrow, we have the last Friday performance of the last weekend of performances for Incorruptible at Lakewood Playhouse. :)
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We didn't have a pick-up rehearsal this week, but then we now have had two weekends under our belt, so the actors should all be pretty solid on their lines.
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Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is out! My first listening is very favorable. I like how her voice improves with each album, especially in her low register which sounds even lower, deeper, and richer than before.
I've only listened to the 15 song + Clara Bow bonus track album, not the extra 15 songs that were just released in the Anthology version.
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So, I bought some earbuds a few years ago, just because they were a new design for the company and kinda cool and on sale for a good price, but then sometime early last year I misplaced them.
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So, I looked on eBay and found a certified refurbished pair for less than a third of what I paid before.
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The sale includes a 2-year warranty, so that's cool.
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The estimated delivery range is between Monday, April 22 through Thursday, April 25.
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So, sometime late next week. :)
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Lost ear buds.
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That's the title of my next novel.
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How can we still be on page six?
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Pick up sticks.
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I played pick up sticks as a young child.
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My brother and I played many board games when we were children.
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Where are those games today?
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Gone with the wind.
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The one thing I would love to find that got lost in one of my many apartment moves (an entire box of my high school stuff went missing) is the photo of me and The Three Stooges taken at the Moulin Rouge, circa 1959 or early 1960. I was taken backstage to meet them before the show.
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It was a thrill. Joe De Rita could not have been nicer and friendlier. Moe and Larry were a bit terse but it was still fun to meet them. I occasionally check eBay but alas... I fear the entire box got thrown in the trash.
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I often wonder what other treasures were in there.
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Damn them, damn them all to HELL.
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Oh, and I do not care for page seven.
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And yet, here we are.
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And George has decided to eat a damn burrito.
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The one thing I would love to find that got lost in one of my many apartment moves (an entire box of my high school stuff went missing) is the photo of me and The Three Stooges taken at the Moulin Rouge, circa 1959 or early 1960. I was taken backstage to meet them before the show.
That would be cool if you could find it.
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I try and I try and I try with Mr. Bruckner - I like a couple of his early symphonies, but the ones I'm supposed to love I merely find ponderous.
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I had some boxes stolen from my garage about 15 years ago. :(
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Believe me, I want to find it.
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Probably over 300 cast albums were stolen. :P
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It was small, taken with a Kodak Brownie or one of those kinds of cameras.
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I'm sure the thief(s) didn't know what they were taking.
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If I had it, it would be framed and hanging on my wall. I also know I took photos of wrestling on my visits to the Olympic Auditorium.
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I do have some photos from my early teen years, including some with the people who took me to St. Louis - that's 1960.
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The things we lose. I know there were also photos of my grandfather at his Wheel-O stand - where are THOSE?
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Time Machine please. I could go back to the apartment where that box disappeared and save it, get on the Time Machine and come right back, maybe after visiting a couple of rare book stores so I could get some books that are now worth 30K.
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And I guess I could stop in 1961 and see West Side Story in 70mm at the Chinese and maybe a Cinerama film down the street.
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Wouldn't that be fun.
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I could go back to 1956 and see The Man Who Knew too Much at the Lido after sitting next to me and my brother having a burger down the street at Kentucky Boys.
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With all out technology and stupid AI, why can't we have a damn time machine.
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Wouldn't that be fun.
That would be. I'd just love to know who took the boxes in my garage.
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I could go see Exodus in 70mm at the Wilshire. And Ben-Hur at the Egyptian.
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I could follow myself to the Stadium Theater to see Bells Are Ringing or The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.
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I could go to Rebozo's for tacos and Kelbo's for a barbecued beef sandwich with two ribs and their saiad.
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I could go to my father's restaurant and eat shrimp cocktail shrimp and have a steak and a salad.
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I could go see North by Northwest at the Wiltern. Li'l Abner, too.
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I could have a C.C. Brown's hot fudge sundae.
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I could visit Chesterfield Records and Martindale's Books and Pickwick Books.
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I could go see Around the World in Eighty Days in real Todd-AO at the Carthay Circle.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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I could go see Eugene Ormandy conduct his Philadelphia Orchestra and I could see the national tours of Gypsy and Li'l Abner and Long Day's Journey into Night.
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Just a few days visiting various years, nothing past 1965 so I could go see Robert Weede again in The Most Happy Fella.
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I'd go visit Mrs. Wallett at Crescent Heights and see the real-life Susan Pomeroy and follow me walking her home.
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I could go to Ocean Park Pier and have me a vanilla custard ice cream cone whilst walking the promenade.
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I could go see The Parent Trap on opening day and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on opening day.
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I could knock on the door of my house and see if anyone recognizes me. I could say to my young self, "THIS is what you have to look forward to."
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Whilst there, I could get a couple of chocolate donuts from the Helms man.
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I could see The Tenth Man and A Thurber Carnival again. And Beyond the Fringe and Stop the World-I Want to Get Off and The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf again. Wouldn't that be fun.
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I could have a C.C. Brown's hot fudge sundae.
That's what I'd want!