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Title: CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 01:38:03 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes told you all you needed to know, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're decorating their Christmas tree and hanging some moostletoe.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 01:41:27 AM: And the word of the day is: BRICOLAGE!
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 02:16:09 AM: I'M AT HOME AND I HAVE POWER IN MY HOUSE!! ;D I'm so happy! After a very good show tonight (the college had power also!), a bunch of us went to the house of one of the miners and had a party. I stayed for about an hour and a half and when I drove up to the street that my place is on, the traffic lights were on!! And when I turned into the condo entrance, there were lights in the condo windows!! When I got to my condo, the lights were on (I left some on so that I could tell) AND it's warm!! I checked all my e-mail and just had to post the news. ;)
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 02:19:52 AM: Because of the wind storm, we cancelled our Friday night performance and now we're able to add a Sunday night show. All the tickets that were pre-sold for Friday are good on Sunday evening (we had scheduled to end after the Sunday matinee...but that ain't happening). And because we have a two show day, we're taking official pictures of all the actors in all the costumes in between the shows and pizza will be sent in. ;D We will still have some time to get away, I'm sure, before the second show. But after the second show, we have to strike the set. THAT'S going to be a pain. I know it's required (and I'll stay as long as I'm needed), but our call time for the matinee is 12:30 and the second show won't end until 10:00 p.m. or 10:15, so it'll be one heck of a long night...which means that I NEED to get to sleep now!

Just had to share. :D
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 02:25:54 AM: The worst part of what's coming up next...opening my refrigerator and freezer!! :o

I'm afraid! I'm very afraid!

;)
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 02:35:54 AM: [move=up,scroll,6,transparent,100%]
And Welcome to the Heavens, MusicGuy!!
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 02:37:46 AM: der Brucer, this would have been PERFECT my ensemble!! But we close today. Darn. And on sale for only $3,565.99, it's damn cheap! ;D

(http://www.vivre.com/images/prod_images/p_rp37609.jpg)

;)
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 02:38:40 AM: And with that...good night. 8)
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Post by: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 05:25:44 AM: George! So happy to hear that you're once again empowered. May the (electromagnetic) force stay with you!

Good vibes for the Cannibal finale. Will you have "finger foods" with your pizza?
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Post by: FJL on December 17, 2006, 05:26:36 AM: Great news, George!
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 05:43:38 AM: Quote from: bk on December 17, 2006, 01:41:27 AM
And the word of the day is: BRICOLAGE!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
While wearing a BRICOLAGE of a costume
Which included a plaid tuxedo coat,
A wife-beater shirt colored dingy grey,
A bright yellow necktie that matched his water-squirting boutonniere,
A kelly green bowler that he'd stolen from Bob Fosse,
Maroon jodhpurs,
Argyle sox, one mainly pink and the other mainly baby blue,
A left-footed cowboy boot,
And a left-footed stiletto by Prada, lending the ensemble a devil-may-care look.
Needless to say, what he wore distracted onlookers from noticing that the strawberry blonde was clad in nothing but a bathtowel, in homage to Barbara Bain in the pilot episode of Mission: Impossible.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 05:46:06 AM: A warm house and dry carpet! Good news, George!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 05:54:31 AM: I don't like bricolage - no matter how it's cooked.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 05:55:22 AM: TWO A DAY vibes to DR GEORGE. Glad you have THE POWER.

Congrats to Mr BK and his BRAIN cast and crew for a successful premiere run! And more good vibes for the recording sessions.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 05:56:12 AM: Working today and hoping for ANOTHER successful Sunday at the cash register!
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Post by: Michael on December 17, 2006, 06:02:49 AM: Party Party

The week of party's have started.
Company todo this afternoon,
Center todo tomorrow afternoon
Toastmasters todo tmorrow night

DIET HELP!!!
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 06:03:00 AM: I think I will order THE BEALES - after the holidays!

In honor of DR EDISAURUS' return, let's talk about documentaries!

I really LOVE both MOON OVER BROADWAY and COMPANY: THE CAST ALBUM....and many others....but I will start with those.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 06:10:55 AM: Briiiiiicolaaaage!

(Shouted while standing on top of a mountain with an impossibly long alpine horn...)
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 06:15:13 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on December 17, 2006, 06:03:00 AM
In honor of DR EDISAURUS' return, let's talk about documentaries!

Yes! Let's!
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: FJL on December 17, 2006, 06:26:31 AM: A cubby of broccoli - just felt like saying that for some reason, since I have nothing else to add to the conversation
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Post by: FJL on December 17, 2006, 06:27:59 AM: Today is the delayed Hannukah celebration with my family in New Jersey, so I'll be E&T (Eating and Traveling) for most of the day
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Post by: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 06:29:16 AM: Two of my favorites: Steve Martin"s (not the wild and crazy guy) "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey" and Ric Burns' "Coney Island".

Favorite documentary director: Alan Berliner
I wish more of his films were on DVD. He produces, directs, writes, and edits his films, and they are usually personal documentaries, extremely well-crafted, funny and emotional. And his use of found footage and the way he so artfully manages his materials is very impressive. His new film about insomnia, "Wide Awake" gives some insight into his "process" in a very funny way. I think this may air on HBO sometime soon.
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Post by: Ginny on December 17, 2006, 06:38:41 AM: Sunday morning greetings! I've been up for a few hours, puttering and getting ready to drive to Cleveland this afternoon for 2 meetings tomorrow at the Foundation Center.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Ginny on December 17, 2006, 06:40:09 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on December 17, 2006, 06:03:00 AM
...In honor of DR EDISAURUS' return, let's talk about documentaries!
...

Last night my family watched Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 06:46:51 AM: Feel better vibes to DRRLP and welcome to new HHW GOD: DR MUSICGUY
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 06:59:08 AM: Good morning, all! For the first time since my return from LA, I allowed myself to sleep late, and I feel wonderful: aimless and vague, but wonderful.

DR George! Fantastic news. My frst bit of advice is to keep the refrigerator power on and let everything in the freezer freeze so you can throw out chunks of ice not buckets of water.

DR BK, thanks for the kind words on The Brain. I miss the show and the cast and you immensely and I weep for its current end. I hope the cast will keep in touch, and that we get to do more with The Brain or work on something new. I hope you'll send me a rough mix before the final so I can make a few uggestions, but I do wish I could be there with you, DR Adriana and all tomorrow, if just to see you all one more time!

Last night, I watched the ballet, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, from England's Northern Ballet Theatre, with a wonderful score composed from Christmas and 19th-Century music by Carl Davis, who often takes the tunes and makes delicious new music from them, much like the late great Hershy Kay ballets for Balanchine. I love the Dickens story, and I found the power of movement quite heartbreaking in spots - the pas de deux for Belle and Young Scrooge when she breaks the engagement, the Christmas future wherein Bob Cratchit, dancing with his family, runs into the dead Tiny Tim's cruch and mourns - more moving and powerful than in any spoken version. It's quite wonderful and I think I'll watch it a few more times in the next weeks.

Documentaries: The COMPANY cast recording, ELAINE STRITCH, BALLETS RUSSES
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2006, 07:11:04 AM: Good morning, good day!
How are you this beautiful day?
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 07:11:30 AM: Before I dash off to work, as I must, I have to admit that I've a problem with the term "documentary."

The problem is, at what point does a film change from being a documentary (meaning, a document about a set of facts) to being an editorial?

The International, which der B and I enjoyed very much, is clearly a documentary, tracing the evolution of a song.

But I have questions about some other films. Carl Sagan's series Cosmos, as a non-confrontational example, is clearly non-fiction, but it is also the expousal of a singular point of view. It's not "talking heads," since his is the only head talking.

And how is a viewer supposed to learn the difference? Or is this a distinction we shouldn't expect people to make?
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2006, 07:11:36 AM: The cold I've been fighting is still "on the fence", so to speak.

I'm overdosing on Airborne.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2006, 07:12:52 AM: My mother's church is having a Christmas Cantata at 11 a.m.

I'm going.

The preacher's wife is the lead soprano. She has an affinity for being off key at crucial moments.

It should be fun.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:24:12 AM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2006, 07:12:52 AM
My mother's church is having a Christmas Cantata at 11 a.m.

I'm going.

The preacher's wife is the lead soprano. She has an affinity for being off key at crucial moments.

It should be fun.

Is her name Eulalie? ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:24:51 AM: Ah - how could I forget BALLET RUSSES? Answered many questions for me and was a wonderful HISTORY of lost time.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:27:00 AM: Page Two Ballet Dance....

Certainly "dance" or what is called "dance" today is not a patch on what used to be done. :(

(http://ring.mithec.com/BOOKS/ballet%20degas%209.jpg)
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:27:57 AM: Quote from: George on December 17, 2006, 02:35:54 AM
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And Welcome to the Heavens, MusicGuy!!
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Thank you DR George, and also derBrucer and Francois, for the celestial welcomes!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 07:30:25 AM: Good morning!

Another beautiful day here and we should have one more tomorrow before more typical December temperatures begin to invade us once again.
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:31:10 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on December 17, 2006, 06:46:51 AM
Feel better vibes to DRRLP and welcome to new HHW GOD: DR MUSICGUY

Thanks very much Jack....maybe up in these lofty clouds, I'll run into Ayn walking around, and I can ask her about some of her inspirations and thoughts! :)
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 07:31:36 AM: I do love the COMPANY documentary, but I think the one I've watched the most and enjoy the most is ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED. Hard to watch that and remain unmoved.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 07:32:46 AM: Yes, Valhalla has made room for its newest denizen, DR Music Guy. Welcome, welcome!
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:35:36 AM: And when our own dear Esteemed, elfish, suave, and guapo BK wakes up today ----

Very big congratulations on a job well-done and the completion of a most joyous and delightful musical production.

In case I follow through on a crazy whim.... would you mind a "fly on the wall" visitor (me) in the studio during the cast recording session on Wednesday?? Please let me know........
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 07:36:45 AM: With nothing of interest for me on network TV tonight, I think I'll hold PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN for the evening (should be better in a darker environment anyway).

So, this afternoon, I think I'll begin working my way through the MEDIUM second season boxed set. They should be entertaining to revisit, and that 3-D episode from last season is included (with glasses though I still have the ones that I used during the original broadcast).
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 07:36:58 AM: I may alternate MEDIUM with the old comedy series POLICE SQUAD which remains high on my list of unjustly canceled series. That set has been setting here a couple of weeks, and as there are only six episodes in all, it shouldn't take long to get through the set.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:37:45 AM: Quote from: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 07:32:46 AM
Yes, Valhalla has made room for its newest denizen, DR Music Guy. Welcome, welcome!

Thanks mucho Matt....wth your description, I feel like I should have a copper breast-plate, helmet with horns, and long blond pig-tails.

.....but I'm sure that several on here have already worn that.....
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:42:16 AM: Quote from: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:31:10 AM
Thanks very much Jack....maybe up in these lofty clouds, I'll run into Ayn walking around, and I can ask her about some of her inspirations and thoughts! :)

Ask her what time it is, and she will tell you how to build a clock....a capitalist clock without the problems of the communist clock. ;D
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:42:35 AM: Quote from: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:37:45 AM
Thanks mucho Matt....wth your description, I feel like I should have a copper breast-plate, helmet with horns, and long blond pig-tails.

.....but I'm sure that several on here have already worn that.....

Wearing exactly that to work today. ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:43:18 AM: Lovely....absolutely lovely. 8)

(http://www.moviemars.com/images/09026688232.jpg)
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 07:50:52 AM: Quote from: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 06:10:55 AM
Briiiiiicolaaaage!

(Shouted while standing on top of a mountain with an impossibly long alpine horn...)

LOL, That's exactly what I thought when I read it!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 07:52:57 AM: LOL....

Off to work.....Retail...hmmmmmm
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 07:54:57 AM: Just had to stop by to say hello. Now to the shower and medicating the cat
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 08:04:35 AM: Quote from: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 07:37:45 AM
Thanks mucho Matt....wth your description, I feel like I should have a copper breast-plate, helmet with horns, and long blond pig-tails.

If you did, people would just think that Helen Traubel had risen from the dead.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:27:25 AM: BK, Congrats on a good run of THE BRAIN. Vibes for its future ~~~~~~~~~~
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Post by: Jeanne on December 17, 2006, 08:29:32 AM: Congratulations, MUSIC GUY!! Many of us already knew you were God-like!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:30:14 AM: OH CRAP!!! I have been looking forward to going to the Symphony's Holiday spectacular for weeks and I just realized it was last night and I completely forgot to go.....how on earth did I do such a stupid thing?????
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Post by: Ginny on December 17, 2006, 08:32:48 AM: Well, I'm all packed and about to head north to Cleveland. I'm not taking the laptop, just for this short trip, so might be E&T until I get to the Foundation Center tomorrow morning.

Bye for now!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:40:27 AM: I guess I should head down now and think about what's for lunch.

I also have my usual Sunday chores: laundry, cleaning bathroom, etc.

WBBL.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 08:55:41 AM: I'm up, I'm up, but I'm going back to bed in a moment, just to lay there like so much fish.

MusicGuy: We'd love to see you at Wednesday's session - it's just a vocal session but it will be fun. If you need the particulars, let me know.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: MBarnum on December 17, 2006, 10:05:38 AM: My favorite documentary is called something like THE MAN WHO DREW BUG EYED MONSTERS and was about an artist who was responsible for a good many 1950s movie posters.
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:22:12 AM: Quote from: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 05:25:44 AM
George! So happy to hear that you're once again empowered. May the (electromagnetic) force stay with you!

Good vibes for the Cannibal finale. Will you have "finger foods" with your pizza?

Thanks! I don't know about finger food with the pizza, but at the beginning of the run, someone brought in a whole bucket full of body parts chocolates! There were fingers, toes, ears and eyeballs (and the eyeballs were filled with either caramel, fudge or peanut butter). They were all quite delicious! ;)
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:33:00 AM: Quote from: Ginny on December 17, 2006, 06:40:09 AM
Last night my family watched Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

I bought this for my mom for Christmas. ;)
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:36:21 AM: Quote from: FJL on December 17, 2006, 05:26:36 AM
Great news, George!

Thanks FJL and Woody and JRand!!
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:36:40 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on December 17, 2006, 06:03:00 AM
I think I will order THE BEALES - after the holidays!

In honor of DR EDISAURUS' return, let's talk about documentaries!

I really LOVE both MOON OVER BROADWAY and COMPANY: THE CAST ALBUM....and many others....but I will start with those.

"Company: The Cast Album" is one of my favorites, also. :D
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:37:01 AM: Quote from: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 07:11:30 AM
Before I dash off to work, as I must, I have to admit that I've a problem with the term "documentary."

The problem is, at what point does a film change from being a documentary (meaning, a document about a set of facts) to being an editorial?

The International, which der B and I enjoyed very much, is clearly a documentary, tracing the evolution of a song.

But I have questions about some other films. Carl Sagan's series Cosmos, as a non-confrontational example, is clearly non-fiction, but it is also the expousal of a singular point of view. It's not "talking heads," since his is the only head talking.

And how is a viewer supposed to learn the difference? Or is this a distinction we shouldn't expect people to make?

I know some people (a Sondheim reference) who think that ANY non-fiction movie is a documentary...no matter what it's about or the viewpoint it takes. :-\
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:41:26 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 06:59:08 AM
DR George! Fantastic news. My frst bit of advice is to keep the refrigerator power on and let everything in the freezer freeze so you can throw out chunks of ice not buckets of water.

I did! I'm guessing that my power came back on shortly after I left at 6:00pm last night and was on for at least six hours by the time I got home. I didn't open either the fridge or the freezer until just a few minutes ago and fortunately, I pretty much only had pre-packaged frozen stuff in the freezer, so that was all still self-contained. I also didn't have any ice, so there was no spilled water that refroze. What really helped was that I just moved in and didn't have ANY time to create a big, giant glob of frozen stuff...even with the power being on, like my parents have. ::)

;)
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:42:02 AM: I also don't think that my fridge stuff is going to be too bad, either. I have a lot of unopened soy milk that doesn't need to be refrigerated anyway and a case of diet Pepsi and some other sealed stuff. My sister's ex-sister-in-law and her husband just started Jenny Craig and they figure that they lost over $400 worth of Jenny Craig food! :o
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:51:40 AM: Well, now that my frenzy is out of the way, I need to take a shower, dress, eat and then go to the theater. We have two shows today and a photo shoot in between the shows. After the second show, we have to strike the set. The show will end around 10pm and it's going to be a very, very, very (that's three verys) long day!

But then, it'll be all over!! :)
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Post by: George on December 17, 2006, 10:53:04 AM: Have a good day, all!
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 11:14:37 AM: Went back to bed and slept for two more hours, always a nice thing on a Sunday morning. I suppose I'll now try to get up the energy to jog, which I NEED to do, then it's on to plan tomorrow's session order, and then it's on to relaxing and watching DVDs.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 11:14:58 AM: Now, where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think it was a Sunday or something.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 11:15:31 AM: I'm in my jogging attire and yet I am not jogging. A conundrum wrapped inside of an enigma, if you ask me.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 11:51:53 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on December 17, 2006, 07:43:18 AM
Lovely....absolutely lovely. 8)

(http://www.moviemars.com/images/09026688232.jpg)

SISTERS, SISTERS....
(http://www.haineshisway.com/community/attachments/Cannibal_Up_Close.JPG)

der Brucer
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 11:57:24 AM: My, my, my, what an empty jernt this is.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 11:57:40 AM: Let's fill this empty jernt up before I begin bitch-slapping.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 11:58:04 AM: Had a very spirited jog, and shall now give a Kritzer tour.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 12:10:00 PM: This might last week at our place:

(http://countrystore.tabasco.com/images/template/large/gallon_habanero.jpg)

der Brucer
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Post by: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 12:31:34 PM: Favorite documentaries:

Victory at Sea
The Civil War (Ken Burns)

Perhaps "imperfect" as pure doumentary, I really liked James Burke's "Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed" series (Both BBC-TV)

der Brucer
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 12:33:26 PM: I'm watching the news coverage of the attempt to get to a snow cave on Mt Hood where they are hoping to find one or more of the climbers who have been missing
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Post by: JMK on December 17, 2006, 12:39:38 PM: We're B+2 (day two post-Bloat). Oy.

I have an Ask BK question: for some unknown reason I decided to pull out the JAY complete 110 in the Shade the other night. Like most of the JAY complete scores, I love having them documented, but always feel the tempi are waaaay too slow--maybe because I'm so imprinted with the OCR tempi, which may have been too fast to squeeze everything on the LP. Anyhoo, in listening again, I was struck once more by how quasi R&H Oklahoma-esque the score is and I was wondering if in your long friendship with Harvey Schmidt he ever said that Merrick asked them to write the score in that milieu, or if it just happened. I absolutely love, love, love the score--one of my all time favorites. In fact, I love it a lot more than Oklahoma!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 12:42:49 PM: Quote from: JMK on December 17, 2006, 12:39:38 PM
We're B+2 (day two post-Bloat). Oy.

Sounds like something I go through every month ;D
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 12:44:03 PM: I would guess every day post bloat is a good day and a day closer to surgery. ADDITIONAL GOOD HEALTH VIBES TO BEEGEE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Title: Re:CLOSING NIGHT
Post by: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 01:04:16 PM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 11:51:53 AM
SISTERS, SISTERS....

Hah! I was thinking the very same thing!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 01:06:19 PM: I've had a full afternoon of DVD watching.

I began with BEAVER VALLEY, one of Disney's Oscar-winning True-Life Adventures. It had been many years since I had seen this, and it was just wonderful seeing it again after so long a time. As with the others in this series, they've done an amazing job of restoration on these films, and they are a great pleasure to watch.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 01:10:51 PM: To finish out the selections on that True-Life Adventure disc, I watched the last program about life in the Everglades. I don't think I had ever seen this one before (probably did on World of Disney but too long ago to remember), and it was deeply entertaining. How wonderful to know I'm going to have these around for a long time to enjoy again and again, and now they're more easily enjoyable because they look almost new.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 01:15:50 PM: Then, I opened the MEDIUM Season 2 box. For some reason (maybe because I watched the shows when originally aired but seldom the reruns), the set-ups for the shows I remembered but nothing about their resolutions, so each episode was ALMOST like seeing it initially.

The first one was the conclusion of a two parter began at the end of the first season. The Texas Ranger that Allison had become friendly with in the original pilot episode was helping her track down a serial killer but had through a set of circumstances gone into a coma. From his coma, he could communicate with Allison, and with his help, they did uncover the mystery.

Like so many episodes in the second season, the motifs for her dreams and visions were so unusual as to keep the viewer always off balance. There is nothing predictable about how Allison's "gifts" will help her arrive at solutions to the crimes (and sometimes, it does no good).
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 01:17:55 PM: The second episode had to do with an abducted Mexican girl. The girl's priest took the confession of the killer but is helpless to say anything. Allison, meanwhile, is having nightmares about her family being killed in a plane crash right before they're slated to fly to Salt Lake City to attend a wedding. All worked out astonishingly well but in a very roundabout way.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 01:19:00 PM: And the third episode I watched dealt with a woman in a mental hospital in 1959 who claimed to be Allison DuBois! I really had very little memory of this one and the surprises caught me totally off guard.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 01:19:03 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 12:33:26 PM
I'm watching the news coverage of the attempt to get to a snow cave on Mt Hood where they are hoping to find one or more of the climbers who have been missing

Thanks-

It is riveting coverage!

der Brucer
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 01:21:20 PM: I mentioned earlier today that there was nothing on network TV tonight of interest, but I neglected to mention the season finale of DEXTER which is sure to be riveting (as the entire series has been). Michael C. Hall definitely deserved the Golden Globe nomination he received for the show (I'm really hoping he wins in his category though there is killer competition), and I'm delighted Showtime has renewed the show for another season.

Currently, it is Showtime's highest rated show.
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Post by: Edisaurus on December 17, 2006, 01:31:58 PM: Quote from: George on December 17, 2006, 10:37:01 AM
I know some people (a Sondheim reference) who think that ANY non-fiction movie is a documentary...no matter what it's about or the viewpoint it takes. :-\

Hence "reality tv" that people think are documentaries when there's very little reality about it. And those "sensational" docs that HBO does are pretty ridiculous. ("Hookers at The Point"?)

I am often asked about what I consider to be real documentaries, and at what point do they cross over into propaganda. I jokingly say that a film becomes propaganda when it espouses a viewpoint that I don't agree with.

I don't look at Michael Moore's films as documentaries, but more as editorials. There are very few objective documentaries, because as soon as you make an edit, you are controlling the flow of information and imposing your viewpoint upon it. But I think that's one of the things that makes the film interesting... the viewpoint of the filmmaker, as opposed to just throwing out all the information and letting the viewer try to sort it out for themselves.

Thomas Edison's early films (some of which we used in Sacco and Vanzetti) were about as pure as you can get...just setting up a camera and recording everyday action as it happens. That was probably interesting back then but now people want stories, and many documentaries are constructed with a story arc in mind, similar to a scripted drama.

I like Alan Berliner, whom I mentioned earlier, because he has taken an experimental approach and since the film is about some aspect of his life, he can be as manipulative as he wants to be. I wouldn't call his films documentaries as much as essays.

The Internationale is pretty straightforward in that we weren't trying to hammer home an agenda, it really is just the history of the song and how it has impacted people's lives.

I liked the Al Gore film, but there's another documentary on global warming that is far more objective and very well done called "Too Hot Not To Handle". This aired on HBO (they do support good stuff, too!) and was a straightforward "just the facts, ma'am" approach to the topic. They used the song "Dear World", which I had never heard before, over their opening titles. An inspired choice!

Another film on global warming (Greg worked on this one) is called "Everything's Cool". This is about people's refusal to acknowledge that it's a very real threat, and is really well done. It will be going to Sundance and probably end up on HBO, too. Greg can be glimpsed in one scene, miking up Heidi the climatologist at the Weather Channel.

But now that distributors and filmmakers realize that there is a market for documentaries, I've noticed that there is much more crap to wade through to find the good stuff. And it seems that the people who win awards for their films are the ones that put themselves most at risk while shooting, not films that are particularly well-made.

I love working on documentaries, though. It's like continuing education for me, and I have learned so much about topics I never would have, otherwise.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 02:15:17 PM: I'm heading down now to complete today's chores and then settle in for more televised entertainment.
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Post by: Michael on December 17, 2006, 02:25:09 PM: Hello All
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 02:25:38 PM: I love docuemtaries. I watched one the other day on the life of F Scott Fitzgerald. I love the Ken Burns/Ric Burn/Peter and Amy style of documentaries with photos, letters etc. My favorites are the ones that give you more than one perspective if there is more than one perspective. In other words there are points of view not just a point of view. You are left to form your own opinion. I guess you could say that's objective, but it does present some editorializing, just more than one side of the story.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 02:26:26 PM: I loved Spell Bound, Paper Clips...hmmm there are so many good docs
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 02:27:21 PM: I won't dance, don't ask me....I will objectively announce that this is page 4
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 17, 2006, 02:29:05 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2006, 07:12:52 AM

The preacher's wife is the lead soprano. She has an affinity for being off key at crucial moments.

It should be fun.

Sounds rather like our concert today. Our pianist/organist is wonderful. Our singers -- not so good. They did like my song, though.
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Post by: Ginny on December 17, 2006, 03:13:23 PM: Hello from Cleveland!

Wonder of wonders, the hotel has a computer in the lobby for guests to use. I've stayed here twice before and they didn't have one. My drive was smooth and I was here before dark. Now I'm on my way out to get a sandwich.

I'll try to check in later.
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:17:04 PM: Good afternoon Dear Readers...and it looks like a pretty quiet Sunday here in the Living Room. Oh, there will be hell to pay....

oh yes, Hell I tell you, if the major Poobah sees such a sparse Living Room even on a Sunday.

:(
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:17:43 PM: And so............ in the grand tradition of many a more illustrious than I DR......
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:18:08 PM: I feel I must resort to the lowest of devices......
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:18:20 PM: .....the split......
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:18:52 PM: ....post !!
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:23:35 PM: I do have (I think) a good pictorial example of the "word of the day" --

and so I offer the following.

This is a picture of "our Ranch" here in Phoenix; and as you can clearly see, for a ranch-style house like this (built in 1948) in was quite common to add a little detail to the lower part of the outside walls by adding BRICOLAGE ! ;)
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 17, 2006, 03:25:55 PM: Well, with a hearty hello to DR Cilla, I have to go get ready for a little bit of evening stuff that I have to do.

Play nice, and put your toys away when you're done.

[ "green light....drink your milk!" ]
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 03:40:04 PM: Well, I need to wrap a few gifts. I may be seeing DREAMGIRLS tomorrow night with our E&T DR Jose, and I have something trashy for him that isn't our DR MBarnum. I'd like to get my family's packages into Fed Ex tomorrow morning as well, so that's my evening
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 03:41:16 PM: I also listened to a bit of Benjamin Britten's opera GLORIANA this afternoon. and I think tomorrow it's time for "A Ceremony of Carols."
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 03:41:56 PM: So, where's our DR Adriana Patti with her updates on the final Brain and the drunken parties following?
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 03:43:28 PM: And where, I ask, is Karen Murphy? Will she respond to our requests to join us and stop lurking? And her E&T son, Cason, from whom I'm waiting news of the partaying after The Brain.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 03:43:54 PM: And what the fat hell am I doing?
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 03:45:27 PM: Today, I'm directing traffic on paper and shuffling words and paragraphs across a page in a really truly deperate effort to make sense of Glen MacDonough's libretto for BABES IN TOYLAND!

Giftwrapping requires no thinking, I think.
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Post by: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 03:52:02 PM: I'm here I'm here!! I know nothing of drunken parties, thats Cason's post! I went to Ghengis Cohen with Bruce and the gang. I also did not have a chance to eat one of the 80 slices of pizza before they were gone!! Luckily all the chinese food I was able to have more than made up for it.

Im off to a christmas party at Wattles Mansion (members of Hollywood Heritage only) where I am quite sure I will be cold....

I miss you Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pehaps Ill ask Bruce If I can tag along when he goes to NY in Febuary.....
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Post by: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 03:54:10 PM: I cannot wait to watch the legendary Bruce Kimmel work with your wonderful orchestations tomarrow in the booth!

Thats what I'm talkin' about!
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:01:10 PM: Quote from: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 03:52:02 PM
I'm here I'm here!! I know nothing of drunken parties, thats Cason's post! I went to Ghengis Cohen with Bruce and the gang. I also did not have a chance to eat one of the 80 slices of pizza before they were gone!! Luckily all the chinese food I was able to have more than made up for it.

What is it with you and pizzas? Did the missing boxes ever turn up?
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:01:52 PM: Quote from: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 03:54:10 PM
I cannot wait to watch the legendary Bruce Kimmel work with your wonderful orchestations tomarrow in the booth!

Thats what I'm talkin' about!

I hope the new synth player is as good as Matt! He was excellent.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:04:06 PM: I also spent part of the day ordering gifts online. Anything to procrastinate writing that fershlugganeh report on the BABES libretto. It's terrible when you know what you want to say but cannot say it.

Paragraphs within paragraphs. new paragraphs that say the same thing. Oy!
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:07:19 PM: Quote from: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 03:52:02 PM
I miss you Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pehaps Ill ask Bruce If I can tag along when he goes to NY in Febuary.....

I miss you, too! And the cast! And PennyO!

I got the nicest email from Grady today. No word from Lauren or Alet yet . . .
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Post by: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 04:12:39 PM: Richard has a rehearsal with the newest synth player tonight and speaks quite highly of him, so I'm sure it will be great.

"Paragraphs within paragraphs. new paragraphs that say the same thing. Oy!"
Gee, sounds like my homework!

I have a speech final tomorrow for which I will be reading Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Suess aloud.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:21:35 PM: Quote from: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 04:12:39 PM
Richard has a rehearsal with the newest synth player tonight and speaks quite highly of him, so I'm sure it will be great.

"Paragraphs within paragraphs. new paragraphs that say the same thing. Oy!"
Gee, sounds like my homework!

I have a speech final tomorrow for which I will be reading Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Suess aloud.

I always preferred the 500 hats of bartholomew cubbins (???)
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:23:22 PM: Quote from: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 04:12:39 PM
Richard has a rehearsal with the newest synth player tonight and speaks quite highly of him, so I'm sure it will be great.

Matt played his solos up an octave in the Entr'Acte, if it gets recorded.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 17, 2006, 04:23:46 PM: I read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in my class in college.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 04:35:53 PM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 12:10:00 PM
This might last week at our place:

(http://countrystore.tabasco.com/images/template/large/gallon_habanero.jpg)

der Brucer
A week?

Get me my straw!!!

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 04:40:31 PM: I would imagine in my fevered brain that there would not be two BETTER people to see DREAMGIRLS with than DRS ELMORE & HO-SAY.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 04:41:10 PM: DR JANE - thank you for the comment about my sister Molly yesterday....they are well taken....time will tell.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 04:41:47 PM: Al Gore....didn't he invent the internet? Didn't he put the environment in his lock box.

He should fire ALL his speech writers and start ALL over....l
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 04:43:11 PM: Sen. Evan Bayh - career politician idiot son of a career politician idiot has announced that he will NOT seek the Presidential nomination for the Democratic party.

The US doesn't know how lucky it is. Hopefully he can stay off the ticket - and this isn't an inside "deal"...
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 17, 2006, 04:44:52 PM: Help stamp out Career politicians. :P

(http://speakout.com/VoteMatch/people/Evan_Bayh.jpg)
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:48:43 PM: Quote from: JRand56 on December 17, 2006, 04:40:31 PM
I would imagine in my fevered brain that there would not be two BETTER people to see DREAMGIRLS with than DRS ELMORE & HO-SAY.

DR JRand56, I wish you could join us!
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 04:49:50 PM: A customer at work told me about something wonderful that she is doing for Christmas.

She is inviting something like thirty people over for Christmas dinner. They are all people who would otherwise be alone for the holiday.

Her husband died last year, and she learned firsthand what being alone on that one day can be like, how it is so much worse than other days simply because of our traditions of spending it with family.

What if a person has no family nearby?

So she decided that, this year, she would take a positive action, and is cooking for a large number of relative strangers.

I meet some of the best people at my job!
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 04:59:09 PM: After work, der B and I headed out to find a Secret Santa gift for one of our Customer Service people, a perky young woman named Kerry. (Imagine someone somewhere between Rachael Ray and the character Abby on NCIS.) What I had decided would be appropriate would be a serving tray, simple yet elegant. Every young woman should have a serving tray.

But where to find it? We checked at Kitchen & Company (not impressed), Pier 1 (promising), Oneda (oops, totally wrong), and Mikasa (nicer stuff, but still not right). So we went back to Pier 1 and got the tray I'd spotted for an easy $16!

That finishes my Christmas shopping.

Side note: at both Pier 1 and Mikasa, I was instantly recognized by one of the clerks and identified by name. Working at the store really has made me a public figure!

That has a good side, sure, but what if I wanted to get out and get into some trouble (lower-case, nothing spectacular)? Will I always have to be on my best behavior from now on? Dang, being instantly recognized does have a down side! :P
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 17, 2006, 05:00:33 PM: I should get dinner going. Chicken breasts with a bit of an asian slant. Plus rice and a salad.

Simple stuff.
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Post by: Cason on December 17, 2006, 05:11:43 PM: Quote from: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 03:52:02 PM
I know nothing of drunken parties, thats Cason's post!

Well, following the aforementioned pizza party for the cast, crew, and random other floating entities of the "Brain," most of the aforementioned cast, crew, and random other floating entities of the "Brain" went to cast members Chie and Benjamin's apartment, where debauchery of the highest took place, I am sure. I had the offer to go to Genghis Cohen - which in afterthought, I should have taken, but it was nice to celebrate with the rest of the "Brain"-ettes.

Cast member Grady and myself did not partake in the imbibing of said debauchery and were in the first round of pushing out for the evening.

I faced the old conundrum of "if I go home, I'll wish that I was out; if I go out, I'll wish that I went home." And indeed as soon as I had gone out, I was wanting to be home and in bed, so I reveled for a moment and then took my leave.

Sorry I have no lewd acts to disclose, but the most excitement I had last night following the performance was looking at the amazing pictures taken from our preview (some of which Bruce had posted on here, but most of which I hadn't seen)...easily impressed, aren't I?
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 05:20:23 PM: Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!

I am low on my giftwrapping supplies and I am stymied until tomorrow. I would as much wish to be out with the Christmas shoppers as I pine for a lobotomy, having my fingernails removed with no anesthesia, or a recording by Betty Buckley. Still, I have to brave the throngs tomorrow morning.

I've been googling my plan of attack. Plan 11, the perfect plan.

You know what I miss in New York? The good ol' 5 and 10!
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 05:41:30 PM: well, I have a schlep tomorrow morning to the lower East Side, to the building, I do believe, where we rehearsed THE TRAGIC AND HORRIBLE LIFE OF THE SINGING NUN. I will start there and wend my way uptown, perhaps stop at the wonderful Academy and check out the used DVDs and CDs for last minute gifts and proceed uptown. If only my BABES report were so easy!
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 05:42:05 PM: I am frenzied out.
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Post by: vixmom on December 17, 2006, 06:19:26 PM: I haven't caught up I am just popping in to say the tree is up but not decorated, the wallpaper is bough but not on the wall, the presnets are bought but not wrapped the cards are written and addressed but not mailed anf the whole house needs a good dose of MattH

Would anyone mind awfully if we put Chroistmas off a month or so?

Love and Vibes to all!!!

Back to try and get SOME of my chores done!
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2006, 06:22:17 PM: Music Guy-Congratulations on becoming a God! It’s about time you joined us! ;D
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2006, 06:24:27 PM: George-Glad you had such a nice evening. I hope all went well when you cleaned out the frig & freezer. I’m having computer problems so if you mentioned it, I missed it.

Vixmom I feel as if I'm missing the holidays, an extra month wouldn't help me. Have fun & enjoy the rush.

‘night.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 06:45:49 PM: I'm here but don't have much to say. Sad about the climber. Hope the other two are still alive
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 06:46:42 PM: I desperately needed a new desk chair for my home office. I found a leather chair for $39 at Staples. It was a pain to put together, but it's really very comfortable. I am most happy with that purchase
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 06:52:04 PM: I haven't gotten much done today. I'm not sure why. The good news is only 5 more days of work and I will have10 days off is a row!!!!!!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 07:53:42 PM: Got this from a friend and I just had to do it too....

http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=03c7e411096e39d34da0872G06121718
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Post by: Michael on December 17, 2006, 08:04:49 PM: A hello and a good night.

Next week is Christmas Eve.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:15:31 PM: I have a very busy week coming up. Luckily, I feel quite good. The neck and back no longer hurt and I had a very restful weekend. I was listening to Grey Gardens today, which reminds me, I must empty the cat box before I go to bed!
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Post by: FJL on December 17, 2006, 08:19:34 PM: Just back from a little Hannukah merriment at my brother's in New Jersey.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:21:45 PM: I've been reading William Mann's book on Katharine Hepburn - KATE. Pretty remarkable information he's unearthed. I'm only about four chapters in.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:27:19 PM: When I put the book down and turned on the TV, I watched PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST. Really more of the same as the first movie - fun, laughs, thrills, but overindulgent and at least thirty minutes too long for what it is.

The transfer is dark and loaded with greens and golds, but very sharp, great detail, and the sound is explosive almost throughout. I enabled Dolby EX decoding so that back surround channel joined right in with the right and left rear channels for a very wide soundstage.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:28:55 PM: Next came a couple of episodes of POLICE SQUAD! (in color as they like to remind us a la Quinn Martin).

The pilot episode involved a bookkeeper who killed her boss so she could pay for her dental work. Hilarious from beginning to end.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:30:02 PM: The second episode involved Drebbin going undercover in the fight game unearthing fight fixing. This one was directed by Joe Dante who went on to do GREMLINS and other fanciful films.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:31:27 PM: Then I watched the mesmerizing season finale of DEXTER. Thrilling wrap-up to the first season which didn't end at all as I was expecting. I'll miss it during the next year.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 08:33:36 PM: Quote from: vixmom on December 17, 2006, 06:19:26 PM
I haven't caught up I am just popping in to say the tree is up but not decorated, the wallpaper is bough but not on the wall, the presnets are bought but not wrapped the cards are written and addressed but not mailed anf the whole house needs a good dose of MattH

This is the most organized I've been for Christmas in ages. Can't believe I had everything taken care of with time to spare. And I've still managed to keep up with the cleaning, too. I've surprised myself this year.
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Post by: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 08:40:47 PM: Quote from: Cason on December 17, 2006, 05:11:43 PM
Sorry I have no lewd acts to disclose, but the most excitement I had last night following the performance was looking at the amazing pictures taken from our preview (some of which Bruce had posted on here, but most of which I hadn't seen)...easily impressed, aren't I?

No news is good news...

I want to see the pictures!!!!!!
I want to hear the cast album!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooow!!!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:54:52 PM: How annoying, I've been watching the situation on Mt Hood all day. On the local news at 10:00 PM tonight they did the story as it existed this morning. Much has changed. Don't they even check to see if the story is the same. I mean it's been over 5 hours since they found one climber and they were still talking about finding the first snow cave and trying to reach it. Sheesh!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:55:46 PM: I must get some sleep. My neck and head are feeling much better, but I have a very busy week so I need to get some rest. Night all
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:57:26 PM: CNN is showing photos that must have been taken on the mountain today. It's such a tragic thing, but man is it beautiful up there.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 08:59:26 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on December 17, 2006, 04:21:35 PM
I always preferred the 500 hats of bartholomew cubbins (???)

Other than your stuck shift key, you got it right!

(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039484484X.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

der Brucer
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Post by: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 09:01:49 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 08:57:26 PM
CNN is showing photos that must have been taken on the mountain today. It's such a tragic thing, but man is it beautiful up there.

And the grinchs are already moaning about the money being "wasted" to search for "wayward adventurers".

der Brucer
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Post by: Matt H. on December 17, 2006, 09:02:56 PM: Heading off to bed now.

Good night!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 09:09:10 PM: Quote from: DERBRUCER on December 17, 2006, 09:01:49 PM
And the grinchs are already moaning about the money being "wasted" to search for "wayward adventurers".

der Brucer

If it was a member of the grinchs' family they would be singing a different tune.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 17, 2006, 09:10:10 PM: Oh I didn't notice it's Page 6. Let's do the elf dance (see my link on last page)
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2006, 09:10:20 PM: Watching DVDs and eating Sharon McNight's nuts.
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Post by: Adriana Patti on December 17, 2006, 11:11:58 PM: I just dont have it in me to wait up for tonights notes...too tired from who knows what. I will probably have to get a new phone tomarrow if my old one is not recovered, which means a new number and big check...grrr