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Of course today could just be National Drive Like An Ass***e Day and I just missed the notice.

Only Polyanna would think it was only one day a year!

Expect C.W. Mc Call to release "Convoy" with SUVs as the stars.

You could gather up a bunch of incidents a and do a pilot for:

"LAW AND ORDER - SUV"

der Brucer

We also have masks and really heavy duty rubber gloves. Maybe when I go back I should put on the whole outifit

Sounds like a kinky work place to me!

der Brucer

(Any job openings?)

What is your favorite classic television show?

Tough one! At what age?

When I first met TV it was Hopalong Cassidy (I was not a late bloomer, it was TV that was late!)

Later on "I Love Lucy" was everyone's favorite.

Jackie Gleason for weekly variety - Loretta Young for weekly Drama; Philco Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre and Playhouse 90 for specials.

I was lucky to be able to fit Twilight Zone and Alfred Hirchcock Presents in between my folks watching Liberace and Lawrence Welk (whose name escaped me, but Goggleing "a-one and a-two" saved the day).

Where is the time cut-off to meet Pogues "test of time"?

der Brucer

I have a "blue tooth" wireless earpiece that I use when I am in the car and my phone "voice dials" so I can say someone's name into my bluetooth and the phone dials itself so I have the hands free thing going.

My cell voice dials, too.  I found I had to change the one I had set up to call my mother to "Call Mom At Home".  Before I made the change, I found myself in the aisles of Target or Wal-Mart shouting "Mom!" into my headset, sounding like an overgrown lost boy.

Blame George, who was posting in the old topic as I was trying to lock it, thereby confusing me no end.  It's all right now.

Mea culpa...mea maxima culpa...mea maxima maxima culpa!

Way to go, George!  One of the anomalies of the Haines His Way forum will go down in archival history attributable to you!

That's what I'm here for!

Question for one and all:

What musical instruments do you like to hear performed or even play?

Me, I am a sucker for the swirling sounds of the Highland and Uillean pipes!!

I used to play the flute but play a bit on the tin whistle and bodhran.

About playing instruments:  I actually took accordion lessons when I was seven or eight years old...for only about a year.  Then, when I was in eighth grade, I took piano lessons for about four years.  When I was at Western Washington University, I was going to become a high school choir teacher, which I ended up not becoming.  Anyway, we had to take instrumental pedagogy classes...classes on how to teach kids how to play instruments.  I learned how to (very basically) play the clarinet, bassoon, french horn, cello, tuba and percussion.  The clarinet, cello and percussion were the most fun.

As for listening to instruments, purely instrumental music tends to bore me (please don't hate me).  I do prefer the voice...unless it's an instrumental version of a vocal piece that I like (such as the Sondheim in Jazz series, produced by our very own BK...I love those!) or is something that has some sort of dramatic feel for me.  I don't know how else to describe it.

What is your favorite classic television show?

I was watching it this afternoon - THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW.

I realized I still had one disc to go in the Season 3 boxed set, and I watched almost every episode on that disc this afternoon.

Among the classics:

Robert Moore playing Phyllis' brother who starts dating RHoda rather than Mary. Phyllis freaks out thinking she and Rhoda might become sisters-in-law. Rhoda assures her it won't happen; Phyllis' brother is gay.

Mary having a week from hell where everything goes wrong, the very week she must attend the broadcast for the Teddy Awards because she's nominated. No wonder Mary TYler Moore won the Emmy this season for Best Comedy Actress. I wonder if this was the submitted episode. Her performance is among the best, most realistic ever given on a comedy series.

Mary loans Rhoda $1,300 to open a plant boutique, and despite it making bucket loads of money, Rhoda stalls about
paying Mary back the loan.

I finished up the afternoon with a LAW & ORDER rerun from last season when Michael Imperioli had temporarily replaced Jesse Martin on the show while Martin filmed RENT. Good case involving a crooked police commissioner. I had only vague recollections of having seen it before, and had no idea how it was going to turn out.

How about opera - where the voice is treated like an instrument?

der Brucer

PS Will Jose get upset at your stealing the "blame" title?

Opera is good.  I like quite a few operas.  I'd prefer to be in a theater watching an opera (or even on TV or DVD) to just listening to one, but it's vocal music...and musical theater.

I happen to have inside information that JRand55 is at home watching a naked Jorge Rivero on DVD.

From CharlesPogue:

Jane, was your "sad but true" in response to my saying there is no such thing as unconditional love?  I actually think that is a good thing.  I think everything must have boundaries and conditions...particularly love.  Those who try to give "unconditional" love will find their love abused for sure.  The first love anyone has to have is a healthy self-love.

I never believe people who tell me they love their children or their dog or their friend more than themselves. No.  Until you first love yourself; you can't love anything.

I think I was referring to all of your statements, mostly to the “unconditional”.  I reacted to your comment that dogs do have limits & don’t always love unconditionally.

In regards to your current post, after you love yourself I think you can still love someone else more than you love yourself.

As for my previous post, on second thought I can’t think of anything my children would do that would stop me from loving them, and I mean anything.  I might be very unhappy but I couldn’t stop loving them.  How much or how little I love myself doesn’t matter. How much I love or respect myself makes a difference with the boundaries and conditions I set.

So I can set those boundaries & conditions & refuse to tolerate anything beyond them, however it doesn’t mean I take away my love.  I suppose there are two ways to look at that, I still love “unconditionally” or I don’t.  If I reread the definition of unconditional, I say if I still love, then it’s “unconditionally”.  It just seems as if I have put conditions on my love where in reality I’m putting conditions on behavior.

DerBrucer thank you for the Angie up-date and the heartwarming story.  I’m still waiting for a photo.

I booked a room at the Comfort Inn in Midtown NY from October 3rd, checking out the 8th.  Thanks to Danise telling me to sign up for the points program one of these nights will be free.  Not that I’m sure I’ll stay there.  I want to look around for a better price and location.  At least I have this booked at the current price.  

Ginny and Cillaliz did you book a room there?  I hope we can all stay in the same hotel again.

Back from a very long lunch with Miss Susan Egan.  We had a lot of fun, and it was grandly grand to see her.

I must now get some writing done.