Haines His Way

I have no idea what those shows are.

Sorry. They are shows that several of us have been talking about all season long.

Me neither. Never seen any of them.

The only series I follow is THE CLOSER, and, well...I kind of have to do that.

"Jericho" is the one I watched.  Jericho is a town in Kansas and the setting of this tale about nuclear explosions taking out some major U.S. cities...all at the hands of an internal terrorist group bent on overthrowing the government and establishing a new one, from what I can gather from information revealed thus far (and, as it turns out, all we'll ever get).

Ultimately, though, it's a tale of survival.  Jericho is an a agricultural town...and its neighbors are desperate for food and trade.  Jericho can barely feed itself and cannot trade as much food as the neighbors want.  So...the neighbors launch a war against them.  

It's a creepy, but very plausible look at how our society may break down in the wake of national disaster on huge scale.

It should have done better, but CBS put the show on a lengthy hiatus, along the lines of what ABC did with "Lost", and "Jericho" lost its audience base (more for some soap-operaish storylines before the hiatus, IMO.).  I didn't watch again until I was channel-surfing a few weeks back and landed on CBS....and found myself riveted by the new conflict (new in light of what had been going on just before it went on hiatus).  The show actually got better and better, but the audience didn't care.

I've never heard of ANY of those ABC shows.

Did they publicize this "don't buy gas" boycott?  If I hadn't been told about it, I would never have known.  Certainly it wasn't on the AOL News page at any time, nor the roadrunner news page.  Are they owned by oil companies?

It has come to my attention that today is "don't buy gas day."  I had no idea, but I support it completely.  Are people listening?  No, they're at the gas station topping off their tanks.  Do you know how much money the oil companies would lose if everyone actually DID boycott today?  And tomorrow?  Let me tell you how fast prices would begin to drop.  There is strength in numbers, but people are just hopeless.  They can't go a day without topping off their stupid tanks.  They couldn't get gas yesterday?  Or tomorrow?  It has to be today?

Odds are, they didn't even hear about this.  They've probably been too busy listening to their iPods, or talking on the phone, or doing any of a thousand other things than listening to current events.

Of course, I didn't hear about this, either.  But I don't own a car, or even drive, so I just naturally don't buy gas, on any day.

It was more or less an e-mail, internet, word-of-mouth campaign.

I will say this was discussed on local TV yesterday.  I folks watched the news, they "might" have retained the information.

Der Brucer isn't going to like the first two cancellations.  Both are shows he's enjoyed.

He's not watched the third, that I know of.

THE CLASS is the one I DID watch. Sorry to see it go since it was one of the few shows with a regular gay character in the story mix, and the show was finiding its footing near the end of its run.

It also did about as well as any show has done in the 8:30 time slot. Even TWO AND A HALF MEN, which played there last night for its season finale, lost about 3 million viewers playing at that earlier time against other competition.

There WAS a third coin thrown, though.  I'll have to pull this DVD out and watch it again on my plasma.

I think it happened later.....but I was counting the last time I saw it, and thought I only counted two.

I've been going over my songs for this musical reading I'm doing in a couple of weeks - I wish I'd printed them out sooner - some of this stuff is totally out of my range, and, for my money, the character would NEVER sing this high, producing that kind of sound.  It would be like having Harold Hill sing high A's.  Why?  So, I've written a strong note to the writer and basically told him I'm completely uncomfortable trying to sing lots of G's and A's and, frankly, even F's.  I asked him if it were going to be possible to transpose my songs - we'll see what he has to say, but if the answer is no, I believe I'll pull out.

A month or two ago, DR Tomovoz mentioned The Puppini Sisters.  Now their CD has been released domestically in the U.S. and is available on Amazon.

Released here at last too DR DtM. Promoted for Mothers' Day.
(My copy was from the UK)
It's a "fun" recording.

I think it happened later.....but I was counting the last time I saw it, and thought I only counted two.

I have no idea what you're talking about, but was it the film about the time travelling Objectivist Monkee in Rome who was also a teacher played by Howard Hesseman:


Three Coins in the Fountain Fountain Fountainhead Head Head of the Class?

Hmmm?

I'm heading down now to get started on lunch. I'm doing spaghetti today.

Franco-American will be so pleased

der Brucer

or CSI -- either the  original or Miami?  

Talk about a feast of colors!!!

My favorite visuals! (They should get Chamber of Commerce subsidies.)

I also like SHARK's HD shots of LA

If they did Monk in HD, we could get some Bay flavor in the mix.

der Brucer

I meant Martin Short, not Matin Short.  Matin Short is some little French guy.  

No, Matin Short is Morning Prayer for folks in a hurry.

der Brucer

I've been going over my songs for this musical reading I'm doing in a couple of weeks - I wish I'd printed them out sooner - some of this stuff is totally out of my range, and, for my money, the character would NEVER sing this high, producing that kind of sound.  It would be like having Harold Hill sing high A's.  Why?  So, I've written a strong note to the writer and basically told him I'm completely uncomfortable trying to sing lots of G's and A's and, frankly, even F's.  I asked him if it were going to be possible to transpose my songs - we'll see what he has to say, but if the answer is no, I believe I'll pull out.

Dear BK -- ABSOLUTELY TRUST your instinct on this.  I just wanted to toss you my 2 cents...... your own gut feelings, as to what does and doesn't fit your voice, its range, and its color, I feel are spot on the mark in this instance.  

That inherent instinct that you posess, has served you very well in producing other singers, and even guiding the career of Guy Haines.  So don't doubt your inner feeling this time.

Ah haz spoken !