Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 8 => Topic started by: bk on January 03, 2007, 12:08:04 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes mixed and matched, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently mixing it up with some ewes.
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And the word of the day is: FAVONIAN!
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Welcome four GUESTS. You are now witnessing the ATTACK OF THE WUSSBURGERS - how tiresome. Won't one of you come out of the woodwork and play?
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Apparently not.
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Well, I am not going to let that deter me, oh, no, I am not going to let that deter me. I will dance the Wah-Watusi and I shall do the limbo.
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As Eric Carmen once sang: ALL BY MYSELF, don't want to be ALL BY MYSELF
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Is there an echo in here?
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Is there a Necco in here?
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Well, I've always wanted to have an entire page of ME and by gum and by golly and buy bonds this just may be the night.
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ME and my shadow
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This is hard work.
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I'll take a break but I'll be back because I have to be here for the weekly backup onto my mini-hard drive.
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You see, you see, I say four GUESTS and then there were three. Who is that pesky GUEST who disappears every time I mention GUESTS?
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I'm almost a half-page of ME.
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Perhaps I'll tell the story of The Randy Vicar and The Pepperoni.
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This is fun in a sort of non-fun way.
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I don't know - tomovoz used to be a late-night denizen. George used to be a late-night denizen. Others used to be late-night denizens, and now it's just little ol' me to keep the home fries burning.
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The big weekly backup is happening now.
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After that, I shall toddle off to the bedroom environment, where I shall eat some worms.
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I don't know if I have another twelve posts in me.
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Will no one stop the madness?
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Perhaps I'll sing some of the marvelously droll lyrics to It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World:
In France the girls wear scanties
But on lamb chops they put panties
I'm telling you it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
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The Big Backup is finished.
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I don't know if I have another ten posts in me.
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Then again, when will I have this opportunity to have an entire page of ME?
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Welcome three GUESTS. Let's see if three becomes two now, although the disappearing GUEST has probably already disappeared.
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Five more posts. Perhaps I'll sing another of Mack David's immortal lyrics:
It creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor
Right through the door and all around the wall
A splotch a blotch be careful of the blob
Beware of the blob...
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Still three GUESTS - they're rootin' me on.
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Mack David, of course, is the brother of Hal.
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I'm fading fast - this is hard work!
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I'm close - let's go for the gold.
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And one for ME. An entire page of one person - I think that's a first for haineshisway.com and I'm glad it was ME. Now, what if I do six more pages of ME? That would be most amusing for all the WUSSBURGERS to wake up and find THAT!
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Welcome seven GUESTS! Gee, the word must have spread that there was something spectacular happening at haineshisway.com.
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And one for ME. An entire page of one person - I think that's a first for haineshisway.com and I'm glad it was ME. Now, what if I do six more pages of ME? That would be most amusing for all the WUSSBURGERS to wake up and find THAT!
Do you really want an answer to that question?
;)
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Of course, now, I'm the only one in the jernt.
Harummphh!
*Yes, I'm not sleeping. Yet. :-\
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...Although, in my "hey day" - "hay day" ??? - as it were, I believe I came pretty close a few times to a page of just me.
I think.
Maybe so. Maybe not.
(It's too late/too early.)
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Oh... I guess this could be a question for Ask BK Day... And pardon me if this was discussed during my period of errant-and-truantness...
From the past couple weeks of Broadway Grosses... What's the deal with the average ticket price for Jersey Boys being in the $120-5 range?!? Just how many of those premium seats are they selling? And for how much?
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Well... Now I'm sleepy. I hope.
Goodnight.
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Morning to all!
Tomorrow I shall have to drive to work so I won't be able to post from the bus. Just thought I'd let ya'll know that.
So far the New Year has been peaceful. Let's hope that keeps up.
I take Bear to the vet tonight to have his stitchs taken out of his ear and his leg. I know that's going to cost at least another hundred. Sigh.
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I dreamed that the bus had a ledge by the window for me to put my arm on and when I woke up, I had my arm on Sheena's back!
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She and Bear had another fight last night. I don't know what is causing this. This time it was over the bed. They know that I let them both up with me, they don't have to fight about it. Sigh.
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Well, I'm almost to work. Have a GREAT day everyone!
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Good morning, all! And a special one to DR Danise. This is wednesday, and I believe tonight is the first airing of THE KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY, which features my friend Josh Grisetti.
I've forced myself out of bed at 6:30 and I've spent the last hour emptying files of email. I will soon head to the recording office for a morning of Toyland edits.
DR Jose, I should be around after 4:00 pm. I'm happy that you are back in New York.
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Re: last night's question about THE BRAIN cd and whether to include the lyrics or the pictures.
My first reaction was to include lyrics. But I see everyone else's first reaction was to include pictures.
So last night I went through some cast recordings trying to see what i really liked and what bothered me.
I think a synopsis is vital. And i prefer having the track listings on the back of the cd. But I noticed that there were some cds with pictures and no lyrics and some cds with lyrics and only one picture.
And after thinking about it I really like having the lyrics in the booklet to follow along.
I do think the idea of having the lyrics on the website is a good one (if the picture in the cd booklet idea is used). And it sounds like it's already been decided. I just wanted to give my 2 cents.
It's not as easy to keep the lyrics with the cd if you have to print them out (i've done that before). So i would actually do the reverse (have the lyrics in the cd booklet and the pictures on the website).
This has me curious now what other cast recordings freaks would choose.
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DR MattH, yes it appears that MEDIUM is new tonight. I did not know this. The funny thing is that when i went to nbc.com the discription actually sounds similar to another episode from this year.
Description of jan 3rd show:
WHEN A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ARE MURDERED, ALLISON AND ARIEL EXPERIENCE VISIONS OF THE CRIME, BUT FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES -- After Allison (Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Patricia Arquette) and Ariel (Sofia Vassilieva) stumble upon the bodies of a dress shop owner and her daughter, they both begin dreaming about the crime, but from different perspectives, revealing two suspects. Maria Lark, David Cubitt and Madison Carabello also star.
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Ask BK
You mentioned a while back you appeared in the pilot IF I AHD A MILLION.
There were 4 different stories. Which of the following did you appear in?
1) The Good Boy with John Schuck, Loudi Zorich, Val Biscogio
2) The Searchers with joseph Wiseman, Ruth McDevitt, Rae Allen
3)Three with Kenneth Mars, Elayne HelVeil, Melendy Britt
4) First the Tube and Now You Dar;ling. with brett Somers & Ted Gehring
1 written by Lionel E Siegel
2 written by Robert Van Scoyk
3 written by M Charles Cohen
4 written by Oliver Hailey
Director Daryl Duke
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Since Bk was just on a frenzy, my question for Ask BK Day, if anyone's game or cares :) :
Have you ever gotten on a tear about something on the internet that in retrospect you wish you could go back and delete, but there it is for posterity? (Similarly, or alternatively, have you ever left a message for somebody that you wish you could have taken back, even before the person got it?)
One of mine is when I posted bitterly on the internet about the scandalous seating situation at a play that i really wanted to see, only to get an email from the significant other of a friend saying he was a lead producer on that show. Tried to go back and delete my message board postings, but to no avail.
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I hope the Brain is in good voice today.
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Years ago, when I was in Washington DC....I bought a copy of FilmFax magazine at the Union Station bookstore to read on the plane on the way home. An article about the life of Barbara Payton was in it (I think it is on the FilmFax website as well)....yes....sad story.
I always liked her in DRUMS OF THE SOUTH directed by William Cameron Menzies and featuring many Henry Willson clients including Guy Madison and Craig Stevens.
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DR EDISUARUS thanks so much for the lovely book, which I will be reading next week. The card was lovely as well.
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Wednesday morning greetings! I'm back at work today - not feeling 100%, but not feeling bad enough to justify another day at home.
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Wednesday morning greetings! I'm back at work today - not feeling 100%, but not feeling bad enough to justify another day at home.
Do you have any books in your library about cars? :P
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Good morning!
It's a beautiful day outside and promises to get better as the sun warms things up. Supposed to get to the 60s today, nice for January!
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I did not sleep well last night; I kept waking up and finding myself feeling cold. I thought I might be coming down with something, but, no, it was just one of those nights where I didn't sleep the night through without waking.
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Our local TV critic gave THE KNIGHTS of PROSPERITY a very positive review this morning. Ordinarily, that would make me tune the show out since that reviewer and I don't see eye-to-eye on very many things, but in deference to DR Elmore, I will give the show a try tonight.
Also, there's nothing else on at that hour that I particularly want to see anyway, so why not try something new. The cast looks like a lot of fun.
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As for the rest of my viewing today, I will finish the CSI episodes on disc 5 currently in the player (there are two left to watch).
Then, I'll switch to a feature film. It may be THE LOVED ONE, another CHristmas present, and a film I haven't seen in a long, long time.
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Mr. Guy Haines has made it across the pond! I am listening to Elaine Paige's weekly show music radio program and she just played Michelle Nicastro and Guy singing Be a Santa from subways are for Sleeping which was on A Broadway Christmas, produced by BK
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DR Edisaurus, did I mentioned to you that I am loving the CD soundtrack to THE MINX? Well, I am! The Cyrcle are the cat's meow!
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Or the bee's knees, as the case may be.
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A friend of mine (we did INTO THE WOODS together) did an Off-Broadway revival of FLAHOOLEY several years ago. I'm not sure if it was just a few performances or had a run, but it was music directed by Sondheim's friend Peter E. Jones.
She knew nothing about FLAHOOLEY but called me up and asked that I burn her a copy of the old cast recording. (The Angel CD was out of print by that time.)
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A picture from my office Holiday Party. It's Anthony and me in case anyone was wondering ;)
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I just looked at the list of next week's DVD releases. Apart from THE ILLUSIONIST, there was NOTHING that interested me in the least.
Thankfully, these last few weeks have been DVD-lite insofar as new DVD releases of interest. After Christmas spending, my wallet has really appreciated it.
However, we know there are going to be a lot of treasures coming up this year. Glad we get a small breather at the start of 2007.
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Heading down now to read more in KATE before starting on lunch preparation.
I'm up to COCO now.
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It's January 3rd....ALREADY?
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I watched "Law and Order: SVU" last night.
In it, a woman had a wonderfully alliterative line of dialogue, in which she was telling the detectives where they could find some letters from her estranged father:
"...in the basement in a box by the boiler."
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Hmmmm....I'm up for some COCOA now.
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Our BK certainly went on a tear at the start of the new day.
It was very effusive of him.
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Apropos to something or other....it's HELL getting old(er)...isn't it!
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"Last night I dreamed I was a mandolin..."
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"Everyone kept picking on me!"
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"But I didn't care....plucky soul that I am."
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Last night I removed the wreath from my front door, and removed the ornaments from my Norfolk Island pine which sits outside the front door.
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Oh... I guess this could be a question for Ask BK Day... And pardon me if this was discussed during my period of errant-and-truantness...
From the past couple weeks of Broadway Grosses... What's the deal with the average ticket price for Jersey Boys being in the $120-5 range?!? Just how many of those premium seats are they selling? And for how much?
I believe that the Jersey Boys premium seats are over three hundred bucks, and they're apparently selling them.
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My tree is still fully decorated and shimmering. I simply cannot bring myself to denude it at this time.
I shall take full advantage of Epiphany, and I'll take it down over the weekend.
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Ask BK
You mentioned a while back you appeared in the pilot IF I AHD A MILLION.
There were 4 different stories. Which of the following did you appear in?
1) The Good Boy with John Schuck, Loudi Zorich, Val Biscogio
2) The Searchers with joseph Wiseman, Ruth McDevitt, Rae Allen
3)Three with Kenneth Mars, Elayne HelVeil, Melendy Britt
4) First the Tube and Now You Dar;ling. with brett Somers & Ted Gehring
1 written by Lionel E Siegel
2 written by Robert Van Scoyk
3 written by M Charles Cohen
4 written by Oliver Hailey
Director Daryl Duke
Being a fan of coprophiliac jokes, it is only appropriate that it's number two - The Searchers, with Joseph Wiseman.
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It's a foggy day in Oakland town right now.
"They" say the fog will burn off in the early afternoon, leaving a cloud cover.
Tonight, "they" say, the rains will come.
A gift, no doubt, from the favonian gods....
:)
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I'm seriously entertaining the idea of winning the lottery at some point during the year.
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The sooner, the better...actually.
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My mom says the chances of winning a lottery are as good as smelling a gaseous bodily emission on the wind.
I say, "Somebody's bound to smell it."
When the time comes, I won't be saying "Who? Me"?
I'll be saying, "THAT'S MINE!"
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Since Bk was just on a frenzy, my question for Ask BK Day, if anyone's game or cares :) :
Have you ever gotten on a tear about something on the internet that in retrospect you wish you could go back and delete, but there it is for posterity? (Similarly, or alternatively, have you ever left a message for somebody that you wish you could have taken back, even before the person got it?)
One of mine is when I posted bitterly on the internet about the scandalous seating situation at a play that i really wanted to see, only to get an email from the significant other of a friend saying he was a lead producer on that show. Tried to go back and delete my message board postings, but to no avail.
Happily, the one thing I wrote on the Internet that really bothered someone I was able to remove - I spoke about it at the time - it was during The Real A days and long before the Kritzer books, when I was anonymously telling some of my childhood stories. In so doing, I mentioned some friends my family had and the sad end that met the mother of said friends, and I'd used their names. I believe it was about two years ago when I got an e-mail from the daughter of said friend's father (who'd been a childhood playmate of mine) who was shocked and offended and hurt by what she read - it seems her father had never told her about her grandmother's sad end. I felt really bad, had a nice e-mail volley with her, and had Mr. Bakalor remove the paragraph. Interestingly, the girl's boyfriend is the son of Les Traub of Cabaret West.
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Meanwhile, I have job security (I attained "tenure" on December 16) and a guaranteed pension (my second) and medical benefits (I also have VA).
It still doesn't seem like enough, though.
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MattH's post put me in the mood for some cocoa as well. Luckily, we got some cocoa as a Christmas present and there's some left.
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MattH's post put me in the mood for some cocoa as well. Luckily, we got some cocoa as a Christmas present and there's some left.
If not, I have some wonderful Scharffenberger cocoa mix (real chocolate) here, plus a can of Canterbury Cuisine cocoa mix (artificially flavored).
I'll make a cup and drink it for you.
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My mom tells a joke where the teacher says "Let's do our math problems. Bobby, you do #1 at the blackboard, Billy, you do #2, the rest of you do it at your seats and I'll supply the paper."
It doesn't look funny in print, but my mom tells it great. Always gets a big laugh. :)
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For some reason, I'm ruminative today.
I never know where that may lead.
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My mom tells a joke where the teacher says "Let's do our math problems. Bobby, you do #1 at the blackboard, Billy, you do #2, the rest of you do it at your seats and I'll supply the paper."
It doesn't look funny in print, but my mom tells it great. Always gets a big laugh. :)
Many of us are affected by toilet humor, no matter what it is...
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So strange, Ron P, I'm feeling rheumatoid today.
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There is a lot of hacking going on around here. And I don't mean the computer kind of hacking, either.
Some folks just hack and snort and carry on, inviting us into their misery.
I wish they would stay home, keeping their "hacking" germs off the furniture and countertops.
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Of course, I'm referring to sick folk. Sick folk should rest and take care of themselves.
Healthy folk should avoid them like the plague.
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
I'm up! I'm up! And I'm back in NYC!
:)
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So strange, Ron P, I'm feeling rheumatoid today.
I'm sorry to read this. I hope you have something to take for it.
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
I'm up! I'm up! And I'm back in NYC!
:)
Hello, Jose!
Well, Hello, Jose!
It's so nice to know you're back where you belong!
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I had to answer a bunch of e-mails this morning (including one from Footlight, upping their order - a good thing) so I'm definitely not going to have time to jog today, unless I do it this evening. However, that should be the only day this week I'll have to miss.
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Being a fan of coprophiliac jokes
there's Daryl Duke!
I could go on a rant about *him*...but then again, many crew people in Atlanta could.
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YEAH!
"And the money kept rolling in...
I guess the word must be out! I just booked two, full days of auditions at a very nice hourly rate. :)
And the money kept rolling out..."
Alas, I believe that check will end up covering the resulting bill from my stitches/ER/insurance. :-\ But at least it'll be covered.
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Perhaps a mental jog might be possible.
Anything you might need a memory jog about?
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there's Daryl Duke!
I could go on a rant about *him*...but then again, many crew people in Atlanta could.
Anything that might see him spinning in his grave?
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Hello, Jose!
Well, Hello, Jose!
It's so nice to know you're back where you belong!
Well... I do have a spiral staircase here for me to descent... Unless you'd prefer the one in the foyer.
;)
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Did that even make sense?
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Did that even make sense?
Certainly.
Jose's foyer!
Not exactly the Harmonia Gardens, but I'm sure it will do in a pinch.
Wear something RED!
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DR Elmore3003: Night before last, I very much enjoyed listening to the Covent Garden "Amahl."
Many thanks for recommending it.
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Does anybody hear what I hear?
In "The Wizard of Oz" there is a song with a phrase that goes:
"You'll be hist..."
"You'll be hist..."
"You'll be hist-o-ry!"
Can't for the life of me remember which song (I thought it might by the lion's "If I Were King of the Forest", but it doesn't play out in my head to include those lyrics).
I've often wondered, however, if the lyrics are:
"You'll be hissed!"
"You'll be hissed!'
"You'll be hist-o-ry!"
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Y'all were warned.
I said I was "ruminative" today.
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Now I remember the song...it's part of the "Merry Old Land of Oz"/"Follow the Yellow Brick Road" sequence...one of the Munchkins sings that lyric to Dorothy.
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What am I...a solo act today?
Have a lot of wrists been snapped recently?
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OK... Cleaning to commence in an hour.
Yes, that's the ticket/plan!
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In any case...
Since it is Ask BK Day...
What is the best way to clean painted walls? Flat finish paint? Just a damp sponge? Any soap, cleanser? -They're not dirty, I just want to wipe them down.
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Think Swiffer, Jose!
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Thank You, Heloise!
Or would you prefer to be called, "Martha".
;)
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Thank You, Heloise!
Or would you prefer to be called, "Martha".
;)
That's MISTER CLean, to you!
:D
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The Jose Foyer.
Surely they have one of those at the Kennedy Center by now!
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I want to let you all know that I am being very censorious of myself about something related to toilet humor that I contemplated posting.
It's all part of a nicer, kinder bent I'm on...even though I'm determined to abandon political correctness.
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The Jose Foyer.
Surely they have one of those at the Kennedy Center by now!
I think you misread that....it's the Jodie Foyer, I believe.
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Holy Cats!
I was just trolling EBay, when I landed on this and had an MBarnum moment (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280065959050&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:US:1).
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In any case...
Since it is Ask BK Day...
What is the best way to clean painted walls? Flat finish paint? Just a damp sponge? Any soap, cleanser? -They're not dirty, I just want to wipe them down.
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Very wise, Amy!
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You took the words right out of my mouth.
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I could not have said it better myself!
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Shall I now kick myself in the butt?
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The head?
;)
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Oh! I get it!
You just keep me hangin' on!
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Page 5! Page 5! Page 5! Page 5! Page 5![/move]
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The head?
;)
Believe it or not, that's exactly the location of the comment I was going to make before I censored myself.
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LOL Ron, I have actually not even seen that Hazel Court movie...although I do love Hazel Court.
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DR MBarnum - Did you CLICK HERE (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104583.html) yet?
;)
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Patricia Laffan (who was in QUO VADIS as Messalina, I think - some bad Roman anyway) - played the Devil Girl....Hazel Court was a London model just spending some time in an out of the way Inn after a disastrous love affair with a dress designer.
Patricia had a robot that looked like a Westinghouse refrigerator and flew around in a ship that looked like a teapot....what else can you ask from a movie?
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That's better.
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Here you are:
Scroll down for photos from the masterpiece. ;D
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/devilgirl/ (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/devilgirl/)
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Patricia Laffan (who was in QUO VADIS as Messalina, I think - some bad Roman anyway) - played the Devil Girl....Hazel Court was a London model just spending some time in an out of the way Inn after a disastrous love affair with a dress designer.
Patricia had a robot that looked like a Westinghouse refrigerator and flew around in a ship that looked like a teapot....what else can you ask from a movie?
And now I'm having JRand flashes....!
Oh, my!
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For Ask BK:
Is there any relation between Hazel Court and Ray Court?
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Boy! THAT Edisaurus!
She had the last word and then left!
;)
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...Or she got scared away.
;)
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Good Afternoon!
Well, the cleaning will have to commence a little later. I just got some "nice" mail, and I need to head to bank now. :) Plus, since I have no food here in the apartment, I have not had any real food today... Well, I've had two Christmas cookies so far today, so... I need to get some nourishment.
Laters...
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Afternoon greetings all. I love having internet at work! And now I must have session. Toodles!
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Good Afternoon!
Well, the cleaning will have to commence a little later. I just got some "nice" mail, and I need to head to bank now. :) Plus, since I have no food here in the apartment, I have not had any real food today... Well, I've had two Christmas cookies so far today, so... I need to get some nourishment.
Laters...
Do I need to put together a CARE package?
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...Or she got scared away.
;)
Not Amy!
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Afternoon greetings all. I love having internet at work! And now I must have session. Toodles!
Let us all have session.
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I'm getting a tad peckish as I type this.
Must have been that reference to Christmas cookies.
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The UNexpressed thought....
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...it shall be alien to me today.
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Almost caught up. I only have 256 posts to read from two days ago and then I shall be up to date.
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And the word of the day is: FAVONIAN!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
Across the FAVONIAN-kissed hilltops,
Their spring-time twirl marred only by the strawberry blonde's cursing
Every time she stepped into a cow pattie.
The cows may not have returned home,
But at least we know where they've been.
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Back for but a moment - had a lovely breakfast meeting with Miss Joan Ryan and we're starting to work - have chosen a few definite things (including one very long piece of special material to existing songs with new lyrics by me), and shall now start playing through material.
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Jose - I've found 409 does very well on painted walls.
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Let us all have session.
I am!
I don't know why that didn't include my message. It should have said...instead of Ask BK Day (about wall cleaning) we should have Ask MattH Day!
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DR MBarnum, glad you like The Minx!
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Jose - I've found 409 does very well on painted walls.
Aha! I thought only She of the Evil Eye would know!
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From SWW:
We then all went to see a cinematic experience named Night at the Museum. It is not a high drama. Rather, it is a fun piece of fluff starring Ben Stiller as the new night watchman at the Museum of Natural History in NYC. Nothing grand, just a lot of slapstick and a number of nice cameos by Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Ricky Gervais, a restrained Robin Williams, and (in a bit of stunt casting that der Grampa and I were probably the only ones in the theater to "get") Anne Meara. We all had a good time.
What a fun film to take the Grandlads to. Not expecting much I had more fun with it than Keith did. I’m surprised you were the only ones laughing at the Anne Meara bit.
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Morning to all!
Tomorrow I shall have to drive to work so I won't be able to post from the bus. Just thought I'd let ya'll know that.
So far the New Year has been peaceful. Let's hope that keeps up.
I take Bear to the vet tonight to have his stitchs taken out of his ear and his leg. I know that's going to cost at least another hundred. Sigh.
I don't believe I have ever paid to have stitches removed for anyone in our family, people or pets.
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Re: last night's question about THE BRAIN cd and whether to include the lyrics or the pictures.
...This has me curious now what other cast recordings freaks would choose.
I think it depends on the show. If there are a lot of visuals, I want the pictures. If the lyrics are great, I want the lyrics. If there's a complex story, I want a synopsis.
And if all three are fantastic? I've got a problem.
Example: With Wicked, I would have loved to have some kind of synopsis, particularly since the storyline is very complex, and having some kind of context for the songs would have been helpful. We had an arguement here at HHW about this, where a former DR insisted that no synopsis should be included, as it would spoil the show for everyone seeing it for the first time... which of course assumed we could all make our way to NYC to see it, totally ignoring how many of us do not live in NYC or can make the trip that easily.
Example: The OLR recording of the London production of Follies had little in the way of pictures, which were blurry, and much in the way of lyrics, many of which were new. But the font used to print the lyrics was so tiny that it seemed a waste of paper, they were so hard to read. Having seen the production, I can assure you, pictures would have made a better representation of the show for the booklet.
I'm going to say that, with Brain, I'd like to have the lyrics, but I want them readable. None of this tiny font balony. If that means finding them on-line, that's fine by me. I have no problem printing them out. Particularly in the case of Brain, I'd like to have them printed out so that, when riding in the car with the grandlads, we can hand the lyrics to Alex, so he can read along with the songs, and hand a lovely booklet with pictures to William, who is still in the first grade and won't be reading that quickly.
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OK...my experience with Daryl Duke :
I was hired to be the "set P.A.", assisting the director, D.D., on set of a feature filmed in Atlanta.
The day he arrived, I was assigned to take him to his first meeting with his actors. The meeting was close to the hotel, so I picked him up in plenty of time. I had no idea he had a detour in mind...
He had me take him to Friedman's Shoes, a shoestore in a bad part of town. He went in and shopped for shoes while I was parked illegally outside. He did not want me to leave and come back later, so I had to risk getting a ticket. Various shady characters started hanging around my littie VW bug, thinking I was looking to buy drugs.
After about an hour, D.D. emerged from the store. (I don't remember if he bought any shoes, I was so freaked out by having to hang out there.)
The next morning, the production manager called and fired me over the phone. I asked him why, and he said that the director missed his first meeting with the actors because some dumb little girl they'd hire got lost driving him there because she didn't know her way around Atlanta. (I'd lived there 12 years at that point.)
This was the first time I had been fired from a job and so I took it very hard. I had other friends working on the film, and over the course of filming, many other people were fired. But at that point, I was the first and had no basis for comparison so I was emotionally crushed and depressed.
Ironically: the name of the film was "Hard Feelings"!
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Gee...didn't mean to start a new page with a negative story!
I hope DD doesn't have any relatives on this site, but that's what happened!
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I watched "Law and Order: SVU" last night.
In it, a woman had a wonderfully alliterative line of dialogue, in which she was telling the detectives where they could find some letters from her estranged father:
"...in the basement in a box by the boiler."
It almost sounds like something from the game Clue - "I accuse Mr. Brown, in the basement in a box by the boiler, with a boomarang."
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Mr Brown didn't do it.
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He didn't do it in the basement.
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He didn't do it with the boomerang.
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Indeed I did click on it DR JoseP!
Thanks! It was nice to see that face this morning!
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Rad Fulton is sending me some motion picture entertainments for my viewing pleasure and I am looking forward to it!
On the flip side I sent Lisa Montell some DVDs of her episodes of FRONTIER DOCTOR and CHEYENNE.
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Do you know that I am still only on page 21 from new year's eve <sigh>.
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That's MISTER CLean, to you!
:D
So, you've a new haircut?
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I had to take my mom to Wal Mart - it was chaos.
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DR DANISE - stitches should just eventually fall out. They are made from material that won't harm your pet....as far as I know. I am like DR JANE, never had to have stitches removed from man or beast.
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He didn't do it with the boomerang.
You've got the cards to prove this???
;D
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Does anyone know anything about "The Scene"---the Tony Shalhoub play at 2econd State Theatre? I'm thinking about trying to catch it during my brief hit and run in NY @ the 18th.
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Last summer, when I had that split lip that required stitches, I indeed had them removed by the doctor that had sewn them in.
And it's not always a good idea to have stitches stay where they are. After Buster got, em, clipped, shall we say, he developed an infection where some of the stitches remained. Peggy, too, had an infection after her surgury, same reason. Not major infections, but they did require some drainage.
And, yes, I was billed for my office visit. The vet for Peggy was much nicer.
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Ben, you and Anthony look very handsome dressed up for the party.
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Since Bk was just on a frenzy, my question for Ask BK Day, if anyone's game or cares :) :
Have you ever gotten on a tear about something on the internet that in retrospect you wish you could go back and delete, but there it is for posterity? (Similarly, or alternatively, have you ever left a message for somebody that you wish you could have taken back, even before the person got it?)
One of mine is when I posted bitterly on the internet about the scandalous seating situation at a play that i really wanted to see, only to get an email from the significant other of a friend saying he was a lead producer on that show. Tried to go back and delete my message board postings, but to no avail.
I've had fits on several sites, including this one; I'm proud of none of them and prefer to let my sunny nature and ebulience of youth speak for themselves.
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Who knew my Bollywood favorite John Abraham had his own website!
You can even see the pages of the new 2007 John Abraham calendar! 8)
http://www.johnabraham.com/index.php (http://www.johnabraham.com/index.php)
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Does anyone know anything about "The Scene"---the Tony Shalhoub play at 2econd State Theatre? I'm thinking about trying to catch it during my brief hit and run in NY @ the 18th.
Now that MONK has crashed and burned last season, I go into a rage whenever I hear the tv ad for the new season with Mr Shalhoub whining "it's wobbly, it's wobbly!" I can't imagine ever wanting to see him in anything again.
That was harsh.
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Who knew my Bollywood favorite John Abraham had his own website!
You can even see the pages of the new 2007 John Abraham calendar! 8)
http://www.johnabraham.com/index.php (http://www.johnabraham.com/index.php)
And do you really have his calendar in every room?
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Ben, you and Anthony look very handsome dressed up for the party.
I meant to say this as well! ;D
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John Abraham was very good in LAKEER.
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Ahhh....DR DANISE.... seems as if there can be problems. So you have both sides spoken for now. And it would certainly be worth a visit and some $$$ to avoid an infection.
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Does anyone know anything about "The Scene"---the Tony Shalhoub play at 2econd State Theatre? I'm thinking about trying to catch it during my brief hit and run in NY @ the 18th.
Is NAKED BOYS SINGING still playing? :P
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Thank you Kind Sir Jack and Kind Nurse Jane ;)
Take a look here to see how our own
Tom Nondorf AKA Rodzinski (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104615.html)
has been keeping himself busy.
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DR DANISE - stitches should just eventually fall out. They are made from material that won't harm your pet....as far as I know. I am like DR JANE, never had to have stitches removed from man or beast.
I never PAID to have stitches removed. Unless they were the kind that dissolved they have been removed.
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Ben-Thanks for the Rodzinsky link :)
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Good Afternoon!
Bank - Check! (pun unintentionally intended)
Whole Foods - Check!
Lunch - Check!
Cleaning...
-Who's whistling?
;)
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DR RonPulliam - A care package would be most welcome anytime. And since See's has packed up all of their East Coast holiday kiosks... ;)
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DR Danise - You should not be charged for the removal of the stitches - especially if they're the type that are supposed to removed. And even though I've only had one experience with stitches myself, I've had friends - and/or their pets - who've had them taken out no charge.
*I was hoping that the stitches I had in my thumb would be the dissolvable ones, but due to the location of the cut and the size of the stitches themselves, they had to use regular ones. And the removal of them was basically pre-billed when they were stitched in.
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DR MBarnum - If you're still looking for a calendar...
(http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/broadwaycares_1927_3914378) (http://broadwaycares.stores.yahoo.net/brba16newyos3.html)
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OOh.. And that turned out to be a rather saucy and sultry way to start off Page 7!
Everybody Dance!
*I'll leave it to your own discretion as to whether or not you wish to take off your clothes.
;D
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DR Rodzinksi,
Good going, sir!!
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So many calendars to choose from this year! LOL!
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Mail arrived, but to be three days' worth, I didn't buy that for an instant.
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I watched some CSI episodes to begin my afternoon. I began with the tale of a high school beauty queen killed by one of two people (or did they do it together?): a brother and sister. The sister was twelve with a genius I.Q. The brother older and with slightly less than average intelligence. A very crafty episode.
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Great interviews and titles from DR RODZINSKI!
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The other one I watched, about two warring rap stars and the people in their orbits, was one of CSI's weakest episodes from the past season. Don't care if I ever see that episode again.
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I couldn't decide among unseen DVDs, so I put in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, Pierce Brosnan's next-to-last Bond adventure. Would have been one of the better Bonds were it not for the annoying and amateurish presence of Denise Richards. And she's playing a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. Yeah, right.
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I had to take my mom to Wal Mart - it was chaos.
Did anyone ask, "Hoosier little whosits?"
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I watched some CSI episodes to begin my afternoon. I began with the tale of a high school beauty queen killed by one of two people (or did they do it together?): a brother and sister. The sister was twelve with a genius I.Q. The brother older and with slightly less than average intelligence. A very crafty episode.
She didn't do it.
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The UPS dude has just come and gone.
Left me "DreamGirls" Deluxe Edition CD.
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I've been back from lunch about 50 minutes.
Had a wonderful Southwest Chicken Salad...it's a salad with tangerines, avocado, black beans, onion, lettuce, tomato and a generous helping of chipotle spiced chicken breast slices. Served with some toasted sourdough. YUM.
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DR Ben - thanks for the link to DR Rodzinski's column. I had just looked for it myself at lunchtime and it wasn't there yet!
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The other one I watched, about two warring rap stars and the people in their orbits, was one of CSI's weakest episodes from the past season. Don't care if I ever see that episode again.
I remember that one, too. Blech to the storyline, but kudos to the execution of the production.
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Mail arrived, but to be three days' worth, I didn't buy that for an instant.
Not enough bills?
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So many calendars to choose from this year! LOL!
You should go for one with kitties on it!
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OOh.. And that turned out to be a rather saucy and sultry way to start off Page 7!
Everybody Dance!
*I'll leave it to your own discretion as to whether or not you wish to take off your clothes.
;D
JoseSSultry...that's your new name!
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9,000!
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Mail arrived, but to be three days' worth, I didn't buy that for an instant.
Well, just remember... If the post office did not deliver mail for three days, they also did not pick up for three days. And the period after Christmas has always been a weird mail time anyway.
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Is NAKED BOYS SINGING still playing? :P
I don't know if the stage show is still playing, but according to THIS (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104473.html) article on Playbill.com, it's going to be filmed! ;D
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OK... I've dawdled long enough... Time to clear the floor in my bedroom, so that I can clean it. And the walls too.
Laters...
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Take a look here to see how our own
Tom Nondorf AKA Rodzinski (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104615.html)
has been keeping himself busy.
I just read this article when I was looking for the Naked Boys Singing link! Good job, Rodzinski!!
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Thank you for the Ben/Ant photo Ben. And thank you for the Rodzinski link.
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DP Colin and I shall be attending a preview screening of "Dream Girls next Monday. I'm telling you I am going, but I don't have high expecations.
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I don't know if the stage show is still playing, but according to THIS (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104473.html) article on Playbill.com, it's going to be filmed! ;D
And, yes, it's still playing. It's moved uptown to New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages).
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9,000!
Congrats on the three zeroes! ;)
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We watched "The Internationale" last night. informative, Entertaining, interesting and moving.
Made us think about living in a countrey that ahs never really had to struggle from oppresion, invasion, civil war not to fight for independence and freedom.
(Yes I know we have poverty and that our indiginous population has been treated so badly - it's an issue of "Scale" I guess).
Oh that we had people with idealism now!
Thanks Edisauraus. We enjoyed the extras and the previews too!
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DP Colin and I shall be attending a preview screening of "Dream Girls next Monday. I'm telling you I am going, but I don't have high expecations.
Right now, I'm listening to the Dreamgirls live concert recording with Lillias White and Audra McDonald...and everyone else! It's much better than the 2-CD "special edition" movie soundtrack. That's not a bad recording (and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie) but the live recording with all the dialogue is just a better version of the score.
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A picture from my office Holiday Party. It's Anthony and me in case anyone was wondering ;)
Wow! I hope you don't mind but I had to download that photo--that was one of the nicest I've seen of you two.
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Wow! I hope you don't mind but I had to download that photo--that was one of the nicest I've seen of you two.
I did too Danise!!
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Did anyone ask, "Hoosier little whosits?"
not that I heard, anyway.
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Thank you all for the info on the stiches. I will let my vet know a thing or two if she does attempt to charge me--but I'm sure she will find something to charge me for. If only the office visit. ::)
I started my diet yesterday and managed to drop a whole pound overnight. It's a start-- :)
I had my hair cut again. It's very, very, very short. I shall have to have someone snap a picture to show you.
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DP Colin remarked that Anthony's floppy hat is missing.
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Congrats to DR Ron on the 9000!
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Thank you all for the info on the stiches. I will let my vet know a thing or two if she does attempt to charge me--but I'm sure she will find something to charge me for. If only the office visit. ::)
I started my diet yesterday and managed to drop a whole pound overnight. It's a start-- :)
Then it should be a return office visit charge, not a full charge.
Good diet vibes! :)
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Wow! I hope you don't mind but I had to download that photo--that was one of the nicest I've seen of you two.
Maybe we need a Ben and Ant calendar!
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I meant to tell you that I also cleaned my closet out and got rid of a lot of old clothes, etc.
Some where the dresses I had bought for my first NY trip. I have to laugh now when I think about how scared I was that they wouldn't be good enough for the theaters and most especially for that other group I was going to meet.
I remember how carefully I dressed that night and how I had packed seashells to give to everyone there--even the people I didn't get along with. They were in the trash of my hotel room.
How silly.
Gotta run--we're at my stop.
Laters!
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I did too Danise!!
Me three! Actually, I save a lot of pictures that people post here on HHW. ::)
:)
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I meant to tell you that I also cleaned my closet out and got rid of a lot of old clothes, etc.
Some where the dresses I had bought for my first NY trip. I have to laugh now when I think about how scared I was that they wouldn't be good enough for the theaters and most especially for that other group I was going to meet.
I remember how carefully I dressed that night and how I had packed seashells to give to everyone there--even the people I didn't get along with. They were in the trash of my hotel room.
How silly.
Gotta run--we're at my stop.
Laters!
The planning makes it so. ;D
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DR RLP has 9000 posts!
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This morning I went for a walk. But sadly, the place where I enjoyed walking past the farm fields were much changed this time. The farms were sold and stucco strip malls or stucco houses were under construction. Very sad.
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Full moon tonight, so get those spells and wishes made.
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Reading Rodzinski's leadsing men interviews plus that Brian D'Arcy James link from earlier has made me long for another trip to New York!!!
If only I had the money to do so!
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I meant to tell you that I also cleaned my closet out and got rid of a lot of old clothes, etc.
Some where the dresses I had bought for my first NY trip. I have to laugh now when I think about how scared I was that they wouldn't be good enough for the theaters and most especially for that other group I was going to meet.
I remember how carefully I dressed that night and how I had packed seashells to give to everyone there--even the people I didn't get along with. They were in the trash of my hotel room.
How silly.
Gotta run--we're at my stop.
Laters!
DR Danise, your kindness and ingenuousness are to be treasured and honored. We can always use some of it in this jaded town.
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Right now, I'm listening to the Dreamgirls live concert recording with Lillias White and Audra McDonald...and everyone else! It's much better than the 2-CD "special edition" movie soundtrack. That's not a bad recording (and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie) but the live recording with all the dialogue is just a better version of the score.
I've just never warmed to that recording. Lillias White may be superb in performance, but her severely restricted vocals on Effie's songs put me right OFF the recording.
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Full moon tonight, so get those spells and wishes made.
I expect to win the lottery on the strength of this recommendation, JRand.
Pray I'm not disappointed!
!!!
;)
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DR TomovOz: Spare yourself the disappointment. If you go into "DreamGirls" expecting to be displeased with it, you WILL be displeased with it.
It's absolutely fabulous, but....
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LOL....I guess I wasted my money buying a ticket.
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DR Danise:
Sea shells are among my favorite things.
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No, Danise (and Tom and George), I don't mind at all that you downloaded the picture. That's very nice of you to do so/say so :)
Regarding Naked Boys, I think they actually moved downtown to the New World Stages. After the stint at Actor's Playhouse in the Village, IIRC (if I recall correctly in Internet Lingo) they moved a few places around town and were at the now defunct 91 Street Playhouse on the Upper East Side after Menopause, The Musical closed before they moved back down to New World (formerly Dodger Stages). I may be recalling this all incorrectly but I've been back at work for two days after being off for a month. Yesterday I forgot a password that I use for 11 months out of the year. It only took one month away from work for it to flush out of my mind. Who knows what else is gone ;)
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LOL....I guess I wasted my money buying a ticket.
Help me out here, Jack. I don't get it.
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Maybe we need a Ben and Ant calendar!
That would certainly be possible. They could do "Ben and Ant's World Tour"....with photos of themselves in all sorts of fabulous places during their trips.
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Thoroughly enjoyed DR Rodzinski's interviews on Playbill.com, and with two of my favorite theater hunks.
Terrific job!
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I've just never warmed to that recording. Lillias White may be superb in performance, but her severely restricted vocals on Effie's songs put me right OFF the recording.
I can understand that...don't agree, though...horseracing. ;)
Anyway, I like it because it's the whole show with all the dialogue and not just the songs and the underscoring. The 2-CD soundtrack is just so...sedate. To me, there is no real energy except in a few of the songs.
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Yesterday I forgot a password that I use for 11 months out of the year. It only took one month away from work for it to flush out of my mind. Who knows what else is gone ;)
Hmmmm....yes, it was the month away. That's what did it!
;D
I was gone two weeks one year and could not remember the code to get into my office the night I got back.
This wasn't terribly long ago, either.
It's HELL getting older.
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Heading down now to clean the den, and then complete the James Bond film before starting something else leading into KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY.
WBBL.
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I certainly do plan on seeing the movie, though...and I'm excited to see it.
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I can understand that...don't agree, though...horseracing. ;)
Anyway, I like it because it's the whole show with all the dialogue and not just the songs and the underscoring. The 2-CD soundtrack is just so...sedate. To me, there is no real energy except in a few of the songs.
I haven't had a chance to listen to it in "toto" yet. Still, the movie was so quickly paced...
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Speaking of Calendars, I think BK ought to consider a "Kritzerland" calendar one year.
Each month would feature a photo of some local spot that figures prominently in the trilogy.
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DR Tomovoz, thanks so much for your nice comments about our film. I'd like to forward them to the director if that's OK...
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DR TomovOz: Spare yourself the disappointment. If you go into "DreamGirls" expecting to be displeased with it, you WILL be displeased with it.
It's absolutely fabulous, but....
I'm hoping to love it Ron! that's why I've not built up any expectations. I'll never get to see it staged. I survived the movie of "RENT" and I loathed the stage production. I've not been game enough yet to tackle "POTO" on film. Warlow is repeating his Phantom role in Melbourne in May. (Not even that can tempt me!).
His "New" recordings with and without Hobson are being distributed etc independently. Hobson has been hawking the discs to the retailers! They are WAY to expensive on Amazon etc! do you kow anyone in OZ who can copy them?
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I got a ticket for "The Scene" in 2 weeks. Hope it's good!
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DR Tomovoz, thanks so much for your nice comments about our film. I'd like to forward them to the director if that's OK...
Of course.
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Speaking of Calendars, I think BK ought to consider a "Kritzerland" calendar one year.
Each month would feature a photo of some local spot that figures prominently in the trilogy.
That would be cool! :D
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DR Tomovoz, thanks so much for your nice comments about our film. I'd like to forward them to the director if that's OK...
I can't believe I didn't think of this before, but I just checked and the library where I work ordered four copies of "The Internationale"! There are four requests!
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Catching up with two days' posts here...
Went to see my GP doc today. He was extremely pleased with my blood work--blood sugar, low--cholesterol, low, triglycerides, low. Everything was low, low, low! Tomorrow I see my cardiologist and hopefully he will clear me to go back to work next week. I miss the office and I'm getting bored with home life now that the holidays are done.
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I wonder if they ever sang "The Internationale" on Sing Along With Mitch. I bet they would have made it sound pretty good.
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I couldn't decide among unseen DVDs, so I put in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, Pierce Brosnan's next-to-last Bond adventure. Would have been one of the better Bonds were it not for the annoying and amateurish presence of Denise Richards. And she's playing a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. Yeah, right.
I think of it as one of the better Bonds in spite of the annoying and amateurish presence of Denise Richards.
Nice for Dame Judy's M to get out of the office and do something practical for a change.
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Me three! Actually, I save a lot of pictures that people post here on HHW. ::)
:)
Ah, yes, about that blackmail letter der B and I received...
::)
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Good news DTM. Stay well. (I think a "Cry The Beloved Country"/"Lost In The Stars" reference)
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I've just heard who Bill O'Reilly is having as his guest on his television show tonight.
Dr. Laura Schlessenger.
I may need to get me a sledgehammer.
:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
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His "New" recordings with and without Hobson are being distributed etc independently. Hobson has been hawking the discs to the retailers! They are WAY to expensive on Amazon etc! do you kow anyone in OZ who can copy them?
I see that Mr Warlow is also in an OperaAustralia DIE FLEDERMAUS, DR Tomovoz. Have you seen it?
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Maybe we need a Ben and Ant calendar!
I think we need a "Swedish Chef Around the USA" calendar, myself.
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Ah, yes, about that blackmail letter der B and I received...
::)
I still haven't gotten my money your response!
;)
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I still haven't gotten my money your response!
;)
It's that three-day post office lag.
::)
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I would like to have a Famous Ceilings of Las Vegas calendar with a companion Carpet Pattern page-a-day for my desktop.
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His "New" recordings with and without Hobson are being distributed etc independently. Hobson has been hawking the discs to the retailers! They are WAY to expensive on Amazon etc! do you kow anyone in OZ who can copy them?
I wonder....
I see he has a recording out of "The Snow Goose."
Sigh.
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It's that three-day post office lag.
::)
Dammit. :( I knew I should've sent it FedEx.
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Dammit. :( I knew I should've sent it FedEx.
Leave NO trails, George....leave no trails.
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MattH's post put me in the mood for some cocoa as well. Luckily, we got some cocoa as a Christmas present and there's some left.
I got cocoa from 3 different people for Christmas...lol, I didn't know my love for chocolate was quite that obvious
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Does anybody hear what I hear?
In "The Wizard of Oz" there is a song with a phrase that goes:
"You'll be hist..."
"You'll be hist..."
"You'll be hist-o-ry!"
Can't for the life of me remember which song (I thought it might by the lion's "If I Were King of the Forest", but it doesn't play out in my head to include those lyrics).
I've often wondered, however, if the lyrics are:
"You'll be hissed!"
"You'll be hissed!'
"You'll be hist-o-ry!"
It's whatever the welcome to Munchkinland song is.
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Rodzinski - great to see the column, good job!
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GREAT NEWS!!!![/size]
GOOD VIBES TOMORROW!!![/size]
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DR Sandra ordered a Christmas gift for me, which was just delivered today:
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Can they really be used for postage? If so I have got to get those with Sherlock!!!! For years we had return address stickers with Echo on them.
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I think we need a "Swedish Chef Around the USA" calendar, myself.
LOL! ;D
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She says they are postage stamps. I haven't tried them yet to see if they get returned.
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I'm checking this out. What a fantastic gift!
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DRLaura are the stamps self adhesive or do they need to be dampened?
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They are self adhesive.
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http://www.zazzle.com/pd/special/facevaluepostage
They are on sale until tonight at midnight PST, so act fast! You have to buy $10 on something else to get them at face value.
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Back from rehearsal, vocal recording, but not listening to mixes, which I'll do tomorrow.
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We fixed the three synth things that were bothering me, and best of all, for elmore, we put a real cello on the song which had a synth cello in the show.
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I shall now sit on my couch like so much fish and watch some movie or other.
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BK, our good friend June Wilkinson once gave me a paperback of Barbara Payton's life and said exactly what you said...somebody ought to make it into a movie. I think she was suggesting me.
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Thanks for the info. :)
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I was already to switch bruce kimmel over to godaddy. I went to their website to look over my options before I called them. I did however check my email to see if I got a response to see what happened to the website. Nothing of course, but I did try to bring up the site and low and behold! It was there.
so www.brucekmmel.com is up and running again. I will make some revisions/additions to the site.
BUT it happens again, I will switch to a new ISP right away!!
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DR Jane you should be able to get those postage stamps in a bunch of places. They are real. We got some made last Christmas with little megan's picture on them.
I'm sure if you go to usps.com they will have links on how to buy them.
I would just make sure that wherever you buy them from is legit (meaning that you can use them).
They are fun! (i bought my canadian ones from canada post online - they had details at the post office).
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I just got a ticket to CURTAINS for March 1! They are on sale earlier than they were supposed to be for AMEX cardholders. I can't wait to see it again.
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Good Evening!
Well... I took almost everything out of my room - thankfully, most of it was in boxes and bags... Then I vacuumed the major gobs of dust... Then I Pine-Sol'd the floor... Then damp mopped the floor... Then Mop 'N' Glo'd the floor... :)
Then I put things back in my room. I unpacked a few things, but mainly, it's an organized "mess". Thankfully, again, everything is in boxes and bags. I also measured out the room, and I think I've come up with a pretty good layout for when I bring my bed and dresser up. -And for when I go to IKEA tomorrow or Friday. :)
And now...
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The stamps are really cool. It would be fun use a photo of my mom when she was young to give her on her 80th Birthday
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I had a wonderful day at work today. What a nice surprise
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DR Jane - Those personalized stamps are fun. I received a couple of Christmas cards this year with lots of photo-stamps. There a couple of sites out there that let you do it, but you can also do them at home if via USPS.com, and you can print them on Avery labels.
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The stamps are really cool. It would be fun use a photo of my mom when she was young to give her on her 80th Birthday
Use them for the party invitations.
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http://www.zazzle.com/pd/special/facevaluepostage
They are on sale until tonight at midnight PST, so act fast! You have to buy $10 on something else to get them at face value.
I just ordered two sheets of stamps! BUT I didn't pay close attention to your post and the fine print about first buying "non-postage items" to get a sheet of stamps at the actual price...so, my order was for $34.97! :o But then I did read it and decided that I wanted to go ahead with the order.
The other item in the fine print that I didn't pay attention to was the not using an image that is copyrighted by someone else. ::) I should cancel the order, but I kind of want to see what happens. ;) Will I be charged for the order if they cancel it because of copyright infringement?? Or will I be arrested??
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I suppose I could ask the copyright holder for (after-the-fact) permission.
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Use them for the party invitations.
Great Idea!!
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OK... Time for a late dinner and hot shower... But probably not in that order.. ;)
Laters...
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I don't know about any of you, but I, for one, would not have been happy to have been Dimitri Tiomkin and had a producer say to me, "Dimitri, we need you to write a song with the words 'Gunfight At The O.K. Corral' in it."
"...and it's to be sung by Frankie Laine."
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I just ordered two sheets of stamps! BUT I didn't pay close attention to your post and the fine print about first buying "non-postage items" to get a sheet of stamps at the actual price...so, my order was for $34.97! :o But then I did read it and decided that I wanted to go ahead with the order.
The other item in the fine print that I didn't pay attention to was the not using an image that is copyrighted by someone else. ::) I should cancel the order, but I kind of want to see what happens. ;) Will I be charged for the order if they cancel it because of copyright infringement?? Or will I be arrested??
This reminds me of the time we tried to get a picture of Spider-Man put on one of my nephew's birthday cakes. The bakery refused to use the printed picture we submitted, saying that it was a copyrighted image and we could only use the Spider-Man that they had in their catalog. I suspect that the stamp people will tell you the same, DR George.
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Oh. It was John Sturges who directed GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, not Preston Sturges.
In my opinion, it could haved used Betty Hutton.
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This reminds me of the time we tried to get a picture of Spider-Man put on one of my nephew's birthday cakes. The bakery refused to use the printed picture we submitted, saying that it was a copyrighted image and we could only use the Spider-Man that they had in their catalog. I suspect that the stamp people will tell you the same, DR George.
Probably...unless I really can get permission. It's a jacket cover of a book. Can you guess the author?? ;)
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Hiya gang! Thanks for all the kind comments. Glad to get that first one in the can. Great to be back, too. Spent the holidays in California with my sis, and my mom came out from Indiana as well. I think it was probably no warmer in Berkeley than it was back here in NYC.
What a pleasant surprise to see that Mr. JoseSPiano has returned to the scene!
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DR Rodzinski - nice to see you back, too! Congratulations on today's column.
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No, Danise (and Tom and George), I don't mind at all that you downloaded the picture. That's very nice of you to do so/say so :)
Regarding Naked Boys, I think they actually moved downtown to the New World Stages. After the stint at Actor's Playhouse in the Village, IIRC (if I recall correctly in Internet Lingo) they moved a few places around town and were at the now defunct 91 Street Playhouse on the Upper East Side after Menopause, The Musical closed before they moved back down to New World (formerly Dodger Stages). I may be recalling this all incorrectly but I've been back at work for two days after being off for a month. Yesterday I forgot a password that I use for 11 months out of the year. It only took one month away from work for it to flush out of my mind. Who knows what else is gone ;)
Nobody knows the history of the different theaters like Ben!
I had a devil of a time yesterday looking for an old Playbill from the 1936 "Face the Music" that played at the New Amsterdam. Of course it was filed under "A."
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Thanks Ginny! It had been so long since I could really log on that I forgot having changed my avatar. What an odd surprise that was.
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I wonder what MattH will think of "Knights of Prosperity." I had it on. It had some funny moments, but not that many.
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I wonder if they ever sang "The Internationale" on Sing Along With Mitch. I bet they would have made it sound pretty good.
We do have a lot of male choruses singing it. Of course, it would be even better if Elmore had arranged it!
BTW, this song is sung at our Pride Parade in Atlanta. That knocked me for a loop the first time I heard that! Pretty cool!
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Also, sorry about the Wolvies, Ginny. Such bad sportsmanship by USC in that game.
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Dr. Laura Schlessenger.
She was removed from Atlanta radio. "Ding, dong", etc...
Hoo and Ray.
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Speaking of Calendars, I think BK ought to consider a "Kritzerland" calendar one year.
Each month would feature a photo of some local spot that figures prominently in the trilogy.
What an interesting idea! I'll go through my old photos again. Some months ago I sent BK a box of photos from the Kritzerland days, including many programs of shows he was in. Maybe MUSICGUY has some photos from those days. Or maybe BK already has all he would need. Or maybe he's not interested. :(
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Dan (the Man)—Glad for your good health report.
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I just got a ticket to CURTAINS for March 1! They are on sale earlier than they were supposed to be for AMEX cardholders. I can't wait to see it again.
Where did you buy them? I might try to get them for when we come up in March!
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Also, sorry about the Wolvies, Ginny. Such bad sportsmanship by USC in that game.
Thanks, Rodz. I've been following the Blue for almost 40 years and have never been so embarrassed. This makes me proud, though. It was painted on 8 of the jets that flew over President Ford's gravesite today.
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I love the Joshie stamps!
I think our avatars would all make nice stamps, too!
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Dan-the-Man,
Let's give him a han! (attempted homage to S.A. rhyme scheme?)
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I think our avatars would all make nice stamps, too!
I think YOUR avatar, EDISAURUS, would make a most interesting stamp, indeed! I think many people would be QUITE PUZZLED over it! But a great stamp just the same.
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DR Rodzinski---welxome back. We missed you and TPunk!
I enjoyed your writing and look forward to more!
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DR Dan(the Man) - best wishes for a clean bill of health tomorrow!
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Today and this evening I have made significant progress on my dreaded volunteer project. Enough that I should be able to sleep better than I have the past several nights.
Goodnight!
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I arrived home to wonderful treats in my mailbox. First, a music CD from a college friend I haven't seen in years who has started to write songs again. Then, DR MattH's package, which was the "Life After Tomorrow" documentary. I will watch that tomorrow :-) before handing it over to my producer friend.
And a very special batch of music from DR Elmore! We played the whole CD while I did the remained of my Xmas wrapping for friends in the UK who know not to expect anything until January because of my heavy December workload. I had never played music CD in our DVD player, but it has the best speakers, so we cranked it up.
Elmore's arrangements were supernal, and so beautiful that they brought tears to my eyes! I especially liked The Holly and The Ivy, that other DR's had mentioned. This will undoubtedly be at the top of my Xmas music playlist for many years to come. I absolutely love it!
So that was worth a 3 day wait! Thanks, Matt and Lar!
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Where did you buy them? I might try to get them for when we come up in March!
www.curtainsthemusical.com has a link. I got it at Telecharge.com
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It's time for me to leave and get dinner.
I hope the stamps order goes through...it looked great on my computer screen and I think it'll be a neat thing to have and use! But we'll see.
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Nice to see the Rodzinski mug up and running again. It makes me smile to look at that wig.
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Hey Rodz good to see you man...
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I had some things recorded from last night that I wanted to watch and get off the DVR. I started with DIRT, the new Courtney Cox drama on FX.
It has gotten simply terrible reviews. I agree that the pilot was not the greatest, but I thought the show might have some potential. I liked some of the characters that were introduced, especially the schitzo photographer. The ambitious actor who had been in a string of flops also seems to have some dramatic potential.
As I usually do, I'll watch another couple of episodes before I decide whether to add it to the playlist or dump it.
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Watched last night's VERONICA MARS rerun. Oh, those were SNEAKY writers for the first mini-mystery arc of the season. I'm seeing the show with full knowledge of the rapist's identity and still can't believe I was fooled so completely.
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Then, I watched THE KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY. No, I didn't find it laugh out loud funny, but the characters were certainly fun and lovable, and in a weird way, I was rooting for them. With nothing else on at 9 on Wednesday night, I might as well watch it.
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MEDIUM had a mother-daughter case, apt since a mother and daughter were murdered in the story. Not one of the greater or more perplexing mysteries during the series' run, but I liked that Ariel is having to deal with the downside of her gift. Should make the viewer realize that the gift is oftentimes a curse.
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Hey, now JRand56 and I can get those much deserved Allison Hayes postage stamps!
I can't believe the USPS has ignored the public desire for her face to be planted on their mail!
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I got a rather somber phone message today from Cal Bolder's daughter Denise letting me know that Cal's wife passed away. Unfortunately Cal's interview has still not been published (despite being at the magazine publishers for almost 2 years now) and his wife was looking so forward to seeing it.
But I will make sure all of Cal's kids get a copy when it does finally come out (fingers crossed for the summer issue).
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And if anyone is interested, my interview with SURFSIDE 6s VAN WILLIAMS is in this months issue of CLASSIC IMAGES which is hitting store shelve and mail boxes right now!
He talks all about Surfside 5, The Green Hornet, Bourban Street Beat and his nude shower scene in TALL STORY.
Lots of good (read: beefcake) photos of him also for those who are into that sort of thing (and you know who you are!).
(http://www.moviestore.com/ebay/photos/176/176215.jpg)
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Shayne, I just clicked on your line and got the error message that it couldn't find the sight. Maybe I'll try via Safari.
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Ah, it came up via Safari so I guess AOL was still caching the error version.
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And if anyone is interested, my interview with SURFSIDE 6s VAN WILLIAMS is in this months issue of CLASSIC IMAGES which is hitting store shelve and mail boxes right now!
He talks all about Surfside 5, The Green Hornet, Bourban Street Beat and his nude shower scene in TALL STORY.
Lots of good (read: beefcake) photos of him also for those who are into that sort of thing (and you know who you are!).
(http://www.moviestore.com/ebay/photos/176/176215.jpg)
Oh, I had SUCH a crush on him! The episode of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW where he guest starred as Clark Rice was one of my favorites. He looked SO handsome in that army uniform and really filled it out.
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Such a busy day today - I didn't jog, I didn't write, no time at all. Tomorrow morning I'll jog first thing, then I have to pack and ship out the orders that have come in (a new amazon order today) and then I must get some writing done. I won't join Vinnie to mix until mid-afternoon, and I don't need to be at reheasal tomorrow so I should have time to get things done.
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I've watched one DVD, shall now try for another - something short.
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I guess I'm going to head downstairs to bed now.
And it looks like I may get to have lunch out with best friend John tomorrow. He and his wife have been gone all week to the Orange Bowl. She was a Wake Forest graduate.
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Welcome back, Rodzinski!
Now that Wayman Wong has more time on his hands, he's become the real man about town :) - I spotted Wayman on New Year's Day sitting in one of the onstage seats at Spring Awakening.
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Wayman apparently has NOTHING but time on his hands - hence his incessant posting on ATC.
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And one for Wayman.
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Another Doris Day set of DVDs to be released in April...two of my favorite DD films among them!
By the Light of the Silvery Moon,
I'll See You in My Dreams,
Lucky Me,
My Dream Is Yours,
On Moonlight Bay
Romance on the High Seas
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incessant posting can be a good thing - just a matter of where one incessantly posts. :) :)
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Although perhaps that was a typo, and maybe you were referring to his insouciant posting.
I actually have no idea what that word means, but I like the sound of it.
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I left for a mere nine hours (80 minutes of which were spent enjoying the slightly overstretched but nonetheless irresistible GRINCH mega-musical) and it seemed to take me nine more hours to get through all the posts. It's a veritable mini-explosion of posts.
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If I had known GRINCH was going to be this good, I would have tried to see it before Christmas when the houses were full and presumably louder and even more responsive, but on some ridiculous principle of being hesitant to pay $98 per ticket for an 80-minute show, I waited for a discount on this one (which naturally materialzied after January 1).
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This has been quite a week of live entertainment for our household. Milla's show last Friday night, Skip seeing Coast of Utopia Part 1 last Saturday, Skip seeing Coast of Utopia Part 2 on Sunday, Spring Awakening on Monday featuring the onstage Wayman Wong :) and then Grinch. And nary a clunker in the bunch.
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Well, to be honest, Skip at first wasn't thrilled with coast of Utopia part 1, but then after seeing Coast of U Part 2, he loved the whole thing taken as one piece.
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There were also my coughing fits on Sunday, which were very productive.
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If I can't take my coughing break, my coughing break, my coughing break
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I got bored watching a movie, so I wrote two pages instead. Still trying to connect the dots, but it's coming along.
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In the mail today, I received "Acorn Antiques: The Musical! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000E98130/202-3920273-7437409)," "The League of Gentlemen are Behind You: The Live Pantomime (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000I5XNJW/202-3920273-7437409)" and "Torchwood (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000GRU0ZC/202-3920273-7437409)" from Amazon.co.uk! Finally! :D
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Oh. It was John Sturges who directed GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, not Preston Sturges.
In my opinion, it could haved used Betty Hutton.
Do you see her as Wyatt Earp...Doc Holliday...one of the Clantons?
Or did you perhaps think she should have replaced Rhonda Fleming?
;)
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OK. Bedtime.
Goodnight.
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Jose....if you don't have your bed yet....exactly where is it you are sleeping?
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I have been "unwinding" all evening.
When I arrived home, there was a woman standing by the parking garage gate.
I thought little of it, since she seemed preoccupied with something she was reading.
I used my clicker to open the gate, and then I eased into the garage.
I could see in my rearview mirror that the woman followed me.
I stopped my car, rolled my window down and told her she could not enter the garage as I did not recognize her.
She continued walking and said it didn't matter.
I stopped my car and got out. I raised my voice and told her I would call the police if she didn't stop immediately, turn around and exit.
She started telling me that a car parked on the other side of our garage had hit her car. All well and good, I thought, but that car was sitting there in its space. No one was around it. I told her she needed to call the police...AFTER she left the garage. She said she had filed a police report...she had the license plate number already. What, I asked, did she need in the garage? She said she needed to look the car over for damage. I told her "No! You need to leave the garage. When the police arrive, IF they arrive, you can worry about looking at the car when they ask permission to enter the building.
She again began telling me about what she was doing and started walking toward the car.
I placed myself in front of her. I raised my voice considerably. I told her that she was trespassing. I told her she had illegally entered the premises. I told her I refused to "sponsor" her and that she could NOT be in the garage without a sponsor. I pulled out my cell phone and told her I would call the police and ask them to arrest her.
She began arguing. I YELLED at her and pointed at a door. I walked over to the door and opened it and demanded she walk through the door immediately.
She said, "I don't understand what kind of place this is."
I said it was a private condominium with security issues and that she was trespassing on private property.
She just couldn't believe I wouldn't let her roam around the garage because she wanted to do so.
I was furious by the time she actually walked out.
After the door closed, I got in my car and parked in my space. One of my neighbors was in the garage throwing out some trash.
She looked at me and said, "I think you scared her."
I shrugged. "I'd rather she were scared to come back in here than risk her being another person sneaking in and stealing a car."
This kind of thing has happened too many times in this building. Someone is always following a person either through a pedestrian security gate or through the garage security gate. Most never get challenged. And cars get broken into.
I've been going over this little drama in my head all evening.
I'd rather it hadn't happened, but I don't regret handling it. I might have handled it better, but I got the woman to leave the building.
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Meanwhile, I did watch "Medium" tonight and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There's no show on TV that deals with families in so natural and believable a manner. Given the nature of the show...and the talents that all the women in it have, in varying degrees, I consider it remarkable.
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LSU 41, Notre Dame 14
Oh, YEAH!
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How long, I wonder, before BK pulls the plug on this here day and starts a new one?
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Perhaps he's still working with them dots.
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And why, George, are you just sitting there like so much fish and not posting?
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I know, I know. You're listening to one of those CDs, but you're still logged on.
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Has Ann caught up yet?
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Ann?
Who's Ann?
And why does the name Jed pop into my mind?
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And where the frell is TCB?
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It's tomorrow.
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And I don't think the sun will come out.
It's raining rather briskly right now.
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I AM frenzy...my own and etc.
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I should be in bed.
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Yes, I should be drifting off to sleep.
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Instead, I'm starting a new page.
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I'm alone.
Totally alone.
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There's no one beside me.
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There's no one to guide me.
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I'll [just] go on my way,
and after today,
the darkness will find me.
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But maybe tomorrow,
I'll find what I'm after.
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I'll throw off my sorrow,
beg, steal or borrow,
my share of laughter.
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For pity's sake...somebody stop me.
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I can't afford to be ruminative any longer.
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I must, instead, become drowsy.
Yes, that's it.
Drowsy.
Like a chaperone, perhaps.
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And why, George, are you just sitting there like so much fish and not posting?
I just watched "Nightline." They had an episode about a new Christian movement called Quiverfull (however it's spelled), where the married couples do not believe in any kind of birth control and they have all the babies that "God allows them to have." This one couple had eight kids!
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Don't quibble, Sybil!
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I'm done.
I'm spent.
I'm gone!
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And a wonderful job you did, Ron. :)
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And good for you about making that woman leave the garage! The car you saved may have been your own! ;)