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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were whatever, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're just finishing a game of moo jong.
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And the word of the day is: ANAGNORISIS!
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I'm quite tired.
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grrr...I dislike leaving my phone places!
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I really should stop doing it.
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you know you can play mah jong online, it is very simple. like solitaire kind of, only its about matching tiles.
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I enjoy it from time to time
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Good morning, all! I've not figured out all of the vagaries of the day, but I know that I have to be downtown around 10 am. At some point, I know I'll hear from Liz Callaway, and I know I have a post office trip to make as well.
Last night I had more fraught dreams, one very unsettling, but I remember none of them now.
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Mah Jong is the wife of Pah Jong.
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DR DtM - your mailbox is full.
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Work today.
DR SANDRA - I got the "brody" = "proboscis" reference from actor Adrian Brody who has a rather prominent proboscis.
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I hope DR Sandra has a better day today.
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DR DtM - your mailbox is full.
How embarrassing!
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I hope DR Sandra has a better day today.
I have every confidence that she will! ;D
BTW - did Ann and Jed get moved into their new house? ???
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Last night DR Sandra asked:
Was there any feta in your Spensa salad?
Nope.
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My inbox is now receptive, DR JRand.
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Isn't "Mah Jong" a song from SPRING AWAKENING?
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Yesterday DR Adriana Patti said:
and do math problems on the board
We don't mind if you do math problems on this board any time! :)
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I dislike leaving my phone places!
As opposed to... :-\
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DR Elmore3003, I really appreciated your gloss on The Skin of Our Teeth. Thank you!
DR Jennifer. Sorry about your eyes! Although at least you know what the smoke consisted of...no toxins involved.
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Maybe we can convince DR Dr. Orr to come back and help the young with their math problems. I know that he and another former DR helped Sandra with a few!
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And for those DRs wondering, as I did:
...the Spensa salad available at SaladTrough SaladWorks. A wonderful combination of radiatori pasta with chunks of turkey breast, sun-dried tomatoes, walnuts and black olives.
Sounds yummy...with or without the feta. But I'm sure, infinitely better with. :)
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Off to work.
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Do any of you DRs have a solution for those painful cracks that sometimes develop in your thumb, at the corners of the nail, for those of us living in the colder climes? Other than always wearing gloves, of course. Either how to prevent them, or how to treat them, once they've developed? Thanks!!
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WOD, used in a sentence:
We don't need no stinking ANAGNORISIS.
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And for those DRs wondering, as I did:
...the Spensa salad available at SaladTrough SaladWorks. A wonderful combination of radiatori pasta with chunks of turkey breast, sun-dried tomatoes, walnuts and black olives.
Sounds yummy...with or without the feta. But I'm sure, infinitely better with. :)
It is my favorite salad that SaladWorks offers. And since I get it with all lettuce and no pasta, it's on the healthy side. It's just that yesterday, I desired a taste of feta.
And before anyone tries to claim it, A TASTE OF FETA was the title of a play I wrote years ago.
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No emails about the huge tax return I left at the tax office last night. That's a good sign that everything is OK - or else a sign that they just haven't gotten to it yet.
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I went to school with ANA G NORISIS
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As reported elsewhere on the web:
XM radio may be planning to rebroadcast all 12 hours of their "Wall To Wall Sondheim" celebration [from 2005?] on the 24th of March, 2007.
And they may still offer free trial subscriptions which would allow those so interested to partake. :D
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ASK BK or anyone
I may have missed it, but did you explain why you decided not to release The Creature Wasn't Nice recording via Kritzerland? Did you announce what the label is?
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Do any of you DRs have a solution for those painful cracks that sometimes develop in your thumb, at the corners of the nail, for those of us living in the colder climes? Other than always wearing gloves, of course. Either how to prevent them, or how to treat them, once they've developed? Thanks!!
Ugh--I used to get them on all my fingers! I had to get a prescribed ointment. Plus, you need to keep your hands out of water--wear gloves when you wash dishes and take shorter showers. Make sure they are thoroughly dry after you wash them.
It's a tough ailment to treat, DR Singdaw.
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DR FJL, you asked last night about Paige Davis taking over for Molly Ringwald.
Yes, I did hear about it. I have tickets for that show on tour. Molly Ringwald's name is above the title of the play. If I were a Molly Ringwald fan, I would be truly ticked off, as it would be false advertising.
But truthfully, I have no idea who either actress is.
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Page Two Beautiful Hands Dance:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/frenchmanicure.jpg)
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DR FJL, you asked last night about Paige Davis taking over for Molly Ringwald.
Yes, I did hear about it. I have tickets for that show on tour. Molly Ringwald's name is above the title of the play. If I were a Molly Ringwald fan, I would be truly ticked off, as it would be false advertising.
But truthfully, I have no idea who either actress is.
DR Laura, Molly Ringwald was in all of those 80s movies--THE BREAKFAST CLUB, PRETTY IN PINK and SIXTEEN CANDLES.
I'm not sure who Paige Davis is, though her name rings a bell.
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Page Two Beautiful Hands Dance:
DR DtM: Where did you find that shot from my former hand model glory days? Ah, the memories...
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Ms. Davis' big claim to fame comes from her hosting Trading Spaces on The TLC/Discovery Channel. She no longer hosts the show.
She does have real musical theatre credits to her name. Here is her Web site for further perusal:
Paige Davis (http://www.paigedavis.com/)
And here is a site for Ms. Ringwald, no favoritist, I! There are others, this is just the first I found:
Molly (http://mollyringwald.atspace.org/)
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Good Morning!
Well, since I slept through my alarm this morning... Well, I heard it go off, then turned it off... Then... An hour later... So... Until lunch break (or possibly sooner)...
Laters...
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I adored Paige Davis on Trading Spaces, even though I couldn't spell her name correctly last night.
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Have fun today, DR JOSE....and all others, of course. It's just that DR JOSE is the only spending the day with Eartha!
TOP DESIGN is new tonight, and it seems from the previews we get to see a Goil breakdown. The cause is not specified, but my guess is Michael - since he has driven all of the other designers crazy already!
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I adored Paige Davis on Trading Spaces, even though I couldn't spell her name correctly last night.
I stopped watching when she left. There is only so much Hildy, Doug, and Frank a person can take. :P
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My question for ASK BK day.
What is the first REAL and TRUE television script you ever read, what did you think of it? Did you take the part?
And what was the nicest standing set on a backlot you ever saw?
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NOW I really am off to work.
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JRand - I don't think I ever figured it out: Did Paige Davis leave Trading Spaces voluntarily, or was there a ratings issue that made them force her out? Or something else?
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I loved the Paige-cam.
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DR Laura, Molly Ringwald was in all of those 80s movies--THE BREAKFAST CLUB, PRETTY IN PINK and SIXTEEN CANDLES.
I'm not sure who Paige Davis is, though her name rings a bell.
Well, you know me. I haven't seen any of those movies. Nor do I have cable tv to watch the decorating show.
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I see that she is married to Patrick Page. I am sure she is tired of any jokes we could come up with.
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That's the decorating show where they would do stupid things, like stapling LPs to the wall, or glue feathers, or such?
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Four posts in a row. That's unusual for me!
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Laura - Yes, that's the show! But Paige Davis' presence always anchored it, I thought.
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Wednesday morning greetings! Today I'm hosting a brownbag lunch with nonprofit folks to discuss The Glass Castle (http://www.bigread.org) by Jeannette Walls. The staff person who's always helped me with the hospitality (we provide beverages and dessert) resigned last month, so I'm on my own today. Wonder if I've forgotten anything?
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Wonder if I've forgotten anything?
As long as you're serving pie, you should be all set.
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That's the decorating show where they would do stupid things, like stapling LPs to the wall, or glue feathers, or such?
I remember watching an episode where someone made flowers out of plastic coffee can lids and stapled them all over a wall and thinking to myself, "If these people even came near my house, I would pull out my baseball bat and smash hands and fingers."
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LOL Dan.
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This afternoon I have a board meeting. So I have the morning free. What to do??
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Well, I'm off! Perhaps I will have some photos to share later!
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Has anyone ever seen the film Duet for One? It starred Julie Andrews and was semi-based on the life of cellist Jacqueline du Pre. It sounded interesting when discussed in Rupert Everett's recent memoir. Which is entertaining, in a name-dropping sort of way, but not terribly well written.
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Do any of you DRs have a solution for those painful cracks that sometimes develop in your thumb, at the corners of the nail, for those of us living in the colder climes? Other than always wearing gloves, of course. Either how to prevent them, or how to treat them, once they've developed? Thanks!!
Ah, DR SINGDAW, the dry skin problem. If the problem isn't severe, I'd suggest using a body lotion at least once a day. My favorite el cheapo one is Trader Joe's Moisturizing Lotion with Aloe--$5, I think, and almost as good as many more expensive ones.
If you're at the cracking stage, then I'd suggest one of Sandra Cope's products (sandracope.com). This line was originally formulated for burn patients, then broadened into a line for virtually everyone. There are some very dramatic before-and-after photos on the website. Specifically, her Ultramoist is as moisturizing as you can get. You can also phone her salon with specific questions (phone number on the website). I started using these products last summer and this winter was the first winter since I moved to the East Coast that my skin hasn't been dry. And I've tried many, many products.
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I remember watching an episode where someone made flowers out of plastic coffee can lids and stapled them all over a wall and thinking to myself, "If these people even came near my house, I would pull out my baseball bat and smash hands and fingers."
Boy, can I relate to that!
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Thanks very much, DR Jeanne. :)
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Good morning!
More of a cloud cover this morning than there has been for the last few days, but we're going to have another very warm day with highs in the low 80s. Wow! It's early March!
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Even though it's cloudy it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood in New York, though cold weather is predicted for the weekend.
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Has anyone ever seen the film Duet for One? It starred Julie Andrews and was semi-based on the life of cellist Jacqueline du Pre. It sounded interesting when discussed in Rupert Everett's recent memoir. Which is entertaining, in a name-dropping sort of way, but not terribly well written.
Yes, I have seen it, and I have it on VHS. Julie was robbed of an Oscar nomination for this, one of the best performances she has ever given.
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Yes, we're supposed to get back to temperatures below freezing by Sunday
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Haven't decided on a DVD for the afternoon and early evening yet. I'm leaning toward the ROnald COlman PRISONER OF ZENDA, but I would like to finish up that LAW & ORDER: CI box, too.
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For new TV tonight, BONES, LOST, and CROSSING JORDAN all have new episodes, and I'll record IDOL so I can zip through the results in five minutes before I get back on-line tonight.
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Wandering around in my library's online catalog, I found a novel with the following subject headings:
Documentary films-Production and Direction-Fiction
Women motion picture producers and directors-Fiction
Georgia-Fiction
Could Rosina Lippi's Tied to the Tracks (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0399153497/ref=s9_asin_title_1/002-4231126-1738452) be about DR Edi?
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Good Morning! once again...
Greetings from the rehearsal hall... I'm sort of multi-tasking right now: the director is starting to block a scene, and I'm posting here on HHW.
-Gotta love that WiFi!
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*And I scored major brownie points for finding that pic of Eartha Kitt and company in The Skin of Our Teeth. Thank You, Google!
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DR Jose - thanks for the NYC hotel recommendation in last night's posts. For now, I've decided to stick with the Comfort Inn-Midtown and made a reservation for June 28-July 2.
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I see that DR Michael Shayne's movie collection comes out on DVD next week. COngratulations!
;D
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*And I scored major brownie points for finding that pic of Eartha Kitt and company in The Skin of Our Teeth. Thank You, Google!
If this piano-playing thing doesn't work out for you, you'd make a great reference librarian ;) !
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DR singdaw - Something that you should be able to find at your local drugstore or grocery store is that Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream. It's made for chapped hands. And, thankfully, it now comes in a fragrance-free formula. Now, if you don't mind smelling like you're wearing industrial strength Ben-Gay...
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My inbox is now receptive, DR JRand.
oh, my.....no comment....... ;)
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good morning Dear DR Jose.... you dear ! I hope this current gig turns out to be enjoyable for you. What rehearsal space are you working in? It's great that at least it's a Manhattan based thing, and you can be at home.
And it should only be a few more days until your "surprise" arrives at your urban estate!
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Guess I'll head down now and start thinking about what's for lunch.
WBBL.
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good morning DR Miss Karen..........now it's way too early for you to be using that twisted little mind of your's on DaTM's quote. :) Aren't you supposed to be the model of a picture-perfect housewife, serving breakfast (with pearls on, of course) tending your spotless home in high heels, etc.
Oh wait.... maybe that was DR George (or newer DR "Naomi") that I was thinking of.
Hope all is wonderful up in the wilds of Prescott. We are already hitting 90 degrees here in the valley, but it is really quite nice because the mornings and evenings are still very cool.
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If this piano-playing thing doesn't work out for you, you'd make a great reference librarian ;) !
Actually... When I was in grade-school, I had a wonderful school librarian, Mrs. Mahon. We had "library class" once a week, and she always had great projects for us. Sometimes we'd process the new books. Other times, we'd make new dust jackets for books - the opaque projector got quite the workout. She even taught us how to repair ripped pages with tissue paper and diluted Elmer's glue. Other times we would just watch film strips and movies. Oh, and, of course, she instilled the Dewey Decimal System in my brain. -And she even "hinted" at the LoC cataloging system. And I still remember the "reasoning" as to why "Tschaikovsky" is filed as "Chaikovsky" at the LoC.
In other words, I did consider Library Science as a something to consider... Even to the point of wondering if I would like being a Music Librarian.
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And a very good morning to dear Esteemed, rested, willowy, premiered, and machissimo BK --
Hopefully the nymphs and sprites of rest and sleep treated you well. As far as Mah Jong, my 2 adopted Jewish moms (Frieda and Myrt) tried their damndest to teach me that game. I learned Hearts from them very quickly, and could even beat them once in awhile.
But I just couldn't "get" M.J. or how to play it. And they explained all of the piece names..... stuff like "bams" and "winds" and "cracks"..... and God forbid, what would happen if you got your winds and your cracks intermingled??
So I stuck with Hearts. Did the "Gelfinbaums" ever play mah jong ?
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good morning DR Miss Karen..........now it's way too early for you to be using that twisted little mind of your's on DaTM's quote. :) Aren't you supposed to be the model of a picture-perfect housewife, serving breakfast (with pearls on, of course) tending your spotless home in high heels, etc.
Oh wait.... maybe that was DR George (or newer DR "Naomi") that I was thinking of.
Hope all is wonderful up in the wilds of Prescott. We are already hitting 90 degrees here in the valley, but it is really quite nice because the mornings and evenings are still very cool.
Ahh, my charming cheeky monkey DR Music Guy. It's never too early... I had just forgotten to put on the pearls -- once those go on, I become the picture of decorum... ;D...
Prescott is lovely this time of year...none of that summer-like heat up here -- more spring-like for us today, so if you get too hot (oh, you're already just too hot DR Music Guy -- ;) down in the Valley, climb the hill...
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Oh... The sound of those tiles being shuffled! That was a very familiar sound from my childhood from the weekly family get-togethers. The fathers would play pool or poker, and the mothers would play mahjongg. And gossip. And the kids would watch TV and/or run around the neighborhood trying
not to get caught to stay out of trouble. And usually until the wee hours of the morning.
I never played myself, but I thought the tiles looked cool. And it was always quite fascinating at how fast the game could move at times. -And just how fast those ladies could pick up and move those tiles with those nails, manicures!
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Mah Jong is the wife of Pah Jong.
Mah and Pah Jong was a wonderful series of films! I especially liked Mah and Pah Jong Go To Brazil, and my favorite, Mah and Pah Jong Meet Carl Jung.
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But I just couldn't "get" M.J. or how to play it. And they explained all of the piece names..... stuff like "bams" and "winds" and "cracks"..... and God forbid, what would happen if you got your winds and your cracks intermingled??
You realize, DR Music Guy, mah jong orders from HHWers just jumped after your post.....(I decided not to wear the pearls today...)
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And Mah and Pah Jong Meet Frankenstein
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ASK BK or anyone
I may have missed it, but did you explain why you decided not to release The Creature Wasn't Nice recording via Kritzerland? Did you announce what the label is?
Because a company approached me about it, and it seemed like they were keen on it, and I, at that time, hadn't done any filmmusic on Kritzerland, and they were going to do it first class and give me a lot of control over it, so I said yes. The label is Buysoundtrax.
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Both of those designs were by Hildy Santo Tomas who is still there....I go PAST the show now and then.
I agree with DR FJL that Paige anchored the show. I know she was scheduled to go to NYC and take over one of the parts in CHICAGO and there was bad publicity about that....TRADING SPACES sort of forced her out. I guess other people thought they were the reason we watched. And shortly after Paige "left" the carpenter moved to network TV.
Not the same show now.
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My question for ASK BK day.
What is the first REAL and TRUE television script you ever read, what did you think of it? Did you take the part?
And what was the nicest standing set on a backlot you ever saw?
That is an interesting question. I know the first TV script I read and then had to audition for was when I read and then tested for a Danny Arnold pilot towards the end of 1970. I don't remember the show, but I liked the script. But, I'm sure I had some sort of TV script in my possession before that, knowing the kind of child I was, and it may have been a Red Skelton or Danny Kays Show script. I was fascinated by such things, and I know it would have been very interesting to me.
I liked the Partridge street - felt just like a real street. It was on the Columbia Ranch backlot in Burbank (and still is).
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Ask BK Day:
If the DVD of The Brain isn't made available to the public for purchase, then can we bribe DR Edi for underground copies on the black market?
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I don't think anyone in our family played mah jong, but I do have a memory of watching the game, and it may have been a neighbor's family or the mother of the best friend in Kritzerland.
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DR Dan, I think that was hildy (who stapled the flowers to a bathroom wall). I love hildy!
But actually for the first time ever i agree with DR Jrand! :)
I loved Trading Spaces but stopped watching after Paige Davis left (was fired).
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BK - POSSIBLE CUTTIN' UP SPOILER AHEAD
Cuttin' Up premiered at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. It's basically Crowns - which was about African-American women and their Hats - from the male point of view. It's set in a barber shop, and it's based on stories related from barbers and their customers. And there are even some "famous people" who's stories are being told. It's a light evening of entertainment. Hopefully. *Frankly, the thing I liked most about the production in DC was the "soundtrack" the director picked out.
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Ask BK Day:
If the DVD of The Brain isn't made available to the public for purchase, then can we bribe DR Edi for underground copies on the black market?
I'll know more about such things after I get the sound right. I'm just not certain how long that's going to take.
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DR Jrand you asked yesterday if my smoke alarm went off.
No it didn't. I turned it off. But i have set it off at least 3 times. It doesn't allow any smoke. And when i grill steaks on the stovetop it seems to think it is a fire!
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Will we never get to page four?
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So it is written, so it shall be done - page four?
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Let's ge this show on the road, next page!
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It's written and it's done...
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Oh and DR Jose i tried splashing water in my eyes. It didn't help (i thought for sure it would). The visine helped quite a bit. It did hurt when i went to bed. But when i woke up it was fine.
And yes i guess it was probably the fat that spilled over. I usually think ahead to such things. But not this time. :(
Actually the mini meatloaves were great if that is any consolation. They were from my Kraft magazine. And there were 3 options: salsa/cheese, bbq sauce/cheese, and my favorites roasted red peppers and feta.
I didn't think the first 2 sounded good on meatloaf but it was in the recipe so i thought i'd try it.
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and I'm done for now..I'm still trying to discombobulate my discombobulated list -- seems like you discombobulate one thing, and there's just another discombobulation waiting to take its place.....
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Oh look, little Boo-Key!!
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DR Laura re: the comment you made last night about fire alarms going off when cooking.
The funny thing is that I tend not to burn the food. I could see that causing smoke and the alarm to go off. I have a house alarm and the fire alarm is connected to it. So it is a big deal when the fire alarm goes off. Somebody calls you and you have to explain to them what happened. So far every single alarm as been from my cooking! :)
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Oh look, little Boo-Key!!
Yes, yes, the elusive Boo-Key has decided to make an appearance this morning. I think my clock is back on schedule. This is the earliest I've been up this week - and strangely enough, it's the morning after a work night...hmmmm...
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Last night was quite interesting at the Avalon -- it was a death metal concert, the main event being a band called Hatebreed. So, it was about 5 hours of crazy death metal/thrash/grindcore/black metal music and luckily I was in the mezzanine - which is an entirely separate, open-air room where people can come to smoke or hang out - and I only had about 10 people filter (no pun intended) through...
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Then - there was supposedly a huge mosh pit out on the main floor - and that is certainly something I really can't for the life of me understand. A human being going into a mosh pit seems to defy all of those primitive "self-preservation" red flags that our bodies have going for them. Running in a circle, flailing your arms and legs wildly, pushing into other people, punching, hitting, kicking, elbowing, stomping on one another...just don't get it.
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I have not read any other IDOL comments yet.
But here are mine:
Obviously lakisha and melinda really are in a category of their own. Although while i think melinda is hugely talented, i don't particularly know that i could sit and watch her sing song after song. I find her sweet and she has a fabulous voice. But i prefer lakisha.
I was most disappointed with the 2 chrises. I have always liked them. But i think curly haired chris butchered his song. And i thought justin timberlake chris was not very good vocally and very bland.
As i said yesterday, there was someone who i have not particularly liked up until now. But she blew me away last night. It was jordin. Wow, i loved everything about her performance.
I also loved blake. I just love him period. But i thought his rearrangement was miles ahead of what chris did. I just love watching this guy perform.
It was interesting to see what simon said about haley. I actually sort of agree with him. She actually did have some stage presence to me. Although these people need to get better at covering when they forget the words. Paula is right, most people won't even notice if you cover it up correctly. Haley is so overly emotional she looks like she might break down at any moment.
I thought brandon was sort of bland. I liked phil. But mostly the show was a dud.
I think it will brandon who goes tonight. And although i think curly chris is popular i wonder if his performance will lead him in the bottom 2.
I would hope it would be sanjaya. I have never been so disappointed in anyone on this show. He was so good in his original audition. HE must have done something right in hollywood for them to put him through. But he sings like he is scared to death with no emotion and no power. I hope he goes.
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Last night was quite interesting at the Avalon -- it was a death metal concert, the main event being a band called Hatebreed. So, it was about 5 hours of crazy death metal/thrash/grindcore/black metal music and luckily I was in the mezzanine - which is an entirely separate, open-air room where people can come to smoke or hang out - and I only had about 10 people filter (no pun intended) through...
How are your ears this morning? Or was the mezzanine far enough away?
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All the talk of GREASE and slackers yesterday reminded me of the funny slogan max's fans have for him.
Are you a slacker backer?
I love it!
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DR MattH, i totally agree with what you wrote about sanjaya (i said something similar in my post). Why are the judges mad if someone doesn't sound good. They had many chances to get to hear everyone.
If the person cannot sing it is their fault not ours!
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How are your ears this morning? Or was the mezzanine far enough away?
The mezz is far enough away -- it's a different little room and both of the doors leading into it were basically closed and deflected enough of the sound. I did go in and watch Hatebreed for about 10 minutes, just to get a sense of it, and I had my ear piece in one ear and my ear plug in the other, so I was okay.
Just a totally different world though...10 minutes was more than enough for me. But I realized, after talking to Vinnie, another security guard that some people really get the music and understand WHY they like it. He gave me about a 30 minute breakdown of the different types of metal and what he likes and doesn't like about each of them, citing specific bands as examples. It is something you have to respect, if not admire.
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Isn't "Mah Jong" a song from SPRING AWAKENING?
That would be "Totally Mah Jonged"
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The canadian station here that carries LOST has been playing around with the time (depending on when IDOL is on). They used to have it at 7pm (which i liked). Then last week it was at 9pm. Today it is at 8pm, and although i won't be home. I like that timeslot.
I should be home for IDOL results. And since it's only 30 minutes i think i will probably watch it "live".
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I adored Paige Davis on Trading Spaces, even though I couldn't spell her name correctly last night.
I loved her too. I don't watch nearly as often. I have more fun with Flip this House now
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JRand - I don't think I ever figured it out: Did Paige Davis leave Trading Spaces voluntarily, or was there a ratings issue that made them force her out? Or something else?
I heard it wasn't voluntary, but good heavens who would have told me that and how would they have known????
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I decided to go to dialidol.com to see who they thought would be eliminated.
They really have no idea (it is too close to call).
But i think those who watch might want to check out one particular person they believe got the 3rd most votes.
http://www.dialidol.com/asp/predictions/Predictions.asp
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I agree with DR Jennifer -- AI was a dud last night (if it was a sign of things to come, this will be the weakest AI season yet). No doubt that Kiki and Melinda have the power voices, but I think they'll have problems marketing them if they win -- they come across as having that "older singer" vibe (I don't know how to explain what I mean) -- and the only singer who made me sit up and take notice last night was Jordin -- when she finished I turned to my husband and said she's the darkhorse who may end up stealing this thing if she keeps this up.
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DTM - I was a little slow on the Spring Awakening reference, but looking at the CD, are you referring to "I've got mah jong, and mah jong is you" (a/k/a the graphic auto-eroticism number)
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DTM - I was a little slow on the Spring Awakening reference, but looking at the CD, are you referring to "I've got mah jong, and mah jong is you" (a/k/a the graphic auto-eroticism number)
Semi groan, I just got it...My Junk..
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And what is "mah jong" doing alongside the Dion Babies and the other historic events/fads in the lyric to "I'm Still Here" anyway? Was mah jong that big a deal back when Carolotta Campion was growing up?
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Warning: Vent Alert
What drives record labels crazy. Okay, there is a record store in London called Dress Circle. When Kritzerland came into existence they were very excited to carry our product and we were happy to HAVE them carry said product because they'd agreed to our bold new way of doing things, i.e. no returns, ever. We sent them their first order. It took three months to get paid. When they ordered their next batch, I told the person I was dealing with that Kritzerland wasn't set up to wait three month, two months, one month, or one week, and that invoices had to be paid promptly. He assured me they would. Sent package - invoice paid about eight weeks later. Had another conversation and said I would not send orders unless the invoice was paid up front. And that was our deal. They'd order, I'd prepare the package and get it ready to ship. they paid the invoice via wire transfer.
Until two orders ago. The "person" who pays started saying our invoices were not done correctly and that he wouldn't pay them unless they were, blah, blah, blah. I reminded him of our deal, I asked him why if our invoices were a problem, he hadn't mentioned it until now, blah, blah, blah. I redid the invoice, he paid, I shipped. Then the person I'd made the deal with left Dress Circle.
When they placed their latest order, I asked the gal who placed it if the deal was still in place. She assured me it was. I believed her. She needed the product quickly, so, stupidly, I sent it out the next morning. I sent the invoice to the guy who pays. He said they don't pay invoices up front, that he wouldn't pay until the package arrived. I reminded him of our deal, he went on and on that we were the only company to do what we do, and I told him a deal is a deal. Bottom line - he refused to honor our deal.
The package arrived in London two days after I sent it, where it remained in customs for four days. Once cleared, a delivery was attempted last Saturday. Apparently, no one was at the store when the delivery was attempted. And that's the last news I've had. So, I called the USPS today and they said in England the recipient must schedule a re-delivery - it's not automatic. So, Dress Circle has blithely not done so. Bottom line - if they don't, the package is returned to me in thirty days and I will have to cover that postage (I already covered half the shipping charges myself). I've e-mailed Dress Circle, and we'll see if I get a response. If not, I may try to speed up getting the package back to me. Of course, USPS is no help and they don't give a crap - the worst customer service EVER - and this is for a package that cost seventy-five bucks to ship. With insurance, of course, so I'm covered. But, it's an $800 order and right now I'm out the dough and out the discs (and I could use the discs).
From now on, Dress Circle pays before shipping or they can get their product elsewhere.
End of rant.
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I was really slow on that one.... (referring to the Dtm joke about Spring Awakening)
I used to be addicted to mah jong solitaire. I wonder what I did with that CD. It was about 3 computers ago, so I don't know if it would even work now.
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But i think those who watch might want to check out one particular person they believe got the 3rd most votes.
http://www.dialidol.com/asp/predictions/Predictions.asp
Hmmmm, do you think maybe that's because there's that group like last year -- can't think of what it's called -- it had the website, where they encouraged people to vote for the worst one so the worst idol would end up winning? That one year they backed the girlfriend beater and last year they were backing Pickler...and they both ended up getting pretty far...
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Okay, the next page, so I really gotta go -- this site is so addictive...
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Page 5 -- Bye! .. and I mean it, this time...
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You're all such enablers -- for shame!
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I think today I finally, officially have short timers syndrome. And this with about 4 full months left.
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By the way, HAPPY PI DAY to you all!
(http://pittsford.monroe.edu/pittsfordmiddle/Staff/ssmith/04PiDayPics/04PiDay59_small.JPG)
Doesn't this kid look like a really terrible James Bond villain? Here's a little looksie from the latest script. SPOILERS AHEAD!
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Goldenpi: "Ha ha ha, Mr. Bond, I have this laser aimed right at your crotch that will fire unless you can recite pi to 314,159 decimal places..."
James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldenpi: "No, Mr. Bond...I expect you to pi."
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I called the leasing agent for my office space today. She can't seem to figure out why I want to sign the lease even if I don't move in until July. She did say she wanted it to all be ready before we do the lease. I told her I trust that she will get it ready (We're talking a little paint and cleaning/maybe replacing the carpet) but I need to know that I legally have the space before I get a phone number, start having things printed up etc.
I know it's 3 1/2 months before I get the space, but I would hate to make all the preparations and have it fall apart at the last minute. I guess she doesn't get that.
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By the way, HAPPY PI DAY to you all!
(http://pittsford.monroe.edu/pittsfordmiddle/Staff/ssmith/04PiDayPics/04PiDay59_small.JPG)
Doesn't this kid look like a really terrible James Bond villain? Here's a little looksie from the latest script. SPOILERS AHEAD!
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Goldenpi: "Ha ha ha, Mr. Bond, I have this laser aimed right at your crotch that will fire unless you can recite pi to 314,159 decimal places..."
James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldenpi: "No, Mr. Bond...I expect you to pi."
You so funny... ;D Me love you long time :-*
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Also, today and today only, I am willing to cosine on any loans.
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But don't get me started...I might get off on a tangent.
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DR JENNIFER and I agree....
*********faints*************
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All these lame math puns, I'm such a square...
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I will probably be watching the GREASSSSSSSSS rebroadcast on Thursday night at midnight.
Yes today is PI day.....
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And the word of the day is: ANAGNORISIS!
Old Man Bunbury finally achieved his ANAGNORISIS when he realized that he would have been better off if he'd lived his life AS SIGNORINA Ernesta.
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DR CASON's post reminded me of my favorite detective show:
MAGNUM PI
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Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s.
I am suddenly feeling very old…
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And that great old time hymn:
In the Sweet PI and PI
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Just got off the phone with the London post office - according to them, the package is being delivered today. We shall see how quickly they pay - my instinct is it will be at least a month.
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DR CILLA LIZ where did you put your magnet?
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DR JoseSPiano, thanks very much for your recs. :)
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**QUICK PAYMENT ** laser beams for bk
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DR Jennifer - You make me quite nervous re: disconnecting your smoke detector. Too many stories on the television news in the past two weeks in the NY area about home fire fatalities – the worst of which could have been prevented if the detector had had a battery installed. Please be careful! We want you around.
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DR Ginny – It was always my impression that most reference librarians had advanced degrees in another field, and then went back to get an MS in Library Science. Do you know if that is generally true? If so, it’s a crime that they’re not paid more.
When I was in school, the library didn’t have the funds to convert or cross-index their collection, so half the stacks/card catalogues were in Dewey, and half in LoC. A sorry state of affairs. Perhaps this has since been rectified. Or perhaps everything is digitized now.
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DR Laura re: the comment you made last night about fire alarms going off when cooking.
The funny thing is that I tend not to burn the food. I could see that causing smoke and the alarm to go off. I have a house alarm and the fire alarm is connected to it. So it is a big deal when the fire alarm goes off. Somebody calls you and you have to explain to them what happened. So far every single alarm as been from my cooking! :)
If I forget to turn on the vent for the stove, the smoke detectors will let me know quite promptly. Der Brucer will then scowl in what he thinks is a ferocious manner. He likes my cooking, however.
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It was very overcast this morning, but it's now nice and sunny, so I'll jog in a bit.
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A package from Amazon arrived today. Der Brucer has a trio of Van Dyke Parks albums for us to listen to when we drive up to Dover later today (so much for our comparing the OCR and York recordings of Merrily We Roll Along, and I'd wanted to get his opinion on how much clearer the York recording is to the OCR in it's sound - the OCR is surprisingly muddy).
But right now I'm having a joyous time listening to the original television soundtrack for the first two seasons of Doctor Who. Yes, DR George, you're gonna want this one!
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He likes my cooking, however.
And I love the daily report on what you're cooking! :)
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Thank-you, DR singdaw.
But I haven't the foggiest notion of what'll be on our plates tonight. :-\
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Perhaps you'll just eat the plates?
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DTM - I was a little slow on the Spring Awakening reference, but looking at the CD, are you referring to "I've got mah jong, and mah jong is you" (a/k/a the graphic auto-eroticism number)
Yep.
Now to write my next parody, "The Bitch of Spitting".
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the OCR Merrily We Roll Along...is surprisingly muddy.
Get out your credit cards...the Sony/BMG re-masters of the OBCs of Woods, Merrily, Sunday, and Sweeney are all still scheduled for next week, 3/20.
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To witness a truly jaw-dropping version of the classic number from Gypsy click here:
Rose's Turn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4O3X3b84w)
It's a bit hard to hear and the camera is far enough away that you can't see faces. IMHO (in my humble opinion), it is one of the worst staged Rose's Turn I have ever seen!!!
The comments underneath the posting are interesting also. I don't know if the first post is actually from Andrea McArdle or someone connected with the show but it sounds (to me) sincere.
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And one for Mah Jong
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Spoo, 7 seconds too late :)
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Well, Fred, since you've been so generous to me, I can go in and delete my post and re-add it. That would put you at the top of the page ;)
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Ben - Don't change it. I love the opportunity to use "spoo" whenever I can.
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Sorry if this is a duplicate post, but I don't remember anyone linking the latest review of Brain at Talkin' Broadway:
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/
:) :)
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DIAL IDOL.COM SPOILER
Hmmmm, do you think maybe that's because there's that group like last year -- can't think of what it's called -- it had the website, where they encouraged people to vote for the worst one so the worst idol would end up winning? That one year they backed the girlfriend beater and last year they were backing Pickler...and they both ended up getting pretty far...
Were they really backing kellie pickler. I loved her. She was one of my favorites.
Um, I really don't know if that website is the reason sanjaya is getting a lot of votes. I've heard that little girls like him. I've heard that a lot of minorities are voting for him like crazy.
Which year had that little blonde kid? Not anthony. But this guy was sort of funny looking and believe the website you're talking about backed him.
I don't know.
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I actually now use "spoo" in real life, and people get a kick out of it. But are they laughing at me or with me?
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DR Jennifer - You make me quite nervous re: disconnecting your smoke detector. Too many stories on the television news in the past two weeks in the NY area about home fire fatalities – the worst of which could have been prevented if the detector had had a battery installed. Please be careful! We want you around.
I used to be guilty of this, too. And then forgetting to reconnect them. But then I found those new smoke detectors that are made to be placed in a kitchen where there might be some occasional light smoke. They still go off once in a while, but nearly as much as they old ones did.
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DR Jennifer - You make me quite nervous re: disconnecting your smoke detector. Too many stories on the television news in the past two weeks in the NY area about home fire fatalities – the worst of which could have been prevented if the detector had had a battery installed. Please be careful! We want you around.
I know it sounds iffy. But what other choice do i have? If the alarm goes off (for the house alarm) then you have to put in a new battery which is really expensive. Plus they call you and think you are nuts.
I only turn it off for a few minutes. Usually the smoke is nothing (like when i'm grilling on the stovetop). This is the first time that i've created real smoke in the oven.
Even if i turn on the fan, the tiny amount of smoke from grilling on the stovetop is enough to set it off!
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Is using "spoo" anything like using "floop," I wonder.
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I used to be guilty of this, too. And then forgetting to reconnect them. But then I found those new smoke detectors that are made to be placed in a kitchen where there might be some occasional light smoke. They still go off once in a while, but nearly as much as they old ones did.
I need that! But right now what i have is attached to the house alarm.
But there is no chance to forget to reattach it since it is taken down and left right where i can see it.
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I actually now use "spoo" in real life, and people get a kick out of it. But are they laughing at me or with me?
Of course, Fred, they're laughing "with" you, no matter what anyone else says :D
Also, here is a re-posting of Singdaw's link so that it's "clickable"
Brain (http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/)
Singdaw, for a link to actually be a link it must be posted in the reply box. Putting it in the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page won't make it a hyperlink.
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We could make our own cuisine and call it "Sploop" Of course we might need to pay a licensing fee to DR Sandra.
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for a link to actually be a link it must be posted in the reply box. Putting it in the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page won't make it a hyperlink.
spoo!
Thanks, DR Ben...
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To witness a truly jaw-dropping version of the classic number from Gypsy click here:
Rose's Turn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4O3X3b84w)
It's a bit hard to hear and the camera is far enough away that you can't see faces. IMHO (in my humble opinion), it is one of the worst staged Rose's Turn I have ever seen!!!
The comments underneath the posting are interesting also. I don't know if the first post is actually from Andrea McArdle or someone connected with the show but it sounds (to me) sincere.
Oy! GYPSY by way of CHICAGO with a detour through FOLLIES. All that's missing is some bottle dancers.
But I have to say the worst of it is in that delivery of the final line. Totally nullifies the end of the play.
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LUNCH!
Laters...
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Hey, I think I've got the hang of it now...
for cat lovers (http://www.stuffonmycat.com/)
Cheers-
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LUNCH
That's what I forgot, so I'm eating from the vending machine (dry roasted peanuts and cheese & peanut butter crackers) and some of the cookies that were leftover from my event.
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LUNCH!
A plate of milk for Ms. Kitt? ::)
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DR Jane, thanks for the link the other day to deadoralive...didn't know about that site.
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Laters, indeed!
Der Brucer has hopped in the shower (this being a family site, I'll not post pictures), so we'll be off to Dover in a few minutes. And we'll be listening to Van Dyke Parks on our way up and back.
Isn't that exciting?
(But I really do love the Doctor Who soundtrack. Full orchestra on some of the tracks, care of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, some haunting solo vocals by Melanie Pappenheim, some full choral work on a few tracks, even a couple of rock songs featuring Neil Hannon, all care of Murray Gold, the composer. Except for the original theme, of course, which is Ron Grainer's, arranged by Murray Gold. Oodles of fun. And pictures. But no pictures of an Ood. I guess they couldn't fit everything in.)
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That Singdaw is a quick learner!
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With your patient tutelage! :)
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]**TRAVEL VIBES**[/move]
for the Dynamic Duo
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DR Ginny – It was always my impression that most reference librarians had advanced degrees in another field, and then went back to get an MS in Library Science. Do you know if that is generally true? If so, it’s a crime that they’re not paid more.
Actually, DR singdaw, there are many ways to become a librarian. My route was one of the most unusual, in that I decided in high school (after having my A-Ha moment at the NYPL Lincoln Center location) to enter the profession. I went to school for 5 years, earning a liberal arts BA and an MLS by the age of 22. Most people who earn the MLS do sometime after their Bachelor's and, in some cases, after a subject Master's. Some MLS's go back later and get a subject Master's, especially college and university librarians and law and medical librarians. Of course, there are some employers who call any warm body working in the building a librarian, so that makes it difficult for those of us who are educated to achieve any credibility.
When I was in school, the library didn’t have the funds to convert or cross-index their collection, so half the stacks/card catalogues were in Dewey, and half in LoC. A sorry state of affairs. Perhaps this has since been rectified. Or perhaps everything is digitized now.
That sounds like the library system at The University of Michigan, where I went to school. They'd recataloged the entire collection from Dewey to LC, except Literature, so we had a huge area (floors?) of 800's. For a while, there was a lot of grant money for retrospective conversions, so many of those situations have been eliminated.
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I just used the word spoo! in an e-mail to two of my co-workers...they said I was weird.
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I just used the word spoo! in an e-mail to two of my co-workers...they said I was weird.
And what did they say after they read your email? ;)
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the Dress Circle package has been delivered. They have acknowledged delivery. I have asked for the wire transfer to be initiated. We shall see how long THAT takes.
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To witness a truly jaw-dropping version of the classic number from Gypsy click here...
Oh, my...
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Laura - Yes, that's the show! But Paige Davis' presence always anchored it, I thought.
But what about Marietta boy Ty Pennnington?
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Singdaw-Ouch. Aquaphor healing ointment (I get it from the dermatogogist) might work, or even just Vaseline. I’m always switching from one heavy duty lotion to another.
The ingredients in the healing ointment are petroleum, mineral oil, lanolin, panthenol, glycerin & bisablolol-whatever that is.
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I remember watching an episode where someone made flowers out of plastic coffee can lids and stapled them all over a wall and thinking to myself, "If these people even came near my house, I would pull out my baseball bat and smash hands and fingers."
My DH worked on the Lynette Jennings show (Discovery or TLC I think) for two seasons and often thought this very same thing.
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My inbox is now receptive, DR JRand.
It's like that wonderful line in Ruth Draper's fantastic "The Italian Lesson": "See if you can get some men for the opera. I've got a box but no men."
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Do any of you DRs have a solution for those painful cracks that sometimes develop in your thumb, at the corners of the nail, for those of us living in the colder climes?
The heartbreak of ANAGNORISIS!
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Yes, I have seen it, and I have it on VHS. Julie was robbed of an Oscar nomination for this, one of the best performances she has ever given.
I also like the Emily Watson film based on the same story of JdP, "Hilary and Jackie".
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As reported elsewhere on the web:
XM radio may be planning to rebroadcast all 12 hours of their "Wall To Wall Sondheim" celebration [from 2005?] on the 24th of March, 2007.
And they may still offer free trial subscriptions which would allow those so interested to partake. :D
I hope that this is true!! I wasn't able to get the whole thing the last time. And I didn't get the early written stuff. I'm excited about this! ;D
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That's the decorating show where they would do stupid things, like stapling LPs to the wall, or glue feathers, or such?
And real moss as wall covering! :P
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Could Rosina Lippi's Tied to the Tracks (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0399153497/ref=s9_asin_title_1/002-4231126-1738452) be about DR Edi?
Probably not, since I am only a "born again" Southerner, originally from Ohio. (But my DH is a 5th generation Georgian.)
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I'm seeing Prelude to a Kiss this evening. I remember being entranced by the first production at the now defunct Circle Rep theatre. It starred Alec Baldwin, Mary Louise Parker and the amazing Barnard Hughes. John Mahoney is playing the role this time around.
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Jennifer I'm glad your eyes stopped burning & you didn't do any real harm.
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Probably not, since I am only a "born again" Southerner, originally from Ohio. (But my DH is a 5th generation Georgian.)
The filmmakers are from New Jersey, making a doc about a legendary southern writer and the college town in which she lives.
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DR Jennifer - You make me quite nervous re: disconnecting your smoke detector. Too many stories on the television news in the past two weeks in the NY area about home fire fatalities – the worst of which could have been prevented if the detector had had a battery installed. Please be careful! We want you around.
I agree. You read over and over how people died in fires because they had removed the battery to the smoke alarm.
In newer houses the smoke alarm is located farther away from the cooking areas to prevent this problem.
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I'll know more about such things after I get the sound right. I'm just not certain how long that's going to take.
I think it would take less time if I didn't have double sessions every day and night this week. It's very frustrating not to have the time to finish it. I spent an hour between sessions doing titles on my laptop while loading CLOSER dailies. (As I'm doing now...)
I got a little chuckle out of the lighting designer's name: Jim Moody.
"I'd like to have some moody lighting for this scene."
"You're going to have Moody lighting for the entire show!" LOL.
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I heard it wasn't voluntary, but good heavens who would have told me that and how would they have known????
I am working on House of Payne with a producer who used to be with the TRADING SPACES network. (TLC?) I'll ask her about Paige tonight.
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Who will be the first to make reference to The First Moody Musical?
:)
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A package from Amazon arrived today. Der Brucer has a trio of Van Dyke Parks albums for us to listen to when we drive up to Dover later today
Don't be scared off by "Song Cycle". It's worth it if you give it a chance.
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Singdaw-DH Keith has an MS in Information & Library Science., before that, just a BA. He did consider getting a PHD but we decided the financial rewards weren’t worth it, plus we were ready to buy a house & begin having children.
His first and only job as a librarian was at Caltech in Pasadena. He started their rare book library collection which we are told is still there.
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Bruce-good vibes for a speedy payment from London.
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Hey, I think I've got the hang of it now...
for cat lovers (http://www.stuffonmycat.com/)
I love that site!
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The cat photos are cute.
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The filmmakers are from New Jersey, making a doc about a legendary southern writer and the college town in which she lives.
Oh...OK, I didn't get it. I just saw the link to the book and not the documentary. Sounds interesting!
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DR CILLA LIZ where did you put your magnet?
Which magnet? The CURTAINS magnet is on the refrigerator, where magnets belong. There was no merchandise at Man of La Mancha, thus no magnet
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Is using "spoo" anything like using "floop," I wonder.
Well, I say Shipoopi to that
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I got a little chuckle out of the lighting designer's name: Jim Moody.
"I'd like to have some moody lighting for this scene."
"You're going to have Moody lighting for the entire show!" LOL.
He used to do big concert lighting -- he generally preferred to use a bluish hue as his "signature" -- that's right, he brought out the "Moody Blues."
...I wish I was making a pun, but that is indeed an actual fact.
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Did I spell that right?
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Yes, yes, the elusive Boo-Key has decided to make an appearance this morning. I think my clock is back on schedule. This is the earliest I've been up this week - and strangely enough, it's the morning after a work night...hmmmm...
My clock hasn't been on schedule since my surgery in 2005!
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Ty was fun on Trading Places when he was on, always a star personality, but not what I would call an anchoring presence. :)
Whatever that means.
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Spoo, I meant Trading Spaces. Have I been typing Trading Places all along?
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My clock hasn't been on schedule since my surgery in 2005!
Implants are so finicky!
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And one for Marietta
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My clock hasn't been on schedule since my surgery in 2005!
So, that explains all the tics. Ba-dum!
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Or Merry Yetta, our neighbor who played mah jong with my mom
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I just used the word spoo! in an e-mail to two of my co-workers...they said I was weird.
Butcha are, Blanche!
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I'm seeing Prelude to a Kiss this evening. I remember being entranced by the first production at the now defunct Circle Rep theatre. It starred Alec Baldwin, Mary Louise Parker and the amazing Barnard Hughes. John Mahoney is playing the role this time around.
I loved Barney Hughes. I still miss seeing him around. I hope his wonderful wife Helen is okay.
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Good Afternoon!
Back from lunch. I headed to a nice little Korean place down the street, Little Seoul. I had Dolsot Bim Bim Bap, and a spicy tuna roll for an appetizer. A good meal.
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I loved Barney Hughes. I still miss seeing him around. I hope his wonderful wife Helen is okay.
Isn't that whom we ran into coming back from Popover's?
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It is cloudy and grey and I don't have anything that HAS to be done today. I am thinking seriously about closing my office door so it looks like I'm here and sneaking out. I haven't played hooky in ages. It's a little tricky here, with security cameras at the door and all, but you can sneak out the back without being detected if you do it just right
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It is cloudy and grey and I don't have anything that HAS to be done today. I am thinking seriously about closing my office door so it looks like I'm here and sneaking out. I haven't played hooky in ages. It's a little tricky here, with security cameras at the door and all, but you can sneak out the back without being detected if you do it just right
Hmmm... Anyone need a lawyer?
;)
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Hmmm... Anyone need a lawyer?
If you keep running over into Barney Hughes, you will! ;)
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Thanks for answering my question, MR BK.
DR BEN - I just watched that clip...and my eyes feel like DR JENNIFER's eyes last night.
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Dolsot Bim Bim Bap
Forget about Amazon! If someone got a commission on GOOGLE searches since I joined HHW, they'd be rich! I'm learning a lot... :)
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I can just imagine Jerome Robbins:
"Ethel, I got a great idea. Let's bring everybody on during Rose's Turn and let 'em walk around. Okay?"
Ethel's response cannot be written here.
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DR CILLA LIZ is goin' over the wall.
Pass it on.
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Will we never get to page four?
Certainly.
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Which year had that little blonde kid? Not anthony. But this guy was sort of funny looking and believe the website you're talking about backed him.
I don't know.
Kevin Covais last year and John Stephens ("Red") the year before that both got what I like to call the preteen/Granny vote. These sweet kids appeal to young preteenaged girls and their grandmothers and get their votes.
I thought it was priceless, however, when Ryan asked Sanjaya last night if he thought he should be voted through to next week, "Well, yeah, of course." Yet, when he's performing, he looks like he'd rather be anywhere BUT in front of those cameras and audience.
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A package from Amazon arrived today. Der Brucer has a trio of Van Dyke Parks albums for us to listen to when we drive up to Dover later today (so much for our comparing the OCR and York recordings of Merrily We Roll Along, and I'd wanted to get his opinion on how much clearer the York recording is to the OCR in it's sound - the OCR is surprisingly muddy).
But right now I'm having a joyous time listening to the original television soundtrack for the first two seasons of Doctor Who. Yes, DR George, you're gonna want this one!
I'll add it to my list. This weekend, I actually saw the second season soundtrack at Silver Platters (ooo...five illiterative esses! ;)). I wondered if I should get it, but I didn't. I guess now I must. :)
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I watched the Disney PETER PAN today with the audio commentary turned on. The DIsney folks have edited a bunch of interviews with the animators, Leonard Maltin, Kathryn Beaumont, Disney himself, and others to make a very interesting and informative running commentary. I actually loved it, and it's not often you'll hear me say that about a running commentary on a DVD.
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Next, I put in the LAW & ORDER:CI disc five from the set and watched a couple of episodes.
In the first, some math whiz had come up with a winning formula for a horse racing scam that was being controlled by the Israeli mob. I didn't remember having ever seen this episode before, and it had a really creepy villain who had some memorable encounters with Detective Goran.
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Get out your credit cards...the Sony/BMG re-masters of the OBCs of Woods, Merrily, Sunday, and Sweeney are all still scheduled for next week, 3/20.
It's about freakin' time!!
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In honor of Melinda Doolittle's sterling rendition of "Home" last night, I put in the DVD of THE WIZ and watched some of the musical numbers. The movie is as drab on this DVD as it's possible to be. It doesn't help that it's not an anamorphic transfer either, but this is another example of a Broadway musical botched for the screen, just like ANNIE, A CHORUS LINE, MAN OF LA MANCHA (though I like it a little better than other folks seem to).
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My I LOVE LUCY Seasons 7-9 boxed set came today. Don't know that I'll get to any of them today, but I'll certainly start watching some of them tomorrow. It's been many years since I've seen ANY of these.
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Isn't that whom we ran into coming back from Popover's?
No. That was Theodore Uppman's widow Jean.
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Comng Back From Popover's!
That's the opening number of my new musical:
PI in Your Eye!!
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And now for something totally geeky, I present:
OHIO Library Cards (http://www.minerva.lib.oh.us/templates/Ohio%20Library%20Cards%20Main%20Page.html)
(Not my creation, BTW)
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Hi from home. I have a load of laundry in, and have done a little picking up. I sort of got busted as I snuck out the back door, but it's the one person in the office who would think it was funny that I was sneaking out. We'll find out tomorrow if he ratted me out. He used to rat me out for everything, but since he found out I'm leaving his whole attitude is different
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LET'S POP OVER TO POPOVER'S - that's the new ad campaign for the "in" place to eat
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What is with Rachael Ray's hair. It looks like it's dyed way too dark. Ok, maybe it's just me, but I liked it better when it was a little lighter
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Light hair is what I got!
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Dr. Phil is going to help women with questionable taste in men? Oh puhleese. Like a few minutes with Phil is going to change a lifetime of bad taste
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DR LAURA'S new musical:
PI PI BIRDIE!
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Well, I say Shipoopi to that
WATCH YOUR PHRASOLOGY!!
;D
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I've written about two pages - that may be it for today, unless I slog through one more - but I also smoothed out yesterday's writing, and made a fun addition to an earlier chapter. One of my characters is, as she puts it, a child of the late 60s/early 70s and she's constantly playing music from that era at ear-splitting levels.
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BTW - did Ann and Jed get moved into their new house? ???
Gee, I hope they did, because they moved out of here about a month ago.
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It is quite warm outside..I sat in the sun until my arms and back turned tan, it felt nice
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I don't think anyone in our family played mah jong, but I do have a memory of watching the game, and it may have been a neighbor's family or the mother of the best friend in Kritzerland.
I think that Mah Jong was a little too advanced for the Norwegian side of my family. I think cribbage was about it for us......... Or was that us for it?
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We had a small flock (about a dozen) Rainbow Lorikeets arrive at the bird feeder this morning. They're not frequent visitors but a very welcome sight.
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Since I can't really have the sound turned up during rehearsal, I shall have to "enjoy" the "Rose's Turn" clip at a later time.
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BK, are my BRAIN CDs in the mail? I thought they'd be here by now!
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I can just imagine Jerome Robbins:
"Ethel, I got a great idea. Let's bring everybody on during Rose's Turn and let 'em walk around. Okay?"
Ethel's response cannot be written here.
Well, it was probably more of a gesture anyway.
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No. That was Theodore Uppman's widow Jean.
Ah, that's right. Have you had tea with her yet?
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Hmm...
Actors and Props.... Oh My!
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Yesterday's mail: "Eddie Hodges" best of CD. Big surprise - he sings an early Randy Newman song. (She Doesn't Love Me). It may even be earlier than his "Somebody's Waiting" recorded by Gene McDaniels.
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What is with Rachael Ray's hair. It looks like it's dyed way too dark. Ok, maybe it's just me, but I liked it better when it was a little lighter
She seems to have recently adapted, "Yes, I am wearing make up look," instead of that "all natural girl next door look" she used to have. Just way too much eye shadow for my taste - she almost looks goth.
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elmore - no, I was waiting to include your Shire CD so I could ship all at once. So, Friday they'll be on their way.
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Heading down now to clean the den, and then see if I can't finish those two remaining L&O: CI shows before BONES begins tonight.
WBBL.
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Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s.
I am suddenly feeling very old…
What's metal?
Feeling younger, DR singdaw?
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Get out your credit cards...the Sony/BMG re-masters of the OBCs of Woods, Merrily, Sunday, and Sweeney are all still scheduled for next week, 3/20.
I'm actually wondering if I'm going to buy these reissues. Well, I do know I'm not going to rush out to get them. The only one that interests me is Into the Woods since it includes a recording of Maureen Moore performing, "Boom Crunch". All the other extra and bonus tracks on the other recordings seem to come from that Carnegie Hall tribute concert - which I have on CD and DVD, so... We'll see...
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DR Ginny – It was always my impression that most reference librarians had advanced degrees in another field, and then went back to get an MS in Library Science. Do you know if that is generally true? If so, it’s a crime that they’re not paid more.
When I was in school, the library didn’t have the funds to convert or cross-index their collection, so half the stacks/card catalogues were in Dewey, and half in LoC. A sorry state of affairs. Perhaps this has since been rectified. Or perhaps everything is digitized now.
I thought Truman defeated Dewey?
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Cason & Fritz---wifebeater fans?
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Well, it was probably more of a gesture anyway.
True....true! :o
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Loved the lorikeets, DR TOMovOZ!! Great photo!
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As a director, I like to have authentic and working props.
As an actor, I never met a prop I didn't drop.
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Ooohh...
One of the cast members is Frank Vlastnik. He collaborated with Ken Bloom on "Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time". He's working on a "sister" book due out this fall. Instead of musicals, it will cover the 101 Greatest Sitcoms of All Time. I suspect a couple of DRs might be interested in that upcoming publication.
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DR JOSE - don't forget TOP DESIGN tonight.
We are in for a GOIL BREAKDOWN!!!
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Ooohh...
One of the cast members is Frank Vlastnik. He collaborated with Ken Bloom on "Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time". He's working on a "sister" book due out this fall. Instead of musicals, it will cover the 101 Greatest Sitcoms of All Time. I suspect a couple of DRs might be interested in that upcoming publication.
I know of at least TWO!!
DR GINNY thanks for the link to the library cards. Who knew?? So nu? 8)
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OK... Time to wrap up the day here...
Laters...
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I still have an hour to go!!
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Ah, that's right. Have you had tea with her yet?
No, but I had my dad's death and trek to Ohio. I need to call her
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I wonder if anyone at Universal ever suggested that Ma & Pa Kettle meet the monsters? It worked for Abbott and Costello.
The least they could have done is have Ma & Pa Kettle meet Francis the Talking Mule....
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I am still recovering from that CLIP!!!
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elmore - no, I was waiting to include your Shire CD so I could ship all at once. So, Friday they'll be on their way.
Yay! I need me some Brains to pass out!
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Ooohh...
One of the cast members is Frank Vlastnik. He collaborated with Ken Bloom on "Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time". He's working on a "sister" book due out this fall. Instead of musicals, it will cover the 101 Greatest Sitcoms of All Time. I suspect a couple of DRs might be interested in that upcoming publication.
Tell Frank hello for me! I love him and Ken Bloom. And their books.
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Loved the lorikeets, DR TOMovOZ!! Great photo!
Thanks Jack. I'm not as energetic as DearReader Laura. I just needed to walk out the back door.
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I just used the word spoo! in an e-mail to two of my co-workers...they said I was weird.
Well, ya are, Blanche, ya are!
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Butcha are, Blanche!
Now that's darn right creepy!
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And what did they say after they read your email? ;)
Boy, everyone's a comedian!
Are you sure DR Elmore isn't coaching you!
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My clock hasn't been on schedule since my surgery in 2005!
I totally mis-read that the first time.
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I would like some of those Rainbow Lorikeets for my backyard, DR Tomovoz!
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This is so cute............
http://d21c.com/scratch/holidays/egg.swf
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Boy, everyone's a comedian!
Are you sure DR Elmore isn't coaching you!
They can't afford me! DR MBarnum, it's Naked Schoolteacher in Trouble Day at the HHW club:
A teacher in Flordia quit his job because the school board objected to his performing in THE FULL MONTY, a Broadway musical, and I just saw Julian Fantechi on the news; the parents of the Brooklyn/Queens school he works in are objecting because he posed for PLAYGIRL!
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Three pages are done. Now I can relax until I leave for the Dena of Pasa, which will be at five-thirty. I like to get there early, pick up my tix, and then sup.
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They can't afford me! DR MBarnum, it's Naked Schoolteacher in Trouble Day at the HHW club:
A teacher in Flordia quit his job because the school board objected to his performing in THE FULL MONTY, a Broadway musical, and I just saw Julian Fantechi on the news; the parents of the Brooklyn/Queens school he works in are objecting because he posed for PLAYGIRL!
I would object if he wasn't posing.
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TCB - You make me laugh! Thanks for making me feel Younger Than Springtime.
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TCB - You make me laugh! Thanks for making me feel Younger Than Springtime.
Thank you. That is my purpose in life.
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Thanks for the advise, DR Jane.
Have you ever visited the Yale campus? The Beineke rare book library is beautiful...constructed of alabaster, which glows translucently on the inside on a sunny day.
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DR Edisaurus - Yes, loved Emily Watson in that "other" JdP movie.
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DR elmore3003 -
I really need to check out those Ruth Draper monologues. I've heard such things about them from many different parties.
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DR Tomovoz - Hoo and Ray for Rainbow Lorikeets. Thank you.
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Sheesh! You can't leave this board alone for ONE stinking hour without all this homework to attend to when you return.
It's an insidious plot.
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DR elmore3003 -
I really need to check out those Ruth Draper monologues. I've heard such things about them from many different parties.
She was a brilliant writer and monologist; "The Italian Lesson" is one of my favorite works of art.
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She was a brilliant writer and monologist; "The Italian Lesson" is one of my favorite works of art.
During my 9 1/2 years of living in Italy, I can tell you I had a few Italian lessons that might have qualified as art!
;)
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Sheesh! You can't leave this board alone for ONE stinking hour without all this homework to attend to when you return.
It's an insidious plot.
No plot is worth its salt if it's not "insidious"!
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During my 9 1/2 years of living in Italy, I can tell you I had a few Italian lessons that might have qualified as art!
;)
:D :D
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It is quite warm outside..I sat in the sun until my arms and back turned tan, it felt nice
How long were you out there?
:o
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I thought Truman defeated Dewey?
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Which man did you actually vote for?
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Which man did you actually vote for?
Mondale.
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No plot is worth its salt if it's not "insidious"!
How about nefarious??
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Oh, dear...
The slings and arrows are flying at HHW tonight!
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DR TCB -
What do the four fingers in your avatar stand for?
At least someone still wears a hat! :)
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Which man did you actually vote for?
Lindberg.
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Thanks DR Singdaw.. Despite the thoughts (no doubt) of some DRs, the photographs I post of our local bird life are not the same as ones taken last year or whenever! (It maybe the same birds though). I can tell the difference with some of them as they do have particular "personality" traits. "The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill" studies are not isolated.
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DR Elmore, my DH wants to know what time it is in NYC right now.
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I have a lovely surprise this morning. I was at the pet store purchasing bird seed when my cell phone rang. It was DR MusicGuy, inviting me out for breakfast.
We had a nice breakfast together, and then he came to the church for a tour and a look at the new piano.
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Lovely lorikeets, DR Tomovoz. We don't get such colorful birds out here -- except maybe the peach-faced lovebirds that are escaped/feral pets.
However, I am positive I saw a canary fly over my house yesterday. Plus, a bird with a long tail that I couldn't identify was circling the neighborhood and calling -- I think they were two escaped pets and the one was in a panic because it had never actually flown before.
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Hoo and Ray! The motor home of the chinchy bassa got moved off the animal-themed drinking -- I mean service club -- property today!!
I cheered as it drove off.
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That post would make no sense to anyone who is just beginning to lurk here. But everyone else knows what it means.
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DR DearReaderLaura - Well, I feel stupid! For some reason, I had the idea that the piano was delivered to your home, not your church! Hence my previous dumb [and probably cryptic] attempts at humor.
Is this a church you attend as a parishioner, or are you affiliated in some professional way?
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DR DearReaderLaura - Very good news, indeed. I am so glad...
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DR CILLA LIZ is goin' over the wall.
Pass it on.
As long as she doesn't start sporting tats like that guy on Prison Break...
::)
;D
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Hoo and Ray! The motor home of the chinchy bassa got moved off the animal-themed drinking -- I mean service club -- property today!!
I cheered as it drove off.
Congratulations! Good riddance to bad rubbish...as my aunt is wont to say. :)
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Even though I shall wussburger before too long, I feel assured that we shall surpass 400 posts for the day.
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DR DearReaderLaura - Well, I feel stupid! For some reason, I had the idea that the piano was delivered to your home, not your church! Hence my previous dumb [and probably cryptic] attempts at humor.
Is this a church you attend as a parishioner, or are you affiliated in some professional way?
I've been at this church for 25 years. We were homeless for five years after we were displaced by a school that wanted our property. We built a new place that has been open about a year and a half now. I used to post update photos as the building progressed. These folks are good sports.
I am the part-time secretary there, but I volunteer much more time than I am paid for. However, being assaulted is not in my job description!
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Singdaw -- you are in New York, right? What time is it there now?
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7:45 PM, my dear!
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I am still recovering from that CLIP!!!
I guess Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose doesn't look so bad right now, huh?
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I poop out pretty early, as I generally rise at 4:00 AM...
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Thank you (from DH). And from me. All of the posted times for the basketball games are Eastern Time. So now he knows how long until the game.
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DR TCB -
What do the four fingers in your avatar stand for?
...
The minimum pour he allows in his glass, of course!
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DR Elmore, my DH wants to know what time it is in NYC right now.
7:40PM
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I guess Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose doesn't look so bad right now, huh?
As long as she doesn't sing!
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Thanks, DR Elmore.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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We're back from our drive to Dover. (I still can't post from the car. Sorry.)
We listened to two of the Van Dyke Parks discs - Moonlighting and Jump. And we enjoyed them both.
Nope, didn't get to Song Cycle yet.
While in Dover, I talked der Brucer into stopping at the Atlantic Books branch, and bought a few titles -
The El Paso Chile Company's Sizzlin' Suppers - W. Park Kerr.
The American Table - Ronald Johnson
My Life in France - Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
and a couple that der Brucer decided I should also read -
The Farmer's Market Guide to Fruit - Jenni Fleetwood
and The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook - Matt Lee and Ted Lee.
Think I'm stuck in a rut or something? ::)
But I really do read this stuff.
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Spring is here! The cliff swallows are building their nests:
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Hmmm...an evening of Dick Tracy movies. I'll give it a try.
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For dinner tonight, something simple -
Top Round London Broil
Baked taters
Salad.
Der Brucer has most of the night booked for televiewing. But I'm planning on watching Good Eats no matter what, because it's a new episode about Corned Beef.
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I want to hear from our esteemed BK on two subjects -
The play he is seeing tonight
And the dinner he is having tonight.
(Yep, I'm in a rut all right. Everybody getting hungry?)
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Will we never get to page twelve?
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I want to hear from our esteemed BK on two subjects -
The play he is seeing tonight
And the dinner he is having tonight.
(Yep, I'm in a rut all right. Everybody getting hungry?)
The play is called Cuttin' Up by Charles Randolph-Wright. Don't know anything about it.
I'm assuming I'll go to the nearby Meheecan joint where I always have my pre-Pasadena Playhouse dinners.
Shortly I shall be on my way.
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DR S. Woody White - I'm not familiar with the others, but the Lee Bros tome is indeed excellent. Bon Appetit!
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The play is called Cuttin' Up by Charles Randolph-Wright. Don't know anything about it.
I'm assuming I'll go to the nearby Meheecan joint where I always have my pre-Pasadena Playhouse dinners.
Shortly I shall be on my way.
I think der B and I ate there once or twice. Not bad. Not bad at all.
(A Snoopy reference.)
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Back from dinner at Marseilles, and then dropping off Skip and Dear friend Ellen Schwartz at Curtains.
Once again, all this ketching up is exhausting. I'll have to relax by checking out a video of "Rose's Turn" if only I could remember what page it's linked on.
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1st post on p 6
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Thanks, singdaw.
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That is an interesting question. I know the first TV script I read and then had to audition for was when I read and then tested for a Danny Arnold pilot towards the end of 1970. I don't remember the show, but I liked the script. But, I'm sure I had some sort of TV script in my possession before that, knowing the kind of child I was, and it may have been a Red Skelton or Danny Kays Show script. I was fascinated by such things, and I know it would have been very interesting to me.
I liked the Partridge street - felt just like a real street. It was on the Columbia Ranch backlot in Burbank (and still is).
The Partridge's house was also the Kravitz's house in Bewitched and for a time it was soing double duty as the shows were being produced at the same time. Next door or two houses down was jeannie and masters house. Samatha's was up the street. It was a great street a lot of mermories. The Partridge's house was also later used as Patti LuPone's house in life goes on/
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Michael S - What is the significance of the new avatar?
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I guess Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose doesn't look so bad right now, huh?
Anything I might say here would be wrong on many levels. ::)
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I'm thinking that same street was used in BYE BYE BIRDIE.....
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If you are looking for something to watch, may I suggest TOP DESIGN?
Bravo 10 pm EST with several previous episodes on just before.
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We will of course expect a FULL Cuttin' Up report.
Ruth Draper....I laugh when I just hear her name.
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Hi gang..... I just thought I'd pop in for a minute. Yes indeedy.... DR Laura and I had some yummy stuff to eat for breakfast today. Well, truth be known, I ate a lot more than she did.
Dear Esteemed BK -- Is the "Columbia Ranch backlot" the one that has a corner entrance on Hollywood Way (on the way to the Burbank airport) ?? Is it also the location lot that was used by "Screen Gems" for some of their exteriors??
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Maheecan Joint?
Did you hear about the two guys from Noo Yoik who were visiting Mexico City.
One: Do they have Jews in Mexico?
Two: I don't know I haven't seen any.
One: I'll ask the waiter....
Waiter: Si, Senor?
One: We were wondering, do you have any Mexican Jews?
Waiter: Hmmm.....I do not know. Let me ask the cook.
Waiter: (returns) No, Senor, we don't have any Mexican Jews?
Two: Are you sure?
Waiter: Si, Senor. We have Orange Jews, Tomato Jews, and Grapefruit Jews, but we don't have any Mexican Jews.
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Hi gang..... I just thought I'd pop in for a minute. Yes indeedy.... DR Laura and I had some ymmy stuff to eat for breakfast today. Well, truth be known, I ate a lot more than she did.
Dear Esteemed BK -- Is the "Columbia Ranch backlot" the one that has a corner entrance on Hollywood Way (on the way to the Burbank airport) ?? Is it also the location lot that was used by "Screen Gems" for some of their exteriors??
The Anderson family lived there, too!! And their home (and some of their furniture) was used in THE FLYING FONTAINES!!! ;D
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I'm thinking that same street was used in BYE BYE BIRDIE.....
Hi DR Jack.....I very well may be wrong, but I think that the "Birdie" exterior stuff was done on the Universal backlot.
Here is one of those little "oddball tidbits" that our dear DR M(hunkalicious)Barnum seems to enjoy -- in 1969, I was doing an audio interview with Edith Head at her workroom on the Universal lot. Partway through our time together, she had to go check on some detail of the "Airport" shoot that was in progress, so she just told me to hop on her golf cart with her, and she drove me around Universal. She was a very interesting old dame !
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BBB was a Columbia Picture....but who knows?
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She seems to have recently adapted, "Yes, I am wearing make up look," instead of that "all natural girl next door look" she used to have. Just way too much eye shadow for my taste - she almost looks goth.
I was thinking the same thing
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Oh my DR MG - you show biz people lead such interesting lives...........
I would guess there are fewer than a dozen people around today who have been driven around in a golf cart by Ms. Edith Head!!!
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DR Sandra is thrilled that she knows someone who was once greeted by Lawrence Welk!
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Oh my DR MG - you show biz people lead such interesting lives...........
I would guess there are fewer than a dozen people around today who have been driven around in a golf cart by Ms. Edith Head!!!
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Oh my DR MG - you show biz people lead such interesting lives...........
I would guess there are fewer than a dozen people around today who have been driven around in a golf cart by Ms. Edith Head!!!
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Shower time.....then TOP DESIGN!!!
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WONDERFUL NEWS DR LAURA! :D :D :D
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The good news from DR Elmore's hometown is that the year-long labor dispute at the local steel mill has been resolved - contract ratified and the steelworkers will be returning to work soon.
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DR Sandra is thrilled that she knows someone who was once greeted by Lawrence Welk!
Wunnerful, wunnerful!
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Maheecan Joint?
Did you hear about the two guys from Noo Yoik who were visiting Mexico City.
One: Do they have Jews in Mexico?
Two: I don't know I haven't seen any.
One: I'll ask the waiter....
Waiter: Si, Senor?
One: We were wondering, do you have any Mexican Jews?
Waiter: Hmmm.....I do not know. Let me ask the cook.
Waiter: (returns) No, Senor, we don't have any Mexican Jews?
Two: Are you sure?
Waiter: Si, Senor. We have Orange Jews, Tomato Jews, and Grapefruit Jews, but we don't have any Mexican Jews.
Oy.
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Dear BK and Dear Readers,
How much do you look like your driver's license/I.D. picture? And how terrible a picture is it?
My picture really isn't too bad, in spite of the law that says all I.D. pictures have to be really bad. However, there was something funky going on with the camera and it looks like I have black streaks in my hair and am wearing black lipstick. So I look like a goth.
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Have you ever visited the Yale campus? The Beineke rare book library is beautiful...constructed of alabaster, which glows translucently on the inside on a sunny day.
We spent a year in Woodbridge, Connecticut not far from New Haven. If only I had known such a gem was inside one of the buildings I would not have been satisfied with simply touring the campus.
Keith has been inside several building but not had the pleasure of viewing the book.
The most memorable trip to New Haven was seeing Tommy Tune in 42nd Street at the Schubert Theater.
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DR Sandra is thrilled that she knows someone who was once greeted by Lawrence Welk!
My dad's grandmother actually met and danced with Lawrence Welk! She loved "The Lawrence Welk Show" and every week when it was on, she had to watch it. One year for her birthday (in her late 80s...she died when she was 92, I think), they were able to get front row tickets to see the show live! Well, during one number, Lawrence Welk picked her out of the audience and danced with her! I guess he used to do that all the time...but still. She was in heaven. If it's true (and if I remember correctly), my dad and his sisters tell the story that she fell asleep and died peacefully while watching the show.
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Yesterday was a really schlocky day. The Bucket Chase Gang just WOULD NOT behave. They were rough-housing and picking on Trevor all during circle time when I was trying to read them a picture book. After every sentence, I had to tell them to cut it out. I separated them I don't know how many times, but they always ended up together again. And then all day, it was one thing after another. I was SO frustrated.
So after preschool was over, I went to a quickie mart and got a Cherry Coke. When I finished it, I went to Subway for a sammints and another Cherry Coke. I drank it all on the walk home, so I got a can of Cherry Coke out of the fridge.
It was definitely a three-Cherry-Coke day.
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And one for Ms. Edith Head
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But today was a MUCH better day. I stopped off at Circle K after I got off the bus and bought a bag of candy. I told the kids that if they were good all morning, I would give them some candy and they could eat it after lunch. They were good all day. It's amazing what a little bribery can do.
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Or was that three for Ms. Edith Head?
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Or was that three for Ms. Edith Head?
Three Heads are better than one!
;)
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Sandra have a good day tomorrow without any bribery. :)
'night.
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It's not bribery, DR Sandra. We call it "rewarding good behavior."
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I told the kids it was Pi Day. They didn't know what I was talking about.
The girls like to "cook" with sand during playground time. Basically, you shovel a bunch of sand into a bucket, say what kind of food it is (marshmallows and strawberries are the most popular), and then you all pretend to eat it. Today they made a pie.
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Some "gold nuggets" appeared overnight in the sand on the playground (I had nothing to do with it!), so the kids were digging them up all day. I found one and Ashton told me it was a "golden chicken nugget sparkle glitter."
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Re ID's that look nothing like you - Have i told my unemployment story before?
Last time I was on unemployment, about 13 years ago, my ID carried a photo that was about 45 pounds lighter than I was at the moment, plus it was a dynamite photo. (How good did it look? So good that the ID could have been mistaken for the brother of DR Ron Pulliam's avatar :) .)
Anyway, the lady at unemployment shows us a video about how we can get back on our feet and find a new job, bucking-up stuff like that. Then we got on a line to have our ID's checked. She looks at my ID, then at me, then at my ID again, then at me again, and announces - no, she brays - "Boy, this is a reeeeally good picture of you." The other unemployment lady sitting next to her realizes her compadre had unintentionally insulted me, and says, "Oh, but you look fine now, too - I love yer hair."
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And speaking of chicken nuggets...
Every day, I look at the school lunch menu to see what I can expect to eat with my plate, and every single time the menu has said "french toast," we have had chicken nuggets. Every single time.
Today, the menu said "chicken nuggets." We had french toast.
???
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Naturally, I now have an ID that looks as close as posisble to what I look like, tonnage and all.
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My brother has a photo credit card, only there was some kind of mix-up and the picture on the card isn't his. It's some guy we've never seen before. Bloog calls him Tony.
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My ID looks like me...the stated weight on it, however, is closer to the weight of one leg rather than my whole body
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Last time I had it renewed, I raised the weight by 10 pounds. Before that it was probably the weight of my left foot
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I waited for half an hour at a bus stop that had this sign posted:
Regular Cash Fare: $1.25
Reduced Cash Fare: $0.60
Pickles Ride Free!
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Were there any pickles waiting to ride the bus?
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Once again, and I never get tried of hearing it, I was on hold earlier with the IRS and the machine said "Please do not hang up and dial again because doing so may increase your weight."
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Well, we do call Dear Canine Dylan by the pet name Dill. Would he get to ride the bus for free?
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Once again, and I never get tried of hearing it, I was on hold earlier with the IRS and the machine said "Please do not hang up and dial again because doing so may increase your weight."
;D
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Wasn't Pickles the wife of Morey Amsterdam's character on The Dick Van Dyke Show?
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Well, we do call Dear Canine Dylan by the pet name Dill. Would he get to ride the bus for free?
You know, there are some bus drivers who would see the logic in that.
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My brother used to call my niece "Pickles" because she loved to eat them so much
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You could show up with a name tag that says "Pickles" and see if they'd let you ride for free
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Wasn't Pickles the wife of Morey Amsterdam's character on The Dick Van Dyke Show?
I think you may be right
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Sick story:
Our friend Ed Weissman tried to take his dog into a store and was told by the guard, "I'm sorry, you can't bring that dog into this store." Ed told the guard, "That's OK, the dog is blind." The guard let them in.
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Or was that three for Ms. Edith Head?
Three Heads are better than one!
;)
And speaking of Edith... ::)
Survey: 40% in Japan Not Having Sex!! (http://www.comcast.net/news/health/index.jsp?cat=HEALTHWELLNESS&fn=/2007/03/14/610620.html&cvqh=itn_japan)
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If I weighed what my driver's license says, I'd be able to wear that beautiful leopard-spotted dress that Sandra found for me at Goodwill.
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Sometime yesterday the butterfly emerged from the chrysalis, and I missed it.
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DR MusicGuy, I was supposed to tell Carol about the piano tuner, leaving the top open, and was there something else?
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Ok, music people -- We are going to have our annual talent show in May. Do you have suggestions for a song that is not too difficult that I could perform? I am not very good, so I need something easy.
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Ok, music people -- We are going to have our annual talent show in May. Do you have suggestions for a song that is not too difficult that I could perform? I am not very good, so I need something easy.
What range do you sing? Soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor?? What kind of song do you want? Ballad, torch ballad, up-tempo? What's the occasion? "Our" talent show? Who's going to be the audience? Inquiring minds want to know! :D
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Or was that three for Ms. Edith Head?
Well, this is naughty, so beware..... but it is late at night, and Boo-key and Adrianna should be asleep and not on here !!
Some of you know that I was around the General Hospital set fairly often around 1967 and 1968. The wardrobe master was a really funny and nice guy who was not only very cute but had a wicked sense of humor. And posted on one wall in the wardrobe room was a big, bold, block-lettered sign that said....
"Edith Head gives good wardrobe!"
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DR MusicGuy, I was supposed to tell Carol about the piano tuner, leaving the top open, and was there something else?
Nope....that was all.....ya done good ma'am !
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MusicGuy, that's funny! ;D
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What range do you sing? Soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor?? What kind of song do you want? Ballad, torch ballad, up-tempo? What's the occasion? "Our" talent show? Who's going to be the audience? Inquiring minds want to know! :D
DR George.... this will be at Laura's church. It is pretty traditional and quiet. Metropolitan Community Church, it ain't !
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DR MusicGuy, are you free tomorrow morning? My DH wants to know if you want to play.
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Good Evening!
Whew!
-Just had to get that out of my system.
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Last year I did "Love, Look Away." At Christmas I did "Merry Christmas" from a Judy Garland movie.
They expect something funny, as well, like "The Twelve Days After Christmas."
Soprano, but not real high.
I am trying to get the reigning diva to do "Bosom Buddies" with me, but I doubt she will. She is too serious.
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DR MusicGuy, are you free tomorrow morning? My DH wants to know if you want to play.
Darn, Darn, Darn..... I'm kind of busy with finish up work around the Ranch here for the next couple of days. But please tell DH Don that I really appreciate the offer, and if we have some nice "non-windy" weather this coming week, I'd love to go touch the clouds!
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I am trying to get the reigning diva to do "Bosom Buddies" with me, but I doubt she will. She is too serious.
DR Laura.... this will only mean something to you, but one time for a Gala or a fund-raiser or something, Ron Rhode and I performed "Bosom Buddies" together.... yes, as a vocal duet. I think I was definitely more Vera Charles. ;)
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Well I have to do one more !!
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Re: Good Eats
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A better show than last week, this time covering how to corn beef brisket, how to make corned beef and cabbage, and how to make corned beef hash.
There were more than the usual number of other talent on the show this time. Lucky played a butcher, Pops was back (this time as a pharmacist), Our Lady of the Refrigerator was back to perform her usual magic, Deb Duchon (who has been with the show since the second episode) gave her Culinary Anthropologist gig another round, and someone I don't remember seeing before played a New York cabbie. And they had an Irish priest and a Rabbi. That's a lot of other talent showing up.
All in all, quite satisfactory.
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So I guess this will be the new page.....
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OK OK .... so I don't do math.... I'm a musician, and not even blonde !!
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And, with that, I'm going to head to the bedroom environment to listen to the dulcet music of Murray Gold and read about food.
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Well, at least "he, of the schoene punim" will be gratified to see that we are past 400 posts again. Huzzah for us !!
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**Wheels turning in my head**
Hey, DR MusicGuy, why don't YOU sing "Bosom Buddies" with my mom at the talent show?
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MusicGuy: He'll check the weather next Tuesday night. Call us if we don't call you.
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And I'm off to watch "Infamous" on DVD.
'Night all........ goodnight DR Jose, mio bonito frijole. :)
Goodnight Lucy..... take off the cheek lift before you fall asleep!
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**Wheels turning in my head**
Hey, DR MusicGuy, why don't YOU sing "Bosom Buddies" with my mom at the talent show?
None of my "Vera Charles" outfits fit anymore!
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Will we never get to page twelve?
Positively.
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Well, I'm afraid I'm just a bit too tired right now to do much of anything.... Well, except get ready for bed. -I shall have to read bk's Cuttin' Up report in the morning. -I wonder if his will match mine from earlier. ;) In any case...
Goodnight.
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Speaking of Universal Studios (home of the Kettles, Abbott and Costello, and their famous monster series), I noticed that the second box of W.C. Fields classics comes out next week. There are a couple in there I have never seen and am looking forward to seeing.
And, of course, there's that surreal, one-of-a-kind NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK. Can't wait to add that to my collection.
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I did finish up the LAW & ORDER: CI DVD box for season 2. A very creepy episode involving two doctors who as a team wooed and bedded women who would dump them when they realized they were being used and then the doctors would find a way to infect them with an animal virus. A very unusual episode, to say the least!
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BONES had a nifty mystery tonight with a small debt due to STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Love Brennan's new boy friend, and it looks like Jack and Angela may be walking down the aisle before the end of the season.
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CROSSING JORDAN had a more conventional murder mystery (the killer very easy to spot) wrapped around a frame story dealing with a viral outbreak that was spreading throughout Boston.
As the show winds down its sixth and probably last season, it looks like they're working various characters out of the series. Lily seems gone after tonight and looks like Jordan may have a health problem which may either kill her or keep her from remaining a doctor. Time will tell.
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LOST had some excellent moments involving all of our regulars. The Claire surprise wasn't one at all for me, and I'm wondering if Desmond isn't getting interested in Claire himself. Just a feeling I had: maybe the Charlie premonition is a ruse to get Claire for himself in some way.
Locke again taking matters into his own hands continues to make me think that sometime in the last two seasons, he may have somehow gone over to the "other" side. Again, I just don't understand the choices he's made over the last year of the show if he's one one of them.
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As for the IDOL results, I was delighted with the elimination and the next lowest vote. Maybe folks ARE listening and DO have some sense. Wasn't thrilled about the third lowest, however. I think he's one of the best of the guys.
I will say that during the Diana Ross medley, Chris Richardson sang better than he's sung for the last two weeks. He's been a big disappointment, but tonight gave me some hope for him.
BTW, I thought Haley was just awful in the medley tonight, and LaKisha has got to learn to smile and project more.
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Michael S - What is the significance of the new avatar?
Nothing.
I happened to like the movie.
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Ok, music people -- We are going to have our annual talent show in May. Do you have suggestions for a song that is not too difficult that I could perform? I am not very good, so I need something easy.
How about Carol King's "You Got A Friend"?
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Thanks. I'll look at that one.
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We haven't heard from DR DakotaCelt in a few days, have we? I hope she's ok.
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I'm off to home, now...finally. Have a good evening, all!
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DR TCB -
What do the four fingers in your avatar stand for?
At least someone still wears a hat! :)
I tried to think up some smart-aleck answer, but I guess I am too tired. The photo was taken during a performance while I was singing "No Business Like Show Business", so I was probably just trying to look theatrical.
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DR MusicGuy, are you free tomorrow morning? My DH wants to know if you want to play.
::) ::) ::) ::)
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I'm heading down to bed myself.
Good night!
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BONES had a nifty mystery tonight with a small debt due to STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Love Brennan's new boy friend, and it looks like Jack and Angela may be walking down the aisle before the end of the season.
Oh, please tell me that Brennan is David Boreanaz character!
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When I was living in Laguna Beach with my best friend back in the early Seventies (the Mr. and Mrs. Knott time), my mother wrote me a letter with her usual subtlety. She wrote, "I don't know much about Laguna Beach, so I looked it up in the World Book. It says that Laguna Beach is an 'Artist Colony.' Please, Tom, don't become too arty!"
Ahhh, Mothers!
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DR Musicguy, I did love that story! I suspect you have many other stories that I would enjoy!
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Well, this is naughty, so beware..... but it is late at night, and Boo-key and Adrianna should be asleep and not on here !!
Some of you know that I was around the General Hospital set fairly often around 1967 and 1968. The wardrobe master was a really funny and nice guy who was not only very cute but had a wicked sense of humor. And posted on one wall in the wardrobe room was a big, bold, block-lettered sign that said....
"Edith Head gives good wardrobe!"
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Back from the play - I now have fifteen minutes to relax before beginning Ye Olde Notes.
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According to THIS (http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?fn=2007/03/14/231745.html&cvqh=itn_depp) article, Johnny Depp "won't be working again until his seven-year-old daughter Lily-Rose is fully recovered from the undisclosed illness she has been suffering from for the past several weeks."
In other words, "Production on the Tim Burton-directed film—the auteur's sixth collaboration with Depp—has been suspended until the actor is ready to come back. He and Paradis [Vanessa Paradis, his longtime girlfriend] are currently looking after their daughter at their home in Bath."
It also says, "The crew at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, which is also where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was filmed, has been told that it's out of a job if Depp does not return to the set."
Now, I think it's wonderful that he wants to spend time to make sure that his daughter has fully recovered from whatever it is that she has, but why can't they get someone else to play the part?? (Can you tell that I'm not excited about Johnny Depp doing the movie at all? ::))
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With all the money they have between them, how could anyone be " out of a job"...they all take care of eachother.
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Well, this is naughty, so beware..... but it is late at night, and Boo-key and Adrianna should be asleep and not on here !!
Some of you know that I was around the General Hospital set fairly often around 1967 and 1968. The wardrobe master was a really funny and nice guy who was not only very cute but had a wicked sense of humor. And posted on one wall in the wardrobe room was a big, bold, block-lettered sign that said....
"Edith Head gives good wardrobe!"
:-X ~~~~~~~~~ ::)
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With all the money they have between them, how could anyone be " out of a job"...they all take care of eachother.
The crew, who were hired so that the movie could be made, will be out of a job. :-\ At least, I assumed that they were referring to all of the people that it takes to film a movie...they might have to find other jobs.
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IMBd's Movie News (http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2007-03-15/#3) has this:
Johnny Depp's seven-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, has been released from hospital in London after a frightening bout of blood poisoning. Depp and partner Vanessa Paradis had been keeping a vigil at the child's bedside since she was admitted to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital at the end of February. A source close to Depp tells American publication Us Weekly, "She is doing much better." Despite media reports she had developed the condition after stepping on a rusty nail, the cause has not been confirmed. The source says, "They don't know how she got it." The 43-year-old actor is currently filming a movie version of the stage musical Sweeney Todd in England, which was temporarily put on hold while his daughter was in hospital.
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yes, I understood the point the article was making. A film like that must pay well, and they are all promised the offer to return if they do not have to seek out other work. I'm not saying it's right or fair to everyone, but don't you think if you happen to be the directors favorite camera man the director would not make sure you were ok until everything blew over. Most of them are like family (or so I've heard from those who claim to know), and kind to those they like, whether it's the star or the theoretical new make-up girl that really has potential talent.