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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were dry, then wet, and now it is time for you to post until the wet cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: EDUCE!
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I am stage managing a show tomorrow...what am I still doing up!
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goodnight all
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TOTD: CD- Linda Ronstadt "Hummin' To Myself"
DVD: the making of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
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Goodnight USA
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Nobody in the jernt but me. And I'm clean, for I have just showered.
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Hello to DRs George and Ron. I hope you are both coping with the news that BK is showered.
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I'm up....am having "breathing" issues.
yuuck
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I''m relieved BK is showered.
A shower actually sounds kind of fun at the moment. A nice warm-hot shower...with massage setting on the shower head would be soothing.
I wouldn't, however, wish to fall asleep in the shower.
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If I didn't have work in seven hours or so, I'd start a mini-frenzy.
Or a maxi-frenzy.
Perhaps a Peter Maxi-frenzy.
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Breathing is a good thing to keep doing DR RLP
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Underpants.
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DR Sandra is awake and no doubt thrilled about BK's clean news also.
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Breathing is a good thing to keep doing DR RLP
Yes, I'm hip to that.
I'm not actually "not" breathing. It's just that the air is still, the room is warm, and I've a fan on to circulate the air.
The circulation is stirring up "particles" and my sinuses have decided to protest.
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DR Sandra is awake and no doubt thrilled about BK's clean news also.
How could she not be?
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Is Friday nearly/virtually over Down Under, Tom?
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I feel as if I am posting to myself. Is anyone there?
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Sinuses - sini. Mount Sini if the nose is large.
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Hello to DRs George and Ron. I hope you are both coping with the news that BK is showered.
I'm trying to. ::)
;)
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It is 5.55pm in OZ.
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This message is specifically for JoseCanYouSee. Anyone else who derives pleasure from it is most welcome:
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The HHW clock is off again. :-\
I posted this at exactly 12:58 am, but the timestamp shows 01:04:17am.
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Sinuses - sini. Mount Sini if the nose is large.
And if the nose is "clear", Mount Sini is capable of smelling Ararat!
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It is 5.55pm in OZ.
When I get to work, it will be "now" your time "tomorrow".
And oddly, I can get my mind around that concept.
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The HHW clock is off again. :-\
I posted this at exactly 12:58 am, but the timestamp shows 01:04:17am.
I think BK must have deflected some of that shower water onto the site....and the clock can't keep up as a result.
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DR Sandra is awake and no doubt thrilled about BK's clean news also.
I am indeed.
Thrilled about BK, that is. Not so much with the "awake" part.
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I wonder if Noah's Ark had naval drip?
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I think BK must have deflected some of that shower water onto the site....and the clock can't keep up as a result.
Well...how rude!
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I wonder if Noah's Ark had naval drip?
Sounds like a personal problem. ::)
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All right! Here's a PRONOUNCEMENT (are your reading this DR DakotaCelt?):
I must put my butt back into bed.
I must make my peace with the sandman and attempt to find a comfy position in which I can both sleep and breathe.
I must find a way to actually get some sleep and take Friday by the horns.
I must get through the day and reach the weekend.
I MUST!
DOODY!
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PAGE TWO DANCE!!
Ladies' Choice!
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Just imagine.
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on a Friday morning. And all those posts folks will be wading through to catch up will feature my face, post after post.
What a RUDE awakening that may be for some!
I trust I can go to sleep with this smile on my face.
;D
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I wonder if Noah's Ark had naval drip?
Or "lint"?
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Good night, Ron...and Sandra and Tomovoz. I'm off to my bed for sleep and breathing, also.
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Noah had chocolate?
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I fear I shall not be awake much longer.
Good night!
And underpants!
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And again Goodnight. (I'll be back later in time for the ritual of the oatmeal bowl washing)
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Good night, all and one.
Sleep tight (all but Tom...unless he's off for an early nap).
Don't let those bed bugs bite.
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Good morning. I am back from Hartford. I now must wash something so it will be as clean as BK.
Later, gaters.
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Good morning DRs Ben and Edisauras. Welcome to Friday. (which is nearly over in OZ)
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Good morning, Tomovoz! You have contributed to my TOD, because my CD player is a mix of YOUR CD's, plus a special mix CD I've done of my favorite, most glorious Elmore orchestrations. I love these LIB etc, CD's. I wish I had bought more of them during the second sale, but I was paying the price for being an independent filmmaker at the time.
In my DVD player, all ready for the weekend, more luridness courtesy of DR MBarnum.
Thanks to HHW for my "Ministers of Culture"!
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And now I must get ready---I've spent too much time combing all 4 cats this morning and not enough time combing myself!
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Edi, thanks for the article about the miniature maven in Georgia. I've copied it for Anthony to read.
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The Hartford presentation went well. We drove (and drove and drove). It's 3 hours each way but the scenery was nice and it was a beautiful day. We left at 6:15am and arrived in Hartford (we got a bit lost in Downtown Hartford) at 9:15. The people were receptive and the people from the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (the organization that arranged the presentation) were helpful and nice. We had a 20 minute presentation and then an hour of questions. We then got directions to go back on the Merritt Parkway instead of I-95. It was much nicer returning that way. We had beautiful scenery and a very relaxing drive. We stopped for lunch at a diner in Berlin. We ran into traffic as we took the Triboro Bridge into the city so I didn't get home until 3:15. More than a full day of work! But it was nice to be out of the office for the day.
I just finished listening to the new 110 in the Shade. I do love Miss McDonald. Though I still think that Miss Ebersole will win the Tony on Sunday.
I have Curtains (OBC), Night Music (OBC), Little Me (OBC), Annie Get Your Gun (Lincoln Center revival w/Merman and Bruce Yarnell), Annie (OBC), A Grand Night for Singing (OBC, for the most part), The Fantasticks (OOBC), Barbara Cook's new CD No One Is Alone and Elena Bennet with the Fred Barton led Orchestra on her CD A Wrinkle in Swingtime.
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RE: last night's SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE.
TOP 20 SPOILERS
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I haven't had a chance to see if anyone else has posted yet. But here are my thoughts on last night's top 20 reveal show.
I was disappointed with how they chose to do the show.
I've said here recently that SYTYCD is one of my favorite reality shows. And I've also said that the Las Vegas part is one of my favorites. But i really did not like how they did this show.
1. They spent almost the entire hour doing the American Idol type thing. The top 34 going in one by one and being told whether they made the show.
That in itself didn't upset me that much. But if you only have one hour. I'd rather see the dancing. I really had no idea why most people made the show or didn't. Because they didn't show enough of the dancing.
2.(and this is the part that drove me mad). They spent all the time the day before showing the people who were getting eliminated. And they spent basically zero time showing 80% of those who will be in the top 20.
There were maybe 2 exceptions. But it made me really mad.
Some who made it through i knew (hawk and benji's sister). But only because they showed their original auditions and i knew them. But they did not feature most of the top 20 in Vegas at all. In fact i had no idea if benji's sister was even still on the show. Because i never saw her.
The people they did feature in Vegas who made it were not even that interesting. That one ballroom girl (don't like her). Why on earth would she be the one they featured?
I really do like the other girl they featured (was in jessie?). Her interpretative dance was amazing.
There were a few others i remembered (like tyce's helper from last year). But by in large there are so many people i do not know at all. And i don't get this.
Yes there were some interesting stories from the people who got cut (the girl who lost her arm, and olivia whose mother had cancer). But why focus so much on their journey and not show anything of the people who got through.
To me I should know everyone in the top 20 already. And i don't.
Don't they get it that it bugs people to get to know people so well and then have them get cut?
And don't they know that people would like to know those in the top 20.
Since america is voting for the most part it's sort of unfair to have some contestants already popular.
I just don't get why they did it this way. :(
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Friday morning greetings! It was already hot and muggy here in SW Ohio when I went out for the newspapers at 7am - yuck.
Today is an information-waitressing day for me, so I'll be in and out here at HHW.
TOD -
CDs: Curtains, the HHW Birthdate Hit Songs CD, and an audiobook, These High Green Hills, by Jan Karon.
DVDs: Pan's Labyrinth and Glengarry Glen Ross
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Good morning! I am up and have emailed in sick (someone apparently forgot to turn on the answering machine when they left last night).
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Nothing to add, just saying good morning.
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TOD - Curtains CD in my car, HHW birthday CD in my kitchen and Grey Gardens CD in my head. I dreamed about Grey Gardens last night. That it was suddenly going to close. It had a completely different story with the same characters, but I don't remember what it was
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I can't decide if listening to Grey Gardens today will get it out of my heard or will make matters worse....
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Good morning, all! I woke at 12:45 am from an ominous and frightening dream and thought it would be another lousy night. Well, it wasn't; I slept quite well the remainder of the night, and even slept an extra hour.
Today, I have the NYPL at noon, and that's about all. We're awaiting news on whether or not the new office lease wil be signed and returned or we go into storage, so I need good vibes for a lease signing, please. I have to shop for a birthday gift, and I need to hit the market.
It was nice to hear from DR SwishySarah; I hope that she'll be around more often now that school is out.
TOD:
DVD: POPULAR (Season 1) last 2 discs, CAN-CAN, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
CD: Guy Haines, Charlotte Rae, Thomas Tallis, Vaughan Williams THE WASPS (complete score), JOHNNY JOHNSON, FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE
VCR: cheep cheep cheep
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I dreamed about Grey Gardens last night.
So much for Manderley!
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Nothing to add, just saying good morning.
DR FJL, did you give Skip my message from Josh?
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media check:
iPod: THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL, MARTIN SHORT-FAME BECOMES ME, GREY GARDENS (the NEW OCR)
Tivo: EXIT SMILING from TCM, WE LOVE ELLA from PBS
DVD: nada
Car CD Player: I'll be giving the birthday discs from DR Tomovoz a spin as I drive to the Jersey shore later today.
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And the word of the day is: EDUCE!
Wasn't he an Italian despot during WWII?
der Brucer
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TOD
CD Return to OZ
DVD Closer Season II
der Brucer
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Darn! I missed the Tony Food Show last night. Oh, well...
A Moon Pie For The Misbegotton
110 In The Shad
Spring A'bakening
The Little Dog Lasagna'ed
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110 Bottles of Beer in the Shade
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Larry - Yes, I passed your message on to Skip.
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Good morning!
Hot and getting hotter. A/C did come on yesterday, and it worked to my great relief. I only had a five year warranty on the central A/C unit, and this is the sixth year of its operation, so I was expecting the worst when I fired it up yesterday afternoon. Thankfully, it worked just fine.
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Page Three Harry and Professor Lupin Dance!!!
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There are some really tight races in the Tony ceremony this year, so this year's show should be great just for that. The musical numbers will be a bonus.
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Friday Media Check:
CD - LOVE, JULIE
DVD - THE CLOSER, Season 2, Disc 4
ANGEL, Season 4, disc 5
SWEET MOVIE
BRIDGE TO TARABITHIA
DVR - last night's THE STARTER WIFE
last night's STUDIO 60
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Good morning, HHW!
TOD:
CD: Jason Graae's YOU'RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE
DVD: THE INVISIBLE MAN
SLEEPERS
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TOD:
CD - Return to Oz
DVD - waiting for the mail
VHS - CIRCUS WORLD
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Sounds like everything is going well here.....presentations and travels and jobs! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks again for the votes for Miss Amanda....she seems to be working her way into the next round!
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I saw THE TWISTED NERVE at the drive in....very strange and twisted movie. Mr Hywel Bennett makes a superb psycho.....dressed and undressed.
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I have to say that our daily newspaper theater critic is pretty lame here. We've got the Molly Ringwald/SWEET CHARITY national tour here this week, and in her review of the show, the critic lamented the fact that the show did not have a happy ending. The fact that Charity doesn't "get her Man" was a total surprise to this critic (who's not a youngster, by the way).
Can a decent theater critic actually go into SWEET CHARITY and not know how it's going to end? I mean, I can understand going into THE DROWSEY CHAPARONE and not knowing ANYTHING about it, but SWEET CHARITY has been around since 1966 (and the movie it's adapted from around ten years before that!! How could a self-respecting theater critic write such balderdash!
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I slept well too - even if I did find myself wide awake at 6:30... again - ??? In any case... I did manage to fall back asleep until around 10:00. :)
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Darn! I missed the Tony Food Show last night. Oh, well...
I think we were just getting started.
Annie, Get Your Pun!
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As for the Friday Media Check...
iPod, iPod, iPod.
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I guess I need to head downstairs now and get cleaned up so I can do my usual Friday errands.
The schools are out today in town, so traffic may be worse than usual. Argh!
WBBL.
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Okay, I'm off to the NYPL Theatre Collection. I hate to be pushy, but . . .
DRs, we need vibes today for a successful lease signing!!!
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Lease-signing vibes for DR Elmore and associates!
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DR Jennifer - Breathe. :)
I actually didn't mind how the show was focused last night on the "winners" and the "losers". As for some of the "questionable winners", I have to to wonder if that's a ploy by the producers to get those contestants to step it up and get their acts together for the live rounds. -I'm sure they're all going to watch themselves - and listen to the judges' comments. And, heck, it will make for some good TV in the coming weeks. I hope.
As for the "losers" who were featured, I think they just wanted to give them a chance to tell their stories, as it were. They worked hard, they had dealt with some amazing obstacles, and they would have made it had there been room for one or two more people in the finals.
However, what I've always liked about "SYTYCD?" is that there no "Paula" or "Randy" on the judging panel. They tell it like it is. They have no qualms telling the contestants that they did not like what they just saw. Is being brutally honest always the best thing? Well... However, it's much better than half-ass, half-sincere critiques.
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DR SwishySarah - Hi! :)
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DR SwishySarah - RE: The Gelato - Do you remember the name of the store/company? GROM just opened up their first branch outside of Italy on the Upper West Side. And I have to say, that that is some damn good gelato!
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DR Jose, my friends who have the French bakery in Marietta (I think I brought you one of their croissants) went to NY for a few days last week. They had never been there. I found out about this the day they were leaving but I wish I'd known sooner because I would have liked to make a Jose approved tour map of your favorite bakeries.
They planned to stay at the Hotel Carter. I seemed to remember that this place was kind of a pit, but I didn't want to diss their choice, so I said that I'd heard it goes up and down, and I hope they hit it on one of their "up" times. I gave her the address of The Hotel Edison just in case. She called after she got back to thank me for saving their trip. It was indeed a pit!
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DR Ben - Ah, the Merritt Parkway... When we had the time - or if there was major construction on 95 - the van driver would take the Merritt back into NYC from time to time too. That is a nice scenic drive. -Glad to hear that you made it there and back, safe and sound.
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DR Jose - a Washington Metro question: For our ALA conference later this month, one of my coworkers and her family will be staying near the Vienna metro station. How long should she expect it to take her from there to the Washington Convention Center? It looks like she'll have to transfer, too.
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DR Jose, my friends who have the French bakery in Marietta (I think I brought you one of their croissants) went to NY for a few days last week. They had never been there. I found out about this the day they were leaving but I wish I'd known sooner because I would have liked to make a Jose approved tour map of your favorite bakeries.
They planned to stay at the Hotel Carter. I seemed to remember that this place was kind of a pit, but I didn't want to diss their choice, so I said that I'd heard it goes up and down, and I hope they hit it on one of their "up" times. I gave her the address of The Hotel Edison just in case. She called after she got back to thank me for saving their trip. It was indeed a pit!
Aw, thanks. :)
As for the Hotel Carter... Yeah, it can be kind of a pit, but it's also one of the cheapest hotels in the Theatre District. And, if remember correctly, they're parking rates are rather cheap too. But I guess you get what you pay for.
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We have a new Italian place that opened up near our new house. It's pretty reasonable and has gelato.
Danger, Will Robinson!
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Leave Vibes for DR ELMORE....
Love Me or Lease Me!
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My friend Zach Spicer played the romantic lead in an Off Broadway Show recently directed by a Tony Winning female....however his mother sent a couple of photos but not the title of the play or the director!
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Here is the photo with Zach on the right....some sharp-eyed HHW'er from NYC might recognize the show.... ;D
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Theatre Fans' Choices Results here:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/vote2007.cfm (http://www.broadwayworld.com/vote2007.cfm)
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TOD:
DVD: It might depend on what arrives in the mail today and tomorrow.
CD:
The wonderful HHW Birthday CD!!!!!!!
DVR:
Need to watch or delete some Rifleman episodes
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OMG!!! I just got an email. I won $300,000 and a Peuguot!!!
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DR Jose - a Washington Metro question: For our ALA conference later this month, one of my coworkers and her family will be staying near the Vienna metro station. How long should she expect it to take her from there to the Washington Convention Center? It looks like she'll have to transfer, too.
Well...
The Vienna Station is the last station on the Orange Line in Virginia. I'd say anywhere from 35-45 minutes from downtown DC. Just depends how fast the transfers go.
Will the conference be at the old Convention Center, or the new one.... Oh, nevermind, I just remembered that the old Convention Center has been torn down. In any case...
She would have to take the Green Line from the Mt. Vernon/UDC station (towards Huntington), and then transfer to the Orange Line at the L'Enfant Plaza Station (towards Vienna).
Or, if she wanted to "explore" more of the DC Metro system, she could take the Green Line down one stop to Chinatown/Gallery Place, hop on the Red Line, go one more stop to Metro Center, and then hop on the Orange Line to Vienna there. ;)
She could also take that cheap bus (50 cents) that loops from the Convention Center to Metro Center (and Arena Stage), and then just hop on the Orange Line (to Vienna) at Metro Center.
*However, if she has the time - and the weather is nice, and she's not carrying too much stuff - she could also walk down from the Convention Center to Metro Center. It's really not that far.
Just make sure she keeps track of what time of day she's traveling as that will affect how much she'll have to put on her MetroCard.
And to make sense out of what I just typed:
WMATA TRIP PLANNER (http://www.wmata.com/tripplanner_d/TripPlanner_Form_Solo.cfm)
And here's their handy-dandy clickable system map:
SYSTEM MAP (http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm)
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Here is the photo with Zach on the right....some sharp-eyed HHW'er from NYC might recognize the show.... ;D
OH! I know! I know! -And I think I might know Zach too - just from auditions, that is.
Do you know, DR JRand? Or are you looking for the answer?
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DR Jose - thank you so much for all the info. I will print it for myself and for my coworker.
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LOL....I am looking for the answer, DR JOSE.
Next time you see Zach say hello from me....Jackrandall from good ol' Putnam County Playhouse.
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So I received by e-mail at midnight a completely changed script for the show I am stage managing four hours from now. yay.....
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Will take pictures of the event today :)
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So I received by e-mail at midnight a completely changed script for the show I am stage managing four hours from now. yay.....
Welcome the The Thea-tah!!! ;D
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Here is the photo with Zach on the right....some sharp-eyed HHW'er from NYC might recognize the show.... ;D
My den rug is in that play!
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DR JRand - Well, I guess I don't have an answer for you. I had a different play, and a different Tony-award winning actress in my head. However, I do believe I have spotted Zach at an audition or two. Sorry. :-\
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CD: Fats Waller & Louis Jordan
DVD: THE THREE MUSKETEERS, an old BBC mini, B & W, with Jeremy Brett and Brian Blessed. THE MURDER ROOMS, Conan Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell, portrayed by old pal Ian Richardson, solve mysteries. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, RSC production with Alex Jennings and Lindsey Duncan.
On the nightstand: ROUGH SHOOTING, by P.C. Wren
The FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE, elmore? The musical version of the Edwin Justus play, THE FIREBRAND about Cellini? I'm impressed.
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Omnibus Catch-up Post:
DRs Edisaurus and FJL - loved, loved, LOVED the Flan's Labyrinth! :)
DR JoseSPiano - Congrats again on ACL! Jayson did not follow through on his promise/threat regarding the "dip," but if anyone ever DID, I would suspect that LOADS of garlic AND dill MIGHT make it palatable. Or tolerable, even if you used it as a face cream, DR der Brucer!
CONGRATULATIONS to what must be a very relieved DR DearReaderLaura on bathroom completion!
Thanks, DR SwishySarah for the travelogue from Europe! It was a mini-vacation just to read it.
DR Adriana Patti, break a leg with your show! I once stage managed a production of A Little Night Music - and loved it every night when we'd get to the line: Where the HELL is the stage manager!
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to DR Dan (the Man) this afternoon!
TOD:
car CD: Curtains! and the HHW Birthdays compilation [thanks again, DR Tomovoz!]
home CD: Coco
DVD: the "how-to" that came with the new Cuisinart food processor...
And soon - once I figure out how it works - the DVR! Which is now, at least, connected.
Looking forward very much to the Tony "do" on Sunday. :)
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DR Jose - thank you so much for all the info. I will print it for myself and for my coworker.
You're welcome. *Be sure to remind your friend to check for service advisories - especially on the weekends.
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My den rug is in that play!
Maybe it will get an Obie nomination! ;D
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DR JRand - Well, I guess I don't have an answer for you. I had a different play, and a different Tony-award winning actress in my head. However, I do believe I have spotted Zach at an audition or two. Sorry. :-\
Possibly....though I don't think singing is his strongest suit! Thanks anyway..... ;D
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DR Jennifer - Breathe. :)
I actually didn't mind how the show was focused last night on the "winners" and the "losers". As for some of the "questionable winners", I have to to wonder if that's a ploy by the producers to get those contestants to step it up and get their acts together for the live rounds. -I'm sure they're all going to watch themselves - and listen to the judges' comments. And, heck, it will make for some good TV in the coming weeks. I hope.
As for the "losers" who were featured, I think they just wanted to give them a chance to tell their stories, as it were. They worked hard, they had dealt with some amazing obstacles, and they would have made it had there been room for one or two more people in the finals.
However, what I've always liked about "SYTYCD?" is that there no "Paula" or "Randy" on the judging panel. They tell it like it is. They have no qualms telling the contestants that they did not like what they just saw. Is being brutally honest always the best thing? Well... However, it's much better than half-ass, half-sincere critiques.
My favorite part last year about the "las vegas" portion of the show was that we got to see so much of the dancing. I loved getting to watch everyone learn every style. This season i feel like they've american idolized it and we got 1 hour of telling people yes or no, instead of getting to see each contestant dance.
Maybe other people don't care, but i despise seeing people do their first audition and then not get to see them again until they are announced on the show. I mean what did benji's sister do in las vegas? What did that guy danny (is he travis' brother) do? (the one they said was brilliant but with an attitude). If he is so brilliant why did i not get to see him at all in vegas?
I appreciate hearing the story of the girl who lost her arm. But i'll bet people would have loved her on the top 20.
I also don't get why they chose so many people who can't do any couples work and who can't do anything other than their own style. The show is almost all couples work. And it's almost all being able to do every other style. I get putting through one person who can't do either of those. But it seems like they put many through who will not work on this show at all.
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Since I don't know what play this scene is from, I'll make one up:
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It's from I HATE A THOUSAND CLOWNS, in which a high school drama teacher is forced by the principal to mount the Herb Gardner play for the fourth year in a row. In this scene, she takes out her frustration on the two students playing the leads.
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I don't follow Grey's Anatomy, but thought this was interesting:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Isaiah Washington has lost his job on the hit ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," five months after creating a furor with his use of an anti-gay slur.
Washington's contract option was not renewed for next season, series producer ABC Television Studios said Thursday.
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.
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Possibly....though I don't think singing is his strongest suit! Thanks anyway..... ;D
Well, that name, Zach Spicer, does ring a bell - albeit a very faint one. And I may have come across him during an open call where both singers and actors were auditioning. -I like those days - I get a nice break during the monologues. ;)
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It's from I HATE A THOUSAND CLOWNS
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I don't follow Grey's Anatomy, but thought this was interesting:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Isaiah Washington has lost his job on the hit ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," five months after creating a furor with his use of an anti-gay slur.
Washington's contract option was not renewed for next season, series producer ABC Television Studios said Thursday.
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.
Seems to be another day for Celebrity "News". And the whole Paris Hilton situation just gets stupider by the second!
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does ring a bell - albeit a very faint one.
Is the bell related to the "tinkle tones" that emanate when you IM DR MBarnum? :)
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Is the bell related to the "tinkle tones" that emanate when you IM DR MBarnum? :)
No. That's just me casting my spell. Sssshhhh.....
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/zachoffbroadway1.jpg)
Actually it's a commercial for HOLD ON hairpiece glue....Hold On, apply directly to your head....Hold On, apply directly to your head...
;D
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Well, that name, Zach Spicer, does ring a bell - albeit a very faint one. And I may have come across him during an open call where both singers and actors were auditioning. -I like those days - I get a nice break during the monologues. ;)
Well he is very easy on the eyeballs.
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DR singdaw - As for the pureed cottage cheese... Just think of it as REALLY, REALLY lite Cream Cheese.
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The Twisted Nerve!!!!
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That's just me casting my spell.
Every time a bell rings...
::)
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The Twisted Nerve!!!!
What a tangled web we weave! :)
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Every time a bell rings...
::)
...a fairy earns her wings?
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Ooh! Ooh!
I started Page 5!
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Am having scanner problems this morning.
Office scanner, that is.
It won't scan legal-sized documents, but it "useta"!
The tech who installed my scanner software was working in his Gran's garden a week ago, got bitten by a spider and now his foot is three times its normal size.
Needless to say, he's been on anti-biotics and is not here.
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and now his foot is three times its normal size.
So the glass slipper won't fit, huh?
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I am accompanying the children's choir on Sunday at the church where I work. The director of children's music quit, so I'm the last resort. Needless to say, my piano skills are pretty rusty. Pray for Rosemary's Baby! :)
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DR Ron Pulliam, was very impressed with all your early posts today. Sorry for the condition that inspired them!
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You must see THE TWISTED NERVE, DR SINGDAW. I am sure MR BK will have lots to say about it ...
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DR RLP - isn't technology wonderful???
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]* * * * * HEALTHY SINUS VIBES FOR DR RON * * * * * [/move]
[move=RIGHT,scroll,6,transparent,100%]* * * * * VERSITILITY AT THE KEYBOARD VIBES FOR DR SINGDAW * * * * * [/move]
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DR MATTH - I feel your pain about your local reviewer.
In Indianapolis there is NO theatre reviewer on the BIG daily paper. Theatre doesn't exist. I kept telling everyone who was emailing complaints and griping and giving the LAST person such a hard time....people in shows writing letters to the editor saying the show HAD to be good because Junior and Daisy were in it, and threatening emails when the reviewer had to come the second night instead of opening night....
Result: No reviews.
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A person working with children quit?
I would NEVER do that! I would never volunteer to do it in the first place!!!
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And now, since I am a member of Group B (not Group A nor Group One), I get to leave the office early today! Catch yas all later!
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DR JENNIFER - I would have liked to see more of the dancing as well.
I agree, too, that there are a LOT of one-dance talents in the finals. I wanted Myles to get through....but I guess he was cut on Wednesday night. Oh well.....of the 20....I like about 15 or 16, so it will be interesting.
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And now, since I am a member of Group B (not Group A nor Group One), I get to leave the office early today! Catch yas all later!
Be a Bee.
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Can you hear me now?
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/offbeat/gallery/2007/0607/01.jpg)
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As for the pureed cottage cheese... Just think of it as REALLY, REALLY lite Cream Cheese.
I'm thinking, all right...
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/offbeat/gallery/2007/0607/02.jpg)
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DR RLP - isn't technology wonderful???
JRand....as long as my new HD DVD player interacts properly with my 3-month old plasma HDTV, I will be ECSTATIC with technology.
Otherwise....criminy!
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Sounds like a plan!
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Can you hear me now?
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/offbeat/gallery/2007/0607/01.jpg)
Golly....a Conehead Ferengi?
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DR Ron Pulliam, was very impressed with all your early posts today.
I will try to remember my frame of mind from this early a.m. and employ same in all my future posts.
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How'd he doody?
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Doody calls.
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Gosh! That's heavy doody!
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Three doody posts in a row....that's a butt load of doody!
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Moving along.....
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I will try to remember my frame of mind from this early a.m. and employ same in all my future posts.
Well, what I meant was...I was impressed with the number of posts and their timing.
As for the content...well, they never fell short of your usual high standards. :)
[discounting, of course, posts #140-143 today...]
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I spy DR PennyO! :)
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I Doody Clare!
DVD - Three Faces of Eve - for my Treatment of Wackos class... been a long time since i saaw that flick - I have gained increased and decreased appreciation for it...
Happy Leasing, elmo!
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[shadow=color,glow width,#characters wide]Underpants [/shadow]
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UNDERPANTS is a very hard word to rhyme in a lyric...
supplants?
recants?
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I'm doing my Art As Lifework, Life As Artwork seminar -- actually, a three-part mini-version -- the next three Sundays, over in Eagle Rock, at The Blissful Soul book store. Scrambling to get the materials together, and catching up on the two weeks' worth of papers/reading I missed while i was lollygagging at the cabin...
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And, apparently, beginning Page 6!!!
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[discounting, of course, posts #140-143 today...]
Not a fan of number two humor?
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Oh, of course...
The Dance...
Although perhaps that's a false rhyme.
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Fancy, schmancy, underpantsy Page Six dancey
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and catching up on the two weeks' worth of papers/reading I missed while i was lollygagging at the cabin...
And, of course, the HHW posts... :)
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UNDERPANTS is a very hard word to rhyme in a lyric...
supplants?
recants?
overchants
rubberants
robodance
notachance
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Twenty-three skidoody
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And, of course, the HHW posts... :)
Gagging lollys is quite an accomplishment.
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Not a fan of number two humor?
Oh, I don't mind it at all! :)
However, I don't know if you can count it as "high standards"!
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Twenty-three skidoody
LOL!
Rooty toot doody!
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Oh, I don't mind it at all! :)
However, I don't know if you can count it as "high standards"!
Point taken. I believe one should strive for an all-time high in scraping the bottom.
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Off to doody day's chores...
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Nize ta seeya...
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Off to doody day's chores...
I bid you adoody!
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and he was traumatized by blue balls forever after...
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/offbeat/gallery/2007/0607/04b.jpg)
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You could say that DR PennyO is adoodicating her seminar...
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Can't think of a decent rhyme for underpants.
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In Yiddish, i believe the word for underpants is "gotkes" and that rhymes with "latkes."
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From the Yiddish glossary at bubbygram.com:
Gotkes: (got-kiss) long johns; warm winter underwear ("Shpatziring in Our Gotkes" is the Yiddish version of that favorite goyishe holiday carol, "Walking in Our Winter Underwear.")
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Lollygagging At The Cabin is the title of my new science fiction novel.
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The phone rang and awakened me from a rather horrid dream. Imagine my surprise when I was told it was ten-thirty. I haven't slept until ten-thirty for three decades I'd guess. I think I needed it, plus I ended up not going to sleep until after two because I got involved watching a DVD of Banacek shows. Needless to say, I'm now way behind and have a looming rehearsal at noon. I'm still hoping to jog prior to it, because I know I won't want to jog after it. I may try to push my Kevin Spirtas meeting to tomorrow or Monday.
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My dream involved waking up and going into the living room and noticing the piano was missing. I then ran to my den, where everything was missing, then the kitchen, where the phone was gone, as well as my wallet, then I noticed all the paintings had been removed, too. I went to call the police but, of course, had no phone (the cell phone was gone, too). And it went downhill from there, and it was one of those hyper realistic dreams.
Prior to that, I'd had a dream that I was in court with the bad people and they'd apparently done some new frivolous lawsuit and the Judge told them they'd lost the case and he was tired of frivolous lawsuits and they were going to jail. I know where that one came from - yesterday's rant about Miss Hilton.
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Tra la la BOOM dee ay
I'll take your pants away.
And while you're standing there
I'll take your underwear!
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Underwear is MUCH easier to rhyme than underpants.
:)
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The Dream-O-Matic 6000 does tell us that dreams of having possessions stolen is a sign that we are being a bit too free with our talents or other life gifts.
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DR Ben, glad that your presentation went well yesterday, and that you didn't encounter any serious transportation problems.
Yes, the Merritt Parkway [CT 15] is quite lovely. It is one of the oldest parkways in the US, and is designated a National Scenic Byway. The only problem is - it [and its entrance and exit ramps] was not designed for speeds of 60-90 miles per hour. Which doesn't stop people from doing so. I drive it every day, and try not to take the vistas for granted!(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/Merritt3.jpg/180px-Merritt3.jpg)
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There are many rhymes for underpants if you're rhyming the final syllable - pants.
I may do many rants
While wearing my underpants
I occasionally get ants
Crawling in my underpants
If by chance
My underpants
Should be revealed and you get a glance
I'll do a dance
In my underpants
I like to prance
In my underpants
And so on...
You can even do rhymes using the first syllable and keeping the "pants" the same, as in:
My underpants
Are wonder pants
They're bright and blue
And never torn asunder pants
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The chorus chants
In its underpants
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And I get grants
In my underpants
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Here is an actual photographic photograph of Mr. Barry Pearl, Miss Lisa Robert, and little ol' BK taken prior to our final reading.
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The jog is going to have to wait until three or so.
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And I get grants
In my underpants
I wonder what DRs Ginny and Ben will have to say about THAT! :)
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He must be writing his proposals at home and not having meetings with Foundation officials, unless they, too, are in their underpants.
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Great photo!!!
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Good Afternoon!
Well, well, well, well, well, well.... (ah, a She Loves Me reference.)
There's this dumbbell that's been sitting in the corner of my room. Actually a pair of dumbbells, 20 pounds each. About an hour or so ago, I decided to pick up one of the dumbbells. Then I proceeded to do a bent-over row to my left. Then to my right. 3 sets of 12 repetitions each. Hmm... That was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. So, next came a couple of sets of biceps curls, triceps extensions, shoulder raises... even couple of sets of crunches and push-ups... I guess I'm feeling "motivated" again. :)
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I was afraid you were going to tell us you threw your back out or something.
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Here it is, almost lunchtime.
No plans. No specific "yens" for something different.
I may as well eat tuna.
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And now that I seem to be "motivated" again, I'm having a pulled pork barbecue sandwich for lunch. :)
*I had bought some from Interstate BBQ when I was in Memphis in February - one of their freezer packs. A pound of pulled, smoked pork shoulder, and a bottle of their sauce. It's been sitting in my freezer until a little while ago. At first I didn't think it looked like much meat was in the package, but once I opened up the cryo-pac, and started putting into the baking dish, well... There's now a nice note on the dry-erase board on the fridge: Have Some Memphis BBQ! There's buns on the counter and sauce in the fridge!
-And I have to say the apartment smells delicious right now too! ;D
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I hope Elmore's lease signing went well.
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I was afraid you were going to tell us you threw your back out or something.
Nah! I've read enough of those Men's Health Magazine articles over the years to keep myself injury free. ;)
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Let's hear it for pulled pork BBQ....from Memphis:
[shadow=color,glow width,#characters wide][size=8]SHIPOOPI, y'all!
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And, of course, now that I'm "motivated" again...
I'm going with a friend to see his voice teacher's cabaret act tonight at The Metropolitan Room. Her name is Marianne Challis (http://metropolitanroom.com/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=1&extmode=view&extid=223), and she used to be a performer (Broadway, City Opera, etc.), then she became a well-regarded voice teacher, and now she's back into the performing arena again. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing and hearing her pianist, Christopher Marlowe. He was Nancy Lamott's pianist, and after her death, I really haven't heard much about him. I knew he was still playing for various artists, but I guess I just always seemed to miss him, as it were. In any case...
The Metropolitan Room does serve food. Alas, it's mainly snacks and desserts. And most of the desserts are brought in from The Little Pie Shop. Hmm...
Guess that means I will be going for another jog around the Reservoir tomorrow morning. :)
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Let's hear it for pulled pork BBQ....from Memphis:
[shadow=color,glow width,#characters wide][size=8]SHIPOOPI, y'all!
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SHIPOOPI, Indeed!
-Would you like me to save you some BBQ, DR Ron Pulliam? You did say that it was lunch time.
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Well, I need to iron me a shirt for tonight's outing...
Laters...
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We have some leftover Daisy Mae BBQ in the fridge, I think.
Tacky TV ads, great food.
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Wasn't Barry Pearl the answer to a Bk trivia question,
SPOILER
the one about the GREASE tour?
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I've read enough of those Men's Health Magazine articles
You read the articles?? :P
;)
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Mr. Pearl made a fine Doody in the film of GREASE.
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Just curious, DR JoseSPiano - did Mr. John Kander talk much about the gestation of Curtains! while you were working with him on All About Us?
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His Doody positively sparkled.
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Friday Media Check:
CD - LOVE, JULIE
DVD - THE CLOSER, Season 2, Disc 4
ANGEL, Season 4, disc 5
SWEET MOVIE
BRIDGE TO TARABITHIA
DVR - last night's THE STARTER WIFE
last night's STUDIO 60
Wow! "Love, Julie": what a good choice! I haven't listened to it in a while. Much better than what most people think! I wish they'd put her "country songs" LP unto cd with ALL the tracks! The Japanese Lp edition was the most complete.
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Did they name the character Doody just to allow for jokes like these, I wonder.
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RE: so you think you can dance
DR JENNIFER - I would have liked to see more of the dancing as well.
I agree, too, that there are a LOT of one-dance talents in the finals. I wanted Myles to get through....but I guess he was cut on Wednesday night. Oh well.....of the 20....I like about 15 or 16, so it will be interesting.
15 or 16 is a lot.
I've watched every episode and i don't think i even know half the people who made it to top 20. Granted i'm sure some of them were shown doing their original audition and i just can't place that audition with them now. But i don't think we saw even half of the top 20 AT ALL this week.
Hopefully they will remind of us of what everyone has done so far in future shows.
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Cd player: Warm Brandy: what a voice Miss Dolores Gray had, and how silly they did have record more!
The Girl In Pink Tights: great Romberg music of the fiveties! Miss Jeanmaire's singing has always been tacky: it's good they kept her singing to a minimum. She was (is) a dancer after all!
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Did they name the character Doody just to allow for jokes like these, I wonder.
I don't know about that, but he certainly went beyond the call of Doody, when Doody called.
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RE: TOP CHEF and PROJECT RUNWAY
Can you guys please try to put spoiler space. We don't get US bravo here and are weeks behind your schedule.
And please don't post the name of the eliminated contestant as the first word in a sentence (cause even with spoiler space i can see that).
Thank you!
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The Girl In Pink Tights
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DR George, I have found the RING OF FIRE on dvd at this company...they take paypal, too!
http://www.nostalgiacollectibles.net/CATALOG.html (http://www.nostalgiacollectibles.net/CATALOG.html)
Of course they have a million other gray (or grey) market DVDs, as well...happy shopping!
(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1027/k012hp8.jpg)
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Nice photograph, bk! :)
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And quite frankly, in this movie still, it looks like Joyce Taylor is trying her darndes to give David Janssen the ring for fire! :o
If she were any closer to him she'd be in back of him!
(http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/34/34008/bs-david.janssen-joyce.taylor.jpg)
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If she were any closer to him she'd be in back of him!
And why not...wouldn't you? :)
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I wonder how David Janssen would look in pink tights?
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The FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE, elmore? The musical version of the Edwin Justus play, THE FIREBRAND about Cellini? I'm impressed.
Yes, indeedy! A glorious score by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin and Weill's only true Broadway disaster. Glorious score and lyrics, right up there with the 1956 CANDIDE, ruined in 1946(???) by poor casting and poor adaptation of THE FIREBRAND by its original author.
It's a great full-blown score and theconcert/recording cast is pretty good although I wish it had been recorded without cuts.
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I wonder how David Janssen would look in pink tights?
Silly, I guess! ;)
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Yes, indeedy! A glorious score by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin and Weill's only true Broadway disaster. Glorious score and lyrics, right up there with the 1956 CANDIDE, ruined in 1946(???) by poor casting and poor adaptation of THE FIREBRAND by its original author.
It's a great full-blown score and theconcert/recording cast is pretty good although I wish it had been recorded without cuts.
I see tights! They might not be pink but I see tights! ;)
And Mister Gilfry is part of the cast for that recording!
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My friend Zach Spicer played the romantic lead in an Off Broadway Show recently directed by a Tony Winning female....however his mother sent a couple of photos but not the title of the play or the director!
From an Indiana University Theatre press release:
Zachary Spicer (Announcer) hails from Greencastle, Indiana and graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Anthropology. Zachary recently appeared in an independent production as Cam in Privilege and Vince in Tape as well as in the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center as Jack Slang/House Servant in She Stoops to Conquer, Herb Shuttle in Happy Birthday, Wanda June! , and Captain Brice in Arcadia. He also appeared in Bicentennial Babies at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. He was most recently seen on the Brown County Playhouse stage where he played Major Sergius Saranoff in Arms and the Man. Zachary was the 2006 NSAL 4th Place Winner for Drama and Acting and was recently accepted into the Circle in the Square Theatre Conservatory in New York
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Good Afternoon!
Well, well, well, well, well, well.... (ah, a She Loves Me reference.)
There's this dumbbell that's been sitting in the corner of my room.
Well, give him his clothes and send him on his way!
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I hope Elmore's lease signing went well.
Not yet, dammit! I have my fingers crossed.
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Can you hear me now?
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/offbeat/gallery/2007/0607/01.jpg)
Ah, SINGDAW, where do you find this stuff? LOL.
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Tra la la BOOM dee ay
I'll take your pants away.
And while you're standing there
I'll take your underwear!
Perhaps it's just THAT kind of day (I'm exhausted), but I found this really funny!
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Perhaps it's that THAT kind of day
Indeed, it is! :)
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Here it is, almost lunchtime.
No plans. No specific "yens" for something different.
I may as well eat tuna.
Me, too. Tired of the same old, same old...and ended up with tuna.
(I did say it's one of those days, didn't I?)
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Cd player: Warm Brandy: what a voice Miss Dolores Gray had, and how silly they did have record more!
The Girl In Pink Tights: great Romberg music of the fiveties! Miss Jeanmaire's singing has always been tacky: it's good they kept her singing to a minimum. She was (is) a dancer after all!
DR Francois, you don't usually tell us these things, do you? I'm interested.
(Well, I think I am--you could surprise me!) :)
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At one of the places I worked at, we wanted t-shirts that said:
(on the front)
Welcome to
<NAME OF STORE/PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT>
Where Every Day...
(on the back)
Is One Of Those Days.
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Okay, I'm off to the NYPL Theatre Collection. I hate to be pushy, but . . .
DRs, we need vibes today for a successful lease signing!!!
~~~Vibes (if it's not too late) For DR Elmore's Lease Signing!!~~~
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LOL, Jose, I don't even want to think about that!
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Belated lease-signing vibes for DR ELMORE!!
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[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~Travel Vibes for Dan (the Man)!!~~~[/move]
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Belated CONGRATULATIONS on an almost-completed bathroom to DR LAURA!
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From the "a picture is worth a thousand words" department...
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/08/paris.hilton.ap/newt1.1554.paris.jpg)
"Screaming Paris ordered to jail" - according to CNN.com.
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In (and sitting next to) my CD player (in no particular order, except the first one):
- Tomovoz's "Birth Date Songs" CD!!
- "This Ordinary Thursday: The Songs of Georgia Stitt"
- Fame Becomes Me OBC
- "Doctor Who" Original TV Soundtrack
- Evil Dead: The Musical OCR
- Taboo OBC
- The Great American Trailer Park Musical with Linda Hart and Leslie Kritzer
:D
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Spoo! DR ELMORE'S vibes didn't show up well!
Let's try this again!
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Belated lease-signing vibes to DR ELMORE!!
[/move]
May you soon be comfortable and secure in your own space!
[/b]
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One wants to feel sorry for Paris Hilton.
One does.
But, ulitmately, one doesn't.
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Travel vibes for Dan the Man!
[/move]
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JRand....as long as my new HD DVD player interacts properly with my 3-month old plasma HDTV, I will be ECSTATIC with technology.
Otherwise....criminy!
I am always SO excited when a member of our HHW family gets a new piece of technology (AKA "toy"), and I'm always so curious as to their first reactions to their purchase. I hope you'll share first impressions when you get things up and running.
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From the "a picture is worth a thousand words" department...
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/08/paris.hilton.ap/newt1.1554.paris.jpg)
"Screaming Paris ordered to jail" - according to CNN.com.
Music to my ears! America's favorite celebutramp not! is back to the hoosegaw! I wonder how much she lost in that poor investment. I hope the paper chase/investigation reveals all the sleazebags in this financial transaction that she paid off.
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I read that about Isiah Washington in my newspaper this morning and a somewhat longer article on the net later this morning. I don't think he should have been surprised that this happened. Also, the season ending episode left his fate very up-in-the-air anyway.
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Many good thoughts and crossed fingers for good leasing news for DR Elmore.
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Yes, I hadn't listened to LOVE, JULIE in many years, so it was a pleasure to hear again after so long a time.
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While I prepared lunch, I listened to the running commentary on the WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM DVD. The commentary does help sort out the baffling collection of images that form this movie collage, but it gets so deep into socialist/communist explanations that I just turned it off. Who cares?
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Page Nine Cedric Diggory Dance!!!
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I watched the first episode on the fourth disc in THE CLOSER set. This was the one with the murder of a teenager after he had provided the DA with evidence that might release from jail a prisoner accused on robbery and murder.
This is also the episode where Brenda was embarrassed in the squad room by Pope's ex-wife.
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Next came an episode from disc 5 in the ANGEL, Season 4 set. In this one, Gun and Gwen go to save a little girl, but it's really about something else entirely. And Cordy's little ruse gets found out, too (about time, I say)!
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I watched the end of THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE which I had started last night. I've always found the third installment in the movie the least interesting of the three though Sharif is certainly glamorous to look at.
Anyway, I enjoyed revisiting this film once again.
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And because I was in the mood for mystery, I put in HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS. This was one of the few Agatha Christie books in which I identified the correct murderer before I got to the end of the book, and on film, it's even easier to spot the guilty party. Still entertaining, but this is one of those times where Christie just couldn't commit the murder right before your eyes and get away with making you look elsewhere while she was doing it.
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(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/08/paris.hilton.ap/newt1.1554.paris.jpg)
Now, if only she had done this to begin with (i.e. having someone else drive her around instead of endangering others by driving drunk) she wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. I mean, it's not like she couldn't afford a driver!
I wish they would put her in with the other inmates so she could experience life in the "real world"!
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Music to my ears! America's favorite celebutramp not! is back to the hoosegaw! I wonder how much she lost in that poor investment. I hope the paper chase/investigation reveals all the sleazebags in this financial transaction that she paid off.
Well, if the initial news reports are true, there's gonna be - there better be(!) - some turnover in the L.A. Sheriff's office.
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Now, if only she had done this to begin with (i.e. having someone else drive her around instead of endangering others by driving drunk) she wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. I mean, it's not like she couldn't afford a driver!
I wish they would put her in with the other inmates so she could experience life in the "real world"!
That's also sort of puzzling. And funny. According to some other reports, she actually has TWO personal drivers. TWO!?!?!?!?!
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One wants to feel sorry for Paris Hilton.
One does.
But, ulitmately, one doesn't.
Now, I don't know why I should feel sorry for a Hotel in Paris! I would not even feel sorry for "mine"! ;)
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While I prepared lunch, I listened to the running commentary on the WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM DVD. The commentary does help sort out the baffling collection of images that form this movie collage, but it gets so deep into socialist/communist explanations that I just turned it off. Who cares?
I'm like FJL! I read too fast and the title came ( :o) as Mysteries of the Orgasm!! ;)
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The Dream-O-Matic 6000 does tell us that dreams of having possessions stolen is a sign that we are being a bit too free with our talents or other life gifts.
What does it mean when you lose your neighbor's bicycle while you're riding it?
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Now, if only she had done this to begin with (i.e. having someone else drive her around instead of endangering others by driving drunk) she wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. I mean, it's not like she couldn't afford a driver!
I wish they would put her in with the other inmates so she could experience life in the "real world"!
"Living" with other inmates, for all I know, definitely is NOT the "real world" either... It's fair to see, at last, that she is treated like anyone else!
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That's also sort of puzzling. And funny. According to some other reports, she actually has TWO personal drivers. TWO!?!?!?!?!
I never thought that girl had some... balls! :o ;)
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What does it mean when you lose your neighbor's bicycle while you're riding it?
I'm asking you! :D :D
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I watched the end of THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE which I had started last night. I've always found the third installment in the movie the least interesting of the three though Sharif is certainly glamorous to look at.
Anyway, I enjoyed revisiting this film once again.
I agree that it's the slowest-moving segment. I don't know whether it's because I feel I've seen Bergman saving orphans before (in "Inn of the Sixth Happiness") or whether it's the idea of Sharif settling for Bergman when he could've had Steisand.
Still....I think I've napped a bit during this section.
YET...it's that awesome closing few minutes I'm totally fond of as the car embarks upon a new journey and that Ortolani score swells triumphantly with the main theme for "The Yellow Rolls-Royce"!
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w247/SaltonSeaTrip/IMG_0441.jpg)
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Did that put us into widescreen?
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http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/PARHITW-Hilton-Paris/index.do
That does not look like a prison to me! LOL!
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Heaven preserve me!
I've just ordered the Amazon.com Gold Box Special of the Day:
The complete "Six Feet Under" gift set...all five seasons, 25 DVDs, for $114.95. That's less than $5 per DVD.
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Did that put us into widescreen?
No, but we have sensurround sound now! :D
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w247/SaltonSeaTrip/IMG_0441.jpg)
We'll let TCB comment on the flowers!! ;)
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I read that about Isiah Washington in my newspaper this morning and a somewhat longer article on the net later this morning. I don't think he should have been surprised that this happened. Also, the season ending episode left his fate very up-in-the-air anyway.
He was my least favorite character....not only for the arrogance of the character, but for the off-camera comments about T.R. Knight which Knight has never acknowledged to have been settled amicably (and about which Katherine Heigl suggested that Washington needed to keep his mouth shut), and for the way the character dumped Christina in the last episode.
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Can someone tell "me" what possible spoilers could be being posted about "Project Runway" at this time?
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Heaven preserve me!
I've just ordered the Amazon.com Gold Box Special of the Day:
The complete "Six Feet Under" gift set...all five seasons, 25 DVDs, for $119.95. That's less than $5 per DVD.
Heaven has nothing to do with it, I'm afraid! ;)
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Gorgeous!
Butterflies are free!
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Let me say that again!
Gorgeous!
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Butterflies are free and some posts are gratuitous! :D
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I'm like FJL! I read too fast and the title came ( :o) as Mysteries of the Orgasm!! ;)
In the movie, it's reported that the average person has over four thousand orgasms during his lifetime. The movie is built around this Freudian factoid.
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As usual, loved DR Laura's nature pics.
It's like watching PLANET EARTH using a still camera.
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DR George, I have found the RING OF FIRE on dvd at this company...they take paypal, too!
http://www.nostalgiacollectibles.net/CATALOG.html (http://www.nostalgiacollectibles.net/CATALOG.html)
Of course they have a million other gray (or grey) market DVDs, as well...happy shopping!
Thanks for the info! I'll pass it on to my co-worker!
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Thank you for your kind comments about the photos. We are still enjoying our cold snap, although it is not a cold as it was yesterday. I figured I'd better get outside while I can before the real heat sets in.
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Are the photos too big?
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In the movie, it's reported that the average person has over four thousand orgasms during his lifetime. The movie is built around this Freudian factoid.
Wow! As FJL would say, I think I'm reaching a new... plateau!! ;)
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Are the photos too big?
No. They're quite lovely.
It's about the close of the workday, and I have no idea if the California office will accept and sign the lease or not. It's important because the leasing company wants us to sign or step down for them to hook another leasor and they're getting antsy about it. Keep those vibes coming!
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Are the photos too big?
Not at all!
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Are the photos too big?
The ones on this page do not put me into Cinerama, but I can't speak for anyone else.
A cold spell sounds SO good. Is it autumn yet? ::)
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Heading down now to read just a bit and then back to the TV for more viewing entertainment.
I mopped the kitchen floor this morning, so that chore is already over and done with for the week. Hooray!
WBBL.
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Francois - What's with this "As FJL would say" thing? Anyway, I actually read that as The Mystery of the Orangutan, and that a human being has at least four thousand orangutans during its lifetime.
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Francois - What's with this "As FJL would say" thing?
I don't know! I hope it's not some kind of a maladie! ;)
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Anyway, I actually read that as The Mystery of the Orangutan, and that a human being has at least four thousand orangutans during its lifetime.
That's ape-alling!!
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Francois - What's with this "As FJL would say" thing? Anyway, I actually read that as The Mystery of the Orangutan, and that a human being has at least four thousand orangutans during its lifetime.
Oh, I thought I read... the Mysteries of the Orangutan Juice....
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Is "Mopping The Kitchen" like "Chassing The Blues Away"?
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The ones on this page do not put me into Cinerama, but I can't speak for anyone else.
A cold spell sounds SO good. Is it autumn yet? ::)
It is a nippy 95F at the moment. Yesterday's high was only 89F!
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Will we ever make it to page 11?
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Eventually. :)
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Francois - What's with this "As FJL would say" thing? Anyway, I actually read that as The Mystery of the Orangutan, and that a human being has at least four thousand orangutans during its lifetime.
Hey, Fred! Is François talking doody to you?
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Can't think of a decent rhyme for underpants.
With the strong accent on "UNder" and a less strong accent on "pants":
WONder Dance
BLUNder Rants
THUNder Pants
DUNder Vance
aSUNder Glance
PLUNder Prance
;D
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Will we ever make it to page 11?
We will....will you?
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Back from rehearsal - I made a few more tweaks and we're ready for Sunday's show. What time do the Tony's begin on the West Coast?
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With the strong accent on "UNder" and a less strong accent on "pants":
WONder Dance
BLUNder Rants
THUNder Pants
DUNder Vance
aSUNder Glance
PLUNder Prance
;D
HUNger Rants
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Where oh where are his underpants?
They seem to have been thrown asunder, Lance
(nah, I won't go there)
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DearReaderLaura, is that a new camera you are using? Those photos are so lifelike and beautiful and clear!
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Fun watching the folks on CNN making believe they wouldn't rather be covering the Paris Hilton story :)
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We will....will you?
That must be the royal WE! I'm just a peasant! :P
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Fun watching the folks on CNN making believe they wouldn't rather be covering the Paris Hilton story :)
Thank G*D I don't have a TV!! 8)
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Page Onze!
RON.... I made it! (I knew I could! I knew I could!)
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You Doodit!
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Read it here -- this is the Summer of the Man Crush! (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/08/DDG1DQAB2P1.DTL)
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Read it here -- this is the Summer of the Man Crush! (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/08/DDG1DQAB2P1.DTL)
Well, it sounds queer to me.
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Back from a jog - I don't know why it's so much harder to jog in the afternoon, but it is.
I really don't care for rhyming both parts of a two syllable word by stressing the first syllable but also changing the second syllable rhyme - it really bothers my ear and I've never done it. In other words:
Pleasing -
Underpants
Wonder pants
not pleasing (to me) -
Underpants
Wonder glance
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I don't follow Grey's Anatomy, but thought this was interesting:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Isaiah Washington has lost his job on the hit ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," five months after creating a furor with his use of an anti-gay slur.
Washington's contract option was not renewed for next season, series producer ABC Television Studios said Thursday.
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.
They set up the story line so he could either go or stay and it would work .
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Can't think of a decent rhyme for underpants.
Take a chance in your underpants....
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Take a chance in your underpants....
I'll go get an Oops! Report.
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I say Vive la France
In my underpants....
.... but that's only moi!
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OHHHH - does anyone have a June 11, 2007 New York Magazine they could send me? On page 56 there is a story about Willie's Dawgs. The mural in the background was painted by my friends Paul and Mark (they went to NYC to paint it for a friend). I gave my copy to Paul, but would love another copy to give Mark. They used to sell it at Barnes and Noble, but they don't anymore.
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Here's a link to the page from Mark's Website where they were painting the mural in question http://www.markkochen.com/hotdogs.htm
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This is one of my favorites of Mark's work
http://www.markkochen.com/bonsaicity.htm
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They also did this mural at Patricia Field's store
http://www.markkochen.com/pf1.htm
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I'm going to sit in the Jacuzzi if these lame peckerwoods who were supposed to be here at three-thirty would ever get here. I'm having an earlyish supper this evening at The Smoke House, so I have to have enough time to get ready for that. I hate lateness and these boys are masters.
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OHHHH - does anyone have a June 11, 2007 New York Magazine they could send me? On page 56 there is a story about Willie's Dawgs. The mural in the background was painted by my friends Paul and Mark (they went to NYC to paint it for a friend). I gave my copy to Paul, but would love another copy to give Mark. They used to sell it at Barnes and Noble, but they don't anymore.
In any case, the article is available here!
http://magazine-directory.com/New-York.htm
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Back from rehearsal - I made a few more tweaks and we're ready for Sunday's show. What time do the Tony's begin on the West Coast?
Telecast DELAY begins at 8:00pm. If you were up this way, I'd invite you to our "do". :(
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Looks like the leasor for the possible space got pissed at waiting for our California office to do something constructive like sign the damned lease, and we may now lose a great office we were counting on. I understand the leasing agency has sent a contract to anothert possible renter.
Am I happy? No, goddammit. Looks more and more like we'll be going into storage.
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Sorry to hear your bad news, DR Elmore.
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AdrianaPatti-GOOD VIBES TONIGHT!!
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School is officially out for the summer. My tenure at this school is now over as I don't plan to be there next year. Summer vacation begins the preparation for the move. It's exciting and scary (almost an SS reference).
TOD -
CD - The Creature Wasn't Nice
DVD - nothing
iPod - this morning on the way to work I was listening to a playlist of several versions (live and otherwise) of "The Lady's Paying" and "Eternal Youth Is Worth A Little Suffering" from Sunset Blvd it's an odd playlist I know, but consider the source :P
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Edi-Somehow I missed the photo of your winning Flan's Labyrinth! Glad for the repeat viewing.
DR Laura-CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
SwishySarah-As always it is delightful to read your posts. Congrats on your grades.
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I have to say that our daily newspaper theater critic is pretty lame here. We've got the Molly Ringwald/SWEET CHARITY national tour here this week, and in her review of the show, the critic lamented the fact that the show did not have a happy ending. The fact that Charity doesn't "get her Man" was a total surprise to this critic (who's not a youngster, by the way).
Can a decent theater critic actually go into SWEET CHARITY and not know how it's going to end? I mean, I can understand going into THE DROWSEY CHAPARONE and not knowing ANYTHING about it, but SWEET CHARITY has been around since 1966 (and the movie it's adapted from around ten years before that!! How could a self-respecting theater critic write such balderdash!
There are worse things for a critic to say or do. When I first played the role of Andrew Wyke in SLEUTH back in 1976, the local theater critic started off his review by saying, "Since everyone is already familiar with SLEUTH, it will come as no surprise that there are really only two actors in the show."
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Here is the photo with Zach on the right....some sharp-eyed HHW'er from NYC might recognize the show.... ;D
I believe that is a scene from WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.
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I'm off. I'm going to my parents' for dinner and then (where I really should be tonight ::)) the load-in for "Taming of the Shrew...in Hell!" After that will be some sort of "Shrew" celebration. :)
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And the whole Paris Hilton situation just gets stupider by the second!
You have no idea! I have spent six solid hours watching the coverage - nobody could script this stuff.
der Brucer
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One wants to feel sorry for Paris Hilton.
One does.
But, ulitmately, one doesn't.
;D I really did try.
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Ben-I’m so pleased your drive, and day, turned out to be nice.
Singdaw-Thanks for the photo of Ben’s drive.
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Am having scanner problems this morning.
Office scanner, that is.
It won't scan legal-sized documents, but it "useta"!
The tech who installed my scanner software was working in his Gran's garden a week ago, got bitten by a spider and now his foot is three times its normal size.
Needless to say, he's been on anti-biotics and is not here.
A Brown Recluse?
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AdrianaPatti-GOOD VIBES TONIGHT!!
Beautiful, beautiful photos DRLaura.
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Hi folks,
I can't stay long. We are having a bad rain storm. Just wanted to let you know that I'm still around. Barely but I'm here. I had a bit of a melt down yesterday and had to have an emergency meeting with my doctor last night.
I guess I'm not as strong as I thought I was. I've had to go on the chill pills even though I swore I wouldn't take them. They really tire me out. I'm also going to have to go have some grief counseling at Hospice. :-\
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Is it 330 already?
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Oh, it's 331.
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Sending HHW strength vibes to Danise
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Elmore-I’m so sorry the office situation isn’t looking good.
BIG VIBES THE SITUATION CHANGES AND ALL WORKS OUT FOR YOU!!!!
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Danise I think grief counseling at Hospice is a wonderful idea. I hope it is helpful.
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DR Danise - as long as you know your reactions are "normal" and that you know when to get help - you are way ahead of so many.
Supportive OZ vibes in this difficult time.
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School is officially out for the summer. My tenure at this school is now over as I don't plan to be there next year. Summer vacation begins the preparation for the move. It's exciting and scary (almost an SS reference).
Wow! Best Wishes!
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Thank you for the CD DR TomovOZ. It arrived yesterday but I haven't had the chance to open it yet.
I don't know what happened yesterday. It was Bear's birthday and I got upset because Mom kept saying that we were going to lose bear--but I never, ever in my wildest dreams thought Bear would out live her.
I just lost it. I started crying and couldn't stop. The more I tried to stop the worse it got.
Anyway, there's a lot going on. The doctor mentioned several things and I have to go for new round of tests. We'll just have to see what ittimes brings. :)
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Elmore-I’m so sorry the office situation isn’t looking good.
BIG VIBES THE SITUATION CHANGES AND ALL WORKS OUT FOR YOU!!!!
Vibes to Elmore!
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DR Elmore - I'm so sorry for the office turmoil. It's so frustrating be the one who has to deal with the fallout of others' actions, or inactions in this case.
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VIBES AND HUGS TO DR DANISE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OFFICE VIBES TO DR ELMORE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Danise, seems like a good reason to me. It is surprising what can trigger ones emotions, more than ofton it is little things, like Bear's birthday.
When you are ready, please tell the story of the day you got Bear.
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I am so-o-o-o tired tonight, which is usual for the Friday before my 3-day weekend off. What has made this week especially exhausting is that I didn't even have my one-day weekend last Sunday, being involved with my aunt most of the day. It's a pretty quiet weekend, though - just have to help at the AAUW garage sale for a couple hours tomorrow.
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Ginny, how is your aunt doing?
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I shall shortly be on my way to sup.
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Have a nice dinner. Are you rested after your long sleep this morning?
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Ginny, how is your aunt doing?
Thanks for asking, Jane. No further crises this week, according to my mother. I've sort of kept my distance, afraid I'd get too bossy with her. Maybe that's what she needs...
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Hi Jane, good to see you. As far as the TOD yesterday, the first moment I will never forget is when I first met you and Keith in Portland. It was meeting someone who was already a dear friend for the first time and I knew then and there that I had found a great place to be.
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Time to get a tootsie pop.
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Downtown Dayton is hosting
City Life: A Sculpture Walk by J. Seward Johnson (http://www.downtowndayton.org/experience/citylife/sculptures.html)
this summer. The figure titled "Holding Out" is on the corner where I cross from my parking lot to the library every morning. The first day, I thought, "Man, that woman looks more Upper East Side than downtown Dayton!" It took me a minute to remember that she was one of the sculptures. She seems to follow you with her eyes as you cross the street. I saw "Forever Marilyn," "Nice to See You," and "Sunday Walk" on Tuesday when I went over to my lunch meeting at the Racquet Club.
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Cilla-That was fun and we had the extra time in the car to talk. By the time we said goodbye I was already looking forward to seeing you in NY.
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Danise, seems like a good reason to me. It is surprising what can trigger ones emotions, more than often it is little things, like Bear's birthday.
When you are ready, please tell the story of the day you got Bear.
Oh there isn't much to tell about that.
My dog, Solo, had passed away. It had only been about a week but I was really missing having a dog to greet me at the front door.
Mom was going to have eye surgery and I thought we would have to wait until that was over with before we could even think about a dog.
What she had done was laser surgery but neither of us knew what to expect. She came through the surgery that morning and since there was no blood or cut or anything except drops to put in her eyes she told me we could go look for a dog.
We had agreed that it would have to be a small dog because Mom was in her late 70's even then.
I called the pound (it was a Monday) and found out they were closed.
We went to Walmart to have one of her prescriptions filled and were in the car when I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a boy bend over a very large box.
I told Mom that there were either puppies or kittens in that box. She said, "Let's go look!". I remember I told her that if it was puppies, if we looked, we would take one ( I knew her and myself to well). I reminded her that we wanted a small dog and had planned on getting one that was at least one year old so we would have an idea as to how big it would get.
She promised me we wouldn't just take any puppy. ::)
Well, we went to the box and I picked out a fat little black puppy that was a male (Mom preferred males to a females) when she spotted a very tiny (much, much smaller then the other puppies) sitting in a corner of the box. She picked him up and lost her heart.
The woman promised he wouldn't get very big because his Mom was a full blooded bull terrier. They were going to breed her and she had gotten out on them. Bear is his Daddy's boy. ;)
We were also told that he almost didn't make it because the other puppies kept pushing him away from his Mom. She had to take the others and put them in the box so he could get to his Mom's milk. He was the runt and number 13 of 13. He was all of 5 pounds when we brought him home.
And that was that.
The lady also said he would be 8 weeks old the next day. I counted back so June 7th is Bear's birthday.
She had taken the pups to the pound but had found it was closed so she brought them to the Walmart to see how many she could give away. Whatever was left would go to the pound the next day.
I can't tell you how many times I thought about that and how I wish I taken at least two of them. I wonder where the other 12 are. Were they loved? Were they tied to a tree someplace? Are they even still alive. I guess I'll never know.
I do know how much Mom and I both love Bear. He may have grown to a much bigger size then we wanted but neither of us would have traded him for the world.
She worried so about him. She kept saying she thought we were going to lose him because it was a big dog and they don't live so long. She wanted him buried with her.
I never imagined he would out live her. It hurts. I love Bear but it hurts.
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I have to leave in a few minutes to do the first of the three Murder Mystery Dinner performances this weekend. I am so exhausted, I can barely keep my eyes open. The last two weeks have convinced me that I made the right decision about retiring from community theater until I retire from my current job with the State (in seven years). I just can't do both things at the same time anymore.
Now, of course, if a professional job appeared suddenly on the horizon, I would be up for that!
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I had a very bad morning today.
I had to go have a blood draw. One of the veins they always use collapsed.
Then the place I parked at had an idiot that parked behind me. As I was trying to back out and miss hitting him, I swung a bit to far and hit a fire hydrant. I broke Bonnie's front bumper. I'm going to try to fix it tomorrow.
Then when I drove to work and had to park in the lot across from our building. The stupid machine kept my credit card and I had to call the guy to come and get it out. I was soooo angry by that time. Just what I'm not supost to do.
If the stupid machine hadn't stole my card, I would have been on time. As it was, I lost an hour and had to stay until 5:30 to make it up.
Ugh.
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Hi DR DANISE. Thinking about you............
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DR ELMORE thanks for the Zach info-bio. Funny he didn't mention his THE GLASS MENAGERIE and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF triumphs at Putnam County Playhouse.
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I have to leave in a few minutes to do the first of the three Murder Mystery Dinner performances this weekend. I am so exhausted, I can barely keep my eyes open. The last two weeks have convinced me that I made the right decision about retiring from community theater until I retire from my current job with the State (in seven years). I just can't do both things at the same time anymore.
Now, of course, if a professional job appeared suddenly on the horizon, I would be up for that!
I can understand that. AS much as I would like to go back and do community theater, I just don't think I could put in the hours it would take. I'm just to tired.
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No it's not Paris....it's Frances Farmer being hauled off to jail to serve 45 days for violating her probation in a drunk driving arrest. ;D
January 14, 1943. 8)
(http://www.historylink.org/db_images/ffarrest2.JPG)
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Well, I had to say it but I'm very tired. I think I'm going to go and turn in.
Oh one last thing, I took Sheena to the vet the night before. My little girl weighs 87 pounds! That was another hurt because Mom had asked me how much she weighted and I told her we would find out as soon as I took her for her "first" shots (at least from our vet).
Have a good evening all. Sorry to be such a downer.
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No it's not Paris....it's Frances Farmer being hauled off to jail to serve 45 days for violating her probation in a drunk driving arrest. ;D
January 14, 1943. 8)
(http://www.historylink.org/db_images/ffarrest2.JPG)
I was actually just thinking of the parallel there.
Ok, I will say this....people don't get 45 days in jail for this sort of thing. Maybe a couple days but no more than that. I didn't want to feel sorry for Paris Hilton, but I do. She is being punished because of who she is, not what she did and it really bothers me.
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I've never been a big Paris fan, but please. I've had clients with very long rap sheets for minor violations and they don't get 45 days in jail. She's clearly gotten the point, she's been ridiculed and publicly humiliated and now she's having what appears to be some sort of a breakdown. For this level of offense, my clients - who have no money - are treated better than Paris.
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Cilla, thank you for that insight on Paris. I searched for some in the news today & couldn't find it.
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I don't think she is jailed for a DUI -- isn't it for violating the probation?
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Cilla, thank you for that insight on Paris. I searched for some in the news today & couldn't find it.
LOL, you couldn't find news on Paris today??? Where were you looking??
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I don't think she is jailed for a DUI -- isn't it for violating the probation?
Yes it's for violating probation. My understanding is that she didn't plead to the DUI she pled to something else, got a fine and probation and then drove on a suspended license. There was some question on whether she knew the license was suspended. A judge didn't order that, it came in a notice from DMV. If that was the case, you would expect an extension of probation, maybe a couple days in jail, but not 45 days.
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Hopefully a calmer Paris will emerge in a few weeks.
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Can someone tell "me" what possible spoilers could be being posted about "Project Runway" at this time?
Well i didn't mean today specifically. But i know it is starting in the US very soon.
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LOL-I found news on Paris, just nothing explaining the details as you did. I only scanned the articles, why she has become a celebrity is beyond my conception.
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I know, Jane. I have never seen a Paris Hilton movie.
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Francois - What's with this "As FJL would say" thing? Anyway, I actually read that as The Mystery of the Orangutan, and that a human being has at least four thousand orangutans during its lifetime.
LOL, LOL, LOL...
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LOL-I found news on Paris, just nothing explaining the details as you did. I only scanned the articles, why she has become a celebrity is beyond my conception.
OK. I was just wondering... ;)
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Apparently Paris was ordered back to jail!
I find this sort of bizarre since they let her out. But the way they describe the judge in this article makes me sound really harsh. I mean why wouldn't he let them explain what her medical condition was?
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070608:paris_hilton__ER (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070608:paris_hilton__ER)
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Vibes for DR Danise. Hope you feel better. ~~~~~~~~~~~
Vibes for DR elmore. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Apparently Paris was ordered back to jail!
I find this sort of bizarre since they let her out. But the way they describe the judge in this article makes me sound really harsh. I mean why wouldn't he let them explain what her medical condition was?
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070608:paris_hilton__ER (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070608:paris_hilton__ER)
Normally a judge issues a sentence but for this level it would be the sheriff who determines whether there is overcrowding etc. The sheriff was within his authority to release her, I don't believe the judge was within his authority to order her back to jail...but we'll see how that shakes out over the coming days.
As an example, a federal district court judge doesn't have the power to tell the Bureau of Prisons where to house or what programs to provide to a federal inmate. the judge can make recommendations, but he can't do anything about it if the BOP doesn't listen
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Cilla-You are permitted to wonder. ;D
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Cilla-You are permitted to wonder. ;D
;D
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Cilla, I did read if the sheriff had released her due to over crowding the judge might have left thing stand. Since she was released for medical reasons, and the judge had ordered she not be put into house arrest, he intervened.
That is what I think the article said when I scanned it.
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bk, my Return from Oz CD arrived today - thank you!!! :)
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Yes it's for violating probation. My understanding is that she didn't plead to the DUI she pled to something else, got a fine and probation and then drove on a suspended license. There was some question on whether she knew the license was suspended. A judge didn't order that, it came in a notice from DMV. If that was the case, you would expect an extension of probation, maybe a couple days in jail, but not 45 days.
Doesn't she have two more DUI's after the first? The airhead is a moron with an over-active sense of entitlement, completely spoiled and deserving all the law can throw at her stupid privileged little ass. There was clearly a deal set up between her reps and the sheriff, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some payoff, and whether she's spending too much time back in prison is the judge and prosecutor's affair.
The truth is, a poor black, white or person of another racial makeup gets no special in-house treatment simply because they're suffering from AIDS, cancer or something else more serious than that dumb whore's disorder of Mutfa (Money Up the Fucking Ass), and - pay-off, corruption or whatever - I'm glad that someone in a California criminal court threw the book at her, if only to prove that a rich twit isn't granted special privileges. Look at Martha Stewart, for chrissake! She wasn't happy either, but she did her time. She may be guilty of illegal financial matters but she wasn't threatening public safety by driving drunk.
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Illegal business practices? Drunk driving? I think Martha deserved less time that Ms Hilton who should rot in jail.
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Elmore, when Tim Allen, once again, was stopped for drunk driving nothing happened to him, and boy was I upset. Craig had been out driving on the same street, about the time he was stopped. I’m very grateful a cop pulled Allen over before he hit my kid.
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We have lots of room for inmates here. We just put them in a tent.
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I didn’t necessarily want him in jail, perhaps some kind of program to help him stop drinking-one that didn’t cater to folks with money.
As annoying as Paris is, she should have been thrown into a drug program instead of getting probation.
Time to say goodnight.
‘night
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Well, Lindsay Lohan is an example of rehab not working.
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I have no idea who either of these women are, actually, but it is plastered all over the news so that even the television and movie ignorant know their names and problems.
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I'm not going to argue, Lar. But what you're saying is that you don't like her and that she has an attitude so she should have the book thrown at her. She drove on a suspended license while on probation. The evidence isn't clear that she knew it was suspended, but putting that aside, that is a violation of a misdemeanor, and a city code violation at that (the city prosecutor is involved) This makes it about the lowest level offense you can get. ....Martha Stewart was convicted of a federal felony. I don't agree with her sentence, but the judge was bound by the United States Sentencing Guidelines.
It's my understanding that "Joe Public" convicted of the violation that Paris Hilton was accused of violating would have gotten no jail time to begin with or maybe a day or two. Because she's Paris, she got 45 days...that's crap and I don't even like her. I have gotten many clients no jail or early release on minor misdemeanors because they have medical issues.
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We have lots of room for inmates here. We just put them in a tent.
Yes, your sheriff was on Larry King with his "Women in the desert" behind him
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Ok, I'm getting off my soapbox. I'll just agree to disagree if you will ;)
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In other news of the not famous....kill your husband and get sentenced to what will amount to an extra 60 days in a mental hospital...hmmmm
SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital.
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Let's be sensible here! Does anyone REALLY believe that Miss Rome Holiday Inn is going to serve 45 days in jail?!
She'd be the first one....
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Hopefully a calmer Paris will emerge in a few weeks.
The media will let us know for sure, no worry about that!
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bk, my Return from Oz CD arrived today - thank you!!! :)
Paris got her cd: Return to Jail, apparently! ;)
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Elmore, when Tim Allen, once again, was stopped for drunk driving nothing happened to him, and boy was I upset. Craig had been out driving on the same street, about the time he was stopped. I’m very grateful a cop pulled Allen over before he hit my kid.
I was wrong; it was one DUI charge and two charges(!!!) after that of driving on a suspended license.
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Elmore, when Tim Allen, once again, was stopped for drunk driving nothing happened to him, and boy was I upset. Craig had been out driving on the same street, about the time he was stopped. I’m very grateful a cop pulled Allen over before he hit my kid.
... or any other kid or person!
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We have lots of room for inmates here. We just put them in a tent.
... tentatively? ;)
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Back from a yummilicious dining adventure at The Smoke House. Must now sit on my couch like so much fish.
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I'm not going to argue, Lar. But what you're saying is that you don't like her and that she has an attitude so she should have the book thrown at her. She drove on a suspended license while on probation. The evidence isn't clear that she knew it was suspended, but putting that aside, that is a violation of a misdemeanor, and a city code violation at that (the city prosecutor is involved) This makes it about the lowest level offense you can get. ....Martha Stewart was convicted of a federal felony. I don't agree with her sentence, but the judge was bound by the United States Sentencing Guidelines.
It's my understanding that "Joe Public" convicted of the violation that Paris Hilton was accused of violating would have gotten no jail time to begin with or maybe a day or two. Because she's Paris, she got 45 days...that's crap and I don't even like her. I have gotten many clients no jail or early release on minor misdemeanors because they have medical issues.
Well, usually it's the other way around!Famous rich people get away with murder! That's what happened here lately with some famous show host from TV! It would have been Mr John Doe, he would have been sentenced to jail!
But then, we get the "idols" we deserve, I'm afraid!
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Will we ever make it to page 11?
I'm guessing we will.
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In other news of the not famous....kill your husband and get sentenced to what will amount to an extra 60 days in a mental hospital...hmmmm
SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital.
She MAY...
If she's "wacko" she has to live with the fact she's a murderess! That's quite a "life sentence" no?
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I'm not going to argue, Lar. But what you're saying is that you don't like her and that she has an attitude so she should have the book thrown at her.
No, I don't like her because she's stupid, an insult to humanity, and the fact that if she didn't know the first time she was driving on a suspended license, she sure as hell did the second time she was pulled over.
What I object to is the attitude of entitlement, the possibility of buying one's way because of wealth out of a sentence, and the fact that if she hadn't behaved so outrageously in the past week I might have come to respect her a bit more. I believe she deserves whatever she gets now for her participation in this charade.
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Back from a yummilicious dining adventure at The Smoke House. Must now sit on my couch like so much fish.
Time to watch THE TWISTED NERVE.
All day I have been reminded of one of my favorite lines from ANNIE:
Billionaire - not millionaire - you dumb......hotel! ;D
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Back from a yummilicious dining adventure at The Smoke House. Must now sit on my couch like so much fish.
... smoked fish? ;)
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As the Chad Mitchell Trio said about Lizzie:
They didn't have a sofa, so they offered her The Chair!
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There are worse things for a critic to say or do. When I first played the role of Andrew Wyke in SLEUTH back in 1976, the local theater critic started off his review by saying, "Since everyone is already familiar with SLEUTH, it will come as no surprise that there are really only two actors in the show."
Certainly stupid but not worse, I don't think. One shows a lack of thoughtfulness for the audience. The other shows pure ignorance. I would expect any critic worth his salt to have a background in the major musicals of the 20th century and not express surprise that the ending wasn't what she expected.
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No, I don't like her because she's stupid, an insult to humanity, and the fact that if she didn't know the first time she was driving on a suspended license, she sure as hell did the second time she was pulled over.
What I object to is the attitude of entitlement, the possibility of buying one's way because of wealth out of a sentence, and the fact that if she hadn't behaved so outrageously in the past week I might have come to respect her a bit more. I believe she deserves whatever she gets now for her participation in this charade.
I don't like that attitude either and that's why I initially was on board with the "she deserves it" attitude. She did flaunt the probation in a manner that indicated she needed to learn a lesson, but it changed for me today because I think procedurally the judge is screwing her over in an illegal fashion. I guess I just feel sorry for her. But then I'm a softy....
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13 FEBRUARY: JOHANNESBURG
Jean-Luc Delarue, a French TV presenter, was charged with battery, sexual assault and disrupting a flight after the Air France flight from Paris landed. He allegedly insulted three flight attendants, bit one stewardess, grabbed the breasts and stomach of another and then started feeling up members of the Algerian women’s soccer team onboard.
Well, the end of the story... he ended up paying some undisclosed amounts of money and nothing will be written up against him! Disgusting!
(The man does not like to fly so he takes drugs PLUS some alcohol hence his behaviour! AND his wife was with him! I guess, not next to him.
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I began my evening of viewing by watching the conclusion of HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS. A nice surround audio track and the transfer was decent. I enjoyed it.
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Well, usually it's the other way around!Famous rich people get away with murder! That's what happened here lately with some famous show host from TV! It would have been Mr John Doe, he would have been sentenced to jail!
But then, we get the "idols" we deserve, I'm afraid!
Yes, you're right, it is usually the other way around. I suppose with her attitude toward the whole court proceeding it isn't a total outrage that they are making her pay because others haven't, but it bugs me...or didn't you notice ;)
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But then I'm a softy....
We like you that way! :D
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Next, I put in LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND. I had forgotten that this was filmed 4:3, so it's a full frame TV-movie. Got to her marriage to Vincente Minnelli (Hugh Laurie who's a thousand times handsomer than Vincente Minnelli could ever possibly have been plays the role.)
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I watched tonight's rerun of GHOST WHISPERER since I wasn't watching the show during the time of the season when this episode aired. Had me in tears by the end and was a really fine show tonight.
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Thanks François
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I watched last night's THE STARTER WIFE to conclude my evening. I liked all of the Debra Messing scenes with her various friends, but the subplot with the Russian prostitute extorting money from the husband is SO lame, and a good portion of the last quarter hour was spent with this story. I fast forwarded through most of it because it's just so tedious.
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"One of France's most popular and richest television hosts was ordered yesterday to stand trial for battery, sexual assault and disrupting a flight after he admitted "blowing a fuse" aboard an Air France aircraft. Jean-Luc Delarue, 42, had to be strapped to his first-class seat on an overnight flight to Johannesburg after he allegedly insulted three cabin crew, bit one flight attendant and grabbed the breasts and stomach of another. His main show on France 2, the state network, specialises in discussing social and family problems, with Mr Delarue bringing the gentle manner of a doctor to the chair. Witnesses on the February 13 flight also said that Mr Delarue, who faces a maximum five-year prison sentence, harassed and groped members of the Algerian women's football team aboard the aircraft. Mr Delarue, who earns 80,000 a month and is worth an estimated 20 million, was detained at Paris airport on Sunday morning when he returned from South Africa. In nine hours of questioning, he admitted losing control, blaming a mixture of medicines and alcohol."
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End of the story but it's in French! Sorry!
http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/243974.FR.php
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Good Evening!
Back from The Metropolitan Room. I had a great time with my friend, Chris. Such a great guy - and it's just too bad that he's already "married" (to another man) and has a kid - Henry, who just turned 9 months! In any case...
A good show, and it really was nice hearing Christopher Marlowe again. His arrangement of "Both Sides Now" was haunting! As was his arrangement of "Wave".
Oh, and those two drinks were mighty strong too! :)
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And we ended up "skipping" dessert. Alas, that was more due to the spotty service than a lack of trying. :-\
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Heading down now to do a little reading and then to bed.
Good night!
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As for Paris Hilton...
If the "rumors" are true, I'm just wondering how many future inmates will try for "house arrest" on the grounds that they don't like prison food.
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PAGE 15 TWO-DRINK MINIMUM DANCE!!!!
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And we ended up "skipping" dessert. Alas, that was more due to the spotty service than a lack of trying. :-\
Spotty service? You mean Fletcher was waiting on you?! ;)
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HA!
I just saw the news clip from MSNBC where they actually "interrupted" the Paris Hilton story with a military headline. Priceless!
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My! The posting is spotty today!
Are we spotty trained?!
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HA!
I just saw the news clip from MSNBC where they actually "interrupted" the Paris Hilton story with a military headline. Priceless!
One hour later and you beat me by a few seconds!
Chi Va Piano Va Sano!
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HA!
I just saw the news clip from MSNBC where they actually "interrupted" the Paris Hilton story with a military headline. Priceless!
Call on the army! Paris escapes from jail!
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Just back from dessert at Joe Allen's.
Kevin Spacey was at the next table and we were trying so hard not to be obvious while trying to figure out who the people with him were. :)
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DR ELMORE thanks for the Zach info-bio. Funny he didn't mention his THE GLASS MENAGERIE and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF triumphs at Putnam County Playhouse.
Did he play Golde?
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GOLDE BOY - my new work about all-male camp doing Fiddler on the Roof and the confusion when the boy who plays Golde falls for the boy who plays Tzeitel
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GOLDE BOY - my new work about all-male camp doing Fiddler on the Roof and the confusion when the boy who plays Golde falls for the boy who plays Tzeitel
I like it.
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Not much action around these here parts this evening.