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Archives => Archive 1 => Topic started by: bk on January 24, 2004, 12:06:55 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you know there innermost meanings, you know what's expected, therefore let's have loads of lovely posts, shall we? Thus it is spoken, therefore it shall be done. ::)
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Good. "Therefore and thus" is much easier to say than "vile epithet"... On that note - Good-night.
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Oooh I had to come back to say I'm MORTIFIED that I spelled that stupid word "epithet" wrong in my late-night posting yesterday. And now I can't go back and modify it and I will be out there for ever and ever for all the world to see as a bad speller. I'm a GOOD speller who can't spell that ridiculous word "epithet." No word should end in "thet"... What kind of a sound is that?? Thet. It's a spit. Thet.
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Good late evening all.
Just finished reading Wicked. What an interesting read. Poor DR Jed had to endure a few mintues of my philosophically-minded thoughts on the book, until I realized what I was doing and shut up. But if anyone HAS read the book and is interested in hashing it over a bit, I'm here! :)
Well...not at the moment...now it's almost sleepy time
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Now hold on a minute, DR Ann. I didn't mind talking about the book at all. I merely pointed out the fact that you were obviously a philosophy major. :D
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I just voted in the RONDO AWARDS! 8)
Beef dishes...hmmmm...does a hamburger with lettuce pickles tomato and mayo count?
I really like beef and noodles! Beef stroganoff is the BEST!!! ;D
Saturday. A major snowstorm is predicted for Indiana tomorrow as well!
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I would like to clarify something in the trivia question. Is the academy awarding actor the producer of the play or the author?
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Even if I get the answer to THAT DR Michael Shayne - this week's question is puzzling me...LOL
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Could you please tell us again how to vote in the Rondo awards? Wasn't "Rondo" one of those WB westerns with someone like Ty Hardin?
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BK asked us to post whilst wearing a cravat or dickie.
I shall wear both, and be known as Dickie Cravat - perchance get my own TV show.
der Brucer (who's found a way to waste time whilst awaiting BK's return from under the spell of the Evil Eye - try The Time Waster (http://www.internetpei.com/balls/))
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DRtd posted the link yesterday...and I think he will post it again on Monday.
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I have to agree about beef stroganoff. Absolutely the best beef dish there is: sinfully delicious. You know when you're eating it that it's just loaded with calories and is probably not good for you, but there are certain things that you just don't let worry you, and eating beef stroganoff is one of them. If I can find the recipe I use (doubtful since I haven't made it in awhile), I'll post it.
After spending two days with the wonderful Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, I put in SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON yesterday and watched about a half hour of it. May I say that James MacArthur was a delicious serving of beef stroganoff on his own? ;D
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Helmut Newton Killed in Car Crash
Friday, January 23, 2004
LOS ANGELES — Acclaimed fashion photographer Helmut Newton (search) died Friday after his car sped out of control from the driveway of the famed Chateau Marmont hotel and crashed into a wall, police said. He was 83.
Newton, whose work appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Elle and Vogue, was best known for his stark, black-and-white nude photos of women.
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The German-born photographer, who was Jewish, fled his homeland for Singapore in December 1938, a month after Nazi-led persecution programs began. He eventually settled in Australia and became a citizen, then took up residence in Monte Carlo, overlooking the Mediterranean — a frequent backdrop for his nude images.
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A hosiery ad he shot, featured on a giant billboard in Times Square for a time, was banned from the side of New York City buses in 1998 because it was deemed to be too racy. It showed a rear-end view of a woman lying face-down, wearing only a pair of stockings. A side view of her bare breast also was visible.
(Above extracted from Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109378,00.html))
Both Fox and the LA Times downplayed Newton's Aussie roots.
In the Melbourne Herald Sun (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/) we learn:
Opening a small photo studio in Melbourne after the war, Newton began contributing fashion photos in 1961 to French Vogue, a magazine he made his own for a quarter of a century.
Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of NSW, which has more than 20 Newton prints – including Woman in Chains and Nude in Seaweed – said: "He was perhaps the great immortaliser of the body beautiful, but he gave images a kind of contemporary sensuality."
"Even though he might have been primarily an image maker of fashion and contemporary taste, he put that genre firmly into the litany of 20th century photography."
Bernard Leser founded Vogue Australia in 1959 – Newton's launching pad to immortality. He achieved superstardom shooting for the group's Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines.
The sun uses this pic to lead into the story:
(http://www.heraldsun.com.au/common/imagedata/0,1658,316354,00.jpg)
which is a crop-job on this book cover:
(http://207.228.237.143/images/amazon/li/3823817116.jpg)
A criminal edit, IMHO! The bird gives the photo character and a stylistic balance.
Newton did ads for VW:
(http://www.newton-autoerotic.de/gallery/img/motiv_09_kl.jpg)
and his work is the subject of the worlds heftiest tome:
The publisher (Taschen (http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/photography/all/facts/02601.htm)) claims:
The biggest and most expensive book production in the 20th century
SUMO is a titanic book in every respect: it is a tribute to the twentieth century's most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer. Measuring 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27.5 inches) and weighing approx. 30 kg (66 lb.), the book contains 480 pages, breaking any previous record. SUMO is a truly unique publication.
The site gives you a pic like this:
(http://www.taschen.com/media/images/380/su_newton_11.jpg)
where you can click thru various pages of the book - fun!
der Brucer (imagining a struggling art student lugging a 66lb book in her backpack)
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DRtd posted the link yesterday...and I think he will post it again on Monday.
I think I shall post the link EVERY morning UNTIL the voting ends!
(td, who is only able to be online because his call for rehearsal was changed from 10:00am to 1:00pm).
http://rondoaward.com/ (http://rondoaward.com/)
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I have to agree about beef stroganoff. Absolutely the best beef dish there is: sinfully delicious.
"sinfully delicious" - especially if you keep Kosher!
der Brucer (hoping we don't learn that Hungarians make strogonoff sans sour cream) ;)
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I think I shall post the link EVERY morning UNTIL the voting ends!
http://rondoaward.com/ (http://rondoaward.com/)
I want to go there and do what - why?
der Brucer (suffering from frequent senior moments)
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What I want to know is this:
How come, on the days I need to get up early, all I want to do is sleep in? And, on the days I can sleep in, I awake bright-eyed at 5 a.m.? Why? Is this fair? Is this just? Oh, the humanity.
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Good Morning all. Sorry I was E & T yesterday but I was so tired, I came home, ate supper and went straight to bed.
I'm excited that I'm going to see "TMM" in just a few hours. I wish Juliana was going to be Millie but I guess I try to pick her out. Also wish I could try to go to the stage door to say hello but I'll have my Mom with me and she'll be tired by then. I also have that drive both ways across that bridge to look forward to **shutter**.
I want to be out of Dodge way before sunset and back on the home range. Hummm, going to see a show set in the 20's and I'm talking Westerns. Go figure?
I will tell you all about it tonight when we get home.
I had fun at a Wedding Shower for a gal at work yesterday. They had a game where every one got a safety pin. If you crossed your legs at any time, you lost it and any you had won to the person who caught you.
I hooked my left leg around the leg of the chair so I wouldn't forget. NO ONE was going to get my pin! I also kept an eye on this other lady who was gathering them left and right. And right and left. She soon had a very nice long chain of them.
Well, as the Bride and Groom to be were cutting their cake, the lady crossed her legs. I leaned over and said, "Give me your pins!" She screamed, "I CAN'T BELIEVE it!" and made everyone jump! But everyone got a good laugh when they realized what I had done.
Needless to say, I won the contest and received some nice writting paper and envelopes. :)
Jay--I loved the "Sleeping Bee" song. I shall have to try to find it someplace. To bad it isn't true.
Beef Strogonoff. Lord, I LOVE that dish. I don't think I have ever met a version of it that I didn't like. Even the very simple Cambell's soup kind.
I'm sure there's more I ment to comment on but I've gotta run for now. I've got stuff to do before I get ready for Millie.
See ya'll later on today. Have a good one, posters and lurkers.
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I want to go there and do what - why?
der Brucer (suffering from frequent senior moments)
You want to go there and vote for JEEPERS CREEPERS as the cd of the year, of course!
Check out the notes from last night's late night denizens, too. . .
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Dear Reader Danise--
You could pick up a copy of House of Flowers. Better yet, purchase Miss Barbra Steisand's debut album. "A Sleepin' Bee" is on there, and this is a must have recording. Everyone should make his or her debut in such fashion!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029BE/ref=pd_sim_music_4/103-7763912-4810243?v=glance&s=music (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000029BE/ref=pd_sim_music_4/103-7763912-4810243?v=glance&s=music)
I should mention, too, that the song appears on one or more of Miss Streisand's compilation albums.
And, in the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that it was Miss Diahann Carroll who introduced the song in House of Flowers. By suggesting that you purchase Miss Babs' version of the song does not mean that I think Miss Carroll's rendition is poor. In fact, it is transcendant.
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I cannot get to the notes...no matter how many times I click the link in my favorites, and refresh, and type it into the address bar, etc., they won't come up! All I am shown is yesterdays notes....how annoying!
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Click on the "Today's Column" link at the bottom of this page, Dear Swish.
You wouldn't want to miss the trivia quiz. It's an easy one today.
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And wouldn't you know it that RIGHT after I post about my troubles, I can get to them. Even more annoying!
Agreeing with BK, here is my recipe for great steak:
Dress nicely.
Get in the car.
Drive to a large city near you.
Stop the car at Ruth's Chris.
GO in, order, and eat.
Do previous steps in reverse.
:)
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I just read Barrie Maxwell's DVD column at THE DIGITAL BITS and learned that Warner Bros. controls Hitchcock's SUSPICION.
Now, why in the name of all that's holy hasn't the studio gotten around to releasing a Hitchcock boxed set of SUSPICION, STAGE FRIGHT, THE WRONG MAN, DIAL 'M' FOR MURDER, and I, CONFESS?
Yes, I'm grateful that they have given us STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and NORTH BY NORTHWEST, obviously both of them superior to the above films that I want, but I think the Hitchcock name sells even if it's one of his lesser works (and I actually like all of those other titles.)
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Good morning all! I am sore and stiff from yesterday's dance marathon, but I feel happy...and hungry! I can't think of any beef recipes off the cuff, because that is exactly how I usually cook. I don't generally use recipes. I did once, however, make a delicious beef stroganoff using a low-fat and reduced calorie recipe. It was actually really, really good! I have no idea where I got it, though, so I can't share.
Now I'm off to do my stuff for today, which includes going BACK to the theatre dance class at 3:30. She's doing the same Le Jazz Hot combo today, and now that I know it, I can really have fun with it today. Yay!
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Jay, I'll check that out! Gotta run!
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I'm wondering if one of the DVDs that bk is going to tell us about is Francis Coppola's ONE FROM THE HEART.
I was friends for a time with a critic who wrote for City Paper in Washington, DC, and ONE FROM THE HEART was his favorite movie of all time. It came and went so fast in theaters that I never got a chance to see it, so my curiosity about this movie is profound.
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DR Jay - that is a rule....if we want to sleep, we have to get up. If we can sleep, we are compelled to rise. It is part of Heidelberg's Uncertainty Principle, correct, Dr. White?
HAVE fun DR Danise....I think you will love the show. It is great fun!
DRMattH - I missed ONE FROM THE HEART as well...is Terri Garr in that? Or am I thinking of something else?
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Dear Reader Danise--
You could pick up a copy of House of Flowers. Better yet, purchase Miss Barbra Steisand's debut album. "A Sleepin' Bee" is on there, and this is a must have recording. Everyone should make his or her debut in such fashion!
Or, if you can no longer stand Ms. B. S., I can recommend Ms. Audra McDonald's second album, How Glory Goes. She includes several songs by Harold Arlen on the disc, and an interesting mix of other composers as well. Her back-to-back renditions of "Somewhere" from West Side Story and "How Glory Goes" from Floyd Collins is particularly transcendant.
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Speaking of steak...
Everyone should go to Lawry's in Beverly Hills for prime rib at least once in their lives.
Some of the characteristics of this restaurant--and the dining experience--would make you doubt the quality of the food, but their food is most excellent! The place is huge, and when your table is ready, your name is called on a P.A. system, a device that will send me running from any other restaurant. The waitresses are dressed in cockamamie cleavage-baring uniforms that look like they are right out of the 1950s.
Before your main course, you are treated to the spinning salad bowl. While the waitress spins a large bowl filled with a mixed salad on a bed of ice, she pours bottled Lawry's dressing from way above her head onto the rotating greens. A chilled salad fork is brought to you for this course. Hokey, you say? Yewbetcha.
Come time for the main course, what looks like a huge silver coffin is rolled to your table. With great flourish, a man in a toque who happens to carry a big knife opens the coffin, and several sides of prime rib are exposed. Your order of prime rib (you select the size of cut and degree of doneness) is carved for you at tableside. Along with it comes the world's best Yorkshire pudding and some yummilicious creamed horseradish. Other sides, like creamed spinach, potatoes in any number of variation, etc. are also available.
The prime rib is quite outstanding. (Other main course items are available, but ordering anything other than the prime rib at Lawry's would be like going to Ruth's Chris and ordering the fish.) Relative to prices at other restaurants in L.A., Lawry's is rather moderately priced, too!
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Dear BK, I must agree that placing The Trials of Oscar Wilde within two years of 20000 Leagues and Star is Born is nonsense. Six years is more accurate. It would have served the writer better to say that James Mason had starred in North by Northwest and Journey to the Center of the Earth the previous year, because he had. Busy fellow!
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DR Jay - that is a rule....if we want to sleep, we have to get up. If we can sleep, we are compelled to rise. It is part of Heidelberg's Uncertainty Principle, correct, Dr. White?
DRMattH - I missed ONE FROM THE HEART as well...is Terri Garr in that? Or am I thinking of something else?
Absolutely correct, JRand! And always have a full plate for breakfast, which one should eat while wearing a bathrobe - - and nothing else! God help me if I sit with my legs wide open!
Terri Garr is indeed one of the stars of ONE FROM THE HEART, and she's constantly taking off her blouse, or her shirt. Nastassia Kinski remains clothed. Raoul Julia is quite good in the film, as is Frederick Forrest; but to me, the star of the movie is the incredible song score sung by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle. . .
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THough modern day Barbra Streisand doesn't thrill me, those early recordings from her first decade as a star still make for very exciting listening. And I do love "A Sleepin' Bee."
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Or, if you can no longer stand Ms. B. S., I can recommend Ms. Audra McDonald's second album, How Glory Goes. She includes several songs by Harold Arlen on the disc, and an interesting mix of other composers as well. Her back-to-back renditions of "Somewhere" from West Side Story and "How Glory Goes" from Floyd Collins is particularly transcendant.
Excellent recommendations, DR SWW. What prompted the conversation, however, was a story that DR Danise related the other day about how she held a bee in her hand (and later released it into some bushes.) I asked her if it was a sleepin' bee, but she was unfamiliar with the song I was alluding to in my question.
I was just doing my part to educate a Dear Reader that all of our experiences in life come to be strictly to serve as the context for some song or other from the Broadway stage.
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Ugh.
I spent yesterday sicker than I think I have ever been in my entire life.
I woke up at 6am (!!!) threw up and then continued to vomit once an hour (on the hour) until 8pm.
Luckily, it appeared to be a 24 hour bug because now I feel perfectly normal - with maybe just a little achiness in my legs and arms.
Andrea and I are going to go get my hair cut on Thursday. I still have no idea what I want to do to it. I'm leaving that up to her. CYGOPP is off in New Hampshire volunteering for Dean so she has time to spare ;)
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Thanks for providing the answer DR td. I meant to and got sidetracked on Barbra.
Robert Osborne really should have known better in his comments about James Mason. But 1954 certainly WAS a banner year for him!
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Strange, everyone is talking about beef stroganoff and no one is posting anything resembling a recipe. I've been doing a variation using hamburger for years, which I call HAMBURGER STROGANOFF.
Start by heating some vegetable oil in a large skillet. Over medium heat, cook a chopped onion until softened, about 3 minute, then add a half pound of sliced mushrooms and cook until they are nicely browned, figure another five minutes. Add a pound of ground beef, the leaner the better, and cook until the meat loses it's pink color, stirring to break up the meat.
To this, add about a teaspoon of Worcestershire Sauce and freshly ground pepper and salt, but not too much of these, a quarter teaspoon should do. Stir in two tablespoons of flour, and cook for another minute so that the flour loses it's starchy taste. Add one can beef broth, about 1 1/4 cups if you make your own, and bring to a simmer, cooking for another minute while the flour thickens the sauce.
Taking the skillet off heat, add 1/2 cup sour cream, stirring to blend. Put back on heat for just a half minute or so to heat the sour cream (don't bring back to a boil, or the sour cream will curdle). Serve over hot egg noodles or rice, and sprinkle with fresh chopped dill. Serves four, unless you really love this stuff like der Brucer and I do, in which case it only serves three.
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Swishy, you might have to clear your cache - for some reason it's holding yesterday's notes - that happens to me sometimes - or use IE.
The Rondos are named after strange horror actor, Rondo Hatton.
I think I did spell out what the Academy Award-winning thespian had to do with the play - author.
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[size=20]IT'S SNOWING!!!!![/size]
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Still waiting for Dear Reader Panni to weigh in as to whether Hungarian Beef Stroganoff, at least according to her family's tradition, includes sour cream or not. Though she probably spells it "suor craem."
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Well, MY famous Beef Strogonoff includes sour cream and puhlenty of it.
I was just thinking, if someone makes a post tonight, it will be a Saturday Evening Post. If Emily does one it will be an Emily Post. If Jane makes some of her usual warm and sweet posts they will be Post Toasties, and if someone berates someone it will be a Roast Post.
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And a quick note would be written poste haste!
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Excellent
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And if someone misses the midnight cutoff and his or her Saturday night post hits the site on Sunday, it would be an ex post facto.
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And if one of the DR's goes crazy - they will have gone Postal.
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If Clara Bow were to make a contribution to the site, she'd be the Post It Girl.
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If AMPAS allowed Oscar to contribute, it would be A Post Trophy.
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A note from Mr. Bakalor would be a Post Mark.
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Still waiting for Dear Reader Panni to weigh in as to whether Hungarian Beef Stroganoff, at least according to her family's tradition, includes sour cream or not. Though she probably spells it "suor craem."
I'll have to look into the Stroganoff recipe as I have no idea what the Hungarian equivalent (in our family) was. We had no problems. BTW, with mixing milk and dairy - in fact there is a stuffed cabbage beef dish which is just drowned in sour cream. I'll get back to you on this. I have to eat breakfast now and go and get my beauteous blonde locks trimmed ever so slightly.
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If my message gets garbled and only half of it appears on the board, it would be a Post Partum.
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Of course, if one our our dear members has a baby, her first post will be Post Partum. ...Somebody stop me!
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Oh, and der Brucer has a hankering for hamburger chile tonight. That's essentially hamburger, onions, bell pepper, and chili powder. Maybe some tomatoes, which isn't very purist, and beans, which isn't purist either, but I don't consider using hamburger purist so what the heck.
If I wanted to be really purist, I'd be soaking some dried red chilis and making a puree instead of using powder. And I'd be cutting some beef round into 1/2 inch cubes, instead of using hamburger.
Of course, I could use some corn meal as a thickener, which is traditional. And I need some jalapenos, to add a fresh pepper taste.
I'm getting hungry just thinking about this!
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Excellent "post" jokes! All right, I now have to leave the home environment - keep the home fries burning and I'll be back when she of the Evil Eye has gone.
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Hey, DR Jay - we came up with different versions of the same one! Interesting - the male and female take.
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And if you're not sure how to respond to someone, it's a sitting on the fencepost.
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Or if you're a Monday morning quarterback, it's a Post Mortem.
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Der Brucer reminds us all that a post made by a coyote would be a Wiley Post!
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If you ask a Dear Reader a pressing question and he or she does not respond until next week, you'd call it a postulate.
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When BK says "Kiss my ass," you could call it a posterior.
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When you're trying to get from "Full Member" to "HHW God" and you only have one post to go, you can make a Goal Post.
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Especially if you're David Beckham.
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Or if you're a Monday morning quarterback, it's a Post Mortem.
Also if Ann Miller honored us with her presence today.
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Must post this observation brought on by today's papers, then must run... Death makes for strange bedfellows. This morning the obits of Captain Kangaroo and Helmut Newton are appearing side by side everywhere. Did you ever think you'd be saying their names in the same breath?
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funny post jokes. Thanks to all.
We're supposed to get a winter storm starting late tonight/early tomorrow morning and it may include ice and snow. Definitely freezing temperatures, and it's hard to believe because as I look out my window as I type this, it's blue cloudless skies (sort of an Irving Berlin reference) and about 55 degrees. Amazing how Mother Nature can turn on us!
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I don't think that I can add to the post discussion...well, maybe afterwards. ;)
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Today I will be gone most of the day until late tonight because Tony Bennett, (yes...THE Tony Bennett) is going to perform here in Olympia at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts' CenterFest Celebration. It's the Center's biggest fundraiser. In previous years, Natalie Cole, Gregory Hines (just last year) and Bernadette Peters (I got her autograph!) have performed. I will be "helping" during the evening...not ushering per se. I'm going to help move tables and things like that. I won't get to see the first part of the show, but after moving tables (which is not supposed to take too long), I'll get to see the rest. My sister, niece, my sister's boyfriend and I all went in together and for Christmas got my parents tickets to the show. My dad LOVES Tony Bennett. The seats are off to the right side, but they're only three rows from the stage!
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If Matt H. had had the good luck to have been cast in the role he wanted in She Loves Me, he'd have the opportunity to See Posts today.
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If you get tongue-tied writing an entry here it would be Postum.
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A very young contributer to HHW would be a Poster Child.
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An entry that is full of garbage and left to sit would be a compost.
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If Little Mary's companion were to make an entry, it would be a Lamb Post.
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If Dear Reader Der Brucer were to announce here that he is joining the Democratic Party, it would be apostasy.
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If Paul had published his Letter to the Romans here, it would have been apostle.
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If I were to make comments here signing someone else's name, I'd be an impostor.
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Regarding BK's Trivia Contest, just a quick reminder:
Good luck to one and all and also all and one. Remember: DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS TO THE DISCUSSION BOARD. Send them to me at TomBirkeland@aol.com[/size]. Remember, the Highest Winner receives a sparkling prize.
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Jay, Danise, and George, Mr. Tony Bennett has a wonderful version of A SLEEPING BEE on one of his albums.
BEEF! I love it in all it incarnations. With noodles, in buns, under gravy, in a tortilla, as a slab of Prime Rib...But I am a lover of good Texas-style B-B-Q. Now I like other B-B-Qs as well. But a good Texas style is heaven. It's usually sweet as opposed to tangy like Southern B-B-Q and the sauce is usually more brown than a catsupy red.
The absolute best place I've found for Texas B-B-Q out here is Dr. Hogly-Wogly's Tyler Texas B-B-Q in Van Nuys. Brisket you could cut with a knife. Yum! And the other day, I actually found a place downtown that can give Hogly's a pretty good run for its money...called The Original Texas B-B-Q King. Dr. Hogly Wogly's still has the edge, but the King makes a great banana pudding with vanilla wafers in it.
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you can make a Goal Post.
And a letter to Oscar Wilde in prison would have been a Gaol Post.
der Brucer (still wishing for and GroanAtJay icon)
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BEEF! I love it in all it incarnations. With noodles, in buns, under gravy, in a tortilla, as a slab of Prime Rib...But I am a lover of good Texas-style B-B-Q.
Could you have helped Liz Taylor gobble up her portion of steer as served-up in "Giant"?
der Brucer (a true lover of beef steak)
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I hope my previous entry didn't thow Jay off of his rhythm, but I did want to get my reminder up there post haste.
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Actually, Dear Reader TCB, any one of your typically clever and humorous comeback entries could be considered a riposte.
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Any of Dear Reader Sandra's notes about her fencing activities could be considered a riposte, too!
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Impostable posts re: posts. Just running into LA, and hoping to run into y'all who might be there today... call me.
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If all this talk about beef recipes has you worried about Mad Cow Disease, consider:
Workers Use Tape to Secure Aging Nuke Bomb
Saturday, January 24, 2004
WASHINGTON — Workers dismantling an aging nuclear weapon secured broken pieces of high explosive by taping them together, federal investigators found. An explosion could have occurred, they said.
The incident was among several recent safety lapses at the Energy Department's Pantex plant near Amarillo, Texas, noted by the independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board . Last fall, workers taking apart another old warhead accidentally drilled into the warhead's radioactive core, forcing evacuation of the facility.
This month's unorthodox handling of the unstable explosive increased the risk that the technicians would drop it and set off a "violent reaction," the safety board said Tuesday in a letter to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham.
Such a reaction could have "potentially unacceptable consequences," board chairman John T. Conway said in the letter, which raised disquieting questions about safety at the Pantex plant.
(Above from FNS (http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,109390,00.html))
der Brucer (thinking that perhaps "potentially unacceptable consequences" and "disquieting questions" is a particlarly mellow reaction to a nuclear OOPS!)
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Matt H. we enjoyed John Turtourro’s performance as Monk’s dysfunctional brother.
SWW I’m glad you found such a caring woman to take care of the dogs. But it might be more economical to find a house sitter than to board so many pets. Did she offer you a special price?
Panni, apparently last night, as Tomovoz so kindly commented on, I indicated Keith usually leaves me out in the rain. LOL One error wasn’t enough, I posted we might watch RIO GRANDE, only I typed GRNADE. To further embarrass myself, we watched RIO BRAVO, not Grande.
Emily I’m glad you are better now. Good luck with the hair cut. Are you going to post a pic?
Panni stuffed cabbage with sour cream sounds like a Russian dish to me.
Jay I do believe there is no end to your wit.
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Just back from my hair trim and shopping at Trader Joe's - where I could not for the life of me park. I hate this LA habit of someone waiting for a parking space to clear and thereby holding up three different lanes of traffic. Parked on the street finally. What's strange is that Trader J's was not all that crowded. So who belongs to all the cars??
On my way home I got a yen for matzoh ball soup. I must have it! So I'm off to Art's after I take the wonderdog for a quick pee.
I assume you're all riveted by the minutia of my life.
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Jane - Even though we've never met in the flesh I have to say that you are one stellar human being! You pay attention to each post and then comment kindly on everything. You make EVERYONE feel good. I'm so looking forward to actually meeting you.
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More news from RooLand: (From Herald Sun (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,8484710,00.html))
Online porn crisis
By CHRIS TINKLER
25jan0
der Brucer (thinking Tom is no longer in Kansas!)
Which explains why it is Tomovoz not Tomovkansas.
Note: The wonders of Sun-Herald journalism - no time scale mentioned. The "People's Paper" - not too far above the National Enquirer - usual Sunday "no news" headlines. I don't doubt the facts though. A city of 2 million like any other city of similar size......
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Panni you are so sweet. It is a shame I don’t have plans to go to L.A. for awhile as I am also looking forward to meeting you. Tell me, did you go to the Trader Joes next to Dupars?
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Jay I do believe there is no end to your wit.
Aww, shucks. Thank you. :-[
But I bet there are plenty of Dear Readers who will be thrilled to learn that, at long last, I am tapped out on "post" posts. Not another one from me.
Unless, of course, inspiration strikes once again.
;)
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DR Jane: Good to see you are in from the rain. Panni comment's are so appropriate.
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I'm back, but must do a bit of book stuff, but then I'll be posting up a posting storm. Not one single attempt at a guess in today's trivia contest, so hurry, you can win this one. If there are no guesses by tomorrow morning I shall throw a clew.
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My anti-groaning willpower is weakening!!! All y'all are thoroughly bizarre... and I LOVE it! :D
Beef - Like Mr. Pogue, I'll take it just about any way I can get it (yes, I'm still talking about beef, TCB). Jay's talk of Lawry's had me drooling, as I absolutely loves me a nice hunk o' prime rib. Medium rare to medium with a bit of horseradish... beefy heaven. Good steak fajitas would have to be another particular favorite. The list goes on and on and on and on...
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Tomovoz thank you. :)
I’m in from the rain but I really should be out there walking Echo.
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Okay I've read the notes and two pages of posts. But I want to post now. Before I forget what I want to comment on :)
DR Emily: Feel better vibes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DR Ann, I meant to say the other day how impressed I was with your gym record. I cannot get up the desire to do my pilates videos. And exercising more was one of my New Year's resolutions.
But the good news is that I tried on the pants that didn't fit me in December. ANd now they are big. Yeah! Yippee! Yahoo!
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Hey BK, next time we have recipe day, can it be for Chinese! Please.
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SWW I’m glad you found such a caring woman to take care of the dogs. But it might be more economical to find a house sitter than to board so many pets. Did she offer you a special price?
A house sitter might be a good idea further down the line, when we've made more friends here. We're still "newcomers" here, and such things take time. As for his daughter, I've a strong feeling she'd decide to claim her inheritance early, make the house her own, throw the dogs out into the street and change the locks.
Until then, a good kennel is a good idea. And yes, she does charge less for "families." Even her rates per day are far less than we were paying to occasionally kennel the older trio back in Long Beach, when we had business trips to take.
Der Brucer and I have to head downtown soon, to the Lambda Rising bookstore. We've had a licence plate frame on order, with dogs along the bottom row in the colors of the rainbow flag. (I suppose, if we were driving a truck, we'd have those mudflaps with reclining naked guys!)
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It is very bad to mention BBQ ribs. I love BBQ ribs. And everytime someone mentions a food I love, I obsess about it until I get it :)
Btw, the Walmart I went to today had fresh Krispy Kreme donuts. They've never sold them before. And the smell almost made me mad. I wanted them so bad :(
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Tomovoz thank you. :)
I’m in from the rain but I really should be out there walking Echo.
Well hello there
Good old friend of mine
You've been reaching for yourself for such a long time
There's so much to say
No need to explain
Just an open door for you to come in from the rain
It's a long road
When you're on your own
And someone like you
Will always choose the long way home
There's no right or wrong
I'm not here to blame
I just wont to be the one
Who keeps you from the rain ]
From the rain
And it looks like sunny skies
Now that I know you're all right
Time has left us older and wiser
I know I am
And it's good to know
My best friend has come home again
'Cause I think of us
Like on old cliché
But it doesn't matter
'Cause I love you any way
Come in from the rain
Come in from the rain
(Carole Bayer Sager/Melissa Manchester)
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Jennifer CONGRATULATIONS! :)
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What happened to everybody? Everybody went on vacation?
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Bruce only Jed is showing up as browsing. Why aren't you?
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Because I close every time I go away for a moment or two.
But, where in tarnation IS everyone? This is most unseemly.
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I guess Bruce posted and ran.
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I post, I run, I'm The Scarlet Posternel.
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Back from delivering a painting with my sister...and of course shopping at the bookstore...and then the new 'junk' shop called The Stuff Store....oh my.....lots of stuff I wanted but nothing I needed! Grrrrrrrrr......
Of course if you wrote something and saved it until later it would be:
Post Meridian.
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Off to see Big Fish this evening. I have also started writing a new script. Always hard when you are writing something new. Luckily I am not on a strict deadline.
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Tell me, did you go to the Trader Joes next to Dupars?
The very one.
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The trivia question is very puzzling. Just because you have received no answers doesn't mean we're not working on it. LOL...it just means you have done your job very well, Mr BK!
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Having won the last one, I'll abstain from today's contest
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After a 30-year separation, my old college friend Jane and I connected. Shortly after catching up, we exchanged brisket recipes. Here's mine (actually, it's from a 1981 Gourmet Magazine, and I've been cooking it ever since).
Brisket
This brisket recipe is extremely simple.
I cook it the night before. Then I cool it. Before serving, I remove fat from the juices, slice the meat (much easier to slice when cool), pour some of the juices and onions over the sliced meat to keep it all very moist, wrap tightly in foil, and reheat. The balance of the juices/onions are served on top or on the side.
From the March 1981 Gourmet Magazine:
Rub a three-pound brisket with salt and pepper. In a heavy casserole just large enough to hold the brisket, sprinkle five sliced onions. Top them with the meat, and sprinkle the meat with minced garlic. Bake the brisket, covered with foil and the lid, in a 325 degree oven for 3 hours or until it is tender. (The recipe has 3 hours, but I think you'll need more time, even for a three-pound cut. Also, the original recipe has you thicken the juices, but I like them just as they are -- great for dipping bread.) Arrange the onions and some of the juices over the meat. Serve the remaining juices separately.
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I am tapped out on "post" posts. Not another one from me.
Thank heavens! I was tempted to tie you to the whipping post.
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By the way, the Significant Other and myself just returned from seeing The Triplets of Belleville. Micheal liked it...I, however, loved it madly.
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Dan: Didn't Ella sing "A Brisket A Brasket"? Is it cooked in a yellow basket?
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Just so I'm not always waving the Hungarian flag... I was looking through my book of recipes and found a whole section put there by my ex-mother-in-law. She's from Newfoundland. And before all you Cannucks go for the Newfie fisherfolk jokes - she's a university professor and textbook author and her late husband was a psychiatrist. She is also an excellent cook, who, unlike my mother, is EXTREMELY precise about her ingredients. No pinch of this or soupçon of that. Here's her recipe for MEAT LOAF - a simple and delicious basic meal:
2 pounds ground round steak
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups bread crumbs
3/4 cup ketchup
1/2 cup warm water
1 pack onion soup mix
Thoroughly mix the above together.
Put into loaf pan and cover with 2 strips of bacon (faux-bacon for the non-bacon eaters).
Pour one 8 oz. can of tomato sauce over whole mixture
Bake one hour at 350.
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Der Brucer and I have to head downtown soon, to the Lambda Rising bookstore. We've had a licence plate frame on order, with dogs along the bottom row in the colors of the rainbow flag.
Well, the licence plate was a bargain, only $11.00 - and then.....
Oh, says Dear Woody, lookie here!
WICKED
(comments about we could get it cheaper later at WalMart fell on ears deafened by impulse buying!)
So, another $19.00 and I'm listening to WICKED as I drink my consolation cocoa.
der Brucer (still feeling guilt for not yet buying "Jeepers Creepers")
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Hey BK, next time we have recipe day, can it be for Chinese! Please.
Pekinese Parmasan?
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If there are no guesses by tomorrow morning I shall throw a clew.
Yesterday we were subjected to "vile epithets", today we are threatened by a ball of yarn - 'tis a dangerous site indeed.
der Brucer (was it Inspector Clewsew?)
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.. soupçon
I'll bite - do you have a French-Canadian keyboard with special diacritical keys, or have you discovered ALT+0231
(ç )
der ever-quizical Brucer
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The list goes on and on and on and on...
Oh, a BABY reference. Oh, er . . . . forget it! :D
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Evening all!
I must say that I really LOVED Millie! I would like to go see it again sometime. If I make it to NYC, it will be high on my list.
The only sad part was they were making announcements about cast changes just as my Mother was asking me a question. I thought I heard them say Juliana Hansen (who was listed as Gloria in the playbill) but I didn't hear as who so I’m not 100% sure who she played. That as the only disappointing part. I so wanted to see her.
I thank the Gods of the Highway that there wasn't much traffic either going to or coming back from Clearwater. It was very, very easy to find the theater. I'm so glad. I still say I would not like to drive it at night and by myself even if I had a brand new car/van/SUV that had lights that work at night.
We stopped off to get Egg Fo Young on the drive home, which I thought was very fitting all things considered.
Bear was very hurt about being left behind all day. We've gotten the cold shoulder even though I made a special stop at McD's and bought hamburgers for Brandi and him.
I will look for the "Sleeping Bee" song tomorrow and I also have a recipe that I would like share but I'm to tired to look it up/type it out right now.
If I keep getting names mixed up when I post is that like being a post hole digger? I know I want to crawl into a hole when I do that. ;D
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Hope you'll post your comments about WICKED. Will be starting the book later today.
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If I contribute the same message twice, I would be bi-postal.
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Now that I've had dinner, this is what you would call a postprandial.
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Pleasant, upright and erect messages would be good posture.
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If I make a contribution here after taking a once popular but illicit relaxant, would that make it a postlude?
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Had the Randy Vicar submitted a note here while he was in the process of applying to the seminary, it would have been a postulant.
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I have also started writing a new script. Always hard when you are writing something new. Luckily I am not on a strict deadline.
When you're done with it and make it available here for us to peruse, that would make it a postscript.
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I'm sorry, Dear Readers. I just can't help it. I think I'm done. Again.
;D
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LOL DRJay.
DR Danise isn't that always the way....someone talks when you are trying to listen....to something else.
I can be in the room with my mom for an hour and she won't have anything to say, but as soon as I close the bathroom door, she starts talking to me!
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I can be in the room with my mom for an hour and she won't have anything to say, but as soon as I close the bathroom door, she starts talking to me!
Does she bring up "going blind"?
der Brucer (always wary of Mothers)
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I'm sorry, Dear Readers. I just can't help it. I think I'm done. Again.
;D
[size=12]"Promises, Promises"[/size]
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Well, the licence plate was a bargain, only $11.00 - and then.....
Oh, says Dear Woody, lookie here!
WICKED
(comments about we could get it cheaper later at WalMart fell on ears deafened by impulse buying!)
So, another $19.00 and I'm listening to WICKED as I drink my consolation cocoa.
der Brucer (still feeling guilt for not yet buying "Jeepers Creepers")
Oh, hoo-hah! You didn't even mention WalMart until after we had left the store. And you were the one who pointed the disc to me!
And, der Brucer dear, you should know full well by know that titles are best done in italics, not CAPS.
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And while we're at it, there's a whole list of CDs I want us to add to our collection, that I've refrained from while waiting for us to finish moving.
:o
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Just wanted to let everyone know that I have re-installed my AOL Instant Messenger; my handle there is thetd856 and I ask that any dear reader who wishes to Instant Message me, certainly has my approval!
LET'S BUILD A BUDDY LIST! ! ! ;D
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DR td, I added you to my list. Unfortunately, I can't chat now. I'm off to watch the luscious George Eads on Season 1 of C.S.I. on DVD as I wait for ENTERPRISE in high def. Hopefully, soon, though....
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DR td, I added you to my list. Unfortunately, I can't chat now. I'm off to watch the luscious George Eads on Season 1 of C.S.I. on DVD as I wait for ENTERPRISE in high def. Hopefully, soon, though....
That's okay. . .i turned off my messenger to restart the computer! ! !
I'm back now, though . . .
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Does she bring up "going blind"?
I let out a BIG laugh, and then had to explain it to Keith. ;D
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Have been quite E & T today. Spent most of the day with my sister and my neice shopping and having lunch. My neice is getting married April 2 and we were at the store adding to her gift registry, which is a lot of fun. I might like to get married just to get some cool gifts!!
Now I am home working my self ragged trying to get caught up on some interview projects that I desperatley need to get into the publishers...and here is where I need the help of knowledgeable DRs. ???
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HELP ME DRS! HELP ME DRS!! HELP ME DRS!![/move]
One of my interviewees had an agent that he talks about in the interview...I for the life of me cannot figure out how to spell this agent's name, although I am quite sure I have heard the name many times before. It sounds like Myron Mishkin...but I cannot find any name by that on the internet, which is where I was trying to verify the spelling. The interviewee is not at home, as I tried to call to see what the spelling is. Does any know?????
BK, I am hoping you might know the answer!!!
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The Mishkin is right. I don't know why, but what comes to mind is Meyer Mishkin. But that may just be a memory of old.
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I am indeed correct - Meyer Mishkin, famous Hollywood agent. WHAT a memory!
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Trust the ole imdb to come up with a few names which might ring bells. . .
http://www.imdb.com/find?nm=on;mx=20;q=myron%20mishkin (http://www.imdb.com/find?nm=on;mx=20;q=myron%20mishkin)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024888/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024888/)
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We don't need no stinking bells and no stinking imdb - we got ME and I know all.
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I am indeed correct - Meyer Mishkin, famous Hollywood agent. WHAT a memory!
Ah! The executive producer of 1957's DRANGO! !
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Aha!!! That is it!!! Many, many thanks DRHHWC (Dear HHW Controller) BK, I knew you would know the answer!
Whew...it is such a chore transcribing these audio tapes of interviews and then trying to double check the spellling of peoples names! I would be very upset if I got the names wrong! Thanks again BK, you are one in a million! ;D
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Thanks also TD!! I had tryed the IMDB as well, and I did see that listing for Meyer Mishken as a producer, but I didn't notice any info as to whether he was an agent or not. I had Myron stuck in my head and it would leave me! LOL!
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Not having yet finished the novel Wicked (a bit of non-ficition interrupted), I cannot say for sure, but by listening closely to the score and the voices the second time through, I think I can figure out a couple of the twists the plot takes.
Which either makes me a very clever lad, or someone with a poor ear. ;)
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You MUST be a very clever lad, for I think you have marvelous ears.
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I had accumulated six episodes of West Wing. Had is the key word. I just watched the last of them. Now I have two episodes of Jag (had six of those too) left. TIVO makes it easy to save these shows until I have time to watch them.
Danise you put me in the mood for fortune cookies. Luckily I had a couple here.
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Good night. I believe there is a Stargate waiting for me to watch. :)
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I am so .... ticked off with myself I can hardly see straight.
I was making the chile for tonight's dinner, took a sniff at the hamburger, wasn't sure about it, had der Brucer take a sniff and he didn't smell anything wrong. I should have trusted my nose.
Frenched the onion (sliced it thin longitudally), julienned the red bell, jalapenos, and anaheim pepper, sweated them down with a couple cloves of garlic and some crushed red pepper. Transferred them to a bowl while I browned the meat, added some oregano, sage, and chili powder, then put the onion/pepper mix back in, added some beef broth, crushed tomatoes and black beans, stirred it all together and added maybe a tablespoon of corn meal. Let it all simmer on the stove for maybe ninety minutes, sliced up some spring onions, dished the chile into a couple of bowls, topped it with some shredded cheese and the onions, served it to der Brucer and myself, we both took one spoonfull and spat it back out.
Let this be a lesson to everyone: Trust your noses.
[size=20]****!!!!![/size]
:P
(Der Brucer fixed himself a peanut butter sandwich, but it ain't the same, man, it ain't the same.)
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We're starting page 6 with THAT?
Bummer.
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Just you and I and the bats td. Oh boy!
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Flighty creatures all around tonight, eh? Everyone has flown the coop!
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We need our late-night denizens!
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didn't get to see Big Fish. Saw lord of the rings again. Anyways off to bed. I am filling in for someone tomorrow (actually today)
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I'm here...alone, but here. I took a hot bath and listening to pretty music, and I feel good. Also watched Swimming Pool. Bit of an odd movie, but good. Ludivine Sagnier is excellent, not to mention sexy as all hell. An interesting movie...slow to get started, and one of those endings that leave you going "huh?" but entertaining, and the scenery is beautifully shot.
Okay, enough rambling...
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I'll bite - do you have a French-Canadian keyboard with special diacritical keys, or have you discovered ALT+0231
(ç )
Neither, ever-quizical Brucer. I have a Mac. I wrote it in Word and went to the Symbols section under Inserts where I found ç among many other interesting symbols- and voilà.
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Another option for Mac folks to get a "ç" is option+c and then "c." Of course, now that I have a PC, I have to remember the 0231 sequence.
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Just "popped in" to say goodnight to the North West family. Have a great Sunday. Monday is "Australia Day" - I shall try and control my excitement.
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I do believe I can officially say we are deader than a doornail here at HHW. Oh, well, as Scarlett once said, Tomorrow, tomorrow is another day.
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We had something interesting happen (at least to us) here this week. We saw a rare species of duck at a nearby lake, snapped some photos, and emailed them to a local bird enthusiast for confirmation. It turned out to be what we had suspected, and I was contacted by a birding magazine editor who asked for my photos in order to document the sighting.
I'm sure you are all thrilled.
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I don't know - we've got eight count them eight guests so we're not quite dead as a doornail.