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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had only the smallest bit of frou frou, so small, in fact, that we only really had frou, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they don't care about frou frou because they've got moo moo.
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And the word of the day is: PLEONEXIA!
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WOD...
"insatiable covetousness"??? Yep, that's me!!! :P
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Such good news re: DR elmore3003 last evening! Whew.
And thanks to DR JoseSPiano for "standing in" for all of us with the support!!
And double-whew for DR. Green Eyes!!!! :)
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I miss Dino at the piano...
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I guess I should mosey into bed.
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I miss Dino at the piano...
He's so MOO-sical, you know...
[with apologies to Mr. Sondheim]
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This is BK's new CD:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h51pODQTL._SS500_.jpg)
I enjoyed the sample tracks on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Across-Crystal-Sea-Conducted-Arranged/dp/B0018FZIT4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219996037&sr=1-1). Quite lush...not to be confused with a lush, mind you. ;)
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Quite lush...not to be confused with a lush, mind you.
Duly noted... ;)
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Well, I'm off to bed. This afternoon, I'm going with my friend Margo and her kids to a baseball game in Tacoma. She got free tickets and has an extra, so I'm going...free is good. It'll be fun. :)
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Good night, Singdaw and Der Brucer...and any and all guests.
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Sweet dreams, DR George! And to you, too, dear DR Tomovoz!
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TOTD:
Andre Gagnon "Impressions"
Boney M "The Magic of..."
Gene Pitney "You're The Reason"
DVD - last viewed "Agatha"
"Tales From Earthsea"
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Goodnight Gentlemen.
(and those not so gentle)
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Goodnight Gentlemen.
You presume too much! ;)
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Morning all. I'm up and ready to go to the airport. My flight doesn't leave untill early afternoon but I'm a morning person so I'm up and ready (as I just said). I probably won't post again until I get to Fort Atkinson.
I don't have an iPod and I gave up Walkmans years ago so I'm not listenin' to nuttin' I'll read the New York Times at the airport and I'll continue reading my book, Thirty Days Hath November by the late, great Walter Kerr.
That's it from my end of the pond.
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BK:
The Channing Pollack of the film you saw, is he the same Channing Pollack who was one of the writers of My Man?
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This being Friday I wish I had plans to watch something, but it might be Sicko which is the next film from Netflix
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Do any of the New Yorkers know of William Michaels? He is the cover for Emile DeBeque in the South Pacific and will be going on for 8 performances. He does opera and musical theater
(http://williammichals.com/gallery/Headshots_files/williamsweater.jpg)
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Hmm...
I wonder if DR Ginny and DH Richard will be seeing Paulo Szot or William Michaels?
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And I think Kelli O'Hara was out earlier this week, too... :(
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Again,
***SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES*** for DR Ben!!!
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Friday morning greetings! As usual, I slept better the second night here than I had the first.
As for South Pacific, I am totally prepared for replacements, this being a holiday weekend. Surely they won't replace the 30-piece orchestra or the exquisite set?
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Travel vibes to DR Ben!
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Good morning, DR Elmore - how are you today?
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I'm very excited about seeing South Pacific tonight, but my strong second choice would to be in LA to see Vanities with BK. I loved that play back in its day and hope the musical does it justice and is very successful.
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Good morning, all! I'm a bit head-achey at the moment: When I was released from hospital last night, all I had to eat were a couple of boiled eggs, and I awoke three times during the night:
1. 1:59 am, bathroom break
2. 3:30 am, stomach cramps
3. 5:30 am, hungry and head-achey so I got up and had about half a cup of cranberry juice and a slice of whole wheat bread; there's nothing in the refrigerator beyond that, a gallon of water, and 3 eggs at the moment.
I'm about to step over to Cafe 82 for breakfast and then I'll call my doctor to see if I can get in today and see if he wants to rethink some prescriptions. Since I would swear that he never told me I was diabetic, although he must have said something like "metformin to control your blood sugar" and I missed the subtext, I'm looking into diabetes testing kits; my cousin Sue demanded to know why he hadn't given me one or suggested I purchase one.
TOD:
DVD: three Netflix items, a new TRISTAN UND ISOLDE and FIDELIO
CD: Coppelia, Guy Haines, Rat Pack Christmas
VCR: Who's got the time right now?
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I knew I should have gone grocery shopping for DR elmore after we left the ER last night. ;)
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~~~~~SAFE AND ON TIME TRAVEL VIBES TO DR BEN~~~~~
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TOD - As I'd requested, DH Richard got The 39 Steps from NetFlix, 'cause I wanted to see it before we saw the stage production here. It arrived Monday or Tuesday while I was at work, and we didn't have time to watch it either evening before leaving early Wednesday morning.
Oh, well, we're seeing it at the Cort tomorrow evening anyway and will watch the movie when we get home.
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DR elmore - You HAVE to get in to see your doctor today, or any other doctor at that office. -Especially with the holiday weekend coming up. Although I wonder if you could head back to St. Luke's to see Dr. Walker or Dr. Green Eyes? ;)
*And if have any more cranberry juice in your fridge, either throw it out or dilute it. You have to be careful with the fruit juices.
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DR Elmore - I'm not surprised you didn't sleep well last night and woke up hungry. Even when I've had routine tests that required a fast, I've been especially hungry the next day.
How 'bout dinner at Artie's before the show tonight?
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In honor of the word of the day, and since Sondheim has been mentioned,
Here's "More" from DICK TRACY - sung by Madonna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t7yvseAGTs
(no video here, though, just audio and a still foto :( )
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Health vibes to Larry
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More vibes of all sorts as needed to Tomovoz
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DH Richard just arrived home from morning prayer with breakfast for us!
Bye for now!
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DH Richard just arrived home from morning prayer with breakfast for us!
Well waddayaknow? Answered prayers! ;)
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DR JoseSPiano - do you have any more photos of Dr. Green Eyes? :)
They would not be unwelcome.
Although I'm surprised that the medical staff didn't object. What with the Internets and all, you can never tell where those photos may end up.
And were they taken with your new iPhone?
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Health vibes to Larry
Ditto!
More vibes of all sorts as needed to Tomovoz
Ditto!
;D
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Speaking of both having and eating your cake...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/SLCJvCKYhnI/AAAAAAAAAT4/c-sGrFBcuok/s400/Kristen+P.jpg)
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I'm not quite sure what I'll be watching this weekend.
Sunday is my stepson's wedding, so I'll be too busy to watch anything that day.
For the rest of the weekend, there are many possibilities. I have 2 new box sets from Warner Home Video, ERROL FLYNN WESTERNS and WARNER CLASSIC WESTERNS, plus copies of MOBILE, FELON, NOISE, MEDIUM, Season 4, CRIMINAL MINDS, Season 3 and a few other things to choose from, so I'm sure I'll keep busy.
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Do any of the New Yorkers know of William Michaels? He is the cover for Emile DeBeque in the South Pacific and will be going on for 8 performances. He does opera and musical theater
(http://williammichals.com/gallery/Headshots_files/williamsweater.jpg)
I know him - well, I've played for him a few times at auditions, and I saw him as The Beast I mean Gaston in Beauty in the Beast.
Alas, I think he'll just remain as the Emile cover after Paulo leaves at the end of November. -If he stays with the production.
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DR JoseSPiano - do you have any more photos of Dr. Green Eyes? :)
They would not be unwelcome.
Although I'm surprised that the medical staff didn't object. What with the Internets and all, you can never tell where those photos may end up.
And were they taken with your new iPhone?
DR singdaw - Alas, I have no more photos of Dr. "Green Eyes". But I do have his full name... And both DR elmore and I agreed that he had an "actor face". He looked familiar to me. -And it turns out he was down at Duke at the same time I was working down there for a semester, so... ???
Well, as you can tell, the two(!) pics were posed. So we asked them if we could take their pics. -It really was just that "fun" an ER yesterday. As for the other pic of Dr. "Green Eyes"... Well...
Yes, I took them with my iPhone. ;)
*I just wish I could have gotten a pic of DR elmore's original doctor, or at least the other Residents and ER docs - for DR MBarnum's reference. ;)
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Although I'm surprised that the medical staff didn't object. What with the Internets and all, you can never tell where those photos may end up.
-And I did make sure to block out Dr. Darin's/"Green Eyes" from his name tag in his picture.
*And DR elmore did tell the nurse about his website and HHW too - so she might be checking in here too sometime soon. Turns out she used to play piano and a fellow lover of musical theatre.
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Well waddayaknow? Answered prayers! ;)
Or just sated hunger pangs.
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re: big brother's thursday night show
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RE: BIG BROTHER 10 live feed spoilers
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And speaking of hunks and baritones... Here's a "video" of Nathan Gunn and Kristin Chenoweth performing "It Feels Like Home" (from Nathan Gunn's last album). -Alas, it's not my favorite rendition, nor arrangement of Bucchino's song - Nancy Lamott! - but at least Mr. Gunn is nice to look at.
It Feels Like Home with Kristin and Nathan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsHa4J9B1E)
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I know him - well, I've played for him a few times at auditions, and I saw him as The Beast in Beauty in the Beast.
Alas, I think he'll just remain as the Emile cover after Paouo leaves at the end of November. -If he stays with the production.
He's called me a couple of times about work. That's all I'll say.
And I believe it's Michals.
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OH!
So is anyone going to see "Mamma Mia! - The Sing-Along Edition" this weekend?
;)
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He's called me a couple of times about work. That's all I'll say.
And I believe it's Michals.
Yep, no "e".
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BK:
The Channing Pollack of the film you saw, is he the same Channing Pollack who was one of the writers of My Man?
No, this Channing Pollack would have not been born when My Man was written. Perhaps he's related. THIS Channing Pollack was an American-born magician.
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-And I did make sure to block out Dr. Darin's/"Green Eyes" from his name tag in his picture.
*And DR elmore did tell the nurse about his website and HHW too - so she might be checking in here too sometime soon. Turns out she used to play piano and a fellow lover of musical theatre.
Nurse Tricia is fantastic! I just asked her to be my Facebook friend this morning.
DR Ginny, I believe dinner tonight may be possible. Everything depends on my HIP schedule, and I have to refill this prescription today, whether or not my doctor returns my call: he was certainly sloppy about returning the ER Calls last night.
I've called HIP and left a message for my doctor, DR Jose!
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And speaking of hunks and baritones... Here's a "video" of Nathan Gunn and Kristin Chenoweth performing "It Feels Like Home" (from Nathan Gunn's last album). -Alas, it's not my favorite rendition, nor arrangement of Bucchino's song - Nancy Lamott! - but at least Mr. Gunn is nice to look at.
It Feels Like Home with Kristin and Nathan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsHa4J9B1E)
I wonder if one of my least respected sopranos, whose vocalizing fools a lot of folk, will be performing at this year's Republican convention, as she has in the past?
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I'm up even earlier than I wanted to be after some mighty strange dream in which Clay Aiken (!) kept leaving messages telling me he was leaving tickets for me for a play he was in.
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Nurse Tricia is fantastic! I just asked her to be my Facebook friend this morning.
DR Ginny, I believe dinner tonight may be possible. Everything depends on my HIP schedule, and I have to refill this prescription today, whether or not my doctor returns my call: he was certainly sloppy about returning the ER Calls last night.
I've called HIP and left a message for my doctor, DR Jose!
And have you been to the grocery store already this morning?
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Good morning!
We had another cool evening and morning! Hooray! Another half day without running the A/C. Of course, it will heat up soon, and everything will be closed up, but for now, I'm smiling.
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As for the Friday Media Check...
All CDs: (a.k.a. Some Birthday gifts I gave myself)
Tuck & Patti - "I Remember You" - I'm sooo happy that they've gone back to recording some standards. :)
Simone Dinnerstein - "The Berlin Concert" - I HAVE to hear her live sometime!
Gypsy - 2008 Broadway Cast Recording (LuPone, Gaines, Benanti, etc.)
Danilo Perez - "Across the Sea" - Arranged and Conducted by Claus Ogerman
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Friday Media Check:
CD - WEST SIDE STORY (OCR)
DVD - GHOST WHISPERER- Season 3, disc 1
LIFE - Season 1
DVR - WITNESS TO MURDER
KID GALAHAD (Robinson/Davis/Bogart version)
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I decided to go ahead this morning and finish the two PERRY MASON episodes I had yet to watch. The first took Perry into the Sierra Mountains and a trial where Hamilton Burger was not the prosecuting attorney. Always a fun change of pace with this type of episode.
Among the guest stars were Barton MacLane and Ann Rutherford.
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The second one was back to the usual story with two stalwarts from 1950s and 1960s television: Patricia Barry and Simon Oakland.
Patricia Barry seemed to be a guest star on every TV series I ever watched growing up. Her cooing, seductive vixen was used in show after show until it was almost a joke to see her on a show. Even if she wasn't the guilty party, you could bet she had a scheme in the works and was full of lies and treachery.
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I've listened to about five tracks of the new Gypsy CD. I'm enjoying them as I always enjoy almost any Gypsy CD, but, as all of the subsequent CDs, it doesn't come anywhere close to the original - sound-wise especially. The original is simply one of the greatest-sounding cast albums ever, and I don't mean that unconscionable remix by Mr. Thomas Z. Shepard, where he "fixed" a trumpet note in the overture, and inserted a different take on one line of Merman's in I can't remember what song. The sheer chutzpah of this was beyond belief, especially if some record producer had tried to do it to one of HIS albums. I'm sure if Mr. Styne and Mr. Sondheim had thought there was a cracked trumpet note they would have fixed it - they had the other take. One person's cracked trumpet note is another person's exciting trumpet note, and how dare him second-guess Mr. Styne and Mr. Sondheim, not to mention the album's producer, Mr. Lieberson, about a Merman take? Horrible, and I ONLY play the original CD issue.
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Goodness - all this TV news talk about some berg called Middletown, Ohio!
der Brucer
It is where the mystery plane from Alaska landed.
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Page Three Wicked Witch of the West Dance!!!
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So, yes, I'll be starting on GHOST WHISPERER this afternoon for review. There are 18 episodes in this strike-shortened season, but it'll still likely take me most of the weekend to get through them all. Season Three was an enjoyable season, so I'm looking forward to revisiting these episodes.
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And have you been to the grocery store already this morning?
Not yet, I just spoke to my doctor, gave him all the info, and I need to refill the metformin this morning before I go shopping.
I'm also waiting to hear from Charlotte before she flies back to Ann Arbor today.
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REMINDER:
MINI-HHW GATHERING SUNDAY AUGUST 31 at 5:30 P.M. AT OUR PLACE
in honor of Ginny & Richard being in town
PLEASE PLEASE RSVP to my aol address DYLAN43RD BY NOON SATURDAY SO THAT WE KNOW HOW MUCH FOOD TO HAVE.
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Goodness - all this TV news talk about some berg called Middletown, Ohio!
One more embarassment for my hometown to live down! ;)
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So, I'm not seeing the doctor until tuesday at 2:30, and the appointment's all set. So, after I hear from Charlotte, I will go to refill my prescription, and perhaps stop at the market.
My goal right now is to clean out the refigerator.
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REMINDER:
MINI-HHW GATHERING SUNDAY AUGUST 31 at 5:30 P.M. AT OUR PLACE
in honor of Ginny & Richard being in town
PLEASE PLEASE RSVP to my aol address DYLAN43RD BY NOON SATURDAY SO THAT WE KNOW HOW MUCH FOOD TO HAVE.
I'm gonna be there if it kills me!
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Heading down now to get cleaned up to go out on my usual Friday errands.
WBBL.
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DR Elmore - we'll call you after we confer with DR Jose. We're off right now to meet him at MOMA.
Tell Charolotte I said, "Go Blue!"
Bye for now!
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I'm gonna be there if it kills me!
Well, just make sure that if anything does happen to you, that you request to be taken back to St. Luke's... And to call ahead to see if Dr. Green Eyes in on-call at that time too. Otherwise, I'll have no real reason to visit you again.
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DR Elmore - we'll call you after we confer with DR Jose. We're off right now to meet him at MOMA.
Tell Charolotte I said, "Go Blue!"
Bye for now!
See you there in a few, DR Ginny! :)
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And...
Laters...
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Good morning! I am very happy to see DR Elmore sounding fairly peppy this morning. And Jose....gosh, you are such a good friend! May the gods and godesses bless you.
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I'm gonna be there if it kills me!
The company sure won't - but then there is the dessert :(
der Brucer
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BK, I don't know how you can say that the internet has reduced the sense of "discovery" when it comes to CDs....for goodness sake, I have discovered so many different singers and groups while just looking up one CD on Amazon or CDBaby.com...they always have links to other singers/groups, which leads to even more links to even more singers/groups...there are times I have spent hours just perusing those two websites and adding to my wish lists.
And the best part is that on the internet you can usually listen to snippets of the CD so as to know if it would appeal to you (although many retail stores allow this, also).
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I have a 4 and 1/2 day weekend and I plan to get plenty of movie watching done. Maybe I will dig back into my Perry Mason sets as well. I just love that show.
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So, I'm not seeing the doctor until tuesday at 2:30, and the appointment's all set. So, after I hear from Charlotte, I will go to refill my prescription, and perhaps stop at the market.
My goal right now is to clean out the refigerator.
Well, since you posted:
I got up and had about half a cup of cranberry juice and a slice of whole wheat bread; there's nothing in the refrigerator beyond that, a gallon of water, and 3 eggs at the moment.
the clean out should be a brief task!
der Brucer
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DR Jennier,
I was also pleased with last nights BB 10 results!
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I must go now. May everyone's Chiku be alright today!
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BK, I don't know how you can say that the internet has reduced the sense of "discovery" when it comes to CDs....for goodness sake, I have discovered so many different singers and groups while just looking up one CD on Amazon or CDBaby.com...they always have links to other singers/groups, which leads to even more links to even more singers/groups...there are times I have spent hours just perusing those two websites and adding to my wish lists.
And the best part is that on the internet you can usually listen to snippets of the CD so as to know if it would appeal to you (although many retail stores allow this, also).
And let's not forget the influence of internet sites like this one!
der Brucer
Without Edisaurus I would never had bought this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WXR64GJTL._SS500_.jpg)
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Right now, I'm listening to Charlotte Greenwood and Jack Haley singing, "Is That Good?" from "Moon Over Miami," the theme from "Adventures in Paradise" and the them to "My Family and Other Animals." Joannie Sommers is next.
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Good vibes still to all. One can never have too many!
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If Mc Cain's goal was to not anger his perceived base and at the same time optimize his chance at reaching folks more in the center, Sarah Palin was the best choice. (Her political actions have been much more moderate than her ideological pronouncements.)
der Brucer
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The company sure won't - but then there is the dessert :(
der Brucer
I'm going to turn into Carol Chaning and carry my own food to all dinner parties - NOT!
BTW, DR DerBrucer, thanks for lightening my avatar yesterday. I was too preoccupied to mention it then and I apologize.
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I have never had a discovery on amazon like I've had in record stores. Yes, maybe there's been a link to an interesting-sounding CD, but I rarely look at those because it's not in front of me in my hands.
However, the info gleaned on this here site has led me to some happy purchases.
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Well, since you posted:
I got up and had about half a cup of cranberry juice and a slice of whole wheat bread; there's nothing in the refrigerator beyond that, a gallon of water, and 3 eggs at the moment.
the clean out should be a brief task!
der Brucer
It's so true!
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I just wasn't ready to jog by eight, so I'm going to do my two errands at nine, then shall jog when I return from them.
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If Mc Cain's goal was to not anger his perceived base and at the same time optimize his chance at reaching folks more in the center, Sarah Palin was the best choice. (Her political actions have been much more moderate than her ideological pronouncements.)
der Brucer
I think she was a very smart choice. It will be an interesting ride to November.
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If Mc Cain's goal was to not anger his perceived base and at the same time optimize his chance at reaching folks more in the center, Sarah Palin was the best choice. (Her political actions have been much more moderate than her ideological pronouncements.)
der Brucer
I think it was a brilliant choice
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Good morning, everyone. And a SPECIAL good morning to Larry. I, too, am glad he's home. I must say that, although I've only been to the hospital a couple times, my experiences were no where near as interesting!
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Media Check:
DVD: BLONDE ICE
VCR: SCANDAL (the Christine Keeler story)
CD: SAMMY DAVIS, JR: GREATEST SONGS, THE WHAM OF SAM
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The bed-room TV gave up the ghost - clear sound but a picture collapsed into a shimmering line across the center of the screen. I bought it a Wal-Mart for under $200 over five years ago (after we moved and before the moving trailer arrived.) Try to find a replacement for that price today!) The bedroom TV is for my News show addiction in the evening and for Woody's DVD viewing when I am monopolizing the living room TV in the evenings. The shopping experience was one of the infernal "this is nice but for another $X I can have" episodes that can lead to a very expensive purpose. I had to keep reminding myself "You are just replacing an old TV, not upgrading the home entertainment center!" I settled on a 26" Sanyo 720 LCD HDTV for under $400. Much to my pleasant surprise, I just plugged it in, hooked up the dangling co-ax from the old system, and after an automatic, lengthy, channel search, up popped FoxNews! Woody pop-in a DVD in the old DVD player, an got his movie! (The DVD player is actually connected (by coax) between the COMCAST receiver and the TV.) I can worry about upgrading my cable service for this set until later. Meanwhile I think I'll move the up-convert DVD player from the living room to the bedroom and hook it up with HDMI. And, I'm guessing that for DVD viewing on a 26" set, the lack of 1080p will not be missed.
der Brucer
Anything to keep the chef happy!
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Given how many people are suffering as a result of high gasoline prices, high food prices, and high heating bills, I'd like to see the conventions cut back. In fact, I'd like to see this in many areas. I'm really tired of all this over-the-top business. I don't expect it to solve all the nation's problems--far from it--and it would hurt some perhaps, but IMO a back-to-basics approach is in order.
Just my 2 cents.
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Kerry, how are you doing?
I'll be back, so pls let me know.
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BTW, DR DerBrucer, thanks for lightening my avatar yesterday. I was too preoccupied to mention it then and I apologize.
Your Welcome - my pleasure
der Brucer
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Feel better VIBES to DR Elmore.
Recovering from 4+ hours of callbacks for Rent - The School Edition. It was the longest and most tedious callback I've ever played for, mostly in part because it was VERY hot and stuffy in the room we were in. Then we went and cast the show, which went ok.
I haven't had a chance for a media check, I'll check in later with that.
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"Rent: The School Edition" fascinates me. After taking out stuff I wouldn't want my school-aged child to see, it must be a short show.
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Good morning, all! I'm a bit head-achey at the moment: When I was released from hospital last night, all I had to eat were a couple of boiled eggs, and I awoke three times during the night:
1. 1:59 am, bathroom break
2. 3:30 am, stomach cramps
3. 5:30 am, hungry and head-achey so I got up and had about half a cup of cranberry juice and a slice of whole wheat bread; there's nothing in the refrigerator beyond that, a gallon of water, and 3 eggs at the moment.
I'm about to step over to Cafe 82 for breakfast and then I'll call my doctor to see if I can get in today and see if he wants to rethink some prescriptions. Since I would swear that he never told me I was diabetic, although he must have said something like "metformin to control your blood sugar" and I missed the subtext, I'm looking into diabetes testing kits; my cousin Sue demanded to know why he hadn't given me one or suggested I purchase one.
I completely understand your cousin Sue's reaction. Aside from the kit, how about more than a casual mention of the need to control your blood sugar. A full explanation was due, possibly a referral to a nutritionist who specializes in diabetes. He should have a least set you up on a regular schedule to check your sugar levels.
Again, thank goodness for friends who diagnosed your problem!!!
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DR elmore & all Dear Readers. Please look up all new prescriptions on the internet, read what they are for as well as the possible side effects plus which drugs & conditions the medication should not be used with.. Also read the info page that comes with them.
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Back from shipping packages (all caught up again) and a couple of other errands and will now get ready to jog.
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I decided to go ahead this morning and finish the two PERRY MASON episodes I had yet to watch. The first took Perry into the Sierra Mountains and a trial where Hamilton Burger was not the prosecuting attorney.
I always wondered if his friends called him "Ham Burger".
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And let's not forget the influence of internet sites like this one!
der Brucer
Without Edisaurus I would never had bought this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WXR64GJTL._SS500_.jpg)
Glad you liked it!
And always a cheerful sight to see dear VDP's visage!
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DVD: WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
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I have never had a discovery on amazon like I've had in record stores. Yes, maybe there's been a link to an interesting-sounding CD, but I rarely look at those because it's not in front of me in my hands.
That's because you have a great store like Amoeba!
I'm happy to have recently found a small indie store which has been great to explore *and put a dent in my wallet!). I was happy to see that although most of their stock is new, somewhat obscure but trendy stuff, the new Randy Newman CD is #3 in sales there!
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"Rent: The School Edition" fascinates me. After taking out stuff I wouldn't want my school-aged child to see, it must be a short show.
Some lyrics are changed, some sections of songs are cut and keys have been adjusted. However, some of the words of La Vie Boheme are still intact, while whole lines have been cut. Makes me wonder who is in charge of these changes and who's to say what is appropriate for high school age kids. However, the kids are excited by the show.
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DR Tomovoz, glad you had a nice visit with your birth family, including the young uncle.
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I think the game warden is coming today, so I have been busy
burying evi planting shrubs. Yes, that's it -- planting shrubs.
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Good Afternoon!
Greetings from MoMA!
:)
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"Rent: The School Edition" fascinates me. After taking out stuff I wouldn't want my school-aged child to see, it must be a short show.
I was thinking the same thing!
I'm back from pharmaceuticals, and I amused myself on the way home by calling and making nasty comments to DR MBarnum. When I receive his email, I shall go to market. I have a couple of diabetes sheets to type out as well, and I have to learn how to use this new Blood Glucose Meter.
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DR Ginny and her ever-login' DH Richard have been looking at some Art, and now we are about to take small break in Cafe 2.
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I have a question for Cillaliz:
Why isn't this first degree murder?
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/08/29/20080829az-newborn29-on.html
Edited: Never mind. I reread the story and understand it was to get him to enter a plea bargain.
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Am I the only one that did not already know this Coat of Oz (http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozcoat.asp) story?
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I tried to be the first with the SARAH PALIN AND TALL reference, but some political blogger got there first :)
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DR Singdaw - Were you still thinking of coming in tomorrow for breakfast?
-Some other DRs would like to know. ;)
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Jose - will you be able to come to dinner on Sunday?
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I was indeed, DR JoseSPiano! Just name the place and time, and I will be there! :)
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And they'd better be serving strawberry ice cream! ;)
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How often do you have to charge that iPhone, anyway? You seem to be getting good use out of it!!
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Very sad story, DearReaderLaura DR. :(
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My mother taught me to always send in an RSVP.
FJL, thank you so much for the gracious invitation to dinner. I must send my regrets, however, as I will be in Arizona that day.
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Am I the only one that did not already know this Coat of Oz (http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozcoat.asp) story?
I wasn't aware of this interesting story.
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Back from a REALLY difficult long jog - but I made it.
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Did Joel Grey have his Oscar with him?
What does the German bigamist have around the house:
Frau, Frau.
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Not sure about the planets today, DR JEANNE, but the new moon in Virgo tomorrow tells us to find similarities and forget differences.
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My sister made a video for my parents' anniversary party. It is an MPEG-4. I downloaded it and burned it and it works on my TV....not hers.
I converted it to AVI, works on my TV....no one else's.
Any suggestions for FREE programs or what FORMAT to burn it to that will enable EVERYONE to play it?
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Laura - Darn your jet-setting schedule.
Will Sandra be able to make it, though?
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:)
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Morning all. I'm up and ready to go to the airport. My flight doesn't leave untill early afternoon but I'm a morning person so I'm up and ready (as I just said). I probably won't post again until I get to Fort Atkinson.
I don't have an iPod and I gave up Walkmans years ago so I'm not listenin' to nuttin' I'll read the New York Times at the airport and I'll continue reading my book, Thirty Days Hath November by the late, great Walter Kerr.
That's it from my end of the pond.
~~~Travel Vibes for DR Ben!!~~~
;D
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Vibes for DR ELMORE and for DR TOMovOZ
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Laura - Darn your jet-setting schedule.
Will Sandra be able to make it, though?
;D
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I will need to let her RSVP for herself.
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DR FJL - I also will be unable to make the cotillion, but I look forward to the rotogravures of the event.
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No doubt everyone will be dressed in their finery.
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DR Singdaw - Why don't we all meet in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater (David Letterman's "home", 53rd and Broadway) at 10:00 and we shall proceed from there. -Most likely Popover or Sarabeth's on the UWS.
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Further thoughts about the new Gypsy CD, sound preferences aside:
I hate some of these tempos - so weird. This particular conductor is my least favorite of all the B'way conductors working. While I like Patti very much, she's really working overtime here - and not always for the better. Laura is very good, as is Boyd. I'm up to Little Lamb.
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Man, these tempos are TERRIBLE - speeding up and slowing down and stopping in If Mamma Was Married. If these decisions and the decisions on the choral inflections in the boys' stuff in the vaudeville numbers are the musical director's, well, it's not to my liking. And everyone is so busy trying to not do anything anyone's ever done before that it's completely distracting. The Dainty June's dialogue within the cow song and B'way transition is so forced and unfunny - hard to not get the tinsel and glamour speech right. And Laura's bored "moo moo moo moo's" are just odd. The character is TRYING to be good, not trying to be bored. Now the Tulsa is over-singing All I Need Is The Girl - I wonder what the word "debonair" means - weird pronunciations, too - is this guy American. I started out enjoying this CD, but my enjoyment is withering with each new track.
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I have a scenario for all DR's to chime in on...
If you were working on a show (in any capacity), say a show by one of bk's close personal friends, and you are witness to the director hacking the script to bits - you know leaving out dialogue/lyrics that tell the story, because they feel the "show is too long". Would you contact the licensee regarding these cuts? Or would you just keep your mouth shut?
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This is the worst All I Need Is The Girl I've ever heard - now the guy's screaming - literally. Embarrassingly bad - I shall have to go put on the original cast album and listen Paul Wallace, who understands what the song was about. Has Arthur Laurents lost his sanity?
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I have a scenario for all DR's to chime in on...
If you were working on a show (in any capacity), say a show by one of bk's close personal friends, and you are witness to the director hacking the script to bits - you know leaving out dialogue/lyrics that tell the story, because they feel the "show is too long". Would you contact the licensee regarding these cuts? Or would you just keep your mouth shut?
They are doing something completely illegal. Would the director know it was you doing the reporting? Because it should be reported it.
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I do like having some of the dance music and instrumental stuff that's new to CD.
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My next project is to see how this blood glucose meter works.
I can think of three "frou-frous" in world literature:
1. Title character in a French play of the 1860's
2. Gabrielle's couplets in LA VIE PARISIENNE about how the dress of the sophisticated Parisienne goes "frou frou" when she walks
3. One of Danilo's grisettes at Maxim's in THE MERRY WIDOW.
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MERMAN! Me want MERMAN. Or Lansbury. And that's IT.
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Welcome thirteen GUESTS.
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Together Wherever We Go - no vamp (one of the great vamps ever), rubato opening, and there are all sorts of weird re-orchestrations in almost every song.
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I will say that Together Wherever We Go is one of the all-time great theater songs.
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Not sure about the planets today, DR JEANNE, but the new moon in Virgo tomorrow tells us to find similarities and forget differences.
Good advice any day, I'd say. thanks, Jack.
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DR elmore, if you look in the local paper you might find a support group, or free clinic where people help you adjust to diabetes. If not I'm sure there are on-line groups who will be willing to answer any questions & offer tips.
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Gimmick was good and sounded very good, too.
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At long last page six.
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Bruce, no sign of SCENT OF MYSTERY. Has it been shipped?
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I have a question for Cillaliz:
Why isn't this first degree murder?
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/08/29/20080829az-newborn29-on.html
Edited: Never mind. I reread the story and understand it was to get him to enter a plea bargain.
Sometimes the shaken baby cases are hard to prove, sometimes not so much. It's really hard to say premeditated murder. He wanted the baby to be quiet, hard to say he wanted the baby to die. But yes, the charges appear to have been reduced for the plea
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Addendum to today's Media Check:
DVD: EYES WITHOUT A FACE
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Bruce, no sign of SCENT OF MYSTERY. Has it been shipped?
Yours will ship as soon as the next batch of Murder At The Grove hardcovers arrive in a few days.
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Patti is rather fierce on Rose's Turn - I liked it, but still like Merman and Lansbury better. And, while I know that playoff music after the little post Rose's Turn scene is apparently included on a bonus disc at Barnes and Noble, the ending of this cast album proper is Rose's Turn - not my favorite way to end a Gypsy album especially when two seconds later we start in on the cut songs. The two mother's day cut songs are bad - easy to see why they went. Mamma's Talkin' Soft is a great song, and it was nice to hear how it was supposed to work (I recorded JUST the song, not its counterpoint to Small World).
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Eyes Without A Face - I may have to watch that again this weekend.
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I do prefer the orchestration and vocals on Lost In Boston III, but that's just because I'm used to them after all these years. Also, the two songs really don't work in counterpoint - the counterpoint section has completely different music for Mamma's Talkin' Soft. Interesting.
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Thanks, Cillaliz. It seems a shame that the child's life seems to be less important than an older person's life.
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Like Bernadette's Gypsy CD, not one I'll be playing a lot. In fact, the only one of all the ones I have that I play repeatedly is the OBC, original CD pressing, not the redo.
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He's called me a couple of times about work. That's all I'll say.
And I believe it's Michals.
You are absolutely correct!
Health Vibes to you
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OH!
So is anyone going to see "Mamma Mia! - The Sing-Along Edition" this weekend?
;)
Here in Olympia, a theater is showing the "Sing-Along Edition," starting tonight and playing every night through next Thursday! I'd like to go sometime this weekend...maybe Monday, since it's Labor Day. :)
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DVD: WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
The tv series with Steve McQueen or the so called movie remake with someone whose name I don't remember and won't bother to look up
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MERMAN! Me want MERMAN. And that's IT.
Here you go.
(http://images.elfwood.com/art/b/e/berthelot/merman.jpeg)
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Why don't we all meet in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater (David Letterman's "home", 53rd and Broadway) at 10:00 and we shall proceed from there. -Most likely Popover or Sarabeth's on the UWS.
OK! :D
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And speaking of hunks and baritones... Here's a "video" of Nathan Gunn and Kristin Chenoweth performing "It Feels Like Home" (from Nathan Gunn's last album). -Alas, it's not my favorite rendition, nor arrangement of Bucchino's song - Nancy Lamott! - but at least Mr. Gunn is nice to look at.
It Feels Like Home with Kristin and Nathan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsHa4J9B1E)
I didn't really like this version :-\ (although, I did enjoy looking at Nathan ;)). I haven't listened to Nancy's version in long time, but I love Daisy Prince's version on the CD, Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino (http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Songs-Bucchino-Various-Artists/dp/B00004SBV2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1220039772&sr=1-2). I even got the songbook (http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Songs-John-Bucchino/dp/0634020005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1220039772&sr=1-1), and have performed the songs, "A Powerful Man" and "That Smile" (as a solo).
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I have EYES WITHOUT A FACE on dvd, but haven't yet watched it. I am just not sure if it is something I would enjoy or not.
Of course I guess I won't know until I watch it.
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Good Afternoon!
About a half hour ago, I left DR Ginny in the MoMA gift shop, while her DH Richard chose to remain in the sculpture garden reading (and napping). It was another great afternoon at MoMA - and the line for the "Free Friday Nights" was already around the block by the time I left. I hope Ginny and Richard made it out before that lobby became really(!) crowded.
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The tv series with Steve McQueen or the so called movie remake with someone whose name I don't remember and won't bother to look up
The TV series :)
From NetFlix:
"Hitting the airwaves in 1958, "Wanted Dead or Alive" launched star Steve McQueen's career into the stratosphere. McQueen plays laconic bounty hunter Josh Randall, who packs a sawed-off Winchester shotgun as he tracks his criminal quarry throughout the Old West. Among the wagonload of bonus material are the six-part documentary Life in the Fast Lane, three featurettes, a McQueen biography and photo galleries."
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I actually prefer Paul Wallace's rendition of "All I Need Is the Girl" on the GYPSY soundtrack. On the cast recording, his voice is a bit raspy from the exhaustion of opening a show. At any rate, his IS the definitive rendition of this great song. No other I have ever heard or seen is its equal.
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DR MBarnum I believe I owe you a thank you for alerting me to this DVD.
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bk - The current production of Gypsy and it's resulting OCR is different from the ones that have come before it. Even Arthur Laurents admits to that. I know that you - and many other people - love and "trust" Merman's original, but I think you also just have to sit back and listen to the new recording as a whole - and not comment from track to track. It all works as a whole, not song by song, track by track.
Yes, you still may not like it, but at least give it a fair listen.
*And as far as the "weird tempos" are concerned, I have it on good authority that those were/are not the responsibility/"fault" of the conductor. -And I believe I have made mention of some of the "interesting" tweaks that were instituted for the current revival - including changes from the original Encores!' production from last summer.
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Here in Olympia, a theater is showing the "Sing-Along Edition," starting tonight and playing every night through next Thursday! I'd like to go sometime this weekend...maybe Monday, since it's Labor Day. :)
It's playing here as well, but I just received a HUGE shipment of discs that are going to keep me swamped for the rest of this month and the first half of September. Good night do I have a stack now!
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One of DR Sandra's coworkers enjoyed the movie of "Mama Mia," so she took "Wing Sings ABBA" for him to enjoy as well.
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One of DR Sandra's coworkers enjoyed the movie of "Mama Mia," so she took "Wing Sings ABBA" for him to enjoy as well.
On purpose??
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Here you go.
(http://images.elfwood.com/art/b/e/berthelot/merman.jpeg)
You've been waiting for just such a chance, right?
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Included in today's mail for review: CRIMINAL MINDS - Season 3, MEDIUM - Season 4, CSI: MIAMI - Season 6 (not requested; I requested CSI: NY which I hope will eventually show up), KILL BILL Vol.1 & 2 on Blu-ray, and the 3-movie collection of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN on Blu-ray.
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You are absolutely correct!
Health Vibes to you
I hear he's very good as DeBecque, but I think the picnic is missing a few sandwiches.
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At any rate, while I cooked and ate lunch, I watched the rest of that RITA documentary from TCM On Demand. Such a sad end, and all those marriages. Too bad she could never quite find what she was looking for.
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I hear he's very good as DeBecque, but I think the picnic is missing a few sandwiches.
Still, I wouldn't mind having a snack at that picnic!
;D
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I have EYES WITHOUT A FACE on dvd, but haven't yet watched it. I am just not sure if it is something I would enjoy or not.
Of course I guess I won't know until I watch it.
I think it would fwighten li'l Mikey!
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I watched three episodes of GHOST WHISPERER this afternoon. The one with the returning Iraq soldier I recall as being one of my favorites of the entire season, and I was bawling by the end of it (not an unusual occurrence when watching this show.)
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Am I the only one that did not already know this Coat of Oz (http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozcoat.asp) story?
I'd never heard of this...it's pretty cool!
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Next I watched the bonus features on the first disc. There was an overiew of the season that was about 12 minutes long. There was a 2-minute animated comic stript with Melinda and Jim. And there were 8 webisodes with a story of someone realizing he's dead.
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Since PSYCH and MONK aren't on tonight (more U.S. Open tennis), I should easily get four or five more episodes watched tonight.
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...and the line for the "Free Friday Nights" was already around the block by the time I left. I hope Ginny and Richard made it out before that lobby became really(!) crowded.
Just barely, DR Jose! I was in the gift shop only a short time (about $30 20 minutes), and by the time I went back out in the lobby it was mobbed. Instead of trying to get past security, I just phoned DH Richard and he met me at the 54th St. entrance. The end of the line was on 54th by then.
We thoroughly enjoyed our Day at the Museum with Jose. He is a very informed tour guide who seems to derive a lot of pleasure in sharing the City with others.
We're now home relaxing before meeting him and DR Elmore at Artie's for dinner and then seeing South Pacific.
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Given how many people are suffering as a result of high gasoline prices, high food prices, and high heating bills, I'd like to see the conventions cut back. In fact, I'd like to see this in many areas. I'm really tired of all this over-the-top business. I don't expect it to solve all the nation's problems--far from it--and it would hurt some perhaps, but IMO a back-to-basics approach is in order.
Just my 2 cents.
I have to say that moving the final night of the Convention to a football stadium seemed liked a huge and gratuitous waste of money. Yes, I get the "symbolism" of it all - opening the event to "everyone" - but renting a stadium ain't cheap, and those weren't 500 volunteers setting up that stage and all those chairs on the field. -I wonder if any financial figures are available, will be released.
*I think I've mentioned this before, but... The Obama "team" has been out here on the streets of NYC for the past couple of weeks in full force. "Excuse me, do you have a moment or two for Change?"
One woman responded something along the line of:
If you truly believe that Obama will be the next President of the United States, why do you still need my money or my friends' money? Wouldn't it be better to tell people to make sure that they go to the polls in November - and to make sure that they get their friends to do the same? I do support the Democratic party, but I am not about to give money to an organization in order to pay for TV commercials, travel expenses or hotel rooms.
-The "poor" girl was a bit stunned. And speechless. ;)
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Am I the only one that did not already know this Coat of Oz (http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozcoat.asp) story?
Sheesh! You obviously need to spend more time at work surfing the internet.
;D
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DR singdaw - We'll see you tomorrow morning at 10:00 on the Broadway!
*And since the ice cream truck sets up shop at 11:00, well... :)
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Jose - will you be able to come to dinner on Sunday?
I'm actually not sure right now if I can. At first I thought I could, but it now looks like my parents will be coming into town Sunday for the day - instead of Wednesday. -I just got the call.. "So, can you get us tickets for a show on Sunday?" -Um, no. In any case... Can I give you a "maybe"? If they do come in that day, they will most likely leave after the matinee, so I should be able to make it for dinner.
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I would like some ice cream.
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How often do you have to charge that iPhone, anyway? You seem to be getting good use out of it!!
Well, here are the specs directly from Apple:
Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
Talk time:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 10 hours on 2G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 7 hours
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
This is my first "data phone", and I was a little taken aback by the relatively short battery time - at least in comparison to my previous cell phones. However, I did some research on the talk times and internet times on other data phones - Blackberrys, Treos, etc. - and found the battery life to be comparable. And I do seem to be experiencing the battery times that Apple has listed.
*I also realized that I should not normally be talking on my phone for four hours each day, nor using it five hours in a row for internet usage. I don't ever want to become one of "those people". No "Crack-Berry Syndrome" for me. -Although, in the few short weeks I've had my iPhone, I have had a few "lapses", and, of course, my iPhone came in handy when I was in the ER yesterday with DR elmore.
**I also carry the charging adapter with me too, just in case.
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I would like some ice cream.
Cup or cone?
How many scoops? Sugar cone or waffle cone?
What flavor?
Any toppings?
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I'm going to write for a bit and then head back down to continue with GHOST WHISPERER for the evening.
WBBL.
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I have a scenario for all DR's to chime in on...
If you were working on a show (in any capacity), say a show by one of bk's close personal friends, and you are witness to the director hacking the script to bits - you know leaving out dialogue/lyrics that tell the story, because they feel the "show is too long". Would you contact the licensee regarding these cuts? Or would you just keep your mouth shut?
Or you could tell someone who happens to have friends at the licensing company that they may want to "investigate" a production currently in rehearsal.
-Does anyone remember that production of Company in Richmond, VA, that made "Bobby", "Bobbi"? -I thought not. :-X (And it was running at the same time as the Sondheim Celebration's production at the Kennedy Center just 100 miles away in DC!?!?!?)
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Cup or cone?
How many scoops? Sugar cone or waffle cone?
What flavor?
Any toppings?
Yes.
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I'm up even earlier than I wanted to be after some mighty strange dream in which Clay Aiken (!) kept leaving messages telling me he was leaving tickets for me for a play he was in.
He's going back into Spamalot in September (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120387.html)...maybe that was it!
;)
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Just barely, DR Jose! I was in the gift shop only a short time (about $30 20 minutes), and by the time I went back out in the lobby it was mobbed. Instead of trying to get past security, I just phoned DH Richard and he met me at the 54th St. entrance. The end of the line was on 54th by then.
We thoroughly enjoyed our Day at the Museum with Jose. He is a very informed tour guide who seems to derive a lot of pleasure in sharing the City with others.
We're now home relaxing before meeting him and DR Elmore at Artie's for dinner and then seeing South Pacific.
Glad to hear that you made it out of there safe and sound. -As I was heading to the subway, I just kept walking past the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!
And, you're Very Welcome.
And Thank You! :)
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bk - The current production of Gypsy and it's resulting OCR is different from the ones that have come before it. Even Arthur Laurents admits to that. I know that you - and many other people - love and "trust" Merman's original, but I think you also just have to sit back and listen to the new recording as a whole - and not comment from track to track. It all works as a whole, not song by song, track by track.
Yes, you still may not like it, but at least give it a fair listen.
*And as far as the "weird tempos" are concerned, I have it on good authority that those were/are not the responsibility/"fault" of the conductor. -And I believe I have made mention of some of the "interesting" tweaks that were instituted for the current revival - including changes from the original Encores!' production from last summer.
I hear you, but I did listen as a whole, straight through, merely commenting as I was listening, athough mostly after a track had finished. I thought Tony Yazbeck's All I Need Is The Girl, one of the worst things I've ever heard - just my opinion, though. If the tempo decisions are not the conductor's, I'm sort of at a loss as to whose they are. I don't think eighty year old Mr. Laurents is making with the tempos, and certainly Mr. Sondheim wasn't (this I know). I wanted to love it, and I certainly enjoyed some of it. It's my favorite score and show ever. I'm sure I would enjoy it on stage, but as a listening experience I found it really odd a lot of the time. Not talking about the techinical production of the CD, but the acting choices and odd approaches that, for me, just didn't work, at least not as a listening experience. All I Need Is The Girl is a very specific song done by someone who is trying to create a very specific thing for himself - and debonair is the key to the song, it's what it's about lyrically and musically. This version is like some weird mutant version. But I haven't liked any of the Tulsas I've seen or heard - I don't know why that part is so hard to get right. Mr. Wallace got it perfectly - the dreamer, the debonair song and dance man, all of it.
I can accept what Patti is doing and responded to certain things more than others. Laura is a wonderful singer, but the interpretation of the "moo moo moo moo" is so wrong to my ear - again maybe it works on stage, but the character that I know as Louise wants to do her best - she just isn't very good. The bored moo's just rubbed me wrong, I guess. I thought the stripper number was successful, and the best-sounding thing on the CD. And I was not thrilled with the tweaks, both arrangement-wise and orchestration-wise - if there's one show that doesn't need anybody's help, it's Gypsy.
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I cannot say enough about Eyes Without A Face - it's a flat-out masterpiece and a desert island DVD for me.
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My thoughts on this new Gypsy CD are, of course, mine own - I know a lot of people already consider this definitive, but now that I've heard it, it's certainly not definitive for me. I would like to see the production and probably will attempt to when I'm in at the end of November.
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At the mail place, I had a nice surprise - the Film Score Monthly box set called The MGM Soundtrack Treasury, which presents twenty film scores on twelve CDs - with some of my holy grails included - all mostly stuff that was on United Artists LPs - I'm listening to the first score - The Apartment, and it sounds just great, much better than the LP, which never sounded very good. Also included in this incredible set is The Fortune Cookie, A Rage To Live, How To Murder Your Wife, Duel At Diablo, Billion Dollar Brain, Goodbye Again, Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Hornet's Nest, The Fugitive Kind, The Happy Ending, Shake Hands With The Devil, The Charge Of The Light Brigade, The Honey Pot, The Hills Run Red, The 7th Dawn, The Glory Guys, Hannibal Brooks, and The Final Option. Good thing it's a long weekend.
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I think elmore liked the Gypsy CD, so there's a different opinion.
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Well, time to get ready to head out to meet up again with the "gang".
Laters...
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Well, time to get ready to head out to meet up again with the "gang".
Laters...
See ya soon!
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The MGM Soundtrack Treasury
I didn't buy it when DR Ron Pulliam said to, and of course now it is sold out. Unless you wanna bid $300.00 on ebay.
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I think elmore liked the Gypsy CD, so there's a different opinion.
I enjoyed it; I don't think any cast revival album except the 1960 FINIAN'S RAINBOW and THE 1970s KING & I surpasses the original cast recording. Lupone is better on the CD, and the tony Awards than I thought she was at City Center. And I liked Laura Benanti a lot.
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I just heard that Palin is pro-life and anti-gay marriage.
Then I just have to vote for Obama and Biden!
DR MBarnum, are you still voting for Wilkie?
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I didn't buy it when DR Ron Pulliam said to, and of course now it is sold out. Unless you wanna bid $300.00 on ebay.
Don't worry - in a month or so, after no one can sell it for that price (which no one has), you'll be able to find it for not much more than it originally cost. We'll see if I end up with an extra, which I may.
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I get Dear Abby's column by e-mail everyday. One of today's questions was this:
DEAR ABBY: I was taught that a performance receives a standing ovation when it is truly spectacular. When you are especially moved or inspired, you show your appreciation by standing. Abby, every show I go to now receives a standing ovation. I don't always join in. I feel it should mean something, not just be expected at the end of every show.
I'm tired of getting the "evil eye" from people standing around me because I didn't feel an ovation was warranted. Don't get me wrong, I'm still generous with my applause and take into consideration all the aspects of the show. (For example, I wouldn't expect a play featuring 5-year-olds to be held to the same standard as a Broadway show.)
Am I wrong? Should I stand with everyone else, and am I confused about the meaning of standing ovations? Or should I remain seated? -- RELUCTANT IN MADISON, WIS.
DEAR RELUCTANT: If you don't feel a performance merits a standing ovation, stay in your seat. Do not let the reaction of other audience members intimidate you. It's possible they may be related to someone in the show, or even be the producers.
Now, years ago (when the original Dear Abby was writing the column), I remember reading this same question and Abby's answer then was to stand with everyone, but don't clap.
Times change. ;)
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I never stand if I feel a show doesn't deserve it, and I feel VERY few shows do.
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I have actually sat back down when the star came out to bow when his performance was awful.
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Have now finished The Fortune Cookie, a great Previn score, and am now in Neal Hefti heaven listening to How To Murder Your Wife, which will be followed by Duel At Diablo. It really won't take all that long to get through the set, as most of the scores in this box are the original album presentations, which only run thirty minutes or so. There's at least one expanded score, The Happy Ending, which takes up two CDs in this set.
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I wonder if I'll be standing tonight at Vanities?
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Apparently, when the show went into previews, the program stated no intermission, even though there was an intermission. As of two nights ago, the intermission was gone.
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I get Dear Abby's column by e-mail everyday. One of today's questions was this:Now, years ago (when the original Dear Abby was writing the column), I remember reading this same question and Abby's answer then was to stand with everyone, but don't clap.
Times change. ;)
And the original Dear Abby is Dead.
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I just heard that Palin is pro-life and anti-gay marriage.
Then I just have to vote for Obama and Biden!
DR MBarnum, are you still voting for Wilkie?
I think he's still waiting for an autographed picture and a chance to interview Wilkie.
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Media Check: in my CD player right now, here at work: our very JMK's very own musical Going to Pot: The Reefer Madness Musical[/u] (http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=3477)! ;D
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Oh, and Greetings from Artie's!
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Gimmick was good and sounded very good, too.
My favorite song---especially Miss Mazeppa!
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There will never be a Mazeppa to equal Miss Faith Dane - thank heaven her performance will live on forever in the film version.
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About a half hour ago, I left DR Ginny in the MoMA gift shop, while her DH Richard chose to remain in the sculpture garden reading (and napping).
Was he lying down and taking up 10 seats? ;D
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I just heard that Palin is pro-life and anti-gay marriage.
In addition, she is anti-polar bear, so she will never get my vote!
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There will never be a Mazeppa to equal Miss Faith Dane - thank heaven her performance will live on forever in the film version.
She is my favorite thing in the whole movie. GYPSY was on very late the other night and I stayed up just to hear her.
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Media Check: in my CD player right now, here at work: our very JMK's very own musical Going to Pot: The Reefer Madness Musical[/u] (http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=3477)! ;D
How did I miss that?
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Would you contact the licensee regarding these cuts?
In a heartbeat!
der Brucer
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How did I miss that?
I don't know! I'm enjoying it very much! ;D
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She is my favorite thing in the whole movie. GYPSY was on very late the other night and I stayed up just to hear her.
Sompin' wrong with STRIPPIN'?
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I just heard that Palin is pro-life and anti-gay marriage.
Then I just have to vote for Obama and Biden!
NEWSFLASH! Obama DOES NOT support gay-marriage!
From his HRC Questionairre (http://a4.g.akamai.net/f/4/19675/0/newmill.download.akamai.com/19677/anon.newmediamill/pdfs/obama.pdf)
However, I do not support gay marriage. Marriage has religious and social connotations, and I consider marriage to be between a man and a woman.
der Brucer
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In addition, she is anti-polar bear, so she will never get my vote!
Glad your vote hinges on such a key national issue :)
der Brucer
PALIN on the polar bear: (http://cache.search.yahoo.net/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=sarah+palin+polar+bears&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%3Fid%3D1162&w=sarah+palin+polar+bears+bear&d=KXCPdhg5RTWk&icp=1&.intl=us)
At the same time, we will work cooperatively with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the health and viability of polar bear populations. As I have stated previously, such protection is one of my primary objectives.
Toward this end, I will request that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game work with its federal counter-parts in the identification of critical habitat, necessary conservation measures and the development of a recovery plan. I believe that State participation will help ensure a better result for polar bears and for the citizens of Alaska.
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I support gay marriage, whether between a man and a woman, two men, or two women. Gay marriages are the best. Unfortunately, I didn't have one.
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I'll be leaving for the Dena of Pasa in about twenty minutes. I'll be supping at the El Portal Mexican restaurant, just down the street from the Playhouse, and then I'll pick up my tix, then take a nice walk.
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I'm leaving now to go to a minor league baseball game. I got a free ticket from my friend Margo, so I'm going.
Have a good evening, all. :)
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Oh, and I have now officially lost sixteen and one-half pounds. Definitely another fifteen - then we'll see.
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Oh, and I have now officially lost sixteen and one-half pounds. Definitely another fifteen - then we'll see.
I take it you are not posting a reward for their return.
der Brucer
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I keep forgetting to mention how reprehensible the radio spots for 9 to 5 are. It's all Dolly Parton, singing the title song with new lyrics and saying things like "come on down and see me" as if she were IN the show. It's very calculated and I'd bet some people will not be happy to find she's not there.
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Congratulations Bruce!
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And the original Dear Abby is Dead.
And the murder case I had started in the house right next door to the house where the original dear abby grew up
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DR elmore, I'm very curious what you ate at Artie's.
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TOD:
DVDs:
ALL SHOOK UP - handmade, OBC, Oh! that Cheyenne Jackson! And that arrangement of "Can't Help Falling In Love." But. . .what an over-written, over-plotted piece of fluff. Compared to this, Elvis' own TICKLE ME and HARUM SCARUM are film masterpieces!
REEFER MADNESS - Not JMK's, alas, but the Showtime movie with Alan Cumming and Christian Campbell. I think it's a lot of fun, quite well done, and I've never, ever been a pothead!
SAAWARIYA - gorgeous Sony/Bollywood film based on Dostevsky's short story "White Nights."
MURDER IN PORTLAND - one of those Pacific Nortwest movies. . .though this one is actually better than the previous ones, still nothing great. I now can state that the bars in Portland, Seattle and Olympia are very nice.
WHOEVER SAYS THE TRUTH SHALL DIE - competent documentary on the life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, which addresses the issue of his murder effectively, though doesn't offer a quick solution.
IN THE DVDs TO BE BURNED PILE:
DAMES AT SEA - CBS-TV presentation: Ann-Margret, Ann Meara, Ann Miller.
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS - CBS-TV presentation, 1964, the one and only original - minus "Happily Ever After" but with a new duet for Dauntless and Winnifred.
SHE LOVES ME - BBC-TV presentation. Gemma Craven, David Kernan and very few alterations to the score or book.
CDs:
GYPSY (2008) - Barnes & Noble edition.
REEFER MADNESS - TV Soundtrack; Love Robert Torti's "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy."
BIG RIVER - Original Australian Cast. Ironically, this super-American musical is better off in the hands of the men Down Under.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS - Parker Scott. Perfect debut album.
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SHE LOVES ME - BBC-TV presentation. Gemma Craven, David Kernan and very few alterations to the score or book.
I love it, but songs were cut and most of the remaining songs had verses cut. >:(
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If we're already at "Gustav," then "Laura" is a pretty safe bet in the not-too-distant future!
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I love it, but songs were cut and most of the remaining songs had verses cut. >:(
Somebody, somewhere, posted the changes which were made; they are relatively few. If I can't listen to Judy Kuhn's Amalia, it'll suffice to see and hear Gemma Craven's.
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Yours will ship as soon as the next batch of Murder At The Grove hardcovers arrive in a few days.
OK. Thanks.
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Everyone in the hallway is behaving today! I see straight people!
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;D DR Kerry.
Does this mean you are walking better?
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I've got too much catching up to do. And I've got to get dindin on the table (spaghetti and meatballs).
That being the case,
TOD
Heroes, season one (because I never did get the time to watch season two, the DVD for which is on order, and there's a lot that I've forgotten)
Doctor Who and the Silurians, the second story with the third Doctor (Jon Pertwee).
Both of which I've been watching on the new television in the back room, which was paid for with my own money. (That was der B's sneeky way of getting a late birthday present. ;))
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Good Evening!
Well, Larry, Ginny and Richard should be in the middle of intermission of South Pacific right now at Lincoln Center... -Oh, and DR FJL too.
:)
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DR elmore, I'm very curious what you ate at Artie's.
Well... I was curious what he would end up eating too. However, I decided not to be too "mothering" tonight, as long as everything seemed sensible - which it did.
I had a Pastrami Reuben. Ginny had a Corned Beef Reuben, and Richard had "Letter I" - a.k.a. Pastrami, Corned Beef, Swiss, Cole Slaw, and Russian Dressing on Rye.
I shall let DR elmore "reveal" his dinner choice(s) later on. ;)
All in all, a very good meal all around.
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And here's the NYC/Middletown, Ohio HHW Contingent...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/OhioArties.jpg)
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OH! And here's a pic of DR Ginny and her DH Richard and Rodin... ;)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/RichardGinnyRodin.jpg)
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...And after seeing the Trio off at the corner of 82nd and Broadway - they hopped on a bus down to Lincoln Center - I continued walking down Broadway until...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/VLGingerVanilla.jpg)
Yes, that's the Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream Truck in the background. And in the foreground: a scoop of Vanilla obscured by a scoop of Ginger. :)
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Everyone in the hallway is behaving today! I see straight people!
Umm... Walking into the wrong bars again?
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Last night we watched THE SAVAGES, an excellent movie &in many ways a good one for us to have watched after our recent loss.
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DR Ginny & DH Richard are such a cute couple. It was nice to see them with their long time friend.
Thanks for the photos DR Jose.
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Jose always posts such nice pictures of Hainsies and Kimlets. And ice cream. And cookies. And sandwiches. And
fireman so on and so on. ;D
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;D :)
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...Has Arthur Laurents lost his sanity?
Well, he has re-written WSS.
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'night
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bk - The current production of Gypsy and it's resulting OCR is different from the ones that have come before it. Even Arthur Laurents admits to that. I know that you - and many other people - love and "trust" Merman's original, but I think you also just have to sit back and listen to the new recording as a whole - and not comment from track to track. It all works as a whole, not song by song, track by track.
Besides, the whole Track by Track gig was mine (even if I did give it up ages ago).
;)
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Jose always posts such nice pictures of Hainsies and Kimlets. And ice cream. And cookies. And sandwiches. And fireman so on and so on. ;D
Firemen? Did you requestsay firemen? ;D
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/Firemen1.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/Firemen2.jpg)
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And...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/Firemen3.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/Firemen4.jpg)
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And, last but not least...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/Firemen5.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/Firemen6.jpg)
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TOD:
...SAAWARIYA - gorgeous Sony/Bollywood film based on Dostevsky's short story "White Nights."...
This took me a moment to understand. At first, I thought you were posting the initials of some show without telling us the full title.
"Sleeping Around And Worrying About 'Roids In Your..." well, you get the idea.
::)
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...DAMES AT SEA - CBS-TV presentation: Ann-Margret, Ann Meara, Ann Miller....
Ann a one, ann a two...
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She is my favorite thing in the whole movie. GYPSY was on very late the other night and I stayed up just to hear her.
I can't think of anything in the movie of GYPSY that I DON'T like.
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OH! And here's a pic of DR Ginny and her DH Richard and Rodin... ;)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/RichardGinnyRodin.jpg)
I thought that was Balzac.
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I thought that was Balzac.
Well... Balzac sculpted/cast by Rodin.
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Ann a one, ann a two...
Speaking of Ann Miller, she was one of the interviewees in the RITA documentary I watched yesterday and today. It must have been fairly near the end for her because she looked so shriveled up, her shoulders hunched. Not the Ann Miller we all remember.
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I want to hear the story about The Randy Vicar and the Lady Snake-Charmer.
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Page Ten "You're Off to See the Wizard" Dance!!!
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There were a bunch of special features on the second disc in the GHOST WHISPERER set. I watched them all. There were also two interactive games: one for kids making a haunted land where skeletons dance, etc. The other was a game to put together the correct investigative scenario for snooping out ghosts. I didn't have any patience to try to get to the end of THAT game.
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In all, I watched five more episodes of GHOST WHISPERER tonight. That will leave me with 10 more in the set. There don't look to be any bonus features on either discs three or four, and no commentaries either, so I should be able to get through them tomorrow fairly easily.
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There is that one season long story arc about the ghost town existing under their own town that occupied a couple of the episodes I've already watched. The others are all more according to the show's formula.
The fake psychic working with Melinda was a favorite from the batch I watched tonight.
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Mikey, our pug/terrier mix, has been bad.
He stole a piece of bread from der B's plate.
No forkfulls of goodies for him.
Bad Mikey! Bad!
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Here's a thought:
Obama grew up in Hawaii.
Palin grew up in Alaska.
This makes the first time our two most recent states have been so represented in a Presidential race.
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Whether I like it or not, tomorrow is still a workday.
Hasta.
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All caught up, whew!
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Writing for just a bit and then heading downstairs to bed.
Good night!
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[size=8][move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]MOST HEARTFELT HEALTH VIBES TO DEAR TOMOVOZ AND ELMORE [/move] [/size]
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FJL, I hope you can squeeze 2 more in on Sunday night, The Vixter & I will be pleased to sit under the table or hover in the hallway if its getting too crowded
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I am glad to see you are enjoying your new Iphone Jose! Thasnk for sharing the pix with us!
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Media Check: in my CD player right now, here at work: our very JMK's very own musical Going to Pot: The Reefer Madness Musical[/u] (http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=3477)! ;D
Is this still available for purchase somewhere?
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DVD player series final 2 part episode of Doctor Who courtesy of the generous and kind DR George
(we finally had an opportuity to watch it tonight - thank you so much!)
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MattH - did you make your NYC trip this year? I do not remember hearing you mention one and I thought that was an annual event for you and your friends, or am I misremembering?
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Well, I was waiting to see if The Ohio Trio were going to post any post-South Pacific reports, but... I'm sure they had a great time, and are most likely backstage... However, since we have a breakfast gathering in the morning...
Goodnight.
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There will never be a Mazeppa to equal Miss Faith Dane - thank heaven her performance will live on forever in the film version.
I met her in 1973 at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; she was with Donald Saddler.
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DR elmore, I'm very curious what you ate at Artie's.
Mushroom barley soup and stuffed cabbage.
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How are you feeling dear elmore?
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Well, I was waiting to see if The Ohio Trio were going to post any post-South Pacific reports, but... I'm sure they had a great time, and are most likely backstage... However, since we have a breakfast gathering in the morning...
Goodnight.
Danny was out tonight so we did not go backstage. The understudy was Victor Hawks who was quite wonderful in the Burstein mould. I did speak to Ted Sperling and I thought Kelli's performance, which was wonderful last May, has grown enormously. Still the most gorgeous production I've seen in years..
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How are you feeling dear elmore?
Better. Thank you. I wish my blurry eyes would go away.
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NEWSFLASH! Obama DOES NOT support gay-marriage!
From his HRC Questionairre (http://a4.g.akamai.net/f/4/19675/0/newmill.download.akamai.com/19677/anon.newmediamill/pdfs/obama.pdf)der Brucer
I'm more concerned about the pro-life issue.
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Oh, my, what a glorious evening! A festive meal with DRs Jose and Elmore and then an unbelievable night at the theater.
South Pacific is every bit as wonderful as DRs Elmore, Jose, Ben and anyone else who's seen it has said. Some of my friends at home were skeptical when I said we were coming to NYC this time especially to see this production, but I wouldn't want to have missed it. I kept waiting for something to be weak or to disappoint me and it never happened. Well, it was a little disappointing that Danny Burstein was out tonight, but his Billis understudy did a fine job.
I was an emotional wreck at several points, but have recovered.
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Mushroom barley soup and stuffed cabbage.
Probably the wisest choices among all of us at the table!
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DR Vixmom! I was hoping you and The Vixter would be able to come in on Sunday - we're looking forward to seeing you!
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DR Ginny & DH Richard are such a cute couple. It was nice to see them with their long time friend.
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DR Elmore or Balzac ;) ?
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Jose - I was closer to South Passaic than South Pacific. :) My family celebrated my dad's and nephew's birthdays at Forno's restaurant by Newark Penn station.
On my dad's actual birthday a week from Sunday, I will be in D.C. for a dear dear cousin's wedding.
BTW, any word on ACE, the musical now playing at the Signature in Arlington VA?
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DR Vixmom! I was hoping you and The Vixter would be able to come in on Sunday - we're looking forward to seeing you!
and since I was never able to mail you your get well gift perhaps I can give it to you then!
(the stupid post office for "customer convenience" has changed their hours from 8 AM - 5 PM to 9 AM - 5 PM which means I can nerv get there, they do have the "24 hourautomated postage machine" but the last 3 times I tried to use it it was out of postage... ah the convenience of modern customer service!
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Is South Pacifc a limnited engagement or will it be around for awhile? I should try to take the Vixter to see it
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Better. Thank you. I wish my blurry eyes would go away.
ANTI BLURRY VISION VIBES :-*
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Vixmom and vixter - So glad you're coming on Sunday!
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Last week I looked out my in-laws back window and I saw
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Vixmom and vixter - So glad you're coming on Sunday!
we are too!!!!
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Last week I looked out my in-laws back window and I saw
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I just realized how late it is and that DRs Jose and Singdaw will be on our doorstep in about 9 hours, so
'night!
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a bigger picture for elmore's blurry eyes
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I just realized how late it is and that DRs Jose and Singdaw will be on our doorstep in about 9 hours, so
'night!
sleep tight!
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well I better toddle off as well 7 Am gym class....
I gained 7 lbs on vacation....oof!
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Back from Vanities, about which more later. I'll start writing the notes in about fifteen minutes. In the meantime, I'm listening to A Rage To Live, from this humungous box set - I love Nelson Riddle.