Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 13, 2012, 12:21:08 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had no struggle whatsoever, and now it is time for you to post until the occasionally struggling cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ADIAPHOROUS!
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Morning all.
That is all.
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good morning to all
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i am not a big fan of bill murray
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i have not seen a lot of sally field movies, but of the ones that i have seen: smokey and the bandit
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Good morning. It is still dark out.
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Good morning, all.
Happy Thursday vibes.
With regard to a TOD earlier this week, here's Lee Remick doing a trippy version of "Whatever Lola Wants" from an ultra-mod TV production of "Damn Yankees." She's quite good, even if the approach is dated.
http://www.bluegobo.com/production/2901403/video/11131
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TOD:
Bill Murray:
Best performance was a regional theater production of Brecht's "Man Is Man" with Stockard Channing.
Lost in Translation
Stripes
Sally Field:
Norma Rae
Smokey and the Bandit
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BK, save some of that rain for Phoenix! It is supposed to get here tonight. We need it.
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Good morning. It is still dark out.
DITTO!
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BK, save some of that rain for Phoenix! It is supposed to get here tonight. We need it.
DITTO!!!
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DR JOHN G that is some WEIRD tv version of DY....whew!
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$$$ vibes for MR BK and Kritzerland.
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Good morning, all.
(Oy!)
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TOD:
Bill Murray:
The Razor's Edge
Sally Field:
Steel Magnolias
Punchline
Places of the Heart
Sally Field does a lot of acting with her mouth hanging open....but she seems to have stopped that these past few years.
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MEGA greenback vibes and xylophones for the Land o' Kritzer!
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TOD:
Sally Field
SYBIL
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
ABSENCE OF MALICE
Bill Murray
WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
GROUNDHOG DAY
ED WOOD
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Good morning, all!
I will shortly head to Toyland to begin the loooong "Don't Ask Me Not To Sing, which was initially even longer. This was the Act Two showpiece for Bob Hope and the California Collegians. The number was dropped from The Cat And The Fiddle and revised to allow the seven Collegians to impersonate Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, Arthur Tracy, Ruth Etting, Morton Downey, Ethel Merman, and Bing Crosby. It's a lot of fun, but it's endless! It includes these lyrics:
Melody soft and low, melody loud and strong
Melody sends this microphonic, diatonic world along.
Other lyrics for "microphonic diatonic" include:
Old melodic, idiotic
This burlesquey, old Mae West-key
Harvest mooning, Crosby crooning
Chansonetting, sweet Ruth Etting
So, that's most of my day. I'll check in from Toyland.
More coffee!
Sally Field: SOAP DISH
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Such rhymes!!!
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I want that bookcase chair that DR JohnG posted on page 5 last night.
I would sit the other way and use the orange part as a back. And if it wasn't comfortable i would put padding!
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I really want to see Lincoln.
Sally Field was on The View when the movie first came out. She had mentioned that she had wanted the part many years ago when they were originally casting the film (was it 10 years?). I think she was cast. Anyhow when they went to do the casting now they said she was too old (she is 11 years older than Daniel Day- Lewis).
But Daniel wanted to meet with her and for some reason he really wanted her to do it.
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It's not a film, but i did watch Sally Field every week on Brothers & Sisters. She was excellent on that show!
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Such rhymes!!!
Rhymes has he!
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I want that bookcase chair that DR JohnG posted on page 5 last night.
I would sit the other way and use the orange part as a back. And if it wasn't comfortable i would put padding!
I kept going back to that picture and thinking the same thing, but I concluded that it just wouldn't be comfortable, or perhaps even possible, to lie back in, because of its narrow depth. And if it were made deep enough to accommodate us, then the book storage depth would be ridiculous. In the end, my taste doesn't run to storing books (any books) in such quirky fashion. Have to agree, though, interesting design, and might work in the right place. Just not my place.
Actually, even the way it's meant to be sat in doesn't look like something you'd do for more than a couple of minutes.
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$$$ vibes for MR BK and Kritzerland.
$$$ vibes for all of us, and BK in particular.
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DR JOHN G that is some WEIRD tv version of DY....whew!
That site has two other numbers from the show. I watched the "Two Lost Souls" and the paisley psychadelics are just trippy.
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Watched those. Definitely interesting, but dated, and a bit of a chore to get through.
Vintage TV versions of Broadway musicals is a category I'd love to catch up on, but were they all as quirkily adapted as this one?
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And the word of the day is: ADIAPHOROUS!
And The Song Of The Day Is: I CAN'T BE BOTHERED NOW
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TOD:
Sally Field
PLACES IN THE HEART
ABSENCE OF MALICE
NORMA RAE
PUNCHLINE
MURPHY'S ROMANCE
Bill Murray
ED WOOD
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Greetings from Toyland!
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!! 2 !! Page Two !! 2 !!
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Thursday morning greetings! I've been up a while, drinking coffee and finishing Robert Massie's Catherine the Great for my book discussion tonight. I get to stay home all day until it's time to go over to Emilie's for the meeting. Let the puttering begin!
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Thursday morning greetings! I've been up a while, drinking coffee and finishing Robert Massie's Catherine the Great for my book discussion tonight. I get to stay home all day until it's time to go over to Emilie's for the meeting. Let the puttering begin!
Kate the Great, as Cole Porter wrote:
She made the butler
She made the groom
She made the maid who made the room.
She made the army
She made the marines
Made some of them princes
And some of the queens
And when she still was discontent,
Kate'd create a new regiment.
So, beautiful ladies, before it's too late
Follow the lead of this potentate
Give up arranging affairs of state
And stay in the hay like
Kate the Great.
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LOL, that about sums it up, DR John G!
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See, musicals can offer valuable history lessons. :D
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
Gotta love those folks at Talkin Broadway :) - seriously, Rob Lester is very astute and has great taste! Congrats!
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Good Morning!
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I can't believe how fast these days are flying by. What turned into "Oh, I have four weeks left" of school has turned into -"What?? The Christmas Program is next Thursday???" So, while we're not scrambling to get it done, we getting things done at a good pace. It's a rather extensive production I've put together that I'm calling "Holidays Around the World", students and teachers alike are excited by the program, and I guess I am to. I have to write (to use a bk term) the "contextual commentary" this weekend and get it to the appropriate students that speak well, and tomorrow we head to the church (where we present this thing) and work on our Olympic Style procession (countries of the world using the music from "It's a Small World" of course because I take ALL my inspiration from Disney) and if we can walk and sing at the same time, we're golden.
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Tonight, it's back to A Christmas Carol - The Musical which I'm excited to get back to. I'm very happy with the show
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
Gotta love those folks at Talkin Broadway :) - seriously, Rob Lester is very astute and has great taste! Congrats!
Haven't read it all yet, but congrats, anyway, DR ELMORE!
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TOD:
I like both actors but I don't have any favorite movies of theirs. It might be that I am more familiar with the work each did on television. Certainly I loved THE FLYING NUN.
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DR Elmore - congratulations on the glowing review!
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
DR Elmore, that's beautiful. Congrats!
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$ vibes for Kritzerland!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Wonderful appreciation of your efforts DR ELMORE!
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Good morning, all.
Happy Thursday vibes.
With regard to a TOD earlier this week, here's Lee Remick doing a trippy version of "Whatever Lola Wants" from an ultra-mod TV production of "Damn Yankees." She's quite good, even if the approach is dated.
http://www.bluegobo.com/production/2901403/video/11131
:) I've always been a Lee Remick fan.
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
Gotta love those folks at Talkin Broadway :) - seriously, Rob Lester is very astute and has great taste! Congrats!
Haven't read it all yet, but congrats, anyway, DR ELMORE!
DITTO!
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Bruce excellent vibes and xylophones that all will be well and that well will be all!
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I didn't realize David Strathairn was in Lincoln. I have always liked him since he was on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
Best of all, it's true.
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I didn't realize David Strathairn was in Lincoln. I have always liked him since he was on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.
That is one of my all-time favorite TV shows.
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We just had a nice hike around the mountain on this lovely day before The Big Rain comes later tonight.
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Tonight, it's back to A Christmas Carol - The Musical which I'm excited to get back to. I'm very happy with the show
Glad to hear that. How are audiences responding?
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Tonight, it's back to A Christmas Carol - The Musical which I'm excited to get back to. I'm very happy with the show
Glad to hear that. How are audiences responding?
They love it.
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I didn't realize David Strathairn was in Lincoln. I have always liked him since he was on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.
That is one of my all-time favorite TV shows.
:)
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Tonight, it's back to A Christmas Carol - The Musical which I'm excited to get back to. I'm very happy with the show
Glad to hear that. How are audiences responding?
Ditto, and sorry I didn't say something sooner.
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Tonight, it's back to A Christmas Carol - The Musical which I'm excited to get back to. I'm very happy with the show
Glad to hear that. How are audiences responding?
They love it.
:)
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I'm up, I'm up, and guess what I woke up to? A missive from the dealer who was offended I'd put out there what I did in today's notes. I told him there was nothing to be offended by, that it's my little corner of the world, I don't name names, and that it wasn't really even about him, but about the gluttony of releases this time of year by any number of people, and how hard that make it for others when they have to postpone to release dates to not go near the madness. THAT was the real point. I like this fellow and his co-horts and frankly we would not be in business if it wasn't for their company and I've told them that any number of times - very few of us would be in business if it wasn't for their company. The fact that some little twit felt it necessary to direct them to the notes - THAT'S what's offensive. Happily, I have the e-mail address of the twit.
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Wow. Incredible.
Continued $$$ VIBES and XYLOPHONES!
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Here's an annoying question (sorry!!) for BK:
A couple of DRs had reported receiving their CAREER soundtrack CDs, and as of today's mail I haven't seen it. I sometimes get things from the west coast one day later than others, but I thought I should mention it. Maybe they didn't all go out at the same time? Seriously, sorry to even bring it up! :( (Absolutely no hurry on my part, I just don't want to miss the release.)
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But guess what DID arrive -- the second shipment from Amazon UK!
DR John G.: Send me a mailing address again (I did have it before - sorry!) and your DVDs will be on their way.
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Sally Field - "The Way West". That's it!
Bill Murray - Not liked him in anything!
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Chas, always good to ask - the helper will check the tracking info when she's back at her computer tonight.
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Larry, what a great review! Congrats.
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DR Elmore, congrats! :)
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For the record, I am not the twit.
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BK, I am sorry you're having to deal with twits today.
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$$$ vibes for MR BK and Kritzerland.
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
That's wonderful, Larry! Congratulations!
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For the record, I am not the twit.
Nor am I, I'm happy to report.
I do know that we have one DR who reports everything negative I have to say about another record producer,
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Twit@Twitterland.org
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Now, would one consider twit talk twee?
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Now, would one consider twit talk twee?
I still don't understand the purpose of it!
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Now, would one consider twit talk twee?
I still don't understand the purpose of it!
Ah, it's understanding you want, is it?
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Larry, are you sure? We seem to have loads of people reading, sometimes more people reading than there are active DRs on that day.
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Larry, did you see that Curtis Moore is mentioned in the Times today?
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/musical-inspired-by-othello-coming-to-public-theater/
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Larry, are you sure? We seem to have loads of people reading, sometimes more people reading than there are active DRs on that day.
I know exactly who the person is in my case. I know nothing about BK's situation.
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A. O. Scott has reviewed The Hobbit (http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/movies/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-by-peter-jackson.html). Here's the first paragraph:
In “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s first Middle-earth fantasy novel, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) sets out with the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a posse of dwarfs to battle a fearsome dragon. [Spoiler alert] they do not kill the dragon, although [spoiler alert] they eventually will, within the next 18 months or so, because [spoiler alert] this “Hobbit,” which is [migraine alert] 170 minutes, is the first installment in [film critic suicide-watch alert] a trilogy.
and then later...
The comparative playfulness of the novel could have made this “Hobbit” movie a lot of fun, but over the years Mr. Jackson seems to have shed most of the exuberant, gleefully obnoxious whimsy that can be found in early films like “Meet the Feebles” and “Dead Alive.” A trace of his impish old spirit survives in some of the creature designs in “The Hobbit” — notably a gelatinous and gigantic Great Goblin and an encampment of cretinous, Three-Stooges-like trolls — but Tolkien’s inventive, episodic tale of a modest homebody on a dangerous journey has been turned into an overscale and plodding spectacle.
I still want to see it/them (the other two movies).
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For the record, I am not the twit.
Nor am I, I'm happy to report.
I do know that we have one DR who reports everything negative I have to say about another record producer,
Seems to me that would only make the other record producer feel bad.
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Keith took his car to Medford for an oil change & some other work. When he was done he called from the road & I met him at Les Schwab. We then left my car for new tires and will pick it up tomorrow. Since I don't use my car all that often, & tend not to use it at all when the weather is bad, we didn't purchase top of the line tires for winter driving. The still cost enough.
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My twit is, I think, one of the usual troublemakers I have to endure. I'm pretty sure I know which twit it is, too. And I do have the twit's e-mail address.
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The path leading to our pond from the side of our house.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/531970_4882602550338_971379193_n.jpg)
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The path leading to the pond from the main deck.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/67818_4882649071501_1395984408_n.jpg)
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Walking down to the pond from the path in the photo above this one
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/64652_4882603590364_1844543410_n.jpg)
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Must be very nice to have all that yard work completed, DR Jane!
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It is and especially enjoyable knowing this time last year it was rather dull looking out there. Winter will be pretty this year.
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Great photos, Jane.
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Well, I'm off to a chocolate dinner tonight. Everything supposedly will have cocoa used in some way, shape and/or form.
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Four!
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Keith took his car to Medford for an oil change & some other work. When he was done he called from the road & I met him at Les Schwab. We then left my car for new tires and will pick it up tomorrow. Since I don't use my car all that often, & tend not to use it at all when the weather is bad, we didn't purchase top of the line tires for winter driving. The still cost enough.
I made an appointment to have my snow tires put on Saturday morning. They're essential, especially with my steep driveway. What's amazing, though, is how long both the snow tires and my regular all season tires last, swapping them twice a year. This will be the 6th or 7th winter for the snows, and the others have four years on them, and I've already been told they're still fine to put on next spring.
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DR John G., your UK DVDs are on their way. I'm so efficient today!
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Thanks DR John G. I look forward to hearing about your dinner.
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Lovely photos, Jane!
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Keith took his car to Medford for an oil change & some other work. When he was done he called from the road & I met him at Les Schwab. We then left my car for new tires and will pick it up tomorrow. Since I don't use my car all that often, & tend not to use it at all when the weather is bad, we didn't purchase top of the line tires for winter driving. The still cost enough.
I made an appointment to have my snow tires put on Saturday morning. They're essential, especially with my steep driveway. What's amazing, though, is how long both the snow tires and my regular all season tires last, swapping them twice a year. This will be the 6th or 7th winter for the snows, and the others have four years on them, and I've already been told they're still fine to put on next spring.
I'm fortunate in that I was able to move where I live now...it's only one mile from my work and it's completely flat. I have never had snow tires, and except for a few minor incidents over the years, I've never really needed them.
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Topic of the Day:
Sally Field:
Brothers & Sisters (TV)
Smokey and the Bandit
Soap Dish
Sybil
Bill Murray:
Groundhog Day
Stripes
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chocolate dinner!
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DR JANE such beautiful photos....and I love that outdoor chess set!!!
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Tonight: the latest Twilight Time Blu-rays! :)
Might not watch anything all the way through -- no, I take that back. Probably will. But have to check all of these out first.
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Keith took his car to Medford for an oil change & some other work. When he was done he called from the road & I met him at Les Schwab. We then left my car for new tires and will pick it up tomorrow. Since I don't use my car all that often, & tend not to use it at all when the weather is bad, we didn't purchase top of the line tires for winter driving. The still cost enough.
I made an appointment to have my snow tires put on Saturday morning. They're essential, especially with my steep driveway. What's amazing, though, is how long both the snow tires and my regular all season tires last, swapping them twice a year. This will be the 6th or 7th winter for the snows, and the others have four years on them, and I've already been told they're still fine to put on next spring.
I'm fortunate in that I was able to move where I live now...it's only one mile from my work and it's completely flat. I have never had snow tires, and except for a few minor incidents over the years, I've never really needed them.
Thank you George.
It is nice to have an easy trip to work. If it were me I would walk that easy trip almost all year round.
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DR JANE such beautiful photos....and I love that outdoor chess set!!!
Thank you.
The chess set looks good after my yearly scrubbing to remove moss from it :)
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Beautiful photos, DR Jane!
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I'm off to take a lot of grief from my book group for selecting the Catherine the Great bio - bye for now!
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Thanks DR Ginny.
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I'm off to take a lot of grief from my book group for selecting the Catherine the Great bio - bye for now!
;D It was that enjoyable a read!
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From the stats department for season two - episode one is about to cross 12,000 views. Episode two is about to cross 14,000 views, and episode three in a week and a half is about to cross 8,000 view. Very happy with all this, needless to say.
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And oh, just a note to the twit, should the twit be reading this board as the twit obviously reads the notes every single day: Karma. The End. Do penance for your sins if you don't want that bad karma. Apologize and then stop being a twit - it serves you worst of all and did not seem to cause the problems you wished. In fact, it seems to have opened a good dialogue. Oh, well.
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Snow tires are mandatory here, I believe after Dec 15th.
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Looking forward to tonight's Christmas special on Glee.
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I don't know the details. But it doesn't seem very nice if a DR would tattle on any other DR.
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Just got one screener via Fed Ex - Zero Dark Thirty - I think that's the name of it. I've been hoping we'd get The Sessions, which I really want to see.
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Great photos, Jane
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I didn't know that this was available...and has been since March: the vocal selections to The People In The Picture (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1458418987/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00).
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B-yrLJBYL._SS500_.jpg)
I just ordered it and will follow along with the CD (http://www.kritzerland.com/peoplePicture.htm). :D
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From the stats department for season two - episode one is about to cross 12,000 views. Episode two is about to cross 14,000 views, and episode three in a week and a half is about to cross 8,000 view. Very happy with all this, needless to say.
Congratulations!!! :)
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Snow tires are mandatory here, I believe after Dec 15th.
Even if you don't drive your car in the snow?
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Great photos, Jane
Thank you.
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Snow tires are mandatory here, I believe after Dec 15th.
Even if you don't drive your car in the snow?
Are they studded tires? We decided not to buy new ones last year for Keith car & did just fine so we will pass on them again this year.
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Watched Hyde Park on Hudson - very enjoyable save for the absolutely wretched direction - he couldn't kill the good writing and performances but he surely didn't help them. The film also contains what is now my favorite film score of 2012 by someone named Jeremy Sams, who I have to say I've never heard of. Thankfully, the album was available on amazon as a download only thing. I'm listening now and it's just as good away from the film as in it. It's like the best of Richard Rodney Bennett.
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Congrats on the great review, DR elmore!
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DR Jane--great photos!
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Page 5!
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Watched Hyde Park on Hudson - very enjoyable save for the absolutely wretched direction - he couldn't kill the good writing and performances but he surely didn't help them. The film also contains what is now my favorite film score of 2012 by someone named Jeremy Sams, who I have to say I've never heard of. Thankfully, the album was available on amazon as a download only thing. I'm listening now and it's just as good away from the film as in it. It's like the best of Richard Rodney Bennett.
I really enjoyed the samples on Amazon. I'll have to check it out later. :)
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And now, I'm off to the theater for the beginning of our third weekend of "The Wind in the Willows."
Until later!
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DR KevinH thank you.
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Jane, what kinds of trees do you have that are turning color?
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The photos are beautiful.
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Rob Lester just gave me the best Christmas present in a long long time! I'm still in shock.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/dec1312.html
Well that was wonderful!!! Congratulations!
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Vixter goes for her driving test in the morning VIBES please!!!
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Bwen when are you seeing WarHorse? Teh Vixrter and I were able to snag tickets for tomorrow night
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Jane, what kinds of trees do you have that are turning color?
None. Keith took these last month & I'm just getting them up now. In fact the weeping birch is now leafless.
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The photos are beautiful.
Thank you.
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Vixter goes for her driving test in the morning VIBES please!!!
DRIVING TEST VIBES FOR DR VIXTER!!!
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Test vibes for The Vixter!
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What kind of trees do you have, though?
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Mostly Oak. I need to ask Keith what the rest are. Is there a location you are specifically asking about?
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Just wondering what all the color is. I take it the golden ones are oak. I wonder what the yellow one is.
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And there's a really pretty reddish pink -- maple?
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TOD:
Bill Murray:
Groundhog Day-Love it!
Ghostbusters
Scrooged
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Just wondering what all the color is. I take it the golden ones are oak. I wonder what the yellow one is.
I think that is still an oak, if I'm looking at the correct one. I'll double check with Keith.
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And there's a really pretty reddish pink -- maple?
Should be a maple.
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TOD
Sally Field:
Murphy's Romance
Places in the Heart
Kiss Me Goodbye
Sybil
Norma Rae
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We don't get those trees in the desert. There are some in the mountains. In the desert most of our trees keep their tiny leaves. Around the creeks there are sycamores, ash, cottonwoods that change color. A few people have ash trees as yard trees.
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And there's a really pretty reddish pink -- maple?
Should be a maple.
Acer palmatum 'Sangokaku' (Coral Bark Japanese Maple)
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DR Laura there are two different views of both the maple & the weeping birch taken at different times. In one photo the birch is green and in the other it is yellow. Specifically it is a Young's Weeping Birch.
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We don't get those trees in the desert. There are some in the mountains. In the desert most of our trees keep their tiny leaves. Around the creeks there are sycamores, ash, cottonwoods that change color. A few people have ash trees as yard trees.
The oaks do exceptionally well here and are a pain to keep up with. We are glad to have reduced the ones close to the house, leaving only a beautiful black oak.
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We don't get those trees in the desert. There are some in the mountains. In the desert most of our trees keep their tiny leaves. Around the creeks there are sycamores, ash, cottonwoods that change color. A few people have ash trees as yard trees.
Nice thing about traveling is seeing the various landscapes & wildlife.
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'night
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Good for elmore. Rob's a good guy - he gave Sandy Bainum a nice review, too.
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Snow tires are mandatory here, I believe after Dec 15th.
Even if you don't drive your car in the snow?
If you drive your car after Dec 15th then you have to have the snow tires.
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Vixter goes for her driving test in the morning VIBES please!!!
Good luck!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I remember my test being slightly nerve wracking. I think many people here used to fail on their try because the teachers were very strict.
For example they would make you parallel park. And you had to get it on the first shot. Sorry, But most adults I know cannot parallel park on the first shot.
I remember doing well on the test. But then I had to parallel park. And I did not get it on the first try (which would normally mean fail). But I asked the instructor if i could have one more try. And got it perfectly. So I passed!
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I want that bookcase chair that DR JohnG posted on page 5 last night.
I would sit the other way and use the orange part as a back. And if it wasn't comfortable i would put padding!
I was thinking the same thing!
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Congrats Elmore!
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The three Blu-rays are gorgeous, but, as I thought, I wasn't in the mood to watch any one of them straight through tonight. Instead, I went back to Jacques Tati's TRAFIC which I had watched the first half of a few nights ago before falling dead asleep. So, watched the second half just now and enjoyed it much more. I must say that being awake is a pretty good way to enjoy a movie. I hadn't seen this one before. It's a bit less accessible, or focused, or something, than the three better known ones preceding it, but there are some great bits in it. At one point I laughed and laughed like a perfect idiot, and then discovered that the bit wasn't quite finished and had to laugh like an idiot again.
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I saw War Horse this evening so I won't see you tomorrow.
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Vixter goes for her driving test in the morning VIBES please!!!
For you, for her or for the public? Vibes for all.
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Can't believe I forgot Groundhog Day on my Bill Murray list.
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Chocolate dinner was super. My favorite of the six courses was a simple salad that was so fresh and beautiful. I will post photos tomorrow, but I'll describe the salad: Mixed greens with radish, honeycrisp apple and almonds with a Chocolate-Orange Vanilla Dressing.
The real revelation of the evening was the many flavors of chocolate. I love ultra dark chocolate, 90%. I'll even eat unsweetened occasionally, which is super bitter, and cocoa nibs. But the various ways that chocolate was presented was wonderful. Also wonderful was duck breast in an achiote chocolate sauce with a sweet potato and apple latke and cabbage.
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Vixter goes for her driving test in the morning VIBES please!!!
For you, for her or for the public? Vibes for all.
You got it John!!!
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I saw War Horse this evening so I won't see you tomorrow.
Was it wonderful?
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Chocolate dinner was super. My favorite of the six courses was a simple salad that was so fresh and beautiful. I will post photos tomorrow, but I'll describe the salad: Mixed greens with radish, honeycrisp apple and almonds with a Chocolate-Orange Vanilla Dressing.
The real revelation of the evening was the many flavors of chocolate. I love ultra dark chocolate, 90%. I'll even eat unsweetened occasionally, which is super bitter, and cocoa nibs. But the various ways that chocolate was presented was wonderful. Also wonderful was duck breast in an achiote chocolate sauce with a sweet potato and apple latke and cabbage.
oh my goodness this sounds wonderful
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well I need to get soem sleep I have been staying up way too late and getting up much roo early all week LATERS!!
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Finished with Promised Land.
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Night, all.
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Tonight's performance was good. Not bad for 3 days off.
Now I'm off to bed
Something about a twit....
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well I need to get soem sleep I have been staying up way too late and getting up much roo early all week LATERS!!
The story of my life. ::)
;)
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Tonight's performance was good. Not bad for 3 days off.
Now I'm off to bed
Something about a twit....
Tonight's performance of "The Wind in the Willows" was a bit off, too. Nothing horrible, but a couple of missed/early cues.
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Vixter goes for her driving test in the morning VIBES please!!!
~~~VIBES OF ALL KINDS FOR THE VIXTER AND VIXMOM!!~~~