Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on July 15, 2004, 11:59:45 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've had your fun, you've had your way with the notes, the notes have had their way with you, everyone is up to the minute, notes-wise, and now it is time to post and then post again.
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First Post Dance:
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I LOVE The Manhattan Transfer (and Cheryl Bentyne, who is a member)!!
Anyway, in addition to the Demo-Burger that I had last night, I also had a Jumbo Canadian Hot Dog, a Hot Fudge Sundae Brownie (with walnuts for 25¢ extra), a HUGE basket of fries with too much ketchup (or catsup, if you prefer...I now have three, that's right, THREE, ketchup stains on my shirt) and part of a mocha ice cream cake. Yes, much food was had by all!
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At the moment I listening to a compilation for Cameo/Parkway recordings I purchased from Canada.
Does anyone out there remember "Wild Thing" by Senator Bobby or Mellow Yellow by Senators Bobby and McKinlay?
My most played Cd of this year would be Katie Melua "Call Off The Search". "The Closest Thing to Crazy" has been played so often. IMHO a far more enjoyable recording than those by the much lauded Nora Jones.
DVD: Most recent viewing would be The Mickey Mouse collection. I am amazed at the quality of these pieces of Art from the 1930's.
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My 1500th Post!!
As for the Topic of the Day:
In my DVD player: "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour." I watched this on Comedy Central a few months ago and couldn't stop laughing, especially when all four of the guys (Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy) are all on stage together. HYSTERICAL...unless you don't like their kind of humor. Which I didn't realize that I did.
In my CD player: the audio portion of a high resolution audio-DVD (I made a CD-R) of Cheryl Bentyne's "Among Friends," with Emmy nominee Grant Geissman on guitar! After that will be Cheryl's predecessor in The Manhattan Transfer, Laurel Massé and her very first recording, for the first time on CD, "Alone Together," which I got directly from Laurel herself (and she autographed every copy she sold)!
In my VCR: a tape of last night's "The Graham Norton Effect." After that (on the same tape) I'm going to tape "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The British Version" on Saturday (I missed taping it the first time that it was on).
And on my Record Player (yes, vinyl): "Songs of New York" (from Book-of-the-Month Records), which, if I remember correctly, has songs orchestrated by our very own Elmore!!
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Nighty-night!
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Update: Now listening to Richard Maltby "Swinging Down The Lane"/"Hello Young Lovers".
Congratulations on your 1500 DR George.
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Cameo Parkway...DR TOMovOZ...ah yes. I loved to hear Chubby Checker singing "Bobba Needle!" ....do you hear her calling? Whew!
Sounds as though What If is coming along well and everyone is having fun. No meltdowns, no bloodletting.....continued good vibes!!!
CD PLAYER: Guys Haines solo CD.
DVD PLAYER: Hercules In the Haunted World, a very strange film.
VHS: DuBARRY WAS A LADY - I love Red and Lucy!! And Cole Porter.
DRJAY - I keep forgetting to tell you, I really enjoyed your opinion of the opera singer and his recital as opposed to the review that was posted by another DR. It seems as though the reviewer was not on the same WAVE LENGTH as the audience and performer. Interesting.....
Yes DRtd - THE APPLE is coming.....hey hey hey BIM is on the way!!!
Thursday night DR's, yes I received applause on my egress...the most EVER!!! This was our best audience. Mr. Massoula also received exit applause.....but the biggest laugh EVER in this play was received by Mr Banks when he sat down and revealed that his tuxedo pants were not zipped up! Yes....as they say in French....la mem chose!
Mr Massoula and I took the opportunity - during the curtain call - to get back the attention we need by finishing our bows with a glance at our zippers to make sure we weren't being struck with a Talon moment. More laughs - a scream or two - and a legend was born! I love live theatre.
FATHER OF THE BRIDE will be the talk of every convenience store checkout and garage sale in Putnam County tomorrow....not to mention the groups that meet at the post office!
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No media is accessible to us right now.
Tuesday night, the mother-in-law called from Kennedy Airport to say she was coming to visit. Since then, she's been sprawled on our couch watching the DVD to Two Towers Lord of the Rings on an endless loop. Her possessions are spread all over the living room. So, we can't see a DVD, a VHS, listen to a CD, tape, or even watch TV, let alone sit on the couch. DW Joy is substantially more upset about this than I am
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CD - Julie Wilson sings Cole Porter and an Ethel Merman compilation
DVD - BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (and all the extras) and the Angela MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE which I'm watching again instead of --- not in addition to --- seeing the Meryl Streep remake
VHS - The Lila Quartermaine funeral/Anna Lee tribute
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Friday Media Check:
CD/Car: And the World Goes Round
CD/Office: Ripley/Skinner DUETS
DVD: Empty
VCR: Last night's Big Brother, which I didn't really need to tape since we were home in time to watch it.
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BTW (by thw way, in internet lingo): DR D-i-T: I thought your story about Banjo and Truffles was lovely. It has love and compassion oozing out of it all over the place: between you and Gord; between the two of you and your canines (but not molars); and finally, between Banjo and Truffles.
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What is a Canadian hot dog?
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Friday Media Check:
LP - LADY IN THE DARK (the Rise Stevens/Adolph Green studio recording)
I've just finished the chapter in DAZZLER that deals with LADY IN THE DARK and thought this would be an appropriate time to listen to it. I've got the Maria Friedman version on CD, but I thought this LP would hit the major music.
DVD - REMAINS OF THE DAY followed by either THE BIG STORE or MONKEY BUSINESS, in need of another Marx Bros. fix.
CD - THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL disc 3 which covers 1940-45. Starts with Deanna Durbin's "Waltzing in the Clouds" so of course I'm in heaven.
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DR George, let me know your opinions about the British version of QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY. It was nice for a change to see another interpretation of the show with five different personalities, and their subject is as charming and loving a man as could have been found. His camaraderie with the Brit Fab Five is palpable. Actually, the only irritating aspect of the show was his wife who laughed far too much into the camera. A nice change, but next week the American Fab Five take on a 60ish year old man which should be very fun and very different.
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I will agree with those who don't think SIX FEET UNDER this season quite measures up to previous seasons, but it's still so head and shoulders above most of what's out there that I don't care. I still hang on every move that Nate makes as he wavers uncertainly back into some kind of life for himself. David and Keith, who have always been the focus of my interest, have become the least interesting characters this year. Keith's storyline has been uninteresting, and David doesn't have a storyline (yet), the hot sex with the plumber notwithstanding.
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HBO was kind of smart scheduling their two more acclaimed drama series so they wouldn't have to face-off against one another at the Emmys. I think that's prevented either of them from winning in years past. I'm hoping THE SOPRANOS finally wins its long overdue Best Drama Series Emmy this year. The past season was really excellent.
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I saw the article about George Eads late last night and didn't come back here to post about it. I am disappointed that he'd think he could negotiate a raise (a) on a show where characters are far less important than procedures (b) without gaining the rest of the cast's efforts to join him.
The only reason the FRIENDS stars were able to negotiate so successfully was that all six banded together - without them there was no show.
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I keep forgetting to watch Queer Eye! It seemed to be constantly in re-runs and I guess I lost interest. I must get back into it...what channel is the British version on?
Panni...George Eads fired! Who would fire George Eads? I would hire George Eads! I would never fire him!!
...of course I have never watched that show that he is on! LOL! But if he is ever on another show like his SAVANNAH then I am there!
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What do you wanna bet it was his agent's idea!
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Stuart,
Thanks so much for your nice comments.
There's even more to the story. We were now up to three dogs - Banjo, Truffles, and an Afghan Hound named Pooch. One day I came home from work to find this note: "Madame Bovary has been walked, but please feed her." Madame Bovary was a Borzoi and, I assumed correctly, another dog Gord had been visiting at the pet store.
But I made a decision. Three was enough - for the other dogs' sake, and for mine. I tried not to warm up to Madame B., and the next day at work I let it be known that we had a dog for sale. Gord had paid a walloping $300 for her (this was thirty years ago). He just couldn't bare to see this long-legged dog languish in a pet store without proper exercise. Fortunately, there was a pretentious salesman at the firm where I worked. I played up the snob appeal of owning a Borzoi, we negotiated for $150, and I gladly took a loss. I received regular updates on Madame Bovary, renamed Sasha, who seemed to enjoy her new home.
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I keep forgetting to watch Queer Eye! It seemed to be constantly in re-runs and I guess I lost interest. I must get back into it...what channel is the British version on?
It's on Bravo. As part of the regular (American) "Queer Eye" season, they just showed an episode of the British version.
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What is a Canadian hot dog?
I don't know if they are truly "Canadian" or if it's just a marketing ploy, but they're very good. It's definitely not your average kind of hot dog. I think they're supposed to be pure beef.
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The VARIETY article mentioned that George and Jorja Fox (also fired) were both making about $100,000 an episode for the show, and had been given a nominal raise for this season (their contracts had two more years to go and they were both fired for breach of contract). Fox was allegedly surprised there was a problem, seemingly having no knowledge of what her agent was doing in trying to negotiate a higher salary. I find that hard to believe.
Obviously, CBS was not about to get drawn into another show-salary war like what happened last year on EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND.
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My 1500th Post!!
And on my Record Player (yes, vinyl): "Songs of New York" (from Book-of-the-Month Records), which, if I remember correctly, has songs orchestrated by our very own Elmore!!
DRGeorge, congrats on the 1500! You are your own frenzy.
"Songs of New York!" My first recording. McGlinn assigned all the period and vaudeville songs to me because he'd just heard some work I'd done on Friml's THE FIREFLY in concert (songs but not original 1912 orchestrations were in the MacDonald-Eddy film version) and thought I only did operetta, so it was a blast to do the big band "Don't monkey with Broadway" for Joe Papp. I'm still fond of that recording, and I wonder why I never see copies of it in any form - audiocassette, vinyl, or CD - anywhere.
TOD: I'm vegetating this week before my work load resumes on Monday, so I'm vague today. I have noidea what I'm listening to yet, or what to watch. I can tell you what I did yesterday:
CD: Kritzer Time, Guy Haines' album, Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
DVD: Tuck Everlasting, not bad but not nearly so good as the amazing book
Today I have to find my SEENEY TODD vocal score in the rubble, DRJose!
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Ah DR George I was wondering if Canadian hot dogs were something like Canadian bacon. Does anyone know why it is called that? It drives me crazy cause it's not bacon, it's ham! And I've never heard that term here.
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It's definitely not your average kind of hot dog. I think they're supposed to be pure beef.
Average hot dogs ARE pure beef.....if you're kosher. Try a Hebrew National, and you'll have a taste of what is to me a real hot dog. (Not that I keep strictly kosher, but I don't eat pork. Or shellfish. Or meat and dairy together.)
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Friday Media Check:
LP - LADY IN THE DARK (the Rise Stevens/Adolph Green studio recording)
I've just finished the chapter in DAZZLER that deals with LADY IN THE DARK and thought this would be an appropriate time to listen to it. I've got the Maria Friedman version on CD, but I thought this LP would hit the major music.
DVD - REMAINS OF THE DAY followed by either THE BIG STORE or MONKEY BUSINESS, in need of another Marx Bros. fix.
The Risë Stevens/Aldolp Green recording is availbale on CD together with extra material - Danny Kaye singing six numbers from the show including "Jenny" and "My Ship".
Now then DRs - can you connect the LP (Lady in the Dark) with the DVD (Marx Brothers) in the requisite six degrees or less?
der Brucer
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Well, Moss Hart wrote the libretto for LADY IN THE DARK, and he was married to Kitty Carlisle who co-starred in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.
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But I made a decision. Three was enough - for the other dogs' sake, and for mine.
I tried that line once, and failed miserably. I believe an exact quote would have been "No way am I driving across country with 5 dogs in the car!". (And you were only dealing with 1 more - I had Blond twin adolescents with which to contend.)
Though I would have thought that adding two more to the family would be unfair to the three we had, it turns out that they are all the happier with the added playmates. (And the blonds have learned to share "qualiity time" with me laying on the bed and gazing out of the window at the squirrels and birds cavorting in yard.)
der "always a sucker for puppy" Brucer
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Well, Moss Hart wrote the libretto for LADY IN THE DARK, and he was married to Kitty Carlisle who co-starred in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.
Well that was easy (Smart Ass!).
der Brucer (needs to work on harder test questions)
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Now then DRs - can you connect the LP (Lady in the Dark) with the DVD (Marx Brothers) in the requisite six degrees or less?
der Brucer
Adolph Green > Vera Ellen (On the Town) > Marx Brothers (Love Happy)
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Cecil Adams dends out a weekly EMail newletter with stuff from his site: Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_016.html).
Here is a classic re-run of his:
Did John Wayne die of cancer caused by a radioactive movie set?
26-Oct-1984
Dear Cecil:
My girlfriend says that half of the film crew and eight of the cast of the movie The Conqueror starring John Wayne died of cancer after an A-bomb test in Nevada. It can't be the truth--that many people--can it? Please, Cecil, give us the Straight Dope. --John L., Santa Monica, California
Cecil replies:
I'm horrified to have to report this, John, but your girlfriend's claim is only slightly exaggerated. Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. Experts say under ordinary circumstances only 30 people out of a group of that size should have gotten cancer. The cause? No one can say for sure, but many attribute the cancers to radioactive fallout from U.S. atom bomb tests in nearby Nevada. The whole ghastly story is told in The Hollywood Hall of Shame by Harry and Michael Medved. But let's start at the beginning.
The Conqueror, a putative love story involving Genghis Khan's lust for the beautiful princess Bortai (Hayward), was a classic Hollywood big budget fiasco, one of many financed by would-be movie mogul Howard Hughes. Originally director Powell wanted to get Marlon Brando for the lead, but John Wayne, then at the height of his popularity, happened to see the script one day and decided he and Genghis were meant for each other. Unfortunately, the script was written in a cornball style that was made even more ludicrous by the Duke's wooden line readings. In the following sample, Wayne/Genghis has just been urged by his sidekick Jamuga not to attack the caravan carrying Princess Bortai: "There are moments fer wisdom, Juh-mooga, then I listen to you--and there are moments fer action--then I listen to my blood. I feel this Tartar wuh-man is fer me, and my blood says, 'TAKE HER!'" In the words of one writer, it was the world's "most improbable piece of casting unless Mickey Rooney were to play Jesus in The King of Kings."
The movie was shot in the canyonlands around the Utah town of St. George. Filming was chaotic. The actors suffered in 120 degree heat, a black panther attempted to take a bite out of Susan Hayward, and a flash flood at one point just missed wiping out everybody. But the worst didn't become apparent until long afterward. In 1953, the military had tested 11 atomic bombs at Yucca Flats, Nevada, which resulted in immense clouds of fallout floating downwind. Much of the deadly dust funneled into Snow Canyon, Utah, where a lot of The Conqueror was shot. The actors and crew were exposed to the stuff for 13 weeks, no doubt inhaling a fair amount of it in the process, and Hughes later shipped 60 tons of hot dirt back to Hollywood to use on a set for retakes, thus making things even worse.
Many people involved in the production knew about the radiation (there's a picture of Wayne himself operating a Geiger counter during the filming), but no one took the threat seriously at the time. Thirty years later, however, half the residents of St. George had contracted cancer, and veterans of the production began to realize they were in trouble. Actor Pedro Armendariz developed cancer of the kidney only four years after the movie was completed, and later shot himself when he learned his condition was terminal.
Howard Hughes was said to have felt "guilty as hell" about the whole affair, although as far as I can tell it never occurred to anyone to sue him. For various reasons he withdrew The Conqueror from circulation, and for years thereafter the only person who saw it was Hughes himself, who screened it night after night during his paranoid last years.
--CECIL ADAMS
Seems like the Conquerer is another one of those "What were they thinking" moments.
Now, here is a film that might deserve re-making - I feel a Pogue story in the works!
der Brucer
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Good morning.
CD - Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Dawn Upshaw) - courtesy of DR Elmore.
Nothing other than that. Me writing.
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I love Cecil Adams' columns.
And for one of those "degrees of separation" moments, one of his sisters-in-law works in my agency.
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DR Panni,
Earlier today I was listening to:
Dawn Upshaw's beautiful (especially the title song) I Wish It So.
(Nothing playing at the moment. Reading material? A friend just lent me The Bar Mitzvah Murder. I hope to get into it this weekend. The cover art shows a knife buried in a chalah plus a kiddish cup dripping blood that's shaped like a skull. Subtle.)
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A friend just lent me The Bar Mitzvah Murder. I hope to get into it this weekend. The cover art shows a knife buried in a chalah plus a kiddish cup dripping blood that's shaped like a skull.
The mohel did it. ;)
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THE PANNI CHALLENGE!
The AP (http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20040715074409990011) reports, in part:
NEW YORK (July 16) - Martha Stewart was sentenced Friday to five months in prison for a stock-trading scandal, moving one step closer to a drastically different lifestyle behind bars for the millionaire entrepreneur.
''I'll be back,'' she promised afterward, speaking in a strong voice on the courthouse steps.
''I'm not afraid. Not afraid whatsoever. I'm very sorry it had to come to this.''
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In the courtroom, her voice was shaky as she appealed for a reduced sentence, asking the judge to ''remember all the good I have done.''
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Earlier, Stewart, 62, dressed simply in a black pantsuit, showed no emotion as she strode briskly through a media horde. Supporters applauded and one shouted, ''Hold your head high, Martha!''
So...a Lifetime Movie...a Broadway Show...a Moore-like expose...what will it be?
"I'll be back"
"I'm not afraid"
"Hold your head up high"
Why the dialog writes itself!
der Brucer (waiving his customery agency fee)
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Re: Martha Stewart
So how many months will she actually have to serve? (can she get out earlier than the 5 months?)
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The mohel did it. ;)
Blabber mouth....you Yente Telebenda, you!
And now a DR Elan moment:
From Looking Back (http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.02.28/lookingback.html):
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FEBRUARY 28, 2003
75 YEARS AGO
• There is an organization in Palestine called the Legion for the Protection of the Language. The language, in this case, happens to be Hebrew. This Legion refuses to permit Yiddish newspapers or theater, not to mention the use of Yiddish in schools. The government refuses to do anything about it and acts like it's none of their business. Officially, a Yiddish newspaper is allowed. But the Legion has threatened all the printers with violence if they put one out. Recently, however, Tel Avivians came across big posters announcing a production in Yiddish of the play "Yenta Telebenda." People wondered if it would really be in Yiddish. The show sold out in one day, and the only way to get a ticket was through scalpers, who were selling them at twice their face value. The Legion was furious, and rumors spread that they had prepared stink bombs to throw into the theater if they heard Yiddish being performed. Others said they were packing heat. When the curtain rose, the young director announced that this version of "Yenta Telebenda" would be performed in the "language of our fathers, of the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, and of our great poet Chaim Nachman Bialik." Sure enough, Yenta Telebenda came out singing and cursing in Hebrew. The Legion was happy, the audience furious.
der Brucer
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Old Jewish joke:
If they call it [the Hebrew-language newspaper] "The Forward," why do you read it backwards?
(I think there's now an English-language edition. This joke is from before my time. Depressing thought: Actually, I think it's from my time.)
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Not much to report media-wise. Two's Company wasn't on this week, instead Channel 21 decided to broadcast one of the hour-long (45 minutes actually) Christmas episodes of Waiting for God and then it looks like next week, instead of Waiting for God they will begin airing To the Manor Born (not bad, but they hadn't finished with Waiting for God episodes). Two's Company will air in it's original time-slot next week. I taped Jeopardy last night and when Ant came home from dance class we watched it.
We listened to the new Wonderful Town (Donna Murphy). A friend lent it to us so we could burn a copy (shhhh, don't tell anyone). We also have Hello, Love, the Mary Rodgers (via BK) CD. Anthony is making a compilation CD of many of his favorite classical pieces so we have classical music floating through the apartment.
Apartment redecorating continues apace. We now have new shelves above the refrigerator, after a minor crisis. Anthony was using the power screwdriver with the changeable bits and AFTER he took down the netting he put up to catch any possible dropped screws or nails, he dropped the screwdriver bit behind the refrigerator. When I came home we moved the fridge and the stove and retrieved the bit. It was good that we did because it was a dusty mess back there and we got to clean it out. Now the shelves are up and deftly hidden behind new sand colored curtains. As I was leaving to come back to the office from lunch this afternoon, Mr. Anthony had that look in his eye so who knows what I shall find on my return.
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Dan-in-TO - I'm sure you've read it, but one of my favorite books of its kind is BINTEL BRIEF. The book contains a selection of sixty years of letters to the Daily Forward -- and each one is like a wonderful short story, some hilarious, some tragic, some both at the same time.
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If Martha starts serving her five months now, she'll be out just in time to do her annual Christmas Special.
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I slept till ten, a real rarity, but I needed it (even though I was up at five and seven briefly). I got hooked on Catching the Friedmans so didn't get to bed until a bit after one. Looking forward to the bonus materials which has new revelations and interviews.
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...Mr. Anthony had that look in his eye so who knows what I shall find on my return.
Will he be wrapped in Saran Wrap?
Will he be wearing his toolbelt and only his toolbelt?
My advice to you, Dear Reader Ben, is to pick up some flowers on the way home. And take videos!
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Has anyone else seen Capturing the Friedmans? If so, what did you think? I'll have my full thoughts in tomorrow's notes, but I was quite taken with the film itself.
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Well I am freaking out right now. I spent more than an hour typing something out for a friend. I sent it. And when I went to my saved mail folder the message was not there. And I had erased the previous versions of it.
The email did not arrive.
So there are two possibilities. One is that the message is so huge that it is taking a while to arrive. And I must have erased my version in my sent mail folder by mistake.
Or two, i never sent it, and erased all copies of it that I had.
My body got so overcome by emotions I started crying.
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Haven't seen the Friedman film yet. I will try to pick it up and watch sometime soon. I've heard good things about.
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Jennifer: Check your "Outbox" and see if it's in a holding status.
Also check under "Drafts" -- sometimes files end up there, too.
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DR Jay, I'll have to settle for still pictures from the digital camera. The very old video camera (from 1985 I think, it weighs a ton and uses a battery the size of a small child) is out on the Isle of Long. ;-)
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Jennifer: Check your "Outbox" and see if it's in a holding status.
Also check under "Drafts" -- sometimes files end up there, too.
My email is text only and it's quite different from most people's emails.
I have no "drafts" or "outbox".
I have my inbox and my sent mail folder.
I sent the message numerous times to myself as I was copying what i was typing. I know those went thru, cause I saw them.
I am pretty sure I sent the message. But I was planning on only keeping the one message from my sent mail folder (the one i sent to my friend).
So I deleted all the other messages I had sent myself.
I'm thinking I probably accidently deleted his sent mail. But since i never actually saw it. And since the email hasn't arrived, I'm freaking out.
But he has hotmail. So sometimes it takes a while for certain messages. I just wish I knew for sure that it would get there.
I emailed my tech guy, who usually can solve such things (I want to know if i can retrieve the message).
But to make things worse, I'm pretty sure he'll probably say HE needs to do it. And this is a private message that I wouldn't want him to see.
Anyhow it's my own stupidity for erasing the other copies. I'm just hoping this has a happy ending.
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Has anyone else seen Capturing the Friedmans? If so, what did you think? I'll have my full thoughts in tomorrow's notes, but I was quite taken with the film itself.
I did. Beyond the questions about the evidence that the film raises, the predominant reaction I had to the film was wonderment at why the hell those people (the Friedmans) would be willing to expose themselves like that. Do people no longer value their privacy? Is the fifteen minutes of fame really worth all that?
Since seeing the film, I have read that the filmmaker was very selective in what was and was not included. Like Farenheit 9/11, because it is a documentary does not mean it is necessarily objective.
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Oh and DR RLP, thanks very much for trying to help. I appreciate it.
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Haven't seen the Friedman film yet. I will try to pick it up and watch sometime soon. I've heard good things about.
Given Dear Ant's line of work, I do believe you would have special interest in this film. In fact, it began not as an investigation into a child molestation case, but rather as a profile of Manhattan's (supposedly) most successful children's party clown.
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Brucer: thanks for the story! I've unfortunately only seen one play in Yiddish in my life (and I needed the simultaneous translation... unfortunately, my knowledge of mamaloshen is extremely meager).
While it invokes chuckles now, the question of determining the official language of Jews in Palestine (and the fledgling state of Israel) was not at all a trivial one. Hebrew was not used as a day-to-day spoken language for centuries prior to the mid-1800s, and it is not difficult to imagine that Israel might have been a Yiddish or German-speaking country.
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Dan-in-Toronto I just read the story of Truffles, Banjo and Gord-ROTFLOL.
Fourteen years ago Keith was out of town I rescued Bogie and his sister Bacall from the Vets. Considering we already had two cats and a dog I didn’t mention this until he returned home. Then I tried to get the kids to only tell him we had one new kitten. I thought I would wait and see how long it took him to figure it out. But of course the boys each walked up to him holding a kitten.
Td what is the story behind the very nice photos? And where is Minx?
In keeping with yesterday’s discussion, last night our friends has recently seen MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and said we shouldn’t miss it. We went to a winery that had a special evening of wine, cheese and Jazz. The wine wasn’t very good and we still aren’t sure we were listening to Jazz. ???
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Oh...yes I loved the doggie story as well, DiT.
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS....well I watched it this week on HBO. It is a very disturbing film (?). I ended up with very mixed feelings about the whole thing. I am interested to read MR BK's views...and the views of the other DR's here at HHW. I don't want to see it again.
It is like another "documentary" I saw called THEY SHOOT MOVIES DON'T THEY....
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I have THE CONQUEROR on DVD - bought online in an official release for about $7.
Actually the action scenes are pretty good - but the acting....whew! There is some great dialog, though, unlike anything else I have ever heard....one of my favorite lines being John Wayne's estimation of Susan Hayward: "After her, all other women are like the second pressing of the grape!"
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JRand congratulations on your big applause. Very nice.
DerBrucer, hmmm, if I remember correctly you couldn’t find homes for the “blonds” or would have. :)
Jennifer, I do hope the email is just taking its time. Good luck and GOOD VIBES.
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Thanks DRJANE! ;D I will take another bow!
Here is my DVD review of THE CONQUERER! 8)
http://www.epinions.com/content_70716591748 (http://www.epinions.com/content_70716591748)
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page THREE dance! ;D
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Susan Hayward: "After her, all other women are like the second pressing of the grape!"
Lots of famous people were born in Brooklyn....Barbara Stanwyck...Susan Hayward...(ooh, an ALL ABOUT EVE reference!)
I would have KILLED to see her MAME. (Of course, given my age at the time, it probably would have been accomplished with a suction-cup tipped arrow.)
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DR Jane, I'm trying to decide whether to retype it.
I wish I knew more about computers so I could help myself.
The ironic part is that the person who the email was going to is a computer expert. But has no time to do it. :(
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Td what is the story behind the very nice photos? And where is Minx?
Well, Jane, you're too too kind when you say that the photos are nice, they are memorable, though.
Those shots were taken at the stage door of THE MUSIC MAN, Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera presentation. Either Saturday or Sunday I wrote:
Stage dooring afterwards, I present Jeff with his first copy ever of SCARLET STREET magazine, the "Unzips the Fly" issue, which he was very impressed with. Katherine had not yet seen the contents of the "to be autographed" envelope, so she kindly asked me if they could leave it at the stage door TODAY for me to pick up.
You see, Miss Wreford and I hit it off nicely (as did Mr. G, and I) as we posed for pictures together and someone said, "It looks like you're Daisy and Violet," and, well, as if possessed, Katherine and I launched into a totally impromptu, totally appropriate rendition of "Like Everyone Else" on the sidewalk! We then had a lengthy conversation about SIDE SHOW, favorite musicals and Jeff's compliments to me about my voice, which I must humbly say, did blend nicely with Ms. Wreford's. . .Catherine said that she was delighted to find a person in Pittsburgh who shared an affinity for SIDE SHOW.
Since then, Catherine left me a lovely little note amongst the items which Jeff signed for me, pleased that she had got to "sing" with me.
As for Minx, well, she wasn't there, they don't allow dogs into the Benedum Center. ;)
Right now, she is as right as rain, and the petit mal seizure is nothing to worry about according to her vet. More than likely, it was caused by something which she ate or ingested. I think it was probably the former, she had a couple of ham chunks Saturday night.
How's everone else's pooches? ? ?
Minx sends her love.
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I have two words for George Eads and Jorja Fox:
Suzanne Sommers! :D
See ya on the Home Shopping Network!
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DR Jay, the Clown aspect is actually one of the reasons Anthony didn't want to see Capturing the Friedmans. He never knew the "most successful childrens party clown in Manhattan" since Friedman worked the city circuit and Anthony is a Long Island clown. Apparently, even though the Friedmans are on LI, paths rarely cross in the suburbs.
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DR STUART - Designer Ray Agayagian (sp) - says that once in the 1960's he was in New York City with Hayward. They were in a car provided by the studio driving through Brooklyn to visit Hayward's sister....
Glancing out the window, Hayward saw a middle aged housewife, curlers in her hair, cigarette hanging from her mouth - the woman leaning out the window calling to her wayward children. Ray says Hayward crossed herself and shuddered. She shot a glance at Ray and said: "That could have been me....that could have easily been me."
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Just did some errands, had a spot of lunch and now must get ready for our photo shoot at two.
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...she had a couple of ham chunks Saturday night.
At a local booksigning?
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She of course signed with her paw.
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DR STUART - Designer Ray Agayagian (sp) -
I think it's Ahagyan, but could be wrong. Is he still alive? Do he and Bob Mackie even speak anymore? I know they were design partners, but I never knew if there was anything more....recently saw a picture of Mackie from the 70s or so....my lord, he was handsome! Talk about "See you on QVC!"
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Saw CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS when it was first released. Found it disturbing and fascinating. I agree that it's puzzling why they would (a) record everything and (b) let the world see it. On the other hand, these folks are obviously marching to a different drummer. IMO, an excellent docu.
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Jrand - Forgot to say congrats on your Bernhardt-like success! (Although I don't think her fly was ever open. She played Hamlet in tights.)
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I hope you can get your computer problem straightened out, Jennifer. Sometimes emails just take longer than usual to get to where they're going. One time I waited until the night before this literary analysis was due for my English class, and then stayed up all night to do it. My foster kitten, Orlando, stayed up too in order to "help" me. He was sitting on my lap meowing at me while I was typing, and then all of a sudden he swatted at the keyboard and everything on the screen disappeared. I only had a couple hours to retype what had taken me about six hours to do the first time. I never did find out what button(s) he had pressed, but I refer to this mysterious button as the "Orlando Button." Ever since then, I have written everything out by hand BEFORE typing it, instead of composing it at the computer. (Although, I still wait until the night before it's due.) I only have to hope that my cat Tumbly doesn't eat it, because he loves to eat paper.
I forgot. What was the point to this story?
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I love The Straight Dope too. I wrote in once, but he never answered me.
Today, I am leaving to go to a family reunion in Kansas. Three days with 75 of my closest relatives, plus however many days driving with my dad and my brother. :o (If you had ever spent all day cooped up in a car with my brother, you would understand.)
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CD - Julie Wilson sings Cole Porter and an Ethel Merman compilation
DVD - BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (and all the extras) and the Angela MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE which I'm watching again instead of --- not in addition to --- seeing the Meryl Streep remake
VHS - The Lila Quartermaine funeral/Anna Lee tribute
Julie Wilson sings Ethel Merman! Wow. I've got to get that!!! Is it on the DRG label?
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Spent a lovely afternoon in the pent-up emotional world of REMAINS OF THE DAY. A stunning looking DVD, and the film has been one of my very favorites from the last ten or so years.
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Then, I put in MONKEY BUSINESS. I think Groucho must talk more in this one than in all the others put together.
Might try to squeeze in SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT before MONK comes on tonight.
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Yes, DRSTUART that is the correct spelling. And I think Ray and Bob Mackie were an item for a short time when Mackie was starting out. Ray of course worked first with Bill Travilla - I think....it's lively family tree!
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DR JENNIFER computers are mysterious and wonderful things....and when I hear or get involved in a situation like that, I always think of the HAL 9000.......
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Thanks, DRPANNI.... Tights...hmmmmmmmmmmm. MR BK will you and DRJOSE have your photographs taken as well?
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I should have mentioned my system is Pine. Oy, for someone who uses computers so much, I sometimes feel like I know so little.
Still no email.
I just really wish that I knew one way or the other if I had sent it. I honestly thought I had. But maybe I had addressed it to myself, and it was one of the sentmails I erased.
Btw, I feel cursed, since it started to rain while I was outside just before (with no umbrella).
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DR Sandra, thanks for the story. I actually have eveything typed out, so that's not an issue. It's just a matter of whether I want to re-type it or not. If I knew for sure that it was never sent, then I would. But I just have this feeling that I will re-type it and then the other email will arrive.
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DRJENNIFER maybe you send a test email to your friend's hotmail account....when it arrives, you will know your other one should have been there before.
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Td, I remember now. Thank you.
I’m pleased Minx is doing well. I know how frightening a seizure can be to watch. Echo is doing as well as we could hope for, no deterioration and is as active as ever.
JRand-interesting story about Susan Hayward. I was always a big fan of hers.
Sandra, have a nice trip-and have you ever heard of saving your work as you go along? :) I know our computer is set to automatically save every five minutes, as long as we don’t accidentally hit the delete button. There is also the print button as you go along.
Jennifer, it was an hour of typing, not just doing the work? When does your friend need this? Can you do it at home, a little at a time? Will your friend call you as soon as/if the email is received?
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Jane - Speaking of emails which don't arrive... Ever since one of my replies to a PM disappeared into cyberspace, I've been wary. Did you receive my reply to your PM yesterday?
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DR Jennifer,
I find that with these matters, it's easiest - and probably fastest - just to retype rather than angsting over the situation. You may even find that you're improving on the original as you go. Consider yourself fortunate that you have something to type from. (Any chance that you saved it as a Word document and can attach it? And maybe that's the best way to proceed when you do retype it; that way you can save as you go along.)
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DRJENNIFER maybe you send a test email to your friend's hotmail account....when it arrives, you will know your other one should have been there before.
Oh i've sent others today and they all arrived. But this one was much bigger. And for some reason it happens sometimes with hotmail that messages don't show up for a day. And they are always the important ones.
Plus, and this won't make sense, but I am sure that
message has not yet arrived.
Thank you so much for your help though. I appreciate it.
I have actually never gotten this upset about a computer problem before. But something about this, and the fact that what I was typing really meant something, has made me very sad today.
Anyhow I can re-type it tomorrow. It's just the point of the thing. It's like the gods were telling me that what was important to me wasn't important.
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Close to page four...
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And one for Herman Miller! (On whose very comfortable chair I sit.)
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DR Jennifer,
I find that with these matters, it's easiest - and probably fastest - just to retype rather than angsting over the situation. You may even find that you're improving on the original as you go. Consider yourself fortunate that you have something to type from. (Any chance that you saved it as a Word document and can attach it? And maybe that's the best way to proceed when you do retype it; that way you can save as you go along.)
I think your advice is good. The reason I'm hesitating is that it took longer than an hour. And I'm still not convinced I didn't send it.
I am stupid because I did save it as I went along. But after I thought I sent it, I erased what I saved (since i thought i was saving the email i sent).
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And no I didn't save it as a word document. And no I can't improve on it, since I'm copying it word for word from something I have with me.
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Yes, DRJENNIFER - I have had hotmail messages sent and received the next day!
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Off to the SOLD OUT Friday performance of FATHER OF THE BRIDE!
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Panni I didn’t receive your message. To be on the safe side I reduced the number of messages in my in-box just to be sure there is room to receive more. Does the message show up in your out-box?
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CD player-The Time/Life Hit Parade 1951, 52 and 53. These were the only CD’s of my father’s that I could find when I cleaned out his condo.
VHS-CHARLIE GRANT’S WAR and TWO MEN
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I am stupid because I did save it as I went along. But after I thought I sent it, I erased what I saved (since i thought i was saving the email i sent).
I've done worse.
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TCB sends his "Hello" and best wishes to the usual suspects. He will try and log on at some. Still major problems with his computer.
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DR Jennifer - Sometimes I have received Hotmail messages from DR François 4 days after he has left work!
DR Jane. You have mail.
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CD player-The Time/Life Hit Parade 1951, 52 and 53.
Did I got to School with your father? I remember the years well - and the hit parades. Did anyone find out how much was that doggie in the window. Perhaps Gord. and DR DIT would know.
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Jennifer, it was an hour of typing, not just doing the work? When does your friend need this? Can you do it at home, a little at a time? Will your friend call you as soon as/if the email is received?
He doesn't "need" it, I just promised I'd send it. And I don't know how long it took, but more than an hour, maybe even two. :(
And yes I will know if it is received.
Thanks for caring.
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Yes, DRJENNIFER - I have had hotmail messages sent and received the next day!
What's up with that?
And listening to DRs Panni and Jane - it makes me wonder how many messages are MIA. Crazy.
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Quote from: Jennifer on Today at 02:27:53pm
I am stupid because I did save it as I went along. But after I thought I sent it, I erased what I saved (since i thought i was saving the email i sent).
I've done worse.
Thanks for saying that since I feel like a complete idiot. At least most people in my position would know if they actually sent the message and HAD to re-type it.
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The Risë Stevens/Aldolp Green recording is availbale on CD together with extra material - Danny Kaye singing six numbers from the show including "Jenny" and "My Ship".
Now then DRs - can you connect the LP (Lady in the Dark) with the DVD (Marx Brothers) in the requisite six degrees or less?
der Brucer
The CD of the Rise Stevens LP of Lady in the Dark includes extra material featuring Danny Kaye...
...Who appeared as himself on The Lucy Show (episode: "Lucy Meets Danny Kaye") starring Lucille Ball...
Who in turn played the female lead in the film Room Service...
Which starred the Marx Brothers.
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a black panther attempted to take a bite out of Susan Hayward
And I, for one, don't blame him.
The mother-in-law is still on the couch, but has announced plans to leave tomorrow, for D.C. She will have been on the couch watching Lord of the Rings (the first two) for roughly 88 hours.
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I tried that line once, and failed miserably. I believe an exact quote would have been "No way am I driving across country with 5 dogs in the car!". (And you were only dealing with 1 more - I had Blond twin adolescents with which to contend.)
Though I would have thought that adding two more to the family would be unfair to the three we had, it turns out that they are all the happier with the added playmates. (And the blonds have learned to share "qualiity time" with me laying on the bed and gazing out of the window at the squirrels and birds cavorting in yard.)
der "always a sucker for puppy" Brucer
I'd have said "always a sucker for a lost puppy," at least for as long as I've known you. ;)
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Jane - I sent you a long PM in reply to yours yesterday about the videos and it's not in my Outbox, nor did you get it. Aaaargh!
Could someone PM me Jane's email. I think I had it, but no longer do and she's not signed on. Thanks!
ADDED: FOUND THE ADDRESS.
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BK - I've checked, I've looked, and I still cant find where you've answered my BK query, so here it is again:
I'd love to know about the process leading to the selection of the songs for What If.
When different people were cast, did you then find material that would be right for them?
Were songs dropped after casting because nobody was right for them?
Had you, before embarking on this project, a list of songs that you thought would be good in a revue - to draw on. What "new" listening did you do, once it seemed Plan B might become a reality?
Did you ever get in touch with Marcy and Zina? Their new musical, Junie B. Jones, opens next week at the Lucille Lortel
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DerBrucer, hmmm, if I remember correctly you couldn’t find homes for the “blonds” or would have. :)
Ah, but we did find a home for the "blonds"...OURS! :D :D
Bonnie is currently under my bed, and Buster is on top of it, looking down and watching her tail wag. Pounce time is approaching.
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Never mind! Found it!
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Hello folks. While the rest of my family goes on vacation, I will be remaining at home alone, working towards the closing of Mom's house.
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Might try to squeeze in SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT before MONK comes on tonight.
Spoo, forgot about Monk. Der Brucer will have to tape it, I guess, since Stargate: Atlantis plays it's opener at the same time. (See, Danise, you're not alone!)
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The mother-in-law is still on the couch, but has announced plans to leave tomorrow, for D.C. She will have been on the couch watching Lord of the Rings (the first two) for roughly 88 hours.
All right, I'll bite. Is she going through all of the audio commentaries, or just watching the films over and over and...
I mean, I've heard der Brucer's daughter complain about what goes on when her mother visits, but your MiL takes the cake!
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Pounce Time has occurred! Bonnie and Buster have been racing up and down the hall, pausing only at one end or the other to wrassle (either in the living room or on my bed). The other dogs are just watching them, bemused.
I have had a very quiet day off, mostly spent napping. The morning glories planted along the dog run downstairs have been spectacularly blue, with one in bright fuchia opening up as well (a mini-flower version). Life is pleasant.
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Media check:
VHS: both taped off of TV, IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (too much talk, not enough monster)...and THE GIRL MOST LIKELY (fun to see Keith Andes in a musical comedy, but otherwise it was just OK)
DVD: A few episodes of Stingray.
And my Bollywood DVD this weekend is HARISHCHANDRA TARAMATI (whew!).
It apears to be a nifty little costume/mythological treat from 1963, the kind of movie of which I have become most fond of!
It stars Helen along with some actors I have not heard of before.
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Bulletin: Val Kilmer will be playing Moses in the musical "The Ten Commandments"... Opening at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Sept 27.
Is that a burning bush or are you just happy to see me? (Sorry!)
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Did I got to School with your father? I remember the years well - and the hit parades. Did anyone find out how much was that doggie in the window. Perhaps Gord. and DR DIT would know.
Nope, but it is still a fun song. And I remember it well.
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Ah, but we did find a home for the "blonds"...OURS! :D :D
Bonnie is currently under my bed, and Buster is on top of it, looking down and watching her tail wag. Pounce time is approaching.
And they are so lucky to have been found!! :)
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Bulletin: Val Kilmer will be playing Moses in the musical "The Ten Commandments"... Opening at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Sept 27.
Is that a burning bush or are you just happy to see me? (Sorry!)
:) A song for each of the commandments could be interesting. I am in shock.
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"Thou Shalt Not Steal" Dick & Deedee. (I think John D Loudermilk wrote the song).
Must search for a song about coveting the neighbour's ass. (or some such reference).
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Don't expect a dance from me. The radio at the moment is in fact playing "Save The Last Dance For Me". Spooky.
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Evening all!
There isn't much to tell about today. President Bush was in town again. Which meant traffic was all jammed up for hours in the middle of the day.
I did wish I had my camera with me during my lunch hour. I saw a Pink Pigmobile. It was a van that someone had made up to look like a big pink pig and it had 2 little pigs (trailers) being pulled behind it. I know it was a protest regarding President Bush but since I'm not up on that kind of stuff, I don't know what a pink pig means.
It is thundering as I type this so I might have shut down here soon. Have a great evening if I have to scoot!
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Saved by DR Danise. I thought there was going to be a full hour go by without a post.
Thanks to DR Danise I now have "The Ballad Of Thunder Road" going through my head. One of those great singers - Robert Mitchum.
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...I'm still stuck on the coveting your neighbor's ass song...
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Awww, shucks, DR Tomovoz, it was nothing. Really! :)
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I don't think Donkey Serenade (Allan Jones - father of Jack) will make the cut.
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For some reason, the covet the ass song reminds me... Ages ago I co-wrote a Tarzan film for CBS (not my greatest artistic achievement) for which Charles Fox did, IMHO, a really good score. In one of the highly dramatic scenes, in which Tarzan is risking his life to go after the horrible hunters who ape-napped Cheetah, if you listen carefully you can hear voices singing "Don't steal my monkey...Don't steal my monkey...Don't steal my monkey...Don't steal my monkey..."
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Thanks for sharing that gem Panni. Just gave Colin a laugh.
Now I am humming a song called "Little Red Monkey" - from the early 50's. The canyons of mind have some very strange contents it seems.
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For some reason, the covet the ass song reminds me... Ages ago I co-wrote a Tarzan film for CBS (not my greatest artistic achievement) for which Charles Fox did, IMHO, a really good score. In one of the highly dramatic scenes, in which Tarzan is risking his life to go after the horrible hunters who ape-napped Cheetah, if you listen carefully you can hear voices singing "Don't steal my monkey...Don't steal my monkey...Don't steal my monkey...Don't steal my monkey..."
I always thought that the song was "Don't spank the monkey.. .don't spank the monkey. . ." ;)
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Had to go check my record collection
"Little Red Monkey" 1953 - Joy Nichols. It seems it was not a hit record in the US of A. Maybe BK remembers it but he is of course a year younger than I.
Do I need to get a life?
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Lovely to see you DR td. A special greeting to you from Mr Birkeland.
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Oh, in a very interesting turn of events, Chris Rawson re-evaluated Jeff Goldblum's performance in Act One of MUSIC MAN, and came away very impressed. His new thoughts were in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning, as well as a letter to the editor which praised Goldblum's Saturday night performance much more than I did.
When you go in expecting a train wreck, but instead see something not going off track, you are pleasantly surprised. I'll shall be seeing at least part of the show again tomorrow or Sunday.
And, yes, I got a nice little missive from TCB ;)
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I have Googled:
"Little Red Monkey" was from the BBC radio show "Take It From Here"
Rosemary Clooney "covered" the song in the U S of A.
Life is full of excitment.
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Did the monkey get red from too much spanking? ???
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I did wish I had my camera with me during my lunch hour. I saw a Pink Pigmobile. It was a van that someone had made up to look like a big pink pig and it had 2 little pigs (trailers) being pulled behind it. I know it was a protest regarding President Bush but since I'm not up on that kind of stuff, I don't know what a pink pig means.
I think it means the lying war-mongering pig should be riding in it, DRDanise!
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Thanks for sharing that gem Panni. Just gave Colin a laugh.
Me too. :D
We just returned from dinner in town. It is a very warm evening here and we sat in the shade along the creek. My only complaint is while sitting at this particular location you can't see the creek, just hear it. I enjoyed my dinner very much but Keith wasn't as lucky.
I only had one small glass of wine and slowly sipped it. I don't know why I'm feeling the effects as much as I am. I really don't mind, unless I'm not alert enough to watch a very special movie I have been looking forward to.
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Question for all the DVD techophiles out there. I got Journey to the Center of the Earth on clearance. They had before and after restoration scenes. The before was simply unwatchable. They did amazing jobs over the years, Question is this what is the difference between FILM RESTORATION and FILM AND VIDEO RESTORATION?
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Sorry Michael I can't answer your question.
Have a good evening-I'm off for the night.
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If you didn't get MONK tonight, I noticed on my cable guide that it's also coming on tomorrow night at 6 p.m. EDT.
Tonight's show had a couple of very funny bits in it.
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Just a guess about your question, Michael, but I'm guessing that the film has undergone more than one restoration in its life span. Things might have been cleaned up for a video release when making a video master (and it might have had separate pan and scan and widescreen video masters) but also the film's negative might have been digitally cleaned up and transferred to make a new negative.
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Just back from wandering around the City of Studio. Had my usual adventures, but I'm fighting a headache and it seems to be winning, so I'll relate adventures another time. Now for some Tylenol and a big clean-up of my little joint so it's sparkling for tomorrow's writing.
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Coveting wasn't a part of it, but a funny guy I know once tried to convince me to set music to a lyric he'd written about serving donkey meat for dinner. The title was Darling, Please Don't Make Me Eat Your Ass Again Tonight. It was going to be a country song. This is why I don't collaborate with lyricists.
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Quote from: Noel on Today at 06:07:46pm
The mother-in-law is still on the couch, but has announced plans to leave tomorrow, for D.C. She will have been on the couch watching Lord of the Rings (the first two) for roughly 88 hours.
All right, I'll bite. Is she going through all of the audio commentaries, or just watching the films over and over and...
I mean, I've heard der Brucer's daughter complain about what goes on when her mother visits, but your MiL takes the cake!
I think I've heard some of those commentaries when I've gone through the living room.
Joy's also upset over her mother's consumption of food and expensive toiletries. There's a whole process (which I can't claim to understand) Joy goes through to take a bag lunch to work. It involves washing lettuce, spinning it in a salad spinner, than laying individual pieces to dry in between paper towels, covered in the refrigerator. Only then can Joy prepare a portable lunch. Of course her mother ate all the lettuce and hasn't bought anything since arriving here. We've no indication she even has American money on her. She says she needs a Bank of America ATM, and I don't know of any in New York.
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We've no indication she even has American money on her. She says she needs a Bank of America ATM, and I don't know of any in New York.
Try this link to Bank of America. (http://www.bankofamerica.com/index.cfm)
On the left hand side of the screen, towards the bottom, is an index for finding BofA ATMs.
If, upon finding a local ATM, the MinL comes up with some other excuse, then I advise finding new in-laws. (Keep Joy, of course.)
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Bank of America customers can use any ATM with a matching logo (which seems to be most ATMs where I've traveled). Yes, she will have to pay a fee of a few dollars -- but she can get cash from it.
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Well, I got home about an hour and a half ago and waiting for me in the mail were several DVDs from eBay!! Barbara Cook's "Mostly Sondheim" from one seller and a lot of four random DVDs from another: Armistead Maupin's "Further Tales of the City" (I actually have this on video and it's the only title in the series that I have...now I have two copies!); "Ulee's Gold" with Peter Fonda (the only title that I didn't want); "Big Eden" with Arye Gross, George Coe, Veanne Cox and Louise Fletcher; and "Treading Water," a lesbian movie that I got for someone else (which is why I bid on the auction to begin with). Now that's some varied viewing! :D
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td, I also got "Who Killed Teddy Bear," yesterday! I put it in my DVD player and it looked really good, until I got to the spot at 25 minutes and 19 seconds. It stopped! Right there! Every time I played up to that spot, I couldn't get past it and I couldn't fast forward past it, either. I couldn't even jump to the next chapter! :o I'm going to check it on my other two DVD players to see if it's just the machine or the disc itself. I haven't left feedback for the seller, yet. I've never left negative feedback and I hope I don't have to. As long as it gets resolved, that's all I care about.
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td, I also got "Who Killed Teddy Bear," yesterday! I put it in my DVD player and it looked really good, until I got to the spot at 25 minutes and 19 seconds. It stopped! Right there! Every time I played up to that spot, I couldn't get past it and I couldn't fast forward past it, either. I couldn't even jump to the next chapter! :o I'm going to check it on my other two DVD players to see if it's just the machine or the disc itself. I haven't left feedback for the seller, yet. I've never left negative feedback and I hope I don't have to. As long as it gets resolved, that's all I care about.
Oh, I hope you don't have to either! Make sure you contact the seller via private email and let him know of the problem; I'm sure that he'll do all that he can to make amends.
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DOG QUESTION!
I just noticed that Abie has raw, red skin between the pads on one of his paws. He's been licking the area. I put Vitamin E cream on it. We'll see if it helps. Any other suggestions?
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Bank of America customers can use any ATM with a matching logo (which seems to be most ATMs where I've traveled). Yes, she will have to pay a fee of a few dollars -- but she can get cash from it.
You'd think that, but you'd be wrong.
All the banks in my neck of the woods, you have to insert your rectangular card into a slot and take it out.
The mother-in-law doesn't have a rectangular card, but, rather, an oddly shaped thing with a stripe that can be read... in Bank of America branches. Which, I don't think, are here and open on Saturdays. We're screwed.
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BK - I've checked, I've looked, and I still cant find where you've answered my BK query, so here it is again:
I'd love to know about the process leading to the selection of the songs for What If.
When different people were cast, did you then find material that would be right for them?
Were songs dropped after casting because nobody was right for them?
Had you, before embarking on this project, a list of songs that you thought would be good in a revue - to draw on. What "new" listening did you do, once it seemed Plan B might become a reality?
Did you ever get in touch with Marcy and Zina? Their new musical, Junie B. Jones, opens next week at the Lucille Lortel
I must have missed it in my senility. When I realized we'd have to do this I knew that I had to find stuff that I had or had already done that I knew worked. The What Ifs seemed a good place to start since people really like them and none of them have ever been performed in public. While finding those I also found the Jewish Sondheim stuff, which has become a medley. I ended up choosing seven What Ifs that I felt were the strongest, but if one or more of them don't work, out they go. Since I started with Tammy, we knew she'd sing her signature song, Joshua Noveck, and she asked if she could sing a song I've written for the stage version of Nudie, a ballad, which I said "yes" too. I also had a couple of other songs of mine in mind for others, and when Alet and Susanne came on board they each got one of them. I knew I wanted to do at least one Rupert Holmes song, and two additional Bernstein and Markell songs. When Tammy's young friend came on board I needed a good solo for him, and Michael Kerker sent me to two new NY writers. I didn't like most of what they sent but there was a song that was perfect for this young kid, so we chose that. I also knew that I wanted two Billy Barnes songs, one an homage to the revues I loved growing up, and one of his newer songs for Susanne, which he graciously gave us. And that's pretty much been the process. I listened and am still listening to tapes of songs (including Noel's) but the decision on material is really simple for me - what feels right for our specific talent, what feels right to me in terms of balance in the show, and what is fun/and or pretty. I think I've got ninety percent of the material now, but I have no idea how it's going to flow yet or what will lead into what. That will come when I see everything on its feet. At that point, I'm sure some things will go, some things will get added, etc.
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When they do a video restoration for DVD it means that the cleanup work is all done in the computer, but the actual film elements don't get restored, therefore no new prints can be struck off of what is done in the computer. Film restoration is when the film elements are actually restored and cleaned up and a new internegative is made so that new prints can be struck. Two examples: Robert Harris does film restorations, i.e. Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia. North by Northwest, on the other hand, is a video restoration (and a brilliant one). The film elements of NBNW have not been restored.
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You'd think that, but you'd be wrong.
All the banks in my neck of the woods, you have to insert your rectangular card into a slot and take it out.
The mother-in-law doesn't have a rectangular card, but, rather, an oddly shaped thing with a stripe that can be read... in Bank of America branches. Which, I don't think, are here and open on Saturdays. We're screwed.
So what you're looking for is a BRANCH of BofA that is open on Saturday.
A quick check doesn't reveal any Bof A branches in NYC. Which I consider odd, and unfortunate.
Your next best bet is to take her to your own bank (or Joy's), and make arrangements there. Most banks are open on Saturdays, for at least limited hours. Call ahead.
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I see TCB has paid us a visit! How wonderful. I do hope his computer worries are coming to an end...
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Whew! So many wonderful posts!
DRMichael Shayne - I sometimes look at those comparisons and can't see the difference in some of them either. However hearing from MATTH and MR BK helped explain a lot of the difference....and of course it makes perfect sense now. How could corrections made on a computer be transferred to film? Duh....film restoration is the only way to make a new negative....anyway...blah blah blah....we are now IN THE KNOW!
Applause on my EGRESS....I will be very disappointed if it doesn't happen tomorrow - on closing night. There were no open zippers tonight, so we didn't get the BIG laugh - but it was pleasant enough SOLD OUT house!
I am reticent...oh yes, I'm reticent....about a musical version of the TEN COMMANDMENTS....with anyone, let alone Val Kilmer....BUT there is that lovely song about a church service, a fisherman, and his mule called "A Mass, A Bass, and an Ass." It ain't "I Slipped on a Banana Peel on the Champs del Eysee" - but it begs to be sung!
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DRGEORGE - I enjoyed BIG EDEN very much....a deliberately paced story with lovely scenery and wry situations.
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Nytol.
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I see TCB has paid us a visit! How wonderful. I do hope his computer worries are coming to an end...
Me too Me too Me too.
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Me three.
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I schlepped all the way down to Heim of Ana to the Chance Theatre this evening to see (for the first time) A Grand Night for Singing, the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue. In a bit of coincidence, though I purchased my ticket several weeks ago, the Chance Theatre was featured in the L.A. Times on Thursday (yesterday) as one of several small (they used the term "storefront") theatres that are taking hold in Orange County.
It was a pleasant enough evening. Three boys (one of whom doubled as music director--more on that in a moment) and four girls. Except for one female belter, the voices were on the light side. Some very nice arrangements and some very nice choreography on what was, other than for the odd bench or chair, a naked stage.
The sole musical accompaniment was one of those electronic keyboard appliances. Most of the show was pre-recorded or, perhaps more properly stated, pre-programmed, as the music director spent much of the evening with the other singers on stage.
Shoestring budgets are shoestring budgets, I suppose, and I paid a pittance to see this show, so I won't get on my soapbox. Still, live performance on a piano (an upright, even) would have made a tremendously positive improvement.
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WHEW!
WHEW!
WHEW!
-That is three WHEW!s
Again, sorry for being E&T the past few days, but...
However, to sort of celebrate my first full week here in Los Angeles, I made a stop at The House of Pies on the way home. Everything in the case looked soooo good. I decided to give their Coconut Cream a try. Very good. And just what I needed after the past few days of rehearsal... waiting for various things and various people. The Strawberry Pies are "in season" right now, and I think that will be next selection. -Which may come as soon as Sunday evening... We shall see.
Well, I have a ton of e-mails to catch up on, and I need to start laying out my work for tomorrow.
But it truly has been quite a wonderful week here in LA. I keep running into people out here that I haven't seen in years! -Mainly theatre folks who migrated west a few years ago. In fact, I ran into a college classmate of mine at The House of Pies! :D
OK...
WHEW!!!!
Laters...
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Strawberry pies are so last week.
You want stone fruit pies now!
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Good evening all
A rather boring night around here...and I have a headache that is slowly getting worse. Outside I can hear someone using up the last of the Fourth of July firewords...or else it's the baseball field doing their fireworks display.
Hmm...perhaps I shall take something for the pain...
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I will say that our very own Jose has been working very hard and has had to deal with a very unhappy me occasionally, regarding this music that kept not showing up. I was especially noisy today, but the music finally found us this evening, just before rehearsal.