Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on February 10, 2013, 11:31:08 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes fought the good fight, and now it is time for you to post until the fighting the good fight cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: MERETRICIOUS!
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Loved the Too Darn Hot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qieNLZ5HRfA) video, BK!
Still hoping that someday you can videorecord one of the Kritzerland shows and have them for sale.
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Jane - the fries were frozen but I do sometimes make my own fries as well :).
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TOD:
The worst of today's technology are the automated voice messages which you get when you phone businesses and organisations and which keep ypu waiting for ages while they talk away and then ask you to press button such and such if it's about so and so and which often don't match up with what you phoned about anyway. They do their utmost to stop the caller from actually speaking to a human being.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Several inches of snow fell in the night. It's melting fast which is fortunate because I'm about to drive to the job.
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Good morning, all.
With a nice serving of Oy!
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GOOD FIGHT VIBES to BK!
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It's Monday again!
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Thanks so much for the heads up on that BLACK SUNDAY! I had no idea that was out there, and I'm so glad I hadn't yet bought the Kino release. Arrow is great, and I see the same treatment for BLACK SABBATH is up for pre-order. Ordering these immediately.
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* * * * * GOOD FIGHT VIBES FOR BK * * * * *
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I didn't get the chance to fight the good fight last weekend when I got ambushed by a head cold. Started with a sore throat and before I knew it I was flat on my back for a few days. And it left me as quickly as it hit me. Oh, well--at least I got that over and done with for this winter...
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DR George: I love Ring Cycle documentaries, and the STAGE HANDS one is great. Do you have THE GOLDEN RING: THE MAKING OF SOLTI'S RING? Not only great, Ring-wise, but a beautiful look back at real recording in the, uh, Golden Age. I need to get the DVD which will be an improvement on my laserdisc.
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;D
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Morning.
I tried to watch the Grammy's.
I'm too out of touch with the new stuff.
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Watched Nine.
This is more my kind of music and movie.
Found for $3.00 Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar.
;D
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Must get ready for work.
MEGA VIBES EVERYONE.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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AND HAVE A GLORIOUS DAY.
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Morning.
I tried to watch the Grammy's.
I'm too out of touch with the new stuff.
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Ditto!, DR Sam. I've barely related to anything on the Grammys for the past 10-15 years.
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TOD:
As much I do love my own iPhone, I wouldn't mind if the smart cell phone went away.
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Good morning, all!
I had a night of bizarre dreams, including several about a treacherous record producer making my life tres miserable. God knows what put him in the midst of last night's dreams, but I found it quite unsettling.
So, this morning I will putter about the apartment until around 10:15, when I will head to Penn Station. The train ride to Hamilton will take about 75 minutes, so ANNA KARENINA will accompany me.
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Keeping well vibes for MR BK.
Travel & interview vibes for DR ELMORE.
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TOD:
I would love to get rid of texting......I would hate to lose cell phones to do so, but so be it.
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Yes, DR VIXMOM.....it is my FAVORITE line from Season Three of Downton Abbey.
FANS of the show must be sure to watch the special next week.....for unexpected developments and story lines.
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TOD:
I would love to get rid of texting......I would hate to lose cell phones to do so, but so be it.
Amen!
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Good morning, all.
Continued vibes for BK in fighting the good fight.
Driving vibes for Doug R and anyone else having to hit the roads in the snow.
And travel vibes for Elmore.
Happy Monday vibes for the rest of us.
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Did a marathon finish of "Middlemarch" and now I don't want it to end. I think Elmore will feel the same at the end of "Anna K."
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TOD:
The worst of today's technology are the automated voice messages which you get when you phone businesses and organisations and which keep ypu waiting for ages while they talk away and then ask you to press button such and such if it's about so and so and which often don't match up with what you phoned about anyway. They do their utmost to stop the caller from actually speaking to a human being.
I'll go with that one, too.
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Continued excellence VIBES for BK's GOOD FIGHT.
Nothing I hate worse in a cold than a sore throat. Thankfully, I don't get them like I used to. For some reason, in my twenties and thirties, my colds would always start with a good 24 hours of strep-level throat HELL.
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PAGE TWO!
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TOD: I have to go with the texting. I rarely get text messages, and when I do, they irritate me for some reason. My nephew started texting me during church yesterday. Not cool.
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DR ELMORE and DR JOHN G mentioned Anna Karenina yesterday - in a coincidence, I had watched the Vivien Leigh version of said novel on Friday evening...it is so very good.
Of course I enjoy the Greta Garbo version - I think Fredric March is such a fine Vronsky.....and Leigh's Vronsky - Kieron Moore - is kind of a lump.....but maybe that's the point....
There was a special feature on the life of Tolstoy which I found very interesting and entertaining as well. I did not know anything about his background..... And I didn't know anything about The Decemberists - I need to catch up on my Russian history.
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TOD:
I cannot think of any technology I would want to do away with, because it all seems to come in handy at one time or another.
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And the word of the day is: MERETRICIOUS!
And The Song Of The Day Is: TEN CENTS A DANCE
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I must drive my car in,carefully, to the Hyundai shop this morning. When I was in Portland yesterday for my brother's party something happened to my seat belt, and now it will not work....I was just certain that because I was not seat belted in on my drive home that this trip would the the one in which I am in an accident and have a horrible, gory death! I was quite cautious. And I felt very naked not being buckled in.
Recollections of those horrid driver's ed videos like Signal 31, flashed through my head as I drove.
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One of my two drivers' ed teachers was also one of the coaches, who had been in a bad car wreck in which part of his brain was supposedly exposed. I guess he was sentenced to teach us as some form of deterrent.
The other teacher, Doc Adams, had been a drivers ed instructor for decades. Then he took me out driving in post-Thanksgiving shopping traffic. He retired after that semester.
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and speaking of those horrid videos from driver's ed, like Signal 31...do you suppose they got releases from the victim's families to use that footage of bodies being pulled out of wrecks and such. I cannot imagine that being done today at all.
Of course if you look at old newspapers of the 40s and 50s, they seemed to have no problem with showing photos of dead bodies from all sorts of accidents and murders, not to mention going into graphic details in the accompanying article.
Sensibilities have changed a lot since then, I think.
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LOL, John (about the teacher retiring)
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TOD: Portable cell/mobile phones.
I think cars should have them built in, but I absolutely hate, loathe and despise folks walking down streets and aisles yakking away at the top of their lungs, shushing folks in elevators "because I'm on the phone", etc. And despite laws and hefty fines, not a day goes by that I don't see someone talking on a hand-held cell phone while driving.
I also hate being with folks who constantly text/talk while driving distances.
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LOL, John (about the teacher retiring)
It was my first day ever on the road, and I was in Christmas traffic near the mall. Oy.
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Hello from Jamaica!
Thanks for all the vibes and good wishes!
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We're docked in Falmouth. My friend and I walked around the area near the port. There were different excursions and activities you could sign up for but we opted not to do that.
The bridal party and some others are at a resort for the day. The weather is partyl cloudy and probably in the low 80's.
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We had quite a rough ride last evening! The travel agent who arranged everything is on the cruise and said that she's been on many cruises but had never had such a bumpy ride. Unfortunately, the bride-to-be got sick last night, as did my great-niece. I hope they were able to go to that resort this morning.
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I have to pledge to eat less --these buffets are too tempting!
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Hope you're feeling better, BK!
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I bought an internet card in Falmouth that I'm able to use on one side of the ship (facing the town). I can use it till we leave this evening. Otherwise it's 65-75 cents a minute on the ship!
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A well-written and non-snarky article about why
Smash (http://www.hesherman.com/2013/02/11/theatres-problem-with-smash/)
doesn't work for me and apparently others. I know Smash has fans (including some people on this board) but give me Slings and Arrows anytime.
I think Howard Sherman nails it.
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ONCE was the winner of the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.
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Best wishes for good heatlh to Bruce.
It might seem harsh, but maybe you should inquire about a person's health before inviting/admitting hime/her into your home.
When I first began working for the County, my agency's director's "policy" was to come into work even if sick. She felt that if you got dressed and came to work, you'd feel better and be able to put in a full day's work.
The result, of course, was that several others would then get sick and more people would be out than would have been the case if the sick person had stayed home.
County policy has changed substantially inasmuch as we are encouraged to stay home if we feel sick so that we DON'T infect others.
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A well-written and non-snarky article about why
Smash (http://www.hesherman.com/2013/02/11/theatres-problem-with-smash/)
doesn't work for me and apparently others. I know Smash has fans (including some people on this board) but give me Slings and Arrows anytime.
I think Howard Sherman nails it.
Thanks, Ben. This comment said it all
“You live the reality, and what’s on screen isn’t that.”
Journalism shows, "Lou Grant" included, are so far from reality that they're all laughable on so many different levels. Yet, who would want to see someone sitting at a keyboard and writing for more than two seconds? It's visually boring.
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I'm up after the predictable horrid evening trying to sleep and failing miserably. When my throat feels weird that's the way it is. I'm sure I did sleep at some point but it sure doesn't feel like it.
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I wish the person who came over here and was sick had told ME they weren't feeling well.
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This could still go either way and I'm hoping it doesn't get any worse, although my throat still feels weird.
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Worth repeating, I think:
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/RonPulliam/HoneyCure.jpg)
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BK, I assume you are not talking about the Bruce Dern BLACK SUNDAY FROM 1977 OR 1978.
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That honey and cinnamon looks kind of good! Must try it myself sometime.
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BK, I assume you are not talking about the Bruce Dern BLACK SUNDAY FROM 1977 OR 1978.
I am not BK, but:
Nope, the Mario Bava Italian/International horror film with Barbara Steele from the early 1960s.
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But btw, I've had a hankering to see that Bruce Dern one for quite a while now.
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Kritzerland CDs arrived today! :)
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PAGE THREE!
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Three to make ready!
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Three for the show!
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Three on a match!
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Three Little Pigs!
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Back from some chicken soup. That made me feel a little better. Also picked up some Afrin, which I just used, and something called Zicam, which I gather is like Coldeez but maybe better. I think I'll know in the next few hours which way this is going to go. Supposed to see Chess this evening, but I won't go if I'm not feeling up to it.
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No packages today.
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Hi everyone. The pink show is finished. It was a fun run, although the key 2 book which I played really kicked my ass. Off to bigger and better things.
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Monday afternoon greetings! I was up and out early for a blood test, some shopping, and lunch and coffee with my friend Becky. Just got home and I have to leave again in 90 minutes for tonight's AAUW meeting at the YMCA.
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TOD - I would like to do away with the technology that makes robo-calling possible.
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That was a good article DR BEN.....
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DR George: I love Ring Cycle documentaries, and the STAGE HANDS one is great. Do you have THE GOLDEN RING: THE MAKING OF SOLTI'S RING? Not only great, Ring-wise, but a beautiful look back at real recording in the, uh, Golden Age. I need to get the DVD which will be an improvement on my laserdisc.
I've never even heard of this. Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PDZQUG/) has it, but I've added it to my Netflix queue.
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TOD:
I would love to get rid of texting......I would hate to lose cell phones to do so, but so be it.
Amen!
It's easy enough to ignore texting...and certainly tweeting (which I've never done, nor understood the need for). Sometimes, I just call back the people and explain that I don't have a texting plan so I have to pay for EVERY text that I get. That usually convinces people to call me. ;)
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I guess this will be it until probably Thursday. I can't do internet on the ship (unless I pay an exhorbitant fee) and we'll only be in Grand Cayman for the wedding tomorrow. Wednesday is an at-sea day.
Take care, everyone!
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Enjoy yourself, KevinH.
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Was just sent a review for the singer's show that we recently did here in LA. Excellent review so riddled with silly mistakes that I'm not even linking to it. I did send its author a correction that I asked her to insert into the review, because for no reason whatsoever the reviewer attributes a set of lyrics as original and written by the singer. Well, no, since it's my song, When You're Waiting For Love, that she's referencing. I set her straight about that, and the set her straight about the actual correct lyric that she's mangling in a quote.
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From DR Vixmom:
I'd try and post one but it might make Larry grumpy again
;D
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POWER ON VIBES FOR THE BROTHER OF DR VIXMOM!!
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From DR MBarnum:
Had a nice day today celebrating my brother Allen's 60th birthday. It was a surprise party, but he wasn't surprised. He had overheard someone at his work talking about it weeks ago.
Did you come South for the party?
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From DR MBarnum:
DR Jane, Allen told me that his replacement FedEx driver got himself stuck in the snow and had to abandon his truck overnight while delivering. Poor guy. Allen kind of figured something like that might happen as the guy had no experience driving in snowy weather..
I'm glad it didn't happen on our road. We have had enough inexperienced drivers get stuck over the years. We have passed his old truck on the road and think of him.
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Of course if you look at old newspapers of the 40s and 50s, they seemed to have no problem with showing photos of dead bodies from all sorts of accidents and murders, not to mention going into graphic details in the accompanying article.
Sensibilities have changed a lot since then, I think.
That reminds me of a magazine which I saw in the early '60s which consisted entirely of graphic photographs of car accidents and seriously injured bodies. The intention was supposedly to draw peoples attention to the huge number of deaths and injuries on the roads, about which not enough was being done - especially as regards stopping people from drinking and driving
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Oh, and please wish Allen a happy 60th birthday from us.
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TOD:
The worst of today's technology are the automated voice messages which you get when you phone businesses and organisations and which keep ypu waiting for ages while they talk away and then ask you to press button such and such if it's about so and so and which often don't match up with what you phoned about anyway. They do their utmost to stop the caller from actually speaking to a human being.
I agree with you, unless someone else come up with a better idea ;)
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I didn't get the chance to fight the good fight last weekend when I got ambushed by a head cold. Started with a sore throat and before I knew it I was flat on my back for a few days. And it left me as quickly as it hit me. Oh, well--at least I got that over and done with for this winter...
A fast moving cold, not too bad a deal if you have to have a cold.
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I must drive my car in,carefully, to the Hyundai shop this morning. When I was in Portland yesterday for my brother's party something happened to my seat belt, and now it will not work....I was just certain that because I was not seat belted in on my drive home that this trip would the the one in which I am in an accident and have a horrible, gory death! I was quite cautious. And I felt very naked not being buckled in.
Recollections of those horrid driver's ed videos like Signal 31, flashed through my head as I drove.
Awww Portland. Has he moved or was he visiting?
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Was just sent a review for the singer's show that we recently did here in LA. Excellent review so riddled with silly mistakes that I'm not even linking to it. I did send its author a correction that I asked her to insert into the review, because for no reason whatsoever the reviewer attributes a set of lyrics as original and written by the singer. Well, no, since it's my song, When You're Waiting For Love, that she's referencing. I set her straight about that, and the set her straight about the actual correct lyric that she's mangling in a quote.
That's too bad when it happens. Sloppiness on the writer's part, you think? Or could there by any other reason?
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Oh, and I'm glad you didn't get into an accident without a seat belt.
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TOD: Portable cell/mobile phones.
I think cars should have them built in, but I absolutely hate, loathe and despise folks walking down streets and aisles yakking away at the top of their lungs, shushing folks in elevators "because I'm on the phone", etc. And despite laws and hefty fines, not a day goes by that I don't see someone talking on a hand-held cell phone while driving.
I also hate being with folks who constantly text/talk while driving distances.
And they don't stop when you ask them to?
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Hello from Jamaica!
Thanks for all the vibes and good wishes!
:)
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I have to pledge to eat less --these buffets are too tempting!
Never take the elevator, always use the stairs to burn off calories.
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SMOOTH SAILING VIBES!!!!
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I had a nice walk this morning.
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2013/02/bobcat.html
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Super Cool!!!
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I had a nice walk this morning.
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2013/02/bobcat.html
I always get excited when I see that DR Laura has taken a walk post. :)
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Was just sent a review for the singer's show that we recently did here in LA. Excellent review so riddled with silly mistakes that I'm not even linking to it. I did send its author a correction that I asked her to insert into the review, because for no reason whatsoever the reviewer attributes a set of lyrics as original and written by the singer. Well, no, since it's my song, When You're Waiting For Love, that she's referencing. I set her straight about that, and the set her straight about the actual correct lyric that she's mangling in a quote.
That's too bad when it happens. Sloppiness on the writer's part, you think? Or could there by any other reason?
Just sloppy, I'm sure.
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And we have our first blurb, from the wonderful writer Dick Lochte - I do love the regularity of having the same two people always blurb the Hofstetter books - there's a real sense of fun continuity:
"In Kimmel's newest Hollywood High whodunit, his irrepressible teen sleuth
Adriana Hofstetter delves into the disappearance of an Instagram-addicted
student actress scheduled to appear in the school's production of The Music
Man. Once again, Adriana's amateur investigation includes not only clues
and deductions but also bits of Hollywood city lore, musical comedy
history, fine and not-so-fine dining in the city of angels, fashion tips
and musings on book collecting, all burnished by the sheer exuberance of
youth. These tales of Hofstetter continue to be the literary equivalent of
comfort food, satisfying and good to the last bite."
Dick Lochte, author of the award winning mystery thriller Sleeping Dog
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DR KevinH, what is Brent doing in Jamaica?
I am home from the jaunt to New Jersey.The two radio hosts, Michael and Ted, were great, and I had a fantastic time. I'll be curious to see how the assemble the interview. They said it would go into three(?) sections: one before the recording and then between the acts. They don't plan on playing any of the Appendix numbers.
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From DR MBarnum:
Had a nice day today celebrating my brother Allen's 60th birthday. It was a surprise party, but he wasn't surprised. He had overheard someone at his work talking about it weeks ago.
Did you come South for the party?
It was up in Tigard. Allen and his wife had just arrived in Portland the day before from their trip to Mexico.
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I had a nice walk this morning.
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2013/02/bobcat.html
Me too!
I always get excited when I see that DR Laura has taken a walk post. :)
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DR KevinH, what is Brent doing in Jamaica?
I am home from the jaunt to New Jersey.The two radio hosts, Michael and Ted, were great, and I had a fantastic time.
Wonderful!!
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From DR MBarnum:
Had a nice day today celebrating my brother Allen's 60th birthday. It was a surprise party, but he wasn't surprised. He had overheard someone at his work talking about it weeks ago.
Did you come South for the party?
It was up in Tigard. Allen and his wife had just arrived in Portland the day before from their trip to Mexico.
A fun retirement/birthday trip. :)
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I am home from the jaunt to New Jersey.The two radio hosts, Michael and Ted, were great, and I had a fantastic time. I'll be curious to see how the assemble the interview. They said it would go into three(?) sections: one before the recording and then between the acts. They don't plan on playing any of the Appendix numbers.
Congrats, Larry!
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Was just sent a review for the singer's show that we recently did here in LA. Excellent review so riddled with silly mistakes that I'm not even linking to it. I did send its author a correction that I asked her to insert into the review, because for no reason whatsoever the reviewer attributes a set of lyrics as original and written by the singer. Well, no, since it's my song, When You're Waiting For Love, that she's referencing. I set her straight about that, and the set her straight about the actual correct lyric that she's mangling in a quote.
Congrats on the review in general, but that sounds really weird...do some people just not pay attention? :-\
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Loved the Too Darn Hot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qieNLZ5HRfA) video, BK!
Still hoping that someday you can videorecord one of the Kritzerland shows and have them for sale.
I prefer to hope for
KRITZERLAND - THE TOUR!
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Jane - the fries were frozen but I do sometimes make my own fries as well :).
If I buy a bag of frozen French Fries, and I drag them home, and I take them out and bake them or deep fry them; Then they become MY French Fries!
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Thanks so much for the heads up on that BLACK SUNDAY! I had no idea that was out there, and I'm so glad I hadn't yet bought the Kino release. Arrow is great, and I see the same treatment for BLACK SABBATH is up for pre-order. Ordering these immediately.
I'll bet bK could sell Chas a Used Car!
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Was just sent a review for the singer's show that we recently did here in LA. Excellent review so riddled with silly mistakes that I'm not even linking to it. I did send its author a correction that I asked her to insert into the review, because for no reason whatsoever the reviewer attributes a set of lyrics as original and written by the singer. Well, no, since it's my song, When You're Waiting For Love, that she's referencing. I set her straight about that, and the set her straight about the actual correct lyric that she's mangling in a quote.
Congrats on the review in general, but that sounds really weird...do some people just not pay attention? :-\
I have heard that one Broadway reviwer used to arrive drunk, sleep through the show and write a rave because he was on the take. He's no longer alive.
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T.O.D.
Originally, I was going to say texting, especially because of all these tragedies with teenagers who die in car accidents while texting. But in the final analysis, I think I would do away with all cell phones. It is total insanity to see all of these people in Malls and city streets, totally lost to everything and everyone around them.
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Cell phones have saved lives. Without my cell phone to call Keith after my two falls & breaks, especially the shoulder one, I'm not sure how I would have gotten out of the hiking trails.
They were also very helpful when I had sick children & could be reached in my car, plus the times I made emergency calls to the vet while I was out.
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Just sitting here like so much fish and resting. Just heard that the helper has jury duty on Wednesday morning. The ONLY day when I need her this week - amazing how that works, isn't it? This girl is totally dependent on working at a restaurant and doing our stuff and now she's completely taken out of it. I'm going to have to go in at eight-thirty in the morning on Wednesday, then lug all the UPS boxes because I can't have those go out late, and then she has to come in whenever she finishes there and do EVERYTHING else and get it to the post office either that day late in the afternoon or the next morning before she has to go in again, IF she has to go in again.
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VIBES THE HELPER GETS OFF OF JURY DUTY VERY QUICKLY AND DOESN'T HAVE TO RETURN!!!
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Well, I'm off to my sister's house. She says that she has chocolate cake. Jane, because my sister made it, of course, it's vegan. :)
Then, I'll go home and try to figure out what I need to do (and how to do it) for my first treasurer's report for tomorrow's Theater Artists Olympia's monthly board meeting. I also will need to switch over the debit card information for our storage unit and insurance auto payments. I got a new card a couple of weeks ago, but the storage unit payment isn't due just yet. The insurance payment was made last month, before I got a new card. I'm sure that I can figure it all out, but hopefully, it won't take too long.
Be back later!
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It's taken forever, but Outside the Box has its imdb page, so here's the link and go review the overall show, and then if you click on the 1 or 2 under seasons, you can also review the episodes themselves.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2579770/reference
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Who will be the first to rate the show and do a write-up?
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And what's with this page four malarky?
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ONCE was the winner of the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.
Are you serious? I thought the Grammy went to ONCE.
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TOD:
The worst of today's technology are the automated voice messages which you get when you phone businesses and organisations and which keep ypu waiting for ages while they talk away and then ask you to press button such and such if it's about so and so and which often don't match up with what you phoned about anyway. They do their utmost to stop the caller from actually speaking to a human being.
This is exactly the thing I hate most as well - I waste so much time every day with these stupid things - if a person simply answered the phone and I could explain who or what wanted I would probably save 8 to 10 hours a week
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I had a nice walk this morning.
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2013/02/bobcat.html
oh my --- If I saw this I would have been having a nice RUN!
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And we have our first blurb, from the wonderful writer Dick Lochte - I do love the regularity of having the same two people always blurb the Hofstetter books - there's a real sense of fun continuity:
"In Kimmel's newest Hollywood High whodunit, his irrepressible teen sleuth
Adriana Hofstetter delves into the disappearance of an Instagram-addicted
student actress scheduled to appear in the school's production of The Music
Man. Once again, Adriana's amateur investigation includes not only clues
and deductions but also bits of Hollywood city lore, musical comedy
history, fine and not-so-fine dining in the city of angels, fashion tips
and musings on book collecting, all burnished by the sheer exuberance of
youth. These tales of Hofstetter continue to be the literary equivalent of
comfort food, satisfying and good to the last bite."
Dick Lochte, author of the award winning mystery thriller Sleeping Dog
Very nice!
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DR KevinH, what is Brent doing in Jamaica?
I am home from the jaunt to New Jersey.The two radio hosts, Michael and Ted, were great, and I had a fantastic time. I'll be curious to see how the assemble the interview. They said it would go into three(?) sections: one before the recording and then between the acts. They don't plan on playing any of the Appendix numbers.
I cannot wait to hear it!
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Thank you for the Too darn Hot video
when I it was over I typed in Kritzerland and the Straiman girls singing All For the Best popped up so i watched that too
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I am even more anxious for a new York version of the Kritzerland series
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Continued Fighting the Good Fight Vibes for BK
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I wonder if any one is going to come chat with me
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So today it rained - making a really big mess
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and now the fog envelopes the Island of Long
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I had a nice walk this morning.
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2013/02/bobcat.html
Nice, kitty.
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ONCE was the winner of the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.
Are you serious? I thought the Grammy went to ONCE.
I think you're mistaken, TCB. It went to Once.
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I must drive my car in,carefully, to the Hyundai shop this morning. When I was in Portland yesterday for my brother's party something happened to my seat belt, and now it will not work....I was just certain that because I was not seat belted in on my drive home that this trip would the the one in which I am in an accident and have a horrible, gory death! I was quite cautious. And I felt very naked not being buckled in.
Recollections of those horrid driver's ed videos like Signal 31, flashed through my head as I drove.
I am glad you arrived safely as I read through your post I kept hearing
"Blood on the Highway!" in my head
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Back from some chicken soup. That made me feel a little better. Also picked up some Afrin, which I just used, and something called Zicam, which I gather is like Coldeez but maybe better. I think I'll know in the next few hours which way this is going to go. Supposed to see Chess this evening, but I won't go if I'm not feeling up to it.
I must be tired. I thought you wrote that you picked up an Afro, which you just used.
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Back from some chicken soup. That made me feel a little better. Also picked up some Afrin, which I just used, and something called Zicam, which I gather is like Coldeez but maybe better. I think I'll know in the next few hours which way this is going to go. Supposed to see Chess this evening, but I won't go if I'm not feeling up to it.
For your sake, I hope you aren't feeling up to seeing CHESS.
Because you need your rest, of course.
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you don't like Chess?
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A well-written and non-snarky article about why
Smash (http://www.hesherman.com/2013/02/11/theatres-problem-with-smash/)
doesn't work for me and apparently others. I know Smash has fans (including some people on this board) but give me Slings and Arrows anytime.
I think Howard Sherman nails it.
Thanks, Ben. This comment said it all
“You live the reality, and what’s on screen isn’t that.”
Journalism shows, "Lou Grant" included, are so far from reality that they're all laughable on so many different levels. Yet, who would want to see someone sitting at a keyboard and writing for more than two seconds? It's visually boring.
Well of course all courtroom dramas are true to life, lol
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getting tired good night all
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I actually enjoy some of the courtroom drama and some of the police shows, even though I know they don't resemble real life in any way. I want to like SMASH, it's just.... I don't know.. as I was watching last week when they said the problem with BOMBSHELL was the book. I was thinking, that's the problem with SMASH..
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I didn't go to Chess. I've just been relaxing.
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Here's the link to the Staitman gals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXxIOMv6DTA
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A well-written and non-snarky article about why
Smash (http://www.hesherman.com/2013/02/11/theatres-problem-with-smash/)
doesn't work for me and apparently others. I know Smash has fans (including some people on this board) but give me Slings and Arrows anytime.
I think Howard Sherman nails it.
Thanks, Ben. This comment said it all
“You live the reality, and what’s on screen isn’t that.”
Journalism shows, "Lou Grant" included, are so far from reality that they're all laughable on so many different levels. Yet, who would want to see someone sitting at a keyboard and writing for more than two seconds? It's visually boring.
Well of course all courtroom dramas are true to life, lol
Exactly.
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Night, all.
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I had a nice walk this morning.
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2013/02/bobcat.html
I hope he didn't see you.
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And we have our first blurb, from the wonderful writer Dick Lochte - I do love the regularity of having the same two people always blurb the Hofstetter books - there's a real sense of fun continuity:
"In Kimmel's newest Hollywood High whodunit, his irrepressible teen sleuth
Adriana Hofstetter delves into the disappearance of an Instagram-addicted
student actress scheduled to appear in the school's production of The Music
Man. Once again, Adriana's amateur investigation includes not only clues
and deductions but also bits of Hollywood city lore, musical comedy
history, fine and not-so-fine dining in the city of angels, fashion tips
and musings on book collecting, all burnished by the sheer exuberance of
youth. These tales of Hofstetter continue to be the literary equivalent of
comfort food, satisfying and good to the last bite."
Dick Lochte, author of the award winning mystery thriller Sleeping Dog
Great blurb!
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I gotta tell you.
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I'll probably write the notes ni a little while then try to get some sleep. I did get about thirty minutes earlier.
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Was just sent a review for the singer's show that we recently did here in LA. Excellent review so riddled with silly mistakes that I'm not even linking to it. I did send its author a correction that I asked her to insert into the review, because for no reason whatsoever the reviewer attributes a set of lyrics as original and written by the singer. Well, no, since it's my song, When You're Waiting For Love, that she's referencing. I set her straight about that, and the set her straight about the actual correct lyric that she's mangling in a quote.
Congrats on the review in general, but that sounds really weird...do some people just not pay attention? :-\
I have heard that one Broadway reviwer used to arrive drunk, sleep through the show and write a rave because he was on the take. He's no longer alive.
I forgot that Clive Barnes was dead.
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Cell phones have saved lives. Without my cell phone to call Keith after my two falls & breaks, especially the shoulder one, I'm not sure how I would have gotten out of the hiking trails.
They were also very helpful when I had sick children & could be reached in my car, plus the times I made emergency calls to the vet while I was out.
Jane, I seriously doubt that I will single-handedly get all cell phones outlawed. I just wish people wouldn't become addicted to their phones.
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Well, the Coat is cast. I think it's a good cast as we had a lot of talented 6th 7th and 8th graders audition. I hope they are ready for some singin', because there is no where to hide in this show. So that means I have cast(ed) 3 shows in 2 weeks. That's a record. And, I just finished a run and in a few weeks will start another run, my how "drowsy" I will become when that is over. Hey, I need the $$, many trips planned this year.
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I just returned home from dinner and a lovely evening with an old "flame" or whatever... I know we don't get too personal on this site, but I will tell you it was rather refreshing.