Happy Birthday, Sam!
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If the President of TWC was lying in the street on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put it out.
JRand, I need help from the Dream-o-matic. Had a strange one last night. I had been housesitting in a place for a while and had stopped visiting the place because my parents had begun staying there. It was a beautiful two-story old building out in the country. Anyway, the house was being used for a formal fundraiser and I was headed back there early so I could get a white shirt to replace the one that came with the rented tux and I couldn't wear. But I was fully dressed in the tux, including the tie, as I went to get the shirt. I was in a large bathroom with an old claw-footed bathtub when the owner's cat, who had run away several months before, appeared. The cat started drinking nonstop out of some stale water that had been left standing in the bathtub. I tried to get the cat to stop drinking the stale water. Instead, the cat jumped into the tub. Then it somehow jumped into an old-fashioned milk bottle and began shape-shifting, which I took in as if it were the most natural thing in the world. One form was a faun-colored bunny. Suddenly, my bird was with me and wanted to play with the cat or other animal, which is not what I wanted to happen. By this time, the cat was out of the bottle and had settled on a mottled coat unlike its original black and white fur. And then the cat ran off and I went back to getting the shirt on because dinner was getting near, and an Asian family I didn't know had arrived early.
JRand, I need help from the Dream-o-matic. Had a strange one last night. I had been housesitting in a place for a while and had stopped visiting the place because my parents had begun staying there. It was a beautiful two-story old building out in the country. Anyway, the house was being used for a formal fundraiser and I was headed back there early so I could get a white shirt to replace the one that came with the rented tux and I couldn't wear. But I was fully dressed in the tux, including the tie, as I went to get the shirt. I was in a large bathroom with an old claw-footed bathtub when the owner's cat, who had run away several months before, appeared. The cat started drinking nonstop out of some stale water that had been left standing in the bathtub. I tried to get the cat to stop drinking the stale water. Instead, the cat jumped into the tub. Then it somehow jumped into an old-fashioned milk bottle and began shape-shifting, which I took in as if it were the most natural thing in the world. One form was a faun-colored bunny. Suddenly, my bird was with me and wanted to play with the cat or other animal, which is not what I wanted to happen. By this time, the cat was out of the bottle and had settled on a mottled coat unlike its original black and white fur. And then the cat ran off and I went back to getting the shirt on because dinner was getting near, and an Asian family I didn't know had arrived early.
JohnG, are you an actor who sings and moves well? The Actors equity dream interpreter suggests you look into the upcoming musical TUX EVERLASTING. However, the dream says this would be a bad time to audition for CATS.
JRand, I need help from the Dream-o-matic. Had a strange one last night. I had been housesitting in a place for a while and had stopped visiting the place because my parents had begun staying there. It was a beautiful two-story old building out in the country. Anyway, the house was being used for a formal fundraiser and I was headed back there early so I could get a white shirt to replace the one that came with the rented tux and I couldn't wear. But I was fully dressed in the tux, including the tie, as I went to get the shirt. I was in a large bathroom with an old claw-footed bathtub when the owner's cat, who had run away several months before, appeared. The cat started drinking nonstop out of some stale water that had been left standing in the bathtub. I tried to get the cat to stop drinking the stale water. Instead, the cat jumped into the tub. Then it somehow jumped into an old-fashioned milk bottle and began shape-shifting, which I took in as if it were the most natural thing in the world. One form was a faun-colored bunny. Suddenly, my bird was with me and wanted to play with the cat or other animal, which is not what I wanted to happen. By this time, the cat was out of the bottle and had settled on a mottled coat unlike its original black and white fur. And then the cat ran off and I went back to getting the shirt on because dinner was getting near, and an Asian family I didn't know had arrived early.
JohnG, are you an actor who sings and moves well? The Actors equity dream interpreter suggests you look into the upcoming musical TUX EVERLASTING. However, the dream says this would be a bad time to audition for CATS.
And if a Stephen Findle calls with an offer, be very careful.
Hope the Suzie was signed, ChasSmith.
Thank you DR Jennifer and....
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I hate NBC.
They began SMASH last night "in progress". No wonder that network is losing viewers.
It is very strange. While I was gone on my trip, I was getting like 50 e-mails a day, most of them junk mail. However, since I got home, I am getting 10 to 15 e-mails a day.Maybe the computer you were using on the trip didn't filter the spam from your email?
Love BRUBAKER and THE VERDICT. Both are my kind of movies.
As I recall, Redford was offered THE VERDICT before Newman, but he turned it down.
Oh yea, I'm 60 today.
;D
And still in a smiley face mood.
;D
Love BRUBAKER and THE VERDICT. Both are my kind of movies.
As I recall, Redford was offered THE VERDICT before Newman, but he turned it down.
Heard all about the Varese concert last night. .......... I've been told it was a back patting affair with the usual suspect. I've been told that neither my name, nor the names of the other people who were there at the beginning were invoked.
I agree. Shameful and all too typical.Heard all about the Varese concert last night. .......... I've been told it was a back patting affair with the usual suspect. I've been told that neither my name, nor the names of the other people who were there at the beginning were invoked.
That's shameful. Unfortunately though, in my experience of business, people rarely, if ever, acknowledge the contribution of those who came before.
Does anyone remember "Mister Quilp," a not-well-received musical version of "The Old Curiosity Shop"? Is it on DVD? This clip isn't great, but it is fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO4iYRrTMU
Quilp I talked about at length in the last Kritzerland show - in fact, that patter got huge laughs. I saw it at a sneak preview at the Studio Theater in Studio City (I think dear reader Jane's hubs worked there - it's now a Bookstar). There were 300 film musical fans in the eight hundred seat theater. At the end there were three. It was horrible. I don't think it was actually released until years later, at which point it was retitled Mr. Quilp in its ads, and maybe for certain home vid, The Old Curiosity Shop. We did one song from it in our show.
Prior to leaving, I called Time Warner, got a supervisor on the phone, and would not let him speak until he'd heard me out. I told him there were several things that had to happen when he responded: An apology for my being lied to repeatedly by the idiot customer service people. An acknowledgment that they were lying and that there were indeed repeated outages between Friday night and Saturday at six pm. An apology for the supervisor not calling me yesterday as promised. A credit for having been put through all of that. I calmly told him that if I didn't receive all those things I would not rest until Time Warner was either part of a class action lawsuit (certainly that could be done and could be won easily), I told him I had everyone's names, and I told him if it didn't do me good going right to the top, that I would go to the Better Business Bureau instantly. He heard me, he reacted honestly and gave me everything I asked for - he admitted concretely that I'd been given misinformation about my modem and outages, he gave me a credit I was happy with, and he apologized for everyone's wretched behavior and for the frustration it caused. He cancelled the tech appointment, but assured me he was filing a strongly worded report about the outages and demanding a tech be sent to their relay boxes in our area to make sure that the problem had actually been fixed and not merely bandaged. And that was that.
Callie is pretty much back to normal. Tomorrow I'm going to put her back on her regular med schedule. I'm really glad I went back to my regular vet right away. While Callie was sick, it was an infection that the antibiotics took care of and the antibiotics made her sick, like they sometimes do in humans. I think the other vet I went to (who is my vet's partner with an office much closer to my house) unnecessarily threw out that it could be cancer. He also tried to throw more medication at the problem when all she needed to do was fast and then slowly work back to her usual routine. Anyway, I think we're about back to normal here
Callie is pretty much back to normal. Tomorrow I'm going to put her back on her regular med schedule. I'm really glad I went back to my regular vet right away. While Callie was sick, it was an infection that the antibiotics took care of and the antibiotics made her sick, like they sometimes do in humans. I think the other vet I went to (who is my vet's partner with an office much closer to my house) unnecessarily threw out that it could be cancer. He also tried to throw more medication at the problem when all she needed to do was fast and then slowly work back to her usual routine. Anyway, I think we're about back to normal here
Prior to leaving, I called Time Warner, got a supervisor on the phone, and would not let him speak until he'd heard me out. I told him there were several things that had to happen when he responded: An apology for my being lied to repeatedly by the idiot customer service people. An acknowledgment that they were lying and that there were indeed repeated outages between Friday night and Saturday at six pm. An apology for the supervisor not calling me yesterday as promised. A credit for having been put through all of that. I calmly told him that if I didn't receive all those things I would not rest until Time Warner was either part of a class action lawsuit (certainly that could be done and could be won easily), I told him I had everyone's names, and I told him if it didn't do me good going right to the top, that I would go to the Better Business Bureau instantly. He heard me, he reacted honestly and gave me everything I asked for - he admitted concretely that I'd been given misinformation about my modem and outages, he gave me a credit I was happy with, and he apologized for everyone's wretched behavior and for the frustration it caused. He cancelled the tech appointment, but assured me he was filing a strongly worded report about the outages and demanding a tech be sent to their relay boxes in our area to make sure that the problem had actually been fixed and not merely bandaged. And that was that.
It was called
Revo Uninstaller (http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html)
Chas, if you decide to use this, you only need the Free Version. I think it's a great program but you don't need the Professional Version. The free program download is at the bottom of the page.
I hate NBC.
They began SMASH last night "in progress". No wonder that network is losing viewers.
Did you miss anything? Mine started at 8:02pm from the beginning and finished at exactly 9pm (so I didn't miss the end).