Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 15, 2013, 12:17:20 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had a place in the sun, and now it is time for you to post until the sunny cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: RIFACIMENTO!
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Here's the blurb for the new release:
Kritzerland is very proud to present the world premiere release of the original soundtrack to one of the most iconic films ever made:
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Music Composed and Conducted by Franz Waxman
Theodore Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy was published in 1925 and became hugely popular despite its two-volume length. In 1931, Paramount Pictures brought An American Tragedy to the screen, directed by Josef von Sternberg. That film version was not a hit with either critics or audiences – or Theodore Dreiser. It took another twenty years for Paramount to revisit An American Tragedy, but this time everything came together in perfect harmony to create what is certainly one of the greatest movies ever made.
Thanks to a perfect cast, perfect direction and an excellent screenplay, the story of a poor working class young man who comes to work for his wealthy uncle and gets embroiled in relationships with two very different women – one a fellow worker, and one a stunningly beautiful socialite – resonated with audiences and critics. The perfect direction was by George Stevens, the excellent screenplay was by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown, and the perfect cast included iconic performances by Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters, along with a great cast of supporting players that included Anne Revere, Fred Clark, Raymond Burr, Keefe Brasselle, Herbert Heyes, Shepperd Strudwick and Ted de Corsia. At Academy Awards time the film received a whopping nine nominations and took home the prize for six of them (Best Director; Best Writing, Screenplay; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Best Costume Design, Black-and-White; Best Film Editing; and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture).
It would be difficult to imagine A Place in the Sun without its brilliant Franz Waxman score, distinguished by what is surely one of film music’s most beautiful and exquisite main themes. The heart and soul of Waxman’s score is “Vickers Theme,” and it recurs throughout the score in many guises. It’s a stunning theme and one that captures the essence of the film with sublime perfection. But all of Waxman’s music for the film is sublime – there’s really not much more to say than that because the proof is in the hearing. This is film music as film music is meant to be – not padding, not filler, not sound design – film music designed to underscore the images on screen, the characters, the drama.
The film was shot in 1949 and was originally going to be released the following year. However, Paramount delayed release until 1951 so it wouldn’t have two blockbuster hits competing against each other in the 1950 Academy Awards (the other blockbuster being Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd.). The delay in release enabled director George Stevens to keep tinkering with the editing and, in so doing, he decided that a few cues would need to be re-scored. Since Waxman did an astonishing seven films in 1951, it was probably impossible for him to do the re-scoring himself, so Daniele Amfitheatrof and Victor Young were both enlisted to perform the task. Both composers honored and adhered closely to Waxman’s music. It’s probably safe to say that it’s not really possible to think of film music without thinking of the name Franz Waxman. He was simply the crème de la crème, and A Place in the Sun is one of his true masterworks.
This world premiere release of the surviving A Place in the Sun music masters stored in the Paramount vaults – augmented by a couple of cues from the music and effects tracks – adds up to over fifty-one minutes of glorious music. Our wizard audio restoration man, Chris Malone, did amazing work on the cues taken from the masters, and – for the others – was somehow magically able to keep the music and eliminate the effects while never compromising the audio quality. Several cues are in the original form in which they were written by Waxman, and some are the re-scored versions.
A PLACE IN THE SUN is limited to 1000 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping.
CD will ship the final week of August, but preorders placed at Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks early (we’ve been averaging four weeks). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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I'll buy the CD in the morning. :)
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Topic of the Day:
I'm not specifically a fan of Sinatra's, but I do like these:
Send In the Clowns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89V2DtUJtJI) (studio recording)
Send In the Clowns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVQGESUTo) (live recording, I think)
Good Thing Going (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odc9faCW3Yc)
:)
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And now, to bed.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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I'll buy the CD in the morning.
I will not be able to get to a computer until mid-day. I hope the CDs will not be sold out by then!
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MGM celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FVLJpjdIhVk#at=107 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FVLJpjdIhVk#at=107)
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good morning to all
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tod
I like a lot of his songs that he did with Tommy Dorsey. If you are not familiar with his work from this era I suggest you give a listen.
As good as he was in his latter years I don't think any thing quite matches the quality of his voice when he first started.
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It's supposed to be horrible all week with temperatures in the 90s and very high humidity. Going outside is like walking into a wall of wet.
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Tried to order at Kritzerland but not up yet. I will try again after I get home from work.
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Good morning, all! I should be in the midst of "recording Roberta" dreams, but my dreams seem to be stuck in the American Revolution and "Dearest Enemy." Last night it was all about British ships landing in Manhattan, snipers running from soldiers in Central Park, a family gathering, and some sort of fraternity party. It was a real mashup of Manhattan in several different time periods. I should be in anxiety hell about this year's recording, so I'm puzzled.
I am off to Toyland. This may be my only trip this week, since there's no work and little reason to make the trip there. Today, I'll bind a full score and send Rob Berman an email about his schedule. I've also asked a couple of the cast, who are out of town with a show or vacation, to stop in and pick up a new vocal score, but no one's responded.
And I believe that is the news.
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Good morning, all.
Happy Monday vibes. I feel like it's going to be a long one.
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Monday.
Today is banking and shopping. I do not have a rehearsal until TOMORROW night, so today is mine. It is very nice.
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CD ordered!
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TOD:
Not the biggest Sinatra fan, either. But I do love him on these:
Mind if I Make Love to You
You're Sensational
Time After Time
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Yes DR TCB, sadly we know it is NOT hair.
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I'm up - after about three hours of sleep. It's easy to order a CD without it being up at the site - do I always have to remind how to do that for each new release after seven years? :)
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So, I guess I'll get everything ready for the announcement, although everything IS ready really.
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:)
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Good Monday morning.
Hope everyone has a really good day.
;)
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It's easy to order a CD without it being up at the site
OK - didn't know we could still do that. :)
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/toscana_zps653abd8c.jpg)
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Finally got some sleep, and sun, and fun this weekend.
:)
Now back to chores during the week.
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Ordering cd.
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And it's work time.
8)
later.
:)
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TOD:
Some of his early stuff: All or Nothing at All
I Fall in Love Too Easily
Time After Time
The Tender Trap
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My favorite Sinatra vocal may be This Is All I Ask by Gordon Jenkins in Jenkins' stunning arrangement. But I also love The Tender Trap, High Hopes and Pocketful of Miracles. And the entirety of his album In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning.
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Hmm, my cache (or whatever it is) took me to the discussion before the notes again. I thought I had it set up.
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Re Sinatra - blatant self-promo
have I foisted this FLYING WITH THIS LOON spoof of Fly me to the Moon on the group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDtWUZx858s
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Good morning.
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Wonderful Yiddish Sondheim in the notes, BK!!!!
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That photo, Doodlebug, reminds me of Castello Banfi, which I visited on vacation last year. (Not at sunrise or sunset, though.)
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Monday morning greetings! Hot & humid here in SW Ohio, but I have to go grocery shopping anyway :P
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Announced and I'm back in bed
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Monday morning greetings! Hot & humid here in SW Ohio, but I have to go grocery shopping anyway :P
It rained overnight here, so the humidity is major-league thick this morning. I empathize with you.
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Good morning, all.
Got to sleep in a little this morning, which was nice except for the one dream about the nice Christmas tree I purchased but which had to be transported from somewhere up in the northern Central Valley of California down to L.A. I could actually go into great detail about this one -- and wasn't I just remarking how my dreams seem to be evaporating upon awakening lately? -- but it's really not worth it.
More coffee, please.
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CD (and one other) ordered!
I also just received the DVD of A PLACE IN THE SUN in the mail the other day, following BK's recent appraisal of it. Having never seen it (at least to my knowledge), I look forward to a viewing some evening this week.
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Damn it, there are several things in the second half of the year that I wish I could be in L.A. for, and this week's recording session would certainly be one of them. I truly loved the few hours spent in the sessions for the Christmas album. Can't wait to hear and see whatever BK posts on this one.
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TOD:
There is so much Sinatra that it's hard to choose. I generally prefer early Sinatra from Dorsey into fifties. Some of his later stuff just got too Vegasy for me.
Some I like:
NIGHT & DAY
SAY IT (Over and Over Again)
OH, LOOK AT ME NOW
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME
A SINNER KISSED AN ANGEL
POLKA DOTS & MOONBEAMS
DAYBREAK
RAIN
WHEN THE WIND WAS GREEN
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DR Elmore, don't go looking for the anxiety dreams -- they will find you easily enough when the time is ripe. I know this all too well.
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Greetings from Toyland! It's too damned hot and once again the dumbass MTA running our transit system made getting to 28th Street difficult. I am sympathetic to delays caused by a sick passenger, a death, a suicide on the tracks, or whatever causes the backup, but what I do not understand is the fact that my local No 1 train can run to 72nd Street and then go express to 34th Street, then to 14th, without going back to a local situation. If the move is done to loosen up the trains behind the one you are on, surely after 34th Street, the damned thing could go back to being local? It seems to me they've opened up a good window of time by the time the train I'm on arrives at 34th, and would help passengers going to local stops below 42nd Street. No, it means getting off at 34th or 42nd and waiting in the GODDAM HEAT for the next train or walking up to the street for a bus or riding down to 14th Street and then transferring to an uptown local. Since my stop is the next after 34th, it really pisses me off, especially since it happens on an average of 6-10 times a year.
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Good Morning Everyone:
BK, I love The movie "A Place In The Sun"
I bet your CD will be great. I loved the score on that movie!
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TOD:
SUMMER WIND
SOMETHIN' STUPID
THE LADY IS A TRAMP
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Well Everyone: I just finished BK"S book, "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You".
I really enjoyed it!
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DR BK,
I learned some valuable lessons from you.
Everyone must read your book.
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Two lessons particularly stand out!
The one is Regarding Hugh Hefner and the other is about negativity and anger!
Both are life changing, and I have experienced both!
Thanks BK!
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I suggest all of HHW DR's get this book. I promise you won't be disappointed!
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Goodbye for now!
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Good morning. CD ordered, what a wonderful way to begin another long week.
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So many good Mr. Sinatra choices. I enjoy 50's/60's Sinatra more than any other era. So some of my favorites have already been mentioned.
I will only add:
I've Gotta Be Me
New York, New York
Strangers In the Night
That's Life
and the songs he sings in PAL JOEY:
If They Ask Me I Could Write a Book
My Funny Valentine
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I have a couple of Sinatra LP's - and one Sinatra CD.....although I have some songs of his on other compilation CD's.
This is my favorite Sinatra LP;
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/FRANK-SINATRA-LP-THATS-LIFE-Reprise-FS-1020-/00/s/MzE2WDQ2NQ==/z/gfwAAMXQLw1Rzvm8/$T2eC16d,!)EE9s2uiPV!BRzvm8ZJr!~~60_12.JPG)
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'50s/'60s Sinatra for me, too. Of course there would be some exceptions, but that is the core of it all for me.
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Yes DR CHAS SMITH - "Winchester Cathedral" does NOT belong on the pictured album, even with the patented "Sinatra Style".
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Oh - I wonder if I have that one, DR Jrand62. I'll look when I go downstairs. I do have a good little handful of his LPs, but not all the ones I'd still like to have. I just never think to look for them these days because I do so little record hunting now.
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So, the library's request list on "The Cuckoo's Calling" has grown by 100 since yesterday. And there's a new tagline on the card listing saying that 20 more copies of the book have been ordered.
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I don't remember who was arranging and producing those Reprise LP's but that Stereo was always FINE! It still sounds great even though I don't have a big stereo system to play it on.....my turntable runs through my Surround Sound System and there is really no way to adjust bass/treble, etc.
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And the word of the day is: RIFACIMENTO!
And The Song Of The Day Is: TONIGHT
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Three!
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They're running a picture of a crustless pizza in the San Francisco Chronicle today. It seems to be baked on a parchment paper. Wonder how easy that would be to do? Certainly would be worth giving up all the carbs of the crust.
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I just put an EBAY bid on a couple of Sinatra CD's, including MR BK's favorite: Wee Small Hours.
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DR GINNY getting from the car to the house with the groceries was miserable....this weather is for staying INSIDE.
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I like both the Capitol and Reprise years, depending.
Oh -- SINATRA AT THE SANDS is definitely a pleasure, which I make sure not to overdo, by giving it a listen only once every several years. But I love the classic live albums from those years, anyway -- Belafonte, Garland, etc.
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And yes, WEE SMALL HOURS is "the" classic. Quintessential Frank.
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They're running a picture of a crustless pizza in the San Francisco Chronicle today. It seems to be baked on a parchment paper. Wonder how easy that would be to do? Certainly would be worth giving up all the carbs of the crust.
Could you also make a pizza, and then cut off and feed the crusts to a canine that doesn't mind carbs?
Actually wouldn't pizza crusts be a fun side dish like donut holes?
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Well, I'm surprised to find about 14 Sinatra LPs on the shelf. More than I'd remembered. I know there are a few I've never listened to at all. I do have the "Winchester Cathedral" one, DR Jrand62. And I have two on reel-to-reel: ONLY THE LONELY, another essential for me, and COME SWING WITH ME.
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I wonder what the carb hit on the classic thin-crust Connecticut or New Haven pizzas are. Probably still more than a truly low-carb diet would permit. As far as that goes, I and other people I've known who have done Atkins just order pizza, scrape it all off onto a plate, and enjoyl
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For me, as for a few other DRs, my "prime" Sinatra is the classic Capital "concept" albums of the 50s - as much for the orchestrations as for the vocals. There are some gems from the later Reprise era, but as a whole, the Capital work is what I most cherish.
When I was on a cruise a decade ago, they had a talent competition among the passengers. The guy that won was an exact vocal mimic of Sinatra - he really sounded exactly like the real thing!
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Mr. Sinatra certainly still has fans....as evidenced by HHW today.
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Why does every camera need a DIFFERENT type of cable to attach to the computer. My Vivitar cable is no where to be found....and none of the other cables work.....so I cannot download the two pictures I took on Saturday. There is no reason for it NOT to be with all the others.....
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TOD:
I'm partial to "Come Fly with Me" and "The Second Time Around" and "My Kind of Town".
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DR Vixmom I have gained a 5 pounds and am not comfortable. If I don't put a stop to it now it now my clothes won't fit anymore.
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TOD:
Softly, As I Leave You
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Greetings, BK and DR's all,
Sorry to go missing for a couple of days there, but I had a ship to sink. It's done. The play is now in the rear view mirror, and as good as it was, I'm glad it's over. It's just a tough ride to rev up two hours of someone's endless emotional breakdowns for a staged reading, with only two blocking rehearsals. No matter. It's all blood under the bridge now. Nice to be back among the living again. :D
I hope everyone had a great weekend.
TOD:
I have to say, I'm with BK on THE WEE SMALL HOURS, and on THIS IS ALL I ASK.
THIS IS ALL I ASK is such a gorgeous song. I also loved the version that Jenkins arranged for Harry Nilsson on his A LITTLE TOUCH OF SCHMILSSON IN THE NIGHT, album.
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For those of you who have read my published screenplay, THE SUMMER FOLK, you are aware that it is somewhat autobiographical, dealing with the summers of my childhood that my family spent in Soap Lake, WA. (I also wrote about that time in my memoir, and my novel, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE, is set there.).
Last week, I got a request from the artistic director of the community theater in Soap Lake, asking if I would be interested in adapting my screenplay to the stage, as they would like to present it. Interestingly, I wrote this story as a stage play 30 years ago...on a typewriter. :(
I dug the manuscript out of storage...and decided that I wasn't happy with it. However, what I don't like is definitely fixable, so that's my project for the next month or two. The theater would like to stage the play next June.
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I'll buy the CD in the morning. :)
CD was purchased!
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They're running a picture of a crustless pizza in the San Francisco Chronicle today. It seems to be baked on a parchment paper. Wonder how easy that would be to do? Certainly would be worth giving up all the carbs of the crust.
Could you also make a pizza, and then cut off and feed the crusts to a canine that doesn't mind carbs?
Actually wouldn't pizza crusts be a fun side dish like donut holes?
The stuff underneath also doesn't like me much.
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For those of you who have read my published screenplay, THE SUMMER FOLK, you are aware that it is somewhat autobiographical, dealing with the summers of my childhood that my family spent in Soap Lake, WA. (I also wrote about that time in my memoir, and my novel, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE, is set there.).
Last week, I got a request from the artistic director of the community theater in Soap Lake, asking if I would be interested in adapting my screenplay to the stage, as they would like to present it. Interestingly, I wrote this story as a stage play 30 years ago...on a typewriter. :(
I dug the manuscript out of storage...and decided that I wasn't happy with it. However, what I don't like is definitely fixable, so that's my project for the next month or two. The theater would like to stage the play next June.
Great news.
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I wonder what the carb hit on the classic thin-crust Connecticut or New Haven pizzas are. Probably still more than a truly low-carb diet would permit. As far as that goes, I and other people I've known who have done Atkins just order pizza, scrape it all off onto a plate, and enjoyl
I'd rather have my carbs in something like a peach than in a pizza crust.
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For those of you who have read my published screenplay, THE SUMMER FOLK, you are aware that it is somewhat autobiographical, dealing with the summers of my childhood that my family spent in Soap Lake, WA. (I also wrote about that time in my memoir, and my novel, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE, is set there.).
Last week, I got a request from the artistic director of the community theater in Soap Lake, asking if I would be interested in adapting my screenplay to the stage, as they would like to present it. Interestingly, I wrote this story as a stage play 30 years ago...on a typewriter. :(
I dug the manuscript out of storage...and decided that I wasn't happy with it. However, what I don't like is definitely fixable, so that's my project for the next month or two. The theater would like to stage the play next June.
Druxy, congrats on the interest and good luck!
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For those of you who have read my published screenplay, THE SUMMER FOLK, you are aware that it is somewhat autobiographical, dealing with the summers of my childhood that my family spent in Soap Lake, WA. (I also wrote about that time in my memoir, and my novel, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE, is set there.).
Last week, I got a request from the artistic director of the community theater in Soap Lake, asking if I would be interested in adapting my screenplay to the stage, as they would like to present it. Interestingly, I wrote this story as a stage play 30 years ago...on a typewriter. :(
I dug the manuscript out of storage...and decided that I wasn't happy with it. However, what I don't like is definitely fixable, so that's my project for the next month or two. The theater would like to stage the play next June.
Druxy, congrats on the interest and good luck!
DITTO!
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DR GINNY getting from the car to the house with the groceries was miserable....this weather is for staying INSIDE.
DR JRand, all I had to do was pull into the garage and holler HELLO! to DH Richard and he carried the groceries in for me. I survived the trip, but was glad to get home to the air conditioning.
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Congratulations, DR Druxy!
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Fantastic news, DR Druxy. Congratulations! :)
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Good news, Druxy!
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And I am home! I will lie for a bit in front of the AC - it's hot out there! - and wait for whatever fresh hell comes my way.
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The humidity is manifesting itself in rain again. Can't complain. My plants love it.
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I'll buy the CD in the morning. :)
CD was purchased!
The Media has been alerted.
Huge sighs of relief have gone up across the realm!
;)
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Castello Banfi
The Banff squirrel has his own Castello?? ;)
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They're running a picture of a crustless pizza in the San Francisco Chronicle today.
I went to the website. I didn't see any photos of crustless pizza, but in my pizza-state mind, I read the headline "Fatal Hit-Run in Berkeley" as "Fatal Hit-Run in Bakery." >:(
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That's very interesting DR DRUXY. Have you seen the news of the new Diane McBain biography coming out?
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(http://www.savorsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/banfi5.jpg)
Not exactly the same, but it was enough of a reminder of a pleasant trip, Humdinger.
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That is beautiful, DR John G.! It must have been a wonderful trip.
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This is the Banff squirrel:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/banffsquirrel_zpsfb0e2417.jpg)
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He really gets around!
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/banff1_zpse531613a.jpg)
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This is the Banff squirrel:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/banffsquirrel_zpsfb0e2417.jpg)
There was a comedian on, I think SCTV, who had a wonderful way of phrasing things (and I can't remember who it was). But the line that still makes the 12-year-old in me laugh was when he said something about going away with his girlfriend and they went to "Alberta and Banff." And he made Banff sound like some sort of sexual act.
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I love the A PLACE IN THE SUN cover. I can't quite figure out, who is more beautiful; Liz or Monty!
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who is more beautiful
The raisin.
Oh wait - that's A RAISIN IN THE SUN.
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Back in the hotel after a day out in the countryside with my brother and sister etc. I previously said that the hotel provides unlimited free wi fi but it's a weak signal and very hit and miss as to whether I get connected.
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Very funny DR George.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t127/georged55/funny-little-girl-eating-popcorn_zps76422aa1.jpg)
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DR Matthew I hope you are feeling more cheerful today.
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I slept again until ten, so at least a few hours of blessed sleep, but with really weird dreams.
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Lots of orders to print out (this one will probably be gone by tomorrow or Wednesday. Then I had a BLT-A and some onion rings and a visit from our very own Mr. Nick Redman.
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/pianoplayer_zpsc4ecdad8.jpg)
:)
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That 2500 dollar signed copy of Cuckoo's Calling on the ABE sold. It's unbelievable. And now there's a proliferation of UK hardbacks on eBay BUT if you read the really small print they're preorders because, wait for it, the publisher has rushed a second printing of the book that's coming out on the 25th. The signed copy on eBay will probably end up going for two grand or more (it ends tomorrow) - there are a lot of US first editions up, most going for fifty to one hundred bucks, even though it can probably still be found in stores - I'm sure the publisher here has rushed a second printing, too. It's pretty amusing to watch this.
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For those of you who have read my published screenplay, THE SUMMER FOLK, you are aware that it is somewhat autobiographical, dealing with the summers of my childhood that my family spent in Soap Lake, WA. (I also wrote about that time in my memoir, and my novel, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE, is set there.).
Last week, I got a request from the artistic director of the community theater in Soap Lake, asking if I would be interested in adapting my screenplay to the stage, as they would like to present it. Interestingly, I wrote this story as a stage play 30 years ago...on a typewriter. :(
I dug the manuscript out of storage...and decided that I wasn't happy with it. However, what I don't like is definitely fixable, so that's my project for the next month or two. The theater would like to stage the play next June.
Druxy, congrats on the interest and good luck!
Congrats to Druxy from us, too!
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Last week, I got a request from the artistic director of the community theater in Soap Lake, asking if I would be interested in adapting my screenplay to the stage, as they would like to present it.
Congratulations. Vibes your play is a big hit.
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Not exactly the same, but it was enough of a reminder of a pleasant trip, Humdinger.
Lovely!
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That 2500 dollar signed copy of Cuckoo's Calling on the ABE sold. It's unbelievable. And now there's a proliferation of UK hardbacks on eBay BUT if you read the really small print they're preorders because, wait for it, the publisher has rushed a second printing of the book that's coming out on the 25th. The signed copy on eBay will probably end up going for two grand or more (it ends tomorrow) - there are a lot of US first editions up, most going for fifty to one hundred bucks, even though it can probably still be found in stores - I'm sure the publisher here has rushed a second printing, too. It's pretty amusing to watch this.
::)
Of course I had to share this with Keith.
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I'll buy the CD in the morning. :)
CD was purchased!
The Media has been alerted.
Huge sighs of relief have gone up across the realm!
;)
As well it should be!
;D
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/toscana_zps653abd8c.jpg)
That is one beautiful picture!
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I'll buy the CD in the morning. :)
CD was purchased!
The Media has been alerted.
Huge sighs of relief have gone up across the realm!
;)
As well it should be!
;D
:D
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If I thought that yesterday was hot it is going to be much hotter/more humid this week. I think wed is supposed to have a humidex of 43C. I don't even want to know what that is in F but i'm sure it must be close to 100F.
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There were so many people at the pool. Very crowded.
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My younger niece is now loving the pool. She puts on her goggles and drops a key chain to the bottom and then dives under to get it. She is improving so much every day.
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:)
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This is the Banff squirrel:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/banffsquirrel_zpsfb0e2417.jpg)
There was a comedian on, I think SCTV, who had a wonderful way of phrasing things (and I can't remember who it was). But the line that still makes the 12-year-old in me laugh was when he said something about going away with his girlfriend and they went to "Alberta and Banff." And he made Banff sound like some sort of sexual act.
HEADLINE:
Newlyweds Leave Davenport for Hot Springs
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Good evening!
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I gotta tell you.
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But I won't.
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How can it be four o'clock already. I've done no work yet - must finish commentary and start liner notes and must watch a motion picture - but first, must do a jog.
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I had to turn the computer off this morning before I finished catching up on yesterdays posts. To my surprise it still said "new" and I was able to go right where I left off.
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My throat has been scratchy all day. :(
I don't recall ever having a sore throat in the summer. I did go for a bike ride this morning. But may have to opt out tomorrow if i'm still under the weather. I try not to exercise a lot if i'm not feeling well.
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Tonight is the premiere of The Amazing Race Canada (first season). I really don't know what to expect since they are only travelling in Canada (which sounds like a terrible idea to me).
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DR Jennifer you might check the pollen count in your area. It has been an exceptionally bad year for allergies.
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DR Jennifer you might check the pollen count in your area. It has been an exceptionally bad year for allergies.
I used to have terrible allergies. But they haven't bothered me in years.
Hot soup felt so good (even though it's boiling outside). Cold felt so bad.
I don't think it's allergies.
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It was 95 today but didn't feel too bad. Maybe I'm getting acclimated to the heat. Of course I was only out long enough to walk to the Metro (8-10 minutes).
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Terrible news about Cory Monteith from Glee.
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/toscana_zps653abd8c.jpg)
DR singdaw---where is this? It's really spectacular!
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Does anyone know how I can stop the public from seeing my facebook photos and wall? Nothing seems to be private though I have "only friends" to see.
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Back from a three-mile jog. I think I'll watch a motion picture now, then finish the commentary, then start the liner notes.
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Does anyone know how I can stop the public from seeing my facebook photos and wall? Nothing seems to be private though I have "only friends" to see.
Have you had someone who is not a "friend" look at your page? How can you tell what's private if you're signed in and you're you?
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Re Sinatra - blatant self-promo
have I foisted this FLYING WITH THIS LOON spoof of Fly me to the Moon on the group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDtWUZx858s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDtWUZx858s)
Good one, Fred! ;D
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where is this?
DR KevinH: Toscana, Italy. Alas, I did not take the picture. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Whilst some DRs are saving money on the Criterion sale, I am saving money elsewhere:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/zeropercent_zpsccca20fc.jpg)
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Does anyone know how I can stop the public from seeing my facebook photos and wall? Nothing seems to be private though I have "only friends" to see.
Have you had someone who is not a "friend" look at your page? How can you tell what's private if you're signed in and you're you?
After I made up a fake FB page to check what can be seen I discovered there is something called "view" to show you what others can see. With my fake page I know for sure the public can see everything. :(
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I know that originally my page was more private.
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Whilst some DRs are saving money on the Criterion sale, I am saving money elsewhere:
"Interesting" ;D
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That sign just makes me want to go shopping, DR singdaw!!
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Storm heading this way! I hope we get some rain!
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I wish DS Craig were here. I can't see much of anything looking at his FB page using my fake account. Maybe he can tell me what he did to be private.
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Page five? Five pages?
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Finished the commentary, made some little cuts so it's the same length as the last couple of shows (i've been trying to streamline the patter a little bit - it used to be six full pages, a couple of shows even seven, but the last few have all been five full pages and I like that length best. This was five-and-a-half, but with the little edits its now exactly five full.
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'night
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I am home
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just in case anyone was wondering
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Storm heading this way! I hope we get some rain!
We had rain off and on all day today and highs in the 70s. Hoping you get the same.
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Went to the opening of a new sports bar/restaurant tonight. The food was meh, but the dessert was outrageous. The seven of us could not eat all of it. And the attractive name of said dish: The Big Ass Brownie.
Ah, that Texas class.
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Six!
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I made something the other night - chicken experiment
I took thin sliced chicken breast drenched it beaten egg and then panko bread crumbs
Then I put a slice of swiss cheese
spread sundried tomato paste on the cheese
put a generouse sliced of roasted red pepper on top ,
rolled the thing up and browned it in a leeetle bit of olive oil
then put some sherry and chicken broth in the pan, covered it and cooked it until it was done
served it over some wild rice
So - did I make something up or did I cook a real recipe?
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Not a drop, John G. Not a drop.
It looked like on the radar the storm got to within 2.5 miles of us ... and then just dissipated.
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Chicken Experiment sounds good, Vixmom!
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Home on a week night!!! Making cookies and listening to this on the turntable
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Laura I love your quote!
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I made something the other night - chicken experiment
I took thin sliced chicken breast drenched it beaten egg and then panko bread crumbs
Then I put a slice of swiss cheese
spread sundried tomato paste on the cheese
put a generouse sliced of roasted red pepper on top ,
rolled the thing up and browned it in a leeetle bit of olive oil
then put some sherry and chicken broth in the pan, covered it and cooked it until it was done
served it over some wild rice
So - did I make something up or did I cook a real recipe?
Sounds good to me.
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Not a drop, John G. Not a drop.
It looked like on the radar the storm got to within 2.5 miles of us ... and then just dissipated.
Bummer.
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Here's the Big Ass Brownie:
(http://www.savorsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/big-ass-brownie2.jpg)
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TOD
The Summer Wind
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
New York, New York
My Way
Come Fly With Me
Fly Me to the Moon
I get A Kick out of You
Stormy Weather
One for My Baby
Strangers in the Night
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Here's the Big Ass Brownie:
(http://www.savorsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/big-ass-brownie2.jpg)
is that because one of the consequences of eating it all by yourself is that you get a big
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I made something the other night - chicken experiment
I took thin sliced chicken breast drenched it beaten egg and then panko bread crumbs
Then I put a slice of swiss cheese
spread sundried tomato paste on the cheese
put a generouse sliced of roasted red pepper on top ,
rolled the thing up and browned it in a leeetle bit of olive oil
then put some sherry and chicken broth in the pan, covered it and cooked it until it was done
served it over some wild rice
So - did I make something up or did I cook a real recipe?
It's Real. Sounds Delicious. Was It ?
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Congratulations to Druxy
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I made something the other night - chicken experiment
I took thin sliced chicken breast drenched it beaten egg and then panko bread crumbs
Then I put a slice of swiss cheese
spread sundried tomato paste on the cheese
put a generouse sliced of roasted red pepper on top ,
rolled the thing up and browned it in a leeetle bit of olive oil
then put some sherry and chicken broth in the pan, covered it and cooked it until it was done
served it over some wild rice
So - did I make something up or did I cook a real recipe?
It's Real. Sounds Delicious. Was It ?
it was quite nice and I made 4 so tonight I tokk the two left overones put the left over rice in a skillet, put the two extra peices on top = poured in some chicken broth and covered it -- and it reheated very nicely
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I am getting very tired so good night all
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Good night, Vixmom. Dream of fat-free Big Ass Brownies.
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BK:
I was listening to an interview with Harvey Schmidt on the podcast "This Week On Broadway with Peter Filichia, James Moreno & Michael Portantiere." He had some glowing things to say about you (Even though he stumbled over your name at first) and said he was going to call you; something that he doesn't do usually
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Living with a pastry chef for 9+ years has it perks. I stole this recipe for chocolate chip cookies, and they are SOOOO yummy.
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BK:
I was listening to an interview with Harvey Schmidt on the podcast "This Week On Broadway with Peter Filichia, James Moreno & Michael Portantiere." He had some glowing things to say about you (Even though he stumbled over your name at first) and said he was going to call you; something that he doesn't do usually
I love that podcast!!!
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Finished with my viewing.
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With my viewing I'm finished.
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I was thinking about a second jog.
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About a second jog I was thinking.
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Here's the Big Ass Brownie:
(http://www.savorsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/big-ass-brownie2.jpg)
Wow! That looks exceedingly yummilicious! :D
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Well, it's 9:30 (on the left coast) and I'm still at work. I was finishing up some invoicing, but I still have more to do. BUT, I'm leaving now and going home. It's about damned time...actually, it works out that I only worked an extra half hour because I didn't get to work until about 10:45 am (which is about my normal time) and I took a 2 hour lunch. Oh, well. It's only time. :)
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Until later!
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For me, as for a few other DRs, my "prime" Sinatra is the classic Capital "concept" albums of the 50s - as much for the orchestrations as for the vocals. There are some gems from the later Reprise era, but as a whole, the Capital work is what I most cherish.
When I was on a cruise a decade ago, they had a talent competition among the passengers. The guy that won was an exact vocal mimic of Sinatra - he really sounded exactly like the real thing!
It was probably Junior in disguise.
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I learned this evening that Criterion plans to release, on Blu Ray, both "The Uninvited" (Ray Milland) and "I Married A Witch". Am very excited at the prospect!!!
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As I posted back in February, I was so excited to finally find the soundtrack LP to "You Light Up My Life". I'm FINALLY listening to it. If you've read "There's Mel, There's Woody and There's YOU" (and if you haven't, SHAME on you, read it and write a review ASAP) you'll know the connection to this movie and bk. While I love the cheezy-ness of the movie and music/lyrics, I can only imagine if someone else had directed it, what a better movie it could be.
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I wonder what the carb hit on the classic thin-crust Connecticut or New Haven pizzas are. Probably still more than a truly low-carb diet would permit. As far as that goes, I and other people I've known who have done Atkins just order pizza, scrape it all off onto a plate, and enjoyl
I'd rather have my carbs in something like a peach than in a pizza crust.
Pepperoni on a peach? Gross!
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Castello Banfi
The Banff squirrel has his own Castello?? ;)
A-b-b-b-b-o-o-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-!-!