Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 19, 2013, 12:58:25 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of paperbacks, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently reading a paperback entitled Gay Cows at the Corral.
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And the word of the day is: POETASTER!
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Meat and poetasters...
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Once again, loved all the "extras" in today's notes. And "That's All" is a most wonderful classic song.
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And for dessert: nutella cannoli:
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Morning all.
That is all.
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good morning to all
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off to work everyone have a great days
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Good morning, all.
Coffee!
Could have used another hour of sleep. Oh yes indeed.
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Got a busy morning so will have to save some postings for later.
I have my own little history with the love of paperbacks and will scan some of my favorites.
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Another day of mid-90s feeling like 100 or more. Not that I'm out in it to actually experience that for than a couple of minutes at a time whilst running errands and such.
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Good morning, all.
Hope it's a great Friday for everyone.
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Good morning. I think Dear Readers Laura and Sandra and I should all go back to your father's restaurant and maybe sit outside on the sidewalk and have a picnic of shrimp cocktails, turkey sandwiches and maraschino cherries.
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Coffee!
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:)
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Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I LOVE THE THURSDAY NIGHT POETRY / OPEN MIC NIGHTS I STARTED GOING TO.
I forgot how powerful words are, even in a very few.
8)
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Got to go.
Cant' be late.
Have a really good Friday everyone.
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:)
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I need more time. :-[
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Good morning, all! I slept in until 8:00, then spent too much time debating the laundry situation. I need more coffee. So, I'll begin the laundry in a few minutes, and scrounge up some breakfast.
I have no plans today. After I tidy up, vacuum, and mop, I'll wait for UPS to show up,then run a few errands. I won't be out in the heat for long.
TOD:
DVD: The Grand (BBC series)
CD: Dearest Enemy, Guy Haines
VCR: porn
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Paperbacks: I remember having most of the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner when I was about 10 or 11. Great books with lurid covers that often had nothing to do with the book itself. I remember having to take a note home from a teacher that I wasn't to bring them to my Lutheran grade school any more.
Three years later when I read "The Exorcist" in school (I knew not to that one home), that was apparently OK.
Or maybe they had catagorized me as a lost cause by that point.
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While on LI we were able to get Series 1, 2 and 3 of One Foot in the Grave. We have been watching that. We have the second Christmas special to watch and then I will go to the 40th Street branch of the library and take out Series 4, 5 and 6 and we will watch the remainder of the show.
We also finally got to see Stepping Out. A friend outside the U.S. sent us a copy. It's in PAL format and we have an old television and DVD player so we had to watch in on the computer. I hooked up the laptop to the television, though, and we were able to watch it full screen.
It's a nice little film. With all the stuff they release on DVD nowadays, I'm surprised this has never been released.
Larry, I hope you're enjoying The Grand. It wasn't as good, IMHO, as Duchess of Duke Street, but it's still a good series and worth watching.
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Friday!
Our local root beer drive-in was called The Dog & Suds.....our local post office now sits on the corner where it was....and the local police station is now where the post office used to be.
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I liked buying science fiction paperbacks.....usually only 50 cents or 75 cents.... My favorites were the short story anthologies.
I also bought anything that had Harlan Ellison's name on the cover....plays and movie tie in books with PHOTOS from the movies....still have some of them.
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Most enjoyable notes & extras!
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TOD:
NOTHING - I am working on lines for THE DROWSY CHAPERONE.
This is supposed to be our last day of EXTREME heat.....so perhaps ANGEL STREET will close tomorrow with a little rain or at least some moderate temperatures. We had a very good audience last night...and it was probably our most attended show.
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And the word of the day is: POETASTER!
And The Song Of The Day Is: RHYMES HAVE I
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Here was one of the better Mason mysteries:
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I am really annoyed by SO MANY of the contestants (I won't call them designers yet) on this season's PWOJECT WUNWAY that I can't imagine watching it until there are fewer of them around....I would have sent home ALL FOUR of those on the losing side last night.....
Especially dislike the environmental hypocrite, the tattooed dumb girl, the OTHER girl from Milwaukee with glasses, and the Russian guy....but there is an embarrassment of riches in uselessness among the group.
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DR JOHNG - I think an television episode based on that book was on ME TV earlier this week!
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One of my favorite PAPERBACK books....still in my possession....it's a Pocket Book - in its 29th Printing!!
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Page Two Harold Robbins Dance.
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I'm up I'm up, and glad that it's Friday, and besides my normal church activities and one more performance of the show in the woods, my weekend looks free. I'm jiggy with that.
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BK, the notes with illustrations are the cat's meow! Or is should that be the cat's pajamas? Anyway...fun!
And loving the paperback books. Pieces of art, those covers are...and I hope more from DRs collections will be shown! I will try to show some of my favorites, as well!
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Those photos are bigger than LIFE sized.....I found them on EBAY instead of scanning my book.....
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That last couple of trips to LA I had meant to take the Kritzerland Tour but either I got to busy or BK was quite busy, and so it never came to be. But next time, for sure!
I am also keen to visit BK's home environment so that I can see, in person, the actual paintings which became paperback book covers.
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TOD:
Assuming I can take a break from reworking my play for the Soap Lake theater, I have a few things to watch this weekend.
From the Blockbuster used DVD table, I picked up SAFE HAVEN and OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (or whatever it's called).
Also, from TCM, I recorded the Harold Lloyd movie, THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOACK.
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Here is one of my favorite paperback book covers. This is from Amazon.com, but I do have this book in my collection.
I think it is the title, even more than the cover, that I love!
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And yes, HOT PANTS HOMO really does need to be in my book collection.
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I am really annoyed by SO MANY of the contestants (I won't call them designers yet) on this season's PWOJECT WUNWAY that I can't imagine watching it until there are fewer of them around....I would have sent home ALL FOUR of those on the losing side last night.....
Especially dislike the environmental hypocrite, the tattooed dumb girl, the OTHER girl from Milwaukee with glasses, and the Russian guy....but there is an embarrassment of riches in uselessness among the group.
And it remains fascinating. Sandro...why on earth would they KEEP him? They liked the way the piece was constructed...never mind that it didn't fit the model and that she was XXX-rated on the runway.
While I think the correct person won, I think Kate should have been up there as one of the best, as well. And perhaps she would have been had they known about the former soldier's violation of the challenge's requirements.
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BK: I, for one, would love to know exactly what the inscription on the Adams/Wiltern photo says.
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Friday morning greetings! Book group last night was delightful because the author, Sharon Short, was there in person to talk about her novel My One Square Inch of Alaska. It was a little odd not to be in charge...
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TOD - the first of my entries on our Netflix list arrived yesterday, HYDE PARK ON HUDSON. I probably won't watch it until after Richard leaves tomorrow.
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When I was in L.A. last fall I had my own very critical and overdue DR ChasSmith Tour to accomplish, or I would have wrangled the Kritzer Tour out of BK. Next time, for sure, though, and I will treasure every block of it.
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DR Jrand62, I used to have that CARPETBAGGERS paperback. I've never properly seen the movie, but caught it a few times on afternoon TV and always loved the story.
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Movie and TV tie-in paperbacks are what ignited the passion in me at age 10 or 11.
We were already addicted to THE TWILIGHT ZONE (mainly me, but my parents certainly enjoyed it) when my dad spotted "More Stories From..." at a drugstore and brought it home to me. I just about peed my pants with surprise and delight. A year or so later, we saw PREMATURE BURIAL on its opening Friday night at the Warnor in Fort Lauderdale. The movie blew me away in its own right, but what really clinched it was being at a small market the next morning and finding the Lancer tie-in on the revolving paperback rack. That started an obsession that probably had my folks wanting to kill me at various times over the next several years. I'd missed the first two Corman films but as they played the drive-ins, etc., I and the family quickly caught up with them, and thanks to me, we all stayed caught up as subsequent ones were released.
I would read these things over and over and over, I'd read passages out loud to them, I'd talk about the films endlessly. In addition to the racks at drugstores, etc., we had one large downtown "news store" that stocked a lot of paperbacks, and I soon learned that if they didn't have something, they could order it, and I was probably one of the few kids to hang out there frequently and for long periods of time, just awed by all of it. This was long before I discovered "real" book stores, and for years, paperbacks were it for me. I later learned I could put my fifty cents into the mail and order direct from the publisher, and that's how I got PIT AND THE PENDULUM which I devoured the afternoon it arrived, and which I also dragged the family to the drive-in to see for our second or third time that night. (Did we really put cash into the mail? I can't say, but I know I ordered a few things that way.)
Horror and thrillers and the like were my number one obsession, but I soon grew to embrace paperback movie tie-ins for musicals, romantic comedies, and whatever else tickled my fancy at the time. I scanned a few favorite horror/thriller ones which I'll post shortly. In a few cases, it's obvious (due to the damned address label!) that these are my original copies from the early 1960s. As soon as I discovered eBay in 1998, I began seeking out replacements, and one of my very first purchases was a near mint set of the Corman/Poe novelizations.
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And yes, HOT PANTS HOMO really does need to be in my book collection.
I thought it was a publication of your dreams diary!
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Well, let's see what these look like.
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Yikes. HUGE. And the file is only 111k! Is that okay for everyone?
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Yes the photo in the notes is most interesting....obviously Mr Adams was still in his "new James Dean" mode.
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Nice book DR CHAS SMITH. I got my Twilight Zone tales books from the Book Club!!!
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The Wiltern looks so damned great, too. I never knew it as a regularly working movie theater, I'm sad to say.
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Nice book DR CHAS SMITH. I got my Twilight Zone tales books from the Book Club!!!
The SF book club? I was in that, too. In fact, I might still have that TZ book.
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I, for one, would love to know exactly what the inscription on the Adams/Wiltern photo says.
I could read it quite clearly. It says "To Ron Pulliam - Come up to the Wiltern some time and see my etchings. -Adams"
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Found this beauty recently and had to pick it up as a gift:
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oops. Never mind. I don't still have it!
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Oh that is a beauty, DR John G. What a wonderful find!
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I would love to have had a job back in the day writing the copy for these paperback covers.
Everything is so BREATHLESS. And EXCITING. And OVER THE TOP! :)
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Okay then, here's some more.
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I would love to have had a job back in the day writing the copy for these paperback covers.
Everything is so BREATHLESS. And EXCITING. And OVER THE TOP! :)
And TWISTED! And TORMENTED! And TORN FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES!
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And to finish up...
(I have the TZ movie one, too, but who cares! :) )
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TOD
DVD:
"The Card" (1952) with Alec Guinness
"The Raven" (1962) with Vincent Price
Blu-ray
"Love is a Many Splendored Thing"
CD
Nothing (again) Truth is, I've collected so many CDs/LPs over the years and have so much to listen to, that I'm reluctant to add more unless it's my favorite trio, Rozsa, Newman or Herrmann. Added to which, since retiring, I'd soon be broke if I bought everything of interest!
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Okay, now some Poe.
I especially loved Lancer books. They had the most special feel and smell, and these copies still retain a hint of that!
(Woops. Oh dear. I trust I'm not the only book smeller here!!? Don't have me put away. I'm not dangerous. I swear it!)
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This is the paperback that got me in trouble in high school. I was in my regular study hall seat for some kind of standardized testing. I raced through each section of the test so I could read. Eventually, the teacher monitoring the test suggested that I put the book away and review my work on the exam.
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They never published a tie-in for HOUSE OF USHER.
Which reminds me, I don't think they ever released a soundtrack LP for USHER -- in spite of the teaser for it at the end of the film. Am I wrong, though?
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DR Ginny, I got caught reading far worse than GONE WITH THE WIND -- in regular classes, too, never mind study hall!
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And yes, HOT PANTS HOMO really does need to be in my book collection.
I thought it was a publication of your dreams diary!
And who says it is not.
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DR Ginny, I got caught reading far worse than GONE WITH THE WIND -- in regular classes, too, never mind study hall!
LOL!
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This is the paperback that got me in trouble in high school. I was in my regular study hall seat for some kind of standardized testing. I raced through each section of the test so I could read. Eventually, the teacher monitoring the test suggested that I put the book away and review my work on the exam.
Teachers. They just don't have their priorities straight.
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I can see why DR John G. was asked NOT to bring that book in to his parochial grade school! ::)
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Those are some mighty fine paperback books, DR ChasSmith! I love that you collected them.
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These are all wonderful. Love the FLUFF one. (A SHATTERING NEW NOVEL)
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This is the paperback that got me in trouble in high school. I was in my regular study hall seat for some kind of standardized testing. I raced through each section of the test so I could read. Eventually, the teacher monitoring the test suggested that I put the book away and review my work on the exam.
Teachers. They just don't have their priorities straight.
Yeah, didn't she notice that I was reading, for those days, an EXPENSIVE paperback?
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Okay, here comes more.
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Love them thrillers...
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Swados! Any relation? :)
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PREMATURE BURIAL was my first introduction to Ray Milland, believe it or not.
Following that, I was crazy about these:
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That one on the left is, of course, PANIC IN YEAR ZERO. I forget what the deal was with the titles.
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I had forgotten it was on PBS, or I would have posted a reminder, but it looks like my DVR last night taped
From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook
The rundown of performances is here:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/180206-From-Broadway-With-Love-A-Benefit-Concert-for-Sandy-Hook-Debuts-on-PBS-in-NYC-Area-July-18 (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/180206-From-Broadway-With-Love-A-Benefit-Concert-for-Sandy-Hook-Debuts-on-PBS-in-NYC-Area-July-18)
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I love the Corman tie-in paperbacks. I usually bought the comic books - I had....HAD....Master of the World and, I think, The Masque of the Red Death....I remember the panels of Death walking through the different colored rooms.
I also have that DEAD RINGER paperback, but none of the others. Yes, Lancer Books were interesting...they almost always kept their square shape better than others.....not sure why.
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My TZ books came from the regular Random House book club....I think they were alternate selections at $1.99 each...BIG $$$ for someone who earned 50 cents an hour doing babysitting and mowing lawns.
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I think this is the novelization of HHW..... :D "Never had so desperate a group of human beings banded together...."
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Yes, DR Jrand62, the square shape held up a little better on the Lancers.
I envy you having had the comics, though. For some reason, I have no idea why, I only ever acquired a few such comics. And what few I had are long gone. I had a few Twilight Zones, probably a few Disney movies, and of course a few Illustrated Classics. (I've bought a few of those in recent years, and would actually like to get some more.) And let us not even bring up the Superman, etc., that disappeared ages ago. Not that we knew how to care for them then. But still...
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I think this is the novelization of HHW..... :D "Never had so desperate a group of human beings banded together...."
An excellent observation! :)
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I like that illustration showing that you could sit on the sofa and watch the SIDE of the television set.
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As it happens, this is a Lancer I found just a few years back (and yes, nicely squared off) -- even before knowing the special significance...
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This one's not in very good shape but I've never come across another. Not that I've looked. I read it a few times back in the day and it barely held up to the years of abuse. Nevertheless...
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(Looks like I might be able to take some lighter fluid to where that
fu doggone childhood address label had been applied.)
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I think I am going to have a T-Shirt printed with this logo from earlier today:
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I probably took me longer to make that than it took Percy to write the book....
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More nice covers DR CHAS SMITH. Our dear friend Miss Susan Gordon once said that one of her enduring memories from that film was wondering how Martha Hyer kept herself....or herselves....inside that dress during all the running and heavy breathing that was going on....
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I still need to watch that. I did find it on what looked like a pretty second-rate DVD last year.
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I'm up. I was up at six-thirty, fell back asleep an hour later. So, jog can't happen until late this afternoon.
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Wonderful covers - I believe the Ray Milland End of the World book's film had its title changed to Panic in the Year Zero.
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Mine aren't as exciting as many here and I got rid of many over the years. I've always been mainly interested in science fiction. "The Sirens of Titan" is one of my all-time favorites.
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I remember the drugstore where I bought this one the morning after the movie opened. I'd already read and loved the story via my mother's Readers Digest condensation, so it was a thrill to not only have the striking tie-in design, but to be able to read it unabridged. As a side note, the little ink drawings in the Readers Digest meant so much to me back then, before the film, that I still keep a copy of it now for purely sentimental reasons.
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I love that Penguin QUATERMASS, DR Doug R!
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Oh very nice DR DOUG R!!!
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Here's some US John Wyndham for you:
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BTW, if anyone here likes this stuff at all, but hasn't read any Wyndham ..... DO IT. Wonderful books.
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All three Quatermass films were done as Penguin paperbacks and if you have the set and their first printings they are valuable. I have a lovely set. They are the true first editions.
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My uncle took my sister and me to see JOURNEY for our first time at one of the grand old downtown theaters in Columbus.
My family and I saw MASTER OF THE WORLD at drive-ins a couple of times.
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For the entire week on Screen Archives Entertainment's site, A Place in the Sun has been the number one selling soundtrack.
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All three Quatermass films were done as Penguin paperbacks and if you have the set and their first printings they are valuable. I have a lovely set. They are the true first editions.
Damn. Nice to know.
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For the entire week on Screen Archives Entertainment's site, A Place in the Sun has been the number one selling soundtrack.
AMAZING! and EXCELLENT!
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I think this is the novelization of HHW..... :D "Never had so desperate a group of human beings banded together...."
HEY! :o I resembleresent that remark!
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Better brush up on your knitting skills, DR Ron Pulliam! ;D
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Musicals!
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Well here it is....the first secret hush hush never before seen ripped from the headlines scorching undercover sizzling unvarnished naked unabridged ADULT photo of MYSELF and some of the cast of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE......taken Tuesday evening when some people were trying on their costumes. This is NOT my costume. If you are familiar with the show, you will recognize most of the characters. Reducing the size caused some SQUEEZING of some faces....
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And I think this is about the last of what I scanned...
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SQUEEZING takes off a few pounds, DR Jrand62.
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I love that Penguin QUATERMASS, DR Doug R!
Me, too. Great stuff.
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Page Five Wild Town Dance!
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Musicals!
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The Signet on the right was the edition we used when we read "My Fair Lady" and "Pygmalion" together back in my freshman year of high school.
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The Signet on the right was the edition we used when we read "My Fair Lady" and "Pygmalion" together back in my freshman year of high school.
And I just noticed the $2.95 price on that. Yikes! Obviously not my original, just a clean copy acquired in recent years.
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Are all of these Jim Thompsons your own copies, DR John G.?
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Hello Everyone:
TOD:
DVD: Seabiscuit
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Goodbye for now!
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BTW, if anyone here likes this stuff at all, but hasn't read any Wyndham ..... DO IT. Wonderful books.
I love John Wyndham's books DR ChasSmith.
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The coziest of the Cozy Catastrophes, DR Doug R.
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All three Quatermass films were done as Penguin paperbacks and if you have the set and their first printings they are valuable. I have a lovely set. They are the true first editions.
I also have "The Quatermass Experiment" (still in very good condition) but sometime over the years I lost "Quatermass II" and had to make do with buying a reprint.
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Then I need to be squeezed often and by someone who knows how.
An almost Clark Gable reference.
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Shortly I shall be on my way to a lunch meeting. In the meantime, I am hopping mad - this creep who does endless cabaret events that he thinks are all about him, this person who has been copying what I do for YEARS (and not well), this person who last year tried to buck our first Sunday of every month shows by scheduling his own just down the street (and failing miserably, I'm happy to say - Adryan Russ spoke to him then and he agreed not to do that anymore as it wasn't good for anyone - especially HIM, which is why I think he did agree), has just scheduled a memorial for the recently deceased Rick Starr - that's a good thing to do and we all would like to be there because we all liked Rick, so when did he schedule it - the first Sunday evening in October, literally across the street from our show - at the El Portal. How selfish and stupid do you have to be to do that? It will now be very hard for us to get an audience, as our audiences all knew Rick and it will be hard for us to get a cast because many of our folks also knew Rick. Adryan has written this guy and called him on his insanity - we'll see how he responds, but if he doesn't fix this he will rue the day he ever did it. He will see the side of me that no one ever needs to see.
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Most of my Movie Tie In paperbacks including MY FAIR LADY - the one on the right above - were purchases at thrift stores.....many years after publication....
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TOD
DVD - THE WINDOW (1949)
BLU - BODY HEAT, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, DO THE RIGHT THING
Yesiree, got a little "heat wave" theme going here.
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I have two copies of PARRISH.....the newer one has Troy Donahue on the cover.
The older one has a drawing on the cover and the breathless information on the inside that:
Soon to be a Warner Bros. Major Motion Picture.....directed by Joshua Logan and starring Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty!
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Holy cow(s), that is some mighty and righteous stupidity, BK.
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That is impossible to understand MR BK.....ALL of the same people would attend both events if they were held on different evenings.
No reason for it....except you are a success and he is not.....
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Good morning. I mean afternoon.
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The Signet on the right was the edition we used when we read "My Fair Lady" and "Pygmalion" together back in my freshman year of high school.
And I just noticed the $2.95 price on that. Yikes! Obviously not my original, just a clean copy acquired in recent years.
Yeah, well, I doubt it was $2.95 back in 1976.
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Good afternoon, DR Laura. Please tell us, did your adventure yesterday involve snow shoes?
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I certainly hope for everyone's sake that this photo was taken BEFORE Labor Day!
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Are all of these Jim Thompsons your own copies, DR John G.?
They are not. I found them at this lovely, lurid link:
http://vintagepaperbackarchive.com/tag/jim-thompson/
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TOD:
DVD: Gypsy (the Natalie Wood version shown earlier on a paperback cover), maybe a bootleg or two.
CD: Giant. Can't stop listening to this score.
Car CD: The Song of the Lark, which I'm ashamed to admit I have never read before and am loving every moment of. Big Willa Cather fan.
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DR John G. - loving your lovely little lurid link! :)
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No, just snake boots.
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And I saw an elk. Two elk. Elks?
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DR John G. -
There was an interesting book review in the Sunday NY Times a few months ago, reviewing the publication of Willa's letters, and the ethical issues of doing so, seeing as how she never wanted them published.
Here it is, in case you didn't see it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/selected-letters-of-willa-cather.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/selected-letters-of-willa-cather.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)
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Elki? :)
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Elkae?
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PAGE SIX SOMETHING OR OTHER DANCE
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Besides The Forbidden Dance, that is my favorite one! :)
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And now, one of my favorite B. Kilban classics:
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And I saw an elk. Two elk. Elks?
You saw two representatives of the Cervus canadensis species.
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I did indeed.
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Elke Sommer?
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DR John G. -
There was an interesting book review in the Sunday NY Times a few months ago, reviewing the publication of Willa's letters, and the ethical issues of doing so, seeing as how she never wanted them published.
Here it is, in case you didn't see it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/selected-letters-of-willa-cather.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/selected-letters-of-willa-cather.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)
Thank you. I look forward to reading that book if I ever have the chance to read again. And I'll forward this on to a friend of mine who's a big Cather fan.
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the Cervus canadensis species.
I didn't know that the cervus were from Canada!
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Elke Sommer?
;D
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/elkejpg_zps4cb8a62b.jpg)
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Many people don't know that in Dr. Seuss' original draft, it was not the Grinch, but the Elk, who stole Christmas:
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NINE Dear Readers plus 2 Guests! We've got us a par-tay!
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So where did all the posting go? We could use another little
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I am soon to be off to the penultimate performance of ANGEL STREET.
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Happy National Daiquiri Day!
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I'll drink to that!
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Once again, loved all the "extras" in today's notes. And "That's All" is a most wonderful classic song.
I LOVE "That's All." Guy Haines does a great job with it. I also love Sam Harris' duet version with Laurie Beechman (http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Time-Different-Stages/dp/B000ZNZ3RM/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_title_0)! :)
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I'll drink to that!
Prior to a penultimate performance?
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And I think this is about the last of what I scanned...
(http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Paperbacks/Birdie.jpg)
And here is the address on the book
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I'll drink to that!
Prior to a penultimate performance?
He's the director. He doesn't have to be sober! ;D
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Is that from Google, DR Mike? Looks like they're a little off on the address. That house now has a solid fence blocking the street view of the front yard where they installed a pool. (We didn't have one when we lived there.)
Bing has it right. You'll have to zoom in: http://binged.it/198cKLl
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Ba-da-bing!
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I could resist looking up some other pulp books
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(http://www.jeffandwill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/xallshadesofgay.jpg)
(http://www.lesbianfunworld.com/books/pulp/images/32702f.jpg)
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Is that from Google, DR Mike? Looks like they're a little off on the address. That house now has a solid fence blocking the street view of the front yard where they installed a pool. (We didn't have one when we lived there.)
Bing has it right. You'll have to zoom in: http://binged.it/198cKLl
yes it was google
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Bing Crosby would no doubt have had it right, too.
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And for dessert: nutella cannoli:
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Oh, my! That looks delicious!
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I think this is the novelization of HHW..... :D "Never had so desperate a group of human beings banded together...."
An excellent observation! :)
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;)
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My mom, Eileen (a friend of hers), Eileen's grandkids and my sister and I went to the beach one weekend when my sister and I were in high school and Eileen had a book called "Space on My Hands" by Fredric Brown. It's a collection of science fiction short stories. I can't remember if this was my first introduction to his writings. I don't think so, but he instantly became one of my favorite authors, and still is to this day. Anyway, this is the cover of the book that Eileen had (how can you forget a cover like that?):
(http://www.gemm.com/graphics_books_nz/WO/WOQVUTZWYPE4.jpg)
And the stories are really good...but the cover has absolutely nothing to do with them.
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TOD:
CD: Giant. Can't stop listening to this score.
I just listened to this again on Wednesday and I really like it, too!
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Well, since we're so close...
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PAGE SEVEN CLIPJOINT DANCE!!
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For the entire week on Screen Archives Entertainment's site, A Place in the Sun has been the number one selling soundtrack.
Congratulations, BK!
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Anyone miss seeing "Shrek" on Broadway?
http://www.amazon.com/Shrek-the-Musical/dp/B00E0SWH9K/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1374265081&sr=1-1&keywords=shrek+musical
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Anyone miss seeing "Shrek" on Broadway?
http://www.amazon.com/Shrek-the-Musical/dp/B00E0SWH9K/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1374265081&sr=1-1&keywords=shrek+musical (http://www.amazon.com/Shrek-the-Musical/dp/B00E0SWH9K/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1374265081&sr=1-1&keywords=shrek+musical)
What?? I saw this in Seattle before it went to New York and I really enjoyed it. :D
The listing says, "Releases September 17, 2013," but if you scroll down, there's another: "US Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 2013." Theatrical Release Date?? I wonder if this will this be shown theaters or if that's just a way of saying that it's going to be released on DVD/Blue-ray.
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Another unsolicited recipe for pimiento cheese:
Pimiento Cheese
4 ounces cream cheese (softened)
4 ounces diced pimiento
2 ounces mayonnaise (Duke’s is my favorite!)
8 ounces sharp white Cheddar cheese
Salt & pepper to taste
Place cream cheese and mayonnaise into a large mixing bowl and beat at medium speed until thoroughly combined. Add cheddar cheese. Mix till combined, then add pimientos (add them last so they don’t get too beat up). Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Have a certain type of cheese you love? Feel free to substitute another type of cheese in for additional flavor. For example, substitute 2 ounces of blue cheese in for 2 ounces of the sharp white Cheddar cheese.
Feel like adding a little kick to your pimiento cheese? Substitute another pepper or flavor in for the 2 ounces of pimientos.
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From DR Cilla:
The baby has a much better chance in the nest than it did out of the nest. You did the right thing
Thanks.
Apparently the baby wanted out of the nest along with a sibling. This morning I took a quick peek (the nest is in a low bush) and there were only two babies. I don't know where the missing two are. They could have been right in front of me. The only reason I saw the one last night was because it was crying & when I approached it the mouth went open for food. :)
The mother is still hanging around and I'm staying away from the area altogether.
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Helen Reddy's concert in NJ this weekend was postponed a week. I wonder if it relates to teh heat wave.
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From DR Cilla:
If this had been the photo on the cover of Rolling Stone, would it have been better?
I saw that in the news yesterday and thought it would be worse.
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oops, cop who released that photo was fired
I was wondering if that would happen.
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When I was in L.A. last fall I had my own very critical and overdue DR ChasSmith Tour to accomplish, or I would have wrangled the Kritzer Tour out of BK. Next time, for sure, though, and I will treasure every block of it.
It would be fun if you and DR MBarnum could take the tour at the same time.
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Bruce, I expect my house to be on that tour :)
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So where did all the posting go? We could use another little
(http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Paperbacks/Frenzy.jpg)
I have this book under its original title - the true UK first edition.
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This is the paperback that got me in trouble in high school. I was in my regular study hall seat for some kind of standardized testing. I raced through each section of the test so I could read. Eventually, the teacher monitoring the test suggested that I put the book away and review my work on the exam.
This is funny.
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DR Ginny, I got caught reading far worse than GONE WITH THE WIND -- in regular classes, too, never mind study hall!
;D
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As it happens, this is a Lancer I found just a few years back (and yes, nicely squared off) -- even before knowing the special significance...
I had a dream about Susan last night. I've never done that before. We were at a very strange class reunion.
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Well here it is....the first secret hush hush never before seen ripped from the headlines scorching undercover sizzling unvarnished naked unabridged ADULT photo of MYSELF and some of the cast of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE......taken Tuesday evening when some people were trying on their costumes. This is NOT my costume. If you are familiar with the show, you will recognize most of the characters. Reducing the size caused some SQUEEZING of some faces....
Nice pic.
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Bruce I now know why we never met before Hami. Apparently you were gone before my father and I arrived at the Kiru for lunch on summer days when I helped my father by counting pills & talking to patients.
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In the (distant, but not too-distant) past, we've indulged in a "stripper" or "drag" name scenario whereby we combine the name of our first pet with the name of the first street we lived on.
In my case, my first pet was an Eskimo spitz named Dinky originally (by my dad, I guess), but the name became "Dinky-Boo" because I began calling him that...probably an offshoot of trying to play peek-a-boo with him (another guess).
Nonetheless, we lived on Young Street at the time, so my stripper (or drag) name would be "Dinky-Boo Young".
Here is a photo of Dinky-Boo. It's the only photo of him that I have.
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/RonPulliam/Dinky-Booca1951or1952AnEskimoSpitzDinkywasfirstpetIhad.jpg) (http://s254.photobucket.com/user/RonPulliam/media/Dinky-Booca1951or1952AnEskimoSpitzDinkywasfirstpetIhad.jpg.html)
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By those rules, my name would be Figaro Eau Claire. ;D
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Can you tell that we got our first cat during a re-release of Pinocchio? :)
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Good evening!
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Wow! Page 7 before 7 pm EDT!
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I don't know the name of our very first dog, and I doubt my dad would have any idea now. Then we didn't have pets for several years because of my allergies. And then we did again which, finally, makes my name Babe Bryden.
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I think I may see THE CONJURING tomorrow; the reviews have been good.
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I think I may see THE CONJURING tomorrow; the reviews have been good.
Same here. Maybe tomorrow, maybe Sunday, but aside from WORLD WAR Z, it's the only thing playing around here that I'd have any hope in hell of sitting through.
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I think I may see THE CONJURING tomorrow; the reviews have been good.
Same here. Maybe tomorrow, maybe Sunday, but aside from WORLD WAR Z, it's the only thing playing around here that I'd have any hope in hell of sitting through.
I want to see R.I.P.D. as well. It looks inane, and that's fine with me.
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I am disappointed that we did not get a Smashburger review from DR ChasSmith today!
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Though I completely understand his not wanting to brave the heat and humidity.
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We've had some very severe weather here since 3pm. Thunderstorms, lightning, tornado watches (?), power outages. My sister's place seems to lose power whenever there is an outage. So from 5:15pm till 6:45pm I stayed in the dark. It was much darker than usual for that time because of the weather. Hopefully she will get her power back tonight. But supposedly 500, 000 people are without power.
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I do have power.
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I do have power.
:)
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Page Eight Heat Wave dance!
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If anybody has 10 spare seconds could you click this link and then go down the page and click on Dimitri (he is up against Will).
It's a big YA book showdown (I think it may end tonight at midnight). Richelle Mead is one of my favorite authors. If Dimitri wins she is going to write some stuff from her books in his POV. I want this!
http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.in/2013/07/grand-finale-dimitri-4-vs-will-2.html?m=1
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If anybody has 10 spare seconds could you click this link and then go down the page and click on Dimitri (he is up against Will).
It's a big YA book showdown (I think it may end tonight at midnight). Richelle Mead is one of my favorite authors. If Dimitri wins she is going to write some stuff from her books in his POV. I want this!
http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.in/2013/07/grand-finale-dimitri-4-vs-will-2.html?m=1
Done.
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Thanks. It's basically now a popularity contest between the two authors. They are both pretty popular but I think the other author (Cassandra Clare) is more popular. But it's so close!
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If anybody has 10 spare seconds could you click this link and then go down the page and click on Dimitri (he is up against Will).
It's a big YA book showdown (I think it may end tonight at midnight). Richelle Mead is one of my favorite authors. If Dimitri wins she is going to write some stuff from her books in his POV. I want this!
http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.in/2013/07/grand-finale-dimitri-4-vs-will-2.html?m=1
Done
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It was easy enough to do.
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Watching "Gypsy." I haven't seen this in ages. Natalie Wood is spectacular. Roz Russell is horrible. It didn't have to be Ethel, but it should have been somebody who was not so, so blank.
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'night
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Back from a three-mile jog. Had a good meeting, and the cutest kids were selling lemonade on my corner, so we all went out there and purchased their various items, from lemonade to brownies to little homemade bracelets. The two kids, of course, want to be in show business. The mom is very nice - they all live right down the street. Since the youngest daughter is thirteen, I gave her a copy of Murder at the School Musical.
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That's a nice story, BK.
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If anybody has 10 spare seconds could you click this link and then go down the page and click on Dimitri (he is up against Will).
It's a big YA book showdown (I think it may end tonight at midnight). Richelle Mead is one of my favorite authors. If Dimitri wins she is going to write some stuff from her books in his POV. I want this!
http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.in/2013/07/grand-finale-dimitri-4-vs-will-2.html?m=1
Done!
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The trouble I have with those French actors is that I can never understand a word they say.
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Lots of French acting on TCM tonight.
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Best ANGEL STREET performance so far....and the best audience. It's nice when that happens....
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Just scanned some fun stuff for the notes tomorrow.
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VIBES to the troops for a great recording session tomorrow!
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Best ANGEL STREET performance so far....and the best audience. It's nice when that happens....
Congrats! Hope that continues!
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VIBES to the troops for a great recording session tomorrow!
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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Look what I just received from eBay:
(http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ko/kollectorskingdom/e245.jpg)
These are actual postage stamps, but you'll notice that on the side they say, "US LOCAL POST." Doing a little (very little) research, evidently local towns and post offices can create their own local postage stamps, but they can't be used to mail things outside of their area. I don't know what town/post office that these were made for, but I actually got these on eBay from Australia. Whooda thunk it?
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Best ANGEL STREET performance so far....and the best audience. It's nice when that happens....
Did the daiquiri help?
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Look what I just received from eBay:
(http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ko/kollectorskingdom/e245.jpg)
These are actual postage stamps, but you'll notice that on the side they say, "US LOCAL POST." Doing a little (very little) research, evidently local towns and post offices can create their own local postage stamps, but they can't be used to mail things outside of their area. I don't know what town/post office that these were made for, but I actually got these on eBay from Australia. Whooda thunk it?
Strange, because in the U.S., a person has to be dead for 10 years (or some such time) before he or she can appear on a postage stamp -- with the exception of presidents. At least that used to the rule.
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Best ANGEL STREET performance so far....and the best audience. It's nice when that happens....
Congrats! Hope that continues!
VIBES to the troops for a great recording session tomorrow!
~~~DITTO!!~~~
Tritto!
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Just finished watching the TV version of the Fantastiks with Susan Watson, Ricardo Montalban, John Davidson, Bert Lahr and Stanley Holloway. Great cast, but the show was cut down to an hour and everything seemed a little rushed. Not as good as that cast would lead to think it would be.
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Good night, all.
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Look what I just received from eBay:
These are actual postage stamps, but you'll notice that on the side they say, "US LOCAL POST." Doing a little (very little) research, evidently local towns and post offices can create their own local postage stamps, but they can't be used to mail things outside of their area. I don't know what town/post office that these were made for, but I actually got these on eBay from Australia. Whooda thunk it?
Strange, because in the U.S., a person has to be dead for 10 years (or some such time) before he or she can appear on a postage stamp -- with the exception of presidents. At least that used to the rule.
As far as I know, that still true...but those are for regular (national) US stamps. I haven't done much research, but I would think that if you can make your own local stamp, you can make your own local image rules. Just a thought.
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I'm going to send a message to the eBay seller and hopefully he/she will have more information. :)
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Get me off this damn page. I watched a bit of a Truffaut movie I'd TIVOd but am not feeling motivated to watch the rest or anything else. So, I'm just listening to music and I may write the notes a little early and schedule them so they post right at midnight, so I can get to bed.
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I loved the paperback cover, BK, but it didn't look to me that the hot pants were on the homo (God I hate that word).
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Well, since we're so close...
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And now, I'm going home.
Be back later!
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Are we close to page ten?
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Is page ten close to us?
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Nice book DR CHAS SMITH. I got my Twilight Zone tales books from the Book Club!!!
The SF book club? I was in that, too. In fact, I might still have that TZ book.
San Francisco had a book club?
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My aunt and her "housemate" first went to Hawaii in the late 50's and fell in love with the place. As they got older, they started going three or four times a year. When I got my driver's license, I suddenly got hired to watch their house while they were gone. It was a great gig for a teenager; a beautiful house high on a hill, plus a cool car to use. One of the first times I was staying there, I was looking around for a book to read. I came across this paperback called THE BIG NICKELODEON by Maritta Wolff. To me, it was the greatest book ever written. It took place around the movie industry (marginally) plus plenty of sex and violence. But most importantly, the book had gay characters and they weren't just stereotypes. I read that book every time I stayed at their house.
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This was not the cover that was on the book I read, but it was all I could find online.
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While on LI we were able to get Series 1, 2 and 3 of One Foot in the Grave. We have been watching that. We have the second Christmas special to watch and then I will go to the 40th Street branch of the library and take out Series 4, 5 and 6 and we will watch the remainder of the show.
We also finally got to see Stepping Out. A friend outside the U.S. sent us a copy. It's in PAL format and we have an old television and DVD player so we had to watch in on the computer. I hooked up the laptop to the television, though, and we were able to watch it full screen.
It's a nice little film. With all the stuff they release on DVD nowadays, I'm surprised this has never been released.
Larry, I hope you're enjoying The Grand. It wasn't as good, IMHO, as Duchess of Duke Street, but it's still a good series and worth watching.
We LOVED One Foot In The Grave -
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!
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My uncle took my sister and me to see JOURNEY for our first time at one of the grand old downtown theaters in Columbus.
My family and I saw MASTER OF THE WORLD at drive-ins a couple of times.
(http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Paperbacks/Verne.jpg)
I saw the volcano in Iceland that they climbed down to start their journey.
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And I saw an elk. Two elk. Elks?
Did they both have a highball in each hand?
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Watching "Gypsy." I haven't seen this in ages. Natalie Wood is spectacular. Roz Russell is horrible. It didn't have to be Ethel, but it should have been somebody who was not so, so blank.
Wow, different strokes. I think Rosalind Russell is wonderful in GYSY.
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G'night!
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Watching "Gypsy." I haven't seen this in ages. Natalie Wood is spectacular. Roz Russell is horrible. It didn't have to be Ethel, but it should have been somebody who was not so, so blank.
Wow, different strokes. I think Rosalind Russell is wonderful in GYSY.
I certainly enjoyed Rosalind in "Gypsy," too. And I loved her in "Auntie Mame."