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wild-catting
Where's Lucille Ball when you need her?
Very excited to read the title and details of the book. What is even more exciting is that it is NOT a dystopian book about young people....that trend will soon hopefully bite the dust for a decade or so.
Feel better vibes to DR Cillaliz!
We need dog reaction video DR DRUXY.
Is your play about an actress who worked with Roger Corman and was killed by her own son?
AH....I knew you had a connection to the case, but I had forgotten that you already covered it. The memory is a terrible thing to lose....
Oy! Well, today was a day. I had a dental appointment at 8:30am, which was supposed to be a simple prep for a crown. It turned out there was decay going down into the roots - the tooth had to be removed. Despite the dentist's best efforts, he couldn't get out the roots. So this afternoon, I was in an oral surgeon's chair. He ended up having to make an incision in my gum, as well as removing part of my jaw bone, in order to get those roots out. I'm not in such great shape right now, but I have some wonderful drugs.
Tomorrow, I have an actress friend and two of her actor friends coming over to my house to read aloud my new 3-person stage play.
This is a Hollywood story that I've been wanting to tell, in one form or another, for over 30 years.
I'm getting ready for my midday appointment with my cardiologist. Looking forward to getting the results of my Feb. 4 stress test. Paramedic Rob assured me that if it had shown anything suspicious I'd have heard from them before now.
DR Elan, thanks for your post about Erv Raible. So many of my FB friends were posting nice comments about him and I had no idea what he did or who he was.
Very excited to read the title and details of the book. What is even more exciting is that it is NOT a dystopian book about young people....that trend will soon hopefully bite the dust for a decade or so.
I hope not. I am obsessed with dystopia.
The laundry is finished and I have lost a sock. Damn!
The laundry is finished and I have lost a sock. Damn!
It's gone to the black hole of unwanted socks.
The laundry is finished and I have lost a sock. Damn!
It's gone to the black hole of unwanted socks.
More like the unwanted hole of black socks!
The San Antonio Symphony has got some fun planned for the fall. They move into a new expanded and refurbished center with Renee Fleming as the opener. After her appearance at Super Bowl, I'm sure that will sell a few tickets. The biggie for me, though, is they're doing Mahler's No. 2 Symphony in October. Can't wait to see that, hear it live for the first time.
I am curious what other DRs thought about yesterday's women's figure skating long program?? Especially the scores for the top 3.
Last weekend of rehearsals for our production of the one-act I NEVER MISS A LARRY KRAMER MUSICAL (a parody chat with "Bette Midler") - our tech and first performance are on Tuesday Feb. 25. Where did the time go?
Trying to post our postcard image, which is here at this like, but having trouble - and rehearsals have truly been a blast, in all good ways:
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2014/01/info-about-our-one-act-parody-musical.html
Tomorrow, I have an actress friend and two of her actor friends coming over to my house to read aloud my new 3-person stage play.
This is a Hollywood story that I've been wanting to tell, in one form or another, for over 30 years.
DR Elan, thanks for your post about Erv Raible. So many of my FB friends were posting nice comments about him and I had no idea what he did or who he was.
Erv was co-owner (along with Karen Miller and Rochelle Seldin) of Eighty-Eights, the piano bar to which I owe whatever sanity I had in my early 20s, as well as where The Lovely Wife(tm) and I hung out at before we started dating. It is hardly exaggerating to say that I owe my marriage and children to him.
I can imagine that he may have been difficult to work with, but I never met a bigger devotee of the art of cabaret singing.
Happy to read some folks are liking the idea of the new book.
I'm wondering how my dog, Chester, will react when the actress arrives tomorrow.
Chester used to be her dog (for 3 years), but he didn't play well with her other animals, so she and her husband gave him to my wife and I.
Chester has not seen his former owner for over a year. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Well, here's something unusual...do any of you know of the "The Hansen Treasury of Stephen Sondheim Songs"? It was probably one of the earliest Sondheim songbooks published, but someone on eBay is selling a copy for only $454.00 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Hansen-Treasury-of-Stephen-Sondheim-Songs-Piano-Guitar-Voice-/390780333668). And I'm sure a bargain at twice the price. :o
I have this! And I'm not selling...maybe. ;)
Well, here's something unusual...do any of you know of the "The Hansen Treasury of Stephen Sondheim Songs"? It was probably one of the earliest Sondheim songbooks published, but someone on eBay is selling a copy for only $454.00 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Hansen-Treasury-of-Stephen-Sondheim-Songs-Piano-Guitar-Voice-/390780333668). And I'm sure a bargain at twice the price. :o
I have this! And I'm not selling...maybe. ;)
I had a copy. I bought it around 1979. It's now sitting in my collection at the Miami University Library.
And the word of the day is: QUINARY!
According to Viking Legend the world will end tomorrow.
According to Viking Legend the world will end tomorrow.
BK, I'm really curious as to what your original movie concept was, and how it was changed to become the book that you just finished.
According to Viking Legend the world will end tomorrow.
TOD:
CD: Lots of swing dancing music since we are instructing the brothers of Delta Upsilon this evening. And of course Nancy Sinatra singing "Boots."
wild-catting
Where's Lucille Ball when you need her?
This is a question I ask myself everyday.
The head of the company I work for just announced his retirement within a year. Bummer.
He has had the great ability to treat 26,000 employees worldwide as if he knew each of them and cared for each of them.
And because it's just so darn cute, here's a week-old Florida panther kitty who was rescued:
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Hello, everyone.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR MATTHEW!!
May you have a great birthday.
As for celebrating the entire weekend, I have a friend who has a birthday MONTH. What with schedule conflicts of various friends, he doesn't confine himself to a single day or even a week; he takes the whole month.
One thing I find very strange: whenever we visited other family members, my dad and uncle (Ed Fitzgerald) would talk shop. I had no interest in what my mother and aunt discussed (mostly gossip); I always gravitated to my dad and my uncle. I heard countless stories from Eddie about LASSIE (he was the DP) and THE GALE STORM SHOW (OH, SUSANNA!) and how certain stars demand to be shot from certain angles. It wasn't until a few years before my dad died--and long after Eddie had--that my dad mentioned that Eddie had worked for Hitchcock. My dad thought it was two films, but couldn't recall which ones. Eddie's camera work on THE ROPE is documented on the IMDB. If there was more, I don't know what it was.
In those days, in a family that worked in motion pictures and television, it was another day at the office. i so wish more had been documented, as most of my family members are gone and took many facts and stories with them. But, mostly, I'm surprised that Eddie's work with Hitchcock wasn't mentioned.
I'm getting ready for my midday appointment with my cardiologist. Looking forward to getting the results of my Feb. 4 stress test. Paramedic Rob assured me that if it had shown anything suspicious I'd have heard from them before now.
If Rob is wrong than I suggest you protest loudly because that is exactly how it should work.
I am curious what other DRs thought about yesterday's women's figure skating long program?? Especially the scores for the top 3.
The placements for the long program were mostly correct. However, I do not believe they were correct in the short program. Adelina Sotnikova was scored way too high for her technically "light" short program. And where did those high component (artistry/presentation) scores come from for her?
Someone on the internet today suggested Mao Asada's rise from 16th to 6th was a gift based on her reputation. I took exception to the remark. She skated a brilliant long program filled with grace, artistry and technical sophistication. She leapfrogged over lesser skaters for her final placement. She earned it, IMO.
Ashley Wagner takes herself way too seriously, IMO. She scares me a bit. I also don't enjoy watching her skate. I'm thinking the judges find her a bit much, as well.
I don't think Sotnikova came anywhere NEAR matching Carolina Kostner's component elements and a "fair" assessment of the former's skate would likely have seen the same three on top but in different positions.
I'm getting ready for my midday appointment with my cardiologist. Looking forward to getting the results of my Feb. 4 stress test. Paramedic Rob assured me that if it had shown anything suspicious I'd have heard from them before now.
If Rob is wrong than I suggest you protest loudly because that is exactly how it should work.
Rob was not wrong - my stress test showed no cardiac abnormalities. The doctor, however, is concerned about my low blood pressure and pulse. He changed one of my meds and will check me again in about a month.
I'm getting ready for my midday appointment with my cardiologist. Looking forward to getting the results of my Feb. 4 stress test. Paramedic Rob assured me that if it had shown anything suspicious I'd have heard from them before now.
If Rob is wrong than I suggest you protest loudly because that is exactly how it should work.
Rob was not wrong - my stress test showed no cardiac abnormalities. The doctor, however, is concerned about my low blood pressure and pulse. He changed one of my meds and will check me again in about a month.
Congrats on not having any cardiac abnormalities!
Have you always had low blood pressure? Mine tends to run low.
Is it extra low then? I'm wondering why your doctor is concerned and if changing the meds will make a difference.
DR Dan M - appreciated your thoughts last night on the Hitchcock catalog.
Thank you DR Ben, DR Kerry, DR ChasSmith, DR Elan, DR Elan, DR JRand, and DR Sing(I've seen that cake before!)daw for the Birthday wishes. Friday birthdays are great, as you can celebrate all weekend!!
Jane, you'll appreciate MY production! :)
I am curious what other DRs thought about yesterday's women's figure skating long program?? Especially the scores for the top 3.
The placements for the long program were mostly correct. However, I do not believe they were correct in the short program. Adelina Sotnikova was scored way too high for her technically "light" short program. And where did those high component (artistry/presentation) scores come from for her?
Someone on the internet today suggested Mao Asada's rise from 16th to 6th was a gift based on her reputation. I took exception to the remark. She skated a brilliant long program filled with grace, artistry and technical sophistication. She leapfrogged over lesser skaters for her final placement. She earned it, IMO.
Ashley Wagner takes herself way too seriously, IMO. She scares me a bit. I also don't enjoy watching her skate. I'm thinking the judges find her a bit much, as well.
I don't think Sotnikova came anywhere NEAR matching Carolina Kostner's component elements and a "fair" assessment of the former's skate would likely have seen the same three on top but in different positions.
BK, I'm really curious as to what your original movie concept was, and how it was changed to become the book that you just finished.
DR Jennifer will appreciate this....
I switched insurance companies and they sent my new info and card in a plastic folder. After just 1 minute looking at it and getting my new card out of it my lips itch, my throat is scratchy, and I have a headache. I'm airing out the paperwork to look at later.
Last weekend of rehearsals for our production of the one-act I NEVER MISS A LARRY KRAMER MUSICAL (a parody chat with "Bette Midler") - our tech and first performance are on Tuesday Feb. 25. Where did the time go?
Trying to post our postcard image, which is here at this like, but having trouble - and rehearsals have truly been a blast, in all good ways:
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2014/01/info-about-our-one-act-parody-musical.html
BK, I'm really curious as to what your original movie concept was, and how it was changed to become the book that you just finished.
Don't know if this has been answered yet. But I am curious as well.
DR Jennifer will appreciate this....
I switched insurance companies and they sent my new info and card in a plastic folder. After just 1 minute looking at it and getting my new card out of it my lips itch, my throat is scratchy, and I have a headache. I'm airing out the paperwork to look at later.
Oh no! :(
LOL, I completely forgot I had a stomach ache last night. I couldn't figure out why I was getting vibes....but thanks!