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Well, you've read the notes, you have ascertained their nothingness, and now you are ready to post sweet nothings until the nothing cows come home.
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Good Evening! Good Morning!
I tried to "make it" to yesterday's notes, but since I was still catching up on reading the notes from Saturday... but I'm here now, so...
Brief synopsis of my weekend so far:
Saturday: Woke up. Went to the Getty with DR Jay - WOW! Went to The Farmer's Market - very nice, lots of culinary temptations. Went through The Grove - just another mall to me. Walked up Fairfax. Bought some hamantaschen for the cast, DR Jay and myself (apricot, cherry and poppy seed). Walked up to Santa Monica, took a very(!) crowded number 4 bus to the theatre. Good show. Headed home. Slept.
Sunday - Slept in. Went through a bunch of piles of stuff. Threw out a bunch, put a bunch of stuff in the recycling bin. Posted here on HHW. Spent some more time on the computer catching up on e-mails and stuff. Then headed to Old Pasadena to do some more exploring. Had some wonderful pozole for dinner. Stocked up some cereal at Trader Joe's. Went to the movies - saw "Garden State". I laughed. I cried. I cried some more. After the movie, I walked around Old Pasadena for a bit to "calm down" after the movie. Lots of people still out and about around 9:30 on a Sunday night! Some great street performers - including a brother and sister accordian act! Got some gelato - a combo cup of marscapone, amaretto and sour cherry - DEEELISH!!! Walked around some more. Got on the Metro. Got off the Metro. Walked home. All in all a nice day.
Happy now? ;)
*Oh, and I stopped by the used book store I mentioned in a past posting to check out their music section. Great selection of books on music. Not too many scores, but I did manage to snag a mini-score - piano/vocal - of Brigadoon for less than $5.00! It's just like the standard piano/vocal score, only reduced - like a study score. I may need to make a return trip to pick up some other titles I came across while browsing. They really have a wonderful selection, and the prices aren't too bad either. There were even some autographed books on the shelves. And what I liked most of all, was that if the book had a dust-jacket that was in decent condition, they put that library cellophane-covering(?) on it. Nice touch, I think.
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The "cellophane" thing is called a Brodart - any book collector or dealer worth his salt or, at the very least, his pepper, uses them. Every book in my book room has one.
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DR Noel - As for "Getting To Know You" - Hmm.. I don't recall coming across that question... But... Now I'm trying to think of the answer... It's not "Begin the Beguine".. It's not "Autumn Leaves".... It's not "Send in the Clowns"...
-ohh... Well, hopefully, I'll be able to sleep tonight... ;)
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The "cellophane" thing is called a Brodart - any book collector or dealer worth his salt or, at the very least, his pepper, uses them. Every book in my book room has one.
Now I know! Thanks! -I didn't think to ask the booksellers while I was there.
-I may have to go back to pick up the book that was authored and signed by Al Kasha. The inscription was very nice - apparently to an aspiring actress/friend.
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SHEESH!!! I wonder if the tune of "Getting To Know You" was ever used on the BBC's "My Music" where they would have a segment where the panel had to come up with names of songs that used a particular series of notes. Always fun listening.
Hmm.... Maybe it's an ALW tune? ;)
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Well I seem to be a night owl this early morn. Just haven't felt like going to bed so here I am...and I seem to be in good company...JosePiano, BK, TCB...I have soft hits on the radio in hopes it will lull me to sleep.
Freddy is freaking out chasing imaginary creatures around the kitchen floor.
I popped in my DVDr of HERCULES, SAMSON AND ULYSSES (1965). Not a bad film, and a very handsome Hercules as played by Kirk Morris kept me enthralled! But Ulysses was sort of a wimpy guy ??? in this movie.
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Topic of the Day: Hmmm... I'm not sure about disturbing movie images. I do recall having certain scenes from the "Amityville Horror" stick in my head for a few weeks after seeing it when I was younger. But nothing else really sticks in my head from my cinematic experiences.
On stage, the Japanese production of Pacific Overtures that played Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center had quite an effect on me. The Finale, "Next", was truly awesome. -I'm wondering how the director will adapt it for the upcoming Roundabout production for a smaller space. And I recently read a review for a show currently running here in L.A. called "Eat Me". I won't go into the details, but, needless to say, there are some disturbing things that happen in the play - so much so, that the playwright has more or less banned her father from seeing it.
Well, time for me to get ready for bed. I ended up doing quite a bit of walking today - it just sort of happened. So...
Goodnight.
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OH!
DR MBarnum - I have yet to watch the Bollywood movie. But I may get to it this week. I'll have to watch it on my laptop since DR Jay does not have a DVD player.
So, do you think that a DVD player would make a nice hostess gift? ;)
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First that came to mind was a scene in "Mondo Cane" - a turtle effected by radiation.
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OH! -Again...
Another disturbing stage image - I saw a very good production of Nick Darke's (he's a Canadian) The Dead Monkey in Richmond a couple of years ago. A friend directed it, his wife costumed it, and the three people in the cast were/are also friends of mine. Very interesting play, but the final image sometimes pops into my head still - haunting image... Let's just say that domestic violence is involved and leave it at that for now.
And on that note...
Goodnight...
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Well.. Could Matthew Broderick's performance in "Meredith Willson's The Music Man" qualify as disturbing and unsettling? ;)
-Just trying to think of happy, pre-bedtime thoughts now...
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What are you wearing now, DR MBarnum?
:D
:o
;)
And, once again, and once and for all... Goodnight!
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The most disturbing image I can remember seeing was of a sea slug in a Disney nature film. I was only seven or eight at the time, but it really bothered me.
Ga-rosse!
After that, little kids spitting up pea soup was just...well, soup!
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BK wrote (in the notes):
The actors are all excellent, especially O.E. Hasse and Dolly Haas
Didn't they open up a brewery? I'm picturing Cindy Williams, for some reason.
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DR Noel - As for "Getting To Know You" - Hmm.. I don't recall coming across that question... But... Now I'm trying to think of the answer... It's not "Begin the Beguine".. It's not "Autumn Leaves".... It's not "Send in the Clowns"...
-ohh... Well, hopefully, I'll be able to sleep tonight... ;)
My search of the site reveals that the question originally came from Arnold Brockman, who asked it and scrammed. I thought of, and rejected, Send in the Clowns, too.
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I can't stand disturbing images. They turn my stomach, stick with me, and I get angry at the director for resorting to such a cheap ploy. Call me Aristotelian, but I like my drama to come out of human conflict, not a camera turned on something wince-producing. It's a trouble I have with the medium of film in general.
The final image of the Mendes revival of Cabaret was pretty disturbing to me (I don't want to give it away to those who haven't seen it) and my recollection is that the actors looked alarmingly thin, much thinner than they'd looked in the rest of the play. Haunting.
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TOD:
WARNING: Some may find the following story truly disturbing.
The most disturbing image I have ever seen in a movie was in a documentary about lynching(racial and religious) in the U.S. Believe it or not, there was a time here in the States where postcards were made of snapshots taken at lynchings. These were actually mailed until the U.S. postal service refused to deliver them (I believe this happened at the start of the 1900s). This documentary told the history and story behind these postcards.
One of the postcards showed the aftermath of a lynching. A black man was hanging from a tree and a huge crowd of white people were gathered around. I assume these were townspeople. They were all ages:from babies to the elderlly, both male and female.
The hanging man was disturbing enough, but what really bothered me was the crowd. People were smiling!! Everyone looked quite happy! There were smiling families milling about! It looked as if people were at a picnic!
A dark page in U.S. history and an image I strongly remember.
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Hi folks from soggy Floridia! Sorry to be E&T yesterday but it wasn't my fault.
We were without power half of Saturday night and all of yesterday. They just got it up and running about an hour ago. I don't know if our food is ruined or not since the power to the fridge was off all of that time.
We had the eye go just slightly to my south. They said it was going straight down hwy 60 to downtown Tampa. I don't know how bad downtown was hit so therefore I don't know if I will be going to work tomorrow or not.
Right now we are dealing with the back side of the storm and it's turning out to be much worse than what we went through yesterday. There are tornado warnings up until about 2. They are reporting sighting them right and left. I am a bit worried about that.
We're fine--so far. Lots of tree branches/leaves down but nothing major. The house is fine. I'm just glad to have power back but I want to post this in case we lose it again.
I want a refund on my holiday weekend. This was NOT my idea of fun! ::) :'(
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One disturbing image I saw as a child I've posted about before.... I was looking for something to watch on TV, switching from channel to channel when I saw a few moments of what probably was an old Wolfman movie. A child was peacefully sleeping in what seemed to be the room of a peasant cottage. The camera explores the room, and as it comes to the closet, we see that the door is slightly ajar -- and from the upper shelf area, some kind of bearded Wolfman-like creature is staring out at the sleeping child. I switched the channel immediately --- but it was too late -- the image was hammered into my head. To this day, I have to make sure the closet door is closed before I go to sleep.
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..And then, of course, there's Mother's silhouette through the shower curtain.... And Janet Leigh's lifeless staring eye when it's all over. EEEEEK. :o
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Speaking of disturbing things... For the past few weeks I've noticed that spiders have been busily and QUICKLY building webs in the oddest places. Not dark corners, but places that you walk through. For example, I'll go out and return a couple of hours later. As I go to unlock my front door, I walk through a spider web that's been spun from the bush on one side of my door to the plants on the other. Ewwwww. And then for the next half hour I'm flicking bits of spider web out of my hair.
Yesterday it happened in the middle of the street in the middle of the day. At the risk of sounding redundant.... Ewwwwwww.
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Lots of safety vibes to DR Danise and all those in the hurricane area ~~~~~~~~~~~~!
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Question. What does it mean when you have dream after dream about the same person?
I dream about this person often. But this is the first time I've ever had so many dreams about them in a row.
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Well I bought something interesting yesterday at Walmart. It is a cushiony chair that folds out to a bed. So it is my new chair/bed! :)
I also have an air mattress in my waterbed box.
And the waterbed websites that were down yesterday morning were up yesterday evening. So now I have 3 choices where to get my bed (just have to find out if any of them will ship to me).
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WOW. For those who follow Big Brother (and especially the live feeds or commentaries). It is getting good!
Someone who I don't like has come up with an amazing plan. And now I am cheering them on. And if all goes well, it should rock the house!
(okay was that vague enough for those DRs who don't read the live feed sites).
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Thanks, DR Jennifer. I may not need as many vibes as some other poor people here in the state but I will take them on their behalf.
We had a calm moment so I took the dogs outside for a much needed bathroom break :-X and checked for damage. We have a tree on the East side of the house (well not OUR tree but one that hangs over the fence) that is totally stripped of leaves. They are all over our back yard.
The poor dogs have been so good but they don't understand what is going on. Yesterday, Bear kept looking at the TV and the light like, "Why don't you put that on? ".
I can't tell you how many times I turned the light switch on when I went to the bathroom or in my bedroom. Did you know when there's no power, they don't work? :o ;D
I don't know what your dream means, Jennifer, but I went to bed very early last night since there was nothing else to do and had my own evening of dream movies.
Some were rather good.
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Most disturbing images on film for me were the Linda Blair scenes in THE EXORCIST. As I've said here before, I'm a real sucker for being drawn into a movie and believing it's real. I have NO problem suspending my disbelief and getting right into what's being presented before me. From the moment Blair was stabbing herself through to the end, I wasn't scared so much as sickened, revolted, and abashed. I left that theater feeling dirty (the movie has to be one of the ugliest ever filmed). The only other time I left a movie theater feeling that way was after PULP FICTION.
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I'm looking forward to getting my Hitchcock films once mail delivery begins again. It's a holiday here in the US today.
I also love I CONFESS and always have. Always thought it was underrated. I've only had a tape I made off AMC many years ago (when they were a decent cable channel) for the film, so I'm looking forward to getting this DVD a lot. Same with STAGE FRIGHT - only had a home-made tape off AMC, and it's been worn out.
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Oh...well it's a holiday....but not with Mary. (a Sherman brothers reference).
The most disturbing image I remember from a film is from something called SALON KITTY - and I wish I had never seen it. Didn't expect anything like this in the film and suddenly it was there. It was a scene in a slaughterhouse. And I will NEVER watch that DVD again, but that image is burned into my feeble brain. I wish it wasn't!
Ugh....
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The most disturbing image I have ever seen in a movie was in a documentary about lynching(racial and religious) in the U.S. Believe it or not, there was a time here in the States where postcards were made of snapshots taken at lynchings. These were actually mailed until the U.S. postal service refused to deliver them (I believe this happened at the start of the 1900s). This documentary told the history and story behind these postcards.
The documentary was probably using pictures from James Allen's "Without Santuary" (Book and Art Exhibit).
Sarah Valdez, writing in "Art in America" (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_88/ai_66306829) reports:
An exhibition of photographs of lynchings--focused primarily on the violent mob "justice" in the South between 1890 and 1930--resurrected a tragic episode in American history.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to comprehend the full extent of brutality and pain depicted in the images in "Without Sanctuary:. Lynching Photography in America." Hanged men, mostly young and black, with limp necks, shackled wrists and bare feet hovering over the ground produce a visceral horror; charred, battered and dismembered bodies come to seem identical due to the relative insignificance of their other characteristics. The photographs document a devastating phase of American history and, shown as a group for the first time, have attracted huge audiences. "Without Sanctuary" made its debut as a catalogue issued by Twin Palms Publishers and a simultaneous exhibition at Roth Horowitz Gallery in Manhattan, where it drew more viewers than the gallery could accommodate. It was subsequently picked up by the New-York Historical Society and there enjoyed the "biggest continuing attendance of any exhibition in years," according to the museum's publicity department.
The collection of photographs was assembled by James Allen, a white Southerner and self-described antique "picker"--mostly of used furniture, pots, quilt tops and walking sticks. In the course of his search, he came to recognize that the lynching images taken by both professional and amateur photographers constitute a distinct genre. His trove rests on deposit at Emory University in Atlanta, where an altered version of "Without Sanctuary" may appear sometime in 2001.
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In their day, lynching photographs were often published as postcards. They were sometimes developed on site, so people who had come, often from far away, could take home a memento of the historical spectacle they had witnessed. A few cards shown in the exhibition have a particular shock value due to the blithe commentary of the senders: "This is the barbeque we had last night. My picture is at the left with a cross over it. Your son, Joe," reads the message on the back of The lynching of Jesse Washington, May 16, 1916, Robinson, Texas, which depicts a grotesquely charred corpse. Another shows a man hanged from an arch in a town square, a vast crowd below. The sender of the card drew a little arrow to indicate the minuscule figure of a hanged man in the midst of a horde. "Well John--This is a token of a great day we had," begins the message written on the back.
Gregory Kane, writing in the Baltimore Sun (http://www.commondreams.org/views/070100-103.htm) comments:
One such "postcard lynching" had a profound impact on American race relations. Albert Hamilton was all of 18 years old when he drove a horse-drawn carriage for a living in 1912 Cordele, Ga. Accused of assaulting a white woman, Hamilton was carted off to jail. A mob dragged him from his cell, beat him severely, hanged him from a nearby tree and shot him more than 300 times.
Hamilton's best friend, a 15-year-old boy named Elijah Poole, watched the killing in horror. Later, Poole moved to Detroit and started a religious sect known as the Nation of Islam. When Poole changed his last name to Muhammad and preached that whites were devils, he was accused of teaching hate. Nobody bothered to ask who taught Elijah Muhammad to hate. But that mob in Cordele must have been one of his instructors, as were the postcards made after Hamilton's death.
A writer in Bout of the Century (http://www.cpsr.org/~marsha-w/BoutOfTheCentury.htm) observed:
Lynchings occurred so commonly that people could buy and send “lynching post cards.” Today, we find it hard to believe that people sent post cards showing a dead person hanging from a tree with a message saying, “I was here.” Nevertheless, people did. They mailed the cards until 1908, when the U.S. Postal Service decided that such material ought not be sent openly, and after embarrassing racial incidents several states were shamed into outlawing the postcards’ sale.
Rebecca, posting on Odyssey (http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/013101/013101beckyriot1.html) comments on the Riots of Indianapolis 1908:
I ask Jim how he still has a good number of riot photographs to study today. Well, in the twisted way that luck tends to work, the local papers in 1908 had immediately made postcards out of several of the photographs, which the locals bought eagerly to send to family and friends boasting of "what happens to Negroes in Springfield." Jim tells me that the Governor ordered the post office not to send those postcards, but of course, some of them got through. Although it's pretty sick that the newspaper was profiting off the tragedy in Springfield, we are thankful that they did, because these postcards are the best source we have of images of the riots today.
The documentary you saw may have been “Strange Fruit” (http://www.newsreel.org/films/strangefruit.htm) about Billie Holiday and her signature song about lynching:
STRANGE FRUIT
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
-- Music and lyrics by Lewis Allan, copyright 1940
Which is more than we need to know today on the subject.
der Brucer
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François you were truly on a frenzy last night. ;D
Jennifer I suppose it depends on the dreams-if they are good ones or bad ones. Often I find multiple dreams about one person are telling me to deal with an issue, or issues when it’s multiple dreams.
Danise, please keep us posted when you can. I haven’t heard from my nephew. Do you know how the Naples area is?
Yesterday we saw an extremely weird movie NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE. Once we realized this was the movie we relaxed and enjoyed it, strange as it was so did the rest of the audience.
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Disturbing images? Read-no-further alert.
Gord was watching Charles Bronson's The Evil That Men Do - and I walked in on a scene that involved a sicko doctor, a dissident journalist, electrodes, and genitals.
When Joseph Maher, the actor who played the doctor, later showed up in IQ as the lovable Nathan Liebknecht, and again on a Seinfeld episode (he played the airplane passenger with the dog that Jerry wound up looking after), he still creeped me out.
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... I left that theater feeling dirty (the movie has to be one of the ugliest ever filmed). ..
It is positively "beautiful" compared to Andy Warhols' "Frankenstein" - my date passsed out cold when the internal organs were being removed by hand (a scene that made "Temple of Doom" look tame).
der Brucer
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More about "Strange Fruit"
Lewis Allan was the pseudonym of Abel Meeropol, a schoolteacher from New York, who saw the photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith.
"Meeropol later recalled how the photograph "haunted me for days" and inspired the writing of the poem, Strange Fruit. Meeropol, a member of the American Communist Party, using the pseudonym, Lewis Allan, published the poem in the New York Teacher and later, the Marxist journal, New Masses.
"After seeing Billie Holiday perform at the club, Café Society, in New York, Meeropol showed her the poem. Holiday liked it and after working on it with Sonny White turned the poem into the song, Strange Fruit. The record made it to No. 16 on the charts in July 1939. However, the song was denounced by Time Magazine as "a prime piece of musical propaganda" for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).
"Meeropol remained active in the American Communist Party and after the execution of Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg he adopted their two sons. He taught at the De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx for 27 years, but continued to write songs, including the Frank Sinatra hit, The House I Live In."
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Jane, Here is a link to a Naples newspaper--
http://www.naplesnews.com/
Hope this gives you the info you need. :)
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Oh DRJANE....when you go to DancingPaul....don't check a music choice, just start him dancing and Tall Paul will play!
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Beckon: Blacks weren't the only ones lynched and photographed in this, our wonderful American history.
Mr. Leo Frank, a northern Jew who was living and working in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913, was accused of the murder of a 13-year old girl who worked in his factory. Even though they didn't have enough evidence to convict him (in fact, they had more evidence pointing to his co-worker, but they ignored it), they convicted him. His wife, Lucille, fought the conviction and went to the Governor, who ultimately reversed the verdict and moved him to a undisclosed minimum security prison one evening so the locals wouldn't know where he'd been moved. Someone found out and a lynch mob went to that prison, dragged him from his bed and drove him into the woods and hanged him.
There are, unfortunately, photographs of toothless men in bib overalls smiling and pointing at his body hanging from the tree. There's a musical about the whole affair--Jason Robert Brown's PARADE--as well as a made-for-TV movie.
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Jane: When I loaded all of DancingPaul, I had to click on the tab that said MUSIC and select the upper left hand red dot to get Tall Paul to play. It was worth searching, though... :)
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I ask you, could we possibly have a more depressing series of posts? I'm weeping into my oatmeal.
For a change of pace - how about the funniest real life malapropism you've ever heard?
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Jason - How's the tooth?
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I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for all of the Birthdays I missed over the past few days.
Happy Belated Birthday to all of you that I missed out on!
Movies and such do not disturb me. I get more upset over news stories. Like the one about the dog fur coats. I get sick just thinking about it and if you don’t mind, I would like to change the subject.
I think the most disturbing image I have seen today is my poor four o’clocks. They have been smashed by the little branches that fell. Not the biggest problem to have in the world right now but still I feel upset about it.
I’m also upset about all of the looting that I hear is going on. I don't know how people could go out and steal when something like this going on.
I just heard that Hillsborough County Employees are expected to report to work tomorrow. Sigh. If I can’t get a bus, I am not going to try to drive in.
I also have a frog/toad report. It was so cute to see about six of them huddled together when I opened the outside storage to see if everything was ok.
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Well, the topic is really most disturbing FILM or THEATER imagery - I don't think we need to get into real-life disturbing imagery, like a couple of months ago when Tammy and I saw a woman sitting in her car, car door open and throwing up on the street.
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I have a written malapropism to share. This person was writing a lengthy missive about selling the rights to a true story and insisted that in order for that to happen....
"I would need to be offered an antiquate sum of money."
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TODAY'S LEVITY
Here are some comments made by sports commentators that I'm sure they would like to take back:
1. Weightlifting commentator at the Olympic Snatch and Jerk Event:
"This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."
2. Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator:
"This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."
3. Grand Prix Race Announcer:
"The lead car is absolutely, truly unique, except for the one behind it which is exactly identical to the one in front of the similar one in back."
4. Greg Norman, Pro Golfer:
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
5. Ringside Boxing Analyst:
"Sure there have been injuries and even some deaths in boxing - but none of them really that
serious."
6. Baseball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
7. Basketball analyst:
"He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."
8. At a trophy ceremony BBC TV Boat Race 1988:
"Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is hugging the cox of the Oxford crew."
9. Metro Radio, College Football:
"Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
10. US Open TV Commentator:
"One of the reasons Arnie Palmer is playing so well is that, before each final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my God, what have I just said?
(Available from multiple Internet sites, but I received it from my octogenarian blue-haired Republican widow in CA)
der Brucer
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Well, the topic is really most disturbing FILM or THEATER imagery - I don't think we need to get into real-life disturbing imagery, like a couple of months ago when Tammy and I saw a woman sitting in her car, car door open and throwing up on the street.
A month or so ago, I saw the same woman doing the same thing in the parking lot at the corner of Laurel and Ventura. In fact there were two well-dressed people with her, calmly standing there waiting for her to finish.
(Well, it probably wasn't the same woman. But I hope it was. It's kinda scary to think that lots of people all over town are doing that.)
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- I don't think we need to get into real-life disturbing imagery, like a couple of months ago when Tammy and I saw a woman sitting in her car, car door open and throwing up on the street.
Enough of your praeteriteo, already!
der (don't get to use that one often) Brucer
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It's kinda scary to think that lots of people all over town are doing that.)
Forgotten morning sickness?
der Brucer (observing that sensitive people, aware that California's tectonic plates float on a sea of molten lava, may suffer occasional bouts of motion sickness)
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There are a few very disturbing images from films I saw as a kid that have stayed with me.
My dad LOVED westerns and often I would watch them with him. One Saturday he was watching one of those spaghetti westerns and it started out with a gang invading a house and killing the entire family. I can recall that the last person killed was the youngest son. I have disliked spaghetti westerns ever since. Unfortunately, I have had to watch a few in preperation for some interviews. The Hercules actors I have interviewed made oodles of those westerns!
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Forgotten morning sickness?
Never had it. I was one of the lucky ones.
The "that" I was referring to was not the act itself, but the doing of it out of a car in a public area. Blechhh!
BTW, DB, the sports quotes were hilarious. I've sent them on.
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I've heard some good malapropisms.
We knew a chap, Rodney, who was full of them. He told us that one of his favorite movies was "Glen Gary, Glenn Close."
And this may not exactly be a malapropism, but our former landlady told us that her neighbors were "Sir Lankans."
My mom knew a lady who was telling her that Beverly Sills had had a fire. "They suspect arsenic," the woman said.
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Well I am finally back to my modus operandi after a week of a lot of family in town, staying right here at the HHW NW getaway locale. Oy. Too many people, not enough sleep. :)
I don't know what it is with me and eBay, but I have snagged yet another Hollywood-ite with an auction of mine, this time a friend of DR Pogue: Dale Launder, the author/producer of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and My Cousin Vinny. He is putting me in touch (hopefully) with Peter Marshall's wife, who evidently was a friend of Frances Farmer. Six degrees, possibly only five.... :)
Most disturbing image: the documentary "The Animals Film," narrated by Julie Christie. If you have any doubt about how animals raised for food are treated, just watch this film, which used to play regularly on cable. The images of chicks being de-beaked (as they are clamped by their feet and hung upside down) and pigs being electrocuted are enough to make anyone a vegetarian (I was long before I watched the film, but the film just reinforced my decision).
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PS to MB: it sounds like the film you saw was Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone's grand operatic western with Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale. I just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago in its recent DVD issue, and I was pleasantly surprised. Nice to see Fonda as the bad guy.
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I am my own frenzy.
Two interesting Farmer tidbits, for those who care (and I know you all do--LOL):
Got a nice email today from AP reporter Jack El-Hai, whose Washington Post articles on Walter Freeman, the "icepick lobotomist", have been expanded into a book which will be released in January. He has used my research (linked below) and concurs that Freeman never even met Farmer.
And for those interested in the 1930s leftists movements in the Arts, author Conrad Goeringer will hopefully be publishing a book next year about Farmer's exploits in that regard. Conrad hints I will be mentioned in the acknowledgements, as I have provided him tons of material through the years.
Finally, a friend who knew Farmer quite well in Indianapolis has told me that BK's close personal friend David Gest was evidently fascinated by Frances and was in contact with him about her in the early 80s. Mr. Gest and my friend had several long conversations until my friend brought up Frances' long list of achievements in the mid-west. Gest evidently refused to believe that Frances had had a successful television and theater career in Indy for many years (her show was the #1 rated show in that market for 6 years), and told my friend, "Oh, you're making this all up," and hung up on him, never to be heard from again!
My Farmer article can be read in all its glory at:
http://hometown.aol.com/jmkauffman/sheddinglight.html
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A Bit o' Wit for Panni:
"Typos" (http://j_withers.tripod.com/Typos.htm) by Jack Blanchard
The supreme craftsmen who weave expensive oriental rugs always tie one single knot wrong.
Their reason: So it won't be perfect.
Only God makes something perfect.
That's exactly why I put typos in every one of my writings.
Copyright © February 12, 2001 by Jack Blanchard. All rights reserved.
der Brucer
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Let's hear it for Monday holidays! Woo hoo!! Instead of sitting through some boring class, I'm reading HHW and surfing eBay. What are we celebrating again?
I try to stay away from disturbing things on TV because they're, you know, disturbing.
Quidditch T-shirt, saddle shoes, pants of some kind, fake glasses I got at the 99 cent store, and my favorite accessory: a can of Cherry Coke.
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Panni: The tooth is OK, though I think I may have a sinus infection, which is causing the drainage and pressure. Perfect, huh? But the tooth--or lack thereof--is feeling better and better with each passing day. Thanks for asking!
Malapropisms: Hmm...well...once, when we were living in England, my grandparents came to visit. Now, my grandparents grew up working the farms in Illinois, so they're not exactly what you would call "refined," nor were they world-travellers at the time. They still aren't, as a matter of fact. Their idea of a big trip is Branson, Missouri. Anyway, we had taken them to Windsor Castle for the afternoon, and my grandmother went into a shoe shop in the local village. She paid for her new shoes with traveller's cheques, and when the clerk asked her if they were sterling, my grandmother yelled out, "Land's sake, no! they ain't stolen! I'm from the United States of America and those is good checks!" My mother was horrified.
Later that same day we went to a cafe for tea and biscuits, and my grandmother started complaining about how there was no ice in her drink. "What sorta place is this that they don't put ice in your drink?! And where's my napkin?? Waitress!! Land's a-Goshen, what's a woman got to do to get a clean napkin 'round here." We had told her before, and apparently she had forgotten--in England, a napkin is a feminine hygiene product...
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Frances Farmer's program was number one in her time slot until she involuntarily left the air in September, 1964.
I forget the date of her last day on the air - but around now would have been the 40th anniversary of said day!
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Oh, and Jason, should I send your cookies to the same address as before?
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Oh, DR Sandra, you most certainly may. Do I need to send it to you again??
I can't believe you're making me MORE cookies. What did I do to deserve such a wonderful gesture!?!?
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Yes, MBarnum, it's Once Upon a Time in the West - a wonderful film of Sergio Leone. Its DVD presentation is top-notch and the score by Morricone is a masterpiece. In addition to the aforementioned Mr. Henry Fonda, it also features Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Jr., Claudia Cardinale, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Keenan Wynn and Gabrielle Ferzetti.
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Most disturbing image in theatre or film: Kathleen Turner's naked body in THE GRADUATE on Broadway. She looked like a linebacker.
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Well, I have seen Pasolini's SALO, 120 DAYS OF SODOM and I have seen Wes Craven's THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and somebody's I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, but they don't hold a candle to my first viewing of Kenneth Brannagh's MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN. I had attended the funeral that very day of a very close friend who had hanged himself, well, when De Niro's criminal was hanged, I could no longer watch the film and had to leave the theater - the only time that I have done that. So much for disturbing. Now, I still have a problem with hangings on screen.
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Most disturbing image in theatre or film: Kathleen Turner's naked body in THE GRADUATE on Broadway. She looked like a linebacker.
Well, then I guess I could count Danny DeVito's backside in BIG FISH, too.
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I like the typos quote, DB. It never ceases to amaze me that I can read a script ten times and miss a perfectly obvious typo each time. One of the producers I'm working with now NEVER misses a typo. On the one hand, that's good because she lets me know and I get to fix the typos before the script goes to the network; on the other hand, it's embarrassing!
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A Blanchard Column (http://birdwalk1.tripod.com/Typical_Letter_To_A_Musician.htm) for DR Jose:
"Dear Music Person:
We look forward to your performance at our daughter's wedding.
If you don't mind, we would like to request a few of our favorite songs.
Please play these during the reception:
A Keith Jarrett composition from his solo series.
Please arrange it for full ensemble in the key of B, but nothing in 4/4 please.
Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Dance of the Maya", and please play the guitar to John McLaughlin's solo from the live performance Nov. 16, 1972 at Chrysler Arena.
My wife and I were at that show and we liked his use of polyrhythms.
One of John Coltrane's duets with Pharaoh Sanders.
Our guests love high register tenor saxes.
We thought a little Stravinsky right after the toast would be nice, so please play "The Rite of Spring."
We like a tempo of about 1/4 note = 93 and transpose it down 3 half-steps. It will be so much more appropriate for this occasion in the slightly lower register.
Then for the candle lighting ceremony, please play Frank Zappa's "The Grand Wazoo." The original key of B flat would be fine, but my cousin Jeannie would like to sing the baritone sax solo in the key of D - she has kind of a high voice.
When my new son-in-law takes off the garter, please just a little of Varese's "Ionization." It's such a funny piece, we think it would go over real well. Much better than "The Stripper."
And for the bride and groom's first dance, please slow things down a bit by doing Barber's "Adagio for Strings." It's so much better than "We've Only Just Begun" or the "Anniversary Waltz."
When my wife and I join in the first dance, could you segue to Thelonius Monk's "Ruby, My Dear”? It’s in honor of my wife's grandmother whose name was Ruby. It would mean so much to the family.
Thanks for all your help.
Depending on the outcome we'll certainly be happy to recommend you to our friends.
We'll have your check for the fee of $25 (minus our expenses in contacting you of $12.50) by the end of next month. We're a little short as the young lady doing the balloon arch wanted her $1,850 in advance, and the DJ had to be paid up front his $2,500 as normal.
Our daughter assured us that your love of music was greater than your need for money, and that you would welcome the exposure
you would get from playing this wedding.
Before you leave, please feel free to ask the caterer for a snack sandwich and a soda.
The bottles are returnable or you can pay the deposit to the butler.
Please use the back entrance to avoid disturbing the guests."
der Brucer
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Spiders are not bright. In fact, at the risk of offending any spidey lurkers, they're pretty stupid. I just tried to do a good deed -- there was a spider crawling across the window sill in front of me. So I got a nice big piece of paper and stuck it in front of the creature, thinking it would crawl on the paper and I could transport it outside -- instead of whacking it with my shoe. Well the stupid thing crawled onto the paper, panicked and jumped off.
Now when I find it I'll be forced to step on it. Is there a life lesson for non-spider types in this?
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If the person in the title role is a skilled one AND if the prop person has done an excellent job, the denouement of Salome (be it Mr. Oscar Wilde's play or Mr. Richard Strauss' operatic treatment of it) can be rather disturbing.
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Der Brucer: someone who booked me for a wedding actually sent that to me (as a joke--I think). I actually believed them for a few minutes, as I have had more than one "wedding from hell" nightmare gig.
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Speaking of disturbing things... For the past few weeks I've noticed that spiders have been busily and QUICKLY building webs in the oddest places. Not dark corners, but places that you walk through. For example, I'll go out and return a couple of hours later. As I go to unlock my front door, I walk through a spider web that's been spun from the bush on one side of my door to the plants on the other. Ewwwww. And then for the next half hour I'm flicking bits of spider web out of my hair.
Yesterday it happened in the middle of the street in the middle of the day. At the risk of sounding redundant.... Ewwwwwww.
With apologies to JRand54, perhaps this is yet one more thing we can blame on George Bush? (No apologies to derBrucer, he has probably already used this line by now!)
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Question. What does it mean when you have dream after dream about the same person?
I dream about this person often. But this is the first time I've ever had so many dreams about them in a row.
It means you like me, you really really like me!
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Well DRPANNI....it might as well be spring....
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It means you like me, you really really like me!
How true, how true! ! ! ;)
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How true, how true! ! ! ;)
For you, DR td:
(http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/sehrgrosse/large-smiley-003.gif)
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I just sat outside -- in the shade -- for about 20 minutes. It's so HOT that the turtle was trying to open the screen door and go in the house. I'm not joking -- he really was trying to get inside.
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Very funny:
http://kintera.sitestream.com/ferrell_qt_hi.mov
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Good Afternoon!
RE: Spiders and Their Webs - I've noticed quite a few spider webs lately on my various walks. It's gotten to the point where if I can walk in the street instead of the sidewalk, I can, just to avoid the spider webs. However, I still seem to walk through a web or two even when I'm walking in the street - where the heck is the spider connecting to and from to!?!? And the other night, after I came in the house, I noticed that I still had a piece of web hanging off my arm, AND there was a spider on the end of it. Ewww... Needless to say, I promptly went back outside...
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Thanks, DR DERBRUCER for the "Dear Music Person" letter. :)
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Yesterday we saw an extremely weird movie NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE. Once we realized this was the movie we relaxed and enjoyed it, strange as it was so did the rest of the audience.
Did you stay past the closing credits? <hint, hint> 8)
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Funniest typographical error in my life happened one school year right before exam time. Once we got to the end of the year, the school cafeteria pretty much closed down and everything the kids were served during exam days were pre-packed items: sandwiches, a bag of chips, a piece of fruit or a fruit-roll-up. These were served in paper bags to the kids to save time (i.e. no cafeteria trays, tableware, etc.) Usually, this food was not very good.
The school secretary typed in the notes to the faculty right before exam schedule was to do into effect:
"As usual on exam days, gag lunches will be served."
We were still referring to that typo and laughing about it 20 years later.
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DR Danise - So glad to see you posting, and to know that you are safe and sound. Let's just hope that Ivan ends up petering out sooner rather than later.
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Yes, spiders have been particularly prevalent around my house this year both inside and out. I've sprayed and sprayed, but they keep coming back and with a vengeance. My side porch can literally be covered in spider webs almost overnight.
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Danise -- I have been very worried about you. Glad you are okay!
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More ROCKY & BULLWINKLE this afternoon. As usual, Mr. Peabody and the Fractured Fairy Tales stole the show. Dudley Do-Right wasn't too shabby either.
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Well, as DR Panni mnetioned, the mercury has indeed risen here in the L.A. environs. I'm probably going to stay put for the next few hours, and then head out again later afternoon. Probably catch another movie. There were some things I had sort of planned to do today, but since it's Labor Day, a bunch of the places I wanted to go to are closed. Ah, well... Of course, there is always shopping... Hmm... ;)
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I am back from the gym. I really thought it wouldn't be crowded on a holiday, but the usual preening nincompoops were indeed there. Not only do those sorts irk me, but I had one of them sitting on the exercise bike next to me and he was chewing GUM. Not only chewing gum but popping it incessantly. I was trying to proof and I began to HATE that man - I began to want to just push him off the bike. And if you could see the attitude, dear readers - what is it about chewing gum that makes certain people look so COCKY? This guy was chomping away, looking around to see who was looking at HIM (no one, believe me), looking at himself in the mirror and popping that gum like a machine gun.
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Most disturbing image in theatre or film: Kathleen Turner's naked body in THE GRADUATE on Broadway. She looked like a linebacker.
Yep, them shoulderpads will do that, every time!
;D
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I am back from the gym. I really thought it wouldn't be crowded on a holiday, but the usual preening nincompoops were indeed there. Not only do those sorts irk me, but I had one of them sitting on the exercise bike next to me and he was chewing GUM. Not only chewing gum but popping it incessantly. I was trying to proof and I began to HATE that man - I began to want to just push him off the bike. And if you could see the attitude, dear readers - what is it about chewing gum that makes certain people look so COCKY? This guy was chomping away, looking around to see who was looking at HIM (no one, believe me), looking at himself in the mirror and popping that gum like a machine gun.
He probably wouldn't have gotten the joke if you'd started humming the Cell Block Tango from Chicago.
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Revisited a film from my childhood yesterday - "Jack & the Beanstalk". I think Lou Costello was the best actor in it! The song and dance scenes were a riot.
Nostalgia can still lend charm and enjoyment to the film. My most recent $3 purchase.
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THE FLETCHER CHRONICLES:
Fletcher has discovered what fun can be had with a roll of toilet paper.
So far, three rolls of toilet paper have been distributed throughout the house.
The lesson being learned here is to always buy certain supplies in bulk. (Fletcher hasn't learned any lessons in this case, so far. :-\)
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Revisited a film from my childhood yesterday - "Jack & the Beanstalk". I think Lou Costello was the best actor in it! The song and dance scenes were a riot.
Nostalgia can still lend charm and enjoyment to the film. My most recent $3 purchase.
We have this film!
According to der Brucer, the film was thought of as quite an accomplishment in it's day, because of it's use of color and so on.
I agree about the musical sections. :o ::) ;D
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For our page four dance, I suggest the dance work done in the aforementioned Jack and the Beanstalk. Unfortunately, I don't know how to discribe the dances. Words fail to do them justice!
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THE FLETCHER CHRONICLES:
Fletcher has discovered what fun can be had with a roll of toilet paper.
So far, three rolls of toilet paper have been distributed throughout the house.
The lesson being learned here is to always buy certain supplies in bulk. (Fletcher hasn't learned any lessons in this case, so far. :-\)
Ah yes, the Toilet Paper Game. When our kittens discovered that, we kept the toilet paper underneath the sink. Then when my cousin came over and needed to use the facilities, I told her the toilet paper was under the sink because it was a game we played. I said that we always put it in a different place so that the next person would have to find it. After she left, I found the toilet paper in the medicine cabinet.
How's that for a completely pointless story?
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Considering it was made in 1952, there was really not that much that was special about J & the BS.. A "Wizard of Oz" approach - sepia to color (sic). Whoops! The songs and dances were special. The cow acted well. In this version Jack also called the cow by a boy's name! (Henry)
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Just finished a chicken wrap from the California Chicken Cafe. After eating my chicken wrap I did a chicken rap:
I love my chicken when it's in a wrap,
Got to keep the paper on or it falls in your lap
It was yummilicious, but now I need a nap
So, this is the end of my chicken rap.
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Welcome seven GUESTS. We're talkin' about film and theater imagery that SKEEVED you.
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Ken Jennings is back on Jeopardy tonight!
Oh the excitement!
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Did you stay past the closing credits? <hint, hint> 8)
Not the very end. Please tell me what I missed. Unintentionally funny was the principal looked, and acted, like our neighbor.
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Thanks Danise. I was on that site yesterday and didn’t find anything. I will look again now.
JRand thank you. I shall try again. For some reason I couldn’t get him to just dance without choosing a song.
Jason, thanks for explaining how to do it.
Regarding your grandmother story-LOL
DB I too liked the typo quote. ;D
Panni I slept through Keith’s adventure with a spider at 3:00 AM this morning. He even had to turn on the light to find it. He did first feel it crawling over him. He did of course take it outside.
What a lovely day. This morning, for the first time, Keith went hiking on Mt Ashland with Echo and me. When we returned home Craig called from Romania. We actually had a good connection and a nice conversation, until his phone battery ran out. He doesn’t have any electricity as the chandelier over his bed fell out of the wall, barely missing him, and shorted out all of the electricity. He said his place looks much better by candle light. Next Bryan called from Portland as he has the day off of work and we had a nice long chat with him.
Jennifer, Bryan said he now has his waterbed on a box spring, no frame. It sits low on the floor but he didn’t like the frame. And yes, it has become more difficult getting waterbeds.
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Spiders are not bright. In fact, at the risk of offending any spidey lurkers, they're pretty stupid. I just tried to do a good deed -- there was a spider crawling across the window sill in front of me. So I got a nice big piece of paper and stuck it in front of the creature, thinking it would crawl on the paper and I could transport it outside -- instead of whacking it with my shoe. Well the stupid thing crawled onto the paper, panicked and jumped off.
Now when I find it I'll be forced to step on it. Is there a life lesson for non-spider types in this?
Indeed - beware of Hungarian lasses wearing shoes.
Hey, you could be in OZ and find this:
(http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/spiders/images/large/mn17033.jpg)
The Victoris Museum (http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/spiders/detail.aspx?id=15) describes them thus:
Form
Body cylindrical, abdomen stout, fangs noticeably elongated and projecting forward.
Sounds like a middle-aged Vampire.
Your very own LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/home/la-hm-smaus2sep02,1,267103.story) recently advised:
Sticky business
It's no fun going out for the morning paper and walking into a sticky spider web. But those fat yellow and black or reddish garden spiders are after smaller game. These big spiders may seem creepy, but they're not dangerous. They catch all sorts of insects (good and bad, unfortunately) and should be tolerated. By this time of the year, their neat circular webs are usually high up in trees. If not, they can be encouraged to go higher by simply knocking down their hair-entangling webs.
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der Brucer (who apologizes for having no spider recipes)
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DB I too liked the typo quote. ;D
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He doesn’t have any electricity as the chandelier over his bed fell out of the wall, barely missing him, and shorted out all of the electricity. He said his place looks much better by candle light.
I'm sure BK can recommended some repairman :)
Nice he has such an "every cloud has a silver lining attitude".
Here's a Blanchard (http://j_withers.tripod.com/Why_Computers_Sometimes_Crash.htm) quote to share with Keith:
WHY COMPUTERS SOMETIMES CRASH
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Dr. Seuss style.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.
When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, then quick, turn off the 'puter and be sure to tell your Mom!
Copyright © , 2003 by Jack Blanchard. All rights reserved.
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der Brucer (try reading it aloud!)
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Yes, MBarnum, it's Once Upon a Time in the West - a wonderful film of Sergio Leone. Its DVD presentation is top-notch and the score by Morricone is a masterpiece. In addition to the aforementioned Mr. Henry Fonda, it also features Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Jr., Claudia Cardinale, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Keenan Wynn and Gabrielle Ferzetti.
Well whatever movie it was, I do not wish to ever see it again! It just left a sick feeling in my stomach. I have come across it in more recent years on TV and turned it off prior to the killings.
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This morning I went for a walk and saw a spider in the sunrise. This afternoon I tried to post a photo of it and got a message that the upload folder is full.
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Well, I'm off to the backyard to join my landlords and various others for a bar-b-cue.
Will report later. Over and out.
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...And I thought the chicken wrap rap was way cool.
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MBarnum's Puppet People on FLIX tonight!
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Don't know what the H**L is wrong with my computer this afternoon. All pictures, etc, have been removed from my screen and replaced with the word IMAGE. But, at least, it is still working. Has anyone heard from my errant son, Jed, or daughter, Anne???
Worst screen imagery: Carol Channing, in bra and panties, on Frankie Avalon's bed in Otto Preminger's SKIDOO.
Worst stage imagery: Carol Channing, sans wig, having a cat fight with Mary Martin in LEGENDS.
Two images burned forever in my brain.
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Off to dress rehearsal.
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I'm all alone...
in the chat room of HainesHisWay
It's a feeling that ain't too groovy
Oh, wait. Here comes someone now
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Hi, Jane (and anyone else),
There's a mini-chat going on at the moment. Right now, Noel and Laura are talking about bridal registries.
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Poop (poop, spelled backwards), I am TOO senile and forgot chat - luckily the room was open and chatters chatted. I'm going there now.
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I paid a visit to the Dear Mother this afternoon Dear Readers. We had Double Doubles at In 'N' Out and I took her to the supermarket. Had you been there, you would have no doubt plotzed from the excitement.
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Jay -
BK has now joined the chat - and is threatening a collective bitch-slapping.
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Hi DiT. I switched compuers. I can't get into chat. Say hi for me.
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And hi from Laura, Noel, BK (and moi), DR Jane.
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Just got back from the bar-b-cue. Food was delish -- but most interesting were some of the people I met. One woman had worked for the last 27 years as the assistant (it was a 2-person operation) of the great old producer Max Rosenberg, who recently died at 90. He was responsible for some horror classics:"The Curse of Frankenstein," "The City of the Dead," "The House That Dripped Blood," "Cat People" "Dr Terror's House of Horrors" and "Tales From the Crypt." As well as the classic early rock 'n' roll movie, "Rock, Rock, Rock." She came to work for him straight out of college -- and it was just the two of them running the show. Wouldn't that make a fascinating book?
Another interesting person was a musician who now handles his late grandfather's catalogue. His grandfather was Leon Rene who wrote "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"...as well as a number of other great songs. The conversation was fun -- and there were five flavors of Ben and Jerry's ice cream as well as homemade peach cobbler and brownies for dessert. Perfection.
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Please tell Laura if she deletes some of her old photos herself she might be able to post a new one. I don't remember how to do so without deleting the post. Does BK remember?
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Panni you meet such interesting people at your neighbor's. Plus they feed you so well.
The peach cobbler sounds good.
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DB, Keith and I enjoyed the poem-very cute. :)
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Sorry I wasn't around for chat tonight. i went to an audition. More about it if anything transpires.
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Missed my daily walk for the first time in two weeks tonight, too. Knowing I'd be gone tonight, I had hoped I could take my walk this morning, but it was raining. And it's supposed to continue raining for the next few days. :-\
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Only watched more ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE today along with the half hour FATHER OF THE PRIDE from last week's premiere. Not great comedy, but fairly pleasant adult fare. The Siegfred and Roy computer generations were much mroe entertaining than the animals, I thought. Would love to see more of them.
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Disturbing film imagery, huh? "Un Chien Andalou," anybody?
I suppose I could say "The Passion of the Christ," too. However, graphic though it is, it's not the violence that disturbs me most about that one. It's the bizarre "original" Mel Gibson innovations: the way the little boys' faces turn suddenly (digitally) grotesque when Judas touches them; the exaggerated way Barabbas sticks out his tongue and carries on after being released by Pilate; the "Powder"-like satan figure who turns up here and there, once even carrying a little hairy-backed satan midget-baby. How lamebrained, obvious and condescending these depictions of "evil" are in a film purporting finally to show Jesus' suffering the way it REALLY WAS. How sad that this may nevertheless become the all-time biggest-selling version of a story much better told by more thoughtful filmmakers, like Stevens and Zeffirelli, even Scorsese.
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How do I remove a photo if the notes have been locked? I'd gladly remove my old photos, but I don't know how.
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Hi, Jane (and anyone else),
There's a mini-chat going on at the moment. Right now, Noel and Laura are talking about bridal registries.
This sounds very Mormon. Bridal registries...I mean, who really NEEDS more than one bride?
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DR DERBRUCER:
You are 100% right on recalling James Allen's "Without Sanctuary." The image I am talking about is included in his exhibit. I know there is a short clip of his film out there on the internet.
It is fascinating, but not for the faint-of-heart.
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I think jrand knows how to remove the photos - but you should be able to go into any old posts and still use "modify" to remove the link to the photo.
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To All DRs:
Oops! (Spoo spelled backwards)
Reading over the early morning posts, I didn't realize my "disturbing image" would bring everyone down. It was not my intention at all. I only brought it up, because I saw the image in a film.
Sorry.
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DR Jason:
I love the recording to PARADE. From reading HHW, I know that you live in NYC and see many a show. I live in Los Angeles and a full production of the show has yet to appear here. Were you able to see PARADE? What were your thoughts on it?
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No posts in an hour? You'd think it was a holiday or something. We have to get past the dreaded ATL...
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I could do it alone, but that's cheating. So, I'll get the ball roling. Just 6 more. I'll check in later.
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DR Beckon:
I wouldn't worry about having "brought us all down" with your post. You made us all think about something that has been buried in history for far too long. Just because we're known for our party hats and pantaloons doesn't mean we can't don our thinking caps every once in a while, and every once in a while we deserve to have those caps slapped on our noggins.
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Good Evening!
Sorry I missed chat. I ended up heading out this afternoon, and after having yet another very good Mexican meal - this time it was cocido - I went to see another movie. Today's selection was "Mean Creek". What an interesting - and good - movie. And the acting of everyone involved - who are mainly between the ages of 10 and 18 - is/was pretty convincing. Yes, the movie has teens in it, but it bears no resemblance to the (stereo)typical "teen movie". The characters are so well delineated and unique, complicated. Even the usual teen "types" are shown to have other sides, other motivations. Even the scene leading up to the "act" started going in directions I would never have guessed.
And like "Garden State" which I saw yesterday, this was another first movie by a basically first time director. -And, unfortunately, a movie that most likely will take a few more weeks/months to play in Richmond - if at all.
In other news, I finally explored the South Lake Business District of Pasadena. Mainly lots of retail and restaurants, but there were a few interesting "details" including some shopping arcades and courtyards. *And I grabbed a pretty decent fudge(!) brownie from The Corner Bakery after the movie too!
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I'm discovering something unexpected with my spreadsheat project on concurrant Broadway Musical runs.
For much of the time, during the 40s and 50s (what many people refer to as the Golden Age), there would be less than a dozen musicals running at any one time. Often, there would only be six or seven musicals on the boards.
Compare those figures with today's, where a full TWENTY shows are running.
"Oh," I can hear someone saying, "But most everything on the Rialto right now is revivals."
No, not really. Out of that twenty, only five are actual revivals. (The Frogs is a revisal, but so radically altered that it might be considered a new work.)
What is majorly different is how long shows will run on Broadway. PotO has been in place for so long that by now it must feel like a revival. Rent has been around long enough to make it an establishment piece. Beauty and the Beast has celebrated it's TENTH anniversary.
There's sure to be a masters thesis somewhere in all these notes I'm amassing.
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Gee, how many more posts do we need to avoid the all-time low?
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One more?
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Or two?
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...after having yet another very good Mexican meal - this time it was cocido...
Oh, don't DO this to me! I haven't had a really good Mex meal since we switched coasts!
Not that I'd handle it too well right now. My throat is still sore from the cold, and the spices might hurt in ways unpleasurable rather than euphoric.
Instead, I poached a couple of chicken breasts, and served it alongside Mac 'n' Cheese. Comfort food.
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OH!
One thing I keep mention to mention/bring up...
I think the one thing that has truly bugged me during my time out here in L.A. so far is that no one seems to know about nor follow the "Stand to the Right, Pass of the Left" rule when it comes to using escalators. Is it only a mid-West and East Coast thing? Is it because L.A. is "traditionally" not a walking city?
In D.C., it's even posted in the Metro system - and, boy, do some people (including myself at times) get upset when someone causes a stall on the escalators! In New York, I'm pretty sure it's more or less an unwritten rule of public etiquette. Chicago, same thing. But out here in L.A. - ???
Of course, I guess if you're taking an escalator - which are essentially moving stairs - why would you need to walk on them anyway? -Sort of defeats the purpose, I guess. But still... It's just something I've noticed. -And if that's been one of the few things that's bugged me since I've been out here... Well... You can come to your own conclusions. ;)
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I saw Parade in NY and didn't care for it at all. It had some interesting Harold Prince touches, and it had a good cast, but it just didn't work as a whole.
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Oh, don't DO this to me! I haven't had a really good Mex meal since we switched coasts!
Not that I'd handle it too well right now. My throat is still sore from the cold, and the spices might hurt in ways unpleasurable rather than euphoric.
Instead, I poached a couple of chicken breasts, and served it alongside Mac 'n' Cheese. Comfort food.
Mac 'n' Cheese! YUMMY!!! That's truly one of those foods that I know I could eat day in and day out and not get tired of it. Of course, I would probably end up putting on about ten pounds a week if not more, so... -And I still remember making the "polka-dot" mac 'n' cheese recipe that came in my mom's Better Homes and Gardens recipe cards file - you put slices of pepperoni on top. Yummers!
*However, I'm not a fan of one of the Southern variations/style of m&c where you simply layer macaroni, shredded cheese, and butter in a casserole dish and bake. Yes, it's simply Mac 'n' Cheese, but I want my creamy sauce!! I had an upscale version at a restaurant that used marscapone cheese - soooo rich, but soooo good!!!!
**Oh, the Mexican place I've been going to lately has some very good in-house-made tamales - chicken, pork, beef and rajas. And I found out today that they ship them frozen! Hmmm... -And another place I came across has the sweet ones, dulce, which they make with sweet corn kernels and pineapple. The aroma is amazing once you unwrap the corn husk. And just the right amount of sweetness.
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DR SWW - If you happen to make it to D.C. again in the near or not so near future, there are some pretty amazing Mexican places in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. However, the Mexican communities in Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia - as well as in suburban Maryland - host some pretty amazing true Mexican eating establishments. The Washington Post recently did a story on them in their Food section. You may be able to look up the story on washingtonpost.com - althought, the Post's "free" period seems kind of random for some articles and sections.
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I'm ready for this long weekend to end. I'm not a big fan of long weekends. Although it was nice that there wasn't much traffic today (around the City of Studio, anyway).
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I have been errant and truant today, but I have a good reason. My niece made me (okay, I agreed, but still)...anyway, we walked around the Nisqually Wildife Refuge loop and it's 5 1/4 miles! I only stopped twice to remove rocks from my shoes. Other than that we walked for about an hour and 50 minutes!
Right after that, I took my niece home and I put together a little shelf unit for my sister. I got us dinner at Taco Del Mar (today is double stamp Monday), then we went to our parents' house for dessert. My mom makes this plum coffee cake like thing. It's made on a sheet cake pan with cut up plums and a streussel (sp?) topping. It's not very sweet (and it's not supposed to be) but it's very good. It's a German recipe (my mom is German so it's appropriate).
Anyway, I got home about an hour ago and I've been paying the last couple of bills that I have and just piddling around my house and doing laundry. Now I've checked in but I haven't read any posts since #15 this morning...or was it 73? I'll start at 15 and see if anything's familiar. Isn't that an exciting post? Isn't that just too too?...or not. :)
While I was at my sisters (after the shelf putting togethering and before the Taco Del Marring), I popped into chat for a bit. DearReaderLaura, Dan-in-Toronto and Noel were there. I didn't stay very long, but I was there.
So that's been my day. ;D