Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 12, 2014, 12:15:24 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were repetitious, the notes were repetitious, and now it is time for you to post until the repetitious cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: YAFF!
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Good morning, all! This morning I will have a 10:00 visit from my HMO's visiting nurse, which seems silly, since Isaw my dctor aweek ago. They began this last year and lovely lady showed up, took my blood pressure and temperature, asked a few questions and left. I think it's a waste of everyone's time and I'd rather have her show up and give me my flu shot.
Following that, I am meeting a singer for coffee at noon. Then I will come back here and continue with PAINT YOUR WAGON.
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Good morning, all.
A busy matinee day here, so I shall be scarce.
Vibes to all!
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Good morning!
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It's a nice day so far, but the sun isn't up yet. So we'll see.
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bk, have you read the novel Gone Girl, or will you be seeing the movie cold?
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good morning to all
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We are going to see a production of THE KING AND I at the ZACH Theater today.
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I saw Hayley Mills in THE KING AND I.
She played "I".
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Someday DR VIXMOM.....someday....
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Well everything went very well yesterday....it was lovely....of course as with most weddings, pictures don't really tell you how pretty everything was.
I didn't fall down OR catch on fire.....or stumble over my words.....so it was a success!
Coming down the stairs with the groomsmen at the start of the ceremony:
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The end of the ceremony.....
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Molly and Me arriving at the venue.
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The ceremony....
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Adam, Andrea, and ME!
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And that's enough of that.....if anyone posts any other nice photos next week, I will share them. There are a few more on my BookFace page.
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Wonderful photos, Jrand!
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DT JRand64, what a wonderful set of photos!
Dd you get a shot of the cake?
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Thanks DR FJL and DR ELMORE....yes I did....it's not very good, but I will post it. After Adam & Andrea cut their slices, it was rolled back to the prep area and then slices were put out on a big table. Each layer was a different flavor, orange, strawberry, carmel, and a couple of others....of course it was delicious...as was the dinner...and the open bar!
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DR JRand, how nice you look all gussied up in a tuxedo! Great wedding pics!
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Good morning.
Looks like a lovely wedding!
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Today we are going to DePauw to see PARADE.....
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Thank you DR MBARNUM and DR LAURA....yes it was lovely.....nothing overboard....just a very nice display of what is possible if you have money and taste.....
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Nice photos, DR Jrand64!
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Thanks DR KEVIN H
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Mr BK here is the Neu-View Theater and the House of Magic in the summer of 1969, you may have mentioned both in your notes and books.....and Larry Edmunds Bookshop in between! :D
This picture is from Chris Riordan who was in the movie "The Gay Deceivers" which was playing at the Neu......for three months.....with lines around the block.
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Nice photos!
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And the word of the day is: YAFF!
And The Song Of The Day Is: HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW ?
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Thank you DR JENNIFER
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DR JRand, how nice you look all gussied up in a tuxedo!
Yes, he cleans up very nicely. :)
Thanks for sharing your photos with us, DR Jrand64!
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I am back from the French Roast and my noon date with baritone Lee Poulis, who gets a nice mention in the new Opera News. The second photo, from a production of Les Pecheurs de Perles, is for our DR MBarnum, who knows nothing about vocal talent but he does know what he likes.
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Val Kilmer IS Moses.
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And on that note, I give you...
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Page 2.
At long last.
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It is a mighty fine autumnal day here in the midwest.
Cool, with clear blue skies and sunlight spotlighting the golden leaves.
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Sunday afternoon greetings! Today was a non-Lima day for Fr. Richard, so we went to church with Rob and Mary Linda and out for lunch at Panera. We're all home now - the kids are studying (Rob-organic chemistry, ML-GMAT prep) and Richard and I are watching the Bengals.
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DR Elmore, is your cold better today?
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Mr BK here is the Neu-View Theater and the House of Magic in the summer of 1969, you may have mentioned both in your notes and books.....and Larry Edmunds Bookshop in between! :D
This picture is from Chris Riordan who was in the movie "The Gay Deceivers" which was playing at the Neu......for three months.....with lines around the block.
(https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10613041_940497519313714_1596519580313923110_n.jpg?oh=13d44fb93e5b78fc0c9a0cf1f0d4f009&oe=54C5BE89)
It's actually the New View - that's a W. I didn't go there often - it was a flea pit - but in Kritzerland I do believe I specifically mention seeing one of my many viewings of North By Northwest there on a very rainy day. It's one of my favorite passages in the book. Chris Riordan recently came to a Kritzerland show - he said I'd remember him immediately. I didn't. My cousin finally reminded me that he dated briefly (very briefly) my ex-wife after our deevorce.
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Page two? Really?
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And barely, at that.
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I'm up - I think I got nine hours of sleep.
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DR Elmore, is your cold better today?
Lingering in my throat; at some point it will move up to my sinuses and then go away.
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Well, take care, DR Elmore!
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It is such a nice sunny day today. I read outside. I really wanted to go for a bike ride. But my energy is only 50%.
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I see like 10 visiting cars outside. Would it be rude to try to follow where they are. I'll bet they are having a yummy turkey dinner!
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I'm watching PBS's rebroadcast of "The Nance."
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DR Jennifer - only if you take the last of the gravy. :)
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We have made it partway through Act II so far of The Nance, and are enjoying it quite a lot.
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We have made it partway through Act II so far of The Nance, and are enjoying it quite a lot.
I'm a little more than an hour into Act I, and I'm enjoying it, also!
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I just had a loverly phone call from Rob Berman. He says that Bright Star is going very well at the Old Globe, and he's got a lovely beach house in San Diego.
I want to visit.
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Love the pictures, Jrand! ;D
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Back from a chili, cheese and onion omelet in which they forgot the onion, which is probably fine with me on this day. Still deciding whether I want to drive to the DGA for Gone Girl.
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I just had a loverly phone call from Rob Berman. He says that Bright Star is going very well at the Old Globe, and he's got a lovely beach house in San Diego.
I want to visit.
That would be nice!
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Mr BK here is the Neu-View Theater and the House of Magic in the summer of 1969, you may have mentioned both in your notes and books.....and Larry Edmunds Bookshop in between! :D
This picture is from Chris Riordan who was in the movie "The Gay Deceivers" which was playing at the Neu......for three months.....with lines around the block.
(https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10613041_940497519313714_1596519580313923110_n.jpg?oh=13d44fb93e5b78fc0c9a0cf1f0d4f009&oe=54C5BE89)
Thanks, DR Jrand64. I'm quite sure I ordered movie memorabilia from Larry Edmunds Book Shop about 40 years ago! Interesting to see where it was located.
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Great photos, JRand.
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I am up after a short nap. This morning, I went from church to three intensive hours of dance lessons. I sweat so much I may have ruined the shirt. But it was fun.
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Thank you for the mention in today's notes, BK.
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Off to a pizza party in a few.
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Then maybe time to watch the Nance tonight.
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I work from home tomorrow with time off for a funeral in the morning. It's for an old friend from church. He had dementia and recently suffered a bad fall in which he broke his neck, which he somehow lived with for several weeks.
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Can we move on to another page?
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Eventually.
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Eventually plus one.
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My new favorite on "And the World Goes Round" is the "We Can Make It/ Maybe This Time/ Isn't This Better" medley.
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Three!
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Page 3!
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Here I am at the DGA awaiting Gone Girl to begin in thirty minutes
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Good morning, all! This morning I will have a 10:00 visit from my HMO's visiting nurse, which seems silly, since Isaw my dctor aweek ago. They began this last year and lovely lady showed up, took my blood pressure and temperature, asked a few questions and left. I think it's a waste of everyone's time and I'd rather have her show up and give me my flu shot.
Won't they let you cancel it?
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DR JRand, how nice you look all gussied up in a tuxedo! Great wedding pics!
Ditto! I'm glad the wedding was wonderful.
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I see like 10 visiting cars outside. Would it be rude to try to follow where they are. I'll bet they are having a yummy turkey dinner!
I'm confused. I thought officially your holiday is tomorrow yet all over FB people are saying Happy Thanksgiving and now you think neighbors are celebrating.
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I just had a loverly phone call from Rob Berman. He says that Bright Star is going very well at the Old Globe, and he's got a lovely beach house in San Diego.
I want to visit.
That would be nice!
I was about to say the same thing.
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Great wedding photos, DR Jrand64, and thanks for the Hollywood Blvd. picture.
The New-View was a Pussycat by the time I moved there in June 1972 -- if not right then, then shortly thereafter -- and it eventually became the seemingly permanent venue for the DEEP THROAT / DEVIL IN MISS JONES double feature.
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Today's matinee went fine, but it was visited upon by the deadest of dead audiences. A real classic. I sometimes wonder how audiences like that can stand themselves. They were classic cheapskates as well. The concessions person told us they sold, like, four items during intermission. :)
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Person at DR CHAS SMITH'S show:
Well you can make me go, but I know I won't like it.
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Well, I must be going. I have to help my sister move an IKEA kitchen island from her rental house (she owns it) to the house where she lives. The renters don't want it anymore. After that, I'm going to audition for Theater Artists Olympia's "The Head That Wouldn't Die."
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Thanks to all for the comments on the photos.....
PARADE was most wonderful this afternoon. I had only heard the CD, I had never seen the show. It was great....the leads were outstanding and music and voices were wonderful.
I don't think I ever need to see the show again.....I will always have this one.
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Watching Doc Martin-- I don't think I've seen the first episodes. I just watch whatever episode happens to be on. Lots of interesting characters!
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Person at DR CHAS SMITH'S show:
Well you can make me go, but I know I won't like it.
Exactly, DR Jrand64. Exactly.
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I ordered a lot of stuff from there, too, DR KEVIN.....didn't realize it was a hole in the wall. They're still in business, but I don't know if it's at the same location.
LOL...well MR BK - maybe Christopher will write about it in his book and it will remind you....
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Well, I must be going. I have to help my sister move an IKEA kitchen island from her rental house (she owns it) to the house where she lives. The renters don't want it anymore. After that, I'm going to audition for Theater Artists Olympia's "The Head That Wouldn't Die."
That reminds me, DR George: last night there was a show on IKEA on MSNBC. It showed how they made various pieces of furniture--very interesting!
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Is that Hortense?
I don't know....she looks pretty calm to me....
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For having lived right there, I am amazingly vague on the Larry Edmunds location. Didn't they move a couple of doors down at some point? Did they expand? Perhaps BK can help us on this.
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They were classic cheapskates as well. The concessions person told us they sold, like, four items during intermission. :)
Um, this would be me. I don't leave my seat during intermission. Also, I never buy the memorabilia.
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Is the individual who was "the problem" with AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND going to be at the launch party?
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They were classic cheapskates as well. The concessions person told us they sold, like, four items during intermission. :)
Um, this would be me. I don't leave my seat during intermission. Also, I never buy the memorabilia.
Just food and drink at this place, DR Laura. Probably just sold a couple of candy bars and sodas. Maybe a coffee. They certainly didn't seem to have been imbibing the beer or wine.
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I am with you, BK, about the bits of fat. No matter how many lectures I receive about the quality of bits of fat, they make me want to vomit on the ground. And I hate to vomit on the ground!
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Is the individual who was "the problem" with AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND going to be at the launch party?
Oh -- I'd meant to ask if that person can be identified now. Maybe just in private?
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A COCKROACH ON THE TABLE is the name of my new "earthy" novella.
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Thanks DR FJL and DR ELMORE....yes I did....it's not very good, but I will post it. After Adam & Andrea cut their slices, it was rolled back to the prep area and then slices were put out on a big table. Each layer was a different flavor, orange, strawberry, carmel, and a couple of others....of course it was delicious...as was the dinner...and the open bar!
I thought you wrote camel, which sounded really nasty.
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Thank you DR MBARNUM and DR LAURA....yes it was lovely.....nothing overboard....just a very nice display of what is possible if you have money and taste.....
Rerely do they go together.
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Nice photos, Jack!
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Counting down (or is it counting up?) to Jrand's 60,000 milestone.
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Mr BK here is the Neu-View Theater and the House of Magic in the summer of 1969, you may have mentioned both in your notes and books.....and Larry Edmunds Bookshop in between! :D
This picture is from Chris Riordan who was in the movie "The Gay Deceivers" which was playing at the Neu......for three months.....with lines around the block.
(https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10613041_940497519313714_1596519580313923110_n.jpg?oh=13d44fb93e5b78fc0c9a0cf1f0d4f009&oe=54C5BE89)
It's actually the New View - that's a W. I didn't go there often - it was a flea pit - but in Kritzerland I do believe I specifically mention seeing one of my many viewings of North By Northwest there on a very rainy day. It's one of my favorite passages in the book. Chris Riordan recently came to a Kritzerland show - he said I'd remember him immediately. I didn't. My cousin finally reminded me that he dated briefly (very briefly) my ex-wife after our deevorce.
The man thought you would remember him just because he dated your ex-wife? That is rather arrogant.
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FOUR!
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Seventy-nine years ago today the Cole Porter-Moss Hart musical Jubilee opened on Broadway.
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I think the fatty bits in the steak are the best part.
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Hello, everyone.
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I didn't fall down OR catch on fire.....or stumble over my words.....so it was a success!
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I doubt that I could say that.
The end of the ceremony.....
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Molly and Me arriving at the venue.
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I think most impressive is that the bride didn't trip on all those stairs.
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I am going to be afraid to answer any calls from LA. I just got off with the second call in the last several days regarding a cancer diagnosis.
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It is a mighty fine autumnal day here in the midwest.
Cool, with clear blue skies and sunlight spotlighting the golden leaves.
Lucky you. I'd really enjoy a few autumnal days. It's hot again here.
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I think most impressive is that the bride didn't trip on all those stairs.
I was thinking the same.
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I see like 10 visiting cars outside. Would it be rude to try to follow where they are. I'll bet they are having a yummy turkey dinner!
I'm confused. I thought officially your holiday is tomorrow yet all over FB people are saying Happy Thanksgiving and now you think neighbors are celebrating.
Even though tomorrow is the official Thanksgiving basically most people celebrate it today (on the Sunday). Pretty much everybody I know has their turkey meal today, including I guess all my neighbors. :)
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian DRs.
I know at least one Canadian celebrating it today.
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"The Head That Wouldn't Die."
Are you auditioning for the title role? :)
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I see like 10 visiting cars outside. Would it be rude to try to follow where they are. I'll bet they are having a yummy turkey dinner!
I'm confused. I thought officially your holiday is tomorrow yet all over FB people are saying Happy Thanksgiving and now you think neighbors are celebrating.
Even though tomorrow is the official Thanksgiving basically most people celebrate it today (on the Sunday). Pretty much everybody I know has their turkey meal today, including I guess all my neighbors. :)
Do you, or did you, do anything special?
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I will always have this one.
And Paris.
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I am going to be afraid to answer any calls from LA. I just got off with the second call in the last several days regarding a cancer diagnosis.
Sorry to hear that, Jane. Vibes to them.
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"The Head That Wouldn't Die."
Are you auditioning for the title role? :)
I've got a list of several heads I wish would die.
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I work from home tomorrow with time off for a funeral in the morning. It's for an old friend from church. He had dementia and recently suffered a bad fall in which he broke his neck, which he somehow lived with for several weeks.
Condolences on his passing.
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I enjoyed your photos, JRand. And, yes, you looked very nice all gussied up.
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TTFN.
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I am going to be afraid to answer any calls from LA. I just got off with the second call in the last several days regarding a cancer diagnosis.
Sorry to hear that, Jane. Vibes to them.
Thank you. I hope they will both be ok.
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Thank you DR JANE and DR JEANNE.....yes the stairs were a potential hazard for everyone, but safety prevailed.
DR TCB you are certainly right .... it's usually one OR the other.....
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DR MBARNUM has been to the LE BOOKSHOP several times, perhaps he can tell us if it has moved.....
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I just read that Skip E. Lowe died a couple of weeks ago. I only know the name because of Martin Short's spoof of him.
I believe BK was on his show.
Anyone in the LA ever see his show?
(http://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/skip-e-lowe.jpg?w=670&h=377&crop=1)
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I see like 10 visiting cars outside. Would it be rude to try to follow where they are. I'll bet they are having a yummy turkey dinner!
I'm confused. I thought officially your holiday is tomorrow yet all over FB people are saying Happy Thanksgiving and now you think neighbors are celebrating.
Even though tomorrow is the official Thanksgiving basically most people celebrate it today (on the Sunday). Pretty much everybody I know has their turkey meal today, including I guess all my neighbors. :)
Do you, or did you, do anything special?
No I didn't do anything. I guess it's different from the US where you have the Thursday that is when everybody eats. Here it's sort of considered Thanksgiving weekend with most people having turkey on the Sunday.
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It is nice. You also don't have Thanksgiving followed by the biggest shopping day of the year. It has to be easier celebrating when you don't have to do all the work on the same day & you can relax on the day off.
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I'm not surprised a second person in Dallas has been diagnosed with Ebola. I am surprised it is someone from the 2nd team of staff vs the first one that sent the patient home without knowing it was Ebola.
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It is nice. You also don't have Thanksgiving followed by the biggest shopping day of the year. It has to be easier celebrating when you don't have to do all the work on the same day & you can relax on the day off.
The stores and malls are all open tomorrow (Monday)- Thanksgiving Day.
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Our biggest shopping day of the year is December 26th - the day after Christmas. Now that makes a lot of sense. :)
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I have shopped a couple of times on the 26th for Christmas items that were greatly reduced. I've never done regular shopping. And I have only shopped the Friday after our TG once when the boys were young and it was the only day Keith had off. Mostly I had their gifts purchased before TG.
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It is nice. You also don't have Thanksgiving followed by the biggest shopping day of the year. It has to be easier celebrating when you don't have to do all the work on the same day & you can relax on the day off.
The stores and malls are all open tomorrow (Monday)- Thanksgiving Day.
With everyone celebrating all weekend I suppose they will shop on Monday. ;)
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~ ~ ~ CARE VIBES ~ ~ ~ for the friends of DR Jane!!!
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Last Thanksgiving we went to a movie before going to dinner at Elinor's house. Since we rarely go to a movie it was a treat for us.
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~ ~ ~ VIBES OF CONDOLENCE ~ ~ ~ to DR John G. on your loss...
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Finished The Nance and now starting on Sweeney Todd.
Isn't PBS grand? :)
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Thank you DR Singdaw.
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Seventy-nine years ago today the Cole Porter-Moss Hart musical Jubilee opened on Broadway.
My absolute favorite show. My first choice for a time machine visit.
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~ ~ ~ VIBES OF CONDOLENCE ~ ~ ~ to DR John G. on your loss...
Thank you, sir.
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Is the individual who was "the problem" with AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND going to be at the launch party?
Yes, the individual will - it's actually a little more complicated than that :) And no, can't identify the individual at least as long as the individual and company are playing nice.
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Yes, I did Skip E. Lowe's show about ten times.
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So, I saw Gone Girl. I kind of was sort of with it for the first half, then the second half began and I just became increasingly more irritated. The tone veers wildly and it's like you've been led down the garden path by taking the first half seriously - suddenly we're in black comedy and satire land and it may have worked as a literary device, but it sure doesn't work with the Mr. Fincher's direction, a couple of incredibly bad casting choices, a score that is literally wall to wall aural wallpaper and therefore, like the film, becomes mind-numbing, and plot turns that just get sillier and sillier until the completely unsatisfying ending. The completely full house at the DGA just sat there at the end of the film - no applause, just silence and then everyone just got up and left. I can't imagine normal audiences will react any differently. I've heard great things about the book, but maybe it all works in that world - the ridiculously overdone dialogue that no human being would ever speak, and plot points that may have been easily disguised in the book so as not to make you question them, but in a film just have you going, what?
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I went to Gelson's and got some snacks and ate them all and I'm on my second listen of one of the two new masters - it should have been Sandy, but instead it was the soundtrack. It's great, but I want to hear Sandy!
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I am back in Ny but exhauste iw;ll catch upp tomorrwow night gottas work tomorrow
goodnight
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So, I saw Gone Girl. I kind of was sort of with it for the first half, then the second half began and I just became increasingly more irritated. The tone veers wildly and it's like you've been led down the garden path by taking the first half seriously - suddenly we're in black comedy and satire land and it may have worked as a literary device, but it sure doesn't work with the Mr. Fincher's direction, a couple of incredibly bad casting choices, a score that is literally wall to wall aural wallpaper and therefore, like the film, becomes mind-numbing, and plot turns that just get sillier and sillier until the completely unsatisfying ending. The completely full house at the DGA just sat there at the end of the film - no applause, just silence and then everyone just got up and left. I can't imagine normal audiences will react any differently. I've heard great things about the book, but maybe it all works in that world - the ridiculously overdone dialogue that no human being would ever speak, and plot points that may have been easily disguised in the book so as not to make you question them, but in a film just have you going, what?
I went to Gone Girl tonight too. I was also very unsatisfied with the ending. I kept thinking it was a good idea that just kind of didn't quite make it. I'm curious which characters you thought were miscast. I can think of a couple.
I have the book but never read it. I think I'll read it now to see if I like it any better.
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Condolences to DR Druxy, Ben and Anthony and John G. And anyone else I may have missed while I was E and T
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I liked The Judge much better than Gone Girl. I didn't hate Gone Girl, just wanted more from it
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Saturday night my friends had their last movie night of the year. We watched Slap Shot outside. It was pretty cold, but they had a fire in an outdoor fireplace and one in a weber grill to keep us warm. And we had 4 kinds of soup to eat. It was a lot of fun.
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Today we had out All America Concert Band concert. I was great fun. One of my friends was there. It really is nice to have a friend in the audience.
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Tomorrow is Columbus Day. We're closing the office, but I may go in and work OR I may finally finish the room upstairs that I started about two and a half years ago. I really only have to scrub the wallpaper paste off of one wall and paint two walls. It would be doable in a day.
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I've been hungry for turkey and have a Jenni-O turkey roast in the freezer, so maybe I'll make a turkey dinner for Canadian Thanksgiving :)
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Hmmm then I could hang the good shades I bought that have been in a box for over two years. I've been hanging out in this room more lately, especially in the evening, so it's time to have all the walls the same color, lol
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Not really sure why I've been E and T. I did spend a lot of last week practicing for the concert and just doing things.
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I had one big OOPS!!! day with Myrna, but we fixed it and she's really diving in to learn her job. I think it's going to be really good
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We used to always go to a movie on Thanksgiving night and Christmas night. We haven't done it in years, but it was a fun way to get out of the house and still be spending time together
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Oh my, I'm ready to sign off, but must take us to the next page
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I forgot what a fun movie Slap Shot is. We especially enjoyed the 70s fashions, Paul Newman wore lots of plaid pants and a leather suit. We did kind of go Ewwww when he was wearing the same underwear in two scenes that were several days apart in the movie. (Patterned boxers)
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The cats are all curled up sleeping. They are much more content when we are all upstairs in the evening than they are when we are in the living room, not sure why
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O dear, this is a long way to the next page
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I can't think of anything else new
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I'm sure there are new things,, just can't think of them
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So I'll just quit thinking
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I am going to go to sleep very shortly
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Woo hoo page 6.....my work is done. Good night
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Well, for me, the biggest casting error was Neil Patrick Harris. I gather his role was much more interesting in the book, but even then it's just wrong casting. There's nothing interesting about his playing of what in the film is a terribly written character.
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Well, I must be going. I have to help my sister move an IKEA kitchen island from her rental house (she owns it) to the house where she lives. The renters don't want it anymore. After that, I'm going to audition for Theater Artists Olympia's "The Head That Wouldn't Die."
That reminds me, DR George: last night there was a show on IKEA on MSNBC. It showed how they made various pieces of furniture--very interesting!
I've seen several "How'd They Do That" kind of shows and I always enjoy watching them. I remember when my sister bought this particular kitchen island and I had to put it together. I accidentally put the top on upside down and there was an IKEA stamp now on the top of the island. Rather than take it all apart, my sister was able to sand off the stamp.
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"The Head That Wouldn't Die."
Are you auditioning for the title role? :)
No, that roll has already been cast...and it's woman. ;) I'd like to play the father of the lead male, who is the fiance of woman who becomes The Head.