Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 19, 2015, 01:26:42 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes began solving an old mystery, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently solving an old MOOstery.
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And the word of the day is: TATTERDEMALION!
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First after MR BK!
Huzzah!
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A short playlet:
Time: 4:05 a.m.
Place: My House
Sound: Loud banging on the front door.
Voice: Police! Police!!
Continued banging.
I get up....it is indeed the police, so I turn off the alarm and open the door.
Policeman: Is that your car? (indicating car in front of my house on the street)
Me: No.
Policeman: We've had cars with windshields busted out tonight. Whose car is that?
Me: It belongs to the people across the street.
Policeman: Okay, thank you.
I close the door and go back to bed.
A few minutes later.....
Voice From Down the Hall, barely audible: Who was that?
Me: The police.
Voice: Who? What?
Me: The police....someone broke the windshield in a car.
Voice: What?
Me: I will tell you in the morning.
Precious: Bark Bark.....is it time to go for a walk?
Me: NO!
THE END
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If you look at this site, most of those cars seem to be from 1949 or so.
http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1940s/3
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I think I have my cast for BAD SEED.....emails going out in the morning. I am hoping everyone accepts the part offered.
We shall see. I did indeed find a Rhoda. She is very good, although more like Rhoda in real life than I would like....without the murdering part.
Her grandmother and my mother are cousins....
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Interesting photo mystery in the notes, about which I haven't a clew.
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Maybe it's called the Sky High because their prices are sky high.
Just a thought
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/phones_zpshmsv95uo.jpg)
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DR Jrand64 - congratulations on finding your cast.
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That was an entertaining playlet. Although not as entertaining to actually live through, no doubt.
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Good morning, all! I had a very intense dream about working at the Drama Book Shop with two lines of customers, one wanting information and one waiting to purchase items. It wasa frenzy.
I am off to Toyland. About two weeks ago, I discovered a large carton that should have gone to the Library of congress last year and was overlooked. The carton contained choral compositions by John McGlinn, along with his libretto and vocal score for a musical version of Philip Barry's comedy Holiday and a draft fr a musical version of Our Town, all written as a student at Northwestern. This morning, I will take these scores to Fed Ex and send them to the Library of Congress.
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DR JRand64, casting The Bad Seed and a nocturnal visit by the police. How exciting!
I will compose a TV opera, entitled Jack and the Night Visitors, to celebrate this night of thrills and chills.
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Good morning, all.
The only dream I remember had to do with transporting the cats in a large canvas carry bag (like the one I have that DR Elmore knows) that kept getting large lizard-like creatures in it as well, but fortunately the cats and the lizards got along fine till we got to where we were going. Then the bag turned into large crates or cages and I had to figure out how to tell some people who were taking over the cages that it had the lizards, but by the time we all looked again, it was apparent that they had left of their own accord.
Oy! Coffee!
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I may start calling TCB "Tomas" like Dan did - I think it rather fits TCB's suave nature.
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Great set of notes there, BK. The photos and the near-solving of the mystery are wonderful.
That was my first Du-Par's, discovered in 1972 when I had only recently moved to L.A. I loved the place, and the style of the building itself. I'm surprised to see they were still there as late as 1978, but how sad to see the reduced architecture. But I would have guessed we lost that Du-Par's even earlier than that.
The store to the east, Adray's, was a large discount store where I bought a nice cassette deck and maybe one or two other things in the early 1980s. This of course was in the days before the big box type of discount stores we know now, and I was always thrilled to walk in there to browse or to buy.
The middle photo would have been taken from right in front of the El Rey, if I'm right about it being in the block east of Burnside.
Anyhoo, congratulations on the Kiru research so far. Wonderful stuff.
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Good morning.
A fascinating playlet, JRand. I hope you got back to sleep.
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Was the classical radio station KFAC-FM in that Prudential building or adjacent to it? And was there a record store somewhere in the area of that Coulter's on the south side of Wilshire? (I know that's a vague shot in the dark.) And did Coulter's become a Broadway by the 1970s?
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JRand, how many more episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race are there? Do they go down to two next week? And then one the week after?
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Well done, DR Jrand64! An exciting one-act play in a quiet setting where you would never expect such goings on. David Lynch would approve! Will you be licensing it out to schools and community theater groups?
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'morning. I have been awake for over an hour now. I think I might be abe to go back to sleep.
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Coffee shops have meant A LOT to me throughout my life, from my earliest memories of a few places as a child in Columbus. Back later with some.
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Neat sleuthing and pics in the notes! I look forward to more answers!
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Greetings from Toyland!
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The bus ride was hellish this morning: first a 25 minute wait for a bus, and then a fat, obese middleaged bitch with a walker. She had been on the No. 7 bus several weeks ago being a complete pig, and she continues to be one. Her walker is huge, it won't fold up because she put too much crap onto it, and she blocks the aisle with it. This poor older - and i mean old - lady with her shopping cart was having a helluva time getting her shopping cart past the walker blocking the aisle, and this fat bitch kept yelling, DON'T BREAK MY WALKER. I said to the bus driver, you ought to throw her off.
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I like DOWN THREE DARK STREETS. It's a nifty little crime drama. I have it on DVD.
I saw it in Seattle (at the Orpheum Theater) when it first came out.
I knew Broderick Crawford. He was a nice man; totally unlike his screen image.
Little known fact: Ruth Roman, who co-stars, was a survivor of the Andrea Doria sinking.
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TOD:
There was a corner coffee shop on Broadway in Seattle that we used to go to quite a bit. Then, when I was at the University of Washington, there was one coffee house that folks in the Drama Department would often frequent.
I don't recall the name of either one.
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Yes DR CHAS SMITH my playlet will be available, but it is restricted. As soon as DR ELMORE finishes his opera, it will be available for production, too.
It was quite exciting.
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So far, seven of ten people have accepted their roles.
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I enjoyed the notes and photos as well.
I would suggest a maybe available on FlexNit film called AIR PATROL that features MANY location shots from LA and the Valley.
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Page Two AIR PATROL dance.
(http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1411273633_2.jpg)
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For the first time, since living in our little room, I am using my laptop. I had to in order to see the wonderful photos in the notes.
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TOD:
I don't know that I have a favorite coffee shop, but the main one that we went to when I was a child was at a Woolworths inside a mall. That was when Woolworths had coffee shops. And that was when there was Woolworths.
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Tuesday morning greetings! Both of my book groups meet this week, which doesn't usually happen. Today at noon we're discussing Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread at the library where I began my career. Thursday evening at Lynne's it's A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith.
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Sorry, I didn't post about this days ago, but the book reading/signing on Saturday was a lot of fun! The chapters Bruce read were very amusing and got a lot of laughs and chortles. And folks asked interesting questions too. Afterwards, we finally got to go to the Dino's Pizza that Bruce is always raving about. Since we live in Thousand Oaks and Dino's is in Burbank, it's generally way too far from us, but on Saturday it was on our way home, so very convenient. We got an x-large (a large would have been enough really) and split it half with pepperoni and sausage (for Mark) and half with Canadian bacon and capers (for me). That pizza had the most gigantic chunks of sausage I've ever seen on a pizza. It clogged my arteries just to look at it. And I had never had a pizza with capers on it before, but it was yummilicous. The crust was especially good. I don't think we could ever find pizza like that in Thousand Oaks. Mark commented days later that we hadn't had a "real pizza" in years and that was "real pizza".
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TOD - Drake's on North University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Coffee, tea, and toasted pecan or cinnamon rolls - yum. My fondest memories are meeting friends there late in the afternoon before going to the student lab theatre productions, many of which featured a classmate named Christine Lahti.
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It's time to leave Toyland to head for Fed Ex and home.
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And the word of the day is: TATTERDEMALION!
And The Song Of The Day Is: I'M JUST A RAG DOLLY
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Good morning, all.
I finally made it in at 1 this morning. Flight delayed three hours. Thankfully, I had a huge Balzac novel, Lost Illusions and read close to 300 pages.
Now, if I can only stay awake at work.
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I wish I had more time to read. I am now 11 books behind schedule.
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TOD: there was a Jerry's coffee shop up the street. Nothing fancy, just good. I was a kid and we didn't eat out then, but I remember going once or twice. Chicken salad sandwiches were always my favorite when we ate out. Good stuff.
Jerry's also gave you crayons and a coloring sheet, which I loved.
They went out of business in Louisville, but I found one in Venice, Fla., when I lived in that area. It was a great surprise, though the food wasn't nearly as good as I recalled.
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Dan M, sorry the MOOC didn't work out. Some of those can be a pain because a few students are in it for a grade and the rest do get treated like second-class citizens. The facilitator/teacher should have nipped that in the bud.
Early vibes for Wednesday's tests.
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Nice song DR ARNOLDMBROCKMAN
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I do not drink coffee....so I do not have a favorite Coffee Shop.....
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I've been to Fed Ex and I am home. Now I can lounge and do nothing for a bit.
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DR LAURA....there is one more show....like a reunion or something and then on June 1st they announce the winner.
Here is a link to watch last night's show.
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/rupauls-drag-race-season-7-episode-12-and-the-rest-is-drag/1735995/playlist/#id=1735995
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Funny thing about coffee shops is that it isn't about the coffee. There's a good chain of coffee shops here in San Antonio called Jum's. I like to go for a great club sandwich and the fried okra. They tried to upgrade the coffee and the regulars rebelled. Don't monkey with the hot brown water.
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/phones_zpshmsv95uo.jpg)
:))
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Nice pictures, BK. I wish I knew about historical cars, but I don't.
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As for the Topic of the Day, I don't really know anything about coffee shops...not being a coffee drinker and all. ::)
;)
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Well done, DR Jrand64! An exciting one-act play in a quiet setting where you would never expect such goings on. David Lynch would approve! Will you be licensing it out to schools and community theater groups?
Oooo..TAO would have a field day with this!
:D
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So far, seven of ten people have accepted their roles.
Great news! Hopefully, the rest will too.
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And now, I'm off to the dentist, then to lunch with several co-workers.
Until later!
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I'm up, I'm up - woke up at about eight - five hours of sleep maybe. I have had some weird kind of pain in my left shoulder and it's driving me crazy. Been about five days or more - and my left arm is now feeling a little weaker than it probably should. I've looked it up online - several possibilities, all of which say it will get better on its own. I personally think it's completely stress-related. I might go to a chiropractor if I actually had insurance.
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BK, does your plan not cover chiropractic at all, or is it just a high deductible?
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There have been a good number of additional views on our YouTube "Last Starfighter" clip that was linked in that yahoo article. Maybe that will translate into some extra CD sales, or downloads at least, since the author of the article did plug the CD.
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Dan M, sorry the MOOC didn't work out. Some of those can be a pain because a few students are in it for a grade and the rest do get treated like second-class citizens. The facilitator/teacher should have nipped that in the bud.
Early vibes for Wednesday's tests.
Thanks John! Not a well-organized class to be sure.
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I have no plan. I have no insurance at all.
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TAO has rights of first refusal DR GEORGE....
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You should have Medicare A & B.
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I have one role not cast....but I have asked the father of Rhoda to play.....HER FATHER....he will let me know tomorrow.
I have a feeling he won't get a moment's rest at home until and unless he says YES.
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What is Medicare A & B? I don't know from any of this stuff.
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If you are a certain age.....and especially if you have applied for Social Security, you are enrolled in those programs.
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DR BK, I believe that the cars in the two photos provide a range from 1947 to 1949. In the first photo in which can be seen the Ralphs sign, the first car on the left that is showing its grille, is more than likely a 1947 Chevrolet Fleetmaster which was a luxury car. The car emblem and the grille seem to match.
In the second photo, the Mullen-Bluett scene, at the corner near the Phelps-Turkel store, the two cars facing the viewer appear to have grilles that match either a 1949 Chevrolet or a 1949 Cadillac.
I am sure that a classic car collector could readily identify the cars by the grille patterns.
http://www.route66hotrodhigh.com/ID-Cars/ChevyModels.html
http://www.route66hotrodhigh.com/ID-Cars/CadillacModels2.html
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There are approximately a zillion websites devoted to Medicare and how it works, but here are some basics:
Medicare is the Federal health insurance program for Americans age 65 and older, and some disabled Americans. The Original Medicare Plan, which is available nationwide, is a fee-for-service plan that is managed by the Federal Government. It pays for many health care services and supplies, but it won't pay all of your health care costs.
Generally, you should enroll in Medicare when you first become eligible. If you choose to enroll at a later time, you will pay a late-enrollment penalty.
If you already have health insurance from an employer or another source, talk to your benefits administrator about whether you should join Medicare or not while still covered.
Medicare has four parts: hospital insurance, known as Part A; medical insurance, known as Part B, which provides payments for doctors and related services; and prescription drug coverage, known as Part D. Medicare Part C gives you the choice of receiving the benefits of Medicare A, B, and D through a private health plan, like an HMO or PPO. This coverage is called Medicare Advantage.
Most people don't pay a premium for Part A, since they already paid for it through payroll taxes while they were working. There is a monthly premium for Medicare Part B.
Usually, you will pay a premium if you decide to enroll in Medicare's prescription drug plan. If you don't enroll as soon as you are eligible, your premium will be higher if you decide to enroll at a later time. Also, once you are past your first eligibility, you will have to wait for the annual enrollment period (generally November 15-December 31 of each year) in order to enroll in Medicare's prescription drug coverage.
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DR LAURA....there is one more show....like a reunion or something and then on June 1st they announce the winner.
Here is a link to watch last night's show.
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/rupauls-drag-race-season-7-episode-12-and-the-rest-is-drag/1735995/playlist/#id=1735995
Thanks, JRand. I met one of the contestants back when... when she was a boy. Is that the way you say it?
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Every week JRand gives me a brief update, since I don't have a tv. And I appreciate it!
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When I was very young, even before kindergarten, I remember my Mom would walk with me (I was in a stroller) and our neighbors, and we would go to several places, which I learned later. I have vague memories which were cleared up when I got older.
There was a local bakery that had a small area for eating and having coffee. It wasn't Dunkin' Donuts, it was just a local place. I think the people that ran it were either Polish or German. I remember eating some kind of crispy dough with lots of confectioners sugar on it (would be too sweet for me today). There was an Italian bakery down the block that didn't have a place for sitting and eating, but they had great breads.
Aside from the Woolworths counter, I remember going to a local place called Dippity Donuts. Both places had the best hot dogs served in the New England style buns.
When I was a little bit older, again around kindergarten age, my Mom and I would take the train into New York City, my favorite was to go to what seemed to me to be the gigantic Woolworths in Herald Square. Macy's was also a place where we could get something to eat.
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What DR SINGDAW said.
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When I was in college, there were two coffee houses with two very different clientèle. Both were local to the college town. My second favorite was panelled in dark woods, carved designs, and was dense in feeling. College types would go there as an alternative to alcohol parties. There were too many crunchy granola types there for me, i.e. women that didn't shave and people that didn't bathe all that much. It was an interesting place, but not really for me.
My favorite place was this old bakery/dairy on the main drag. The shape of the storefront was determined by the bakery that took up the rear part. It was a long narrow space, but went back far. The way the place was designed and its accoutrements makes me sure that it was originally built in the 1910s. The place was dimly lit because the ceiling was very high. There was a great big storefront glass letting in ambient light, which was basically the way the place was lit.
The ceiling had those carved ceiling blocks. I'm not sure what the proper name for those is, but the ceiling had a lot of sculptural detail all in a milky white, appropriate for a bakery/dairy. The walls were tiled with Delft tiles and looked to be very old, original to the bakery. I always thought this place was much better for ambiance than the other. The front was where you could see what was on that day's menu. They served breakfast, lunch and an early dinner since they closed very early in the evening. Rib-sticking, hearty food. Everything very homemade. Smells and aromas from the kitchen and bakery like the best holiday meal at your grandma's or aunt's. No wait staff. You had to go to the counter and order. Your meal, or baked goods and coffee or tea, would be served to you on a tray that was much larger than the typical tray. No disposable utensils or plates. Since this was also the "front" for a dairy, they had the best tasting chocolate milk and ice cream. I never saw more than one or two college types, other than me, at this sort of coffee shop because the clientèle skewed to people in their 70s+. The prices were on par with or better than McDonald's in that time period.
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I thought of this whilst working my last (yay!!) day of this year's high school rehearsal/concert series this afternoon:
When you get sufficient car info, remember that the photo could still have been taken a year or two (or even more) AFTER the latest car model year seen. That very point once tripped me up on some investigation of my own.
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DR DanM's post reminded me that when i was in grad school there was a wonderful bakery in Oxford, OH. when we worked late on a production and staggered out of the theatre around 3:30am, we would all go to Beasley's Bakery, which kept its back door open so that the early morning bakers could arrive. We would go through the kitchen into the store to the little area with tables and have chocolate milk, coffee, and the unsold donuts and baked goods which they sold at half price. If we were really late, we could have fresh donuts. Ah . . .
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DR DanM's post reminded me that when i was in grad school there was a wonderful bakery in Oxford, OH. when we worked late on a production and staggered out of the theatre around 3:30am, we would all go to Beasley's Bakery, which kept its back door open so that the early morning bakers could arrive. We would go through the kitchen into the store to the little area with tables and have chocolate milk, coffee, and the unsold donuts and baked goods which they sold at half price. If we were really late, we could have fresh donuts. Ah . . .
I could almost taste it and smell the aromas!
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I guess I missed this, but great character actor and possessor of a great voice, John Stephenson, passed away on May 15. He was 91. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin (as was George Orson Welles).
You've seen him on countless sitcoms and dramas. But, if you're a Hanna-Barbera 1960s-1970s cartoon fan, his voice was in many of their productions. For example, his voice was that of Mr. Slate on THE FLINTSTONES.
If you were a fan of DRAGNET in the 1960s, his voice would follow George Fenneman's to tell you what the verdict/outcome was.
In more recent times, he voiced a character in the Acountemps ads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stephenson_(actor)
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TAO has rights of first refusal DR GEORGE....
Thanks, Jrand!! :D
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When I was in grad school, I loved the White Rose System, which I believe gave rise to the concept of the soup nazi on Seinfeld.
You wait on line, you have to have your items selected, if not, you are asked to step aside, have your money ready, not too much extra, then you move along as they make your order right in front of you, by the time you get to the register, everything's been bagged with napkins, etc.
Looks like an old diner car/mobile diner with chrome fixtures from the 1930s.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/white-rose-burgers-highland-park
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That's a great story DR ELMORE.
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Back from a bacon cheeseburger and no fries or onion rings and picking up no packages. Dear reader Jeanne has suggested some kind of cream for my shoulder - Whole Foods has it - I may drive over there a bit later and check it out. More disturbing than the shoulder is the weakness of the arm - related of course but it really bugs me.
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Good evening!
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Just trying to relax.
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So, I read an article on Playbill.com where you can Listen to Christina Aguilera's Haunting New Track From Finding Neverland's Celebrity Album! (Audio) (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/listen-to-christina-aguileras-haunting-new-track-from-finding-neverlands-celebrity-album-audio-349475) (with the lyrics written out as she's singing them). Here's the first verse:
There's no need for distance,
No need for touch,
No need for answers
'Cause I've heard enough
I just find a chair
Some place out of reach,
I enter the darkness
And claim my release....
Touch/enough? Reach/Release?? :-\
To quote Sondheim:
Where is style?
Where is skill?
Where is forethought?
Where's discretion of the heart?
Where's passion in the art?
Where's craft?
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A lull. ::)
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And on that note (A#), I'm leaving work.
Until later.
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So, I read an article on Playbill.com where you can Listen to Christina Aguilera's Haunting New Track From Finding Neverland's Celebrity Album! (Audio) (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/listen-to-christina-aguileras-haunting-new-track-from-finding-neverlands-celebrity-album-audio-349475) (with the lyrics written out as she's singing them). Here's the first verse:
There's no need for distance,
No need for touch,
No need for answers
'Cause I've heard enough
I just find a chair
Some place out of reach,
I enter the darkness
And claim my release....
Touch/enough? Reach/Release?? :-\
To quote Sondheim:
Where is style?
Where is skill?
Where is forethought?
Where's discretion of the heart?
Where's passion in the art?
Where's craft?
And yet there's one buffoon on one of those theater boards who will tell you that rhyming doesn't matter. Sure it doesn't.
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Went and bought some of the recommended by Jeanne cream and have applied it. Hoping it helps because this is really becoming tiresome and frankly it's making me nauseous, too.
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DR DanM's post reminded me that when i was in grad school there was a wonderful bakery in Oxford, OH. when we worked late on a production and staggered out of the theatre around 3:30am, we would all go to Beasley's Bakery, which kept its back door open so that the early morning bakers could arrive. We would go through the kitchen into the store to the little area with tables and have chocolate milk, coffee, and the unsold donuts and baked goods which they sold at half price. If we were really late, we could have fresh donuts. Ah . . .
I could almost taste it and smell the aromas!
I remember Mom making donuts. They were spectacular. Freshly glazed and still hot from the Dutch oven filled with oil.
Pardon me while I wipe away a bit of drool from the corner of my mouth.
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So, I read an article on Playbill.com where you can Listen to Christina Aguilera's Haunting New Track From Finding Neverland's Celebrity Album! (Audio) (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/listen-to-christina-aguileras-haunting-new-track-from-finding-neverlands-celebrity-album-audio-349475) (with the lyrics written out as she's singing them). Here's the first verse:
There's no need for distance,
No need for touch,
No need for answers
'Cause I've heard enough
I just find a chair
Some place out of reach,
I enter the darkness
And claim my release....
Touch/enough? Reach/Release?? :-\
To quote Sondheim:
Where is style?
Where is skill?
Where is forethought?
Where's discretion of the heart?
Where's passion in the art?
Where's craft?
And yet there's one buffoon on one of those theater boards who will tell you that rhyming doesn't matter. Sure it doesn't.
Well, it doesn't if you're deaf. Or dumb. (And I don't mean mute.)
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Watching a documentary on the McNally play "Corpus Christi." Interesting, but not very well made. It sags too many times.
It's also odd to me that they talk about coming to Texas to perform the play and the controversy that surrounded the performance. One of the local theaters staged it a few years back to no protest whatsoever.
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Too much work to do.
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Four!
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I wonder if BK has the start of a "frozen shoulder" going on. I went through that with my right one several years ago, and a couple of years after that ran its course and returned to normal, the same damned thing happened with my left shoulder! (I was just thinking about those a few days ago for some reason.)
Mine started as a soreness when I'd reach too far in one direction or another, and it just gets steadily worse...until it starts getting better, which can take a few months. Yes, months. Happily, the second one went through its process a little faster than the first. I'm trying to recall if this made the affected arm feel weaker than the other, and I believe it does do that, if only because your movement becomes so restricted because you'll yell in pain (not an exaggeration) if you do something to force the shoulder to go farther or do more than it wants to.
Quick return to normal shoulder VIBES for BK!
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Went and bought some of the recommended by Jeanne cream and have applied it. Hoping it helps because this is really becoming tiresome and frankly it's making me nauseous, too.
Pain will do that. Shoulder and arm vibes!!!
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DR DanM's post reminded me that when i was in grad school there was a wonderful bakery in Oxford, OH. when we worked late on a production and staggered out of the theatre around 3:30am, we would all go to Beasley's Bakery, which kept its back door open so that the early morning bakers could arrive. We would go through the kitchen into the store to the little area with tables and have chocolate milk, coffee, and the unsold donuts and baked goods which they sold at half price. If we were really late, we could have fresh donuts. Ah . . .
I could almost taste it and smell the aromas!
I remember Mom making donuts. They were spectacular. Freshly glazed and still hot from the Dutch oven filled with oil.
Pardon me while I wipe away a bit of drool from the corner of my mouth.
Yum!
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Favorite L.A.-area coffee shops:
Ships
Van De Kamp's
Copper Penny
Parasol
House of Pies
Ben Frank's
Norm's
Sambo's
Du-Par's
Delores Drive-In and Delores West
Tiny Naylor's
Beverly Hills Cafe (La Cienega just north of Wilshire)
Coffee Dan's (I came in on the tail end of its existence and the memories are disappointingly vague)
Oh my, this is depressing.
I'll stop there. If that many flowed off the top of my head, think of what I must be forgetting. And that just represents a few years in L.A. There are many in my other "home towns" whose names I won't necessarily remember. Okay, one of the all time great ones: Wolfie's, in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Take a look down this page showing jernts from around the country, which I happened on at random. Heartbreaking.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/edge_and_corner_wear/tags/coffee/
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Back from hearing Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, in recital. She's an opera super-star, and frankly, it was just an astounding experience.
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/didonato_zpsur2o4hpz.jpg)
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She got five standing ovations, and sang 3 encores, ending with "Over the Rainbow."
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She got five standing ovations, and sang 3 encores, ending with "Over the Rainbow."
Nothing better to hear music performed or sung live. The music goes right through you and resonates every bit of your body. The definition of thrilling.
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Lots of nervous energy today thinking about tomorrow's medical tests. Trying not to be nervous. But anything medical makes me anxious after what I've been through with the lymphoma.
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Here's Dr. Gernon, who was my surgeon twice, at the beginning of my cancer journey, and recently with the negative biopsy:
http://www.uahealth.com/physicians/thomas-j-gernon-md
He's one of the most down-to-earth surgeons I've ever met. What was an added bonus is that he saw me at my worst, so he could compare that to where I am now.
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Everyone I know that has had cancer gets nervous before tests. The level reduces over the years.
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I have been remiss in not offering
~ ~ ~ ULTIMATE STRENGTH MEDICAL VIBES ~ ~ ~ to DR Dan M tomorrow for his tests.
We will all be with you in thought and prayer!!!!
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I have been remiss in not offering
~ ~ ~ ULTIMATE STRENGTH MEDICAL VIBES ~ ~ ~ to DR Dan M tomorrow for his tests.
We will all be with you in thought and prayer!!!!
Thank you, that means a lot!
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Everyone I know that has had cancer gets nervous before tests. The level reduces over the years.
I've become sensitive to many things since cancer became part of my experience. Some foods no longer taste good to me. I still have a sweet tooth, but not as much. I have candy here that I bought months ago and its still here unopened or hardly touched. Sometimes things are too salty. I hardly salt food that much any more.
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Watching stuff and trying to relax and not think about the shoulder - not sure if the cream is working - three times a day, so I'll do it again before sleep.
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More vibes for Dan M tomorrow.
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I've started watching a BBC mini-series called Dancing on the Edge. It's about a black jazz band that becomes a sensation in England back in the '20s. It's the same time as the jazz band story that was in Downton Abbey in season 4, but this one seems to be headed to become a mystery.
Love the music. And a great cast with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jacqueline Bisset and John Goodman among others.
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More vibes for Dan M tomorrow.
Thanks John!
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I wonder if BK has the start of a "frozen shoulder" going on. I went through that with my right one several years ago, and a couple of years after that ran its course and returned to normal, the same damned thing happened with my left shoulder! (I was just thinking about those a few days ago for some reason.)
Mine started as a soreness when I'd reach too far in one direction or another, and it just gets steadily worse...until it starts getting better, which can take a few months. Yes, months. Happily, the second one went through its process a little faster than the first. I'm trying to recall if this made the affected arm feel weaker than the other, and I believe it does do that, if only because your movement becomes so restricted because you'll yell in pain (not an exaggeration) if you do something to force the shoulder to go farther or do more than it wants to.
Quick return to normal shoulder VIBES for BK!
~~~Ditto!!~~~
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I have been remiss in not offering
~ ~ ~ ULTIMATE STRENGTH MEDICAL VIBES ~ ~ ~ to DR Dan M tomorrow for his tests.
We will all be with you in thought and prayer!!!!
~~~Ditto, Two!!~~~
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Finished with my viewing and am shocked that we are on page four. This will NOT do, but apparently will do.
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I'd say this will become our new all-time lowest posting day unless we have a turn of events.
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I'm sorry. I will do what I can to post.
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The pre-surgery eye drops has made my vision very blurry.
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It doesn't help that the site is slow tonight.
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It could just be my computer.
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What is the lowest posting day?
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I thought it was below 100.
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Don't expect quality.
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Dan must have had an early bedtime before his tests.
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Five
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Since I have no idea how far I need to run...........
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I guess I will just keep running.
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I can't focus my right eye.
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I am looking through the same gauze that they used for Lucille Ball's close-ups in MAME.
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There is like a thirty second delay after I hit post.
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Probably just my laptop.
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It would be nice if I had some help here tonight!
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I didn't leave the house today, because I was afraid to drive.
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At least, that gives me an excuse for my driving.
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Gee, maybe I should drive cross-country.
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I don't know if there is a hyphen in cross country
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Well, this is driving me crazy. I will see you when I can see you!
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Yay, TCB!
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That's for getting to Page Five, not your eye problems.
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~~~Better Eye Sight Vibes for TCB!!~~~
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It doesn't help that the site is slow tonight.
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I gave up on it and went to sleep. Alas, I am awake again.
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I hope not for long.
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I didn't leave the house today, because I was afraid to drive.
. Wise decision.
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~~~Sleep Vibes for Jane!!~~~
8)
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;)
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Eye vibes fot TCB!
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'night
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Yesterday, I got a postal card from my ex-boyfriend...from Hawaii!
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We still keep in contact even though it's been more than 10 years since we broke up.
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He loves to travel to Hawaii and had gone several times.
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One time, he even called me on his friend's cell phone and we spoke for about a half hour.
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That was a nice chat. :)
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And now...
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...since we're so close...
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PAGE SIX HAWAIIAN DANCE!!
(http://www.otrcat.com/z/Hawaii-Postcard-1.jpg)