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Title: WAXY BUILDUP
Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 12:32:22 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes had waxy buildup, and now it is time for you to post until the waxy cows come home.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 12:33:39 AM: And the word of the day is: ATRABILIOUS!
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Post by: Ben on August 10, 2015, 01:44:25 AM: Morning all.

That is all.
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Post by: FJL on August 10, 2015, 02:42:09 AM: Good morning.
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Post by: FJL on August 10, 2015, 02:47:28 AM: TOD:

I went to summer camp regularly from age 5 until I was 13. (I started to work during the summers as soon as it was OK to do so, when i was 14.) I tended to really like the summer camp experience when I went for three weeks at a time, not as reliably when I went for the whole eight weeks, which I did a couple of times.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:11:50 AM: Good morning, all! I slept quite well, and I will be off to Columbia in an hour and a half.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:12:22 AM: Never went to summer camp.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:14:03 AM: I finally did hear from my friend Andrea, who wanted me to join her for drinks at the Algonquin. I was back to work on my commission and turned her down. I am sorry that I didn't get to spend more time with her.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:14:31 AM: Pondering breakfast. I do need more coffee.
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Post by: singdaw on August 10, 2015, 05:17:41 AM: I never went away to camp.

I don't think I would have enjoyed it.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:17:52 AM: DR cillaliz, I saw this, had a really big laugh, and thought of you!
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Post by: Kerry on August 10, 2015, 05:25:26 AM: Here we are at Monday again already-- how did THAT happen?!?!?!
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Post by: Laura on August 10, 2015, 05:58:31 AM: Good morning.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 10, 2015, 06:27:55 AM: Good morning, all.

From HOME. Home, Sweet Home.

COFFEE!!!
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Post by: Druxy on August 10, 2015, 06:57:46 AM: TOD:

I never went to summer camp.

We had a summer home in Soap Lake, WA, and spent every June-August there.
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Post by: Druxy on August 10, 2015, 06:59:40 AM: We watched DANNY COLLINS yesterday.

It's a very likable movie; Al Pacino's best performance in years.

The 3rd act slowed down a bit, but the overall writing was excellent.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 10, 2015, 07:22:58 AM: I never saw Miracle Mile. This will be rectified posthaste.

So, let's see. 1988.

It was to be my last full year in L.A. I was living in West Hollywood, I was in that part of town (Wilshire/Fairfax) as much or more than I'd ever been, and I don't even remember hearing about the movie Miracle Mile then. Amazing.

In 1988 the Orbach's building contained an indoor flea market of sorts on the ground floor, which I think was all new stuff (typical flea market goods) except for a used record dealer from whom I bought a few things.

I also remember my last time in the May Company around then, buying a pair of sneakers.

The Pan Pacific Auditorium closed as I was moving to L.A. so I was never in there. I only went to a couple of second run movies in that little theater there, which could have been as late as 1988.

BTW, based on a memory of who I was with on a particular occasion, I can state that I ate in Johnnie's Coffee Shop as late as 1975. Maybe even 1976.

So, my company's move to Danbury took place over Memorial Day weekend in 1989, and since most of us had vacated wherever we'd been living, they put us up in hotels for the last week of May. I chose the Holiday Inn in Hollywood, and it was great staying there. I had a nice high view looking out over L.A. One afternoon that week there was some shocking news on all the radio and TV stations, and I stood at the window in my room, watching the smoke rising from the remains of the Pan Pacific Auditorium.
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Post by: Amy on August 10, 2015, 07:25:31 AM: TOD:
I loved camp!! I couldn't wait to get there and hated to leave. The only Summer camp I went to was for two weeks as a family, which was very fun. It was called Echo Lake Camp. But mostly I went to Jewish camp by myself. And it wasn't in the Summer. There were one-week Winter camps that I went to a few times, and several weekend-long "convention" camps. Summer camp was for two weeks, was more expensive, and only my oldest sister got to go. I had to save up my allowance (which was liked $1.00 a week) to pay for camp myself. My Dad has since expressed regret at being so stingy throughout our childhoods. I mean he always wanted me to be more Jewish, so why he discouraged me from going to these camps, I'll never know. Other kids said their parents "made" them go to camp. I wished I had those parent.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 07:40:22 AM: Good morning, all.

A veritable tsunami of vibes for all.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 07:41:02 AM: TOD:

I went to a day camp twice, not consecutive years.

I enjoyed the swimming, not much else.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 10, 2015, 08:06:37 AM: TOD:

A couple of week-long church-sponsored camps in the early 1960s. We lived in Fort Lauderdale and the camp was just outside of Ocala near Silver Springs. I remember experiencing my first ever bout of homesickness the first time, which fortunately only lasted half the week. The second time, I was totally up for it. I think these were 1961 and 1963. I guess I liked it well enough then, but I've never really been any kind of a camper, either in the "summer camp" sense or any other sense.
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 10, 2015, 08:19:35 AM: I did not ever attend a summer camp - but I saw them in the movies.
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 10, 2015, 08:20:17 AM: I had to do a BIT of shopping this morning. Tonight we block Act II: Scene Two, and blocking will be finished.

Tomorrow night we do Act Two....I am going to try it without my book, I think.....
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 10, 2015, 08:24:38 AM: My internet has been spotty today.

Yesterday my sister decided that Dad had too much furniture in his room, so she wanted to get rid of the entertainment center and put his bookcase that had been in his closet out there.

I didn't want to throw the entertainment center out because it is a nice piece of furniture, so I put it in my room. There really wasn't a space for it, so it is kind of in the way.....but after the play has ended, I will empty the old computer desk I have....and put the new furniture there.....but until then....it's like when the Ricardos moved in with the Mertzes.

(https://41.media.tumblr.com/5b6e5a3b40d414083b2c2994921f6f6c/tumblr_inline_nrkx0qmuSo1rvl0vd_540.jpg)
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Post by: Elan on August 10, 2015, 08:50:28 AM: Hey, everyone! Hope you had great weekends.

TOD: I went to the same summer day camp (Eagle Country Day Camp, in Rockland County) for six years straight, and have extremely fond memories. Swimming, ballplaying, horrible ice cream sandwich cookies, and the cheesiest productions of "Mary Poppins," "My Fair Lady," "Peter Pan," and "Sound of Music" ever imagined. I actually ran into the wonderful woman who directed those shows some 25 years after the fact, and we had a lovely conversation about days gone by.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 09:56:08 AM: I'm up, I'm up - the helper didn't come by last night, so she's coming shortly.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 09:57:14 AM: The Annette house is tented and there is a big truck that says Environmental Services who just dropped off what looks like a huge garbage bin. I don't think the tent is for termites - do they tent houses before demolishing them?
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 10:03:47 AM: Quote from: Jrand64 on August 10, 2015, 08:24:38 AM
My internet has been spotty today.

Yesterday my sister decided that Dad had too much furniture in his room, so she wanted to get rid of the entertainment center and put his bookcase that had been in his closet out there.

I didn't want to throw the entertainment center out because it is a nice piece of furniture, so I put it in my room. There really wasn't a space for it, so it is kind of in the way.....but after the play has ended, I will empty the old computer desk I have....and put the new furniture there.....but until then....it's like when the Ricardos moved in with the Mertzes.

(https://41.media.tumblr.com/5b6e5a3b40d414083b2c2994921f6f6c/tumblr_inline_nrkx0qmuSo1rvl0vd_540.jpg)

Oy!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 10:06:31 AM: Back from Columbia. My favorite library assistant is no longer there. He has graduated and moved on. Luckily, I like the other assistants and librarians very much.

Today, I answered a couple of questions for Howard Pollack and looked at a lot of Playbills and other programs, press releases, and the early librettos.

I must finish my commission today.
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Post by: Laura on August 10, 2015, 10:10:12 AM: Quote from: bk on August 10, 2015, 09:57:14 AM
The Annette house is tented and there is a big truck that says Environmental Services who just dropped off what looks like a huge garbage bin. I don't think the tent is for termites - do they tent houses before demolishing them?

Asbestos? Hoarders?
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 11:01:48 AM: Page one? Really?
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 11:01:57 AM: Page two? Really?
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 10, 2015, 11:08:14 AM: Hmmm.....tenting is not required for selling/buying a house in California....but I could find no other reason for it than to fumigate for termites and/or bedbugs. Maybe the house isn't going to be demolished after all.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 11:16:18 AM: Would someone like to come do my work for me?
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 11:16:41 AM: I'll say please and thank you.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 11:17:01 AM: It just feels too Monday like to concentrate today.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 11:36:14 AM: I'll go eat something in a little while.
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:40:25 AM: Quote from: Kerry on August 10, 2015, 05:25:26 AM
Here we are at Monday again already-- how did THAT happen?!?!?!

I hate it when that happens. :P
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:40:32 AM: ;)
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Post by: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 01:09:46 PM: Monday afternoon greetings! I had an appointment with my cardiologist to get the results of my echocardiogram, which showed no major valve problems in my heart. But he thinks there may be valve problems in the veins in my left leg, so Friday I'm going back for a scan of that.

Went from there directly to a meeting that turned into lunch with the incoming AAUW president and our pinch-hitting treasurers and from there to Kroger.
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Post by: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 01:10:40 PM: Quote from: Laura on August 10, 2015, 10:10:12 AM
Quote from: bk on August 10, 2015, 09:57:14 AM
The Annette house is tented and there is a big truck that says Environmental Services who just dropped off what looks like a huge garbage bin. I don't think the tent is for termites - do they tent houses before demolishing them?

Asbestos? Hoarders?

E.T.?
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 10, 2015, 01:17:28 PM: Friday Scan vibes for DR GINNY.

I am now off to said rehearsal.
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Post by: Jane on August 10, 2015, 01:19:26 PM: SCAN VIBES FOR DR GINNY!
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Post by: Jane on August 10, 2015, 01:32:20 PM: The first time I went to camp I went for a week with my older siblings. I think I was around 6. I loved it & was not homesick at all. I often went to overnight camps, the longest was for the entire summer and a friend went with me. My sister was in the oldest camp group and my brother was a junior counselor. This was the last summer my siblings went to camp and my parents decided I would go to day camp from then on. I preferred overnight camp but day camp was fun too. The last year I went I was a junior counselor.

Overnight camps had more sports and horseback riding, except for the one I went to at a school. I didn't enjoy that one as much and they didn't have any swimming. One camp included kayaking down a river with a stop to meet Fury. I even got his autograph which I eventually lost.
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Post by: Jane on August 10, 2015, 01:35:40 PM: My first headstand was at the best overnight, all summer camp. I wish I remembered the name. I should ask my brother.

Most of the camps had a day for races and team competitions. Somehow I always jumped higher & farther, swam faster & dove better during these competitions and won a few ribbons. I needed to do a headstand and had never done one. My sister told me what to do, I went out there & had the best headstand :)
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 01:40:40 PM: Quote from: Jrand64 on August 10, 2015, 01:17:28 PM
Friday Scan vibes for DR GINNY.

~~~Ditto!!~~~
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 01:41:16 PM: Quote from: Jrand64 on August 10, 2015, 01:17:28 PM
I am now off to said rehearsal.

Break Legs!
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 01:57:53 PM: On closer inspection, the Annette house isn't tented - there'a a plastic sheet covering the entire front of the house.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 01:58:17 PM: Back from an egg, cheese and onion breakfast burrito and fruit and picking up no packages.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 02:10:51 PM: I've said yes to the Ohio speaking gig. i guess i need to begin my indiegogo Fund My Ohio Visit!
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Post by: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 02:20:36 PM: Thanks for the scan vibes for Friday.
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Post by: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 02:20:57 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 02:10:51 PM
I've said yes to the Ohio speaking gig. i guess i need to begin my indiegogo Fund My Ohio Visit!

YAY!!!
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Post by: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 02:23:39 PM: TOD - I tried day camp that was scheduled, as I recall, for Thursday and Friday of one week and Monday-Wednesday the next. I hated it so much Mom didn't make me go back after the weekend.
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 02:32:03 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 02:10:51 PM
I've said yes to the Ohio speaking gig. i guess i need to begin my indiegogo Fund My Ohio Visit!

Cool! Hope you enjoy it. :)
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 03:21:34 PM: Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:08:34 PM: I wondered the same thing about five hours ago.

I have been fighting with that jerk Yap on Cast Recordings.
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Post by: Druxy on August 10, 2015, 04:20:54 PM: It's 6:16 here in Austin, and I am awaiting a phone call from Australia in about 14 minutes.

A radio show wants to talk about my Dinah Shore bipgraphy.

The irony is that I have yet to see the finished book. My author copies have not arrived yet.

It would have been nice if I could have read the book before the interview.

Now, if I can only remember what I wrote.

::)
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Post by: Jane on August 10, 2015, 04:38:13 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 02:10:51 PM
I've said yes to the Ohio speaking gig. i guess i need to begin my indiegogo Fund My Ohio Visit!

I think it is great you said yes. Will they pay much of your expenses?
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 04:38:55 PM: Back from a jog. At the two-thirds point coming south on Laurel Canyon some girl shouts out my name, so I have to actually stop - she says "Do you remember me?" Of course I have no idea but say, "I think so." She says, "Kimberly!" Now, a last name might have actually helped me, but noooo. So, she wants to talk about some music thing she's involved in - I gave her my number and hopefully when she calls she'll say her last name.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:48:56 PM: Page three?
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:49:06 PM: Nope.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 04:49:27 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:08:34 PM
I wondered the same thing about five hours ago.

I have been fighting with that jerk Yap on Cast Recordings.
Can hardly wait to read that tomorrow.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:49:41 PM: !!! PAGE 3 !!!
And about time!
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 04:49:54 PM: Scan vibes for DR Ginny.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:51:05 PM: Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 04:49:27 PM
Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 04:08:34 PM
I wondered the same thing about five hours ago.

I have been fighting with that jerk Yap on Cast Recordings.
Can hardly wait to read that tomorrow.

You correct something that little creep says, and he accuses you of a myriad of things. I posted that if he were any dumber, we'd have to water him.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 04:59:46 PM: John Yap is one of the biggest idiots ever. He thinks he knows everything there is to know about making recordings when, in fact he knows very, very little. Now, let's see how long it takes for our stalker to send Mr. Yap that. My guess is, if they're on now, within five minutes. Good job.

What did you correct him on, elmore, and what did he accuse you of?
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 05:00:50 PM: Further Annette house report. They seem to have stripped away all the stucco on the front of the house, exposing the wood frame and the insulation - maybe they are just redoing that stuff - wouldn't that be a nice change of pace, but I remain skeptical.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:21:11 PM: Quote from: bk on August 10, 2015, 04:59:46 PM
John Yap is one of the biggest idiots ever. He thinks he knows everything there is to know about making recordings when, in fact he knows very, very little. Now, let's see how long it takes for our stalker to send Mr. Yap that. My guess is, if they're on now, within five minutes. Good job.

What did you correct him on, elmore, and what did he accuse you of?

He has a complete recording of SHOW BOAT that he claimed was the 1946 revised version. Well, it sort of is and sort of isn't because it's missing the big dance numbers in Acts One and Two for Helen Tamiris' choreography and it cuts the character of Kim, the daughter, who sang in 1946 "Nobody Else But Me."

What he recorded was the Rodgers & Hammerstein rental package based on the 1946 revival. That's fine, and i actually think it's a pretty good recording, but it is not what he claims it is. I posted that if he'd included "Nobody else But Me" where it belonged, and not as an appendix, he'd have a good facsimile of the 1946 version.

Well, then he went ballistic and started raving that he was sick of me knocking his recordings! I didn't knock it, but then I went ballistic and pointed out that it was one more example of his lousy research and, thanks to his poor pre-recording research, his complete GREASE and KISS ME KATE recordings had the cleaned up high school lyrics and not the original Broadway ones.

Then I told him that Rodgers & Hammerstein had spoken to me about editing a complete SHOW BOAT edition last year. I am sorry that job fell through.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:28:57 PM: So, I've got four possible titles for my lecture in October:
Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim?
The Pulitzer, Steve, and Me
Stephen Sondheim: the Demon Barber of Broadway
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Stephen Sondheim
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Post by: KevinH on August 10, 2015, 05:32:48 PM: Page 3?
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Post by: KevinH on August 10, 2015, 05:33:49 PM: Congrats on the speaking engagement, DR elmore!
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Post by: KevinH on August 10, 2015, 05:35:03 PM: Quote from: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 01:10:40 PM
Quote from: Laura on August 10, 2015, 10:10:12 AM
Quote from: bk on August 10, 2015, 09:57:14 AM
The Annette house is tented and there is a big truck that says Environmental Services who just dropped off what looks like a huge garbage bin. I don't think the tent is for termites - do they tent houses before demolishing them?

Asbestos? Hoarders?

E.T.?

Funny, DR Ginny!
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Post by: KevinH on August 10, 2015, 05:36:31 PM: Scan vibes for DR Ginny.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:45:20 PM: And it looks as though the moderators pulled the entire SHOW BOAT thread.

and i am off to bed.
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Post by: vixmom on August 10, 2015, 06:26:52 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:28:57 PM
So, I've got four possible titles for my lecture in October:
Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim?
The Pulitzer, Steve, and Me
Stephen Sondheim: the Demon Barber of Broadway
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Stephen Sondheim

I like them all but vote for Number 2 or number 1
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Post by: vixmom on August 10, 2015, 06:27:45 PM: Scan vibes to Ginny
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Post by: vixmom on August 10, 2015, 06:27:55 PM: Health vibes for everyone
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Post by: vixmom on August 10, 2015, 06:28:11 PM: When is the trip Elmore?
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 06:29:01 PM: I believe Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim was the original title for Sleuth.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 06:30:10 PM: The author denies it, however, so perhaps that's just another urban myth.
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 06:36:34 PM: Quote from: vixmom on August 10, 2015, 06:26:52 PM
Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:28:57 PM
So, I've got four possible titles for my lecture in October:
Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim?
The Pulitzer, Steve, and Me
Stephen Sondheim: the Demon Barber of Broadway
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Stephen Sondheim

I like them all but vote for Number 2 or number 1

I agree with Vixmom, but specifically the second first, then the first second.

If you're taking votes.

:)
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 06:49:30 PM: And on that note (F-natural), I'm leaving work. Tonight at 7:00, Theater Artists Olympia is having a read-through of the revised version of "The HEAD! That Wouldn't DIE!" called "The HEAD!! That Wouldn't DIE!! Redux!" The musicians have been rehearsing the songs but this'll be the first time that it's all read/performed together. It's gonna be great!

Be back later!
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Post by: Ginny on August 10, 2015, 07:10:57 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 05:28:57 PM
So, I've got four possible titles for my lecture in October:
Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim?
The Pulitzer, Steve, and Me
Stephen Sondheim: the Demon Barber of Broadway
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Stephen Sondheim

Personally, I like the last one.

But that's just me...
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Post by: Jane on August 10, 2015, 07:11:48 PM: Quote from: bk on August 10, 2015, 04:38:55 PM
Back from a jog. At the two-thirds point coming south on Laurel Canyon some girl shouts out my name, so I have to actually stop - she says "Do you remember me?" Of course I have no idea but say, "I think so." She says, "Kimberly!" Now, a last name might have actually helped me, but noooo. So, she wants to talk about some music thing she's involved in - I gave her my number and hopefully when she calls she'll say her last name.

Or caller ID will.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 07:38:50 PM: Quote from: bk on August 10, 2015, 06:29:01 PM
I believe Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim was the original title for Sleuth.

I think that's why I thought of it.

I cannot get to sleep.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 10, 2015, 07:47:08 PM: DR vixmom, travel dates are not set yet, and neither us the speaking night. It will be Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, the week of Oct. 6.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:22:42 PM: I guess I don't have time to read the posts.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:23:13 PM: I need to mount this pony....
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:23:53 PM: ...and get out of Dodge.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:24:33 PM: I went to camp
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:25:47 PM: Page 4
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:26:13 PM: Page 4? Really?
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:26:47 PM: Camp was for a week
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:27:14 PM: But it seemed like a year.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:28:07 PM: It was Camp Seymour
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:28:57 PM: Sponsored by the YMCA.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:30:39 PM: I had to sell a hell of a lot of toffee peanuts to go to camp
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:31:42 PM: I really wanted to go because my "best" friend was going.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:32:09 PM: The problem was he was my best friend.
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Post by: bk on August 10, 2015, 09:32:34 PM: Finished with my viewing and must ask the following question: Page four? Really?
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:32:40 PM: But I was not his best friend.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:33:02 PM: He was not rude about it.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:33:42 PM: But once we got to camp, he wanted to make new friends.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:34:14 PM: Not hang out with me.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:34:49 PM: So I found myself at a camp full of strangers
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:35:33 PM: I was not a kid who made friends easily.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:36:27 PM: I was a nerd, a geek, a dweeb.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:37:33 PM: Did I mention dork?
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:40:05 PM: The only highlight was that my cabin counselor was the son of my mother's cousin.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:40:48 PM: I had only met him once before, so it wasn't like we were close.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:43:03 PM: And, of course he was much older than me.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:43:51 PM: I hated being at camp.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:44:13 PM: I was so homesick.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:45:09 PM: And even the other dorks in my cabin did not want to be friends with me.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:45:46 PM: My mother wrote me every day.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:46:32 PM: That probably made my homesickness worse.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:47:13 PM: I survived camp, of course.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:50:21 PM: But my best friend and I were no longer "friends."
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:51:12 PM: Not enemies, just no longer close.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:51:47 PM: One more.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:52:35 PM: Five
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:56:19 PM: Hopefully not another page of TCB
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:57:01 PM: I have always been confused about friendship.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:58:32 PM: I just assumed that if they were my best (read: only) friend
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM: I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 09:59:08 PM: Then I was automatically their best friend.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:00:11 PM: Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM
I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

I definitely am better at it now, but only slightly.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:00:15 PM: I think that was one of the reasons I didn't like camp, though since it was a day camp, I could go home at night.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:01:41 PM: But I only recently learned the lesson of best friendship.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:03:14 PM: I do better with friends on the internet.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:03:49 PM: Maybe it is preferable not to meet me in person!
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:05:18 PM: I will have to remember that when I meet someone online.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:06:09 PM: Don't let anybody meet me!
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:06:15 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:00:11 PM
Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM
I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

I definitely am better at it now, but only slightly.

I am, too. And perhaps I'm better at it online as well.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:07:24 PM: Most of my friends are theater friends.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:07:31 PM: Watching a movie called Mao's Last Dancer. Based on a true story. Enjoying the dancing. The rest seems a little too black and white.
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:09:12 PM: Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:06:15 PM
Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:00:11 PM
Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 09:58:36 PM
I understand your not being able to make friends easily, TCB. I didn't really have any myself when I was a kid. That seemed to come when I got to college.

I definitely am better at it now, but only slightly.

I am, too. And perhaps I'm better at it online as well.

That is why you and I are now "best" friends, John! ;)
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:10:01 PM: Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:07:31 PM
Watching a movie called Mao's Last Dancer. Based on a true story. Enjoying the dancing. The rest seems a little too black and white.

Is this a film from China?
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:16:13 PM: Oh, oh. I have scared away my best friend!
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:18:18 PM: Pill popping time!
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Post by: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:19:17 PM: G'night!
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:21:28 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:10:01 PM
Quote from: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:07:31 PM
Watching a movie called Mao's Last Dancer. Based on a true story. Enjoying the dancing. The rest seems a little too black and white.

Is this a film from China?

It's from Bruce Beresford, who made Driving Miss Daisy and some other good movies. But this one is just a little too pat. Still it works as a feel-good film.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:25:50 PM: You don't need slow motion or fancy film techniques to capture ballet on film. Too bad that was done here.
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Post by: John G. on August 10, 2015, 10:26:08 PM: Off to bed. G'night, all.
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:07:36 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 10, 2015, 10:07:24 PM
Most of my friends are theater friends.

Most of mine are, too. My friend Margo is my best friend, although I am only one of her best friends. She and her friends Marsha and Laurie have known each other for more than 30 years, and I've only known Margo for probably around 20 years (we met working in the same building at the library).
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:08:02 PM: I have some good friends, but not otherwise very close friends...but that's okay. :)
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:22:03 PM: As for the Topic of the Day:

I've only once gone to a summer camp, and I did NOT have a good experience. I don't remember exactly when it was (or very much about the experience, itself), but it was when we lived in Ft. Carson, Colorado, so I was between the ages of seven and ten.
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:24:29 PM: It was a weekend camp in a nearby town and we had to get from the kid-drop-off point to where we were staying on horseback. Neither my sister nor I had ever ridden a horse. I have no idea if any of the other kids had any horse-riding experience. I was kind of scared. I was able to get on the horse, but on the way to the camp site, we went under some trees with low branches and I fell off. I don't remember the adults who were in control being very sympathetic to my plight.
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:26:53 PM: Anyway, the only other events that I can remember are:

1) When we got to where we were staying, my horse went directly into a little pond to get some water (like all the other horses) and I couldn't get it out of the pond so that I could get off the horse without getting wet. I eventually just jumped off. I fell into the water, got wet, and the horse stepped on my wrist! :o I don't remember the adults being too sympathetic about this, either, telling me to "quit your bawlin'." :P
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:27:53 PM: 2) Another memory is that we all slept in one big room on a wooden floor in our sleeping bags. I have no memory of individual rooms, at all.

3) When it was time to leave, my sister and I got to ride the jeep back. I think a couple of kids had to ride the jeep out there because there might not have been enough horses for all us kids, but I could've just made that part up. But I do remember riding the jeep back.

And that's pretty much it. I have no idea what we did the entire weekend other than these snippets of my memory.

Weird, huh?
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:31:17 PM: PAGE SIX RUNNING HORSES DANCE!!

(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2008/121/5/6/Running_horse__animation_by_Twilight_Veil.gif)
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:38:30 PM: This is a cool .gif:

(http://blog.ninapaley.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Horse2_invertedTSP_modBW.gif)
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Post by: George on August 10, 2015, 11:38:48 PM: Just had to share.