Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on February 09, 2016, 01:06:46 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of Teddy, and now it is time for you to post until the sad cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SAGACITY!
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First after BK?
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Been a long time since that happened!
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BK - I'm so sorry to hear about Teddy's passing.
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What a lovely tribute to Teddy in today's notes.
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good morning to all
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a very nice tribute to Teddy
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It doesn't say how bk met Teddy. Was that in the Kritzerland trilogy, and I just forgot?
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Good morning, all.
What a day yesterday. And I had a beaut of a crazy (very typically themed) dream early this morning, from which I was perfectly happy to awaken so I could go out and push the snow blower around.
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Good morning, all! I loved seeing the photos of Teddy! That was indeed a loverly tribute, BK.
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Probably have to go out later and do a touch-up. And then again tomorrow morning since we're supposed to get another inch or so tonight. What a life.
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Today I must plant my arse back on the keyboard bench.
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And leave it there for a while.
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My dreams were, once again, all over the place. I do remember that I had a long dream about Connie Stubbs, a classmate with whom I went through grades 1-12. I was in a feedback session to a courtroom play directed by Marcia Milgrim Ddge, and Connie showed up. Then we went for coffee on Amsterdam Avenue.
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Today, I will leave here around noon and head off to the afternoon dress rehearsal for Cabin in the Sky.
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My friend Bruce Pomahac is in town, and I look forward to seeing him this afternoon. We've talked several times since he retired and moved to Milwaukee last June, but I haven't seen him since them. He's one of my best friends, and I do miss him.
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More coffee!
I am debating how much time I have to do laundry before I leave this morning.
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It was nice to meet Mr. Pomahac last year.
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Very nice to see some photos of Teddy.
A very nice tribute.
Forty-seven years. Incredible.
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I have to get some ZORBA songs into my fingers for some upcoming auditions. That will be enjoyable. They're doing it this summer at this Connecticut theater I indirectly dreamed about a week or two ago. Oddly, they called me to play these auditions the day following that dream. Ain't that something?
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Nice Teddy Tribute and photos in the notes. Continued vibes for MR BK & all the other Teddy-ites.
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Nice Richard Sherman blurb for Mr. Bronstein's book....or rather the book ABOUT Mr. Bronstein.
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Snow continues today.....but not a lot of accumulation....very cold.
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I am NOT an exotic cheese person.....I do not like anything with holes in it or anything that is a strange color.
I eat Kraft American.....and Velveeta for cooking.....
Yes, I am from Indiana.
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Good morning, all.
Moving tribute to Teddy in the notes, BK.
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My friend Bruce Pomahac is in town, and I look forward to seeing him this afternoon. We've talked several times since he retired and moved to Milwaukee last June, but I haven't seen him since them. He's one of my best friends, and I do miss him.
I first heard Bruce's name when I was living in Middletown, Ohio, and I had the chance to interview Josh Logan, who was coming to Miami U. Bruce and Logan were working on a musical version of Huck Finn.
So, you see, Elmore, somehow all roads lead back to Middletown-- at least for a minute.
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I am a great cheese eater, not necessarily a broad cheese lover. I'll try anything but my tastes were largely set in childhood: give me any type of Swiss or Colby. Save the aged cheddar soup for grilled cheese, blue cheese in a salad or on a burger, Parmesan on pasta. The only newer cheese (new to me, that is) I've really fallen for is the triple creme from France.
I do not eat pasteurized processed cheese food, except in queso.
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Bruce, I'm so sorry for your loss.
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BK,
Condolences on the loss of your friend.
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TOD:
Monterey jack
cheddar (not too sharp)
gouda
brie
anything smoked
I hate blue cheese and swiss cheese. My sister once pointed out to me that swiss cheese smells like feet. And it does.
Mark loves cold hard cheese, but hates melted cheese. What sane person doesn't love melted cheese?!
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Tuesday morning greetings! We are snowed in a little bit this morning, but at least Mary Linda made it to work and Rob made it home. I am hoping for a better day today than yesterday. In addition to my health concerns, yesterday I received a recall notice on my car (the airbag issue) and had a meltdown over some financial dealings for Mom. My cough kept waking me up and I finally moved to my recliner at 1:45 this morning and slept there until about 8am.
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BK, I loved your tribute to Teddy. Be kind to yourself today.
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TOD:
What sane person doesn't love melted cheese?!
What sane person doesn't love cheese that smells like feet?! :D
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Tuesday morning greetings! We are snowed in a little bit this morning, but at least Mary Linda made it to work and Rob made it home. I am hoping for a better day today than yesterday. In addition to my health concerns, yesterday I received a recall notice on my car (the airbag issue) and had a meltdown over some financial dealings for Mom. My cough kept waking me up and I finally moved to my recliner at 1:45 this morning and slept there until about 8am.
Oy! I hope today goes much better for you.
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Thank you, DR Elmore!
Good news about the commission you received! Sorry I was so self-absorbed yesterday to mention it.
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I think today's notes should be read at my computer and not on my little tablet. I shall do so later.
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DR TCB I don't really enjoy watching movies on a ship.
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It is better than watching on a plane.
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DR Ginny you really should sleep elevated until this cough clears up. Are you completely covering your mouth and nose before going outside?
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Good morning all:
Bk, that was such touching tribute to your friend Teddy. May he rest in peace. I will say a pray for him.
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MY BROADWAY QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Close your eyes and let music set you free".
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
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TOD:
What sane person doesn't love melted cheese?!
What sane person doesn't love cheese that smells like feet?! :D
And I think cumin smells like an unwashed armpit. Who doesn't love that in food? :)
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Vibes and hugs for Ginny.
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DR Ginny you really should sleep elevated until this cough clears up. Are you compleyely covering your mouth andnose before going outside?
Thanks, Nurse Jane! Yes, I slept much better sitting up, although I really don't like sleeping on my back. As for covering my nose and mouth outside? I don't go outside that much, especially on days like today.
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Vibes and hugs for Ginny.
Thanks, DR John G, from Middletown, OH - the center of the universe ;)
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I'm not going in the garage right now, either. Fr. Richard is out there burning last year's Palm Sunday palms to make ashes for tomorrow and I'm avoiding the smoke.
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Vibes for feeling better and all the rest of that, DR Ginny!
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Vibes for feeling better and all the rest of that, DR Ginny!
Thanks, DR ChasSmith!
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I am off to rehearsal.
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SAGACITY;
Having or showing understanding and the ability to make good judgments.
I love looking up and learning new words. Thanks BK for the Word of the Day!!!
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Vibes and hugs for Ginny.
Thanks, DR John G, from Middletown, OH - the center of the universe ;)
I no longer doubt this at all.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours, I think.
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Just before I went to bed, the second blurb arrived. I'll post it in a few minutes.
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I met Teddy thanks to actors Michael Burns. After we did the Young Love pilot for the Doris Day company, he told me that's who had to cut my hair. I went and never went anywhere else again, always Teddy.
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DR Ginny you really should sleep elevated until this cough clears up. Are you completely covering your mouth and nose before going outside?
Thanks, Nurse Jane! Yes, I slept much better sitting up, although I really don't like sleeping on my back. As for covering my nose and mouth outside? I don't go outside that much, especially on days like today.
During the cold temperatures, with a cough that won't go away, it is essential to cover up even if you are going from the door to the car. Trust me, I know only too well.
VIBES THIS GOES AWAY SOON!
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I have now read the very moving tribute to Teddy.
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For as long as I could remember, my mother had the same hairdresser. In fact, he did my hair for my wedding. I wish I had kept in touch with him after my mother passed away.
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Final two blurbs are in and they're wonderful. I'll put 'em in the notes, but here's Dick Lochte's blurb.
“Retired octogenarian B-movie producer Patrick Bronstein has had short but memorable hilarious curmudgeonly appearances in several of Kimmel’s Adriana Hofstetter mysteries. Here, let loose in his own book of reminiscences, he takes us on a laugh-out-loud sixty-year tour of his seemingly benighted career of producing cheap knock-offs. At the same time, Kimmel presents a wittily critical mini-history of the stages through which motion pictures have passed since the 1950s. There's a brief cameo that plays into one of the novel’s unique themes – the symbiosis that exists between celebrities and fans. Great fun!”
Dick Lochte, author of Sleeping Dog
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And here's a blurb from D.C. Fontana, writer of several Star Trek episodes from the original series as well as The Next Generation.
“PATRICK BRONSTEIN PRESENTS delivers a laugh or a smile on every page! As a young author conducts deep interviews with a movie producer for a biography, we learn the ups and downs of the old man's life and career as the producer of “C” movies from the ‘50s into the late 20th Century. And we get a tour of the finest restaurants in Los Angeles as well. This novel pulls the reader in -- entertains -- and educates --with every chapter. It's a great read."
D.C. Fontana
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The Teddy story revealed by a friend:
"Many people have asked, so here's what I've been told: my beloved friend Teddy Antolin was rushed to the hospital on Friday by paramedics after calling in sick to the shop and died yesterday (Monday) morning at 9am of massive heart failure complicated by diabetes."
I don't know that he told anyone he had diabetes. Not something he would have shared.
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BK, that was a very touching tribute to Teddy in today's notes.
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I have to get some ZORBA songs into my fingers for some upcoming auditions. That will be enjoyable. They're doing it this summer at this Connecticut theater I indirectly dreamed about a week or two ago. Oddly, they called me to play these auditions the day following that dream. Ain't that something?
I've never seen the show, but I love the score.
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Those were great blurbs, BK!
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I really can't wait to read the book!
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Tuesday morning greetings! We are snowed in a little bit this morning, but at least Mary Linda made it to work and Rob made it home. I am hoping for a better day today than yesterday. In addition to my health concerns, yesterday I received a recall notice on my car (the airbag issue) and had a meltdown over some financial dealings for Mom. My cough kept waking me up and I finally moved to my recliner at 1:45 this morning and slept there until about 8am.
~~~Vibes of All Kinds for DR Ginny!!~~~
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The Teddy story revealed by a friend:
"Many people have asked, so here's what I've been told: my beloved friend Teddy Antolin was rushed to the hospital on Friday by paramedics after calling in sick to the shop and died yesterday (Monday) morning at 9am of massive heart failure complicated by diabetes."
I don't know that he told anyone he had diabetes. Not something he would have shared.
:(
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Those were great blurbs, BK!
DITTO!
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I am really looking forward to reading this book.
Maybe I should contact PayPal to find out where in the HELL my copy is.
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Great blurbs.
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Diabetes is a stinker.
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Tuesday morning greetings! We are snowed in a little bit this morning, but at least Mary Linda made it to work and Rob made it home. I am hoping for a better day today than yesterday. In addition to my health concerns, yesterday I received a recall notice on my car (the airbag issue) and had a meltdown over some financial dealings for Mom. My cough kept waking me up and I finally moved to my recliner at 1:45 this morning and slept there until about 8am.
~~~Vibes of All Kinds for DR Ginny!!~~~
Thanks, DR George! On the Mom front, I just took 2 steps forward with the financial thing.
Then I took one step back...
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1 Step good.
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1 Step good.
...and now I'm back on track!
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:)
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I am back from a wonderful rehearsal. The direction is good, the choreography is good, and the cast is really good. It's a strange morality piece that has too much piety for me, but it has funny lines, two amazing gospel numbers and a pretty good score with a standout number, "Taking A Chance on Love." I think the Encores! staging shows the work off as well as could be and I wish it much success. It deserves a recording.
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I just launched the Indiegogo campaign for the LA show. Please check it out and contribute if you can - the first day is key. I think there'll be some perks you'll all enjoy, so check it out and do what you can.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/l-a-now-and-then-a-new-musical-revue/x/9165600#/
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1 Step good.
...and now I'm back on track!
DR Ginny, you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That what it's all about.
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It deserves a recording.
The more I've heard about the project, and think about it ..... I agree without hearing a single note.
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I just launched the Indiegogo campaign for the LA show. Please check it out and contribute if you can - the first day is key. I think there'll be some perks you'll all enjoy, so check it out and do what you can.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/l-a-now-and-then-a-new-musical-revue/x/9165600#/
Done...and I'm not the first contributor!
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300 in thirty minutes. We can DO this.
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Good evening!
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Having trouble connecting to the internet again so I'm using my phone as a hotspot. Very frustrating!
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That was a nice tribute to Teddy, BK.
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Nice blurbs about your book, BK!
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This just in: no Ash Wednesday trip for us tomorrow, due to weather.
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I mentioned the other day some DVDs we'd taken to Amoeba, where we got an incredibly stupid jerk, so we just wouldn't give him anything. So, I'll offer them here - some you'll have to have a multi-region player for and I'll note those. Some of these prices are dirt cheap for box sets that originally cost upwards of sixty or seventy bucks. If I haven't specifically mentioned region two, they will all play in US players.
Edgar Wallace Box sets - SIX VOLUME in all, each volume has four DVDs with one movie on each DVD. All are in their proper ratio and in black-and-white or color. The films span from 1959 to 1967 - most have German and English dubs. These are seriously fun movies from a time when movies were seriously fun. This is an import from Germany and is most likely region 2 (I can't tell because both my multi-region players automatically play DVDs from anywhere). If you take all six sets the cost will be $60. These originally sold for sixty bucks each. If I break up the set, then each volume is $15.
Two by Kurosawa, both region two: Drunken Angel, I Live in Fear - $10 each
Hot Blood - Cornell Wilde and Jane Russell in a Nick Ray movie - region 2 $5
Roman Polanski's WHAT? region 2 $5
Gulliver's Travels Max Fleischer cartoon - $5
Felix et Lola - region 2 Patrice Leconte film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg $5
Cisco Pike - Gene Hackman, Karen Black $5
The Long, Hot Summer - $5
Falling in Love - De Niro and Streep $5
The Muppets Take Manhattan $5
Tango - region 2 Patrice Leconte film with Philippe Noiret $5
Bananas Is My Business - Carmen Miranda documentary $5
The Chairman - Gregory Peck $5
The Black Windmill - Michael Caine - region 2 $5
From the Terrace - Paul Newman $5
Raise the Titanic - Alec Guiness - region 2 $5
Delius and Elgar - Ken Russell films about the composers - region 2 $5 each
Bad Company - Jeff Bridges $5
Indictment - excellent film about the McMartin trial with James Woods - $5
Hell and High Water - Sam Fuller film with Richard Widmark $5
War Gods of the Deep - Vincent Price $5
Kings Row - Ronald Reagan $5
10 Rillington Place region 2 - $5
Damn the Defiant Alec Guiness $5
Liberace Behind the Music Victor Garber Maureen Stapleton $5
40 Pound of Trouble Tony Curtis $5
Fathom Raquel Welch $5
The Shanghai Gesture Von Sternberg Gene Tierney region 2 $5
It/The Shuttered Room double bill DVD $5
Hannie Caulder Raquel Welch $5
Something Wicked This Way Comes $5
Voodoo Island/The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake double bill $5
Just PM me what you need and we'll go from there.
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Almost at six hundred. First day is key!
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Nice blurbs.....money talk!
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This just in: no Ash Wednesday trip for us tomorrow, due to weather.
Good for your cough. I had no idea tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.
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4OUR!!
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And now, I'm leaving work. I need to go to Target for a specific item and then Costco for another specific item.
Be back later.
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Watching the original TV version of "For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf." I don't know if I ever saw this version, but I loved the show live. A very young Alfre Woodard is in the cast. It's always nice to hear Ntozake Shange's poetry, but it doesn't entirely work on film. It may be too literal.
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Where is everybody tonight?
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Hello, 1 guest!
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Everybody must be out celebrating Mardi Gras.
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Laissez les bons temps roulez!
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Somebody bring me some gumbo.
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And some beignets.
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Learned a couple of line dances tonight, the Wobble and the Tush Push.
I feel so accomplished. Well, they're fun.
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Page four? Really?
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Up to $760!
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And I helped
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I have nothing else to add
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Yay to helpers!
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Hello, everyone.
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First, Bruce, I am so sorry to hear about Teddy. What an enormous loss! I'm sure it was a shock to all of us, as he was--and will still be--so much a part of the fabric of HHW.
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The best of kitty vibes to the ChasSmith household. Hold her, love her, and keep her comfortable. Vibes of comfort.
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Four DVDs spoken for or spoken four.
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Mega Indiegogo vibes to BK. Nice to see such a good start. May it continue.
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As for those line dances, DR John G, I'd like to be tush pushing right along with you.
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Wellness vibes to DR Ginny. Glad to hear it's not pneumonia. Hope it leaves you soon, whatever it's called.
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I went to another Thai Torture session today. Daniel, my torturer, had told me it'd get easier. Well, today it was a bit easier. Thank God! He's finding scar tissue in places I hadn't suspected. But my back really did feel better afterwards.
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I went to another Thai Torture session today. Daniel, my torturer, had told me it'd get easier. Well, today it was a bit easier. Thank God! He's finding scar tissue in places I hadn't suspected. But my back really did feel better afterwards.
As torturous as that sounds, it also sounds therapeutic. In other words, sign me up.
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As for those line dances, DR John G, I'd like to be tush pushing right along with you.
Again, it really was fun. Now, I hope i remember them the next time I'm somewhere where they're playing either.
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I have nothing else to add
Has work been any better? Or has it gotten back to the same old steaming pile of (fill in the blank)?
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After a detailed explanation of how I've been doing, I asked, "And how are you?" He told me that his aunt died yesterday. And his car was totaled a week ago. (It was parked and he wasn't in it.) I didn't wish to be unsympathetic, but sometimes a person reaches their limit of grief and sadness.
I know a Volvo mechanic who buys old Volvos, repairs them, and then resells them. I'll pass that contact information on.
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I went to another Thai Torture session today. Daniel, my torturer, had told me it'd get easier. Well, today it was a bit easier. Thank God! He's finding scar tissue in places I hadn't suspected. But my back really did feel better afterwards.
As torturous as that sounds, it also sounds therapeutic. In other words, sign me up.
You might not say that if you'd experienced it! But here's a link. The video is quite moving.
http://www.losangelesthaimassage.com/
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DR TCB I don't really enjoy watching movies on a ship.
When there is nothing else to do because everybody else is seasick, you do what you have to do.
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I'd love to find a massage therapist who's good at the relaxing type of massage. There are lots and lots of them around, but few do the sort of deep-tissue work that I prefer. For now, I'll stick with Daniel. And, yes, it is therapeutic.
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Hi, Tom.
I was so pleased to hear about SECOND SAMUEL's success.
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Congrats to the INSIDE OUT cast on their Robbie.
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Congrats to the INSIDE OUT cast on their Robbie.
Ditto!
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I went to another Thai Torture session today. Daniel, my torturer, had told me it'd get easier. Well, today it was a bit easier. Thank God! He's finding scar tissue in places I hadn't suspected. But my back really did feel better afterwards.
I'm glad being tortured actually works.
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I'm worn out.
Good night.
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A wonderful tribute to Teddy, BK.
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Terrific blurbs!
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I am looking forward to the new book.
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Hi, Tom.
I was so pleased to hear about SECOND SAMUEL's success.
Thank you. It was a great experience.
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I am looking forward to the new book.
You'll love it. It's a joy.
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Good night, all.
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It was a beautiful day here in Tacoma.
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I guess we reached 63 degrees, which was a record for Seattle
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I did not do all of the things I had planned.
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I woke up feeling like I was coming down with the dreaded flu, that was going through the cast of SECOND SAMUEL.
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I just sat around doing nothing, and hoping for the best.
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By one o'clock, I started feeling better.
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By two o'clock, I felt good enough to leave the house..
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I took a drive down on the waterfront, but I didn't stop and use my scooter.
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I also went grocery shopping.
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However, I did forget to go by and pick up my prescription refill.
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By then, I was worn out; so I went home.
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Naturally, the weather is supposed to change by tomorrow afternoon.
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Rain is moving in again, and looks like it is here for a while.
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Still, not even a hint of snow, except up in the mountains.
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This is obviously not our year for cold weather or snow.
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Page five? Really?
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$800.
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Nor is it hour year.
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Old Actors' Lunch tomorrow.
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SIX!
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Page 6? Really?
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Old Actors' Lunch tomorrow.
Stop on your way, before the weather turns, for your meds.
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Where is everybody tonight?
I went to Target and got some shower cleaner, after going to Costco for some cheese for a friend of mine, and some tapioca pudding. I love me some tapioca pudding. :D
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I came home and have watched an epsode of "Agent Carter," and now am watching an episode of "The Expanse."
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Page six? Really?
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Created a Facebook page for the LA show. Now we'll see if someone suddenly shows up with another LA musical revue that just "happens" to be opening just before us :)
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I have now switched over to my iPad. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Tonight, I watched THE FLASH. This my favorite weekly series, just beating out ARROW.
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For a brief moment, I thought I saw Vixmom here.
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I went to another Thai Torture session today. Daniel, my torturer, had told me it'd get easier. Well, today it was a bit easier. Thank God! He's finding scar tissue in places I hadn't suspected. But my back really did feel better afterwards.
I'm glad being tortured actually works.
Yeaes aho, my former supervisor got into an accident. She was rear-ended on the freeway as traffic was slowing down too quickly. She had the deep tissue massages and as painful as it was, she said that it was very therapeutic.
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I watched a movie tonight, too. I rather liked it, even though this kind of film is usually not my cuppa.
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I watched a movie tonight, too. I rather liked it, even though this kind of film is usually not my cuppa.
Does it have a name?
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Bad title - The Harvest. But a very good little unsettling thriller, which was unfortunately sold as a horror movie, which is why no one went.
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Created a Facebook page for the LA show. Now we'll see if someone suddenly shows up with another LA musical revue that just "happens" to be opening just before us :)
How ironic. I have a new revue titled, VISITING L.A.; THEN AND NOW, which opens May 5!
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Created a Facebook page for the LA show. Now we'll see if someone suddenly shows up with another LA musical revue that just "happens" to be opening just before us :)
How ironic. I have a new revue titled, VISITING L.A.; THEN AND NOW, which opens May 5!
Cool, that's my birthday! ;D
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Created a Facebook page for the LA show. Now we'll see if someone suddenly shows up with another LA musical revue that just "happens" to be opening just before us :)
How ironic. I have a new revue titled, VISITING L.A.; THEN AND NOW, which opens May 5!
Cool, that's my birthday! ;D
Aren't you appearing in this revue?
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Created a Facebook page for the LA show. Now we'll see if someone suddenly shows up with another LA musical revue that just "happens" to be opening just before us :)
How ironic. I have a new revue titled, VISITING L.A.; THEN AND NOW, which opens May 5!
Cool, that's my birthday! ;D
Aren't you appearing in this revue?
I'd love to!
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Well, good night!!
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Good night, Tom!
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Well, I need to leave work early tomorrow, so I'd better go to bed early.
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But...
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...before...
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...I...
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...leave...
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...to...
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...go...
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...to...
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...bed...
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PAGE SEVEN!!
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Good night, anyone who's left. 8)