Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 03, 2016, 01:05:56 AM
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Well you've read the notes, the notes were saved, and now it is time for you to post until the saved cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: TOURBILLION!
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First post after BK!
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Why did George and Jane have their photo taken with Santa Claus?
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This coming Friday night, I am going to the opening night of MARY POPPINS at our local musical playhouse. I wonder if I could start a rumor that Richard Sherman will be going with me?
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Why did George and Jane have their photo taken with Santa Claus?
Because we like you! ;D
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Boy, would they wet themselves if Richard Sherman showed up for their production of MARY POPPINS!
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Why did George and Jane have their photo taken with Santa Claus?
Cuz he is so cute.
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Jane, did you notice the non-stop traffic going southbound, as you were heading northbound?
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It was a wall of cars.
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Yesterday's T.O.D.
I like raised glazed donuts, but not Krispy Kreame. My favorite is a maple bar or a plain cake donut.
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Greetings, 4 Guests!
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It is free-for-all Sunday! So, what topic would you like to discuss (freely).
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Well, I got rid of those 4 Guests. Not to mention George and BK!
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Gratuitous post #14
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I guess it is bedtime
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Good night
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Jane, did you notice the non-stop traffic going southbound, as you were heading northbound?
Yup. We had to drive back down in some of it, the worst part we went around. Don'the ask me how since we just followed Google.
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My head hurts, which is why I am awake.
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Wonderful news about the Mary Poppins production!
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And such nice photos as well.
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Well we are off to return the truck and then off to universal!
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Vibes for everyone
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Good morning, all.
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The notes have put me in the mood for some dinner theater. I don't know how many are around, but we have a pretty decent one, Westchester Broadway, between where I live and NYC. They've been known to mount some likeable productions, and as far as I know, they still employ live musicians. (As opposed to dead ones?)
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Good morning, all.
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I grew up a Mary Poppins addict. That may explain why I really don't like the new songs or story to the stage version of Mary Poppins. I wish someone would do a stage version that is more like the film. I realize popping in and out of chalk pavement pictures and tea parties on the ceiling do not necessarily make for a better budget, but, please, get rid of the new songs.
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I'm off to church, then dance lessons and a part in the afternoon. So, enjoy your day, all.
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My wife and I listened to the CD of LA: NOW AND THEN last night.
Terrific show. Hopefully, it will move to a larger venue.
If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and get the CD.
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I had one ghastly dream about a musical performance about to go all wrong. I was supposed to be accompanying some old guy (ha! who??) in some songs that we'd only read through, once, some weeks ago, and the venue seemed to be located where the Ahmanson is in downtown L.A. I was already late for the concert and still had to shower, get into my tux, and get there. And I still had to see that the tables were set up for the little reception at our house (across the country??) afterward. This one dragged me through Hell and back before letting me go. Believe me, I couldn't wake up soon enough.
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I'm a Mary Poppins stage version virgin, and am likely to remain so since I won't very likely be catching the production BK and the Shermans were able to enjoy.
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Barnes and Noble Criterion sale kicks off Tuesday, July 5th.
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Good Morning to all
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I had my car also washed yesterday. Beautiful sunny day. I popped into a store for ten minutes and when I cam out it was a rain storm. Welcome to Florida!
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I liked the MARY POPPINS movie, but I have never seen, nor do I expect to see the stage musical.
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Maybe you won't see it. But would your theatre ever do the Mary Poppins stage version, Jrand?
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The notes have put me in the mood for some dinner theater. I don't know how many are around, but we have a pretty decent one, Westchester Broadway, between where I live and NYC. They've been known to mount some likeable productions, and as far as I know, they still employ live musicians. (As opposed to dead ones?)
Westchester Broadway did a stunning version of TITANIC, which I saw a few yeas ago, since some friends were in the cast.
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DR Elmore's favorite!
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I had my car also washed yesterday. Beautiful sunny day. I popped into a store for ten minutes and when I cam out it was a rain storm. Welcome to Florida!
I fiorgot, Michael... West part of Florida are you in?
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The truck has been retrieved, gassed up and returned.
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I fully expected to be st universal niw bye vixBF remembered some paperwork that had to be done at the apartment do here we are back at the apartment
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Good morning, all!
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DR FJL a nearby local theatre did a production last season....my theatre will do it only after I am dead and gone.
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I awoke around 7:30 with a huge desire to hie myself to the Little Pie Company to purchase a huge peach pie and a huge cherry pie and spend the day destroying my blood sugar levels. By 7:45, the desire was enormous, so I went back to bed until 9:00 to fight the urge. It worked. I've been cathing up on things and downloading some CDs into my iTunes.
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I a not a fan of the musical Titanic, which I thought was really terrible as a script and a production on Broadway, but i do like much of Maury Yeston's score. I am no fan of Mary Poppins, which DR FJL and Skip were kind enough to invite me to see, since I think the ridiculous script is a mess with points that go nowhere and the dreadful new songs are not only dreadful but unnecessary. The costumes were very much indebted to the Disney film originals and, for all the Mackintosh office;s claims that Travers hated the film and would only allow a more faithful to her books adaptation, the setting was moved back to the film's Edwardian setting.
I've read all the Mary Poppins books as a kid and I have absolutely no memory of Mrs Banks' being a former actress and snubbed by Mr Banks' upper-scale friends, speaking of plot elements that go absolutely nowhere!
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DR ChasSmith, if you are ever asked to play for a production, run: the dreadful orchestrations have some of the most fiendishly difficult piano writing for absolutely no effect at all.
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DR vixmom, I could never play you in the film. I'm too old, not pretty enough, and I certainly lack the experience of having so large a heart and generosity of spirit.
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DR ChasSmith, if you are ever asked to play for a production, run: the dreadful orchestrations have some of the most fiendishly difficult piano writing for absolutely no effect at all.
Wow. No kidding!?
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Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.
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I have read that Disney is making a sequel to Mary Poppins. It figures.
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Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.
Feel-better-ASAP vibes to Richard!
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A sequel sounds like an even worse idea than a Broadway musical.....
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CNN said the sequel is happening in 2018:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/31/media/mary-poppins-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda/
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Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.
Feel-better-ASAP vibes to Richard!
Thanks, DR FJL!
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That can't possibly be any fun. More vibes for DH Richard.
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It's time for: Choice Gems.
Here's another I found from last fall when MY FAIR LADY, newly restored to 4k, was about to be released to a few theaters and on Blu-ray. I went to a little preview at the store owned by a gentleman who posts occasionally on the Home Theater Forum. Film restorer Robert Harris was there, as were two gentlemen from CBS responsible for putting the muscle and dollars behind getting the project done right. The final disc wasn't available yet so they had a preview loop playing on all of the screens in the store, and they brought in a $30k Sony 4k projector to demo it on a large screen in the back room.
The restoration of course is glorious, but the greatest pleasure was finally meeting Mr. RAH in person and, because the event was sparsely attended, being able to chat with him and the CBS guys, and for the brief moment he was able to stop by, the CEO of The Criterion Collection. As BK has stated many times, Robert Harris is truly one of the most wonderful people around, and the entire evening was a delight.
So, I didn't plan on being in this snapshot, but they pulled me in. Next to Yrs Truly is Jonathan Turrell of Criterion, Robert Zohn's wife (I'm terrible at names sometimes), Robert Harris, and Robert Zohn of Value Electronics. It was a great evening.
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And did I walk away empty handed? Not on your tintype. Zohn had enjoyed a post of mine about some MY FAIR LADY ephemera, and he held back one of the two restoration posters he'd been sent, and surprised me with it when I arrived. Here's Robert Harris signing it for me (I love how the movie is playing as though suspended in mid-air above him)...
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...and the final framed result.
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I a not a fan of the musical Titanic, which I thought was really terrible as a script and a production on Broadway, but i do like much of Maury Yeston's score. I am no fan of Mary Poppins, which DR FJL and Skip were kind enough to invite me to see, since I think the ridiculous script is a mess with points that go nowhere and the dreadful new songs are not only dreadful but unnecessary. The costumes were very much indebted to the Disney film originals and, for all the Mackintosh office;s claims that Travers hated the film and would only allow a more faithful to her books adaptation, the setting was moved back to the film's Edwardian setting.
I've read all the Mary Poppins books as a kid and I have absolutely no memory of Mrs Banks' being a former actress and snubbed by Mr Banks' upper-scale friends, speaking of plot elements that go absolutely nowhere!
I didn't see the musical TITANIC, but I do like the score. Very moving.
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That can't possibly be any fun. More vibes for DH Richard.
Not fun, indeed. Thanks for the vibes, DR ChasSmith!
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Page 3?
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Yes, page 3!
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There was an explosion in Central Park. A young man lost his foot. So sad.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/blast-elie-wiesel-funeral-central-park-severs-man-leg-article-1.2697682
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Good afternoon!
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There was an explosion in Central Park. A young man lost his foot. So sad.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/blast-elie-wiesel-funeral-central-park-severs-man-leg-article-1.2697682
Terrible!
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Yes, DR ChasSmith--I recognized the photo you posted of Krispy Kreme. It's very close to where I live.
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Nice photo of the HHW get-together!
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Nice photos, DR ChasSmith!
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Looks like terrible weather for tomorrow's fireworks in the District of Columbia.
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There was an explosion in Central Park. A young man lost his foot. So sad.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/blast-elie-wiesel-funeral-central-park-severs-man-leg-article-1.2697682
Oh no!
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I'm up, I'm up - ten hours of very necessary and merry sleep.
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The New Yorker Cartoons
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Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.
Feel-better-ASAP vibes to Richard!
~~~Ditto!!~~~
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There was an explosion in Central Park. A young man lost his foot. So sad.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/blast-elie-wiesel-funeral-central-park-severs-man-leg-article-1.2697682
Oh, no! :(
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Sad news from Central Park.
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Great story and photos DR CHAS SMITH.
Vibes for RICHARD.
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What exploded in Central Park?
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Went to Gelson's, which was VERY crowded. Got some food for today and tomorrow and have already made today's - two chicken breasts in my Wacky Noodles sauce over some rice. That's the meal o' the day. Whether I'll be able to jog after eating that is anyone's guess but I have two hours until I'd make that attempt.
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Thank you, DRs George and JRand!
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Kroger was very busy, too. We're stocked up and I have dinners planned for the next few nights.
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Sorry for the young man injured in Central Park.
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Page three? Really?
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REALLY?
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Did the jog. Now, where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think it was the 4th of July - it's NOT so get your butt cheeks back here and let's get some postin' goin' on.
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The news story reported that he jumped from a rock and stepped on a homemade firework......maybe that will change as the night goes on....
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I'm watching "The Hobbit."
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Good evening!
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Page 3? Really?
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DR vixmom, I could never play you in the film. I'm too old, not pretty enough, and I certainly lack the experience of having so large a heart and generosity of spirit\
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Barnes and Noble Criterion sale kicks off Tuesday, July 5th.
Thank you, sir.
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Four!
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Vibes for DH Richard.
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I'm not sure I am ready for this.
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DR vixmom, I could never play you in the film. I'm too old, not pretty enough, and I certainly lack the experience of having so large a heart and generosity of spirit.
Consider it non-traditional casting. Might work.
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What a terrible incident that homemade bomb in central,park if it had been a child it would have been killed. This young man. (18) is niw crippled for life because of some idiot
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Hi Vixmom!
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Vibes for Richard
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Hi John!
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Why do people have outdoor parties -- with fired up grills, no less -- when its more than 100 degrees outside?
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We had a nice day at universal. Despite the holiday weekend the crowds were not so bad
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Everyone must have been at Disney
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Hi John!
Hi, Tom.
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We were given the opportunity to ride the new. King long attraction.
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It is not yet open but they were running "technical rehearsals"
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Continued vibes for DH Richard.
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It is really a great ride, excellent effects
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Watching Theodora Goes Wild with Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas. Charming.
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Why do people have outdoor parties -- with fired up grills, no less -- when its more than 100 degrees outside?
They don't have enough room inside?
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Falling asleep. Goodnight
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Why do people have outdoor parties -- with fired up grills, no less -- when its more than 100 degrees outside?
They don't have enough room inside?
I guess I just wanted to hang around with the smokers. And not just the ones with meat in them.
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Another question - why were about twenty people, including my neighbors, having July 4th huge parties on July 3rd? I heard them as I was jogging all around the nabe.
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Finished with my viewing.
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I didn't even realize it was Sunday.
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Well we are off to return the truck and then off to universal!
I hope you had fun.
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Another question - why were about twenty people, including my neighbors, having July 4th huge parties on July 3rd? I heard them as I was jogging all around the nabe.
I was invited to three parties this weekend. None was on July 4.
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Good night, Vixmom!
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Another question - why were about twenty people, including my neighbors, having July 4th huge parties on July 3rd? I heard them as I was jogging all around the nabe.
I was invited to three parties this weekend. None was on July 4.
I haven't been invited to any parties.
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On the third or fourth of July.
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That sounded pathetic.
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One more post.
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Five
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There was an explosion in Central Park. A young man lost his foot. So sad.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/blast-elie-wiesel-funeral-central-park-severs-man-leg-article-1.2697682
:(
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Nice photo of the HHW get-together!
Thanks. We had a good time.
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Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.
Feel-better-ASAP vibes to Richard!
~~~Ditto!!~~~
DITTO!
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...and the final framed result.
Nice!
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Another question - why were about twenty people, including my neighbors, having July 4th huge parties on July 3rd? I heard them as I was jogging all around the nabe.
I was invited to three parties this weekend. None was on July 4.
I haven't been invited to any parties.
Neither did I, but I'll probably go to my parents' house again. My mom took her brother and sister-in-law to Mount Rainier today. I hope that they had a good time.
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We had a very nice day in Poulsbo, WA. It is a charming town on the water. We also had delicious brownie cheesecake ice cream.
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It's always a party at HHW with you, Tom.
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It's always a party at HHW with you, Tom.
Why thank you, John.
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You, too, George.
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Actually I lied. A friend invited me over for a barbecue tomorrow.
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I will see how I feel in the morning.
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I'll probably just stay home.
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Actually hot dogs sound good for dinner tomorrow.
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You, too, George.
Why, thank you, John!
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Potato salad sounds good, too.
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Page five? Really? I'm watching a You Tube video of Concerto in F by Gershwin, a wonderful performance conducted by Leonard Slatkin, who was brilliant with this kind of music, and the pianist is fantastic. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUHcXUJZgY
It must have been broadcast somewhere, but I can find no evidence of a video release.
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I am trying to decide on whether or not I want a piece of pie before bed.
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I don't need a piece, but do I want a piece?
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Good night, all.
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The advantage of living alone. No one to tell me I can't have pie.
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Good night, all.
Good night, John.
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Fireworks are starting in this area...or at least loud noise-makers. :P
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We can hear the fireworks. We looked out our hotel window and saw some in the distance.
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I am having problems staying connected here so.....
'night.
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Good night, Jane.
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Amazingly, it is all quiet here in North Tacoma.
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Amazingly, it is all quiet here in North Tacoma.
As soon as I posted that, the entire neighborhood exploded with fireworks.
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Eleven o'clock and all is well.
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One more post.
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Six
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I need to switch over to my iPad.
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A sequel sounds like an even worse idea than a Broadway musical.....
I don't see a problem with a sequel. There was something like six or seven books, so there is plenty of material for another film.
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I have now switched.
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A sequel sounds like an even worse idea than a Broadway musical.....
I don't see a problem with a sequel. There was something like six or seven books, so there is plenty of material for another film.
I wonder if the film will be based on one of the books or if it will be a completely new story...not that I've read any of the books.
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I guess I didn't need to hurry.
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A sequel sounds like an even worse idea than a Broadway musical.....
I don't see a problem with a sequel. There was something like six or seven books, so there is plenty of material for another film.
I wonder if the film will be based on one of the books or if it will be a completely new story...not that I've read any of the books.
That article said that Lin-Manuel Miranda would be playing a brand new character, so I assume the story will be new.
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A sequel sounds like an even worse idea than a Broadway musical.....
I don't see a problem with a sequel. There was something like six or seven books, so there is plenty of material for another film.
I wonder if the film will be based on one of the books or if it will be a completely new story...not that I've read any of the books.
That article said that Lin-Manuel Miranda would be playing a brand new character, so I assume the story will be new.
Ahh...I hadn't read anything about it, other than it was happening and who the two leads were going to be.
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I just meant that there is plenty of room for more MARY POPPINS' adventures, since there were already several more books. It is not like doing a sequel to HAMLET where the original work is complete (and everyone is dead).
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Someone (perhaps Fred) posted a link to article about the new film.
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Yes, it was Fred.
CNN said the sequel is happening in 2018:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/31/media/mary-poppins-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda/
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Yes, it was Fred.
CNN said the sequel is happening in 2018:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/31/media/mary-poppins-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda/
Thanks for the link, Tom. I was just about to search for it, myself.
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My pleasure.
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HAMLET was probably a poor example, but my mind went totally blank on great literary classics that were better examples. I used to say that it was like doing a sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND, but then someone made one.