And I thank the DRs for the beverage responses. I had no idea there were free radicals roaming around my body. Abbie Hoffman? Jerry Rubin? Stokely Carmichael? It's kind of sickening, actually.
Good morning. The sky is blue, not a cloud in sight.
Argh! I was looking for a hard to find video tape of the film HARD DRIVIN (a.k.a. THUNDER IN CAROLINE) starring Race Gentry and Connie Hines, on Ebay. Well, I spot one...a former rental in good condition at a starting bid of $9.98 + 4.99 postage. So in my excitement I make a bid. Well, then I scroll down a little further and find the same doggone movie for $2.00 Buy-it-Now and only $1.99 postage! Argh!
Here is a photograph of my meeting with our Japanese lurker, Hisaka. In this photograph, Hisaka and her friend and I are being photographed by our waiter. I'm the one in the baseball cap, and Hisaka is to my left.
The sky is not blue and I am not wearing a baseball cap. I am, however, Japanese. You heard it here first.
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This is really creepy. I can’t imagine why anyone would do this to their baby? http://www.lighterside.com/website/store/search.asp?UID=2004112212190207&keyword=NT-35981&quick_search.x=15&quick_search.y=11
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Which reminds me that Sara Shane (now residing in Australia) has not yet responed to my first two e-mail interview questions. I hope she received them...she said that she would respond...maybe I should e-mail her back.
So what's thanksgiving?
I am currently listening to:
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Martha had pipes!
My cousin who'd been a naval officer resurrected a recipe he knew from his days on the Theodore Roosevelt. It was, I think, cream chipped beef, but I was most alarmed that his preparation involved several packages of Stouffer's frozen chipped beef.
Oh, have you ever slammed a needle into your finger before giving a cat fluids? That is what I did this morning.
A coda for Samuel Barber
The American composer, whose romantic, lyrical work fell out of favor during the country's embrace of 12-tone and avant-garde music, is being rediscovered by performers and audiences.
By Scott Timberg
Times Staff Writer
Nov 21 2004
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On Saturday, Los Angeles Opera will give the first of seven performances of "Vanessa," Barber's 1958 portrait of a pathological woman — to be sung, in her company debut, by soprano Kiri Te Kanawa — who has brooded for years inside a Northern European country house. It will mark the first time the company has performed Barber's work.
And L.A. Opera is far from alone. According to the American Symphony Orchestra League, Barber will be performed 106 times by the nation's 100 largest orchestras this season; there will be more than a dozen performances of his Violin Concerto alone. Over the last three seasons, he's been performed almost as much.
Those numbers place him second only to Aaron Copland among American composers, which surprises league spokesman Jack McAuliffe. "I don't know if I would have mentioned him," McAuliffe says. "He doesn't have the charisma or visibility of a Copland or Bernstein or Gershwin. He's kind of a sleeper."
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DR Jane: If you have a bottle of saline solution (the kind you get for soft lenses), you might try squirting some solution directly into the needle hole that is bleeding. You may have introduced some bacteria from that needle unless you sterilized it first. If even the REMOTEST amount of swelling ensues, get to a doctor pronto.
I once went 24 hours after getting a cat bite...spent three days in a hospital bed on IV, only to be operated on because the IV fluids could not reach the infection.
Don't let it get away from you!
We have tried the turkey substitutes but they taste like cardboard.
Subject: DR. PHIL'S INNER PEACE
I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace.
Dr. Phil proclaimed: "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started."
So I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished, so, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's, a bottle of Kahlua, a package of Oreos, the remainder of both Prozac and Valium prescriptions, the rest of the cheesecake, some saltines and a box of chocolates.
You have no idea how freaking good I feel.
Please pass this on to those you feel are in need of inner peace.
You mean they tastle as bad as they look?
I have done my errands, picked up what needed picking up, and now I am home for the rest of the evening and perhaps will watch one of these new-fangled DVDs I've got. Right now I'm watching Blind Beast, a wacky Japanese film from 1969, but that's very short. After that, I could watch this new-fangled DVD of Mr. Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. But, which version to watch? The 350 minute TV version or the 188 minute theatrical version. The thought of watching a six-hour version is a bit too much. Or, I could tear into this new-fangled DVD set which I was sent entitled The Ultimate Matrix. It includes 10 DVDs - all three films and about 100 hours of supplements. I've never seen the second two movies, so I suppose I could just start with them - or not.
...we received a package from FedEx today while I was in the shower
Memo for our Voracious Aficionado:
(Extract from the LA Times (http://www.calendarlive.com/music/classical/cl-ca-barber21nov21,2,5719018.story)):
I hope we shall be treated to a full report!
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On Saturday, Los Angeles Opera will give the first of seven performances of "Vanessa," Barber's 1958 portrait of a pathological woman — to be sung, in her company debut, by soprano Kiri Te Kanawa — who has brooded for years inside a Northern European country house. It will mark the first time the company has performed Barber's work.
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Dan (the Man)
HHW God
Re:FLASHBACK
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My favorite Christmas special of all time is A Charlie Brown Christmas. I was a huge Peanuts fan when I was a lad and I loved all the Charlie Brown TV specials. Ironically, though, I missed the first showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas because my family was out shopping for and buying an artificial Christmas tree. But I did see it the following year, and every year since. The same Christmas tree has been used almost every year since, too.
What is kind of a shame about Christmas specials is that they're not that special anymore. Because of the existance of VCRs, marketed videos and DVDs, kids and families can watch shows like ACBC, Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer and How the Grinch Stole Christmas over and over again, whenever they like. These shows were major events for me as a child. Big bowls of popcorn were made. Cushions were pulled up closer to the TV than normally allowed. Grownups let themselves be "shushed" if they talked too loud. And you had to pay attention, cause if you missed that first terrifing peek of the Abominable Snow Monster, you didn't get to see it for another year. And when it was over, all you could really do was sort of bask in it and replay it the best you could in your mind.
Nowadays, it's nice that we have these shows at our fingertips, ready to view at any time at our convience with no annoying commercial breaks. But at the same time, there's something within me that yearns for simpler times, when ACHB was truely a Christmas special and not just another DVD amongst many others crammed into my video bookcase.
And what's worse is that the Abbie Hoffman free radical is wearing a shirt made from the American flag!What's wrong with that? It provides fiber, doesn't it?
Well, I just don't know about these Mondays. People just disappear into the woodwork. Come out of the woodwork I say.Huh? I'm retired, and between part-time jobs. And I've been very out for some time.
Have I mentioned that I am quite excited about seeing Miss Cherilyn Sarkisian Bono Allman this evening? Her opening act will be none other than the latest incarnation of those stereotypes of gay icons, the Village People!The Villiage People will be the ones on stage who haven't had plastic surgery, I presume.
How excited am I??
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I've a wobbly table and it's most distressing. You can't stick a matchbook underneath the leg, because that wouldn't be big enough. I can't put a marble down on the table without it falls off.
Say, what's this in the mail? Why, there's a personal inscription on the title page! And, I'll be hornswoggled if it isn't exactly the right size to hold up that table.
What to do? Read book? Balance table? Read book? Balance table?
I agree with you as well, Dan The Man, 100% but the networks have a habit of cutting scenes from these beloved shows to make more room for the dreaded commercials. They don’t care it they run over with a sports program, i.e. “We now join our regularly scheduled program already in progress” and that ticks me off.
DR Danise, do you remember the infamous Heidi incident? Way back in 1968, NBC cut away from the final minutes of a tight football game to air a TV movie version of Heidi. Viewers were not happy and a network never again cut away from a football game.It's been written into the contracts that they cannot cut away, because of Heidi. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063051/trivia) Boys in tight fitting uniforms are more important than little girls in dirndls, don't'cha know.
I was so underwhelmed with the second MATRIX movie that I skipped the third one altogether.
I keep thinking these are the POPEYE notes!