Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on September 12, 2016, 12:03:43 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were not a euphemism, and now it is time for you to post until the hosed cows come home and that isn't a eupheMOOsm.
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And the word of the day is: CORDWAINER!
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First post after BK!
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T.O.D.
Ice cream
A cheese omelet
I used to like a Cup of Noodles, but the sodium level was almost fatal.
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Topic of the Day:
I don't really have a specific favorite snack. If I'm going to get snacks at the store for when I want a snack at home, I usually get different things each time.
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That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;)
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Leftovers are always a good snack.
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Especially lasagna or roast turkey.
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Or Chinese.
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Or cold pizza.
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Leftovers are always a good snack.
True.
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Or cold pizza.
Very true!
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Is it cashews that you get on your pizza at that one place?
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Is it cashews that you get on your pizza at that one place?
Yes! At Dirty Dave's in Lacey. Delish!
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Good night, George.
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Good night, George.
Good night, Tom.
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First in the morning, but it's not quite light out yet.
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Halfway through page one before 6 a.m. EST is a nice start, though.
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Hello. I have been awake since 3:00.
That is all I have to report.
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Casting vibes for BK!
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Good morning, all!
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I have a busy Monday: barber, lunch with Rob Berman, tonight I am supposed to meet my college friend Matthew, who moves to San Francisco on Wednesday,
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This morning I have some Moonshine & Mistletoe work here before I head out.
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Good morning, all.
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One long and crazy dream, involving a group of friends/associates working with the po-leece to catch some bad people, the catching of whom was certain to be a little violent.
Utterly bizarre.
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A cooler day today, and I felt it upon arising and shining this morning because the windows were open and it had dropped to 50 or below overnight. It's only going to 74 today, then back to 80 tomorrow. This will be good for getting some things done outside.
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It's Monday again. Why are there so many Mondays?
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I won't be able to do the October show....so MR BK will have to replace me.
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TOD:
Cookies
Baby carrots
Pizza Rolls
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Monday morning greetings! Fr. Richard is working all day today, conducting the funeral of a former school district co-worker at a nearby Presbyterian church. He excused me, so I have a day more or less to myself. I have to bake brownies for tonight's AAUW potluck, do laundry, grocery shop, and maybe visit Mom.
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DR TCB, you're right about my preference for college football, but we do watch the Cincinnati Bengals. Yesterday's game had an exciting finish!
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Page 2!
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Here's a review from Talkin' Broadway of the Sweeney Todd (http://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/cincy/) we saw Friday night. Pretty much what I said, but he's more taken with the leading man than I.
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Good morning, all.
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First day back at the main office.
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TOD:
popcorn
ice cream
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First day at a new desk with a computer screen that doesn't work.
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Oh, my.
Can you say "Monday", DR John G.?
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thanks for the link DR GINNY.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep.
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Oh, my.
Can you say "Monday", DR John G.?
Monday, Bloody Monday
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TOD:
Anything pickled
Nuts
Radishes
Celery
Cheese
Charcuterie or various salami
Apples
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The first part of DR John G.'s post applies to me.
TOD:
Anything
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I am home with a loverly new hair cut, a loverly lunch with Rob Berman, and a visit with Joshie. I will meet Matthew ar 6:30 at Artie's.
I need a nap.
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First day at a new desk with a computer screen that doesn't work.
Oh no!
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I am home with a loverly new hair cut, a loverly lunch with Rob Berman, and a visit with Joshie. I will meet Matthew ar 6:30 at Artie's.
I need a nap.
Now that sounds like a fine day.
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DR John did you accomplish everything for your parent's you felt needed doing? If nothing else, I am sure they enjoyed having you for an extended visit.
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The first part of DR John G.'s post applies to me.
TOD:
Anything
Amen
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DR John did you accomplish everything for your parent's you felt needed doing? If nothing else, I am sure they enjoyed having you for an extended visit.
No. But it was a good visit. My having to work proved to be cumbersome. Won't someone win that $222 million lottery for me?
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Good afternoon.
Only another month of summer. I think I can make it.
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In addition to DR Elmore's theatre way-back machine, I've also been riding the Miami-Middletown way-back machine for the campus' 50th anniversary. Tomorrow evening is the library session for the video footage that will be edited into an oral history of the campus. I'll be in the "front row," along with the current director of the library and a staff member I hired and who retired under the current director. I think several of my student workers will be there and so will my husband who was one of our loyal "community borrowers." Hope some others show up, too.
Anyway, here's a photo of one of the many bulletin board displays I created for the snack bar area of the main classroom building. This one was for American Music Month in February 1974. Can anyone guess the piece?
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14264091_10154332510940049_8736083059739916384_n.jpg?oh=58a88f734394848f898f47ce67b76d37&oe=583C9BCC)
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DR JANE on TCM at 6 p.m. EST....so I guess 3 p.m. your time....is a movie called ISLAND OF LOVE made in 1963 that had a lot of location filming on Hydra....you may see something familiar.
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Back from an omelet and a bagel and no packages even though one is due.
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DR GINNY was that music once used in a commercial by the Beef Association?
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And here's a gathering we had in May of 1977 to show off our government documents collection, which we'd just moved up from the basement. My mentor, Virginia Brown, is in the striped dress on the far left and Becky, who I frequently meet for coffee/breakfast/lunch, is right next to me (with the scarf around her neck). Her "Mrs. Brown," Mrs. Heidler, is second from the left partially hidden.
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14344124_10154332498445049_6991171430093231218_n.jpg?oh=7ba0316bb0971f19e7d40b917569a3e5&oe=5882FFD0)
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DR GINNY was that music once used in a commercial by the Beef Association?
Right composer, different piece.
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Finally, here I am, now married and director of the library, demonstrating the OCLC computer system to some students in the first year of "Kids in College" in 1981 or 1982:
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14292390_10154332508145049_7959401971140060337_n.jpg?oh=bb958ee39267e86a486f2c317258628a&oe=583E1183)
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I don't know about the Beef Association thing, but that sure sounds like Copland.
I get his pieces mixed up, so I'll leave it at that! :)
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Hmmmmm.....we received a Direct Deposit from Social Security today....our regular payments were already deposited.
I can't find a notice that we would be getting an extra check this year....did I miss something?
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Ah.....I shall have to look at the music again.
DR GINNY did they always call you when they took publicity pictures? They must have known about your theatre background.
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Ah.....I shall have to look at the music again.
DR GINNY did they always call you when they took publicity pictures? They must have known about your theatre background.
Not always, DR JRand, but my theatre experience got me in front of the camera during some vendor demo for faculty and staff of a video-taping system they were trying to sell the campus. One of my colleagues said I was "just like Jane Pauley."
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Good photos, DR Ginny. Always good to pull out these things from the past. I wish I had many more than I do.
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Finally, here I am, now married and director of the library, demonstrating the OCLC computer system to some students in the first year of "Kids in College" in 1981 or 1982:
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14292390_10154332508145049_7959401971140060337_n.jpg?oh=bb958ee39267e86a486f2c317258628a&oe=583E1183)
Cool! I still use OCLC!
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A question for BK or DR Elmore or whoever feels qualified:
Asking for a friend (yes, really)...
When theater companies wish to mount Sondheim shows using unique staging or casting, to whom do they apply for the yea or nay on that? Mr. Sondheim himself? MTI or whoever licenses the show? What if said unique staging or casting has been done, and this group wants to get a blessing on using the BASIC idea, while not literally copying what the original group did? Do they (also) apply to that company? How is this correctly addressed -- again, specifically in the case of Sondheim shows?
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They'd ask whoever licenses the show - that company would either just say no or pass along the info.
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We just jumped from 48% to 56% and we're just on day five.
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A question for BK or DR Elmore or whoever feels qualified:
Asking for a friend (yes, really)...
When theater companies wish to mount Sondheim shows using unique staging or casting, to whom do they apply for the yea or nay on that? Mr. Sondheim himself? MTI or whoever licenses the show? What if said unique staging or casting has been done, and this group wants to get a blessing on using the BASIC idea, while not literally copying what the original group did? Do they (also) apply to that company? How is this correctly addressed -- again, specifically in the case of Sondheim shows?
There's much that's vague here. DR ChasSmith, so I cannot tell what they production would like to do to the show. Iam really not that informed on sucha situation, but I would think all queries should be directed to MTI: they rent the materials and the leasor signs a contract vowing to make no changes to the material. I do remember that a group on Fire Island in the late 1980s wanted to do an all-gay Anything Goes, and I believe that Tams-Witmark and the Cole Porter Trust shut it down.
I also remember a big stink when Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization closed down an Oklahoma! in Atlanta, although there I think the problem was unauthorized rewrites.
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DR John did you accomplish everything for your parent's you felt needed doing? If nothing else, I am sure they enjoyed having you for an extended visit.
No. But it was a good visit. My having to work proved to be cumbersome. Won't someone win that $222 million lottery for me?
A good visit is a big accomplishment :)
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DR JANE on TCM at 6 p.m. EST....so I guess 3 p.m. your time....is a movie called ISLAND OF LOVE made in 1963 that had a lot of location filming on Hydra....you may see something familiar.
We watched some of it and have seen Hydra. Hydra has changed some since this. It is recording-thanks.
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DR Ginny I am enjoying your photos very much.
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A question for BK or DR Elmore or whoever feels qualified:
Asking for a friend (yes, really)...
When theater companies wish to mount Sondheim shows using unique staging or casting, to whom do they apply for the yea or nay on that? Mr. Sondheim himself? MTI or whoever licenses the show? What if said unique staging or casting has been done, and this group wants to get a blessing on using the BASIC idea, while not literally copying what the original group did? Do they (also) apply to that company? How is this correctly addressed -- again, specifically in the case of Sondheim shows?
There's much that's vague here. DR ChasSmith, so I cannot tell what they production would like to do to the show. Iam really not that informed on sucha situation, but I would think all queries should be directed to MTI: they rent the materials and the leasor signs a contract vowing to make no changes to the material. I do remember that a group on Fire Island in the late 1980s wanted to do an all-gay Anything Goes, and I believe that Tams-Witmark and the Cole Porter Trust shut it down.
I also remember a big stink when Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization closed down an Oklahoma! in Atlanta, although there I think the problem was unauthorized rewrites.
A theater group in Seattle (the no longer existing Alice B. Theatre) did a production of Company where one of the couples was played by two men, one of the couples was played by two women, and one of the "girlfriends" was also played by a man ("it's ah-PREEL"). They didn't ask permission, but there was a letter in the lobby from Sondheim saying that they could finish their run because they had already started. I got to see that production and it was very well done. Here are a couple of articles about it:
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-24/entertainment/ca-17256_1_l-a-theater
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950628&slug=2128615
However, THIS (http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950616&slug=2126624) article says that the theater group actually did get permission to do it:
When Alice B. director Andrew Mellen suggested updating the setting of "Company" to 1995, Narver [Allison Narver, the director of the production] decided it didn't work. But she did agree to other controversial shifts.
In most productions it is assumed Bobby is heterosexual. In Narver's, he realizes he's gay. To buttress that concept, the genders of two other characters have been switched from female to male - a move that certainly tilts matters.
"We're not making that many changes," Narver notes, adding that Alice B. secured permission from the show's publisher to make adjustments. "It's not like we're setting it on the space shuttle for no reason.
"It just works remarkably well this way. The show runs on the energy of sexual tension and hysteria. We see Bobby figuring out he's gay in a much more oppressive time, in 1970 when homosexuality was still listed as a mental illness by the American Medical Association."
Hmm.
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Mr. Appliance Man is here - he found the problem with the washer leak but it's a rusty pipe so Mr. Plumber Man has to come tomorrow to do that. But Mr. Appliance Man is fixing the fridge - the ice water machine hasn't worked in eight years - old filter now replaced, leak being fixed, and then I'll be able to get clean, cold water anytime I want it, and I'll also be able to make ice again.
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Ice for everyone!
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I do not like directors who "change" or "modernize" things to fit their own agendas.....the material is there: use it OR choose another play/musical.
There is NO play/musical that can survive a boneheaded director.
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Behind the Scenes of Island of Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwCFXYHHRc
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A question for BK or DR Elmore or whoever feels qualified:
Asking for a friend (yes, really)...
When theater companies wish to mount Sondheim shows using unique staging or casting, to whom do they apply for the yea or nay on that? Mr. Sondheim himself? MTI or whoever licenses the show? What if said unique staging or casting has been done, and this group wants to get a blessing on using the BASIC idea, while not literally copying what the original group did? Do they (also) apply to that company? How is this correctly addressed -- again, specifically in the case of Sondheim shows?
There's much that's vague here. DR ChasSmith, so I cannot tell what they production would like to do to the show. Iam really not that informed on sucha situation, but I would think all queries should be directed to MTI: they rent the materials and the leasor signs a contract vowing to make no changes to the material. I do remember that a group on Fire Island in the late 1980s wanted to do an all-gay Anything Goes, and I believe that Tams-Witmark and the Cole Porter Trust shut it down.
I also remember a big stink when Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization closed down an Oklahoma! in Atlanta, although there I think the problem was unauthorized rewrites.
I remember R&H closed down a production of South Pacific that had been set in a psych ward.
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We just jumped from 48% to 56% and we're just on day five.
That's great news.
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Came home to a basket full of mail.
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Most of it was junk, but there were two packages from Kritzerland that I look forward to playing.
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There was also a $30 gift card from some home delivery service of freshly made food.
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And the DVD of Intervista, one of my favorite Fellini movies.
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George, the last 15 minutes or so of Miles Ahead is nothing but music. I think your father would like that.
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I don't know how factual the script was but Don Cheadle is amazing.
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George, the last 15 minutes or so of Miles Ahead is nothing but music. I think your father would like that.
Cool...thanks for the info. :)
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I don't know how factual the script was but Don Cheadle is amazing.
I'd read that he'd been trying for years to get this movie made.
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Well, it's time for me to leave. I need to go to Costco, then I'm meeting a friend for dinner.
Be back later.
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I think that the character who should be Cicely Tyson has become a dancer in this film.
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See you, George.
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Can we move on?
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One more.
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Crazy day. I'll say more in the notes. Then, yes, some unnecessary drama, which really irritated me.
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Four!
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Crazy day. I'll say more in the notes. Then, yes, some unnecessary drama, which really irritated me.
Sorry about the unnecessary drama. Life should be more about the necessary drama.
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In one of the extras, Cheadle says the movie was partially funded by an indiegogo campaign.
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Unnecessary drama becomes wearying. What the people causing it don't realize is that when I'm trying to help someone I don't need anyone in their sphere sending negative crap in my direction because I just turn and walk away and my help goes away. When it involves a young person then it's unfortunate for the young person. If I get a necessary apology from the person who did it, we'll see how I feel.
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Do you know when the first laptop hit the market - I was rather surprised to find that answer.
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Interesting link DR JANE....more interesting than the finished film.
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Hmmmm.....I don't know from laptops.....
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Hmmmm.....I don't know from laptops.....
Me, neither.
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I just finished BK's Sherlock Holmes CD, which was really fun. Great to do a little housework (very little) to.
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And with that, I say good night, all.
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I should whip out that Sherlock Holmes CD tonight. Haven't heard it in a while, like fifteen years a while.
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Revisiting old friends is always nice.....
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Interesting link DR JANE....more interesting than the finished film.
I just finished watching the film and agree ;D
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Got some a few drummettes (four tiny ones) and about three ounces of lobster salad for my snack.
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No time for viewing this evening. So, working on the computer. Trying to finish casting the last two folks for our show - offer out to one and waiting on further suggestions for the other. And I have an ask out to to the woman who created the role of Mother in Ragtime in LA to do Back to Before.
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Good evening!
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Goodness! Page 4!!
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No time for viewing this evening. So, working on the computer. Trying to finish casting the last two folks for our show - offer out to one and waiting on further suggestions for the other. And I have an ask out to to the woman who created the role of Mother in Ragtime in LA to do Back to Before.
That would be cool. I love "Back to Before."
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I was hoping we would be farther along.
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Tonight was a double header football game.
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Not that either game was very good.
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The first game the Steelers stomped the Washington Redskins.
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Page four? Really?
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Let's move this along, shall we?
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I think the final score was 38 to 16.
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Only three Richard Sherman quotes left - now is the time, baby.
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The second game, which is almost over, the San Francisco 49ers clobbered the new Los Angeles Rams.
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The final score is going to be 28 to 0.
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One more post.
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Page 5ive
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I'm watching the season finale of "Braindead." It's a fun show. I hope there's a second season, but as yet I have no idea what the second season would be about.
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The 49ers put the dreaded Colin Kaepernick in the game, so I turned off the game.
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I would like everyone to discuss, one of these days, their opinion on sitting or kneeling during the National Anthem.
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I didn't do a lot of work on the book today.
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I went back an rewrote some things today.
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I am trying to use some of BK's suggestions.
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In particular, I am trying to go back and use more descriptions about settings and people.
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That is not my strong suit, so I am going to have to really work at it.
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I think I will try doing a little side work using my speak and spell to see if I can get a better grip on it.
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If any of that is usable, I can go back and insert it into the book.
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I am finding that the book is writing itself in some ways.
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I know that sounds dumb, but it is really true.
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One character went from being a background character and became an important part of the story.
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Another character that I had planned to make an important person to the plot has now changed to be involved in an entirely different way.
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Anyway, it is quite a learning experience.
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Even if nothing comes of this, I am enjoying the journey.
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It was a beautiful day today with the temperature in the mid to upper 70's.
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And tomorrow thru Friday is supposed to be the same.
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I'm watching the season finale of "Braindead." It's a fun show. I hope there's a second season, but as yet I have no idea what the second season would be about.
What is BRAINDEAD about?
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I'm watching the season finale of "Braindead." It's a fun show. I hope there's a second season, but as yet I have no idea what the second season would be about.
What is BRAINDEAD about?
It's about the sister of a senator in Washington DC who discovers that politicians are being taken over by alien bugs by burrowing into their brains. I just finished the season finale and it ended like series finale. Everything was wrapped up.
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That's great about your book, TCB! Keep up the good work!
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That's great about your book, TCB! Keep up the good work!
I'm trying.
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George, was BRAINDEAD a comedy?
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George, was BRAINDEAD a comedy?
Yes, but not your typical comedy, but I wouldn't all it a dramedy. It was too quirky for that.
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Quirky. That sounds like a good word for it.
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It is going to get cold down at your house tonight.
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It is going to get cold down at your house tonight.
Oh..it's not very cold right now.
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Well...
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...since we're so close...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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They say it will get down into the low 40's tonight in Olympia. Possibly the upper 30's in the outlying areas.