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Well, you've read the notes, the notes have got you on your toes, your toes have got you on your notes, and now it is time for you to post until the post partum cows come home.
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I have no problem spelling pyjamas with the "y" but I wonder about a "smoling jacket". Perhaps this is a form of Californian attire with which I am unfamiliar.
Perhaps it is the smoling season and there is no such animals or fish whatever in the land of OZ. A mystery.
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Welcome six GUESTS. Even you late-night New Yorkers (you know who you are). We're talkin' about any damn thing we want to talk about.
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"Smoling" refers to how moles can find their way around. Since they have very poor eyesight, if any, they must use their other senses. Their sense of smell, which even works underground, is very keen indeed, and is known as "smoling".
It is not well known, however, that at one time in England, during the mid to late Victorian era in fact, many of the upper classes kept moles as pets. They would keep their moles close by, as the moles had a habit of getting lost if not tended to constantly. One of the favorite methods of keeping the moles happy while close to hand would be by the mole keeper wearing a special jacket, which had a number of interconnected pockets filled with highly odiferous dirt and mud. The happy little mole in the jacket would make its merry way from one pocket to another, using it's sense of smell. The jacket worn by the mole keeper was, of course, known as a "smoling jacket."
Washing smoling jackets is frowned upon, of course, as the process rids the jacket of the dirt and mud that makes the jacket valuable inthe first place. Dry cleaning is even worse, because of the chemicals used. An occasional stroll in a light spring rain, however, can freshen the garment without damaging it in any way.
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I think I'll just achieve 7800 posts while I'm at it.
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I'm feeling kind of queasy. It isn't easy feeling queasy. Sort of cheesy feeling queasy and I'd much rather feel breezy.
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7800.
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Thank you SWW. I knew there had to be a sensible explanation. lol
Of course we only have moles of the political kind in OZ.
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Of course we only have moles of the political kind in OZ.
Well, that explains quite a lot, doesn't it! ;)
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You see, those who thought they could skip the notes are now scratching their heads trying to figure out what in tarnation "smoling" is all about.
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Back from seeing two movies. The plan was only one movie - FINDING NEVERLAND, but DD really wanted to see CLOSER as well. It's free for WGA members this time of year and it wasn't late, so we made it a double bill. I quite liked Neverland, but quite disliked Closer. That's all the in-depth reviewing you'll get from me.
Tower Records was open with big discounts on DVDs. So between movies I purchased for $6.99 A DVD of four Martin & Lewis Colgate Comedy Hours from the 50's. Among the guests are Jack Benny, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Miles and Danny Arnold. Seems like a good purchase for seven bucks.
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Not to mention that most interesting deep secret in the notes.
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For example, I would say dear reader Panni went directly to the posts rather than the notes.
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And, as Desi would say, "You got some 'splainin' to do."
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Welcome eight GUESTS. We're waiting for Panni to get to the 'splainin'. I can't wait to hear the feeble excuse that emanates from her gaping maw.
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For example, I would say dear reader Panni went directly to the posts rather than the notes.
That's actually not true. And why would you make this assumption?
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That actually IS true - we have our ways of knowing things, you frazzled ort.
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We'll stay all night and we'll sing 'em all.
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By gum and by golly and buy bonds, I feel a fershluganah frenzy coming on.
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I believe one GUEST bit the dust. Let me put on my thinking cap...
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That actually IS true - we have our ways of knowing things, you frazzled ort.
Well, whatever your ways of knowing things are, you're wrong because I did read the notes first. You talked about attending Nick's party and watching Dial M for Murder, yadayadayada.
I read the notes, then looked at the last of yesterday's posts, then, the new ones. Which is probably how you got the idea that I didn't read the notes.
I believe I am owed an apology.
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You are trying to give us all the gaslight treatment. Who are you, Charles Boyer all of a sudden. You are a frazzled ort. I'm somewhat tired myself, but I'm feeling queasy and uneasy in my easy chair and frankly it never entered my mind.
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The feeling queasy defense doesn't cut it with me. I'm sorry you're feeling queasy and I hope you feel better soon - BUT - even if you vomit on the floor, you need to say, "DR Panni, I humbly apologize for accusing you of the unpardonable sin of going directly to the posts and lying about it. I know that you do not lie and I know that you always read the notes first because that's the kind of stellar human being that you are."
That's what I'd like to hear.
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...And on your knees as you say it.
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I'm still trying to get my head into the Charles Boyer/Panni thing. Somehow, I can't hear him doing the accent properly. And he was way too fat. And what he had on his chest was hair.
Nope, Charles Boyer would have made a terrible Panni.
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Hmmm... I see that bk has left the building.
Well, we all make mistakes, and being Christmas and all, I forgive you, dear bk. But no more jumping to conclusions where this DR is concerned. I always read the notes not because it's required, but because I enjoy reading the notes. I look forward to them, so why the hell would I skip them?
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And, being an East Coast Laddie (and having had a very long Christmas Day), I hereby am going to become a wussburger!
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I'm still trying to get my head into the Charles Boyer/Panni thing. Somehow, I can't hear him doing the accent properly. And he was way too fat. And what he had on his chest was hair.
Nope, Charles Boyer would have made a terrible Panni.
True. I'm more the Ingrid Bergman type, especially in this scenario - where I HAVE read the notes and am being told that I have NOT read the notes.
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I wonder how many other films of the era spoken about in the notes could also be properly framed in widescreen? Maybe HOUSE OF WAX?
DRPANNI - I waited in vain yesterday for the topic to be brought up and the question asked, and it never was...so I will ask. Why would your newspaper delivery boy bring you thongs? What did you give him? Was it the same delivery person from your old abode? Is it all just a dream.....are you giving us the Gaslight treatment?
Free for all day. Yes.......hmmmm....free for all....all free...free today. Now I sound like the Child Catcher!
DR PANNI does your DVD of the Colgate Hour include the original commercials?
Okay...here is an easy one to start......favorite Marx Bros quips:
Groucho: This is certainly a gala day. And a gal a day is enough for any man.
Groucho: (paraphrased) We're stuck in bunker. There are four men and two women. If you can't send more men, send two more women.
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Well this has been a revolting development. I went outside where it is 16 degrees F, cleaned a NEW two inches of snow from my car, and drove on unplowed streets to buy a Sunday newspaper. AND the gasoline station was not open. I thought they would be open by 6 a.m. But NOOOOOOOOO....so now I have no newspaper!
And guess who I passed on the way home coming in the opposite direction? Yes, it was the snow plow.
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Hi Everyone,
I was very glad to read that everyone had a nice day yesterday.
I wish I could say I had pleasant night but I was up and down and down and up. I guess I could say that I’m just glad that I’m not down and out.
The only suspect would be the Christmas meal which means I could blame the person who bought the food (me) or the person who cooked the meal (also me). As you can see it is a mystery with a short list of suspects. Unless it was the ham—I’ve never been able to handle perversities.
Anyway, I’m taking it easy with a nice warm cup of lemon herb green tea. I may even go this afternoon to see the dreaded POTO movie.
You would not believe the storm we had last night. On a few of the occasions when I was up, the wind was howling though the trees and it sounded very much like it did when the hurricane came through. My bedroom window flew open at one point and I had to go outside to close it.
I guess something happened at the Badcock store down the street because it’s alarm was going off and I could hear it say, “The police have been called.” It finely stopped after about forty five minutes.
Jrand, why don't you have your paper delivered? I only get the Sunday paper (and pay a bit more for it) but it's worth not having to drive down the store for it.
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Good morning, all! Well, I've survived Christmas but will I survive this week? Movies, movies, and more movies with goddaughter Charlotte, plus seeing friends, doing some small Ohio babysitting for teens of family friends, dealing with DARLING OF THE DAY contracts (still!), editing a desk of music, and a New Year's Eve Do in Brooklyn!
I had a wonderful day yesterday. The partay at Mr Ron Raines' home was festive and the guests a delight: the lovely wife and daughter (Amy) of the late playwright Steve Tesich who wrote the film BREAKING AWAY; Mark Johannes and Amy Danis, producers of the LITTLE SHOP revival and the play BUG which is making all the ten best lists this year, and their daughter Zoe; director John Margulis and his wife who works at the Metropolitan Opera; Mitch Weiss who runs the Barrington Stage Company; conductor and impressario Evans Haile, and several other fascinating folk.
Ron and Dona (who is, incidentally, the first voice you hear on the OCR of COMPANY) always have fantastic bagels and lox, and they also served eggs, ham, venison sausage, with lots of mimosas, coffee, tea, cookines and sundried items I was too tipsy to investigate. I got a lovely tie from them and a pair of nice shoes from London. Other gifts I received yesterday were the Julie Andrews CINDERELLA DVD, which came from the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, several tasteful shirts, and a few nice checks.
Today is my lazy day. I plan to follow the example of DRMattH and do nothing but watch DVDs. I have too many new ones piling up, and I haven't determined yet which will be on today's menu.
I do have one question: what is RATM? I hope I put the initials in the correct order. I've seen this mentioned several times now and I have no idea what it is!
I may have more questions when I check in later.
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what is RATM
Recreational Arts Theatre Musicals. RATM in internet lingo. A newsgroup which you may subscribe to via your ISP, or read daily at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.theatre.musicals (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
It's full of information, misinformation, flame wars and some undeniably fun people (Right, Noel?)
BK sometimes posts there, I sometimes post there; some fella calling himself Steve Newport posts there. It is Mr. Newport who keeps some people away from RATM, for in spite of his vast knowledge, he'll meet any disagreements with a challenge and harsh attitude.
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Comments from yesterday's posts:
Yes, for years NBC held the rights to broadcast THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and did so. Obviously their license has expired and ABC has the rights now.
I really wish I had been home to at least flip on THE SOUND OF MUSIC to see if ABC was showing it in high definition (and thus widescreen even though it appears pan and scanned in standard definition). ABC is usually very good at showing films in high definition. A rather pallid movie like ANNA AND THE KING looked stunning in high definition the night I caught it. Of course, you still have to suffer through endless commercial breaks and editing of the film, but I got into it and enjoyed it in HD.
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Yes, I am SO looking forward to a day of DVDs. I know THE SNAKE PIT and SPIDER-MAN 2 will be on the bill. I have put off THE RETURN OF THE KING until either Monday or Tuesday.
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I will occasionally post without first reading the notes, but when I do that, I NEVER read the posts preceding mine. This usually happens when I know I'm going to be leaving the house, but I feel I have something I want to say and don't have the time to read the notes and prior posts before leaving. Then, when I have more time once I return, I read the notes and then start with post #1 to catch up.
This happened just the other morning. But the notes ALWAYS get read.
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Yes, I wonder about some of the films from 1953-54 as well. Was ON THE WATERFRONT filmed so it could be projected 1.85:1? How about THE COUNTRY GIRL or SABRINA or THEM!
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Question for DRs who have the Kodak Easyshare camera: My camera goes through batteries like crazy (man). I would get about 4 or 5 photos taken and then the battery would be dead. I would replace the batteries and take a few more pictures..then poof...dead batteries! I finally gave up and let others take photos with their cameras....and they took pictures and mini-movies all the live-long day and had no trouble!
So does your camera have this battery eating problem?
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Question for DRs who have the Kodak Easyshare camera: My camera goes through batteries like crazy (man). I would get about 4 or 5 photos taken and then the battery would be dead. I would replace the batteries and take a few more pictures..then poof...dead batteries! I finally gave up and let others take photos with their cameras....and they took pictures and mini-movies all the live-long day and had no trouble!
So does your camera have this battery eating problem?
Every digital camera I've had went through batteries quickly. However, I bought a couple of sets of rechargeable batteries and a charger, and always keep fresh batteries in readiness. They really are worth the money in the long run, DR MBarnum.
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I just read an article in VARIETY that made me boiling mad. Oliver Stone was pontificating about the failure in the US of ALEXANDER, and he laid the blame on one thing and one thing alone: picturing the bisexual nature of Alexander. He says now he would have cut out all homosexuality from the film, and he is certain it would have been embraced much more in this country.
Really, if you're not going to be honest about the qualities of a man you're doing a movie biography about, WHY DO IT? And why do it dishonestly when we've already got a perfectly good (head in the sand) dishonest version of Alexander's life done in the 1950s by Richard Burton (it's even in Cinemascope).
Now, granted, I didn't see ALEXANDER, but from what I read in the reviews, there was only one male-male kiss, some longing looks back and forth between Farrell and Jared Leto, and otherwise it was heterosexual all the way.
I really was deeply offended and annoyed by these comments.
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I am now going to brave the after Christmas shoppers, and do some after Christmas shopping of my own!
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I am now going to brave the after Christmas shoppers, and do some after Christmas shopping of my own!
I did mine this morning - on line! :D
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Good Morning!
I finally got out of bed around Noon... I've had my oatmeal and blueberries as well as a few bits and pieces from some of the other goodies on the kitchen counter right now. That should hold me until tonight's show. In other news...
I'm keeping an eye on the weather reports this afternoon. Will we get snow? Will we just get some cold rain? And just where will it hit? I really do want to head back down to Richmond tonight after the show. I guess I'll just have to look at the skies - and roads - when I get out of the show and proceed from there.
In more sobering news... Well, world news... When my clock radio initially went off at 9:00, the first item on the NPR news was about the devastating earthquake in the Indian Ocean... An estimated 6300 deaths so far due to the tidal waves and coastal flooding... Affected six or seven countries... Vibes and Prayers to that part of the Globe.
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Question for DRs who have the Kodak Easyshare camera: My camera goes through batteries like crazy (man). I would get about 4 or 5 photos taken and then the battery would be dead. I would replace the batteries and take a few more pictures..then poof...dead batteries! I finally gave up and let others take photos with their cameras....and they took pictures and mini-movies all the live-long day and had no trouble!
So does your camera have this battery eating problem?
Hmm... Do any of your manuals give some sort of battery life chart? Or maybe you just need to make another trip back to Best Buy to exchange it... again.. ;)
I've also found that if you use the display/picture window, that that can eat up battery life faster. -I just always still prefer to use the view finder.
I have an Olympus model, and although standard AA batteries can be used, they recommend rechargeables - they just last longer. However, if you can get a hold of those industrial "style" batteries - theatre get them for wireless microphones - those do pack quite a lot of power. *Arena Stage - as well, as other theatres I've worked at - has this big bin of "old" batteries from the mic pacs. They put in new batteries each show, but the old batteries are still not all used up, so... There's lots of AAs and 9-Volts to choose from. I always grab a bunch every now and then, and they still have quite the battery life left in them - at least in standard electronic devices. -Those microphone battery pacs use a LOT of power. In any case...
Energizer and some other brands do make a line of batteries that are formulated for high-drain products. -I think the Energizer ones are labeled "e2" or something like that. You may want to spluge on a 4-pack and see if they make a difference.
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Even though this is the day AFTER christmas, it is still the season, and the following still applies:
"There is nothing that I can give you which you have not.
But there is much that while I cannot give, you can take.
No Heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take Heaven.
No peace lies in us today that is not hidden in this present instant.
Take peace.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is
joy. Take joy.
And now at this Christmastide, I greet you, with the prayer that for you,
now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away..."
Fra Giovanni
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Is/Was Fra Giovanni any relation to Don Giovanni?
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SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS on TCM this morning.
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I've just read about the horrific earthquake in Asia. Quite a reality check as we go through our daily lives worrying about petty annoyances. My thoughts and prayers are with the people in that part of the world.
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Bruce, your daughter is an adult--old enough to make up her own mind and to not be ruled by some divorce decreee setting out visitation rights. So why is your ex-wifelet still creating this problem? BTW, do you and the ex-wifelet get along at all or speak to each other (other than arguing about what holidays will be spent with your daughter)?
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I agree about using the rechargeable batteries.
When I took my trips, I had four sets for both the digital camera and the video camera. I would load the camera with one set and carry two other sets with me. The other set was in the charger. That way I always had at least one set that was fresh and ready to go.
I don't know how the cell phone cameras work--as far as how many shots you can get before it runs out-- but I always carry a spare battery for my plain cell phone as well.
I changed my mind about going out. It's to cold, windy and nasty. POTO can wait. I might try to brave the elements to go to the grocery store to pick up a few things but that's as far as I am going today!
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DRPANNI - I waited in vain yesterday for the topic to be brought up and the question asked, and it never was...so I will ask. Why would your newspaper delivery boy bring you thongs? What did you give him? Was it the same delivery person from your old abode? Is it all just a dream.....are you giving us the Gaslight treatment?
DR PANNI does your DVD of the Colgate Hour include the original commercials?
The answer to question #1 is that - yes - I'm giving you the Gaslight treatment. The Tale of the Randy Newspaper Boy - like that of the Randy Vicar - is merely a religious parable.
As for the Colgate Hour DVD, I haven't watched it yet. I certainly hope the commercials are included.
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Good morning to all. I spent most of the day yesterday with my parents, and my sister's dawg. The p's were alone with each other - not a good thing these days. So I was lightness and cheer, and the dawg was a good distraction. But on the way back to said sister's house, said dawg vomited in my car. I didn't have the inclination to clean up said vomit, so that chore awaits. Mmmmmmm.... yummy! I don't mind, considering what I've been cleaning up at said parents' house...
Lots of thoughts of Present Moment living, of gratitude and appreciation as the secret of happiness, of the Why Are We Here question. Life is good. Off I go into my day, borrowing neither grief nor regrets from past or future. Blessings upon y'all.
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The ex-wifelet and I do not speak - she truly hates me, a total waste of emotion after twenty-two years of deevorce. As I said, this has changed (the Christmas visit thing) just last year, and I felt I should nip it in the bud. The problem is that the ex-wifelet lives near San Diego, so it's a real trek down here, and, of course, she's planned it so that she has the Christmas Eve party, and her friend has the Christmas Party, and my daughter gets lovely giftees from the friend so it's all very appealing for her to stay down there and not see her daddy dearest until after Christmas, which just doesn't cut it with daddy dearest.
Panni is giving us the GASLIGHT treatment.
RATM is the biggest bore on the Internet. I used to post there quite a lot (prior to this here website), until it became too insufferable (as do all usenet newsgroups), and I think I've posted there once in the last year-and-a-half and that was only to clarify something.
TCM showed On the Waterfront letterboxed at 1:85 last year - that, too, was a revelation of sorts, as many of the shots looked more dynamic. The difference wasn't as great as Dial M, but now when I see Waterfront full-frame I just notice the head room. Country Girl should be 1:85 and so should The Bad Seed - both would have been projected that way in a majority of theaters. We should have at least had both versions on the DVD, because the differences are fascinating.
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Oh, my! I just saw the news about the earthquake. They said there were divers at an underwater cave that are missing. They could be stuck in that cave or carried away by waves. How horrible!
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Recreational Arts Theatre Musicals. RATM.
Steve Newport posts there. It is Mr. Newport who keeps some people away from RATM, for in spite of his vast knowledge, he'll meet any disagreements with a challenge and harsh attitude.
I'd only add that it's more than a few people who have steered clear of RATM simply because they can't stand Newport, who answers each and every post (and, often, his own). There used to be a large number of knowledgable contributors before Newport went postal on us. The handful who remain either can tolerate him, or, like me, ignore his ubiquitous posts.
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best christmas gift:
dear mother and dear neice are visiting me for two weeks!
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Good morning all
How lovely to be back in my own bed. I did NOT fall out of this bed this morning, thank goodness. I slept rather fitfully, though...kept waking up in the middle of the night and early morning. I think I'm trying to fight off a cold, and the stuffiness was keeping me from deep sleep.
But at any rate, I have now risen, taken a nice hot bath, and I'm thinking about a late breakfast before I head out to catch some after-christmas sales...
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Recreational Arts Theatre Musicals. RATM in internet lingo. A newsgroup which you may subscribe to via your ISP, or read daily at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.theatre.musicals (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
It's full of information, misinformation, flame wars and some undeniably fun people (Right, Noel?)
DRtd, many thanks!
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Having breakfast, which consists of Parisienne Cake. Lunch will consist of Parisienne Cake. Dinner may consist of See's.
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Having breakfast, which consists of scrambled eggs, which turned out very well, and hasbrowns...which didn't turn out quite so well, but are decent.
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I like indecent hash browns. In fact, one of my favorite stories is The Randy Vicar and the Randy Hashed Browns.
It's very gray here in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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BK, someday you must share with us a complete rendition of one of these Randy Vicar stories...they sound simply too too
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With a bit of ketchup, the hashbrowns are not half bad. I think I didn't use enough oil when cooking them.
I really must get some proper clothing on...the hashbrowns might be decent, but I certianly am not
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I found The Aristocats on Disney channel...an old favorite of mine.
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I am my own frenzy
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Good Afternoon!
...The karaoke machine is getting another workout downstairs...And there's a apparently of good selection of Kris Kristoferson songs on the machines... And one of my uncles seems to know all of them... Hmmm...
Meanwhile, back in my bedroom...
I'm listening to Chanticleer's "A Portrait" CD. Basically a sampler from their 25 year career so far. It's a nice counterpoint to the Kris Kristogferson renditions emanating from the living room...
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...OK... Now they've moved onto Willie Nelson... I guess they're going through the Country section of the book...
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More information has been unearthed about smoling jackets.
Since they originated in the Victorian Era, the preferred fabric used for smoling jackets was, and is, velvet. Burgundy and forest green were often seen, but the preferred color was, and is, black, mostly because it shows off the accumulated dirt and mud, which is highly desired.
In fact, in the decades since, some owners of black velvet smoling jackets have taken to highlighting the mud and dirt with paint, even to the extent of painting designs and patterns on their jackets. Rock legend Elvis Presley was a long-time fan of smoling jackets, and had his painted with portraits of himself, which of course created an entire ancillary industry.
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I've been up for about an hour. A load of laundry is in the washing mashing and I'm listening to Donald's "After Sunset" radio show. I haven't had anything to eat yet, but I will. I must eat something. Later today, I will sally fourth (or fifth) and do a bit of shopping. I have cash (!!) and a gift card from Circuit City in hand. They (the cash and the gift card) will not remain in my possession for very long. They must be redeemed for gifts of my own choosing! And quickly! ;D
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I think that I'll try and find one of those "smoling jackets" when I go shopping today! They sound so intriguing. ;) Or do they have to be custom made by a tailor? Can they be purchased "off the rack?"
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Still unsure how to react to the news from Thailand. A catastrophe, to be sure, but other than feeling shock I won't know what to think.
The news is totally at odds with the snow that is lightly falling outside.
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With a bit of ketchup, the hashbrowns are not half bad. I think I didn't use enough oil when cooking them.
I really must get some proper clothing on...the hashbrowns might be decent, but I certianly am not
Hmmm...The Randy Vicar and the Indecent Hash Brown Chef!
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Good afternoon, fellow dear readers.
No post-holiday shopping for me. It is Sunday, and I was in church. In a few minutes, I will be taking the minister to the airport, as he needs to go home to Wisconsin do perform a funeral service.
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I believe smoling jackets can be purchased on-line from Land's End, but you have to supply the land. (Something to do with the shipping charges on dirt, I suspect, a kind of terraf.)
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I believe smoling jackets can be purchased on-line from Land's End, but you have to supply the land. (Something to do with the shipping charges on dirt, I suspect, a kind of terraf.)
I just tried to purchase one on L.L. Bean's website, but they were out of my size and the color I wanted. However, I could not determine if the sizes indicated were for me or for the size of the moles.
Of course, Restoration Hardware has some in stock. They're part of their holiday apparel line this year. They're nice, but if I'm going to pay that much for a smoling jacket, I might as well get the real thing rather than a reproduction.
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DR Jose: Grins from both der B and myself! :-*
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The tragic news from Southeast Asia is a rather strange counterpoint to having watched THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW last night on DVD When reading the news story this morning, I kept thinking I must already know about this, until I realized I had started mingling reality with fiction. Also, I hadn't yet had my coffee at that time of the morning. My prayers go out to all of the citizens of those countries that were affected.
I found the film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW to be quite a fun and entertaining piece of fluff. I have always been a sucker for a good (or even bad) disaster film. And this was certainly no worse than THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Besides, I would rather look at Dennis Quaid than Gene Hackman any day.
Actually, I ended up watching two disaster films last night. The other one was ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS. Even to a diehard Bud and Lou fan like me, this one was baaaaaad. And they didn't even go to Mars, they went to Venus and to New Orleans.
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And Wal-Mart even had some smoling jackets, but they were part of the Kathie Lee Gifford line, and most likely were made in some third world country by underpaid child laborers...
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Having breakfast, which consists of Parisienne Cake. Lunch will consist of Parisienne Cake. Dinner may consist of See's.
I have it on good authority :) that your cake is masculine and thus Parisien. All cakes are of the masculine gender.
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I have it on good authority :) that your cake is masculine and thus Parisien. All cakes are of the masculine gender.
Is it Easter, yet, where you are Tomovoz?
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DR MBarnum. I used ONE set of batteries only for my Koday Digital camera for my 5 weeks in France. I do use the view finder and I do use lithium batteries which are really not very expensive.
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Next holiday here after NY's day is Australia Day which for most of us will be ignored - we are so patriotic. As it is not a leap year, Easter will start on Good Friday rather than a Thursday this year. For Ash Wednesday it is traditional to watch Liz Taylor movies. We have to do something as we do not have a Smoling season here.
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Next holiday here after NY's day is Australia Day which for most of us will be ignored - we are so patriotic. As it is not a leap year, Easter will start on Good Friday rather than a Thursday this year. For Ash Wednesday it is traditional to watch Liz Taylor movies. We have to do something as we do no have a Smoling season here.
Have you been into the Egg Nog again, Mr. Oz???
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DR TCB. I have no need for substitutes! Enjoy the half football team. (There are 22 on each team - and yes my Mathematics is not good).
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...What a perfectly lazy day this is turning out to be. I'm just surfing away on the web, chatting with some friends, and putting CDs in the CD player. And it's even going by sort of slowly too, which has been very nice.
I do have the show tonight at 7:30, so...
And it looks like the snow will not be hassling me tonight on my drive back to Richmond. :)
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Have you been into the Egg Nog again, Mr. Oz???
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Breakfast time here TCB - No coffee yet. You know how it is!!
We were given a copy of Oceans 11 yesterday. The gift giver unwisely asked whether I had seen it (before the gift was opened). I said I had no interest in seeing Oceans, 6, 5, 11, 12 or 35. Whoops! A good year for such comments. Partner's Stepmother gave me a book for Christmas. I had just made a statement about disliking the author's work very much indeed!!!! (Ex South African, Bryce Courtnay).
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We had a lovely Christmas day, after a great meal and an evening of games with some, old, old friends from Kentucky and our alma mater, UK...we came home and watched the wonderful WHAT IF, a Christmas prez from BK, and Fractured Flickers, a Christmas prez from The Lovely Wife, until the wee hours of Boxing Day morn. We will continue said visual/aural marathon with more Fractured Flickers ( I must find the episode where they turn Lon Chaney's Hunchback of Notre Dame into Dinky Dunston, Boy Cheerleader) and probably Li'l Abner...another of the gifts from the veritable treasure trove Bk bestowed upon us.
After seeing the DVD of What If, I'm even more convinced that there needs to be an original cast album produced as well. And I also think Guy Haines needs to record an album of only Bruce Kimmel songs.
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Breakfast time here TCB - No coffee yet. You know how it is!!
We were given a copy of Oceans 11 yesterday. The gift giver unwisely asked whether I had seen it (before the gift was opened). I said I had no interest in seeing Oceans, 6, 5, 11, 12 or 35. Whoops! A good year for such comments. Partner's Stepmother gave me a book for Christmas. I had just made a statement about disliking the author's work very much indeed!!!! (Ex South African, Bryce Courtnay).
Well, I hope you were able to season your foot, before you put it in your mouth!
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DR TCB "I've been ill" has been my excuse for everything in the shingle bells season.
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It is not well known, however, that at one time in England, during the mid to late Victorian era in fact, many of the upper classes kept moles as pets. They would keep their moles close by, as the moles had a habit of getting lost if not tended to constantly. One of the favorite methods of keeping the moles happy while close to hand would be by the mole keeper wearing a special jacket, which had a number of interconnected pockets filled with highly odiferous dirt and mud. The happy little mole in the jacket would make its merry way from one pocket to another, using it's sense of smell. The jacket worn by the mole keeper was, of course, known as a "smoling jacket."
I've been wondering what that dirty old thing was that my grandfather always wore. This explains everything.
My brother is enjoying one of his Christmas presents: a very loud movie. One of those Bourne ones.
I am eating some gazpacho soup. Actually, it's just pico de gallo, but I'm pretending.
And those are the headlines.
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Oh, and Jane, thanks for saying Joshie is cute. We got him a couple years ago. He was a reject from the pound.
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My mom wants to know what she should put in bean soup besides a ham bone, basil, bay leaves, onions, and garlic. Anybody know?
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Well, I think I'm gonna go ahead and take a very short nap before I get ready to head in for the show. Something tells me tonight is gonna go by real slow.... Hmm...
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I tried to get to you guys before Christmas but couldn't fit it in :(. I hope y'all had a good time. From today's notes, I'd say many of you ate too much smoling! We had - are you ready? - ELK! My brother tasted it while he was in Colorado someplace and raved about it, so...
To me, it tasted like beef, but what do I know?!?!
I just got around to seeing (on video) FAR FROM HEAVEN with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. Elmer Bernstein was robbed!!! His score was definitely Oscar-worthy.
RE: MARTIN & LEWIS. The Shannon Center at Whittier College in Whittier, California is presenting the World Premiere of A SALUTE TO DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS on January 22, 2005. Here's the copy from the press release (written by yours truly):
This first-ever live show dedicated to the team of Martin & Lewis stars Danny DeLurgio as Dean Martin, David Wolf as Jerry Lewis, and features The John Peace Orchestra. The show encompasses Martin & Lewis' work, together and apart, in films, television, radio, and stage. All your favorites - along with some real surprises - are here; The Songs: That's Amore, Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime, Return To Me, Arrivederci Roma; The Comedy: The Nutty Professor, The Chinese Waiter, The Typewriter Song, The Follow Spot Sweep. More than mere impersonators, these performers go the extra mile to bring you a full evening of entertainment you won't soon forget!
The show's creators (David Wolf and John Peace) have gone way back in the archives to reproduce material from Martin & Lewis' club act and the Colgate Comedy Hour shows. I understand David Wolf is a dead-ringer. Lewis even had him on the MDA Telethon. DeLurgio is more a sound-a-like than an impersonator and has a dreamy voice.
The show is part of the Cabaret Series at The Shannon Center. Cabaret West is one of the sponsors. Our sponsorship is not in the form of money but promotion. Hence, my involvement. If you feel so inclined, tickets are on sale now. I'll be at the Cabaret West table in the lobby to meet and greet. Here's the link http://web.whittier.edu/shannon/Cab0405.html (http://web.whittier.edu/shannon/Cab0405.html).
Have an enjoyable day.
P.S. Someday, will one of you explain to me the "ratio" thing? How can I tell if I'm seeing a film in the right ratio? I only know that I'm not always seeing the full image (which irritates me to no end). I don't own a DVD...everything I see is on videotape.
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My mom wants to know what she should put in bean soup besides a ham bone, basil, bay leaves, onions, and garlic. Anybody know?
Beans?
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Beans?
She says: "D'oh!"
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My mom wants to know what she should put in bean soup besides a ham bone, basil, bay leaves, onions, and garlic. Anybody know?
Bay leaf and onion, most definitely. Only basil if you're making an Italian-style soup. Black pepper, thyme, celery salt also work nicely. Just a touch of rosemary if you/she likes too - but just a touch. Parsley for color and garnish too.
Oh, and some water and/or chicken stock would be good too! ;)
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She says thank you.
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Just bought myself a new digital camera. My digital camera is over two years old and quite lame - not enough pixels, I'm told, plus the annoying problem of the double A batteries giving out after about an hour or two (if you use the LCD screen to frame your pix). To not use the LCD frame doesn't work in this camera because the viewfinder is just totally inaccurate in terms of framing. The camera is a Hewlitt-Packard - I don't even know if HP makes cameras anymore. Anyway, I decided enough is enough, just like Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. So, I hied myself to Good Guys and bought a Canon digital camera - VERY small, good pixels, a nice zoom and best of all, a rechargable battery that lasts up to two weeks on one charge (using the LCD screen). I bought a memory card that holds one hundred photos, which is, I presume, all I'd ever need to have on there at one time, pre uploading to the computer. The only downside is that once the salesperson had convinced me that that was the camera for me, they didn't have it in stock, so I don't actually get the camera until Thursday.
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Spent a nice afternoon with I, ROBOT and going insane and gainly back my sanity with Olivia deHavilland in THE SNAKE PIT.
IR was fairly fanciful and mindless entertainment with some super special effects and some that were just too CGI to suspend disbelief. The identity of the murderer was something of a surprise.
THE SNAKE PIT looked wonderful. Once again, Fox has done well by its Studio Classics. And deHavilland was just superb; I hadn't watched this film in decades, and seeing this breathtaking performance again was so wonderful. I just wish Paramount would get busy and put THE HEIRESS on DVD as soon as possible.
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Tonight, I move on in the DVD stack to SPIDER-MAN 2. I'll report later.
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Having breakfast, which consists of scrambled eggs, which turned out very well, and hasbrowns...which didn't turn out quite so well, but are decent.
DRAnn, I've always preferred hasbrowns to hashbeens! I just the 3-hour BBC NICHOLAS NICKLEBY with Charles Dance and James DArcy. It was quite wonderful, not so frivolous as the film with Dame Edna as Mrs Crummles, and not so long as the great Royal Shakespeare Company epic. As the little bear says, it was just right.
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My mom wants to know what she should put in bean soup besides a ham bone, basil, bay leaves, onions, and garlic. Anybody know?
Perhaps several hashbeans?
DRCharlesPogue, does that UK for alma mater stand for University of Kentucky or United of Kingdom?
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OK- Nap time is over... Time to get ready for the show, Boys and Girls....
And so, with that...
Laters...
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Well I've had a very nice Boxing Day so far.
The stores open here at 1pm. So we headed to the mall for noon. Some stores were open early. And at that time it was actually quite difficult to get a good parking spot. For some reason everyone comes early.
I got some good bargains.
I got: 3 fancy watch bracelets for $5 total, 1 half price calendar $9, 1 floral broach $1.99, 1 necklace $1.99, and a poodle with a yamaka (sp?) $3.50 (it's so cute).
It took us almost 30 minutes to get out of the parking lot at 4pm. :(
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I decided to have a boxing day, too. I boxed up some stuff and put it in the closet.
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I had a couple of chicken tenders from Gelson's.
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Well I've had a very nice Boxing Day so far.
For some reason everyone comes early.
I don't know....
Could it be that people want to... beat the crowds???? ;)
Even though I don't see any good reason for giving the crowds such a treatment! Beats me!
And... Jennifer, I think you've been quite a Big Spender today! :)
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I feel like having a Boxing Day here too... and punch a few Hotel guests in the face!
Anyone cares for some punch?
In a glass, of course!
We're peaceful here!
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Evening all.
I spent the afternoon playing computer games and watching all of the Terminator movies. The movies were a mistake because they made me so sad. They fought so hard to change the future and couldn’t do it.
Mixed up Bean Soup
2 cups (1 pound) mixed dried beans or peas
8 cups water
2 cups cubed ½ inch cooked ham (or a ham bone with some meat on it—I’ve made it both ways and it turns out fine.)
1 ½ cup (3 medium) chopped onions
1 teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon pepper
1 (28 ounce) can whole tomatos, undrained. Cut up. (I just use a can of diced tomatos)
2 teaspoons chili powder (With MY stomach?—I think not. I only use about ¼ to ½ teaspoon)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
In Dutch Oven combine beans and water. Cook over high heat until water comes to a full boil (15 to 20 minutes). Boil 2 minutes, remove from heat. Cover and let stand for 1 hour. Add ham, onions, salt and pepper to beans. Cover cook over low heat until beans are tender(about 2 hours). Add all remaining ingredients. Cover; continue cooking until flavors are blended (about 1 hour). Season to taste.
That’s the official way. Here’s the way I do it.
I buy the beans the night before and put them in a zip lock bag a couple of cups of water. The next morning, I put everything into the slow cooker, cover it with water until it comes to the top, put it on low and let it cook all day long. It works out fine.
They were just talking about the wind I heard last night on the news. They said they were about 60 MPH!! Wow!
Since my tummy was a little off, I made potato pancakes for dinner tonight. They were very yummy and just hit the spot. :)
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I just lost a long post when I pressed "Post" and was told that the connection failed. Aaaarrrrgh!
To recap... I've just come back from buying DD a few Boxing Day Sale items. All purchased from boutiques within walking distance of the home environment. My rule for today is that if I have to get in the car to buy it, it stays in the store. The stores around here are actually quite marvy, unique and stylish. In fact DD's day was made when in one of the small boutiques she was trying on a pair of sandals and had a conversation with Jessica Simpson about buying them. (Miss Simpson, who is very tiny and very pretty - even with no make-up and a baseball cap pulled over her blonde mane - told DD that she should purchase the sandals because they looked cute and she'd get lots of use out of them.)
I've been a good mother in that I did not buy the one item that I wanted for myself, deciding to spend the money on the child instead. Brownie points at Mother Camp.
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Oh - and I said in the lost post that I don't expect bk to know who Jessica Simpson is.
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Regarding cameras: I needed a close-up of a small engraving on a belt. Someone I know has a digital camera and we tried to get a decent photo of the engraving. His close-up lens wasn't close enough, so I held a magnifying glass over the engraving and he took the picture through that. It worked great!
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Thank you all for the soup advice. I've made it before, but couldn't remember what all I put in it. It smells yummy.
DR Jane: Joshie was a feral kitten that wound up at the pound a couple years ago when we were one of their foster homes. He was lucky, because it was wintertime and there were only a few kittens, so they gave him to us to socialize, since we had room for him. He was as wild as they come, but we tamed him nicely. Unfortunately, he was very frightened at adoptions, and they called me to bring him home. We quit fostering at that time, since we had a teenager move in with us and we needed the space for her. Joshie just sorta stayed here, and the pound let me keep him for the cost of the rabies shot. He is my little ray of sunshine, and I'm glad we kept him.
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For those who may be interested, I just found a
A RECIPE FOR MARZIPAN BROWNIES (http://www.cafecreosote.com/Recipes/recipe.php3?rid=292)
Check it out.
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Oh....on HGTV at 9 pm EST - a show about "The Games We Used to Play" - the promo is interesting, hopefully the program will be, too.
I still get confused about ratio. Now...I thought widescreen had to be done with lenses. So if a movie is shot in a couple of ratios - is it shot with lenses and projected with lenses but masked differently? Or is it just shot with more information on the film and masked?
Not that it matters.
Since yesterday didn't seem like Saturday...this doesn't seem much like Sunday either.
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You will all pardon me, I hope, when I say that suddenly I feel like DR MBarnum. You see, I also received a digital camera (Canon PowerShot A85) as a Christmas gift! Now I must learn how to resize, repost and generally rework any photos that I may care to post. (For the most part, however, I shall still use photobucket and ofoto for my online and my printing needs). Right now, I am just truly grateful that downloading the pictures onto the computer is such an easy task.
So, that said, Dixie Belle and Minx are getting their pictures taken quite often this afternoon. . .and I got a roll developed from last week, which is nothing but photos of Minx and Dixie Belle - those shots will soon be on the photobucket site.
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Oh - and I said in the lost post that I don't expect bk to know who Jessica Simpson is.
I don't care who she is; but if the anecdote had been about Nick Lachey. . . . . ::) :P
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Elmore, now I want an egg bagel.
SWW, Jose & Sandra-
Tomovoz-good health vibes!
Ann-good luck tomorrow.
Sandra if there is ham in the bean soup will you eat it?
Panni I was very excited about the brownie recipe until I saw raspberries which I don’t care for.
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I would foster cats and dogs but then Keith would keep them all.
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td when shall we see the new photos of Dixie Belle and Minx?
Pani, Craig was sitting here playing with Echo so I relayed the Jessica story. He asked if you live in L.A. ;D
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Panni's DD brushes elbows with Jessica Simpson the day after I play a party where I'm embraced by Red Buttons.
Just shows the wide variety of celebrities you can find in Los Angeles.
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Panni's DD brushes elbows with Jessica Simpson the day after I play a party where I'm embraced by Red Buttons.
Probably would have been more fun for you to be embraced by Jessica
Simpson... ;)
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Panni I was very excited about the brownie recipe until I saw raspberries which I don’t care for.
I bet you could replace them with something you do care for.
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Jessica Simpson???
I only know THIS Jessica Simpson, and I don't need 3D glasses to look at her!
http://cabanedebart.free.fr/grabpics%2Bother/jessica.gif
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td when shall we see the new photos of Dixie Belle and Minx?
I'm working on it right now. . .got the pix to the ofoto site, now, they're on their way to . . .
http://photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/Dixie%20Bell/ (http://photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/Dixie%20Bell/)
(new digital pix are: myminx.jpg, missdixiebelle.jpg, minxsleeps.jpg, image_015.jpg and dixie.jpg) image_015.jpg actually shows Minx playing with Dixie, I'm sure my camera skills will improve with time.
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Panni I thought of that put am way too tired to pursue it. ::)
td You don’t exaggerate do you!. I enlarged the pic of Mix playing with Dixie Belle, only the pup was a white blur of fluff. ;D
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I thought Jessica Simpson was one of The Simpsons cartoon characters.
I went to amazon and found the camera I just purchased from Good Guys thirty bucks less, so back I go with my receipt and the amazon page and they should price match. I also read a lot of reviews of my camera, with most people loving it (it also takes small but sharp videos!) with but one caveat - it's not as easy as most to do instant reviews of what you've just taken (apperently it's a button or two away, which is just too much for certain folks). But it does say you can take up to 200 pix on one battery charge using the LCD screen, so that alone is worth the price to me.
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Hey, I only spent like $20 on all that stuff!
It's fun though. And I suppose people do go early to beat the crowds. But I sort of think they go early to see which stores will open early.
The most popular stores are electronics like Future Shop. My dad went there and there were like 1000 people lined up just before 1pm.
For some reason people here are just trained to go shopping on Boxing Day. I find it amazing, that the day after people spend all their money, that they then come out for Boxing Day sales. In fact Boxing Day is the most popular shopping day of the year here.
The malls were busy right before Xmas. But they were way busier today. In fact as we were leaving it was incredible to see the "interesting" parking some people did. I guess there were no parking spots to be found. So many SUVs were parked up the curbs on grassy areas in the parking lot. Crazy.
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And I of course know who Jessica Simpson is. In fact I think her Newlywed show is absolutely hilarious. I think we finished Season 2 a while back here in Canada (I believe you guys finished Season 3).
Btw, my aunt made the most delicious strawberry cheese pie I've ever tasted. I think this is the recipe (with perhaps a few modifications).
http://pie.allrecipes.com/az/StrawberryCheesePie.asp
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Earthquake and tsunami....frightening.
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I just washed tonight’s dishes in all of five minutes. Thank goodness that is all is took as my body is still sore from all the cleaning up I did yesterday. I didn’t cook, just cleaned after Keith and Bryan. Keith spent much of the day outside with Echo. I assure you I would rather be inside where it is warm. Craig spent his free time trying to find a hotel in Vienna for the New Year. It did find a hotel just outside of the city. On further investigation he realized it was the same hotel we stayed at in Bratislava.
This morning I finally used my new whirlpool tub. It is a little too big for me and I have to climb over a step to get in and out of it, otherwise it is wonderful. It sits next to a bay window and my view of snow covered trees was an extra treat. :D
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We did go shopping today but only because Craig needs to return to Romania with gifts and a few things for himself. While at Circuit City I picked up WICKED. Tomorrow we have the mall, Toys R U, Barnes and Noble and I don’t know where else. The plan was to go to Barnes and Noble before Bryan left today and take advantage of his employee discount. Instead we sat around while Craig continued to look for a hotel in Vienna.
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Since I was late going downstairs and had no time for SPIDER-MAN 2, I put in another STAR TREK episode and followed it with two episodes from THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW Season 4. Absolutely love "The Ghost of A. Chanz." Hilarious, and the first time I saw it as a kid, kind of scary, too, even hearing the audience laughing.
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I know who jessica Simpson is, and frankly, I don't care. As far as I've been able to ascertain from the few times I've stumbled across her on TV, she's relatively talentless and famous for being famous.
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Der B and I just watched the rerun of the Desperate Housewives pilot episode. I can see how easy it is to get hooked on this show. Unfortunately, der B is hooked on Cold Case, so we might have to "discuss" what we'll be watching from now on.
Or take up watching Monday Night Football promos.
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I still get confused about ratio. Now...I thought widescreen had to be done with lenses. So if a movie is shot in a couple of ratios - is it shot with lenses and projected with lenses but masked differently? Or is it just shot with more information on the film and masked?
Depends on the method of shooting. These movies we were talking about earlier were shot for 1.85 projection but had safety area above and below the part that would be projected. Some films were printed that way and some were probably sent with instructions to the projectionist on how they were to be matted.
But DR JRand, "widescreen" is a fairly generic term because there are so many widescreen aspect ratios, some that require anamorphic lenses (like Cinemascope or Panavision) and others that are wider than the old Academy (square) ratio but not shot with spherical lenses at all.
And then you have Super 35 which allows filmakers to have a ratio as wide as Panavision or matted off to 1.85:1 if the filmaker prefers. I forget which film it was, but there was a very popular release a couple of years ago which was shot in Super 35 and projected in the theater at 2.35:1 but when the time came for a DVD release, the filmmaker reframed it for DVD at 1.85:1. That did not make a lot of people happy.
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Der B and I just watched the rerun of the Desperate Housewives pilot episode. I can see how easy it is to get hooked on this show. Unfortunately, der B is hooked on Cold Case, so we might have to "discuss" what we'll be watching from now on.
Or take up watching Monday Night Football promos.
Once football season is over and there aren't football overruns, you won't have a problem. They aren't supposed to air opposite each other. One's at 8 p.m. (COLD CASE) and the other's at 9.
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I am pleased to report that thanks to the chefs at HHW, the ham and bean soup is delicious.
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Good Evening!
...And from Richmond again!
Good show tonight. Fun show tonight, as it turned out. Beforehand, most of us just kind of made it known that we'd rather not be there tonight so to speak... So we just treated the show as a two and a half hour interruption to our holiday weekend. ;) So, once that was acknowledged, we just played and performed. And we also had a very full and responsive audience which made the night go faster too.
-I did feel sorry for our guitar player. He drove up to NYC for the holiday. It took him seven hours to drive back today. Seven hours! -Normally takes four hours. No accidents, just lots of people on the road. -And from listening to the traffic reports on the way down to Richmond, it sounded like there were still a lot of people on 95 between New York and DC.
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No posts in over and hour?
SKAMMEN!
Hmmm... Must have been the goulash I had earlier.
;)
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It must be that post partum Christmas errant and truantness, that's what it must be. I'm still trying to figure out if I want a new computer or not. A new laptop, that is. I've been a PC boy all my computing life, but I must say I was looking at the Apple Powerbook G4 with the 17" screen and it looks pretty fab. There is one available that has the Windows for Apple software included, which, I think, is a must if I were to switch over. On the other hand, I don't really feel like relearning things, computer-wise. Then I've been looking at the new top of the line Dell 17", which is six hundred bucks cheaper, and available in a fully-loaded version with an extended warranty, etc. on eBay from a good seller. What to do? Always interested in comments, that is if anyone were AROUND to comment.
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My comment is to get the Apple Powerbook G4.
Just watched the screener of IN GOOD COMPANY. Really enjoyed it.
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...However, the enjoyment of the film was marred by the fact that my new $19. (after rebate) DVD player would freeze the picture every half hour or so. Guess I'll have to return it and get a $29. model.
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"In Good Company". Is that about a group of kimlets?
I can't remember the collective nouns appropriate for hainsies and kimlets.
I'd avoid the need for learning a new computer system too Bk. Maybe it's a Sagitarian thing.
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BK - Ordinarily I'd say get the Apple Powerbook...they are REALLY nice computers. But knowing your dislike for change..go with the PC
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This is a very tough decision - I HATE change - however, the Apple Powerbook is so sweet-looking, and just fooling around with it in the store was so easy and fun. It's going to boil down to whether the Windows for Apple software (and especially Word) looks the same on the Apple as it does on the PC. That's what I wouldn't be able to deal with - if Word didn't look and operate exactly the same. Also, I have to make certain that all my stuff on the PC would be able to be ported over easily.
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I love that picture of Ann, don't you?
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Let's have more discourse on this subject. Like, for example, why doesn't occasional poster/lurker dear reader Iris speak up on this issue.
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Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about Macs and PCs.
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Well, I love my Apple iBook, but I detest change. So, I'm not much help, am I?
And Happy Holidays, everyone!
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I don't really know anything about Macs, except that the mouse doesn't have left and right buttons. And they don't minimize and maximize exactly the same way. And that there are so many more programs for Windows that Mac. But if you enjoyed trying it at the store, you might check to see if there is a grace period where you might be able to return it if you hate it. Or if you know anyone who has one that would let you play on it for a while. Just a suggestion.
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The Apple Powerbook looks amazing, is really thin, and can do so much that the PC can't touch - editing movies, iTunes, all sorts of fun stuff. So, I think that disliking change is not really a great reason for not giving it a chance. As long as you have a good Mac professional available to help you through the changeover and answer questions along the way, you should be fine. Macs are very easy to adjust to. Very user-friendly. DD switched over to a Mac from a PC and she says it took her a couple of days to get used to it. Her boyfriend, a devoted PC man, switched over recently and says it's the best decision he ever made.
Also, the Mac store at the Grove has a free class called "Switch at 6" which is all about switching from PCs to Macs. They also have free classes throughout the week about using all the different programs. The Mac desktop, BTW, can be made to look like a Windows desktop.
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Just bought myself a new digital camera. My digital camera is over two years old and quite lame - not enough pixels, I'm told, plus the annoying problem of the double A batteries giving out after about an hour or two (if you use the LCD screen to frame your pix). To not use the LCD frame doesn't work in this camera because the viewfinder is just totally inaccurate in terms of framing. The camera is a Hewlitt-Packard - I don't even know if HP makes cameras anymore. Anyway, I decided enough is enough, just like Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. So, I hied myself to Good Guys and bought a Canon digital camera - VERY small, good pixels, a nice zoom and best of all, a rechargable battery that lasts up to two weeks on one charge (using the LCD screen). I bought a memory card that holds one hundred photos, which is, I presume, all I'd ever need to have on there at one time, pre uploading to the computer. The only downside is that once the salesperson had convinced me that that was the camera for me, they didn't have it in stock, so I don't actually get the camera until Thursday.
BK, going back to your camera: does it have digital zoom or optical zoom (or both)? My sister's boyfriend says that if it only has a digital zoom, don't get it. It's not a true zoom. It just takes the image and enlarges it and it won't be as clear an image when (if) you enlarge the image when printing. If it only has an optical zoom, that's okay, because it uses actual light refraction to zoom and no distortion happens. And if it has BOTH optical zoom and digital zoom, that's even better. But it should not be just a digital zoom. At least that's what I learned just this weekend. :)
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I agree with Panni. Also, I have to say that the Apple people, or Applets, have been most helpful whenever I've run into a problem. I think that you'd adjust to the Powerbook very quickly. Give it a try!
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I don't really know anything about Macs, except that the mouse doesn't have left and right buttons.
You can plug any PC Mouse into the Mac's USB port, or if you want to use a Mac Mouse, all you have to do is hold down Control when you click and that makes it a right click. Clicking without control makes it a left click.
As for more programs, that's true if you're into games and computer programming, but for the kinds of things bk needs, he's got everything he'd require and more.
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About the left and right buttons...I have a G4 mac laptop with OS 10.3 on it...I plugged a USB opitcal mouse in it with two buttons, and the OS automatically recognized it and I was able to use both buttons right from the get-go. I love my mac...I am a mac girl
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About the left and right buttons...I have a G4 mac laptop with OS 10.3 on it...I plugged a USB opitcal mouse in it with two buttons, and the OS automatically recognized it and I was able to use both buttons right from the get-go. I love my mac...I am a mac girl
That's pretty darned cool!
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Well, I went out into several stores this afternoon. I bought the extened "Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King," "The Manchurian Candidate" (the remake...I have the original) and the new movie soundtrack to "The Phantom of the Opera." I also ate at a sub shop that I'd never been to. I had an "ultimate club" which had turkey, cheese and stuff. It was all grilled and warm and pretty good. Then I went to my parents' house and played Phase 10 (what else is new?) with my niece and the (adult) children of a friend of my parents. We had a good time and I won!! I haven't won that game in quite a while. Then I came home, started posting.
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And everything was on sale. LOTR was $25, TMC was $19 and POTO was $23! I saved on everything!