"Desperate Housewives" was very interesting this evening, and I especially liked that interesting character introduction of Karen McCluskey, the nasty old lady with a heart big as Texas.
VERY interesting development with Bree Van De Kamp learning of her husband's sexual needs for a dominatrix. The "mind if I give the handcuffs a quick run through the dishwasher" line was hysterical.
Or maybe it's just me.
At any rate, I continue to love this series!
DR vixmom - Slow day at the office? ;)
Thanks for all the melon pics... and the bohemian pics too the other day!
:)
The young man that serves our summonses and files our briefs and does the other delivery work for our law firm brought in a bud vase with a single long stemmed rose for each and every one of the women working here. Isn't that nice?
Calamari is very popular here in my very Italian neighborhood, but again the IDEa of eating squid has kept me from eating it...one too many viewings of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea I guess..I have the same problem with the stuff.
I have also eaten escargot in my past, but nowadays my garden is so overridden with them nasty snailies I don't think I could stomach them any more.To me, escargot is a terrible waste of good garlic.
Valentine's Day Story:This made me cry! It did turn out to be a lovely story in the end... and what better gift for you to receive but getting your own der Brucer back!
Der Brucer was in the hospital with meningitis. The medics had taken their sweet time figuring out that it was meningitis, which was punching holes in his brain, and were predicting that he would probably have to be institutionalized if he ever got out of the hospital. Since we weren't (and still aren't) married, they weren't bothering to tell me this, of course, which is just as well because I was danged near suicidal about his being in the hospital as it was.
Isn't this turning out to be a lovely story?
He'd been in the hospital for over a month when I went in for my daily visit. He seemed to be more alert this day, and asked me to find him some chocolate. I obliged, went to a chocolatier and bought him a box, along with a small white teddy bear holding a red heart. It was, after all, Valentine's Day.
When I got back, der Brucer looked at me and asked, "How did I get here?" I told him that the hospital staff had moved him from the main building to the annex just a couple of days ago, and that we had wheeled him down the hall...
"No. How did I get here in the hospital?"
Miraculously, his mental functions had returned, not just partially but entirely. He was back again. The doctors, who had been so kind before with their accuracy of diagnosis and treating me as some alien being, were totally baffled once again.
The only problem for der Brucer is that he has no memory at all of being ill. The only problem for me is that I remember that time all too well. And that is why I cringe every year at Valentine's Day, not because he recovered, but because he might not have recovered at all.
The end.
If only my ex-wife had given me a circular saw, I might still be married today.
I'm up, I'm up.
If only my ex-wife had given me a circular saw, I might still be married today.
I had nothing to do with A Broadway Valentine - it was merely an album culled from tracks I produced. It was done after my involvement with the uh... company.
...But the problem is if you really do something great too soon in a relationship, you feel you have to top it the next year until the bar is set too high and the law of diminishing returns sets in....That law of diminishing returns is called marriage. Live with it. ;)
Okay, I've done some good Valentines stuff for The Gal. But the problem is if you really do something great too soon in a relationship, you feel you have to top it the next year until the bar is set too high and the law of diminishing returns sets in.
To combat this, I have not done too much last year or this, kind of resetting the expectation-o-meter. Romantic, huh?
I just got my Rhetoric homework in under the wire, and now I'm going to go off in search of chocolate and a Cherry Coke.
Hello all.
Well, Valentine's Day was yesterday for us Down Under.
I was sitting at work when I received an emergency phone call from my landlord.
It seems my driveway had collapsed.
It must have been all those trucks delivering my cards, flowers & chocolates ...... :) !!!
Welcome back DR JMK. You have been missed!
Today is my mother-in-law's birthday. When the Vixter was about 4 or 5 she asked if that meant that Granny was Cupid, and was she (Granny) going to have to go around without her clothes shooting arows at people? The Vixter was quite concerned at the time as she didn't think it was appropriate for Granny to act so!!
:D(We set her fears at rest!!)
Here's a little Valentine's Day trivia for y'all: February 14 is the day Oregon was admitted to the Union.
When Bryan had his pulled we lived in a two story house. I had Craig doing most of the fetching up and down the stairs for Bryan. Craig was really sweet about it but at the end of the first day complained he was very tired-LOL. It was so cute.
Also, Mr. Barrett continues in residence at the Ambassador Theatre on 49th Street.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91164.html
Looks like Ben Vereen is headed to the Gershwin Theatre. From Playbill On-Line:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91207.html
Vixmom next year make your own Victorian card for him or check this out:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:psRozrKON6AJ:www.vintageclipart.com/valentinescards.htm+%22valentine%27s+day+cards%22+victorian&hl=en
Not sure that will work.
I take it she does not read the postings on this site? :D
Mr. Barrett, commonly know hereabouts as the Sexiest Man Alive (SMA)
Also, recently Terri Hatcher has won two awards as Best Actress in a Comedy series. I know it makes good copy for her to be enjoying this comeback, but I don't think her work is nearly as worthy of awards as Felicity Huffman or Marcia Cross.
Just goes to show how much other stuff figures into who wins what award and who doesn't.
(http://mapage.noos.fr/realbook/RB/My%20Funny%20Valentine.jpg)
Jrand54 and Elmore3003, a current issue of CLASSIC IMAGES is winging it's way across the country to each of you as I type this!
Somone in the office has reacted negatively to my choice of DVD's saying they "send the wrong message"
I thought the message was "I love you enough to buy you stuff you really like".... what was I supposed to do? Buy him a copy of "Endless Love" ?
Oh, DR elmore!...What a swell treasure trove of goodies did I receive today!....And several more than I remember you saying you were sending...I'm halfway through GAY DIVORCE...I had no idea that it was a broadcast of the entire show. What a delight! And your orchestrations and arrangements are superb!
Sung by Kathryn Grayson in THE KISSING BANDIT - I remember this one.
Sung by Jane Powell in A DATE WITH JUDY - I sort of remember this one, too.
It is NOT the Johnny Mercer lyric with the same title, a translation of a French love song.
Larry, I'm curious, what precisely do you do when you speak of the "editorial job on the score"? What I love about the music is it sounds like it would from the period. But if you're using the original charts, I guess it would...But everything musical is great! Charts, orchestrations, vocal arrangements, dance arrangements. I've forgotten how many great songs are from this show. The guy playing the role of Eric Blore role is doing a very good Eric Blore.
Would someone kindly tell me the name of a song that has the lyric:
"Love is where you find it
don't be blinded
...(something, something)...
Take a chance."
Well, poop!
I've googled the title and nothing comes up...no lyric, no mention at all, so far as I've been able to assess...I went through about five pages...and saw nothing.
Rather odd, isn't it!
Tonight, for Valentine's Day, I'm planning on attending the iPhoto and Adobe Photoshop Elements workshops at the Apple Store here in Arlington. Very romantic, huh?
I'm very logey from having eaten my romantic burritos.
<SNIP>
MELON!
One of the best Valentine's Days I had was last year. DR's Laura and Sandra and I drove to Palm Springs for the day to see Jason Graae, Liz Callaway. Alex Rybeck, and the ever lovely (despite being E and T) Jay.
What a delight!!!!!!!
Spelinng izn't impurtint, DR ELMORE.
We just returned from a sweet, romantic dinner at Blue Moon. It's one of our restaurants in Chelsea....I'm glad you included that second sentence, because I was wondering what you were doing in my neck of the woods. The Blue Moon (http://www.bluemoonrehoboth.com/) is one of the top restaurants in Rehoboth Beach.
I really must share my Valentine's present with all of you. Fortunately, I was able to convince Brent (i.e. SMA) not to inscribe the photo to me "With Love," to protect both of our reputations! :) :) :)He's even more WSMA in the flesh!
elmore, what a daunting task you had. I am mucho impressed! I see now why you enjoy mysteries. It's sort of like musical detective work in a way.
I'm somewhat amazed at how much dialogue from the original play survived in the film version.
I really must share my Valentine's present with all of you. Fortunately, I was able to convince Brent (i.e. SMA) not to inscribe the photo to me "With Love," to protect both of our reputations! :) :) :)
Well, my baking for Hallelujah, Baby! has officially come to an end. I made two of those Amazon Cakes - without adding double the amount of water this time! - and a Pumpkin Spice Streusel Bundt cake. -And I have to say the house smells sooooo good right now! -Who needs needs Yankee Candle? ;) I
My DH does not buy me flowers on Valentine's Day or Mother's Day or any other Hallmark Holiday.
Rather, he brings me flowers whenever he hears friends or coworkers complain about their spouses/partners because he realizes I'm not so bad after all. So I never know when I am going to receive flowers. It's a nice surprise. I got flowers TWICE last week!
Jed and Ann are you competing for the same job?
I have been doing research for my play that takes place in the Castro area of San Francisco during the first part of the 1980's. What place it once was, decimated by AIDS.
I am back from Wilsonville. I could not find THE COSMIC MAN anywhere in that gigantic store! Everytime I go there I see the DVD of THE COSMIC MAN, but now that I want to buy it, it can't be found! Arrgghh..but I still came back with some goodies...HERCULES THE AVENGER, MAGIC VOYAGE OF SINBAD, HERCULES AGAINST THE PIRATES, THE CRAWLING HAND, DAY THE EARTH FROZE, ACAPULCO A GO-GO, and WILD GUITAR
Sorry, just got the new OZ set....and he's MUCH hotter in OZ than SVU
Well, you also just see so much "more" of Mr. Meloni in "OZ" than on "L&O:SVU".
;)