Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 3 => Topic started by: bk on March 01, 2005, 11:58:17 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes have disappeared within you... my goodness that was poetic - and now it is time for you to post until the disappearing cows come home. To it, and to it with haste.
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And the word of the day is: MALAPROP!
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Not MALA POWERS, mind you, no, the word of the day is MALAPROP! So, let's have some prime examples of MALAPROPS.
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I have a question for BK:
"Would'ja like a puppy, mithter?"
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Guy Haines needs a puppy named Bruno!
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Good Morning!
Done for the night. I'm hoping to be up by 9:00 so I can finish putzing around here, run a few errands, then be on the road to Greensboro by Noon. I don't really have to be in Greensboro by any specific time tomorrow, but I do want to get here before the rush hour. There's an audition room walk-thru at 6:00 so I can the piano out. And then there's a welcome reception at 9:30. That's about it for tomorrow. I just want some time to settle into my hotel room, and possibly get a workout in before the walk-thru...
-Then come Thursday, I basically go from 9:00am-10:00pm three days in a row. I do have a lunch break in there, but I run my workshop during that slot - "Lunch with Jose" - literally! But there is a nice dinner break, but I usually end up watching some of the dance callbacks just for a change of pace. ;)
I'm looking forward to the whole convention. And for any interested DRs, here's the website for the organization, convention, conference, auditions, etc.
http://www.setc.org
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OH!
Very cool news on Playbill.com regarding some upcoming Sondheim releases:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91477.html
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Questions for Ask BK, Ask DR Day:
Where has the time all gone to?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh? Why did I ever leave Ohio?
What's love got to do with it?
Were you there?
-Blame it on all the dust bunnies!
???
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MALAPROP!
I have finished The Letter and shall now watch The Stamp.
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Real question for Ask BK, Ask DR Day...
Is there any thing/collection/stuff that you've been holding onto for years, and just can't seem to let go of? -Even though you know it can't possibly have any lucrative monetary value... And the sentimental value is also in question as well.
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DR SWW - The pups are adorable! If I actually stayed home - wherever that is - for more than two weeks at a time...
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MALAPROP!
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Real question for Ask BK, Ask DR Day...
Is there any thing/collection/stuff that you've been holding onto for years, and just can't seem to let go of? -Even though you know it can't possibly have any lucrative monetary value... And the sentimental value is also in question as well.
I have tons of stuff in storage, very little of which I "need" - but I seem to never get rid of it. Old magazines, 16mm films I never watch and will most likely never run again, all that kind of stuff. Nothing with real sentimental value there. But I have lots of personal memorabilia that has little value other than sentimental.
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And now, I sleep...
Goodnight.
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I like puppies as long as they're fully trained.
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I'm dancing the Irish Jig and the Polish Jag.
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Thanks, Jose, for the information on Playbill.com regarding the new Sondheim releases. The "Sondheim Sings" series by PB Classics sounds particularly interesting.
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Is anyone attending the Wall to Wall Sondheim free event at Symphony Space in New York on March 19th? It starts at 11a.m. and runs for 12 hours or so. Sounds great!
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I've had the Sondheim demos for years - some of them are very interesting, others are somewhat interesting, and some are... well, yes.
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MALAPROP!
Let's have some.
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Well, if no one wants to play, I guess I'll just toddle off to the bedroom environment and get my beauty rest.
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Well, BK, you are the pineapple of politeness.
MALAPROP!!
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Finally!
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I reprehend most of what you say.
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There is a bookstore in North Carolina by the name of, you guessed it, Malaprops.
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Is anyone attending the Wall to Wall Sondheim free event at Symphony Space in New York on March 19th? It starts at 11a.m. and runs for 12 hours or so. Sounds great!
If anyone goes, can you sneak in a tape recorder?? ::) Unless someone knows if this is going to be officially recorded.
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(http://www.haineshisway.com/community/attachments/malaprop.jpg) (http://malaprop.org/)
Click on it! It works! ;D
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I plan to be there from the time it starts until they kick me out the door. In recent years, people could stay for as long as they wanted, but with Sondheim, I suspect they will have time limits.
The schedule of performers/songs is finally posted at
www.symphonyspace.org
Have not heard if an official recording is in the works.
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Well I will start the day with a malapropism in Franch:
Quelle frommage!
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DRJOSE the Sunday paper is full of ads for your show coming to Indy, but I didn't see a mention of your name, an oversight no doubt.....put together by the oversight committee.
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Ah - yes THE PALM BEACH STORY....all those lines AND this one to Mary Astor:
"I love that hat on you, it makes you look like you have a chin."
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(http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/engel/angel-smiley-026.gif)
Page TWo Dance
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I will save my ASK BK question until later.
And then there is of course - fractured French for "Your Fly is Open":
Le mem chose.
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DRs SWW & derBRUCER are storing up stars in their crowns.
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Dear BK, I recommend you TUMI’s overnight bag. The brand is well-known for good travel stuffs, as many DRs may know, with various types of bag and trunk. Their goods will fulfill your requirements, I think.
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DR JRand, I like Page Two Dance. CUTE!
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Good morning, all!
Each female creature whom I teach
Develops delicate, dainty, shapely speech
And a verbal style as lurid as you've ever known.
For a more than ordinary glorious vocabulary
Is a very very necessary thing to own
Her adjectives are very fine,
The only things she ever will decline.
There'll be no dangling proposition with a girl of mine,
And to use the double negative disturbs her slumber so
That no girl of mine has ever said no twice in a row.
Men stare but she's quite unaware
As she chooses her words with scrofulous care.
Each female creature whom I teach
Develops delicatre, dainty, shapely speech
And the skill to be illicit when she's grown fullblown.
For a more than ordinary, glorious vocabulary
Is a very very necessary thing to own.
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I will try to see some of Wall to Wall Sondheim but I have another engagement on the evening of March 19th, Dear Penny O's show!
I'm sure that there will be some kind of recording although I doubt that the ENTIRE evening will be on CD. The entire thing may be recorded for posterity but things like the interview segments probably won't make it to sale.
Saw Spamalot last night. It's crazy, absurd, rude and over the top fun. If you like the movie, I think you'll like the show. If you didn't like the movie, then you should probably not see it. They have put whole scenes from the movie right there on stage at the Shubert, things like the French Taunter (I fart in your general direction), the Black Knight (it's only a flesh wound), the Knights Who Say Ni (ni, ni, ni) and other new stuff. David Hyde Pierce has a great number about how to succeed in New York on Broadway. It's running for another few weeks in previews and then will open, I think, to very good reviews. Michael Shayne, unless you know someone you will most likely have to pay full price for your ticket (not that there is anything wrong with that) since it's one of the few shows not on TKTS. I predict it will be the big hit of the season. I just hope it doesn't push Dirty Rotten Scoundrels under because that show opens tomorrow and I think it's just as deserving of attention with some great comic performances by Norbert Leo Butz, Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara, as well as John Lithgow and Sherie Rene Scott.
Anyway, I have no questions at the moment and I need to get to work.
Later, gaters.
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When did Sony buy BMG? Wow! What catalogue! Both companies produced the majority of the cast albums over the years. It will be interesting to see what they do with their newly expanded catalogues.
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When I mentioned (in jest) yesterday that the Christian right could go after Bambi for sleeping with Faline without benifit of marriage and then the breakdown of the Fantasia sequences by S Wood White downright scary. That if you look close enough at anything you can find objectionable material.
I list S. Woody White's lst again.
Fantasia is the worst film Disney ever made!
It starts out all right, with that Tocatta and Fugue by Bach. But then the nasty stuff gets going.
The Nutcracker Suite contains nudity!
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is all about witchcraft!
Evolution is preached during The Rite of Spring!
The Pastoral Symphony exposes us to pagan mythology!
The Dance of the Hours is an ode to beastiality!
The Devil himself is celebrated during Night on Bald Mountain!
But the worst is saved for last, with Ave Maria. Yes, my brothers and sisters, we are reduced to...papism!
Oh, the shame, the shame.
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Pinocchio:
Why would a single old man want to have a pre-adolescent BOY? You can read a lot into that. Maybe that is why this is one of Michael Jackson's favorite stories.
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Sleeping Beauty:
The three fairies and Maleficent who practices the black arts.
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DR MBarnum: I should say Akira Kobayashi has a high tone voice which is ill-matched to MITE-GUY, and you will feel his individual singing vioce to be somewhat strange. Hope you’ll enjoy his CD in any case.
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MALAPUP
Benedict bids you good morning:
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87519657.jpg)
der Brucer
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Regarding the question of the day:
1940s ties. I have a whole box full. I used to wear them quite often about 4 or 5 years ago..such great colors and art deco designs...but I don't wear ties as much anymore, for some reason the older I get the more uncomfortable ties feel...so, I still hold onto them as they are so beautiful...but there they sit..in a box in the closet...about 60 or 70 of them!
They used to garner quite a premium price on Ebay, but now not so much.
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Benedict is a little cutie!
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Oh, baby PUPPIES!!!
I would love to have a dog again... finally got over 7 years of grief for my dear departed George. Some day, when I don't live in my car, I NEED another dawg. Dang! That puppy is cute. Love them puppies!!!!
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AMAZING RACE TALK!
Wow, what a great season premiere. I loved it!
My favorites are Rob and Amber. But I see a few other teams to cheer for. And some I will surely dislike. Didn't care for the team who got eliminated.
Btw, one comment. How stupid can any team be to just start digging in a pile WITHOUT looking at what times are available. Those teams deserve to lose. Totally stupid (except for the one team who was lied to).
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Good Morning, DP (Dear Puppy) Benedict!
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Good Morning!
I'm up!
And now I must putter around the apartment for a bit, then make a quick trip to the grocery store, then fill my gas tank, then get on 95S to 85S to 40W to Exit 217. -It's actually one big diagonal from my apartment!
Laters...
From Greensboro!
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MALAPUP
Benedict bids you good morning:
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87519657.jpg)
der Brucer
AAAAWWWWW!!!!
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I often use this malaprop I learned from Slip Mahoney:
"It's an optical delusion!"
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And I often use, 'Hey! I resemble that remark!"
same source I believe
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I believe I've misspelled his name, and der Brucer has picked up on the misspelling. His name should be spelled Benedick, with a "k" at the end instead of a "t". His full name should be Benedick William Shakespaw.
(Yes, I now believe dogs should be given full names. Calling our terrier Michael Augustus Snips had a distinct advantage when he was little, because after yelling out his full name when he'd misbehaved, it was impossible to scold him much more - I was simply too winded!)
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For years, THE PALM BEACH STORY was the one famous Sturges picture I hadn't seen, and I kept missing it every time it came on TV.
Finally, the public library downtown had a Sturges festival, and I first saw TPBS in 16mm in their small theater. Absolutely loved it. I've seen it several times since then and always find it monumentally entertaining.
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The soap opera I watch, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, features actress Ilene Kirsten whose character Roxie speaks one malaprop after another. They use her sparingly, but it's always a treat when she's on because everything that comes out of her mouth is priceless.
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Here's a question for one (our esteemed) and all (everyone else):
What smells make you nausious?
Puppy poop does not make me nausious, for example. But I cannot stand the smell of gin. (This is particularly awkward, because der B loves a good gin martini, two olives please. :-\)
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The Sondheim sings series sounds very intriguing, and I'll look forward to getting it. I've always thought his rendition of "Anyone Can Whistle" on that first celebration of his work is among the best and most heartfelt recordings of that song.
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Here's a shot of Mala and a prop:
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Here's a shot of Mala and a prop:
Thanks, DR Ron. Gave me my first big laugh of the day.
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Yes, MattH. That "Anyone Can Whistle" is brilliant. The liner notes on the LPs suggest he is crying as he sings. That set has several definitive performances, in my mind.
How many words are there in common usage like "malaprop", that come from a character's name in a play?
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Yes, MattH. That "Anyone Can Whistle" is brilliant. The liner notes on the LPs suggest he is crying as he sings. That set has several definitive performances, in my mind.
Several years ago (like a decade or more ago), a friend sent me an audio cassette of the complete concert from that evening, and there was certainly some BAD singing on that night, too (Kurt Peterson as I recall going horribly off pitch), that mercifully got left off the recording. Jack Cassidy got scrubbed from much of that recording from that evening unfairly. He had some really good moments.
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There are several smells that make me nauseous. Really bad BO (I've stood next to some folks who had such bad BO that I almost fainted). Tar. Skunk. And certain exotic foods.
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How come there's no one here but Joey?
MALAPROP!
I had a nice sleep, and now I'm rarin' to go. As soon as I get past the groggy stage.
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I love a marching band, especially the drums, maintaining a brisk decadence.
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Marge had just latently arrived at U.C.-Berkeley, but everyone expected she'd come out of her shell by spring.
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A couple of Malaprops from Mrs. Malaprop from Sheridan's The Rivals:
"sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"
and...
"She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."
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I'll never forget the first time I had a flatulent tire, and the terror of slowing the car down and moving off the road.
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Aww. The puppies are darling.
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Since it's question day and we're talking malaprops, how about misinterpreted song lyrics? My favourite is a friend of mine that thought: "And Windy has storky eyes..."
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I have no question today, so instead, here is a photo from my walk this morning:
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The Lovely Wife is finally getting around to emptying photos from as far back as November off her camera-phone. Here something from our London trip that a few folks should recognize.
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Here's the evil cat Mosby the Grey Ghost
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And one more:
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Mosby is very handsome.
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Here's one of Tewkes the wonder-dog!
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BABY PUPPY TUMMY FUZZ!! ;D ;D
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And cute kitty cat, too!
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Song lyric: "What's Love Got to Do With it" has a lyric that has often been heard to read: "What's love but a second hand in motion..."
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Re: The Oscar-cast...and three of the best song nominee performances -- if anyone had any doubts about Beyonce's talent before Sunday night, all those doubts can now be confirmed.
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Here's the evil cat Mosby the Grey Ghost
adorable
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Here's one of Tewkes the wonder-dog!
He certainly looks like a wonderful dog!
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Or, here is Tewkes for those without anamorphic/widescreen HDTV :D:
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And here's Mosby:
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And, oh-what-the-hey!, here's BigBen:
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An interesting editorial in the LA TIMES today about another Gil Cates Oscar faux pas. The reason the best song Oscar winner sang during his acceptance speech...Cates opting for Banderas and Santana to perform his song instead of the composer who sang it in the film, because once again Cates went with what he thought was the ratings coup, despite the fact the two chosen performers somewhat made hash of the song (I couldn't hear the melody line in all Santanna's twanging...it was orignally done on an acoustic guitar). Snubbing the original composer and singer of the song to perform it in favour of inappopriate star power has caused a bit of a flap in the South and Latin American press.
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I liked what he did....it was nice to hear how the song SHOULD sound.
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Big Ben stands by the River Thames...and will as long as the Thames is there!
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California Girls - "lipstick on the seat California Girls"
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And the River Thames stands by Big Ben. No matter WHAT Big Ben does, the River Thames always stands by him.
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One of My favorite maloprisms .. from Much Ado About Nothing
DOGBERRY
O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
redemption for this.
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Page Four Dance
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Better yet, a doggy dance for the puppies
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You say "two mottoes" and I say "tomatoes"!
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And here are three flamingoes for those who love more-More-MORE such stuff:
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Not sure if others had this problem. But page three took forever to load for me. I think it's too many pics on the same page. :(
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Such wonderful pictures today! Puppies and kitties and flowers and Big Ben.
I can't see a picture of Big Ben and NOT look for Konga nearby!
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Ha, I LOVE that puppy dance!
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Just read Vixmom's reviews of BK and WB at Amazon.com!
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There was that group of Marines going home.....they were, of course....wait for it....wait for it....they were:
...the happiest corps I've ever seen.
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Today would have been Dr. Seuss' (http://www.seussville.com/) 101st birthday!
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS!![/move]
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Such wonderful pictures today! Puppies and kitties and flowers and Big Ben.
I can't see a picture of Big Ben and NOT look for Konga nearby!
Ha, ha! I was thinking the same thing, Jrand54!
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Well I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but my grandma passed away about 3 am Eastern Time. I had gotten a call right before I went out to dinner at an older couple from our church's home last night. They called to tell me that she had quit responding and just had a glazed over look. Then I recieved another call at about 6 am with the news. We only found out about the cancer a week and a half ago so it was fairly quick. I am sad that she didn't last long enough for me to get up there to say my goodbye, but I take comfort in knowing that she didn't have to suffer anymore. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. They do mean quite a bit.
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This poem has always meant a lot to me. My sister introduced me to it when my first grandma died my sophmore in high school.
Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says:
"There she is gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
by Henry VanDyke (1852-1933)
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Song lyric: "What's Love Got to Do With it" has a lyric that has often been heard to read: "What's love but a second hand in motion..."
My lyric mishearing is from "I am Changing" from DREAMGIRLS.
For longer than I care to admit, I used to think the last line of the song was "and, oy gevalt, nothing's gonna STOP. ME. NOooooooooow!"
I never understood why a black girl from Detroit would be using Yiddish phrases.
Imagine my surprise when I finally learned that the lyric is actually:
"and I'll make a vow: nothing's gonna STOP...."
And I had seen various companies of DREAMGIRLS about 6 times....I should have known better.
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My thoughts are with you and yours, DR Joey.
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My condolences, Joey.
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Sorry to hear that, Joey.
The power of something like that wonderful poem to give some comfort is one of the amazing things about being human.
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Joey, you're wise beyond your years.
Condolences on the loss of your grandmother.
What a beautiful poem. Thanks for putting it up here.
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Sorry for your loss, Joey. Take care.
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Add my condolences too.
I must be on my way to pick up sheet music and do a couple of other errands. I'll be back shortly.
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Several years ago (like a decade or more ago), a friend sent me an audio cassette of the complete concert from that evening, and there was certainly some BAD singing on that night, too (Kurt Peterson as I recall going horribly off pitch), that mercifully got left off the recording. Jack Cassidy got scrubbed from much of that recording from that evening unfairly. He had some really good moments.
How soon they forget who sends what to who!
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Sending good thoughts to dRJOEY and his family. Lovely poem.
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An interesting editorial in the LA TIMES today about another Gil Cates Oscar faux pas. The reason the best song Oscar winner sang during his acceptance speech...Cates opting for Banderas and Santana to perform his song instead of the composer who sang it in the film, because once again Cates went with what he thought was the ratings coup, despite the fact the two chosen performers somewhat made hash of the song (I couldn't hear the melody line in all Santanna's twanging...it was orignally done on an acoustic guitar). Snubbing the original composer and singer of the song to perform it in favour of inappopriate star power has caused a bit of a flap in the South and Latin American press.
You could tell from his expression in the audience after Bandaras was finished that he was not happy AT ALL about what he had just heard.
When he won and did what he did, it confirmed in my mind that the man was livid over Bandaras' interpretation of the song.
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Not sure if others had this problem. But page three took forever to load for me. I think it's too many pics on the same page. :(
Nope, no problem at all for me, and I have the slowest computers in all christendom and a dial-up connection to boot. No problems here.
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How soon they forget who sends what to who!
DR Michael, you KNOW I would never intentionally slight you. It was purely a case of honest senility. Back in those Fidonet years, I had LOTS of folks sending me stuff, and I was sharing what I had with others in return.
Let me say clearly to all how much I continue to appreciate this wonderful gift from years ago. And now that I am reminded who sent it to me, it makes it even more special and revered.
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So sorry to read your news, Joey, but take great comfort that she did not linger. Though I was very, very sad to lose my parents within a year of each other, I felt mostly gratitude that their passings were peaceful and quiet and swift.
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From the LA TIMES article on Jorge Drexler:
"He insists he wasn't dissing Banderas' performance. On the contrary, he praised the actor for having the courtesy to give him a private preview before the show. The arrangement wasn't exactly Drexler's style, the songwriter concedes, espeically with Carlos Santana's incongruous electric guitar licks. But he gives Banderas an "A" for ardent."
He said: "I'm very bad at giving speeches, and I just really wanted to sing. since they didn't let me sing on the show but gave me forty-five seconds to do something, I just decided to do whatI do best."
He added: "I was happy with my life before the Oscars. The truth is, I earn my living honestly, writing songs on paper and playing the guitar in person. How many people can say they really enjoy their work? Is there a greater privilege in life?"
He apparently was a doctor before he went into music. I agree totally about the Santana guitar licks that made the song's melody indecipherable.
It's just another example of when a show or an event like this has a chance to choose between "class" or "crass", they'll always go with the crass.
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Last night my wireless connection failed me and I couldn’t come visit.
Jed congrats on four weeks of employment.
Jose I enjoy reading about your nephew and niece.
SWW may you find homes for those darling puppies and their mother very soon.
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You know who Russell Crowe is, right?
He's that actor from the Land of Oz...incontinent down under.
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What's everybody waiting for??
AND ONE FOR MAHLER!! ;D
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Benedict/Benedick is SO cute. If we ever get a dog again she should have short hair.
Too many smells to name that make me sick. A good number of food smells were added to my list once I became pregnant with Craig.
Mosby the Grey Ghost is very handsome. I see DRLaura agrees with me.
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Joey, my condolences to you and your family. The poem is a beautiful reminder the people we loose are always with us. I’m sorry you didn’t have one more visit with your grandmother, but you will now remember her as she was, not just the last weeks of her life.
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What a coincidence. I mention Ilene Kristen and her role as Roxie on ONE LIFE TO LIVE and voila! she gets an Emmy nomination today for featured actress in a dramatic series!
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Thanks to everyone. I just realized this, but she is the main reason I have such a love of Irving Berlin. She introduced me to White Christmas at a very young age and was the reason it became a tradition to watch it in our family. I may have to pop it in tonight in memory.
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Jane, do you use a 2.4gh phone? If so, you will continue to have wireless problems.
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EEEE. I AM VEXED. Somehow somewhere my entire book file in my favourites has disappeared. It had all my favourite book sites in it. Oddly, enough several of them ended up in favourites after the particular file disappeared. I've been able to gather most of the ones I use regularly, but it's very irritating. I have no idea how in indvertantly disappear. If I deleted it,it is no where in my recycle file.
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Aha! I just found it. It is somehow become a subfile under entertainment and sports. I have now taken it out of entertainment and sports (in which there is nothing that I've ever used) and made it's own individual file once more.
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God thing I found that file...It has about forty-five different sites bookmarked.
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I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your grandmother, Joey. My prayers are with your family at this difficult time.
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Jose asked about collections.
Of course, I have a lot of records, but that is an ongoing thing. Never will I stop! Even though I am running out of space.
I have kept all my old matchbox cars in a briefcase.
I have a hard time getting rid of books.
Archie comics.
The Gal's got a thing for lunchboxes...
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I doubt that my collection of Allison Hayes ephemera will ever be worth much. I also have lots of programs and playbills and newspaper clippings from various local shows I have been involved in - not of much interest to anyone but me.
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Okay, here is a question for any and all. What is the oddest item you own? Something you keep around perhaps because it is so strange. Or because you have no choice.
I have a sand dollar to which someone has expertly and seamlessly enameled the face of Cap'n Crunch.
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I doubt that my collection of Allison Hayes ephemera will ever be worth much. I also have lots of programs and playbills and newspaper clippings from various local shows I have been involved in - not of much interest to anyone but me.
Don't be too sure about that! As long as her movies exist, someone is going to treasure these items.
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Well I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but my grandma passed away about 3 am Eastern Time. I had gotten a call right before I went out to dinner at an older couple from our church's home last night. They called to tell me that she had quit responding and just had a glazed over look. Then I recieved another call at about 6 am with the news. We only found out about the cancer a week and a half ago so it was fairly quick. I am sad that she didn't last long enough for me to get up there to say my goodbye, but I take comfort in knowing that she didn't have to suffer anymore. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. They do mean quite a bit.
Dear Joey,
I am so sorry for your loss and I am so proud to know a young man of your spiritual strength and wisdom. You and your family will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.
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I have many odd items, which I keep around for a variety and also a hollywood reporter of reasons.
MALAPROP!
I got three count them three packages today - one had a new Joe Hisaishi soundtrack, one had three new DVDs from France, Berlin Express, Hot Spot (aka I Wake up Screaming) and Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, and finally, a DVD of Bitter Victory, un film de Nicholas Ray.
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Shucks! And all I got was a DVD of Mankiewicz's "Suddenly, Last Summer."
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Did somebody say collections? If I have something longer than five minutes, I become attached to it. I would say that most everything I collect either has senitmental, monetary, or research value to me.
There are, of course, the books...something like six thousand (estimate)
I also have a burgeoning bookmark collection...a very cheap hobby, as I collect them from almost every bookstore I go into...I say only a few are rare.
I have theatre programmes, I suspect, from almost every show I ever saw.
I have boxes of magazines...PLAYBOYS back from the sixties, old movie mags, play mags (A lot of Theatre Arts), Show magazine...
I have boxes and stacks of comic books that go back to the Silver Age and some even from the fifties (Talk about no monetary value, when I was a kid I tore the covers off my Tarzan comics to tack to my wall...so I have a stack of coverless Tarzans).
I stopped adding to my walking stick collection sometime ago. I have a very small, but odd collection of buttons, I have baseball cards dating from the seventies (I wish I still had the ones I collected in the fifties), I have boxes and boxes of personal memorabilia...clippings and all kinds of crap from my writing career, acting career, and high school stuff). I have a ton of vinyl, including 78s. Rolls of my posters from my own movies (one of these days I'll sit at the Courts show and charge an outrageous to sign them).
I have files and boxes of every working draft, every outline, every note I jotted down on a napkin or scrap of paper from my film and play scripts. I expect these will eventually be donated to my alma mater or whoever wants them.
I also have a couple of boxes of class notebooks and papers from high school and college. I recently went through this and chucked a lot of it out...I'll never need Algebra notes again. But a lot of them I just kept because along with my notes were tons of doodles and sketches I had done.
Perhaps the most useless collection that my wife and I share is the hoard of greeting cards that we have given each other over the years for the various holidays and special occasions. We have tried to do some winnowing of them in the last few years, but some of them are just hysterically funny or the sentiments and jokes we've written in them are just something that we can't part with...So they sit in boxes crammed in closets like the little firetraps they are...
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In "The Palm Beach Story," I loved the outfit Claudette Colbert came up with made up of Rudy Vallee's pajamas and a tablecloth or something. Very stylish.
Not only was Joel McCrea a wonderful leading man, he seemed to be a very nice man. He and Frances Dee had a lovely life. Did you ever read his interview with John Kobal? Most worthwhile!!!!
Kobal's interview with Ann Sheridan is breathtaking.
Bruce- in answer to your question, one goes to "The Little Gym Bag Sort of Thing with Lots of Pockets That Will Fit In The Overhead Storage Compartment" store.
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BK, you know what Orson Welles used to say..."The French critics come up to you and say, 'You are one of the three greatest directors ever.' I smile and nod as they continue: 'There is you, John Ford,...and Nicholas Ray.' I stop smiling. It's always that third name that kills you."
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Kerry, no one aged more beautifully than Frances Dee. She was a strikingly beautiful woman well into old age.
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DR Michael, you KNOW I would never intentionally slight you. It was purely a case of honest senility. Back in those Fidonet years, I had LOTS of folks sending me stuff, and I was sharing what I had with others in return.
Let me say clearly to all how much I continue to appreciate this wonderful gift from years ago. And now that I am reminded who sent it to me, it makes it even more special and revered.
BLUSH BLUSH
Actually my comment was very tongue in cheek. I was not slighted at all. There has to be a way to write things to make it not look serious.
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So sorry to hear about your grandmother, My thoughts and best wishes are with you at this very difficult time.
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The ads for "Bambi" say that it "is beautifully restored beyond its original brilliance." (emphasis mine) First, is this actually possible (kind of like 110%)? Second, the original was brilliant enough. Third, is it worth getting? Are there extras? I love "Bambi" although I can never watch it all at once-- it gets to me too much.
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My question is for BK and Elmoore. The cost of hiring studio musicians is expensive as everyone I am sure knows. In order to keep costs in line and not resorting to electronic substituting. I am wondering if the following is a viable solution to give a recording a fuller/symphonic sound with a smaller ensemble of players.
Can the orchestrator construct the parts so that the same players can be multitracked playing the instruments to give the more expansive sound.
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Did anyone here about Song buying the BMG (RCA) label and when did it happen?
This might be a plus to cast album collectors when a show has multiple recordings and they were recorded originally by Columbia and RCA the kings of the cast recordings.
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I have a cd of Sondheim sing Sondheim and he does have a pleasant voice. I am hoping that the demo material that is being release will have a lot of gems and have been remastered for cd.
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Does anyone know who has the rights to the Ben Bagley recordings?
How did he record the material? Was it multi-tracked so that is someone wants to re-release them they can "clean" them up?
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Michael, that is what my entire recording career is based on. I came up with the theory on the very first album - that we'd have two reed players, two trumpets, one French horn (later two), one trombone, and then we'd double them - in essence allowing the orchestrators to write for four reeds, four trumpets, two horns, and two trombones. Worked like a charm and now, of course, others do what we did. We did teach these B'way folks a trick or two. Same with the strings - we originally had three violins, one viola, one cello, and they'd go down three times, making a nice string section. When we finally began having the orchestra in the room all at the same time, I upped the number of violins to five and we only did two passes.
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The ads for "Bambi" say that it "is beautifully restored beyond its original brilliance." (emphasis mine) First, is this actually possible (kind of like 110%)? Second, the original was brilliant enough. Third, is it worth getting? Are there extras? I love "Bambi" although I can never watch it all at once-- it gets to me too much.
There is documentaries on the making of it, the restoration, the Disney Studio in 1941, the original trailer, a recreation of the Disney production meetings for Bambi, the art of Bambi. There might be others.
The restoration is beautiful, from what I watched yesterday.
Since this was done in technicolor it would have been interesting to see if they redid tge film in Warner's Ultra Resolution (or whatever they call it)
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Or was Michael having his tongue in cheek because he knew that's how we did it?
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Has Kerry been SKIPPING the notes??? I wrote about Bambi extensively the other day.
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Holy moley on rye - page six!
MALAPROP!
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It's all gray and drizzly out. I've finished writing for the day.
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NO No Bruce (and Nanette, too). I read the notes, and you did say how beautiful the movie was. I was trying to figure out (before going to Amazon to read about it) what would be taking up two discs since it's a short movie. And no matter how much I love "Bambi" and how beautifully it's restored, comments like "BEYOND its original brilliance" irk me.
As far as collections go, I think I have Rodzinski's, Jack's, Pogue's and BK's "all put togither." It is all pretty much worthless except to me. I figure that leaving all this stuff for others to go through when I'm dead is my revenge. I am trying to streamline my life somewhat. Although I will always keep (way too much) stuff, I am in the process of trying to pass on some of those things that I know others will enjoy as much or more than I. I figure it's time to share.
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Aha! I just found it. It is somehow become a subfile under entertainment and sports. I have now taken it out of entertainment and sports (in which there is nothing that I've ever used) and made it's own individual file once more.
I've done that many a time, accidentally doing a click and drag without realizing it.
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DR Joey - Sympathies to you and your family in the loss of your grandmother.
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My heart is with you, Joey. I lost my mother to cancer; I know how it hurts. May your family recover from the pain, and only have the joys to remember.
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"Bambi"...Third, is it worth getting? Are there extras? I love "Bambi" although I can never watch it all at once-- it gets to me too much.
We watched the DVD with the grandlads yesterday. It's wonderful!
Extras? Yes. Working from transcripts of the story meetings with Walt Disney, the meetings are recreated with artwork from the film. There's a "making of" piece; an explanation of the restoration process; an exploration of the archives with Andreas Deja; a review of 1942, the year Bambi was released. There's games and other stuff for the kidlets. Unfortunately, there's also plugs for next year's Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest, with Patrick Stewart playing Bambi's Daddio. Hopefully, that won't be as tragic as it sounds.
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Jane, do you use a 2.4gh phone? If so, you will continue to have wireless problems.
Well, I’m confused. We do have three 2.4GHz cordless phones but we don’t use them (or any dialup service to connect to the Internet. Our laptop uses a 2.4GHz wireless-G card that connects to a router that connects with the Internet. We use a single satellite for both desktop and laptop computers.
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Today was Reading Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, so I was asked to read to a class of second graders. I read to this same class a number of times last year on my days off and have gotten to read to them a few times this year. They're great kids, and I'll admit it's nice to be treated like a hero whenever I go visit them. I used to just read to my sisters' first grade classes, but I'm now asked by teachers I don't even know.
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My most useless collection is of magnets for the refrigerator. We haven’t had a magnetized frig in eight years. When we remodel our kitchen we will replace the cabinet facing over the refrigerator. I have been told we can put something in now that will magnetize the cabinet. An option Keith will never agree to. ;D
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Today we took Peggy and her pups to the local Wag-n-Wash. They're all a lot cleaner now, and seem to feel better.
Peggy and Benedick are doing fine. She's a sweetheart, and a good mother. He's definately the most courageous, adapting to having a leash on him, happy to greet people.
Baxter is very shy, but also an explorer. We never know where he'll be when we go downstairs. Bruno is the one we're worried about. He's not eating very much, and Mom is out of milk. (Her teets have tottered.) He loves to cuddle, though, and showed some interest in the world outside the car windows earlier.
And that's today's doggy report.
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DR Jane (and any other fans of The Kite Runner):
Cincinnati has a community-wide reading program that just announced TKR as this year's book. Here's the link:
www.cincinnatilibrary.org/samepage/2005/tkrbook.html (http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/samepage/2005/tkrbook.html)
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Baxter is very shy, but also an explorer. We never know where he'll be when we go downstairs.
Ben, don't tell Ant, but I heard the same thing.
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Just because you have a lot of something, does that make it a collection? If so, I have many inadvertent collections. Many of them just happen.
Thanks for all the "Bambi" reports. I'll get the DVD and skip the sequel.
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Ginny, great choice! The reviews don’t do the book justice. It would have been nice if the writers own words had been in a larger print, at least equal to the reviews.
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Kerry-LOL
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I guess I have a collection of bowties. I learned how to tie them and have worn them since I was 16. Exclusively. (well, I sometimes wear pants and a shirt ;)). What I mean is that I only wear long ties for an occasional job interview ( I have A tie) or for Halloween.
Some people I worked with didn't recognize me when I didn't wear a bowtie- I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I worked at one place and wanted to see how long I could go without repeating a tie. I quit counting after 10 months and was afraid to know how many ties I actually had. Being in the unemployed ranks with Jed, I don't have to wear ties everyday (and din't -as Ricky Ricardo would say-have to in my last two jobs). But I love the ties and wear them when I get the chance. My sister honored me by asking me to leave all of them to her so she could look at them and remember all the times with me. I thought that was sweet that anyone wanted them besides me.
Maybe I should have put a SNOOZE alert at the beginning of this post. ;)
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BK, both The Lovely Wife and I are warning you: You order onion rings, you're eating them all yourself. We've sworn off.
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I'm reading... I'm reading...
I'm in Greensboro... I'm in Greensboro...
I'm watching "American Idol"... I'm watching "American Idol"....
Laters... Laters...
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Can the orchestrator construct the parts so that the same players can be multitracked playing the instruments to give the more expansive sound.
DRMichael Shayne, that's what we did on the recordings for BK: 3 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, and we'd do three passes, sometimes more if BK liked it to be lush.
Two reeds, 2 trumpets, 1 horn, and one trombone would each do two tracks as well.
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And I read on down the posts and see Bruce already answered your question. So there!
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I'm reading... I'm reading...
I'm in Greensboro... I'm in Greensboro...
I'm watching "American Idol"... I'm watching "American Idol"....
Laters... Laters...
Is there an echo in the house?? ::)
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Okay, here is a question for any and all. What is the oddest item you own? Something you keep around perhaps because it is so strange. Or because you have no choice.
I have a sand dollar to which someone has expertly and seamlessly enameled the face of Cap'n Crunch.
I have a cable spool that my former supervisor (Norma) gave to me. She got it from her brother when they were younger. He had sanded and stained it and it's quite nice. He died in an accident (he worked as a logger) when he was in his 30s, I think (Norma is now almost 60). For some reason, my mom doesn't like it but I love it. I have no plans of ever getting rid of it.
As for collections, I sort of collect key chains. I used to collect them more actively but even now (a Barry Manilow reference!) just about every time a co-worker goes on vacation, they will probably get me something from where they went...it's cheap and they can get it anywhere...and I'm not choosy! ;D
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Jane, I posted about this yesterday. I was having a lot of trouble with my wireless connection. It turned out that my 2.4gh phone runs on exactly the same frequency as the wireless device for the computer. Therefore, the phone operating on the same frequency would cause frequent disruptions, where the wireless device wouldn't even "see" the cable modem. Once we realized that was the problem, I unplugged the phones and voila - no more problems. I bought new 5.8gh phones which are wireless friendly (the box even says it) as they operate on a completely different frequency.
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Is there an echo in the house?? ::)
Is there an echo in the house?? ::)
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DR Joey - My condolences to you and your family. And that poem is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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Onion rings? Never heard of 'em.
I'M on a diet, too, you know. Although, if I was at a place like Jerry's I might have them anyway. But not tonight, Josephine.
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Momentarily I shall be on my way to sup with the Pogues. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.
MALAPROP!
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Don't be too sure about that! As long as her movies exist, someone is going to treasure these items.
Me, me, me, me, me!
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Greetings from Greensboro!
I finally got on the road to Greensboro right before 1:00, and I was here just after 4:00. Gorgeous day for a drive. However, I have to wonder when the highway department of North Carolina will:
A) Repave the stretch of I-85 between the Virginia border and Henderson. It's beginning to look like a sketch for a Jackson Pollock painting with all the tar patching they keep doing and doing. And it doesn't look like any major work has been done to this stretch in about five or six years - or at least since I was working down at Duke on Eleanor.
B) When will all the work on the I-85 and SR70 exchange be finished? That, too, was started when I working on Eleanor. It's quite the project, and quite an awesome sight - BIG piles of earth and rubble off to the side of the road. WOW!
-But, again, it was a nice drive down.
The hotel is very nice, and I even managed to get a nice run in on one of the treadmills in the on-site Health Club.
I checked out the room, and it's going to be interesting. We were hear about five years ago, and they've remodeled in the meantime. Lots of new carpeting. Sound absorbing carpeting. But the piano is nice.
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OH! The "American Idol" elimination show was only 30 minutes... I was thinking it was an hour... In any case..
Two "shocks" for me for who got voted off this week - which means two people who got lucky and get to stay another week. Ah, well...
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OK - There's a reception upstairs for the Audition Staff... Open Bar!
;)
-Actually, I'm more interested in the dessert selection. I need some chocolate!
Laters...
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Oh, and I forgot to mention - it's raining again. Which means the roof repair may get put off until next week.
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Me, me, me, me, me!
See, JRand...there's always some whippersnapper ready to "inherit" the fruits of your labors.
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Yes, DR Kerry is streamlining...and I have just been the recipient of a lovely package in the mail today from him...some issues of old movie mags from the 50s and 60s..Woohoo! I LOVE looking through these! There are always the articles about the secret life of Rock Hudson or about "why George Nader" will never marry! Very dramatic, but never as spicy as one might imagine they should, or rather could be!
Thanks Kerry!!!!!!
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Oh, and DR Kerry, I will let you know what I think of the new Bambi DVD if mine ever arrives from Amazon.com (along with the ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE dvd)...I pre-ordered it but it would appear it hasn't even shipped yet! As JRand54 would say GRRRRRRRR!
I even sprung for the extra postage for quick shipping so that maybe I would have it on the release date!
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Tonight's "American Idol" results:
I have NO REGRETS about any one of them. There were two I thought should have left tonight, but there is always next week..................
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Oh, and DR Kerry, I will let you know what I think of the new Bambi DVD if mine ever arrives from Amazon.com (along with the ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE dvd)...I pre-ordered it but it would appear it hasn't even shipped yet! As JRand54 would say GRRRRRRRR!
I even sprung for the extra postage for quick shipping so that maybe I would have it on the release date!
You should contact them. Include your order number and state you PRE-ordered. They recently did that to me with a pre-ordered title -- something got hung up in their system.
They should also priority ship it to you and not charge you for shipping.
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Okay, here is a question for any and all. What is the oddest item you own?
Where should I begin? I have this Swedish Chef hat. Is that odd? And I have this ugly chicken pitcher that I love. And I have these fencing pants that say RICHARDSON on them. For some reason, the guys I fence with think that's odd.
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And I'm really sorry about your grandma, Joey.
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Or was Michael having his tongue in cheek because he knew that's how we did it?
Actually I have never had the honor or pleasure of seeing you record the musicians. Just the singers. So I didn't really know that was what you did. I know I like what you did, but I really didn't know it.
Now I do and I am a better person for it.
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Kerry, no snooze alert needed. I enjoyed reading about your ties. My grandfather only wore bowties. Some were very colorful. :D
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Rodzinsky I think the oldest item I own is a Ginny doll I was given for my fourth birthday.
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Bruce I tried finding your post from yesterday but couldn’t. Guess I should have reread today’s column. :-[
Do you find the reception on your new phones better? Sometimes it is difficult to hear or be heard when we use our phones. I really think it is the phone wires causing the problem, not the phones. What did you buy? We might go to Costco tomorrow, if so we will check out their phones.
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I left to go watch a DVD of an English wedding. Seems while I was gone everyone left. The wedding took place in a beautiful courthouse, unlike any courthouse I have seen in the States. It was fun watching the differences between our weddings and theirs.
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Hi elmore.
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Gotta go-'night.
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Well, I've been reading Ethan Mordden's new SING FOR YOUR SUPPER. After all the misinformation in his last book on my 1986 restoration with Tommy Krasker of Cole Porter's JUBILEE, he talks all about the show, relying quite a lot on the copy of my vocal score which I gave him in 1986, and never once mentions me! Well, what do you want from someone who writes a book on Rodgers & Hammerstein and in it acknowledges everyone in the world but the person who introduced him to Ted Chapin of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization? I suppose it's better that he isn't generating more wrong info on JUBILEE, and hopefully if we ever get a recording, I'll have a chance to set the record straight. On the plus side, he raves about the score, so that may generate some interest in it.
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Hi elmore.
Jane, Jane, Jane!
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Jane, thank you. You r grandfather sounds like a wonderful man. Bow ties can do that! :)
Michael, you are most welcome. I think I asked you this before, but what would you suggest for my first venture into Bollywood? Yes, I'm a virgin. (Where's TCB when we need him?)
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When Disney remasters one of their classics, Disney takes each individual frame and cleans it of dirt and debris. Other reviews I read, particularly Glenn Erickson's, mentioned that the film looked fantastic but not so overly scrubbed that brush strokes, etc were eliminated (which he said happened when SNOW WHITE was remastered). Perhaps my eye is not as discerning as his. They all look fabulous to me. But I thought the last remaster they did on BAMBI for laserdisc also looked terrific.
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None of the eliminated contestants tonight surprised me at all on AMERICAN IDOL, but there were far worse singers who are getting to stay around another week. I know their time is coming, however.
I thought we had mentioned yesterday that all elimination shows are now to be thirty minutes.
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Began SAD CYPRESS on DVD today. The most recent boxed set of POIROT mysteries are all feature length ones, and though I've read all the books they're based on, I have not seen any of these films, so it's a treat to see some new Suchet performances as Poirot.
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I believe I've misspelled his name, and der Brucer has picked up on the misspelling. His name should be spelled Benedick, with a "k" at the end instead of a "t". His full name should be Benedick William Shakespaw.
Whatever - I thought we were going for Monks who made booze.
Anyway, here is Benedick, waiting to go for his first walk.
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87619620.jpg)
He must be retarded - it took him almost two whole minutes to learn to walk on a leash :)
der Burcer
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And that's today's doggy report.
Well, not quite all of it!
A brisk breeze blew open the front door, and before I knew it, the upstairs dogs were GONE!
SWW got a rude awakening and I went searching for leashes to go on a neighborhood serach - Woody called out "I see Mikey in the woodedlot next door". I went out front and was immediately greeted by Marty and Buster who had been exploring the plowed lot - I said 'Buscuit" and they trotted right over and went inside. Before I could get in the car, Mikey (who had probably ehar the "B" word), came dashing up the street and he, too, went right inside.
Two to go - and Fletcher can't hear if you call :-[
Since Mikey had returned walking up the hill, I took off in the car down the hill. When I got to the very end (a cul-de-sac in the marsh), Bonnie came running out from a drive next to a house under construction - I called to her, but she dashed away out of sight - to reappear moments later with Fletcher in-tow. It's almost like she realizes he is deaf, sticks by his side, and helps him out of trouble :-*.
They both happily hopped in the car and we went home.
End of Tail.
der Brucer
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Back from Schwab's. The gentleman who started the restaurant eight months ago, Steve, has moved on. He got out while the gettin' was good. When Pogue and I first discovered Schwab's it was a major find. Great food, one of the best Caesar Salads in town, great meat loaf, personable staff. Well, I'm giving this restaurant another few months before it goes completely in the toilet. Both Pogue and I started with the half-Caesar. This was always a nice big portion served in a bowl. What we got was a few strands of lettuce. Worst of all, however, they changed the dressing. How stupid are these people. The new dressing was fairly blechhh-tasting. So, they gave up having one of the best Caesars and are now just one of the many restaurants to serve up a middling one. Pogue's ever-lovin' Julieanne had the sirloin strip salad, which she's had before and loved. Tonight's wasn't edible and she had to return it and get a chicken version. Pogue had the ever-reliable meat loaf and garlic mashed potatoes. He said that it appeared to him as if the potatoes were but a shadow of their former self. I had a bacon cheeseburger, which the waiter told me was the best burger in town. It was fine, but hardly the best in town. Their secret sauce was practically barf-inducing, so I used ketchup instead. The one thing that was excellent was the eight layer chocolate cake that the three of us split. I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone ever again.
Jane - I bought the Panasonic 5230 and I love the phones. Great clarity. And, best of all, it doesn't interfere with the wireless computer device. Whatever you get, just make sure it's 5.8gh.
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The busy dog-day is over, and the upstairs tribe contemplates their fate.
Marty and Mikey - glad to be out of the pound:
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87619610.jpg)
Bonnie and Buster - glad they weren't left behind in California:
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87619616.jpg)
Fletcher - just glad!
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87619613.jpg)
der Brucer
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Good evening all
I apologize for my E&T behavoir over the last two days. I got a bit of a shock when I returned to work on Monday. The family had been on vacation in Belize for two weeks, and mom's parents had gone with them. They liked it down there so much that they decided to buy a house there. Dad works for his father-in-law, who is now selling the busisness, which means dad is about to be unemployed. Long story short, next week is my last week of work, at which time I will be officially totally unemployed. :( :(
Now begins the more desperate search for work...
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The down-stairs tribe has demanded equal camera-time:
Can't a Lady get some peace and quiet around here?
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87619977.jpg)
der Brucer (who needs camera software that has a "fix blue-eye" button next to the "fix red-eye" one)
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The days of Schwab's are done.
We arrived and the place was almost empty. None of our friendly servers were there and when we asked about the manager, we found that he had also gone. That the concern has now fallen under new management. And once the food started arriving, it was apparent new management was not up to old management.
BK & I both got half-Caesar salads that were about a fourth of what a half Caesar salad used to be. And they had changed the dressing that had been so good. The flank steak in The Lovely Wife's salad which had been so delicious before was impossible to cut and nearly broke her tooth. After complaining, it was replaced with a dry, ordinary chicken. The waiter boasted that bacon cheeseburger BK ordered was the best in town. It wasn't.
I stuck with a dish that had always been good...the meat loaf over garlic mash. But the mash were no longer garlic nor particularly good. And the meat loaf wasn't as memorable either. The sauce seemed more ketchupy.
It seems like new management has already started to cut corners on the quality of the food while keeping the prices the same. Seems like they are going after a much more prosaic crowd and that this will become as indistinguishable as an Outback Steakhouse or an Applebee's or a Denny's.
BK & The Lovely Wife did like the heavy, dense, intense chocolate cake dessert which was a bit overwhelming for me (I like light, moist, and fluffy). But all the while we were eating, we kept lamenting we should have gone to Musso & Frank's instead.
But notwithstanding the food, the company was great as always and BK was in his usual rare form.
Oh, the diet coke tasted the same.
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Dear Guys,
Ditto, ditto and ditto! Only, the salad substituted for the stringy, chewy, inedible beef was a dry, paltry, unappetizing chicken thingy. Yecch! Be afraid...be VERY afraid!
This shoppe does not deserve the custom of ANYONE, except the inhabitants of Fleet Street, who expect a bit of trouble with the meat, the locale, and the proprietors.
Conversation with the Kritzmeister was great fun, however and made up for the indecent fare. Erudite, subtle, scatalogical....who could ask for anything more, I hear you query. Who could ask for anything more? well, let me tell you, dearey:
Got my diamonds, got my yacht, got BK to adore...
I'm so happy with what I got... I want MORE....!!!
Fish to all,
La Jolie Femme
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BK, I think it was a NINE-LAYER chocolate cake, but I doubt I'll be going back any time soon to find out.
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Jane, thank you. You r grandfather sounds like a wonderful man. Bow ties can do that! :)
Michael, you are most welcome. I think I asked you this before, but what would you suggest for my first venture into Bollywood? Yes, I'm a virgin. (Where's TCB when we need him?)
Hi Kerry,
Well it might all depend on your normal choice of movies...GUMNAAM, as was mentioned yesterday, is a good beginning point if you enjoy Agatha Christie and beach party movies...there there are the wonderful fantasy type films or soap opera dramas...or if you want something more modern then a good comedy or tearjearker or they have lots of shoot 'em up action films...let me know what types of movies you most enjoy and what vintage and I can suggest some titles for you....and then there is, of course, alway John Abraham's films!!
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Oh, Ann I am sorry! Yikes!
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So, they gave up having one of the best Caesars...
I presume a "best" Caesar has good Romaine lettuce with a dressing that includes anchovies and a coddled egg.
der Brucer (damn the salmonella - coddle away!)
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The flank steak in The Lovely Wife's salad which had been so delicious before was impossible to cut and nearly broke her tooth. After complaining, it was replaced with a dry, ordinary chicken.
Perhaps they thought she ordered "plank steak".
Did thay at least have the decency to pluck the chicken before serving? (I have this vision of a whole freeze-dried chicken mounted on a bed of wilted greens :o
der Brucer
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Good Evening!
DR Ann - ~~~~JOB HUNTING FINDING VIBES~~~~
DR DerB and SWW - The pics of the pups are precious!
BK and DR Pogue - Sorry about the decline and fall of Schwab's. Is the C.C. Brown's counter still open in that shopping "area"? Are any stores still open in that shopping "area"? -I just thought it was a bad way to lay things out especially considering that the shops are not visible from the street/sidewalk.
The reception was good. Only a small plates of sweets, but at least there were some brownies. However, there was this bowl filled with some spicy feta cheese, roasted red pepper dip - very yummy! After the reception, I was able to sneak back in the audition room and tickle the ivories for a while. I read through Jewish Thighs and my new Mamma Mia! book.
Now, I'm back in my room, did my stretching, and I'm heading to bed. Loooong day tomorrow - 268 auditionees!
Goodnight.
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Jose, some of the shops in the cavern have already closed for good. None of the others were open for business at 7:00 when we were there. The C.C. Brown's was closed long ago...on our second visit to Schwab's.
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Just because you have a lot of something, does that make it a collection? If so, I have many inadvertent collections. Many of them just happen.
A collection really needs to be intentional. My mother had a collection of bells, some of which she bought herself and many of which were given to her by her many friends.
I, on the other hand, have boxes filled with cooking magazines down in the basement. This is not a collection; this is a pile. :-\
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I have very sad news to report. Bruno has passed away.
Der Brucer went downstairs again shortly after his last post. The little fellow simply wasn't healthy enough to survive, and was permanently sleeping.
Peggy, too, had been sleeping, and wasn't aware that anything was wrong until after der B had quietly taken the body away. When der B went back down again, to make sure everyone else was fine, she began to realize that one of her puppies was missing. She checked Benedick and Baxter, rolling them over and sniffing them carefully, and then counted them again before trying to search for the missing Bruno.
Benedick is quite healthy, wolfing down lots of pouched puppy food, and he has a good strong bark. We're both watching Baxter carefully, because he doesn't seem to have as much of an appetite.
I know that these things do happen, but this is not a happy household all the same.
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Gee, that was unexpected sad news S.Woody. Losses seem to have been an unfortunate theme of the day around here. Bless Peggy's motherly heart.
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I suspect the entire Sunset+Vine complex is going to go bust. They are not getting people in. Given that Amoeba and the Arclight Cinemas, both of which do incredible business, are right across the street, they clearly have done something wrong.
Was it nine layers?
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Joey, I'm very sorry to hear about your Grandmother. My condolences to you and your family.
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S. Woody, that's very sad news, also.
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