Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 18, 2020, 12:17:50 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had their whole damn foot in the water, and now it is time for you to post until the foot in the water cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: CATALYST!
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'night
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Good night, Jane.
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Today, I get to sleep in. As far as I know, I have no plans! I don't know if the whole family is getting together for lunch/dinner, but I'll find out after I wake up. Otherwise, I'll just watch TV and/or do laundry and/or work on burning some Blu-rays and or DVDs. :)
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But now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I am very saddened by the news of John Lewis' death. I admired him enormously.
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DR JohnG, I saw Zizi Jeanmaire in her big Broadway flop, the early 1980s revival of Cole Porter's musical Can-Can. To be kind, it was a real stinker, from its disco musical arrangements to its dreadful faux-nightclub musical staging. Poor Jeanmaire was not very good, and my close personal friend Avery Schreiber and Pamela Sousa in the Hans Conreid and Gwen Verdon roles were the only bright spots.
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I slept quite poorly last night, so there musat be an HHW cycle of poor sleep going about.
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DR TCB, it's nice to have you back.
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I got a funny email this morning from a friend who's reading Bastard Out of Carolina and horrified by the pedophilia and incest. I told her to stop reading it.
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I have no plans for today. Temperatures are into the 90s today so I do not plan on stepping out. Once the cleanup is finished, I plan to be a lazy slob with three slothful cats to lounge with me.
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TOD
Wait Until Dark
La Cérémonie
Night of the Hunter
The Cat and the Canary
North by Northwest
No Country for Old Men
Shallow Grave
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Kitty cleanup is over. I need to make the bed and vacuum, which must wait till it's past 9:00am.
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Today would have been my mother's 97th birthday.
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BODY DOUBLE
I saw it in a theater when it was first released, and, according to my inventory list, I have it among my 4000+ DVDs..though I've never watched it on DVD.
I really have no memory of the picture.
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T.O.D.
I like most of Hitchcock films. Even those of them that are not his best, are certainly interesting to watch.
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Good morning, all.
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I'm pretty sure I saw Body Double at the theater. I didn't see it again till the Twilight Time release came around, and all I'd actually remembered of it by then was that a bunch of stuff took place in the Chemosphere house. But boy, did it all come rushing back. Yes, that Beverly Hills scene is beyond the pale, but I also hate it because that hideous arcade they put up on the grounds of the Luau restaurant had always pissed me off. From my perspective, that was the start of the downfall of the Beverly Hills we knew and loved in the '60s and '70s (the '70s for me).
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I can list my favorite thrillers pretty easily by taking notes at my shelves, so I'll try to do that later. I doubt that there's anything significant not represented there.
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Here's something I never knew existed: Menotti's one-act opera The Medium from a 1948 telecast with Marie Powers, the roller-skating diva who created the role of Madame Flora.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6Ugouya0o&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0eCNLZ7wlwp4rOpMzU7xOKRI7DzmMe-glR3wf3hTxboZNNESJ-OpvxxU4
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Wow. Thank you for finding and posting that!
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I would imagine that every time DR ELMORE goes shopping, he has to make a CATALYST.
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Last night's show went well according to posts on the Facebook, so hopefully tonight's Hamelt will also be a success.....
Traffic noise seems to be the only down side - but what is Shakespeare without a semi truck, a loud car radio, and a lawn mower or two?
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Good morning.
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Four-mile walk done. I'm in for the night.
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DR Cillaliz: Juan Martinez was disbarred.
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I would imagine that every time DR ELMORE goes shopping, he has to make a CATALYST.
Or a CATALONG.
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Good morning, all.
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I must get up.
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Two!
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I'm up, I'm up - six hours of sleep, and must now away.
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It's already too hot to do anything.
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TOD:
Rififi
Purple Noon
Coup de Torchon
Inside Man
North by Northwest (though, as Druxy said, all of Hitchcock's thriller fit)
The Manchurian Candidate
Peeping Tom
Wages of Fear
The French Connection
M
Chinatown
The Third Man
Old Boy
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I may have to watch a thriller or two later today. I've got Purple Noon and M both waiting to be watched.
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TOD:
North by Northwest
Psycho
Foreign Correspondent
"The Unlocked Window" episode of The AH Hour.
Purple Noon is a good choice.
Don't Look In the Basement
Homicidal
....to start with....
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We just watched Orson Welles' THE STRANGER, which he directed and co-starred with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.
We watched it again because I was talking to somebody who thought it was a lousy thriller.
I disagreed, so I put on my DVD, and I still think it's excellent.
You?
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Good afternoon!
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Four-mile walk done. I'm in for the night.
;D Sleep well.
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We just watched Orson Welles' THE STRANGER, which he directed and co-starred with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.
We watched it again because I was talking to somebody who thought it was a lousy thriller.
I disagreed, so I put on my DVD, and I still think it's excellent.
You?
I agree with you.
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We just watched Orson Welles' THE STRANGER, which he directed and co-starred with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.
We watched it again because I was talking to somebody who thought it was a lousy thriller.
I disagreed, so I put on my DVD, and I still think it's excellent.
You?
It's been a long time. Don't remember much about it. Good reason to revisit it.
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We just watched Orson Welles' THE STRANGER, which he directed and co-starred with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.
We watched it again because I was talking to somebody who thought it was a lousy thriller.
I disagreed, so I put on my DVD, and I still think it's excellent.
You?
I agree with you.
Yes! I have heard the criticism that it’s sub-par in some way, but I love it.
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In the last issue of Gramophone, there was an article on Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." They wrote highly about Leonard Pennario's recording with Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops. I'm listening to it at the moment. So beautiful!
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There was an obituary in the Washington Post for a classical music composer named Marga Richter. Had never heard her work before. Thank goodness for YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMlu1iqAd8
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Back from driving around, picking up packages, Gelson's, and I'm now relaxing, having finished finessing the commentary. In about an hour I have about ninety minutes' worth of work to do and do it I shall.
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I was hot, but not too hot when I watered earlier. Only 95. I might be able to walk later.
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DR DRUXY I enjoy THE STRANGER as well...it is a unique entertainment. It's one of my favorite Loretta Young performances.
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I finally got to see Hamilton on Disney Plus. I loved it. I highly recommend watching it with the subtitles. I really enjoyed having the lyrics.
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Starting to watch a recent thriller, Dark Waters. It's about the attorneys who went up against DuPont. And it's a decent flick but one with too many irritating qualities to make it as effective as it should be.
It starts with telling us what the film is based on, so there's no suspense about the outcome. Then it was film in a dark and grainy way that makes it look like a 1970s PBS documentary, just to give us its creds. Characters are forsaken for caricatures.
Most of the actors are fine, including Mark Ruffalo in the lead, but to what end?
I seem to recall BK had some problems with the picture. I just forgot what. Guess I'll look it up.
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BK had no problems with the picture. In fact, he loved it. So, go know.
Make up your own mind.
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I do remember really liking Dark Waters - a director I like, I think. Don't remember much about it, however. I may still have the screener here somewhere.
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Finished with all the work I had to do, so that's nice. Eating tuna sandwiches while pondering why in HELL we're still on page two.
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I do remember really liking Dark Waters - a director I like, I think. Don't remember much about it, however. I may still have the screener here somewhere.
Yup. Todd Haynes.
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Very interesting side story from the movie: I won't use Teflon because it can kill the bird. Seems it's doing a lot of things to others as well.
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Very funny that the West Virginia setting in the movie was actually filmed in Hamilton, Ohio, not far from Elmore's and Ginny's Middletown.
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Very interesting side story from the movie: I won't use Teflon because it can kill the bird. Seems it's doing a lot of things to others as well.
I feel concerned I cooked with it when the kids were young.
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I managed to get 45 minutes of walking in before the heat took over.
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I didn't feel like doing much today and it looks like I didn't.
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One more post ...
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Three!
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Hello, 5 guests!
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Tonight's thriller is a a nifty noir from Robert Wise called Born to Kill with Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor. The first 10 minutes offers some interesting sites of Reno when it was the divorce capital of the country.
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Finished rewatching the De Palma documentary.
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I'm watching the rebroadcast of The Culling that my friend pug wrote and streamed last night. I think this is just a rebroadcast of last night's showing, not the actors doing the whole show live again.
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I'm watching the rebroadcast of The Culling that my friend pug wrote and streamed last night. I think this is just a rebroadcast of last night's showing, not the actors doing the whole show live again.
I was wrong. They are performing the show again. One of the actors has a different shirt on.
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I'm now finishing up The Searchers, which I got from the library.
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The bird, however, wants to go to bed. So, he's squawking up a storm.
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I have another 25 minutes left. And I win. Because I say what goes.
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Where is everybody today?
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Hi, George.
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It says you're here.
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Cranberries!
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Underpants!
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Sasquatch!
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Since I haven't shaved in a few months, I am told I resemble that last remark.
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Haven't seen the need to.
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It gets kinda hidden behind a mask.
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I'm still seeing people at stores without masks, even though the governor has ordered them.
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And the stores supposedly have mask-only policies.
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I wonder what it will take.
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Hi, George.
Hi, John.
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It says you're here.
Yes, I am. :)
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Since I haven't shaved in a few months, I am told I resemble that last remark.
Ditto and ditto!
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Haven't seen the need to.
And ditto, again!
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It gets kinda hidden behind a mask.
Exactly!
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I'm still seeing people at stores without masks, even though the governor has ordered them.
Same here. :P
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And the stores supposedly have mask-only policies.
Yup.
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I finished up Terry McMillan's new book, It's Not All Downhill from Here. Interesting, but not great read. What I did like is that she makes it helpful for readers to learn more about things that might affect them in later life. The main character is diagnosed with diabetes, and there's a lot of information about what that means, how to take it seriously and what it means if you don't. If it helps anybody, then all the better for it.
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I wonder what it will take.
Probably something needs to happen in their particular personal families for them to care enough to care for others. ::)
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Let's move on ...
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Four!
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Delta has announced a weird policy for those who refuse to wear masks. You have to undergo a private evaluation before you're allowed to board. If you fail, you're out.
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I finished up Terry McMillan's new book, It's Not All Downhill from Here. Interesting, but not great read. What I did like is that she makes it helpful for readers to learn more about things that might affect them in later life. The main character is diagnosed with diabetes, and there's a lot of information about what that means, how to take it seriously and what it means if you don't. If it helps anybody, then all the better for it.
Sounds kind of interesting. I just placed a hold on this book. There's a waiting list, though.
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Delta has announced a weird policy for those who refuse to wear masks. You have to undergo a private evaluation before you're allowed to board. If you fail, you're out.
Very interesting.
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I interviewed Terry McMillan back when her first book, Mama, came out. She was coming to Catskill to do a reading.
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I was on vacation, so I missed her. So did everyone else. No one attended.
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I interviewed her again when A Day Late and a Dollar Short came out. We had a fun talk over the phone. When we met, she couldn't believe I was a white boy. She was also surprised I had a pristine copy of Mama from way back when, which she autographed for me.
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There was a special printing of the first paragraph from A Day Late ... on a lovely piece of poster board to commemorate her appearance. I have a framed, signed copy of that in my living room.
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And on that note, I'm going to bed.
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Good night, all.
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Pretty cool stories, John!
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Since I haven't shaved in a few months, I am told I resemble that last remark.
:D
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I finished up Terry McMillan's new book, It's Not All Downhill from Here. Interesting, but not great read. What I did like is that she makes it helpful for readers to learn more about things that might affect them in later life. The main character is diagnosed with diabetes, and there's a lot of information about what that means, how to take it seriously and what it means if you don't. If it helps anybody, then all the better for it.
Sounds kind of interesting. I just placed a hold on this book. There's a waiting list, though.
I should probably read it cuz I have been eating too much candy lately.
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I was on vacation, so I missed her. So did everyone else. No one attended.
That is sad.
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Pretty cool stories, John!
Yes they were :)
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I have not read any of her books.
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Page four? Really?
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Listening to the Mahler sixth in a performance I hadn't heard by Leinsdorf RCA Living Stereo - it's pretty great.
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'night
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Good evening.
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I received my ballot in the mail today for the August primary.
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We are a 100% mail-in State.
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There are 40 names on the ballot for the job of governor!
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I don’t believe I have ever seen more than 8 names on the ballot.
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40 candidates!!
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If I had known, I would have thrown my name into the fire.
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If I voted for me and my sister voted for me, I would probably have gotten more votes than half of these yo-yos will get.
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U N D E R P A N T S !
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One more post.
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Page 5
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Oh no!
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Alone again,
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Naturally!
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I went to Safeway today, and almost 100% of the employees and the customers.
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About the only exception to the rule was one man, who happened to be one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen in person.
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The thought of telling him to cover his face with a mask was probably the farthest thought from my mind.
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He was dressed all in black. It looked like a uniform of some kind. Possibly a nurse at one of the hospitals.
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He knew I was
drooling staring at him, but he didn’t seem to care..
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There are 40 names on the ballot for the job of governor!
Yikes! I got my ballot and booklet, but I haven't looked at them yet.
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I may go back to Safeway at 4:00 pm on every Saturday for the rest of my life.
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There are 40 names on the ballot for the job of governor!
Yikes! I got my ballot and booklet, but I haven't looked at them yet.
I have never seen anything like it.
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I went to Safeway today, and almost 100% of the employees and the customers.
Almost 100% of the employees and the customers? Really??
;)
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About the only exception to the rule was one man, who happened to be one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen in person.
Wow! I'm jealous. I've only seen really beautiful men in por...I mean, online! ::)
;D
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I may go back to Safeway at 4:00 pm on every Saturday for the rest of my life.
I think I'd do that, too.
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I wouldn’t have looked at the ballot yet, but I saw in the front of the Voter’s Guide that the governor listings took up forty pages.
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Good night, George.
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I wouldn’t have looked at the ballot yet, but I saw in the front of the Voter’s Guide that the governor listings took up forty pages.
Amazing. I wonder how many are Rs and how many are Ds.
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Good night, Tom.
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I'm up, I'm up - oh, wait...
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I missed TCB.
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I gotta tell you.
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New notes are up.
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And so am I.