Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 24, 2020, 12:25:05 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were actually not that long, and now it is time for you to post until the long, long cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: EUPHORIA!
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Topic of the Day: I must confess that I haven't listened to Donald's radio show in quite a while. I think I just forgot about it. :-\ Very sorry about that. I'm always listening to something at work, so I can easily listen to The Broadway Radio Show while I'm working. I just need to get back into the habit!
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But now, I'm going to bed...perchance to sleep. ;)
Have a good day, all!
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Thank you, DR TCB, for fixing and correcting my memory about Marlene Dietrich versus Greta Garbo!
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re: Schreker... It's always darkest before The Drawn.
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I just need to get back into the habit!
I can help with that!
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TOD: I, too, had frankly forgotten about Donald's radio program. Listening right now!
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It is sounding great. Long ago, I remember a silent gap between each selection or segment, but now it flows along seamlessly.
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Good morning, all!
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I have a bit of tidying up this morning, and I'm still waiting to hear from my urologist about blood work for my December CT-scan.
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I also need to see what local restaurants are delivering Thanksgiving dinners and get an order in for Thursday.
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BK, I've been thinking about that recording of H&G with two children in the roles. It's a marketing ploy. Two children could never sing those roles in an opera house over that Wagnerian orchestra without a lot of miking. Luckily, most mezzo-sopranos who sing Hansel also have the boy roles of Cherubino and Octavian under their belts.
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DR ChasSmith, the gossip at the time of Thomas Fulton's death was that he was an AIDS victim. Kidney failure, brain tumor, cancer, etc. were often euphemisms to protect the victims' families from the scourge of telling the world the victim was gay. One of my most vivid memories of Opera News magazine between, say, 1986-1996 is how large the obituary section was.
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I'm guilty of forgetting about Donald's program. He used to alert us to new broadcasts and that prompted mew to listen if I found the topic interesting. I think he should return to doing that.
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Just because I think this photo is adorable.
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This is now my officially favorite photo of the late great Streetcat Bob.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, all.
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To add to the animal photos:
https://www.boredpanda.com/comedy-pet-photography-awards-winners-2020/
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I must get up. Ugh.
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Sorry, I've lost track --
Which is the recording with the kids singing the leads?
While I like the idea of hearing it with younger voices, I guess there's a reason composers write things the way they do. :) Apparently ol' Engelbert knew when it was time for a trouser role.
DR Elmore speaks of the Wagnerian orchestra. There are musical passages that definitely brought to my mind a Wagnerian or Straussian-with-an-R moment.
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TOD
Same with me, re forgetting that the interviews are right here. I've enjoyed a number of them but I never succeeded in making it a regular thing in spite of several attempts. The same thing used to happen to me with Peter Filichia's column.
Here's why it happens: Once I'm into my morning HHW routine (reading the rest of last night's posts, then reading the notes, then reading what's posted so far today, then jumping in), I'm mired in all of this activity and I no longer think about what else is out there.
I've thought of a solution that should work for me. In Safari I have a folder of bookmarks I call "Forums, Blogs, etc.", the topmost of which are HHW, HTF, and a couple of other sites I keep up with regularly. I'll add a new bookmark that links directly to the interviews. That'll keep me cognizant of it, and there should then be no excuses. Let's see how that works.
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All Trombones to the other side!
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Thanks DR VIXMOM - as an old person on a very fixed income with not a lot of cushion - I don't think I can afford an implant @ $2400. I don't know what the Dentist will say....we shall see.....
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Marie Callender's sounds like the perfect jernt to order the turkey dinner from.
I'm still a little sad when reminded that their Wilshire Blvd. "flagship" restaurant is no more, mainly because a few co-workers and I enjoyed going there occasionally for late drinks and dinner during a couple of years in the late '80s. But I had always loved grabbing a nice lunch in their regular places prior to that. The simpler comfortable style of those jernts is what Marie Callender's was all about. At least back then. I don't know if it's changed since.
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To add to the animal photos:
https://www.boredpanda.com/comedy-pet-photography-awards-winners-2020/
I loved the Overly-dramatic cat. I've got three of them.
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DR Elmore speaks of the Wagnerian orchestra. There are musical passages that definitely brought to my mind a Wagnerian or Straussian-with-an-R moment.
Humperdinck was a Wagner disciple who assisted in the premiere of Parsifal. He may even have some music in the scene changes.
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DR ChasSmith, the gossip at the time of Thomas Fulton's death was that he was an AIDS victim. Kidney failure, brain tumor, cancer, etc. were often euphemisms to protect the victims' families from the scourge of telling the world the victim was gay. One of my most vivid memories of Opera News magazine between, say, 1986-1996 is how large the obituary section was.
Thank you for that. I had considered that possibility.
So, he conducted that H&G broadcast at age 32, and twelve years later he was dead. What can one say...
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DR Elmore speaks of the Wagnerian orchestra. There are musical passages that definitely brought to my mind a Wagnerian or Straussian-with-an-R moment.
Humperdinck was a Wagner discipl;e who assisted in the premiere of Parsifal. He may even have some music in the scene changes.
Indeed. Coming back and listening to the piece after many years with my adult ears (wait, am I an adult yet?), I was amazed at the power of the orchestration.
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I didn't realize that Bob the street cat had died. I read a tiny bit about it. How heartbreaking.
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What a morose way to start page two.
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DR ChasSmith, the gossip at the time of Thomas Fulton's death was that he was an AIDS victim. Kidney failure, brain tumor, cancer, etc. were often euphemisms to protect the victims' families from the scourge of telling the world the victim was gay. One of my most vivid memories of Opera News magazine between, say, 1986-1996 is how large the obituary section was.
Thank you for that. I had considered that possibility.
So, he conducted that H&G broadcast at age 32, and twelve years later he was dead. What can one say...
That damned plague killed too many talented people, and just as now, the asses in the GOP did nothing because it was just a"gay disease" and there are no gay people in the GOP. Tell Lindsey Graham that.
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DR Elmore speaks of the Wagnerian orchestra. There are musical passages that definitely brought to my mind a Wagnerian or Straussian-with-an-R moment.
Humperdinck was a Wagner discipl;e who assisted in the premiere of Parsifal. He may even have some music in the scene changes.
Indeed. Coming back and listening to the piece after many years with my adult ears (wait, am I an adult yet?), I was amazed at the power of the orchestration.
So was Mahler. His letter to Humperdinck saying he wanted to conduct the premiere is quite complimentary.
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I didn't realize that Bob the street cat had died. I read a tiny bit about it. How heartbreaking.
Go to YouTube and search under Street Cat Bob. The new movie has been released in England, but I don't know when/if it will be shown in the US.
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Okay, the new "Broadway Radio Show" bookmark is in place and working. Now we'll see how well *I* do.
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And now, I must be off. I need to go to a fireplace supplies store for something, and the supermarket for literally only three or four things. This could even be my last outing before the weekend.
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I was at the supermarket for a last-item run for a few things at 6:00AM this morning. I was in and out in under 10 minutes.
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TOD
Same with me, re forgetting that the interviews are right here. I've enjoyed a number of them but I never succeeded in making it a regular thing in spite of several attempts. The same thing used to happen to me with Peter Filichia's column.
Here's why it happens: Once I'm into my morning HHW routine (reading the rest of last night's posts, then reading the notes, then reading what's posted so far today, then jumping in), I'm mired in all of this activity and I no longer think about what else is out there.
I've thought of a solution that should work for me. In Safari I have a folder of bookmarks I call "Forums, Blogs, etc.", the topmost of which are HHW, HTF, and a couple of other sites I keep up with regularly. I'll add a new bookmark that links directly to the interviews. That'll keep me cognizant of it, and there should then be no excuses. Let's see how that works.
I, too, have stopped reading Peter’s column, and I think it’s because I used to access it through Facebook.
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DR ChasSmith, the gossip at the time of Thomas Fulton's death was that he was an AIDS victim. Kidney failure, brain tumor, cancer, etc. were often euphemisms to protect the victims' families from the scourge of telling the world the victim was gay. One of my most vivid memories of Opera News magazine between, say, 1986-1996 is how large the obituary section was.
Thank you for that. I had considered that possibility.
So, he conducted that H&G broadcast at age 32, and twelve years later he was dead. What can one say...
That damned plague killed too many talented people, and just as now, the asses in the GOP did nothing because it was just a"gay disease" and there are no gay people in the GOP. Tell Lindsey Graham that.
Or tell the GOP that covid is real. They’re doing nothing this time, and we’ve already lost some of the greatest jazz musicians in the world, not to mention 250,000 others.
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To add to the animal photos:
https://www.boredpanda.com/comedy-pet-photography-awards-winners-2020/
I loved the Overly-dramatic cat. I've got three of them.
And the dancing cats.
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My dog (Chester) is not a happy camper today.
He's at the groomer.
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I'm up, I'm up - six hours of sleep.
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Having Donald do reminders here is the smart idea and I'll tell him so.
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Yes, the kids doing Hansel and Gretel don't have the power to project and it's very obvious once mom and dad start singing. It was fun to hear once, but the orchestra balance is just too weird and I'm now thinking they did it because of the kids, who they keep panning from left to right for no real reason and I think it's to get them away from the strings and brass as much as possible, which makes perfect sense - keep the band centered for the most part and the kids panned hard left and right.
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Vibes for Chester.
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I've finally finished all of my household errands, and I will lie down with hte cats and watch the soaps.
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TOD
Same with me, re forgetting that the interviews are right here. I've enjoyed a number of them but I never succeeded in making it a regular thing in spite of several attempts. The same thing used to happen to me with Peter Filichia's column.
Here's why it happens: Once I'm into my morning HHW routine (reading the rest of last night's posts, then reading the notes, then reading what's posted so far today, then jumping in), I'm mired in all of this activity and I no longer think about what else is out there.
I've thought of a solution that should work for me. In Safari I have a folder of bookmarks I call "Forums, Blogs, etc.", the topmost of which are HHW, HTF, and a couple of other sites I keep up with regularly. I'll add a new bookmark that links directly to the interviews. That'll keep me cognizant of it, and there should then be no excuses. Let's see how that works.
I, too, have stopped reading Peter’s column, and I think it’s because I used to access it through Facebook.
I was referring back to when his column was here, because even then I'd forget to read it.
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I am back from:
1. A masonry place where they told me what thing I need, which is readily available at Home Depot or Lowe's. It's hard to find and they told me where it would be.
2. Home Depot, where I picked up a few of them and hopefully one's the right fit. (It's a locking bolt thingy.)
3. The power equipment place where I picked up a thing I thought was going to be $15 or less, and it's $30. Joy.
4. Shop Rite, for my last three or four things and a couple of others -- and that's it, baby. I'm done.
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Next up, a sandwich and a break, after which I will feed the animal, make the cranberry sauce so it will have two days to chill, cook and crumble the sage sausage for the stuffing, and then the rest of the day is mine.
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Reminder, for myself and anyone interested:
The MET's production of Marnie is available from 7:30 this evening till something like 6:30 tomorrow evening.
Stream it for free from the link on this page (scroll down):
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
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I just need to get back into the habit!
I can help with that!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6327.0;attach=10729)
:)) That's fantastic! Thanks, Singdaw!!
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Just because I think this photo is adorable.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6327.0;attach=10731)
That is!!
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This is now my officially favorite photo of the late great Streetcat Bob.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6327.0;attach=10733)
That's a great picture! ;D
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To add to the animal photos:
https://www.boredpanda.com/comedy-pet-photography-awards-winners-2020/
I love these! One of my favorites:
(https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/29-Lianne-Richards_Buddys-New-Teeth-5fbcbf06dae6d__880.jpg)
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And another:
(https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/12-Iain-Mcconnell_The-dancing-kitten-5fbcbecbbd31b__880.jpg)
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From DR TCB:
I think I have decided to skip both of the invites I received for Thanksgiving dinner.
I am pleased with your decision.
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Bruce if I purchase anything during on Black Friday it will be online. Last year we purchased a nice stroller for Freyja on sale.
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I just need to get back into the habit!
I can help with that!
;D
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I enjoyed the pet photos.
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My dog (Chester) is not a happy camper today.
He's at the groomer.
Poor Chester.
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Back from a quick and fun rehearsal. I now know exactly how I'll shoot everything and the gal who's assisting me made a shot list and took photos. I'm not sure the camera person will like me for it, but I'm not shooting it like a play because - it's a video not a play.
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Picked up some packages, then came right home.
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Answered e-mails, forwarded some orders, and caught up on stuff. Food is California Pizza Kitchen
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Now listening to music, then I'll do some work and I have two phone meetings later today.
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Dark and it's only 5:30 p.m.
Barnum is ready for bed he is on his swing saying goodnight.....but I usually don't cover him up until 6 p.m.
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I would really love to understand how my DH's brain works. In the last 10 minutes, he has whistled:
1) "Into the Woods"
2) a bit of a French art song
3) "We've Got Elegance"
:P
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Maybe someday DR George will have the patience to explain to me how he embiggens my photos.
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Dark and it's only 5:30 p.m.
Barnum is ready for bed he is on his swing saying goodnight.....but I usually don't cover him up until 6 p.m.
Awww.
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Thanks DR VIXMOM - as an old person on a very fixed income with not a lot of cushion - I don't think I can afford an implant @ $2400. I don't know what the Dentist will say....we shall see.....
Gosh that seems awfully high....
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Marie Callender's sounds like the perfect jernt to order the turkey dinner from.
I'm still a little sad when reminded that their Wilshire Blvd. "flagship" restaurant is no more, mainly because a few co-workers and I enjoyed going there occasionally for late drinks and dinner during a couple of years in the late '80s. But I had always loved grabbing a nice lunch in their regular places prior to that. The simpler comfortable style of those jernts is what Marie Callender's was all about. At least back then. I don't know if it's changed since.
I misread that sentence as the main reason the restaurant closed was because of DR Chas and his friends’ late night drinking parties there,
my goodness, I thought, what shenanigans DID they get up to?
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Marie Callender's sounds like the perfect jernt to order the turkey dinner from.
I'm still a little sad when reminded that their Wilshire Blvd. "flagship" restaurant is no more, mainly because a few co-workers and I enjoyed going there occasionally for late drinks and dinner during a couple of years in the late '80s. But I had always loved grabbing a nice lunch in their regular places prior to that. The simpler comfortable style of those jernts is what Marie Callender's was all about. At least back then. I don't know if it's changed since.
I misread that sentence as the main reason the restaurant closed was because of DR Chas and his friends’ late night night drinking parties there,
my goodness, I thought, what shenanigans DID they get up to?
;D
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my goodness, I thought, what shenanigans DID they get up to?
That's our DR ChasSmith! :D
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Violinkebab section? Or Shawarna da Gamba?
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Maybe someday DR George will have the patience to explain to me how he embiggens my photos.
Singdaw, which photos have I embiggened? I don't remember what they could be.
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Had my two phone meetings, which were fine - the guy who's shooting the videos is perfectly fine with the way in which I want to shoot, so that's good.
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Then I finessed the commentary and got that in shape.
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Roasted garlic chicken pizza was great but I reek.
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Watched a motion picture.
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Now back to another Schreker opera, this one entitled Der Ferne Klang. Wonderful music. Have no idea what the story is - perhaps I'll read the synopsis. This is the third opera by this guy and I've really enjoyed them all, I must say. I have one more here and one on its way. I wonder if all of them have recordings - there are nine.
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DR George - I don't know, but it seems whenever you quote my post containing a picture, in your post it is bigger.
Ah, well!
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DR George - I don't know, but it seems whenever you quote my post containing a picture, in your post it is bigger.
Ah, well!
Oh, I see. So, when one uploads a picture to the HHW gallery to be attached to a message, it needs to be less than 192 KB. The width and height dimensions, however, don't matter, so that if a small enough-in-size image is uploaded, and its dimensions are wider than a certain number of pixels, HHW automatically smallerizes it in the original message. However, if you click on the picture after it's posted, it embiggens to its original dimensions.
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Now, when I'm going to quote your (or anyone else's) message, I right-click* on the link below the picture and select "Copy shortcut," then paste that copied shortcut within the [ img ] and [ /img ] codes (without the spaces) and that creates the hyperlink to the original uploaded picture, but at its original dimensions, not at the smallerized dimensions. That's why it can be smaller in your original post, then naturally bigger in my quoted repost. If this manual copying and pasting of the image shortcut isn't done, then the picture doesn't show in a quoted post because the original uploaded picture isn't really a hyperlink to somewhere else. I hope that that all makes sense!
I discovered that years ago and have just been doing it. :)
* I only have a Windows computer, not a Mac, so I don't know how that works in Appleworld.
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And now, it's WAY past time for me to leave work, so I shall!
Be back later.
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I would really love to understand how my DH's brain works. In the last 10 minutes, he has whistled:
1) "Into the Woods"
2) a bit of a French art song
3) "We've Got Elegance"
:P v
Um, Darlene, the lyric is, “I don’t know all the jokes he tells or the songs that he hums ..”
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my goodness, I thought, what shenanigans DID they get up to?
That's our DR ChasSmith! :D
That’s why he’s a hero and legend.
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Made the cranberry chess pie.
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Now starting to watch Marnie.
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Renee Zelwegger got a Grammy nomination for Judy. Oy.
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Onward
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Four!
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Hello, 2 guests!
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There’s a countertenor in Marnie. Interesting part.
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Where is everyone tonight?
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Maybe they’re watching Marnie.
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The story is good. The staging is effective. But I wish the music were more suspenseful.
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The acting is exceptional for opera. Especially Denise Graves as the mother from hell.
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Cranberries!
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Underpants!
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Page 4 malarkey!
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Gratuitous post No. 100!
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Hello.
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
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Back to reading.
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
I did. I enjoyed it.
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I’m two-thirds of the way through The House in the Cerulean Sea. Sweet and fun.
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Good night, all.
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
I did. I enjoyed it.
I am also enjoying it.
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I’m two-thirds of the way through The House in the Cerulean Sea. Sweet and fun.
Good.
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Oh dear! This is not pretty.
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I would really love to understand how my DH's brain works. In the last 10 minutes, he has whistled:
1) "Into the Woods"
2) a bit of a French art song
3) "We've Got Elegance"
:P
It sounds like an affair to me.
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
I did. I enjoyed it.
You failed to mention that the woman got her head shot off at the end.
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
I did. I enjoyed it.
You failed to mention that the woman got her head shot off at the end.
That is a joke. 😜
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Another day spent back in bed.
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I just don’t feel well.
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And being on page 4 isn’t helping.
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UNDERPANTS?
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CRANBERRIES!
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We must go on and on.
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One more post.
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P A G E F I V E
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Well!
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That is a start.
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But not much.
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Eve.
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I just don’t feel well.
Oh, no! :(
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What sacred traditions do we observe on T Eve?
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Schreker got pretty wild in his late opera Christophorus - well, it's dedicated to Schoenberg and that's what it sounds like for some of it. It's interesting, certainly, and has its moments but I prefer the earlier stuff, which is gorgeous.
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~~~Feel Better and Quickly Vibes for Tom!!~~~
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What sacred traditions do we observe on T Eve?
I don't do anything specific.
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Schreker got pretty wild in his late opera Christophorus - well, it's dedicated to Schoenberg and that's what it sounds like for some of it. It's interesting, certainly, and has its moments but I prefer the earlier stuff, which is gorgeous.
That could have been, at least, five posts!!
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A lot of people at my work (who have actually been working in our building) are taking tomorrow off.
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I'll be there for the duration.
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I'll be there for the duration.
What are you doing on Thursday?
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We regularly get the day after Thanksgiving off, too, so I'll have a four-day weekend.
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I'll be there for the duration.
What are you doing on Thursday?
We're going to my mom's for feasting. I don't know if there are any familial plans on Friday.
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Hi, George.
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Good night, George.
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Hi, Tom.
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Good night, Tom.
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
I did. I enjoyed it.
You failed to mention that the woman got her head shot off at the end.
I hope you are joking since I am still reading 😊
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John did you finish reading The Law of Innocence? I am about half way through it.
I did. I enjoyed it.
You failed to mention that the woman got her head shot off at the end.
That is a joke. 😜
Yup ;D
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Another day spent back in bed.
Sorry :(
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Hi, Jane.
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A lot of people at my work (who have actually been working in our building) are taking tomorrow off.
Hmm, sounds as if they might be traveling. Be extra careful around them.
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Hi George.