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Well, you've read the notes, you've mixed with the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the mixed-up cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: VOLUMINOUS!
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You want to talk about scary???
I just watched Julia Child talking about knives!!!
Visions of Dan Ackroyd danced through my head!!!
:o :o :o
;D ;D ;D
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"A Pretty Girl" is like a volumnious curtain and a circular staircase.
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I LOVE that Dan/Julia skit from SNL!!
As for books, I love Stephen King's writing style. His descriptions are a lot of fun to read...even when he's writing scary stuff and I really like both his novels and short stories. I haven't much scary stuff by anyone other than Stephen King and it's been several years since I've read any of his stuff, at all. I don't know why, but I just haven't. Weird, huh? :-\
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I also enjoyed Mr. Richard Matheson's Hell House.
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Favourite Scary books: A series of six books by Michael MacDowell called BLACK WATER. Set in Alabama, they comprise a long saga steeped in the Southern Gothic tradition. Very creepy, done with great restraint and style.
Manly Wade Wellman wrote a series of short stories about a balladeer roaming through the Appalachian Mountains called John the Balladeer (or sometimes Silver John...because of the silver strings on his guitar) who encounters all sorts of supernatural occurences. Great stuff! There are several collections of Wellman and Silver John one called Who Fears the Devil? and The Several are in a collection of Worse Things Waiting. In the late seventies or early eighties, he wrote several short novels about John as well.
I'm very fond of the stories by Seabury Quinn of Jules De Grandin, a French occult detective, and his Watson, Dr. Trowbridge, where they investigate supernatural doings. They originally appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in the thirties and forties many were collected in a series of paperbacks from the seventies. I believe all ninety stories have now been collected
in on volume (which I must get).
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IMHO Mr Clive Barker has no peer as writer of imaginative horror stories. The Books of Blood are "terrific" and novels such as "Weaveworld" and "Imagica" are worthy of being regarded as classics. Mr Barker as the gift of language as well as a gift for story telling.
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Good morning, DR elmore! Have you received a package from me recently?
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Good morning, all! Yesterday was quite a good work day, and I finished all the big work on Anna's act. The remainder of the work now is filling in some trumpet on trombone on her other charts. It will take most of the week and weekend to finish up.
Jim Goetz, an old friend of DRGinny's and mine is in town for business so I'll see him tonight for dinner, after I leave my GOLDEN APPLE work at Tams-Witmark. I hope by tonight the bank account problem will be settled and I'll either have money in my account or know what happened to it.
TOD: I used to read tons of story collections and, after Stephen King's DANCE MACABRE was published, tried to read all the books he recommended that I didn't know. I'm appalled at my short memory these days that I cannot think of a single story by Robert Bloch or Ray Bradbury, both of whom terrified me in high school and college reading days. The few things below obviously stuck because they still rattle me.
Stories: "Pigeons from Hell"
"The Wendigo"
"Whistle and I'll come to You, My Lad"
Novels: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
THE OTHER
HARVEST HOME
THE SHINING
'SALEM'S LOT
DRACULA
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DR elmore, before I leave for my early meeting in Cincinnati, I wanted to tell you to have a lovely time tonight with Jim and please tell him HELLO from me!
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Didn't get a chance to post yesterday (or much on Saturday). In response to Tom (ov Oz) from Saturday, I adore Noel Coward, both his music and plays. I did Hay Fever (far too many years ago) and have very fond memories of that production. My favorite lines were from Judith to her son, Simon (my role), something to the effect of Judith saying "Simon, you look so dirty, what have you been doing?" "Simon: Not washing very much"
Never read a Zane Grey book in my life (I'm not a big fan of Westerns).
Thanks much to Larry and Tom for making the trek from the Upper West Side to the Upper East Side to see Anthony's show. A grand time was had by all. On the 14th, in addition to Vimom and Company, Anthony's parents and one set of aunt/uncle will be there so it will again be a friendly audience.
I am now off to the Rockefeller Foundation (in printout form). I will listen to Donald's new Radio Show as I index.
This post brought to you by the new Millennium ;) (of course that's all dependent on when you count the beginning of the new millennium, some say 2000 and some say 2001 and others say it doesn't matter)
TTFN
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Well, the missing deposit landed this morning! I really thought it was lost forever, so it's quite a relief to know I'm not a victim of identity theft (who would want this identity? Really?) or some hacker.
DRGinny, I will indeed tell Jim hello.
If anyone in the New York vicinity is looking for a pleasnt, not expensive, evening out in Manhattan, I can do no more than to recommend Mr Anthony Morelli's music hall show "A Little of What You Fancy." You'll have a good time.
Wishing you all a pleasant day, I'm off to the wilds of midtown.
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Roal Dahl's short stories not really horror but still great writing.
Stephen King also published a collection of short stories he wrote called Night Shift. Some of them were really creepy!
I stopped reading King after The Stand, but I will say that I though that The Shining was his best up to that time and one of the best I ever read.
The Other by Tom Tyron was also a great read.
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One of the scariest stories I ever read was by Stanley Ellin. As soon as I think of the name of the story or the book, I'll let you know. It is like a very good episode of "Twilight Zone" or "Alfred Hitchcock" in that it seems so real and so possible. that's the scariest part, I think.
Stephen King's "Misery" drove me crazy. Very well written. I'd never read it again, but it's very good.
Speaking of Tom Tryon, one of the episodes in "Crowned Heads" (based loosely on Raymond Navarro mixed with a few other people) was certainly terrifying. It sets up a mood that is very eerie and almost sufficating.
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Great news, Elmore! I know that is a huge load off your mind.
And thanks for the OllieBurger recipe, SWoody!
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Good morning peoples. I still haven't gotten my Peter Pan pictures into my computer, but I received a link form Peter Pan him(her)self with various pictures from the show, backstage and at the partay Saturday night for those so inclined to have a look here is the link http://community.webshots.com/slideshow?ID=338409586&key=kcQZSe
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~EASY TEST VIBES~~~[/move]for DR Sandra
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I have not read many scary stories, but I seem to recall PET SEMATARY to be a rather spooky book.
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Glad to hear that your payroll arrived elmore.. I had that happen once, my direct deposit went into someone else's account, it was a nightmare to correct because the other person took the money out of their account... I didn't want to mention it until you r matter was straightened out because I didn't need to cause you any more worry... glad it was resolved quickly and easily
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The first part of The Stand really freaked me out, particularly as I chose to read it during a terrible flu epidemic one January 20 odd years ago.... the second part lost me though
Pet Sematary and Salem's Lot also scared me
I just realized I haven't read any Stephen King stuff in about 20 years.....
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True Life Horror stories, In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter both of which I read in high school terrified me
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I think the scariest stories I ever read were Poe's "The Premature Burial" and "The Cask Of Amontillado"
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That Ollieburger receipe sounds good... I shall have to give that a try once we get the grill up and running for the season. I can't abide burgers cooked in the house.. they never seem to taste the same and they leave the house spelling like grease for days afterwards
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DR VIXMOM thanks for the picture link. What a lot of fun it looks like everyone is having!
I don't think I have ever seen a Peter Pan costume in quite that shade of green - but it is very imaginative!
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I may have missed something in the voluminous notes yesterday, but did I read that DRMBARNUM'S brother is in a show? And a picture was shown?
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DR CP - if June Wilkinson was wearing green cowboy boots, I am not sure I would have even noticed.
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returning to the last topic but one...
Best Looking Nazi:
I am looking forward to seeing John Barrowman as a Hitler Youth in the upcoming Mel Brooks movie of the Mel Brooks musical of the Mel Brooks movie Prodyusery. (and it also wrote entire music and songs to the picture (here already truly - man of many-sided talents),!)
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Scary books & stories......
Another vote for Tom Tryon's THE OTHER.
A vote for Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
A vote for Robert Louis Stevenson's DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE
A vote for Edgar Allan Poe's PIT AND THE PENDULUM
And a VERY big vote for the scariest story I ever read....it is a short story in Bradbury's collection DANDELION WINE about a group of older ladies who go out to a movie.....even though a strangler has been preying on women in the town....and the lady who lives the furthest from the center of town....has to walk to last of her way home.....through a ravine....by the powerhouse....in the dark....all by herself..... She arrives home at last.....safely locking the door....except that.....
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Another memory of Jack Salvatore's of working on COUNTERPLOT:
We didn't really have any pre-shoot rehearsal time, so the first time I met Allison is actually the first scene we're together in the film. It's a scene in which Connie Lane---the framed-for-murder hero's girlfriend---arrives in Puerto Rico, where she's heard he's hiding out from the police.
It takes place on a dock in San Juan harbor....and her costume is the one you see in that lobby card---suit with pillbox hat and light veil. Granted, I was only 12 years old or so, but a guy knows beautiful when he sees it...and that, she was. A stunner.
At my height, she seemed to be well, 50 feet tall (pun intended), and her obvious attributes were not to be denied, even under a fairly austerely tailored suit. We worked the scene a few times together, and she was very sweet to me...not a diva, not a primadonna....just two working actors, one trying to bring the other, younger one, along.
There's a scene to which you allude...in which Connie is singing in a nightclub. Late in the movie, the two characters---Connie and Manuel, the kid---realize that while they've been at loggerheads over who loves Forrest Tucker more, they do both love him. While she's singing with the band, Manuel---who's just found out the hero's fled again and they've BOTH lost him--- charges up the aisle of the club to Connie and they embrace.
The script actually says something like "Connie presses Manuel to her bosom"...and I remember being a little worried about how that would go, because her wardrobe for the scene was a black velvet sheath with a daring decolletage. The crew--mostly young Puerto Rican guys---were teasing me mercilessly about being careful not to get too...uh...aroused by getting that up-close & personal.
I remember that we were getting ready to block the scene on set. Even Kurt Neumann, the director, had gotten on the teasing bandwagon, making sure I knew exactly what "business" the script called for. Allison was smiling through it all...and all I remember saying to her, before I ran up to her was: "Don't mess up my makeup." Broke up the set...including Allison...she got it....and made sure to make all those crew guys as jealous as possible, by making sure the script was followed to the letter...and then some.
I saw Allison several times off set. She was staying at the Caribe Hilton, and I spent a lot of time swimming and dining there. I really had no idea of her career...nor she of mine...but she was always pleasant and nice to me...and treated me as a relative equal, within the limitations of my age.
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DR VIXMOM thanks for the picture link. What a lot of fun it looks like everyone is having!
I don't think I have ever seen a Peter Pan costume in quite that shade of green - but it is very imaginative!
The theater did not have the capability of rigging the necessary equiptment, nor did they have adequate insurance for the flying scenes, so it was done by having black background, black boxes and "lifters" dressed entirely in black, including hoods with veils, and lighting the stage with black light. The Darling children were dressed in whites, and very pale green. Peter's original costume dissappeared under the lighting so a new one was created a week before opening to glow under the lights
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DR Joey, I just visited your site... doyou have any relatives in Texas by chance?
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Good Morning!
I slept rather well last night. And I'm finally up...
That's it for this post...
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DR MattH - Did you/Are you watching "Regis & Kelly"? George Eads is on. Interesting t-shirt.... Hmmm. Oh, and I didn't realize he owns Cinespace in LA on Ivar.
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As for horror stories... Mainly Stephen King. "Pet Sematary" and "Misery" come to mind first.
*I even belonged to the Stephen King Book Club for a while. I eventually discontinued my membership since I wasn't able to keep up with all the reading - I also belonged to three other book clubs at the same time. In fact, I ended up giving away a bag of Stephen King (books) last week during my packing and sorting.
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I used to teach some very suspenseful short stories to my ninth graders: "The Splinter" and "The Landlady" were always good for a shudder or two. Of course, the kids wanted more blood and guts, but I'd try to explain to them the concept that sometimes less is more, but they were too used to things like FRIDAY THE 13th to care.
I have a couple of books of Stephen King short stories that I've never opened, and once LA CAGE is out of the way, I'm determined to read some of them. I enjoyed THE SHINING and FIRESTARTER and THE DEAD ZONE very much. I am pretty certain I've got SKELETON CREW upstairs on one of the bookshelves.
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DR Jose, I knew he was going to be on, but I was doing my workout during the 9 o'clock hour and didn't DVR it. What was on his t-shirt?
I believe his character gets buried alive in the CSI season finale (the one directed by Quentin Tatentino).
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bk, was THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE a Fox Studio Classic or a part of some other Fox film release (a noir box or a war box or just a separate budget release)?
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[sigh] Remaking these foreign films, and one with a plot as borrowed as that one - remind me to miss it.
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Page Two.
Let's all git down and boogie!
(http://www.hsvwoodlands.com/images/Russian%20Season%2010-29-02-086S.JPG)
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Another scrumptuous day in the Southland. High of 84 and clear blue sky. I will be wearing shorts and a short sleeved shirt for my lunch out today.
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And I have DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES from last night to watch today. Boy, did Doug Savant look buff in those TV commercials or what!
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I was fortunate enough to have read "Salem's Lot" before ever hearing about who Stephen King was. I was in Naples, Italy, circa 1975-77. The paperback jacket wasn't really clear on what the story was about...and by the time I learned it was about a vampire (making other vampires!!) in a New England town, I was already well into the novel. Gave me nightmares, too.
Next time I recognized King's name was when the movie "Carrie" was released. I saw it in the Summer of 1977 in Naples and was then hooked on King. Imagine my surprise upon returning to the U.S. that Stephen King was quite the rage.
Just before Christmas 1978 I was in Falls Creek VA shopping center bookstore and picked up something called "Interview With A Vampire." I put it back down thinking it would not be worth my time.
Fourteen years later, I was playing catchup in the Lestat saga...along with Ann Rice's "witches" saga. Ripe, terrific reading for my final tour of duty on an aircraft carrier.
I consider "The Stand" -- the expanded edition that came out -- what was it?? -- 10 or 15 years ago?? -- Stephen King's masterpiece. The TV movie was pretty good in its own right, but the book is not really filmable the way "I" read it.
I love good horror -- but not when they start putting Part II, Part III and so on after the title. If you can't get it right the first time, what's the point?
And then there's "The Exorcist."
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Here is a picture of the Vixter as devil daughter
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Soimeone needs photoshop....and voila!
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Vixter as Devil Daughter - NON CinemaScope. ;D
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LOL....and now there are THREE! LOL
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Soimeone needs photoshop....and voila!
I pulled this off the website that was emailed to me, anbd I can't adjust the size or anything, I didn't realize it was so big, can anyone fix it ? Otherwise I'll just delete it, the widescreen is too annoying
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Oh, TWO of you wonderful gentlemen already did it. I'll take the first one away.. thank you!!
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Let's leave both of ours DR RON....looks like the Vixter is flying at us in 3D!
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I just reread some of the posts from over the weekend
MY dreams involving Johnny Depp are more...friendly and generally involve a pirate outfit
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Let's leave both of ours DR RON....looks like the Vixter is flying at us in 3D!
I should put mine back up now so she is just getting closer and CLOSER... ;D.
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I should put mine back up now so she is just getting closer and CLOSER... ;D.
Please don't! I just hate it when the screen goes to Cinemascope! :\
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Speaking of dreams
I dreamt the Vixmom Trio was traveling home from Canada via air and that just at the security checkpoint site Mr. Vixmom decided to run off and answer a call of nature. meanwhile the Vixter & I were forced by a security guard to go through the checkpoint. I protested saying that we were waiting for my husband. They told me loitering was not allowed and either go throught the checkpoint or be jailed. We went through and moments later Mr. Vixmom appeared. I, however, had his plane ticket, passport and green card in my handbag. They wouldn't let him through, they wouldn't let me back and they wouldn't allow me to hand him the papers throught the metal detector or over the little rope separating us. They told me I had to go further into the airport and send him the documents by mail. Then I woke up....
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MY dreams involving Johnny Depp are more...friendly and generally involve a pirate outfit
I know just what you mean, Vixmom ;D
I'm off to start my new job...wish me luck!
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Please don't! I just hate it when the screen goes to Cinemascope! :\
But I thought you LIKED the widescreen versions...
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Sandra good history vibes!
Vixmom where in England is Mr. Vixmom from?
I enjoyed the link, once I got past the blurry images. The ones of the Vixter are some of the best photos in the group. She certainly has grown up since the photo on your avatar. :)
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for DR ANN
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Good luck Ann and have a good day. :D
We want details when you return tonight.
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George thanks for the info on Zane Grey. I think dropping the Pearl was a good idea.
I decided to read more on Zane Grey and found the name of my favorite novel, WILD HORSE MESA. I also realize how few of his books I have read. I would like to read his first one, BETTY ZANE.
I don’t know what kind of bird you saw but the behavior was fairly common.
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Elmore I’m so relieved for you. It also sounds as if you are going to make your May 16th deadline. :D
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I am such a chicken that I can't stand anything really scary. The scariest book I've ever read was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Good first day of work vibes for Dear Reader Ann!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Those were some nice Peter Pan pictures. I especially like the fencing ones. I've always thought fencing would be even better if I could fly. Maybe I should suggest Zero-Gravity fencing to my instructor. He doesn't usually like my suggestions for some reason.
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Good Morning! Once Again...
Now I'm awake... Nothing like a shower to help wash out the cobwebs - and wash away the rest of the cigarette smoke out of my hair from last night. :-\
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But I thought you LIKED the widescreen versions...
He does, but on widescreen, high-definition monitors and only with anamorphic video materials.
:)
Meanwhile, I have my 17-inch Sony that I bought in 1994.
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YEAH! PAGE THREE!!!
Dance.... Hmm...
THE KRAKOWIAK!!!
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Good Morning! Once Again...
Now I'm awake... Nothing like a shower to help wash out the cobwebs - and wash away the rest of the cigarette smoke out of my hair from last night. :-\
Why were you smoking cigarettes last night, young man? Don't you know they're extremely BAD for you? And with today's economy, just think what you can do with the money you'd save by quitting.
(...channeling someone's mother, I guess....)
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In a few, I shall be heading out to lunch with one of the other keyboard players. I think we're heading back to the new French bistro that opened a couple of weeks ago. We'll see.
Until then, I need to start organizing my stuff here in order to get it all ready to be loaded back into my car for the trip up north tonight.
Laters...
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Why were you smoking cigarettes last night, young man? Don't you know they're extremely BAD for you? And with today's economy, just think what you can do with the money you'd save by quitting.
(...channeling someone's mother, I guess....)
Well, I wasn't smoking, but almost everyone around me was, so... And since most places in Richmond don't seem to believe in good air circulation systems...
Now the karaoke was a different thing...
;)
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Sandra good history vibes!
Vixmom where in England is Mr. Vixmom from?
I enjoyed the link, once I got past the blurry images. Was the Vixter in any of those photos?
Steve was born and raised in Coventry, made famous by Lady Godiva. The town is ridden with statues and pictures of the aforementioned lady au natural on horseback. Mr. Vixmom said it was a lovely environment for a young lad to grow up in. Of course,Coventry is also know the famous three spires, the Coventry cathedrals (the one destroyed the blitz and the new 'un), the 'silk weavers' that make beautiful pictures and bookmarks from silk, and it was ,until the 80's, the "Detroit" of England, all the famous English autos were made there. It's a short drive from Stratford- upon- Avon. His mum used to own a restaurant on the Royal Showground at Stoneleigh. She ran agarden party for the Queen at Buckingham Palace one year, and hosted Prince Charles at her restaurant another year. We have a picture of her with Charles but she never had her picture taken with the Queen as the exotic flowers in the Buckinham Palaces gardens brought on such a severe allergy attack poor Mum ended up in an ambulance and missed the photo opportunity that head been promised tp her.
Mr. Vixmom moved here in 1984 or 85....I met him in September of '86 because I heard his voice on a friend's answering machine, fell for the accent and weedled an intro. We were married October of '87
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He does, but on widescreen, high-definition monitors and only with anamorphic video materials.
:)
Meanwhile, I have my 17-inch Sony that I bought in 1994.
Gosh, that's probably COLOR, right? I wonder if I should get one of them....
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Gosh, that's probably COLOR, right? I wonder if I should get one of them....
Yes...it's color. It's not "plasma", mind you...but the colors are still quite nice.
Sony makes very good TVs. I'm fortunate it's lasted this long, since it gets plenty of use.
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But I thought you LIKED the widescreen versions...
LOL! Only on my widescreen TV. My computer screen is 4:3.
:D
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Vixmom, such a cute story how you and Mr. Vixmom met. I also enjoyed the family details. Do you get to visit often? My mother was English, yet sadly she never took me to England to meet her favorite relatives. I had a slight English accent growing up and have always been interested in the country and the candy.
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An old RCA that I just got rid of was purchased in 1979, and it still had a picture. A color tube inside must have burned out because all it could deliver were black and white pictures, but it still worked after all this time and being moved many times since 1979. Also, it was the original picture tube which got many hours of use before it was turned into a bedroom TV (which I almost never watch) for several years thereafter. Then, it became the guest room TV where it was hardly ever even turned on.
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I'm up, I'm up.
I'll give another vote for The Other. And a huge vote for Rosemary's Baby, the novel. Also, Mr. Bradbury's short story, The Jar.
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Though I have seen several of his movies and liked MISERY I have never read a Stephen King novel. Horror stories really aren’t my cup of tea, however, I do read Dean Kuntz once in awhile. My favorite is the first one I read SOLE SURVIVOR. Possibly it was his least scary novel except it opens with a plane crash and I was on a plane. ;D I enjoy reading thrillers when I travel.
I also read the master, Poe, when I was younger.
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Losing a TV is like losing a member of the family to me.
Sneezing....must be the pollen today.
GOOD NEW JOB VIBES to DRANN.....and test vibes to DRSANDRA.
DRVIXMOM...very clever "flying" alternative! Kudos to the director...much safer, too.
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Oh, how could I forget Rosemary? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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I agree. I loved ROSEMARY'S BABY as a novel and as a film.
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I think the first time I saw “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” was in 1958 or ’59 at a drive-in theater. My family would go to drive-ins frequently when two or three films played. I made my first acquaintance with some of the best movies I never saw all the way through on a big screen at “the drive-in.” I usually managed to watch at least one film all the way through, but I usually fell asleep by the time the second movie started.
What I remember about PDETD was the screaming kids, the dog, the big old house, and the glamorous vamp trying to steal David Niven away from Doris Day. I remember the two songs, too….the main title, and that staged number that still doesn’t make any sense to me, lyrically, but is fun to watch. I’ve seen it on TV maybe twice in the past 25 years, and I’m sure I enjoyed it.
This weekend, I watched it on DVD. It was nice having an old friend in front of me in its original aspect ratio (I assume), but some odd things were happening. It became a rather ugly story of a man with an unchecked ego and a woman who constantly deferred/apologized to him. When his ego consumed him, they would argue, and he would storm off/out, like the infant he truly was. Even Spring Byington, as Doris’ mother, gives her some TERRIBLE advice about forgiving her husband and apologizing for something for which no apology should ever have been considered.
It’s a sad reflection of the 1950s, IMO, that such a sordid bit of male chauvinism and female subjugation masqueraded as grade A vehicle for Doris Day. I think it’s unrepentantly ugly in tone, but it has winsome elements that make it fun, too.
It’s a well-made film with a shameful message…and Niven and Day delivered it with depressingly chipper sincerity.
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DRJOSE - it sounds like you are having a wonderful SOCIAL life!
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LOL DR RON - my problem with the movie has always been Niven's character as the obnoxious silly A$$.
That one song "Any Way the Wind Blows" was a song published by Day & Melcher's publishing house, and Marty had tried to get Ross Hunter to change the name of PILLOW TALK to that song title so they could use it. Hunter said "No...." and that's how that strange song ended up in PDETD.
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DRJOSE - it sounds like you are having a wonderful SOCIAL life!
Good Lord, JRand54...if you think KARAOKE is indicative of a hot social life, you need to get out more!
:D
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Well, THAT goes without saying.
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I love when one of the kids zips Doris' dress up and she screams a bit and says: "Oh you just took off about 5 lbs. of dear old mother!"
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DAISIES and GLASS BOAT are the two Day films from the box I haven't gotten to yet. Maybe at some point this week, I'll watch them.
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Vixmom, such a cute story how you and Mr. Vixmom met. I also enjoyed the family details. Do you get to visit often? My mother was English, yet sadly she never took me to England to meet her favorite relatives. I had a slight English accent growing up and have always been interested in the country and the candy.
Actually my inlaws moved to Grande Praire, Alberta, Canada about 14 years ago, so I had a couple of quick visits to England but nothing since then. Mr. Vixmom's only sibling, his sister, had moved there when she married and now there are only a few distant cousins, aunts and uncles left in Merrie Olde England so we haven't been there since his parents left. We are planning to get there with the Vixter sometime in the next few years.
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It's very gray and rainy-looking here in the City of Studio.
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It's very gray and rainy-looking here in the City of Studio.
Beautiful, warm and sunny here on the Island of Long. It was a misearble cold and rainy Saturday ans Sunday was swindy, cool and damp. Now that the weekedn is over the sun has come out to play. This is the third week in a row with nasty weekends and glorious weekdays. I demand this trend to end!!!
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Storms are predicted for us later today in Indiana. And my backyard is being filled up with Maple Tree seed spinners!
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Sandra good history vibes!
The ones of the Vixter are some of the best photos in the group. She certainly has grown up since the photo on your avatar. :)
Well she is 43 now.... ;)
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DR Elmore, good news about the deposit!
DR Rodzinski, I have heard of LUMS. I think they have one in Plattsburgh.
DR Jose, you mentioned the Canadian leg of the MAMMA MIA tour. That reminded me I have been seeing ads that the show is coming here in July. I do love the show. But not sure if I will go.
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DR Jose, you mentioned the Canadian leg of the MAMMA MIA tour. That reminded me I have been seeing ads that the show is coming here in July. I do love the show. But not sure if I will go.
That's the problem with living on the Island of Long, we never get any show tours!!
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Good new job vibes to DR Ann. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good school vibes to DR Sandra. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Btw, I watched last night's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and I have a question. They always seem to focus to much on the 4 main characters (lynnette, susan, gabrielle and bree). Yet they often seem to have completely separate stories. I don't even think that any of them were in a scene together in last night's show. And this happens often.
I really think that they should try to overlap some of their stories. Or have them in more scenes together.
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Two hydrogen atoms meet.
One says "I've lost my electron."
The other says "Are you sure?"
The first replies "Yes, I'm positive."
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That's the problem with living on the Island of Long, we never get any show tours!!
Ha. We barely get any. :(
But you aren't gonna get me to feel sorry for you being so close to Broadway! ;)
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I used to read every damn thing that Stephen King published, but it was getting to the point that it seemed like something new was coming off the assembly line every four months or so. I think I stopped after Insomnia.
My favorite books of King's are"
The Stand -- literally gave me nightmares!
The Shining -- my intorduction to King. Everyone was reading it during my first year of college. We all went to the movie together and hated it. My opinion has changed over the years, though.
Salem's Lot
Misery
I also like The Other and Harvest Home. And I remember that I started reading Rosemary's Baby, but for some reason I didn't finish it. I think it might have been that I had bought a used paperback copy that smelled badly.
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Btw, I watched last night's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and I have a question. They always seem to focus to much on the 4 main characters (lynnette, susan, gabrielle and bree). Yet they often seem to have completely separate stories. I don't even think that any of them were in a scene together in last night's show. And this happens often.
I really think that they should try to overlap some of their stories. Or have them in more scenes together.
If you want overlapping/intermingled lives, I can recommend that you watch "Golden Girls" in rerun on Lifetime. :D
The "Desperate Housewives" converge when necessary. The show is interesting because they each have separate stories. Thus far, the writers haven't made a wrong move, IMO
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DR JRand54, my brother took my mom to a cabaret show for mothers day...I don't think any of my brother's would ever appear on stage...unless they'd had a few too many beers!
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Ron, close but it would have been 1960 when you saw the movie. That was the year before I met Flip.
I often cringe when I watch pre-women’s lib movies. It was the times and I know I believed in much of it. Remember Doris went on to warn women to pay attention to their own finances and not to simply rely on their husbands.
Matt H I concider THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT one of my guilty pleasures.
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Ron, close but it would have been 1960 when you saw the movie. That was the year before I met Flip.
I often cringe when I watch pre-women’s lib movies. It was the times and I know I believed in much of it. Remember Doris went on to warn women to pay attention to their own finances and not to simply rely on their husbands.
Matt H I concider THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT one of my guilty pleasures.
How funny....I had been thinking it was a 1958 film. How the mind plays tricks on you after a certain age...
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Three lengths of string walk into a bar and sit at a table. One of them gets up and goes to the bar to order drinks. When he orders, the bartender sneers at him and says, "Sorry, bud--I don't serve lengths of string." The string goes back to the table and tells his friends what happened.
"Let me try", says one of the other lengths of string. He goes to the bar but before he can say anything, the bartender roars, "Look, I told your friend already--I don't serve your kind here!" The length of string goes back to the table and tells the other two that they won't be served.
The third length of string gets up and says, "Let me try something." He goes into the bathroom and twists himself into a tangle and unfurls his ends a bit. Then he walks over to the bar and quickly orders three beers.
The bartender narrows his eyes at the string and says, "Hey, wait a minute. Aren't you one of those three pieces of string that came in here a few minutes ago?"
And the string replies, "Nope. I'm a frayed knot."
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Oh, IN THE AUDIENCE...oh, okay. Thanks for the voluminous clarification, DRMBARNUM.
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I shall now be on my way to the Oaks of Sherman to mix Mr. Haines.
Keep the home fries burning until my returning, you dear, dear people out there in the dark.
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Mix it up.
Tom Mix.
Mix and match.
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And the string replies, "Nope. I'm a frayed knot."
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...And the string replies...
I now have the reason why der Brucer hasn't been posting.
I just read what DRDtM posted aloud to der B, and he groaned.
Absolutely unseemly.
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I've found some more rice.
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I shall now be on my way to the Oaks of Sherman to mix Mr. Haines.
Keep the home fries burning until my returning, you dear, dear people out there in the dark.
oh dear, is he separating?
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I've found some more rice.
That's the dinner problem solved then! ;)
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I now have the reason why der Brucer hasn't been posting.
I just read what DRDtM posted aloud to der B, and he groaned.
Absolutely unseemly.
I beat him to it!
And I'm still here!
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You and Yvonne deCarlo.
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The "Desperate Housewives" converge when necessary. The show is interesting because they each have separate stories. Thus far, the writers haven't made a wrong move, IMO
I agree that it is very interesting how they each have their own stories. But for me, I'd rather there was more overlapping. Plus I love the scenes they are all in together. I love the poker games, or the pool party Gabrielle had 2 weeks ago. I do think it has been a very interesting choice to keep 4 storylines. But I just find myself wanting to see them all together.
And I was curious if other viewers felt the same.
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elmore, PIGEONS FROM HELL is a great horror story by Robert E. Howard, who wrote the Conan stories.
WENDIGO, I believe, is by Algernon Blackwood, who wrote many a classic horror story.
I have a friend in Lexington whose library is almost as big as mine and he collects mostly supernatural and horror fiction. I get most of my recommendations for horror from him, he knows my penchant is for Victorian or early modern. I've never read Stephen King. I read Dean Koontz once when someone wanted me to adapt on of his books into a movie. I ended up not taking the job.
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CP now I’m curious. You didn’t care for the book so you turned down the job? I’m thinking it wasn’t that simple and there were other reasons?
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DR JRand54, I see that SWING PARADE OF 1946, starring Ms. Gale Storm, is coming to DVD later this month...have you seen this one? If so is it any good?
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I just got home via the bus from hell! First of all, it was packed with nonpaying noisy juveniles hogging most of the seats, and we had a crazy elderly woman whose medication had clearly just worn off. She had a high whiney voice and she was talking loudly about circumsized organs, how no one wanted to f*** her, getting screwed by New York State, several racial problems, over and over and over. I even moved to the very back of the bus to keep from listening to her, while wishing her dead, off the bus, or both at the same time. And then, she got off at my stop!
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DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES was most enjoyable. I can't remember liking a nighttime soap this much since the heyday of DYNASTY.
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On the question of the desperate housewives having a merged storyline, I think they all have their own problems and things to deal with, and as the season is drawing to a close, naturally each of their stories is going to spiral into its own resolutions (or cliffhanger) in preparation for Season 2.
Like DR Ron, I think the writers have played the season about as smart and canny as it would be possible to do, and I am forever grateful for that recap show two weeks ago that put so many of the mysteries into clearer focus so that last night's show made such complete sense.
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Jane, I didn't dislike the book, but there were more compelling irons in the fire. I actually went in to see the folks about it. They owned another script of mine that they had never done. The executive, who had been my executive on PSYCHO III, so desperately wanted me to do the job, she said she'd give me the other script back free and clear, if I did the job...It was tempting but I turned it down anyway...I can't remember what I might have been working on at the time. But I think they also wanted to change (needlessly) elements of the novel that I actually quite liked.
In retrospect, I wish I had done it...just to have gotten my other script back. Still it seems well I didn't do it. The picture was later made called HIDEAWAY (also the title of the book). I never saw it, but Maltin's book gives it no stars, only a BOMB designation and calls it "interminable" and says that Koontz wisely tried to have his name taken off the film.
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Has anyone been watching NBC? Have they seen any promos for HERCULES? This thing is on monday and I'm wondering if they're promoting it at all.
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I just received a phone call from the Vixter , she presented her Recycling Music Video in school today and she said the whole class clapped and cheered and that all three of the science teachers congratulated her several times. She is over the moon with happiness. I'm just glad that its done.
Meanwhile, her Spanish teacher still hasn't graded the doll she had to sew in traditional Nicaraguan dress, or to grade the report that went with it (It has been at least a month since that was handed in). The Vixter enquired about it and the teacher said that she was busy, that she had a life outside of school and that she would get to it when she had a chance......I wonder how that response would fly if the Vixter hadn't turned her project in on time.....these teachers!!!
And Matt and all you other currrent and former teachers its not teachers I have a problem with its the teachers in this particular school....
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Page 5. Hotcha!
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I just got home via the bus from hell! First of all, it was packed with nonpaying noisy juveniles hogging most of the seats, and we had a crazy elderly woman whose medication had clearly just worn off. She had a high whiney voice and she was talking loudly about circumsized organs, how no one wanted to f*** her, getting screwed by New York State, several racial problems, over and over and over. I even moved to the very back of the bus to keep from listening to her, while wishing her dead, off the bus, or both at the same time. And then, she got off at my stop!
Oh poor elmore... what a time you are having lately. Here is the best hug I can offer at the moment
At least she didn't follow you home!
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DRCharlesPogue, I have seen one promo for HERCULES; it was on Friday night just before or during the early part of LAW & ORDER: TRIAL BY JURY.
Yes, Alegernon Blackwood wrote THE WENDIGO, which still terrifies me, and I could not remember the author of PIGEONS FROM HELL this morning. I'm also fond of Sheridan LeFanu's work, although I couldn't think of a single story this morning, the same with E.T.A. Hoffmann's stories.
While I love SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, I never found it frightening, but I'd forgotten Bradbury's great story about the ravine, and he also wrote a macabre story about Halloween called "October Game" or something like that.
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DR WFO, what are these pictures from? I feel like I should know and I just cannot remember
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DR CP
I haven't been watching any TV lately, so I do not know if they have been promoting your Hercules or not... is it next Monday, May 16th that it is supposed to air?
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Oh poor elmore... what a time you are having lately. Here is the best hug I can offer at the moment
At least she didn't follow you home!
There are a million stories in The Naked City; this has been one of them.
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CP you mean it is on next Monday? I haven’t seen it but you can’t go by me as I speed through too much. Have you seen it yet and shall I wait and watch the mini series on the SciFi station?
Possibly if you had done the movie Dean Kuntz would not have been embarrassed by it.
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One aspect of my teaching career I am very, very proud of: my students got the grade for every test, every paper, every project the next day after it was done. As far as I was concerned, that was part of my job: to give them feedback as soon as possible on their work so that they knew where they stood.
I must say, however, that most of my colleagues did not agree with this and did not give back tests and papers in a timely manner. My students complained to me about other teachers loud and often.
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I did see one commercial for HERCULES, but I couldn't begin to tell you what it said or when it said the show was airing.
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Elmore do the school kids always ride free? When I rode the bus to Portland we also had a crazy lady. The poor young man sitting next to me was ready to kill her. He had been sitting behind her since California and was on his way home to see his orthopedist after seriously injuring his knee.
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DR WFO, what are these pictures from? I feel like I should know and I just cannot remember
It's called THE RUSSIAN SEASONS DANCE COMPANY (http://www.hsvwoodlands.com/russian_seasons.htm)
I dunno. I just Googled "Dance two" for page 2, and that turned up. Maybe I should have tried "Dance 10, Looks 3"
But then I would have got this:
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and this
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And this:
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But also this
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and this for some reason
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Google Images is strange.
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Vixmom good news from the Vixter. I think it is great she called you with the good news.
Matt H I don’t remember having to wait long for the results of tests, though I’m sure I wasn’t anxious for most of them. :-[ It is a shame you were in the minority in returning them.
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And if you enter vixmom's name, you get
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My name, on the other hand, gives you a choice of
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or
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One aspect of my teaching career I am very, very proud of: my students got the grade for every test, every paper, every project the next day after it was done. As far as I was concerned, that was part of my job: to give them feedback as soon as possible on their work so that they knew where they stood.
I must say, however, that most of my colleagues did not agree with this and did not give back tests and papers in a timely manner. My students complained to me about other teachers loud and often.
I think that is very commendable, Matt.
Now, I understand each teacher has 6 or 7 classes of 20 - 25 kids, a few days or even a week to grade reports or papers or projects is understandable, but over a month and then to tell the kids that she has a life outside of school? Like the kids don't?! GGRRRRRR
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And if you enter vixmom's name, you get
(http://www.bignoisenow.com/bandphotos/299/mannbig.jpg)
which is better than http://www.mugshots.com/Favorites/Debra+Mann.htm
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The many faces of Debra Mann!
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Here is NBC's Web Site for Hercules. (http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Hercules/)
My question for the Pogue: Who initiated the project? Did you have the idea and sell it to the network, or were you taken on to write a mini-series that was already in the planning stages?
And, second question, will your close personal friend Edward Sorbo be offended?
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I set TiVo to record all of the episodes on NBC. I might wait until I have them all before watching.
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Elmore do the school kids always ride free? When I rode the bus to Portland we also had a crazy lady. The poor young man sitting next to me was ready to kill her. He had been sitting behind her since California and was on his way home to see his orthopedist after seriously injuring his knee.
The situation in Manhattan has become unbearable: the buses in the morning, and around 3 pm, are filled with noisy, rude, obnoxious terrors, most of whom should be made into rugs, and their selfish parents or nannies who ignore the infirm, elderly, tired or paying customers to let their charges run rampant, scream, yell, behave unseemly while they talk to each other or their cell phones. I long for the days of discipline.
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Has anyone been watching NBC? Have they seen any promos for HERCULES? This thing is on monday and I'm wondering if they're promoting it at all.
I saw a commercial for it, but only one...that could be more because I tape a lot of stuff and fast forward through the commercials, so I don't know how often they've broadcast it. I very muchly intend to watch it. ;D
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DR Rodzinski, I have heard of LUMS. I think they have one in Plattsburgh.
The one in Plattsburgh is the very one at which I consumed my Ollieburger!
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Here is NBC's Web Site for Hercules. (http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Hercules/)
My question for the Pogue: Who initiated the project? Did you have the idea and sell it to the network, or were you taken on to write a mini-series that was already in the planning stages?
Of course they leave the best information for last on the site
Emmy and DGA Award winner Roger Young ("Bitter Harvest," "Murder in Mississippi") directs from a screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue ("Dragonheart"). "Hercules" is a production of Hallmark Entertainment. [/quote}
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Hey Rodzinski, if you're in the neighnborhood, give elmore a hug for me... I think he needs one after his last few rotten days! :D
Well, I have to go help strike the Peter Pan set, as Jose would say" Laters!"
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Good Afternoon!
Chris and I met for lunch at Can-Can. He had their "tartine" (open-faced sandwich) of Asparagus, Jambon de Bayonne and Raclette. I had their "salade" of Chicken Liver Mousse, Frisee and Caramelized Shallots. Both of us enjoyed our lunches immensely. Chris also ordered a Bellini which was properly made with a puree of White Peaches. -I had a sip - quite good too. And I have to say the Chicken Liver Mousse was wonderful - very well-prepared and perfectly seasoned. And rich!
Afterwards, we headed up to For the Love of Chocolate. I stocked up on English Cadbury and Nestle - including a Yorkie Bar - "It's Not For Girls", and Chris selected a mix of custom M&Ms from the "Color Bar" in his Red Sox colors. ;) We then headed over to Rostov's Coffee and Tea - Chris needed a little caffeine jolt before he started his drive down to Greensboro.
And it was also just nice spending time with Chris and getting to know him better. Just listening to him warm up in the pit has been a pleasure over the past couple of weeks. Great jazz player, and a wonderful musical sense of humor. He's going to Scotland for a week during his lay-off, as well as spending a few days in New York City with his girlfriend. It's nice to know he has some 'excitement' planned for his lay-off since I'm sort of taking his job away for a couple of weeks. I guess it all evens out in some way.
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Hey Rodzinski, if you're in the neighnborhood, give elmore a hug for me... I think he needs one after his last few rotten days! :D
Well, I have to go help strike the Peter Pan set, as Jose would say" Laters!"
I'd hug him, but my mom just called and said she saw him on the bus and he was very rude to her, moving away from her when she was talking to him about her problems, making angry faces... And just a day after Mother's Day!
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I'm off to Footlight. I need a record fix and Ben said there was a sale going down over there.
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As for Lums...
I remember them around Arlington, VA, while growing up. They always seemed to be promoting their hot dogs which were boiled in beer. There was also one in Richmond right near VCU's campus when I started school there back in 1987. From what I could tell, it was a Lums in name only - seemed to become a place for some unseemly folks to indulge in their cheap beer fixations.
I know I ate at one before, but it was a long time ago.
As for OllieBurger... There's is a place in DC near Ford's Theatre that still serves the OllieBurger - I think the whole "Ollie's Trolley" franchise was related/spinoff - same menu items, same color scheme. They also have very good french fries.
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Hmm... I think I shall take a nap now... Yep, a nap sounds good...
Laters...
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WFO, I actually had started my HERCULES with Fox TV, but the exec at Fox was having a hard time trying to set it up. We then heard NBC and Hallmark were planning to do one, my exec at Fox...an old friend who had been my exec on THE FLY years ago...said, "It's your idea, I can't set it up, go with God, my son"...or words to that effect. We sent my treatment of HERCULES to them, which was very detailed and had the whole thing worked out. They hired me and I wrote from my treatment (with their notes on it, of course.) The whole script development was actually quite lovely and both my execs at NBC and Hallmark were great and very protective of the script. Of course, we will now see what reducing a 4-hour mini to 3-hours does for the sake of demographics and scheduling strategies.
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Well, after "Revelations," NBC is going to need something really potent!
I "suffered" through the 4th installment...and whatever happens to the folks in that mini-series is their own fault...it's a weird spin on prophecy anyway.
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Hi all! I had a little problem and had to go to the doctors office today. She sent me home to rest and take some meds. I should be back at work tomorrow.
I rested most of the afternoon away but feel better for it . I’m just very mad to be put on the kind of meds that one has to take for the rest of one’s life. I don’t like taking pills in the first place. Two, the cost of these things is outrageous.
I’m so glad that everything is ok with your money, DR Elmore. You know that half the time I just assume (I know I should never do that but I do) that my money is there and never even bother to check before I start spending it.
Scary books? I would have to agree about The Stand—at least the part about the flu. I was very nervous around people who sneezed for weeks after.
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank was one I read in my high school days. It’s another end of the world/nuclear holocaust type book that was set right here in Florida (Before Disney). It was set up around Kissimmee so it was hard to read about the mushroom cloud that was Tampa/MacDill AFB.
I shook every time a plane went overhead for at least a month afterwards.
I also read the Ann Rice witch books. Eh, not so scary. In fact, I bought Taltos off the net a few weeks/months ago and have yet to pick it up to read.
Awww, bus rides. Elmore and I will get together and each write a book about our experiences. Mine shall be called: Hartline: It’s not just a bus ride, it’s an adventure.
I also meant to say that I wish I room in my fridge for the flowers but alas, there would be no way. Having no AC, some of them are already wilting.
I'm looking forward to Hercules. I only wish I had way to record it but there will be a DVD?
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I'm off to Footlight. I need a record fix and Ben said there was a sale going down over there.
Hey, I know where that is! :)
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Thanks for the vibes, everybody. They seemed to do the trick. I had more trouble actually getting to school than taking the test. I forgot that the bus line I take to school changes at 11, so I had to run half a mile to catch the next line. I missed that one and had to wait fifteen minutes for the next bus. So I was waiting at the bus stop, and the guy waiting there with me got out a pad of paper, some watercolors, and a brush and started painting a picture of the empty lot across the street that used to be the mall. Why not?
I was only about ten minutes late for the test, so it wasn't the end of the world. Luckily, none of that history I had crammed in my head fell out while I was running after various and sundried buses. The test took up an entire blue book, minus one page, which I used to write a P.S. to my teacher. And I did manage to use the word "unseemly" in one of my essays.
Congratulations to the Vixter on her recycling video! I once had a teacher lose one of my projects at a bowling alley. I'm not quite sure what happened there.
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My very favorite scary book is GHOST STORY by Peter Straub. In fact, I think I enjoyed the film version with Fred Astaire more than most people did, becuase I could visualize the book in my head as I was watching it.
Both THE STAND and IT rank as not only among my favorite scary books, but also among my favorite books of all time.
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I am certainly glad to see that my three off-the-wall suggestions for topics yesterday did manage to get some responses. Although, it seems strange that Best-looking Nazi received as many, if not more, responses than Least Favorite Dental Procedure.
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Hey Rodzinski, if you're in the neighnborhood, give elmore a hug for me... I think he needs one after his last few rotten days! :D
Well, I have to go help strike the Peter Pan set, as Jose would say" Laters!"
Hugs are always welcome and accepted from DRs. I'm a nondiscriminator when it comes to tokens of affection and support. Anything further is totally negotiable.
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I'd hug him, but my mom just called and said she saw him on the bus and he was very rude to her, moving away from her when she was talking to him about her problems, making angry faces... And just a day after Mother's Day!
I thought she had a familiar face!
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I don't take the bus, probably only twice in my life....not counting the School Bus, of course.
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True bus story:
A older lady was riding the bus home from the store. The bus driver hit the brakes and something from the ladys bag falls out and slides to the front of the bus.
"My Aspirins, My Aspirins!", She cried.
Without missing a beat, the bus driver said, "Lady, if your A** Burns, stick it out the window!"
Of course, you have to understand how we Southerners pronounce Aspirin to get the joke. ;) :D
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Seeing as how they worked so wonderfully last week for DR Ann, I figure I may as well get in on the wonder of HHW employment vibes. I've got an interview for the Obituary/Legal Notices clerk job at the Tacoma newspaper tomorrow at 9am PDT. Let's get me a permanent job here, folks! :D
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Job vibes to Jed!
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When DR Pogue asked about any ads for the upcoming HERCULES, I realized that I simply don't watch NBC at all at the moment. Never been a LAW & ORDER guy, and I find most of their sitcoms thoroughly unfunny, so I don't think I've tuned in to the network since the WEST WING season ended.
...and I now realize that there's absolutely no reason what so ever that anybody should give a hoot whether or not I watch NBC, but since when does that stop us around here? :D
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Seeing as how they worked so wonderfully last week for DR Ann, I figure I may as well get in on the wonder of HHW employment vibes. I've got an interview for the Obituary/Legal Notices clerk job at the Tacoma newspaper tomorrow at 9am PDT. Let's get me a permanent job here, folks! :D
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It the same for me. I only watch, LOST, JOAN OF ARCADIA and JAG. Now that JAG is over, it's down to two shows.
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:o That doesn't sound quite right...but you know what I mean!! ;D
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Seeing as how they worked so wonderfully last week for DR Ann, I figure I may as well get in on the wonder of HHW employment vibes. I've got an interview for the Obituary/Legal Notices clerk job at the Tacoma newspaper tomorrow at 9am PDT. Let's get me a permanent job here, folks! :D
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When DR Pogue asked about any ads for the upcoming HERCULES, I realized that I simply don't watch NBC at all at the moment. Never been a LAW & ORDER guy, and I find most of their sitcoms thoroughly unfunny, so I don't think I've tuned in to the network since the WEST WING season ended.
...and I now realize that there's absolutely no reason what so ever that anybody should give a hoot whether or not I watch NBC, but since when does that stop us around here? :D
I noticed a few weeks ago that I don't watch any shows on CBS. Funny, huh? But speaking of "Law and Order," I've been watching "L&O: Trial By Jury" because of Bebe Neuworth and last Friday was the season finale. I totally forgot to watch (or even tape) it! :'( Did anyone happen to tape it and would anyone who happened to tape it be able to send me a copy?? I'd be more than willing to pay for shipping or to trade something. I mean, I can wait for the repeat this summer, but I'll probably forget about it by then. Any help would be appreciated. ;D
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Yowza, y'all don't waste any time! Thanks so very much!
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And from Oz too DR Jed.
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Well, after "Revelations," NBC is going to need something really potent!
I "suffered" through the 4th installment...and whatever happens to the folks in that mini-series is their own fault...it's a weird spin on prophecy anyway.
LOL. We are still hanging in there but I'm not sure why. Well, possibly because we know it will end soon. I shouldn't say we since I haven't asked Keith his opinion of the show. ;D
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I'd hug him, but my mom just called and said she saw him on the bus and he was very rude to her, moving away from her when she was talking to him about her problems, making angry faces... And just a day after Mother's Day!
ROTFLMAO ;D
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LOL elmore, you didn’t mean the kids rode the bus without paying a fee, you meant they ran free as in wild. ;D
Rodzinski you are horrible- ;D ;D
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JED, GOOD JOB VIBES!!!
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Job vibes for DR Jed!!!!
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...the teacher said that she was busy, that she had a life outside of school...
Translation: she's getting laid.
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Continuing right along with Google Images, here's what you get from "Michael Barnum" along with lots of the same:
(http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/edfury/ed_fury_10.jpg)
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Der B has been watching Medium. NBC aired a very brief ad for Hercules during the 10:44 break, emphasizing the stars. But it was letterboxed.
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I'm back from a very long day of mixing. Vinnie's premixes were all very good to begin with, but we spent quite a bit of time tweaking each of them. One of the tracks was just not working for me in terms of its layers, and I ended up really simplifying it - we now may add a cello to it, just for some nice warm low end. Otherwise, everything is sounding quite good. It always takes me a few hours to get back into the vibe of mixing when I've been away from it for these long stretches. My ears have to become accustomed to hearing the details again. It took about two hours today before I was really hearing as I like to. We got eight songs finished today. Tomorrow, Vinnie will be pre-mixing the other seven, then Wednesday we'll go through this whole thing again, and I'll do any fixes on what we did today, should I hear something I don't like. The vocals comped very well and so far Mr. Haines hasn't had to come in to resing any notes yet, which is a good thing.
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I'm all caught up with your excellent postings.
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Don't know if I'll have the patience for a movie tonight or not.
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I caught a bit of Robert Montgomery's RIDE THE PINK HORSE tonight. Pretty interesting film, if not a little odd and atmospheric. I have never caught the whole thing to figure out whether the doggone thing makes sense or not.
It is funny to read the IMDB reviews that it is an "imitation film noir" or "almost a noir" or it would have been film noir if it had only done such and such, AS IF the filmmakers of the time knew this term and its "rules" and were aiming at such a classification.
So many people are lost without their labels!
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Translation: she's getting laid.
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Now that's freakin' funny!
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Strong VIBES from East Coast to West. From sea to shining sea, all for...
THE RETURN (to work) OF THE JED-I
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Early to bed, early to rise. Taking dog pics, then grandladsitting again.
Hi ho, the glamourous life.
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BROKEN LANCE is on Fox right now in letterboxed version with BK's fave, Katy Jurado.
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I noticed a few weeks ago that I don't watch any shows on CBS. Funny, huh? But speaking of "Law and Order," I've been watching "L&O: Trial By Jury" because of Bebe Neuworth and last Friday was the season finale. I totally forgot to watch (or even tape) it! :'( Did anyone happen to tape it and would anyone who happened to tape it be able to send me a copy?? I'd be more than willing to pay for shipping or to trade something. I mean, I can wait for the repeat this summer, but I'll probably forget about it by then. Any help would be appreciated. ;D
I'm sorry, DR George. I watched it "live" and recorded NUMBERS instead. That has been pretty much my routine since both shows started facing off against one another.
Wish I could have been some help.
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I also send best thoughts and lots of crossed fingers and toes for DR Jed to get the job he wants. I have one friend still actively searching for a job around here, and another friend who has a job in Virginia but is trying to relocate here but much find work before he does so.
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OK, this time I really will get back to work on my IAAAAWWOTD paper. Really. I'm getting to it.
Job interview vibes for Dear Reader Jed!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When I got home from rehearsal tonight, I cracked open the MURDER SHE WROTE boxed set of Season 1 episodes, and put in the one that first introduced the late Jerry Orbach as detective Harry McGraw. Excellent episode, and they look very, very good for a 20 year old series with a sharp picture, nice color saturation, and clear, crisp mono sound.
Can it really be 20 years ago that these shows were first broadcast! Lordy, how time flies! :-\
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The reason I asked whether anyone had seen any ads is because I don't watch any of the three major networks at all and almost no Fox (sometimes The Simpsons and Malcolm). Most of my viewing these days is confined to cable. TCM first and foremost, follwed by Fox Movie Channel, HGTV, BBCAmerica, Comedy Channel, and Food network.
Rodzinski, I think RIDE THE PINK HORSE is a very interesting movie, though I haven't seen it in sometime.
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Good Evening!
Greetings from Fairfax! I started packing my car up starting around 8:30, and finished right after 9:00. I didn't realized just how much stuff I had set aside to bring home this trip. But it all fit into the car, and I really didn't have to resort to any creative organizing.
The drive up was relatively uneventful save for some road construction at Fredericksburg - which only ended up delaying me about 10 minutes. Not bad at all. Once I got up here around 11:15, I unloaded everything - it's all sitting in the big room in the basement. I'll sort and separate - and do laundry(!) - in the morning.
And, now watching Letterman, and having a very late dinner... So...
Laters...
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I saw Ride the Pink Horse about six months ago - I'd never seen it before. It has really interesting components. I especially liked Wanda Hendrix (is that her name). And, if I remember correctly, the always excellent (and large) Thomas Gomez.
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No posts in ninety minutes. And yet I saw five count them five dear readers. I swear, some of this WUSSBURGERING is infuriatingly infuriating.
Here is a photograph of Vinnie and his ever-lovin' Stefanie, who is an ace cellist.
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Well, if this doesn't take the cake - two-and-a-half hours without a single post save for mine own. Skammen, I say, and skammen I say again. I do understand we had a lovely number of posts, but I don't understand this WUSSBURGERING as of nine-thirty. Oh, well, what can one do but scratch one's head.
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I have been watching TV all night. Sorry. Right now, I'm listening to the brand new Lucky Stiff CD with Malcolm Gets and I enjoy hearing slightly different interpretations. It has a bit more dialogue than the original. One like that's pretty damn funny is a line from Miss Glick (reminds me of "Miss Dorothy"): "Just because we slept together does not mean that we’re on a first name basis!"
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And it has a bonus track called "Shoes" for Harry. He sings about shoes.
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It's very much a part of the score. It's a very nice song...even if it was cut from the show.