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Title: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 12:14:27 AM
Well, you've read the notes notes, the notes were written in the House of BK, and now it is time for you to post until the House of Gucci cows come home.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 12:15:01 AM
And the word of the day is: VENERATE!
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 01:46:43 AM
Finished the sequence, so that's done.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:09:18 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:13:44 AM
I slept very well. The alarm rang at 5:30, but I was lying in bed with Thatch st my side, and we lazed for thirty minutes, petting and cuddling with him and dozing. Then Annabelle jumped onto the bed, followed by a belligerent Stella, and they got into a fight. There was hissing and squealing, they ran off, Thatch followed, and I got up. It was 6:00.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:14:46 AM
I must begin the laundry shortly. I don't want to, but . . .
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:15:22 AM
I must spend some time this afternoon checking out physical therapists.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:15:49 AM
DR TCB, who's watching the cats?
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:16:39 AM
DR John G, Christmas in Cowtown.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christmas+in+cowtown
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:19:01 AM
Good morning, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:19:18 AM
So good to see DR TCB posting last night.
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:19:49 AM
~~~CONTINUED RECOVERY VIBES~~~ for DR TCB!!!!!!
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:20:34 AM
~~~MEDICAL APPOINTMENT VIBES~~~ today for DR John G.!!!!!!!!

May you be a dizzy dame no longer.
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:21:12 AM
~~~GETTING RID OF STUFF AND RAISING MONEY VIBES~~~ for DR Jrand71!!!!!
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:22:57 AM
~~~LONG-HAUL RADIATION VIBES~~~ for DR elmore3003!!!!!!
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 04:23:02 AM
To return to yesterday's TOD for a moment: The highlight for me in almost any year has been the posts of DR Jrand71. I envy his ability to find the humor and absurdity in the trivialities of human existence.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:29:53 AM
Absolutely, DR elmore3003. DR Jrand71's posts often make me smile and/or chuckle out loud. We could all certainly use a lot more of that.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:01:21 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:01:51 AM
Add me to the JRand chorus.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:03:04 AM
George:
The big concert next month is Pink Martini! :D

They’re also due here next month. But I wonder if it will happen because the symphony is still on strike.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:03:37 AM
Thanks, Elmore, for the Cowtown link.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:09:07 AM
The Doc Watkins version of the song on YouTube was very different from last night’s. From simple, lilting jazz trio to big band. Both were nice.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 05:13:48 AM
Everything is in the washers, and as soon as I walked back into the apartment, I took a painkiller. I will be moving cautiously and rather slowly today.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:16:34 AM
I don’t want to get up just yet.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 05:20:24 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 05:22:38 AM
FRIDAY.

Which can only mean one thing:  Back to the show tonight.

But only for two more performances. And that's fine. It's only been a standard 4-week run, but it's time to move on.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 05:23:45 AM
I've had The Streets of New York on repeat play in the car these past several days, and it's growing on me like crazy.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 05:26:33 AM
HOUSE OF BK II:  THE HANDS OF BK

This could be a thing if someone would artfully edit together the clips of BK's playing for the transcribers.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 05:31:21 AM
I, too, will jump aboard the DR Jrand71 bandwagon. Some excellent posts have paraded before these eyes.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 05:37:09 AM
Well you can imagine my embarrassment at such praise from the denizens here at HHW.

Thank you all.  Although it's true I am going to Hollywood next week to make a picture, my heart will be here at HHW.  And one can't be away from one's heart too long......
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 05:37:27 AM
It was great to hear from DR SHERIDAN WHITESIDE last night....I mean DR TCB.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 05:38:44 AM
Thanks to all for the vibes for today.  I shall soon be on my way to the Big House.  I hate to take the Appraisal but I will.  I am concerned that Cousin Itt will use it as a shopping list....  We shall see.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 05:40:16 AM
MR BK I gave my 5 year old niece a copy of the "ANNETTE THE GIRL NEXT DOOR" cd box set.

She loves all of the songs, but especially the Sherman Bros. ditties.  She learned them after a couple of plays and is singing them everyday.  Her favorite is DanceAnnette!
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 05:51:04 AM
DR Jrand71, I have perused the two houses. Very nice. They look cared for and very presentable, ready to sell.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 06:05:11 AM
Finishing a book with the great title of I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness. Naturally it ends at Christmas.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 06:52:27 AM
Everything is in the dryers, so I need to move two sleeping babies to make the bed. If I have time left, I will clean the litter and take it to the basement when I go down for the laundry.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 06:52:56 AM
My legs are killing me.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 06:53:43 AM
I just received the piano/celeste book for How to Succeed. They're using the reduced orchestration for ten players. It's a departure for this college because they always use full orchestrations and hire accordingly. This is for Covid.

DR Elmore: Do you know when the reduced score was created? These books are still handwritten, and only the original version of the show is available, not the revivals. MTI doesn't show a piano/celeste book for the standard orchestration. Is that correct, or an omission?

Questions, questions. If you don't mind, I'll scan and email a couple of pages so you can see how familiar this book looks to you.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 06:54:53 AM
It's NOT a synth book, which is nice. Can it be tour orchestrations from way back?
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 07:35:19 AM
A question for the universe:

Could someone PLEASE make a macadamia cookie that doesn't include the obligatory "white chocolate"?
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 07:38:09 AM
 :)
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 07:39:10 AM
  Could someone PLEASE make a macadamia cookie that doesn't include the obligatory "white chocolate"?   

Perhaps....
Macadamia CRANBERRIES ??        8)
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 08:08:25 AM
Thanks DR CHAS SMITH.  Those photos were from sometime ago, the little house is not so nice and the Big House is full of furniture....but hopefully they will sell quickly.

Now.....
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 08:13:02 AM
Remember in the movie The Greatest Show On Earth when the train with the circus performers was barreling down the track and ran into the stopped animal train and chaos ensued?

Well that is me today.....my aunt called to say that her refrigerator was leaking and she had to stay home and wait for the repair man today.

Since she is first in line to get her "memory" and check out the inventory.....so we are STOPPED until her fridge is repaired.....who knows how long it will take?
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 08:39:37 AM
I just received the piano/celeste book for How to Succeed. They're using the reduced orchestration for ten players. It's a departure for this college because they always use full orchestrations and hire accordingly. This is for Covid.

DR Elmore: Do you know when the reduced score was created? These books are still handwritten, and only the original version of the show is available, not the revivals. MTI doesn't show a piano/celeste book for the standard orchestration. Is that correct, or an omission?

Questions, questions. If you don't mind, I'll scan and email a couple of pages so you can see how familiar this book looks to you.

We turned in the new edition three years agfo - maybe four - and MTI has done nothing with it. As to your inquiry, I rememebr absolutely nothing about my work on the score. I didn't even know there was a 10-piece reduction!
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 08:40:30 AM
:)

She looks like Stella! And acts like her as well.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 08:42:41 AM
The kitchen is cleaned, the cats' dishes are washed, the litter changed, and all I have left to do us put away the laundry.

Later . . .
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 08:53:42 AM
Can I ask you, please, to sign this petition?
https://www.change.org/p/hancho-s-petition-for-new-york-capa
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 09:36:22 AM
Back from a little dance practice. Had a shower. Ready to face the world.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:03:01 AM
I want to correct a post from the other day. I haven't read Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter. I've read her novel. The Story of the Lost Child. I thought they were the same book with a different translation of the title.

So, now I have to read The Lost Daughter.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:04:05 AM
Lost? I am.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:04:25 AM
Hello, 0 guests!
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:34:39 AM
Just finished getting Mom's investments with the proceeds from the sale of the house taken care of.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:35:15 AM
The woman who was with her in Louisville seemed to be trapped in a farce. Every time she would ask a question that needed an answer recorded, the Internet went out.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:35:32 AM
Seriously, it went out more than 20 times during our conversation.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:35:52 AM
But she swears that Mom e-signed the documents, which means we're good to go.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:36:09 AM
And now I'm going to get ready for the doctor.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:36:22 AM
And maybe a run to See's Candies.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:36:47 AM
It may be too warm for that. I'll go on Sunday or Monday.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 10:37:04 AM
Let's move on ...
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Post by: Druxy on December 17, 2021, 11:25:44 AM
My longtime friend, actress Bridget Hanley, has died.  :-(
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 11:53:27 AM
I'm up, I'm up - about six hours of sleep due to ABS (Active Brain Syndrome).
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 11:53:54 AM
I heard about Bridget two days ago. She's been struggling for many years now.
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Post by: Druxy on December 17, 2021, 12:13:39 PM
I heard about Bridget two days ago. She's been struggling for many years now.

I just heard last night.

I knew her for almost 60 years.  We went to college together.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:37:20 PM
DR Jrand71, I have perused the two houses. Very nice. They look cared for and very presentable, ready to sell.

I want to see them once we finally make it home.  Internet service is very spotty on our mountain drive
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:38:42 PM
A question for the universe:

Could someone PLEASE make a macadamia cookie that doesn't include the obligatory "white chocolate"?


;D
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:38:56 PM
  Could someone PLEASE make a macadamia cookie that doesn't include the obligatory "white chocolate"?   

Perhaps....
Macadamia CRANBERRIES ??        8)

Yum.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:39:40 PM
Remember in the movie The Greatest Show On Earth when the train with the circus performers was barreling down the track and ran into the stopped animal train and chaos ensued?

Well that is me today.....my aunt called to say that her refrigerator was leaking and she had to stay home and wait for the repair man today.

Since she is first in line to get her "memory" and check out the inventory.....so we are STOPPED until her fridge is repaired.....who knows how long it will take?

More vibes dealing with this.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:51:00 PM
And maybe a run to See's Candies.

You have a See's store there?
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:51:28 PM
My longtime friend, actress Bridget Hanley, has died.  :-(

:(
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:51:48 PM
I heard about Bridget two days ago. She's been struggling for many years now.

That is sad.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 12:52:21 PM
I heard about Bridget two days ago. She's been struggling for many years now.

I just heard last night.

I knew her for almost 60 years.  We went to college together.

Sorry.
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 12:57:27 PM
I just received the piano/celeste book for How to Succeed. They're using the reduced orchestration for ten players. It's a departure for this college because they always use full orchestrations and hire accordingly. This is for Covid.

DR Elmore: Do you know when the reduced score was created? These books are still handwritten, and only the original version of the show is available, not the revivals. MTI doesn't show a piano/celeste book for the standard orchestration. Is that correct, or an omission?

Questions, questions. If you don't mind, I'll scan and email a couple of pages so you can see how familiar this book looks to you.

We turned in the new edition three years agfo - maybe four - and MTI has done nothing with it. As to your inquiry, I rememebr absolutely nothing about my work on the score. I didn't even know there was a 10-piece reduction!

Amazing, that they've just sat on it.

Which sounds ungracious.

If it were only because of Covid...

But everybody and his brother can, and does, use that as an excuse. And it does seems like a long time ago because I vaguely remember you showing me a piece of that on a visit way back when.  :)
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 01:10:14 PM
I shall now be on my way to lunch with Richard Sherman, then to the Apple Store.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 01:17:57 PM
My longtime friend, actress Bridget Hanley, has died.  :-(

My sympathies.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 01:42:52 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 01:46:14 PM
I just received the piano/celeste book for How to Succeed. They're using the reduced orchestration for ten players. It's a departure for this college because they always use full orchestrations and hire accordingly. This is for Covid.

DR Elmore: Do you know when the reduced score was created? These books are still handwritten, and only the original version of the show is available, not the revivals. MTI doesn't show a piano/celeste book for the standard orchestration. Is that correct, or an omission?

Questions, questions. If you don't mind, I'll scan and email a couple of pages so you can see how familiar this book looks to you.

We turned in the new edition three years agfo - maybe four - and MTI has done nothing with it. As to your inquiry, I rememebr absolutely nothing about my work on the score. I didn't even know there was a 10-piece reduction!

Amazing, that they've just sat on it.

Which sounds ungracious.

If it were only because of Covid...

But everybody and his brother can, and does, use that as an excuse. And it does seems like a long time ago because I vaguely remember you showing me a piece of that on a visit way back when.  :)

I lost an MTI job today because Covid has canceled so many shows there's not enough revenue coming in to make the work financially necessary at hte moment.
Title: Re: HOUSE OF BK
Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 01:51:00 PM
I just received the piano/celeste book for How to Succeed. They're using the reduced orchestration for ten players. It's a departure for this college because they always use full orchestrations and hire accordingly. This is for Covid.

DR Elmore: Do you know when the reduced score was created? These books are still handwritten, and only the original version of the show is available, not the revivals. MTI doesn't show a piano/celeste book for the standard orchestration. Is that correct, or an omission?

Questions, questions. If you don't mind, I'll scan and email a couple of pages so you can see how familiar this book looks to you.

We turned in the new edition three years agfo - maybe four - and MTI has done nothing with it. As to your inquiry, I rememebr absolutely nothing about my work on the score. I didn't even know there was a 10-piece reduction!

Amazing, that they've just sat on it.

Which sounds ungracious.

If it were only because of Covid...

But everybody and his brother can, and does, use that as an excuse. And it does seems like a long time ago because I vaguely remember you showing me a piece of that on a visit way back when.  :)

I lost an MTI job today because Covid has canceled so many shows there's not enough revenue coming in to make the work financially necessary at hte moment.

Oh HELL!
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Post by: ChasSmith on December 17, 2021, 01:51:55 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.

Now that is some promising news. Please, universe...
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Post by: Ginny on December 17, 2021, 02:19:38 PM
Friday evening greetings!  We’ve had a quiet day here.  I did a little more decking of the hall and Richard folded some laundry.  Then we both took naps.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 02:21:10 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.

Now that is some promising news. Please, universe...

Once we finish the budgets, we'll make a proposal for the four showsd, three to be recorded in Dublin, hopefully, and one in Manhattan. I cannot state the titles until we know the project is on or off. If on, we still need to get the rights for two of the shows. The other two are Public Domain.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 02:24:50 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.

Now that is some promising news. Please, universe...

Once we finish the budgets, we'll make a proposal for the four showsd, three to be recorded in Dublin, hopefully, and one in Manhattan. I cannot state the titles until we know the project is on or off. If on, we still need to get the rights for two of the shows. The other two are Public Domain.

Cool. Can hardly wait to learn more.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 02:24:57 PM
The Music Man
staring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster
Wednesday December 22 8:00 pm
2-Left Center Mezz Row F
$450.00 per
Saturday December 25th 8:00 pm
2-4 Center Orchestra Seats Avail
Row S
$795.00 per
Monday December 27 8:00 pm
2 Seats Left Mezz
Row C
$475.00 per
Saturday January 1, 2023
1 Seat
Center Orchestra
Row Q- $925.00
Row S-$875.00
Saturday January 5th 8:00 pm
1 Center Orch Row V
$875.00

If Covid doesn't kill off Broadway, these prices just might.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 02:26:33 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.

Now that is some promising news. Please, universe...

Once we finish the budgets, we'll make a proposal for the four showsd, three to be recorded in Dublin, hopefully, and one in Manhattan. I cannot state the titles until we know the project is on or off. If on, we still need to get the rights for two of the shows. The other two are Public Domain.

Cool. Can hardly wait to learn more.

You'll be very happy about one of them!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 02:47:38 PM
Thanks DR JANE.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 02:48:20 PM
It would be nice if I don't have to do anything tomorrow but my sister seemed mad that I asked her not to text me unless it was important......
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 02:49:04 PM
Lots of stuff done this week so at least we're moving forward.

And unlike DR JOHN G our internet is not acting up.....yet.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 17, 2021, 02:49:25 PM
Sad news about Bridget Hanley - I only know her from HERE COME THE BRIDES.....
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 17, 2021, 02:50:38 PM
I really don't know if these rape allegations about Chris Not are true, but a violinist I worked with in the 1990s told me that she often saw him in the coffee shop of the first floor of her apartment building, and he was very abusive to his girlfriend.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 03:36:07 PM
I have no excuse for being tardy the past few days.

I have busied myself with various, sundry and stupid things and tended to virtually nothing that needed doing.  Oh, I managed to make my doctor's appointment Wednesday in Augusta GA, and I managed to go to the VA in Aiken SC on Tuesday for blood work. 

However, I never got to Sam's Club or CostCo.  Don't ask me why, but I just couldn't work up any enthusiasm for it.

All I want for Christmas is some enthusiasm.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 03:39:00 PM
For DR slapjaw:
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 03:40:10 PM
OOH!  OOH!

I started a new page.

FOUR
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 03:41:01 PM
I have managed to put a wreath on the front of the house (between the living room and dining room windows).

That's it.  That's all I've got.  Just not into it at all this year.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 03:41:31 PM
Helllo to the one guest possibly viewiing this blog.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 04:00:37 PM
My doctor kept me waiting for two hours, then had nothing much to say.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 04:00:55 PM
I’m going to contact my acupuncturist.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 04:01:21 PM
And it seems I’m going back on Allegra-D.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 04:01:55 PM
Waiting to usher for quite a few hours tonight.
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:56:29 PM
Sorry, DR John G.
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 04:56:51 PM
 :)
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 05:02:59 PM
DR TCB, who's watching the cats?


My dear friend Sharry’s husband, Micheal, is daily making the trek (after a ten hour work day) drives from west of Tacoma in Gig Harbor straight past his home in Lakewood to an equal distance east of Tacoma to my condo to take care of his niece and nephew!!

If I could convince Micheal to convert to Catholicism, I am sure I could guarantee him sainthood.
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 05:11:37 PM
Wow - how fortunate for you, DR TCB, to have such good friends.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 05:30:19 PM
That’s wonderful, Tom.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 05:39:24 PM
DR JohnG:  I saw my cardiologist Wednesday.  I guess everything went well.  He asked me a lot of questions about whether I ever had difficulty breathing.  I told him yes, that I was suffering nasal congestion something awful ever since September which, I suppose, is when I was exposed to a cousin with Covid.  I was vaccinated, but I quarantined myself.  I have had my booster, too.

I use a CPAP to sleep, and I use a bi-valve (which is not full-face, but fits over my nose).  When I am congested, I cannot breathe. And the CPAP is a bust when that happens.  I do spend a great deal of time trying to decongest and often sleep a couple of hours sitting up in a chair.  I always end up in bed with the CPAP and I get sleep, but it's annoying and stressful.  I told him I wanted to see an ENT and had told my regular doctor this.   He nodded, and then said we will just leave things as they are until we meet again in April.

So much for that.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 05:40:59 PM
I am glad to see DR TCB is recovering from his surgery. 
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 05:41:35 PM
May I ask BK a question?

When you get your  new iPhone, do you buy it outright or do you pay a monthly fee?
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 06:14:22 PM
High today of 81, tomorrow 71, Sunday 51. Then back to 80 on Christmas day. If the forecast holds.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 06:34:42 PM
I have managed to put a wreath on the front of the house (between the living room and dining room windows).

That's it.  That's all I've got.  Just not into it at all this year.

It is far more than I have done.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 06:35:13 PM
My doctor kept me waiting for two hours, then had nothing much to say.

2 hours  :o
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 06:36:52 PM
DR TCB, who's watching the cats?


My dear friend Sharry’s husband, Micheal, is daily making the trek (after a ten hour work day) drives from west of Tacoma in Gig Harbor straight past his home in Lakewood to an equal distance east of Tacoma to my condo to take care of his niece and nephew!!

If I could convince Micheal to convert to Catholicism, I am sure I could guarantee him sainthood.

You are blessed to have Sharry and Micheal in your life 💙
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Post by: singdaw on December 17, 2021, 06:54:03 PM
Good night, friends.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 07:35:16 PM
High today of 81, tomorrow 71, Sunday 51. Then back to 80 on Christmas day. If the forecast holds.

It sounds wonderful.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 07:35:44 PM
DR Ron I hope you can get a referral to an ENT.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 17, 2021, 08:22:46 PM
DR Ron I hope you can get a referral to an ENT.

Be sure I will.  It's just the "when" that worries me.
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 08:54:00 PM
George:
The big concert next month is Pink Martini! :D

They’re also due here next month. But I wonder if it will happen because the symphony is still on strike.

Cool!  I would think that since they're their own band, it'll happen...unless they won't proverbially cross the picket line.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 08:56:00 PM
George:
The big concert next month is Pink Martini! :D

They’re also due here next month. But I wonder if it will happen because the symphony is still on strike.

Cool!  I would think that since they're their own band, it'll happen...unless they won't proverbially cross the picket line.

The posters all mention the Symphony. So, who knows?
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 08:57:11 PM
Ron, I’ve had a bipap for 20 years. Supposedly I’m switching to something called an airpap. We’ll see.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 08:58:19 PM
We had a fight in the theater tonight. Saw the police escort someone out with his hands tied over his head.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 08:58:41 PM
Always something new here.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 08:58:51 PM
Onward!
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 08:58:59 PM
Five!
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 09:01:10 PM
We had a fight in the theater tonight. Saw the police escort someone out with his hands tied over his head.

That's scary.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 09:01:52 PM
We have a nice view of the Umpqua River river from our hotel room.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 09:04:36 PM
After dinner Keith drove through downtown Roseburg so I could see the winter lights.  It was lovely.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 09:51:38 PM
Ron, I just added it to the phone bill - about ten bucks more a month - I may just pay it of off, though, because I think they made a small mistake in the buyback of my iPhone - they gave me $800 in credit.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 09:55:39 PM
Had an amazingly wonderful lunch with Richard Sherman and his daughter Vicki. Barone's was the jernt. We were there almost two hours. Almost two years without seeing this man was really dopey and Vicki took the bull by the horns because Richard had wanted it to happen. I brought him the last two books because he hadn't gotten those and then the Tonight's the Night Blu-ray because he hadn't seen that. We're going to make sure we do this regularly now and that makes me very happy.
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Post by: bk on December 17, 2021, 09:59:27 PM
Here we are - happy friends - thinking about writing another song together.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 10:03:04 PM
Had an amazingly wonderful lunch with Richard Sherman and his daughter Vicki. Barone's was the jernt. We were there almost two hours. Almost two years without seeing this man was really dopey and Vicki took the bull by the horns because Richard had wanted it to happen. I brought him the last two books because he hadn't gotten those and then the Tonight's the Night Blu-ray because he hadn't seen that. We're going to make sure we do this regularly now and that makes me very happy.

I am so happy for you. Two years was way too long.
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 10:03:17 PM
Here we are - happy friends - thinking about writing another song together.

💙
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Post by: Jane on December 17, 2021, 10:04:07 PM
Must say, you both don't look like two years has past.
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 10:32:28 PM
Another day in rehab paradise!
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 10:33:18 PM
We have a nice view of the Umpqua River river from our hotel room.


Where is that?
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 10:38:38 PM
My only memory of Rosenberg is when we drove thru the downtown the year after the TNT truck blew up the downtown.
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 10:40:18 PM
Here we are - happy friends - thinking about writing another song together.


Richard looks great.  Who is the old guy with him?
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 10:42:04 PM
Look at me.  Calling the Richard Sherman by his first name!
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 10:42:49 PM
I should let him know he can call me TC.


(Because I think BK will be calling me Mudd.)




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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 10:59:50 PM
Can I ask you, please, to sign this petition?
https://www.change.org/p/hancho-s-petition-for-new-york-capa

Signed.
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 11:00:13 PM
Lonely being here by myself.
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 11:01:04 PM
Now I know how George felt.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 11:01:22 PM
Wonderful picture, BK. Glad your lunch went well.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 11:01:48 PM
I survived the second show, which didn't get over until midnight.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 11:02:21 PM
Monday is the last show of the year that I usher for. It's a children's choir and I don't think it will last until midnight. But you never know.
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Post by: John G. on December 17, 2021, 11:02:29 PM
Good night, all.
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:03:21 PM
My longtime friend, actress Bridget Hanley, has died.  :-(

My condolences, Druxy. :(
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:05:56 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.

That's wonderful, Larry!
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:06:45 PM
I just received the piano/celeste book for How to Succeed. They're using the reduced orchestration for ten players. It's a departure for this college because they always use full orchestrations and hire accordingly. This is for Covid.

DR Elmore: Do you know when the reduced score was created? These books are still handwritten, and only the original version of the show is available, not the revivals. MTI doesn't show a piano/celeste book for the standard orchestration. Is that correct, or an omission?

Questions, questions. If you don't mind, I'll scan and email a couple of pages so you can see how familiar this book looks to you.

We turned in the new edition three years agfo - maybe four - and MTI has done nothing with it. As to your inquiry, I rememebr absolutely nothing about my work on the score. I didn't even know there was a 10-piece reduction!

Amazing, that they've just sat on it.

Which sounds ungracious.

If it were only because of Covid...

But everybody and his brother can, and does, use that as an excuse. And it does seems like a long time ago because I vaguely remember you showing me a piece of that on a visit way back when.  :)

I lost an MTI job today because Covid has canceled so many shows there's not enough revenue coming in to make the work financially necessary at hte moment.

Dammit! >:(
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:07:15 PM
I had positive news about the recording project this morning, and after a telephone chat with Jack Viertel, we added a fourth show to the proposal.

Now that is some promising news. Please, universe...

Once we finish the budgets, we'll make a proposal for the four showsd, three to be recorded in Dublin, hopefully, and one in Manhattan. I cannot state the titles until we know the project is on or off. If on, we still need to get the rights for two of the shows. The other two are Public Domain.

~~~Positive Vibes of All Kinds!!~~~
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:08:32 PM
The Music Man
staring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster
Wednesday December 22 8:00 pm
2-Left Center Mezz Row F
$450.00 per
Saturday December 25th 8:00 pm
2-4 Center Orchestra Seats Avail
Row S
$795.00 per
Monday December 27 8:00 pm
2 Seats Left Mezz
Row C
$475.00 per
Saturday January 1, 2023
1 Seat
Center Orchestra
Row Q- $925.00
Row S-$875.00
Saturday January 5th 8:00 pm
1 Center Orch Row V
$875.00

If Covid doesn't kill off Broadway, these prices just might.

YIKES!! :o
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:09:48 PM
I really don't know if these rape allegations about Chris Not are true, but a violinist I worked with in the 1990s told me that she often saw him in the coffee shop of the first floor of her apartment building, and he was very abusive to his girlfriend.

Oh, my. :-\
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:10:35 PM
Well, since we're so close...
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:11:27 PM
PAGE SIX CAT DANCE!! ;D

For DR slapjaw:

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6715.0;attach=13432)

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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:13:02 PM
I have managed to put a wreath on the front of the house (between the living room and dining room windows).

That's it.  That's all I've got.  Just not into it at all this year.

I let my mom and sister do all the decorating at their houses.
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:13:32 PM
My doctor kept me waiting for two hours, then had nothing much to say.

I hate it when that happens. :P
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:14:38 PM
DR TCB, who's watching the cats?


My dear friend Sharry’s husband, Micheal, is daily making the trek (after a ten hour work day) drives from west of Tacoma in Gig Harbor straight past his home in Lakewood to an equal distance east of Tacoma to my condo to take care of his niece and nephew!!

If I could convince Micheal to convert to Catholicism, I am sure I could guarantee him sainthood.

Thank goodness for Micheal!
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:16:44 PM
DR Ron I hope you can get a referral to an ENT.

Be sure I will.  It's just the "when" that worries me.

~~~ENT Referral Vibes for Ron!!~~~
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:17:32 PM
We had a fight in the theater tonight. Saw the police escort someone out with his hands tied over his head.

Oh, my goodness! :o I've never seen anything like that when I've volunteered.
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Post by: TCB on December 17, 2021, 11:17:45 PM
My doctor kept me waiting for two hours, then had nothing much to say.

I hate it when that happens. :P


I won’t sit still for that to happen.
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:18:13 PM
Ron, I just added it to the phone bill - about ten bucks more a month - I may just pay it of off, though, because I think they made a small mistake in the buyback of my iPhone - they gave me $800 in credit.

Nice!
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:19:11 PM
Here we are - happy friends - thinking about writing another song together.

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6715.0;attach=13436)\

Great photo, BK!
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:19:42 PM
And that would be so cool to have another Sherman/Kimmel song out in the world! ;D
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:20:49 PM
I should let him know he can call me TC.


(Because I think BK will be calling me Mudd.)


:))
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Post by: George on December 17, 2021, 11:21:48 PM
Lonely being here by myself.
Now I know how George felt.

To quote Sondheim...No one is alone.
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Post by: George on December 18, 2021, 12:40:53 AM
This weekend, I have have no plans other than to make a couple of DVDs for my niece, and for a couple of Hainesies and/or Kimlets. :)