Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on August 01, 2022, 12:14:03 AM
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Well, you're read the notes, the notes scaled and Grailed, and now it is time for you to post until the scaling cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: FROLIC!
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Topic of the Day: the only one that I know that I've seen was Cloverfield. I think I remember liking it because I had never seen a movie like that.
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Good morning, friends.
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Happy Monday.
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Thanks to the late-night HHW denizens for getting us to Page Six.
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Hope you are feeling better soon, DR TCB.
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Good morning, all!!
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Oh, God, it's August. I will not be sorry to see this lousy year vanish.
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I had a terrible night of sleep. I could not get comfortable and my legs were both aching and very restless. I did a lot of kicking and tossing. Thatch stayed with me; Annabelle ran for the hills.
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Much as I'm dreadinhg it, I must make a try to do the laundry that's sat here for a week. It will keep me from fretting about rthat Ohio sale. I am so hoping it happens this week.
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DR TCB, I am so sorry for the hell you must be going through.
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DR Gerge, I remain confused about your apartment. DFo you have no AC in that space at all?
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i had forgotten Cloverfield, which I sorta liked.
The Blair Witch Project, which I saw on its opeing day, however, managed to get under my skin and completely terrify me. I had nightmares for weeks about those twig figures and rock patterns. I remember that after seeing The Exorcist, my sister-in-law at the time was so frazzled and terrified that she had serious fewars of the dark and sought help from a local Catholic priest. I mocked her for all that. Well, The Blair Witch was payback.
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As DR ELMORE posted.....I think The Blair Witch Project may be the only one I have seen.
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Not much happening this morning.
Tonight we will sing Act One and then run Act One with costumes on!
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I am not optimistic - but we shall see.
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Good morning, all.
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I looked up found footage movies and realized most are slasher films. Not my cuppa. I saw Blair Witch and was bored.
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Vibes for TCB!
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Wordle and Phoodle in 2.
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My Facebook memories reminded me that August has been a pretty gfood month for me so that bodes well for the property sale.
Six years ago today, we had our York Theatre reading of Moonshine and Mistletoe, now coyly retitled (ugh!) Up on Mistletoe Mountain, because of concerns that "moonshine" might offend potential teetotalers. Oy!
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Good morning, all.
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I believe I have only watched two found footage movies, Blair Witch and Apollo 18. I, too, saw the former on its opening day at a movie theeder, and enjoyed being taken in by it. It was the final image that most spooked me. Years later, the subject matter of the latter was irresistible, and I enjoyed that one, too.
I've seen a few bits and pieces of others that Kristi and Nathan have watched on the TV, because they like the formula, but they all look and sound alike to me. So other than the witch and space program ones, I'll pass until someone comes along with one involving some other subject matter I'm crazy about.
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God, I hope they change that title back, DR Elmore. And sooner rather than later. What do they think this is, anyway, the ferkakte Hallmark Channel?
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God, I hope they change that title back, DR Elmore. And sooner rather than later. What do they think this is, anyway, the ferkakte Hallmark Channel?
Ditto.
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Curiously, I received an email this morning from the director of the wonderful Kansas City Chorale in respomse to an inqiry I had made. He asked to see a copy of my Four Provencal Carols. I just sent him a pdf of the full score.
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Yes, I wish my collaborator, who's irked me by not asking my opinion before changing the title, would revert to M & M. I like the fact that moonshine can refer to the light ofg the moon or a liquor, especially sicne our comic character is a moonshiner and there's even a song. Our producer had a Hallmark writer do a telescript that was not only embarrassing but completely unresearched with no knowledge of depression-era Appalachia, depression poverty of the 1930s, holler architecture, or the characters. I couldn't finish the script.
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The restored "Cleopatra" (1963). I think it was improved by the additional footage.
The restored "A Star is Born" (1954) -- Immeasurably enhanced by the restoration.
I have seen television presentations of films with cut footage added in. "Supereman" was one such film. It wasn't hurt by the cuts.
I once saw "Out of Africa" on TV with a lot of additional footage. As it's one of my favorite films ever, I have to say I was intrigued and would love to have access to it again.
On the first DVD of "The Accidental Tourist" (and this may have been carried over to the blu ray release), they had outtakes that never made the final cut. Many of the scenes were Kathleen Turner's, and her character was deeper and more sympathetic than in the final cut.
Then there is "South Pacific", the original roadshow version with about 17 extra minutes. What an improvement those minutes were for the character of Luther Billis. Ray Walston had always irritated me with what I presumed was a boiled ham performance. They cut the heart and soul out of his performance, IMO. And then there was the additional scoring -- ORIGINAL work by Alfred Newman -- that accompanied scenes not in the play, but in keeping with the film.
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Interesting, DR Ron Pulliam.
My interpretation of what BK meant by "found footage" is that the movie is structured artificially to be based on camera footage that has been "found," but is actually created for the movie in the screenplay.
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TWO.
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DR John I enjoyed your story about Pat Carroll.
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I also enjoyed Bruce's memory of working with her.
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DR Gerge, I remain confused about your apartment. DFo you have no AC in that space at all?
None. My place is a 3-story townhouse-type. There really isn't a place to put an AC unit. I took out the doors, so there isn't a room that can be closed off and kept cold.
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Laundry is finished. As I came up from the basement this last time, I found the hall outside my apartment filled with emergency workers who werre brought in to help my neighbor, who wasn't answering his door. He was away for months - he's got to be 85 if he's day - and he's more homebound than I.
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The humidity must be over 100%. It is grueling out there.
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DR Gerge, I remain confused about your apartment. DFo you have no AC in that space at all?
None. My place is a 3-story townhouse-type. There really isn't a place to put an AC unit. I took out the doors, so there isn't a room that can be closed off and kept cold.
There are all these cooling units I see advertised on TV and Amazon. Might one of them be helpful?
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DR elmore3003, this made me think of you.
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It is a gorgeous day here today. I'm still on vacation today; went for a really long walk and then finished up the vacuuming.
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DR elmore3003, this made me think of you.
omg, that's wonderful.
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I also enjoyed Bruce's memory of working with her.
I did, too.
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ChasSmith, tomorrow I think I am getting a copy of the JCS Playbill.
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DR elmore3003, this made me think of you.
I thought adopting Thatch would keep Annabelle off my scores. Now, when I try to write, I habve three - count 'em 3 - cats on the score.
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Around 1982, while I was working with the cabaret act "Just Good Friends," we perfrmed in Central PArk at the rally at the end of the Gay Pride parade. Pat Carroll was one of the speakers. She ands I spent a lovely couple of hours chatting on a nice June afternoon in Central Park.. I liked her very much.
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
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Guess I'll do stuff after the Zoom.
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ChasSmith, tomorrow I think I am getting a copy of the JCS Playbill.
Thank you, sir!
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Interesting, DR Ron Pulliam.
My interpretation of what BK meant by "found footage" is that the movie is structured artificially to be based on camera footage that has been "found," but is actually created for the movie in the screenplay.
Yes, I gathered that, but I find there are few films I am aware of that are like that.
EXCEPT....
That wonderful reconstuction of "Something's Got to Give", the Marilyn Monroe-Dean Martin film that was being directed by George Cukor for Fox at the time "Cleopatra" was sucking up all the studio's resources.
It was, of course, scrapped, and was later recast with Doris Day and James Garner and Polly Bergen as "Move Over, Darling".
But some enterprising soul at Fox took all the found footage (i.e. discarded but not destroyed) and pieced together a short version of "Somethings Got to Give" and included it on a DVD about Marilyn. (Don't remember which DVD it was on).
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Golly! While I was typing my last, we had a gully-washer of a rain and now it is bright and sunny again.
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DR Gerge, I remain confused about your apartment. DFo you have no AC in that space at all?
None. My place is a 3-story townhouse-type. There really isn't a place to put an AC unit. I took out the doors, so there isn't a room that can be closed off and kept cold.
There are all these cooling units I see advertised on TV and Amazon. Might one of them be helpful?
I've seen things like that, too. They might help.
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DR elmore3003, this made me think of you.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6945.0;attach=15045)
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DR Gerge, I remain confused about your apartment. DFo you have no AC in that space at all?
None. My place is a 3-story townhouse-type. There really isn't a place to put an AC unit. I took out the doors, so there isn't a room that can be closed off and kept cold.
There are all these cooling units I see advertised on TV and Amazon. Might one of them be helpful?
And they do make them without having to vent them out windows. I had two such units in my Oakland condo.
Larry, the West Coast, especially Oregon and Washington state, has a lot of homes, including condos and apartments, that were never given central A/C because the weather was generally never hot enough to warrant them.
But...the times are changing rapidly.
I didn't need A/C in my Oakland condo for the first couple of years, but one summer got terribly hot, so I indulged in window unit. I lived there for 25 years and I went through a window unit, a portable that had to be vented and then two portables that did not have to be vented.
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I'm heading over to the theeder early today to make sure all the props are on the prop table.....and maybe clean up the pit in anticipation of the music players strolling in.....maybe today....maybe tomorrow....
The music director has been asked numerous times for names of said musicians and arrival day, but she says "soon" and wanders away.
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Ooh! Ooh!
"The Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection consists of five Marilyn Monroe films plus the documentary The Final Days. "
"In The Final Days, producer-director Patty Ivins chronicles Monroe's final, aborted feature film, Something's Got to Give, which was ultimately shut down after the star was dismissed from the production. Beyond Monroe's fragile emotional and physical health, this well-crafted profile examines the financial crisis facing her studio as well as the mounting frustration of meticulous director George Cukor and his cast, including costar Dean Martin, as Monroe's absences drove the shoot over budget. The documentary concludes with a 40-minute reconstruction of footage completed for the feature, which would subsequently be reshot as a vehicle for Doris Day and James Garner, Move Over, Darling."
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I know of ONE person who will not be in attendance this evening....but everyone else should be there.
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It is a gorgeous day here today. I'm still on vacation today; went for a really long walk and then finished up the vacuuming.
To have a perfect day when you don't have to work, lovely.
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I was relieved not to be sick when I woke up this morning. I was able to keep my important appointment this morning for my six month shot, that was postposed a week for our trip.
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I'm heading over to the theeder early today to make sure all the props are on the prop table.....and maybe clean up the pit in anticipation of the music players strolling in.....maybe today....maybe tomorrow....
The music director has been asked numerous times for names of said musicians and arrival day, but she says "soon" and wanders away.
How large is your band, Jack?
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I just finished putting away the laundry. My neighbor Ann stopped by to visit and leave me their mailbox key since they wil be away for ten days. I asked her to pick up a couple of onions for me and she dropped them off. I will make chili tomorrow.
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
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Has anyone changed to Libby yet?
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I'm heading over to the theeder early today to make sure all the props are on the prop table.....and maybe clean up the pit in anticipation of the music players strolling in.....maybe today....maybe tomorrow....
The music director has been asked numerous times for names of said musicians and arrival day, but she says "soon" and wanders away.
Wow! (Or yikes, whichever is appropriate.)
Also, sometimes we stroll in, sometimes we waltz in. You never know.
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I know of ONE person who will not be in attendance this evening....but everyone else should be there.
You'll have to count me out tonight, too. I'm sorry.
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DR elmore3003, this made me think of you.
I thought adopting Thatch would keep Annabelle off my scores. Now, when I try to write, I habve three - count 'em 3 - cats on the score.
Three cats on a score is the title of my new musical.
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
Yeah, I don’t like that. Used it before. Prefer OverDrive.
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
Yeah, I don’t like that. Used it before. Prefer OverDrive.
Thanks.
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I will wait until I am forced off of OverDrive.
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Good afternoon.
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Hello, DR Laura.
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:)
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
Yeah, I don’t like that. Used it before. Prefer OverDrive.
My eyes are extra bad today or I would have attempted to change it on my phone, just to test it.
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
Yup. The OverDrive app is going away.
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I watched a video on the new Libby and groaned.
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Has anyone changed to Libby yet?
Yup, and not really a fan. I use my Kindle and download directly from Amazon, so the Libby app is unecessary...at least, for me.
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I will wait until I am forced off of OverDrive.
Don't worry...you will be. ;)
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I only use my phone app to check look at what I have checked out or on hold or in the wish list. I have checked out a book but could never actually read a book on my little phone.
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I will wait until I am forced off of OverDrive.
Don't worry...you will be. ;)
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Has anyone changed to Libby yet?
Yup, and not really a fan. I use my Kindle and download directly from Amazon, so the Libby app is unecessary...at least, for me.
You are lucky. I like OverDrive.
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I read a list of things that Libby has that OverDrive doesn't. Hmmm, most of them I doubt I will ever use. I also saw one or two on the list I thought I have on OverDrive.
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It just dawned on me, if I switch my phone to Libby I am not sure that the book I check out will be available on OverDrive. I had better wait and do them at the same time.
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Not only do I have my tablet & phone, I have Keith's tablet to change to Libby.
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Two libraries, three accounts in total.
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Tomorrow’s active shooter training at the theater has been canceled. It’ll be incorporated into our annual retraining, or so we’re told.
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Are you ok with that?
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Sure. It means they really don’t have a lot to tell us.
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And that’s okay. No one really knows how they’ll react in such a situation.
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Long but productive day at work.
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It started off like a crazy Monday, but the pieces slowly, almost painfully came together.
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One more …
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Four!
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Anyone here read Jodi Picoult?
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Anyone here read Jodi Picoult?
Not I.
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But on a happy note (C#), three new Kritzerland CDs have arrived! ;D
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Although, one of them did arrive with all the hub tines broken (the disc itself is undamaged) but I have replacement inlay trays, so I won't be filing any kind of PayPal dispute.
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It started off like a crazy Monday, but the pieces slowly, almost painfully came together.
Just like a murder mystery.
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Some days are murder...
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Hey! That would make a good book title.
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Although, one of them did arrive with all the hub tines broken (the disc itself is undamaged) but I have replacement inlay trays, so I won't be filing any kind of PayPal dispute.
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Same with one of mine. (I've got replacements, too, though!) :)
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Sure. It means they really don’t have a lot to tell us.
;D
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And that’s okay. No one really knows how they’ll react in such a situation.
So true.
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Gratuitous Post #101!!
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Anyone here read Jodi Picoult?
Unlike most people I was not a fan of My Sister's Keeper.
Still, I intended to read Small Great Things and Nineteen Minutes and haven't done so.
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DR John why did you ask about Picoult?
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Hello, everyone.
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There is a new musical in New York, based on a novel by Jodi Picoult.
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It’s titled “Between The Lines”.
Have seen excerpts, and it looks and sounds good.
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Have enjoyed reading about various summer vacations.
It’s called living vicariously.
😊
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Vibes to TCB!
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Property vibes for Larry!
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Vibes to all who need them.
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Hot and muggy in Maryland.
Not to my liking.
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TTFN!
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Watermelon, anyone?
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Apparently, they grow them big in [insert your city here].
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Just a few more posts.
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Will take us to the next
level page.
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And who wouldn't want to level up
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To the next page?
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"Next," a song by Stephen J. Sondheim.
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Five.
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Tomorrow, it's back to work.
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Good night, friends.
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It’s titled “Between The Lines”.
Have seen excerpts, and it looks and sounds good.
It sounds charming.
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DR John why did you ask about Picoult?
I started Wish You Were Here and got sucked in. Pandemic novel. I haven’t read her before.
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Starting The Worst Person in the World. The first 15 minutes are nimble and exceptionally well crafted. Easy to see why the movie was so praised. Hope it continues.
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When you are done let me know if you still like it.
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Watermelon, anyone?
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6945.0;attach=15048)
Wow! Thems are some BIG watermelons!
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I just learned that Norwegian for “drama queen” is drama queen.
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'night
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
Everyone will have to change in early 2023 as they are getting rid of overdrive. I use both libby and overdrive. I prefer overdrive. But my main issue with libby is that you can't recommend books through the app. But you can through overdrive.
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I watched a video on the new Libby and groaned.
I think that you should get the app now and just get used to it. Even if you still use overdrive. You can connect them together. Libby does make it easier to view the newly added books.
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Has anyone changed to Libby yet?
Yup, and not really a fan. I use my Kindle and download directly from Amazon, so the Libby app is unecessary...at least, for me.
How it is unnecessary? Don't you have to see what books you want from the app?
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So, everyone here prefers OverDrive, so, of course, that’s the one they’re getting rid of.
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I made it an hour into The Worst Person in the World and am loving it.
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So, everyone here prefers OverDrive, so, of course, that’s the one they’re getting rid of.
I think that it's older. I mostly just prefer it because of being able to suggest books months in advance (that i then get put to the front of the line). And i do also find the fonts and choices to read a bit better on overdrive. But Libby is much easier to see the newly added books.
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As long as I can still get my books through it, I guess I'll survive.
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I have to say that the bulk of this 1st day of August was a big NOTHING BURGER, but it was filling and not unpleasant.
Still. I hope the 2nd day of August is more rewarding.
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And with that, I shall say hooray for our termination of the leader of Al-Qaeda who was killed in that drone strike over the weekend in Kabul. He was Zawahiri and Bin Laden's "brain", as Rachel Maddow puts it.
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Good night, all.
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I am going to call it "a night" for that is what it is right now in Johston SC. I realize the sun has not yet set on the left coast, but it's on its way and has left darkness hereabouts.
Nighty night!
Oh, and to respond to JohnG's greeting to me at one point yesterday, "Hello, John"!
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Watched a Netflix documentary.
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It seems the library will be forcing me to change from Overdrive to Libby.
Everyone will have to change in early 2023 as they are getting rid of overdrive. I use both libby and overdrive. I prefer overdrive. But my main issue with libby is that you can't recommend books through the app. But you can through overdrive.
It's my understanding that they're just getting rid of the OverDrive app, not OverDrive itself, and moving to the Libby app exclusively.
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Has anyone changed to Libby yet?
Yup, and not really a fan. I use my Kindle and download directly from Amazon, so the Libby app is unecessary...at least, for me.
How it is unnecessary? Don't you have to see what books you want from the app?
I usually have a book in mind, then go to my library's OverDrive website on my computer, then if it's available, I check it out, which kicks me to Amazon's website where I check it out there, then I go to my Amazon "Content and Devices" and download it by USB cable to my Kindle.
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This may seem very cumbersome (actually, it is), but I do this because I may not want to read something right away (and I don't have a lot of time to read, and I read kind of slowly), so I don't turn on the wi-fi on my Kindle (or I keep it on Airplane mode).
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I download it and right away check IN the item on my library's OverDrive site so that it becomes available for the next patron, BUT it doesn't go away from my Kindle! It's called "working the system." ;)
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This way, I can collect titles and especially series that may have a lot of holds on the earlier titles, but not always on the later ones.
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I'm home from my girls weekend, which was a lot of fun
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I don't like reading on an electronic device
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PAGE SIX KINDLE DANCE!!
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I don't like reading on an electronic device
I know many people who don't, either. For me, it's just a great convenience.
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And ALL the free books that I can collection from the library. ;D
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Watermelon, anyone?
To Hell with the watermelon!
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I just learned that Norwegian for “drama queen” is drama queen.
I always thought it was Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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T.O.D.
I Never saw THE BLAIR WITCH
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T.O.D.
I Never saw THE BLAIR WITCH
Neither have I.
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New notes are finally up.
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Up are new notes, finally.