Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 10, 2024, 12:33:04 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a miraculous miracle, and now it is time for you to post until the miraculous cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: MUSTER!
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Congrats on yesterday's modern major miracle, BK!
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Wordle 935 4/6
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Good morning
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I was exhausted and in bed by 830 last night
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So now I’m up at 430
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My sleep schedule is all messed up
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I ended up not getting my anvil changed after all
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Just my oil
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And an estimate for additional work that will require me selling a leg or two
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Motor mounts, some axle thingy, gasket covers, filters…
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I brought Vixdad along to talk to the mechanic and he looked at things the mechanic pointed out and agreed these things must be done
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So parts are being ordered and I’ll be bringing the van in next Tuesday
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Bankruptcy court filing will be Wednesday
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Maybe I’ll Wordle and then try to get some more sleep
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It’s been pouring outside for ages
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Hope everyone in the vicinity is safe and dry and warm
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Wordle 935 5/6
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Whew
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, friends.
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Glad to hear that there was a miracle to be had.
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Sorry about the car new$, DR vixmom. :-X
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You really do need to win that lottery.
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I am up early, drinking the little bit of coffee I’m allowed, then that will be it till I’m back home from getting my first eye done.
After which, who knows how I’ll be seeing or feeling, I’ll probably just get some sleeping done, so I’ll be back… later!
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Good morning, all!
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This morning has been completely frustrating. I realized I cannot do laundry this morning because I am expecting a delivery. Then I spilled a glass of water all over my cart and the kitchen floor. I put too much water int the oatmeal and spilled it when I was removing it from the microwave. I'm ready to go back to bed ad skip today.
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But I have a delivery coming.
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Last night I watched the first two episodes of Fellow Travelers. The series keeps shifting time between 1952, when I was six, and 1986, when I was forty, but not one of the leads looks aged 34 years!
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PAGE TWO!
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We really liked Fellow Travelers.
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That said, I enjoyed what I saw and I look forward to tonight's episodes. My parents were McCarthy supporters, so I have dim memories of coming home from school to find the disgusting HUAC hearings on the TV. I watched the footage on the execution of the Rosenbergs, happy the communists lost two traitors, and today I'm appalled at the evil of Roy Cohn, the treachery of Ethel's lying brother, and the inhumanity of it all.
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I did get some more winks fortunately and am now up
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Vibes for Dr Chas for today’s eye surgery
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Indeed, all good ~~~VIBES~~~ and well wishes for DR ChasSmith on his impending eye surgery.
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We really liked Fellow Travelers.
I'm enjoying it. I'm just commenting on the poor age makeup.
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Indeed, all good ~~~VIBES~~~ and well wishes for DR ChasSmith on his impending eye surgery.
Ditto!
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DR JohnG, the Harkness Ballet is how your friend Carol knows Patricia Sinnott! Any word on her health? She never responded to my email.
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Good morning, all.
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Mega vibes for ChasSmith.
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DR JohnG, the Harkness Ballet is how your friend Carol knows Patricia Sinnott! Any word on her health? She never responded to my email.
Apparently Patricia only communicates with her sister these days. So, it’s hard to say.
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Off to food pantry.
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
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Oh, I am so sorry, DR Ginny.
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~~~PROMPT AND FULL RECUPERATION VIBES!!!~~~
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I just got a letter that I have to schedule another colonoscopy later this Spring. Oh, joy.
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Eye vibes for DR CHAS SMITH.
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Congrats to MR BK on the MMM.
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DR VIXMOM if all us invested as much in an annuity as we do our motor vehicles, we could be living on Easy Street USA.
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Glad to hear DR MATTHEW is back at school and moving ahead.
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Gloomy day today here. Lots of wind last night but no rain or sn*w.
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Windows update this morning that took....a....long.....time......
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Keep your powder dry vibes for DR ELMORE.
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Dumb email this morning.....I voted no on something for the theeder that is NOT theeder related.....come on, people.
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Thank you, DR Singdaw. Sorry you have that unpleasantness ahead of you.
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DR GINNY sorry about the C-19.....bummer.
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I shall have to check out 700 Sundays.
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Yesterday on one of the episodes of DARK SHADOWS I watched - I saw Joe Haskell (Joel Crothers), Willie Loomis (John Karlen), and Adam (Robert Rodan) - the sexy meter was off the chart.
Joe was fighting with his girlfriend Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) because she was trying on earrings instead of getting ready for a dinner date.....he finally INSISTED that they had to leave now. And Maggie replied: "Well I guess we will have to find a restaurant that serves BABY food!"
They don't write 'em like that anymore!
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Barnabas is trapped behind a wall.....but today's episode should get him out.....Dr. Hoffman and Willie are on the case!
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I think Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard would be happy to be on PAGE THREE.
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Dark Shadows free on FREEVEE.
Start wherever you like.....all episodes are available.
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DR GINNY sorry about the C-19.....bummer.
Thank you, DR JRand. It’s gloomy here, too, to match my mood.
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FromRodzinski:
One of my son’s schoolmate’s family was hit head on last week. Everyone ok, except one broken wrist, but you can be minding your own business and stuff can happen.
Wow, they were really lucky. Vibes the wrist completely heals.
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DR Rodzinski I am glad you did not suffer a head-on collision.
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Sorry about the car new$, DR vixmom. :-X
Same here.
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I am up early, drinking the little bit of coffee I’m allowed, then that will be it till I’m back home from getting my first eye done.
After which, who knows how I’ll be seeing or feeling, I’ll probably just get some sleeping done, so I’ll be back… later!
I hope all went well and you feel ok.
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
Sorry. How are you feeling?
VIBES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
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I just got a letter that I have to schedule another colonoscopy later this Spring. Oh, joy.
I did not receive a letter even though I am due in February. I will be late.
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DR GINNY sorry about the C-19.....bummer.
Thank you, DR JRand. It’s gloomy here, too, to match my mood.
Sending hugs.
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
Sorry. How are you feeling?
VIBES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Thanks, DR Jane. We are both ambulatory and had a productive videoconference with our doctor. She has sent prescriptions to our pharmacy that we’ll pick up later along with some groceries. All drive-thru and curbside, of course.
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
Sorry. How are you feeling?
VIBES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Thanks, DR Jane. We are both ambulatory and had a productive videoconference with our doctor. She has sent prescriptions to our pharmacy that we’ll pick up later along with some groceries. All drive-thru and curbside, of course.
Vibes to both of you for an easy recovery, Ginny!
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Sending more and more eye vibes to Chas!
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Rodzinski, regarding last night's car posts, so glad you got through that OK!
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Dark Shadows free on FREEVEE.
Start wherever you like.....all episodes are available.
I even had some of the DARK SHADOWS trading cards that they released for some reason!
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Yesterday on one of the episodes of DARK SHADOWS I watched - I saw Joe Haskell (Joel Crothers), Willie Loomis (John Karlen), and Adam (Robert Rodan) - the sexy meter was off the chart.
Joe was fighting with his girlfriend Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) because she was trying on earrings instead of getting ready for a dinner date.....he finally INSISTED that they had to leave now. And Maggie replied: "Well I guess we will have to find a restaurant that serves BABY food!"
They don't write 'em like that anymore!
The trading cards were more glamor shots of cast members like David Selby rather. than scary shots of Jonathan Frid.
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Great news that BK had that modern major miracle!
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I think Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard would be happy to be on PAGE THREE.
The credit like that which I remember was for FAMILY, Meredith Baxter Barney as Nancy.
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vixmom - Sending lottery vibes to pay for the car!
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Good Morning! Looks like we are in for a damp day. According to the app, there is 40% chance of rain most of the day. Today is Wednesday, so it's the "Day off" - however, I've been at the computer doing work since waking up. I believe that might be finished for the day. I did put my school's set list together for what will be our entertainment for Grandparents Day celebration at the end of the month. While I dread having to teach music for "performance" because there is always an extra layer of urgency about it, but I think the songs are fun. I always like to choose songs that the audience of Grandparents/Special Friends will recognize and enjoy. So, that was fun. I may head to the shops later today, but the rest of the day will be hanging out with the boys!
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I'm excited about the new BK book this year. Non-fiction is always the best!
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Matthew - vibes that teaching the songs will be easier that you're expecting!
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Vibes for Ginny and Richard!
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
NOOOOOOOO!!!! :o
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~~~Quick Recovery Vibes for Ginny and Richard!!~~~
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Eye vibes for DR CHAS SMITH.
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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I just got a letter that I have to schedule another colonoscopy later this Spring. Oh, joy.
I did not receive a letter even though I am due in February. I will be late.
Fortunately, I'm not due for three more years.
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Thank you to DRs Freddie, John G, and George for the good wishes.
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Covid be gone vibes for Ginny & Richard
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
Sorry. How are you feeling?
VIBES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Thanks, DR Jane. We are both ambulatory and had a productive videoconference with our doctor. She has sent prescriptions to our pharmacy that we’ll pick up later along with some groceries. All drive-thru and curbside, of course.
I'm glad you aren't feeling too bad. Did you decide to take Paxlovid?
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While we didn't have any snow here we did see a bit on lawns as we drove to the gym.
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FOUR.
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I'm up, I'm up - a bit over eight hours of sleep.
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I just spoke to Jonathan Tunick. The article in the NY Times is fantastic!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/theater/jonathan-tunick-stephen-sondheim-broadway.html?fbclid=IwAR02EMCtmQ8ygL0Qb6iE8kf-SueTo8xED2L-q5TAb6AiOD0K-ibjoA8kSW8
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DR Ginny, I hope this Covid round treats you and Richard lightly.
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I just spoke to Jonathan Tunick. The article in the NY Times is fantastic!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/theater/jonathan-tunick-stephen-sondheim-broadway.html?fbclid=IwAR02EMCtmQ8ygL0Qb6iE8kf-SueTo8xED2L-q5TAb6AiOD0K-ibjoA8kSW8
Terrific article!
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Thanks for talking about "Fellow Travelers". Now I'm hooked... good thing I have some time on my hands!
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Matthew - vibes that teaching the songs will be easier that you're expecting!
Here is my list...
Grandparents Day Songs:
K - The Little White Duck
1 - Silent E
2 - Pineapple Princess
3 - Where’s the Spumoni?
4 - Alley Oop
5 - When the Red Red Robin….
6 - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
7 - Camp Granada
8 - Cuanto La Gusta
That should be fun!
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I don't know all of those songs, but it definitely looks like it'll be a fun event, Matthew!
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You certainly can't go wrong when you teach kids "When the Red Red Robin...." :D
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Gratuitous Post #100!!
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
Sorry. How are you feeling?
VIBES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Thanks, DR Jane. We are both ambulatory and had a productive videoconference with our doctor. She has sent prescriptions to our pharmacy that we’ll pick up later along with some groceries. All drive-thru and curbside, of course.
I'm glad you aren't feeling too bad. Did you decide to take Paxlovid?
We were both prescribed a Paxlovid alternative that plays better with meds we already take, but there must have been a miscommunication because the pharmacy only had it for me. Richard has called the doctor’s office to see what’s up.
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DR Ginny, I hope this Covid round treats you and Richard lightly.
Thank you, DR Elmore.
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Vibes for DR ChasSmith!
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Wednesday morning greetings. Richard and I both tested positive for Covid yesterday and I am not a happy camper. We have a telehealth appointment with our primary doctor later this morning.
Sorry. How are you feeling?
VIBES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Thanks, DR Jane. We are both ambulatory and had a productive videoconference with our doctor. She has sent prescriptions to our pharmacy that we’ll pick up later along with some groceries. All drive-thru and curbside, of course.
I'm glad you aren't feeling too bad. Did you decide to take Paxlovid?
We were both prescribed a Paxlovid alternative that plays better with meds we already take, but there must have been a miscommunication because the pharmacy only had it for me. Richard has called the doctor’s office to see what’s up.
That is frustrating, especially when you don't feel well.
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DR GINNY, VIBES YOU DON'T GET REBOUND COVID!
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DR JOHN G - I think Dead Heat On A Merry Go Round was the film debut of Harrison Ford.....I think he is in some kind of uniform in an airport and stands looking into the camera in a full shot.
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I liked the picture and the first paragraph DR ELMORE but as a non-subscriber that's all I could get.
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I liked the picture and the first paragraph DR ELMORE but as a non-subscriber that's all I could get.
Here's the whole thing:
To understand the role of the Broadway orchestrator, seek out the composer Stephen Sondheim’s piano demo for the song “Losing My Mind” from the musical “Follies” and then compare it to the version on the original cast recording. The demo’s tone is wistful and resigned, with a touch of the whiskey bar about it. In the finished version, the song sounds transformed: Ascending notes on the strings, interjections from the brass and crashing cymbals build to a powerful climax, evoking the heartache and inner turmoil contained in the lyric.
[Link to Sondheim demo of “Losing My Mind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LRm-6nX6s] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LRm-6nX6s%5D>
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What happened? The short answer: Jonathan Tunick.
“I seem to have a nose for the theater, and it’s really like that,” Tunick, the prolific Broadway orchestrator, said during an interview in his book-lined study on the Upper West Side. “If something works, you can almost smell it.”
[Link to OCR of “Losing My Mind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibYSV0hMEM]
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Sondheim himself called Tunick the “best orchestrator in the history of the theater” during a 2011 video interview with Sony Masterworks. His work can be heard in three very different Sondheim musicals on New York stages right now: “Sweeney Todd,” “Merrily We Roll Along” and Sondheim’s posthumous musical, “Here We Are.”
In fact, Tunick, 85, has orchestrated nearly every Sondheim musical since 1970, including “Company,” “A Little Night Music,” “Pacific Overtures,” “Into the Woods” and “Passion.” For other composers, he orchestrated “A Chorus Line,” “Nine,” “The Color Purple” and “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” An EGOT winner (that rare recipient of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards), Tunick won a Tony for his “Titanic” orchestrations in 1997 (the first year the award was presented) and an Academy Award for the film version of “A Little Night Music.” Last fall he became the first orchestrator to have his portrait hung at Sardi’s.
At the Sardi’s event, at least a couple of guests could be heard wondering aloud: What does a Broadway orchestrator actually do?
Typically, for a Broadway show of the kind Tunick might orchestrate, the composer provides the vocal part along with some form of accompaniment. That accompaniment can be a basic chord sheet, a fully realized piano part or anything in between. It’s the orchestrator’s task — a long and lonely one, Tunick said — to turn that accompaniment into something an orchestra can perform.
There are, of course, more poetic descriptions. In Steven Suskin’s book “The Sound of Broadway Music,” the original “Carousel” orchestrator, Don Walker, likened orchestration to “the clothing of a musical thought”; Hans Spialek, who orchestrated “On Your Toes” and numerous other Rodgers and Hart shows, compared it to “painting a musical picture.”
Tunick’s preferred analogy is “lighting for the ears.” He often confers with a show’s lighting designer to determine which colors and shadings will be used onstage. The orchestra, he said, has the ability “to provide its own shadings of light, darkness, warmth and texture to the music and lyrics.”
For the Broadway premiere of “Company” in 1970, Tunick fashioned a crisp, gleaming sound that was the aural equivalent of the chrome-and-glass set by Boris Aronson. Tunick conjured a hellacious soundscape for the macabre “Sweeney Todd”: agitated strings, blazing horns and frantic xylophones that evoke the scurrying of rats. For “Merrily We Roll Along,” he replicated the bold, brassy up-tempo sound of 1960s Broadway overtures.
Tunick sees to it that the instruments never get in the way of the words. “He is always aware of the lyric and the dramatic moment,” said Joel Fram, the music director of the Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along.” He pointed to that show’s “Our Time” as an example, with its twinkling piano, simple woodwind solos, gentle rhythmic figure on the bassoon and pizzicato cello — a suitable soundtrack for the youthful optimism of the show’s protagonists at that point. “It serves the song rather than overwhelms it.”
Charlie Alterman pointed to a favorite orchestration in “Company,” for which he served as the music director of the recent national tour. “It’s a bubbling up of emotion somewhere inside the character of Bobby,” he said, referring to the moment in the final number, “Being Alive,” when, unexpectedly, the melody of “Someone Is Waiting” — an earlier song filled with a yearning for companionship — sneaks in like a dawning realization.
[Link to OCR of “Someone is Waiting” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UEAxQcNsr0] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UEAxQcNsr0%5D>
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“Deep down there’s something that remembers the feeling of ‘Someone Is Waiting’ and wants to be heard,” Alterman said. The choice is intriguing on an intellectual level, “but at a gut level, it does that incredible thing that good music does, where you can’t quite explain it in your mind, but it’s clear as day in your heart.”
Tunick remembers sneaking those few notes into “Being Alive” — and that Sondheim was pleased with the addition. “At least it showed him that I was paying attention,” Tunick said.
[Link to OCR of “Being Alive” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVwshV5ecw] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVwshV5ecw%5D>
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More than merely making the music sound pretty or palatable, a great orchestrator “is also a playwright, telling the story and reflecting character in orchestral sound,” said Michael Starobin, who orchestrated Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park With George” and “Assassins.”
As the “Being Alive” example above demonstrates, orchestration “can hint at unspoken secrets,” Tunick said. “Things that the characters don’t say, or don’t want to say, or don’t even know.”
ONE PIECE OF MUSIC made a big impression on the young Jonathan Tunick: “Tubby the Tuba,” the 1945 children’s song, centers on a forlorn tuba who longs to play the melody instead of just the bass line. Much like “Peter and the Wolf,” the song highlighted the distinct characters of the individual instruments of the orchestra. “This idea penetrated my growing brain,” he said. “It developed into a lifelong obsession.”
Tunick had some perfunctory piano lessons as a youngster growing up in New York — “I sailed through the Diller-Quaile book in a week” — but it was a clarinet, a gift from his amateur clarinetist uncle, that kept his interest.
While a student at what is now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, he started his own band and played in the school orchestra as well as in the All City High School Orchestra. He started writing music, majoring in composition at Bard College, before paying his way through Juilliard by performing with the school’s orchestra.
He was considerably more interested in what was happening at Birdland than on Broadway. “Musicals at the time were a little stodgy,” he said. “It was disposable popular entertainment. You’d throw it out like a used Kleenex. I was a little hipper than that.”
While in college, a girlfriend introduced him to Frank Sinatra — and the possibilities of orchestral arrangement. He was struck by the way Nelson Riddle’s arrangements on Sinatra’s breakup album “In the Wee Small Hours” provided commentary, color and context. “He was tone painting,” Tunick said.
College was followed by 10 years of fitful work as an arranger and orchestrator before a big break: orchestrating “Promises, Promises,” whose jazz-inflected score by Burt Bacharach brought a refreshingly contemporary sound to Broadway.
Emboldened by that show’s success, Tunick called up Sondheim, whose originality and wit as a composer he had admired since hearing “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Tunick offered Sondheim his services for his next project.
When he first heard the piano renditions of the songs that would become “Company,” Tunick was taken aback. With a few exceptions — “Barcelona” sounds like Erik Satie by way of Brazil, he observed — the score had a sound entirely of its own. “If anything it was sort of like Stravinsky, but not quite,” Tunick said, citing the peculiar melodies and rhythm of “The Little Things You Do Together” as an example of Sondheim’s startling originality. “What is that? In every case I had to give it careful thought.”
Initially, Tunick wasn’t overly confident in his ability to do justice to the material. “I was terrified,” he said. But, starting with “Company,” Tunick helped define the characteristic Sondheim sound. In contrast to the sumptuous blare of an entire orchestra at full blast, this was a sound defined by crisper lines, purer colors, more instrumental solos, more variation and contrast of tonal effects.
That sound is certainly present in “Here We Are,” the new musical about privileged urbanites trapped in an existential nightmare. Befitting the sinister surrealism of the source material — the Luis Buñuel films “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “The Exterminating Angel” — Tunick’s underscoring at times resembles the effervescently weird music of a Looney Tunes cartoon. And, once again, the orchestra knows something the characters don’t, greeting the happy exclamation “What a perfect day!” with notes that jar and thud.
Orchestrating that show after Sondheim’s death in 2021 was “like going through the letters of a deceased friend,” said Tunick, “editing them for publication.” Tunick was happy with the result. “We went out on a high note,” he added.
The musical collaboration will carry on, though.
Having already reorchestrated several Sondheim shows — not just the ones he orchestrated originally — Tunick is adapting the score of “A Little Night Music” for full orchestra, rendering it more suitable for performance by symphony orchestras and in opera houses. He will conduct a concert and recording of the new version this year.
In an even more profound and lasting way, of course, through cast albums and successive productions, the Sondheim-Tunick collaboration will continue to inspire generations of musical theater lovers — and reward ever closer listening.
Tunick’s last meeting with Sondheim turned out to be only weeks before the composer’s death, at a concert of Tunick’s work at Sharon Playhouse in Connecticut. Tunick took the opportunity to say a few words to his longtime collaborator: “I know you hate sentimentality. But I have to tell you how much it’s meant to me, working with you all these years.”
As Tunick tearily remembers it, Sondheim put his arm around him, saying, “Jonathan, we’re lucky we met one another.”
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This section is something to look forward to:
Having already reorchestrated several Sondheim shows — not just the ones he orchestrated originally — Tunick is adapting the score of “A Little Night Music” for full orchestra, rendering it more suitable for performance by symphony orchestras and in opera houses. He will conduct a concert and recording of the new version this year.
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Thanks for posting the article, Larry.
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Thanks for posting the article, Larry.
Yes, that is a very cool read.
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Thanks for posting the article, Larry.
Yes, indeed.
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And excited about a new recording of a lush A Little Night Music.
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They probably had a pretty big orchestration for the movie soundtrack.
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I'm sure glad they put out the orange cone; otherwise, I might have driven right into this mess.
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Love the cardinals, DR Jane.
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Time for the hand jive.
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I loved the article too. But who will be Desiree on the new recording?
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I'm sure glad they put out the orange cone; otherwise, I might have driven right into this mess.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7472.0;attach=20452)
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I loved the article too. But who will be Desiree on the new recording?
So many possibilities (to quote George in Sunday...). ;)
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Love the cardinals, DR Jane.
Thank you.
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DR ELMORE bless you for posting the article.....SO MUCH.
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I truly respect a person who does wonderful work and wants to teach it to others so the way it works is NOT lost.
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It seems that we will be hearing Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations for Sondheim's Here We Are on a recording, after all.
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Shall we celebrate with lime gelatin?
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Or perhaps an aspic?
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On This Day in 1863, the London Underground opened. "The Tube" is the world's oldest underground railroad.
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Older, even, than YouTube.
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Perhaps even older than tube tops.
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Something new in short-order eatery is on the horizon:
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Speaking of food, I just saw a recipe online for "Garlic Texas Toast Casserole."
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On This Day in 1863, the London Underground opened. "The Tube" is the world's oldest underground railroad.
Wow.
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Something new in short-order eatery is on the horizon:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7472.0;attach=20455)
I like the Big Macs, but a double version is just too much! :o
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Well, for me, at least.
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Well, I just finished a Zoom production meeting for Lakewood Playhouse's next show, Incorruptible.
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I had nothing to say or do, so it was nice just to see the mock up of the set and the costume images that will be the inspiration for the costumes built/borrowed/found.
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And now, i'm off to rehearsal for TAO's Poe Nocturne, which opens on Friday! :D
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And now, i'm off to rehearsal for TAO's Poe Nocturne, which opens on Friday! :D
Have a good rehearsal!
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You sure are busy, DR George.
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Or perhaps an aspic?
"Aspics of Love" could be a title for something.
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Something new in short-order eatery is on the horizon:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7472.0;attach=20455)
I like the Big Macs, but a double version is just too much! :o
Looks like it could be even more calories than the double quarter pounder with cheese!
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;D
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Or perhaps an aspic?
"Aspics of Love" could be a title for something.
I would rather see "Aspects of Aspics."
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Maybe some calories could be saved by ordering the Double Big Mac without lettuce!
:)
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Is it page 6 yet?
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Page 6?
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Yes, it's Page Six!
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Are they ever going to make a Double McRib?
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'night
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Are they ever going to make a Double McRib?
Created by Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
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Shall we celebrate with lime gelatin?
Is there any other way to celebrate?
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Oh, yes, there is.
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Are they ever going to make a Double McRib?
Created by Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
LOL!
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Had a nap that went on longer than planned.
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Exhausted from work at the pantry today.
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We had three trucks visit with food. It’s usually two.
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Shall we celebrate with lime gelatin?
Is there any other way to celebrate?
Maybe with Peter Lemon Jello?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXlJMkEBVmE
OK, it's Peter Lemongello, but it sounds like Lemon Jello.
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Exhausted from work at the pantry today.
Such good work, John G!
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We dealt with tons of food. Two tons of bagged yellow potatoes. A ton of onions. More bread and baked goods than anyone would know what to do with. Ready to heat meals. Frozen meat and fish. Salad mixes. Fruit, veggies, the rest.
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We also got five cases of cucumbers that had spoiled and needed to be disposed of immediately. What a waste.
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Now watching a Scottish film called The Road Dance. It’s a fairly cliched romantic drama, but the acting is solid and the scenery is gorgeous.
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Covid be gone vibes for Ginny & Richard
Thanks, DR Vixmom,
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For FELLOW TRAVELERS watchers who were wondering how Jonathan Bailey's grandmother reacted to the more graphic scenes on the show:
at around 1:50 into this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPzvyXXGn6Q
"Jonathan Bailey's Grandmother Reacts to THOSE "Fellow Travelers" Scenes | The Drew Barrymore Show"
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Jonathan Bailey had won the Olivier award for playing "Jamie" (rewritten from Amy, singing "Getting Married Today") in the COMPANY revisal.
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Good night, friends.
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From Wikipedia for Jonathan Bailey (who plays Tim on FELLOW TRAVELERS)
"Marianne Elliott recalled that Sondheim was enamored with Bailey. Three days before the composer died in 2021, Elliott told him that Bailey would be starring in the play COCK. Sondheim "literally stopped in his tracks, closed his eyes, put his hand on his chest and said, 'Be still my beating heart,'" Elliott recounted."
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Shall we celebrate with lime gelatin?
Is there any other way to celebrate?
Only with Cool Whip on top
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I had an appointment with my allergist today. The appointment was a suprise in that she declared our treatment a failure, even with the shrinking of my nasal polyps.
She is recommending to the VA that they put me on Dupixent, which she says is the best drug out there for what ails me.
She says she has all the data at her disposal to convince the VA to support her recommendation and that she is 90% certain the VA will provide the medication.
It will be delivered in two initial shots...and then I must give myself injections every two weeks thereafter. Sigh. Happily, it comes in an injection pen that I simply have to press against my thigh and press a button for the injection to take place.
I do that weekly with Trulicity for my A1C, although that is a relatively short, minor injection whereas the Dupixent injection takes a bit longer to complete.
Sigh, again.
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The rest of the day is a bit of a blur.
I stopped at Taco Bell on my way home and got a Nachos SuperGrande and a Baja Blast (soft drink). They were so very good! For dinner, I had some potstickers.
I did get a new coffee maker in the afternoon UPS delivery. I have tested it out and it makes a wonderful cup of coffee. I shall make a carafe of coffee in the morning. It's guaranteed to stay hot in the carafe up to 10 hours. It's a coffee maker recommended by America's Test Kitchen.
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I had an appointment with my allergist today. The appointment was a suprise in that she declared our treatment a failure, even with the shrinking of my nasal polyps.
She is recommending to the VA that they put me on Dupixent, which she says is the best drug out there for what ails me.
She says she has all the data at her disposal to convince the VA to support her recommendation and that she is 90% certain the VA will provide the medication.
It will be delivered in two initial shots...and then I must give myself injections every two weeks thereafter. Sigh. Happily, it comes in an injection pen that I simply have to press against my thigh and press a button for the injection to take place.
I do that weekly with Trulicity for my A1C, although that is a relatively short, minor injection whereas the Dupixent injection takes a bit longer to complete.
Sigh, again.
Sending vibes of health and strength to you, Ron!
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And now, i'm off to rehearsal for TAO's Poe Nocturne, which opens on Friday! :D
Have a good rehearsal!
Thanks, Freddie! We're at intermission and it's going well.
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You sure are busy, DR George.
I know! I've done multiple shows within a season before, but I've usually had more of a break in between.
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Now, act two!
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Good evening
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I somehow missed Rodzinskis harrowing encounter…I am much relieved you were unscathed
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Got to visit WFO tonight for the first time in a week, it was fun catching up
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Then I came ho e and promptly fell asleep in the recliner
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Shall we celebrate with lime gelatin?
Is there any other way to celebrate?
Only with Cool Whip on top
I bought some Cool Whip today. It’s for a no-bake cranberry pie.
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Then I came ho e and promptly fell asleep in the recliner
Who you calling a ho?
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Ron, I hope this treatment works for you.
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Good night, all.
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Hello friends. My encounter was eerie but mainly an illustration of how you can do everything right and weird things can happen on the highway. So everyone be careful out there!
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Act two went well, also, and now, we're done for the evening.
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Speaking of highways, sad news that Andersen’s pea soup palace along Highway 101 in Buellton near Solvang, CA has closed up shoppe. How I loved their French fries.
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If you’ve ever driven on 101 between Monterey and Santa Barbara you would have seen the colorful billboards of two cartoon chefs smashing peas with giant mallets.
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I saw 700 Sundays on Broadway way back when. Remember liking it. Learning of Billy’s family connection to jazz musicians.
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Vibes o’ health to Ginny and Richard!
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If you’ve ever driven on 101 between Monterey and Santa Barbara you would have seen the colorful billboards of two cartoon chefs smashing peas with giant mallets.
I only went once in my life - later in life - and I was so hoping to go again. Totally bummed about this. At least there's always Solvang!
There's one on 1-5 as well, south of highway 152, not sure if that's still there.
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Today was a trying day. Not fair for a day off. LOL. Tomorrow will be better. Off to walk the pups and then head to bed early.
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Good night Matthew!
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Lunch meeting with the writer was productive and good.
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I futzed and finessed.
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I've done twelve new pages and will do three more before bed.
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Speaking of Jonathan Tunick, I was hunting for something and I found Sondheim's email to me after hearing the Follies remix - think I'll put it in the notes.
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I do not care for page seven.
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I watched a TV movie or something - really a pilot - but oh my, one of the weirdest and most inept things ever.
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Lunch meeting with the writer was productive and good.
Nice!
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Gratuitous Post #202!!
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Speaking of Jonathan Tunick, I was hunting for something and I found Sondheim's email to me after hearing the Follies remix - think I'll put it in the notes.
Cool! Can't wait to read it!
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I don't know why I'm up at this hour, but I sure had fun reading Pea Soup Andersen's menu:
https://www.peasoupandersens.net/mobile/menu-appetizers.html
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Their closing appears to be a great loss.
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4...
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3...
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2...
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1...
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PAGE EIGHT!
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Sorry, Singdaw! ;)
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No worries. It all came out right in the end.
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At first I was excited when I saw that you can ship cans of Andersen's split pea soup for delivery.
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But when I entered my address, it says they don't ship there. ::)
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The noive.
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I have to work in a few short hours.
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At first I was excited when I saw that you can ship cans of Andersen's split pea soup for delivery.
Whatever floats your boat. ::)
;)
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I should be sleeping.
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But when I entered my address, it says they don't ship there. ::)
How rude! >:(
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But I can't.
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Sorry about your situation, DR Ron Pulliam. I hope you can get a treatment that works.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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And they're kinda fun.