He's probably out having a damn burrito.
Then, yesterday afternoon, I got a request to lead a talkback after the screening.
I'm not sure my neighbors appreciate that.
My team does it as a party. Should be fun.
My team does it as a party. Should be fun.
My sister Paula and I have tickets to see our Grand Niece Addison in the ballet CINDERELLA this afternoon, but with four inches of s**w, I am not sure we are going......it's about a 45 minute drive......
I have nothing on today's agenda other than washing clothes. It's long overdue.
The average human body contains enough bones to construct an entire skeleton.
DR Freddie - I am nothing if not profound. ;D
Google has informed me that today is "World Pangolin Day".
I had never heard of a "pangolin", but it is a scaly, ant-eating animal native to Asia and Africa and it is facing extinction. It is apparently considered a delicacy for its flesh and is sought for its scales/hide by the fashion industry.
For the first time in three days I slept well. It was nice.
Then, yesterday afternoon, I got a request to lead a talkback after the screening.
Last night, I ushered for Shen Yun. I have seen it too many times, but I did enjoy parts.
Today is prep day for our church’s first chili cook-off since the pandemic.
My team does it as a party. Should be fun.
Happy Saturday, all. (I just checked my calendar and I got it right.)
I have nothing on today's agenda other than washing clothes. It's long overdue.
But, the American package looks like the peanut butter cups are Iarger, so the total weight per package may be comparable. ::)
"Reese's Peanut Butter Cups U.S. VS Canada. The Canadian Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are three small cups with more stuffing in contrast to the American one, which has two jumbo-sized cups and less peanut butter"
I found this...Quote"Reese's Peanut Butter Cups U.S. VS Canada. The Canadian Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are three small cups with more stuffing in contrast to the American one, which has two jumbo-sized cups and less peanut butter"
Our opera opening night was fabulous. The audience, composer, librettist, and original concept creator were all pleased. It was great meeting the composer for the first time. Sometimes when we do unusual repertoire like this we get reviewed in one of our major newspapers; we'll see if that happens here. All my high B-flats came out well; this is one of the highest opera chorus parts I've ever sung.
What was the opera?
I found this...Quote"Reese's Peanut Butter Cups U.S. VS Canada. The Canadian Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are three small cups with more stuffing in contrast to the American one, which has two jumbo-sized cups and less peanut butter"
DR Rodzinski we need you to do a taste and price comparison for us ;)
I found this...Quote"Reese's Peanut Butter Cups U.S. VS Canada. The Canadian Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are three small cups with more stuffing in contrast to the American one, which has two jumbo-sized cups and less peanut butter"
I guess research shows that Americans prefer more chocolate and less peanut butter?
I've listened this morning to the Encores! recording of Merrily We Roll along. By the end I was in tears, just as I was at the closing performance in 1981. Act Two works so much better than Act One.
I'm now listening to the new recording. I really like Daniel Radcliffe's "Franklin Shepard, Inc." I've seen Lonny Price and Lin-Manuel Miranda both be brilliant as Charlie, and I'd love to see Radcliffe.
Trump is guiltier of far greater treason than the Rosenbergs. Don’t get me started.
BTW, in my house, every day is cabbage day.
Have to make sure the driveway is clear by tonight, regardless, because I must leave first thing in the morn' to play a church service.
Google has informed me that today is "World Pangolin Day".
I had never heard of a "pangolin", but it is a scaly, ant-eating animal native to Asia and Africa and it is facing extinction. It is apparently considered a delicacy for its flesh and is sought for its scales/hide by the fashion industry.
Last night, I ushered for Shen Yun. I have seen it too many times, but I did enjoy parts.
They've come to Seattle a few times, but I've never seen them. Maybe if they're ever booked at the Washington Center, but probably not until then. ::)
I found this...Quote"Reese's Peanut Butter Cups U.S. VS Canada. The Canadian Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are three small cups with more stuffing in contrast to the American one, which has two jumbo-sized cups and less peanut butter"
I guess research shows that Americans prefer more chocolate and less peanut butter?
What was the opera?
Corpus Evita, composed by Carlos Franzetti with libretto by José Luis Moscovich, based on a concept by Lorenz Russo. It's about Isabel Perón and Argentina in the 1970s, and the ongoing dangers of populism. We're doing this at West Bay Opera in Palo Alto, California. There's a recording from the previous performance on CD and streaming services. I think our cast and chorus are sounding better, as you would hope from a second production.
If anyone here is in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco area, come see it! We have three more performances. There's more information about the production at https://www.wbopera.org/corpus-evita-2023
DR Rodzinski we need you to do a taste and price comparison for us ;)
Yes! Scientific methodology is needed!
Well, this is interesting...
These magical spiral contact lenses could give you perfectly clear vision at any distance (https://www.fastcompany.com/91028178/these-new-spiral-contact-lenses-could-give-you-perfectly-clear-vision-at-any-distance)
The progressive lens might someday be a thing of the past.
I've listened this morning to the Encores! recording of Merrily We Roll along. By the end I was in tears, just as I was at the closing performance in 1981. Act Two works so much better than Act One.
I'm now listening to the new recording. I really like Daniel Radcliffe's "Franklin Shepard, Inc." I've seen Lonny Price and Lin-Manuel Miranda both be brilliant as Charlie, and I'd love to see Radcliffe.
Our opera opening night was fabulous. The audience, composer, librettist, and original concept creator were all pleased. It was great meeting the composer for the first time. Sometimes when we do unusual repertoire like this we get reviewed in one of our major newspapers; we'll see if that happens here. All my high B-flats came out well; this is one of the highest opera chorus parts I've ever sung.
Then, yesterday afternoon, I got a request to lead a talkback after the screening.
Today is prep day for our church’s first chili cook-off since the pandemic.
It's doing that s-word again, damn it to HELL.
Should just be a couple of inches this time, but it's very very inconvenient.
(https://i.etsystatic.com/6090048/r/il/1bd1a9/3215327422/il_fullxfull.3215327422_4w0m.jpg)
I've listened this morning to the Encores! recording of Merrily We Roll along. By the end I was in tears, just as I was at the closing performance in 1981. Act Two works so much better than Act One.
I'm now listening to the new recording. I really like Daniel Radcliffe's "Franklin Shepard, Inc." I've seen Lonny Price and Lin-Manuel Miranda both be brilliant as Charlie, and I'd love to see Radcliffe.
Well, this is interesting...
These magical spiral contact lenses could give you perfectly clear vision at any distance (https://www.fastcompany.com/91028178/these-new-spiral-contact-lenses-could-give-you-perfectly-clear-vision-at-any-distance)
The progressive lens might someday be a thing of the past.
I’m ashamed that took so long.
With the title of today's Notes in mind, this happened to just come out on YouTube
Starting at 0:49 at this link, Matt Damon on the dangers of a diet of nothing but chicken breast.
"The Tragic Truth About Matt Damon Is Getting Too Hard To Ignore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JYfjh_9WBU
With the title of today's Notes in mind, this happened to just come out on YouTube
Starting at 0:49 at this link, Matt Damon on the dangers of a diet of nothing but chicken breast.
"The Tragic Truth About Matt Damon Is Getting Too Hard To Ignore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JYfjh_9WBU
I cannot stand that woman's voice.
I found the Corpus Evita recording on iTunes. The recording only runs an hour and 15 minutes. This appears to be excerpts. Interesting.
(https://i.etsystatic.com/6090048/r/il/1bd1a9/3215327422/il_fullxfull.3215327422_4w0m.jpg)
That’s the fanciest page turn ever!
Oh! I never Wordled !
;)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7510.0;attach=20930)
They tried using a chicken breast filling in peanut butter cups, but it didn't pass muster with focus groups.
DR Rodzinski we need you to do a taste and price comparison for us ;)
Interesting, not sure I agree or there or more AI generated voices out there these days ;D
Kit-Kats are much better in Canada. Better chocolate!
DR Rodzinski we need you to do a taste and price comparison for us ;)
Will do. I must say I have made sport of my wife for calling them “Reese Peanut Butter Cups” not realizing that’s what they are called in her childhood world.
Kit-Kats are much better in Canada. Better chocolate!
Shen Yun has the marketing budget of some countries. I’ve read it has weird propaganda scenes regarding the persecution of the cult that runs it, Falun Gong.
'night
Hey, it's a post.
PAGE SIX MALARKEY
I thought I was losing weight, but it turned out that the drawstrings on my sweatpants just came untied.
We finished our Federal and State income taxes this afternoon. Since we owe, we're going to sit on them for a while.
Seven is the object of ire.
Seven is the object of ire.
But six is not better than seven, is that right?
Seven is the object of ire.
But six is not better than seven, is that right?
Seven is the object of ire.
Wasn't that a movie - That Obscure Object of His Ire?
Seven is the object of ire.
Wasn't that a movie - That Obscure Object of His Ire?
I've seen ire and I've seen rain.
No one can say we didn't get to page 7!
Mark, of Mark and Amy, wrote a beautiful review of Preview Harvey. Here it is:
A love letter to preview nuts
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024
Society pushes some people out of frame. They’re bullied or ignored because they’re different, because they color outside the lines. Some just disappear, never to be heard from again. Others, through sheer force of will, refuse to be marginalized. They push themselves into a corner of the spotlight and become part of the bigger picture.
Harvey Minton, the titular character in “Preview Harvey,” Bruce Kimmel’s 23rd novel, loves motion pictures . . . particularly when he can see them before anyone else during a Major Studio Preview. For three decades, attending these previews was Harvey’s life. In the movie palaces of Hollywood, Harvey was treated like a king. Jerry Lewis crowned him Preview Harvey and Blake Edwards considered him a good luck charm.
Harvey’s opinions on movies were so valued by studio execs that Paramount even sent a car to take him to San Luis Obispo for an advance screening of “Chinatown.” It was a good movie, he would tell producer Bob Evans after the preview was over, but the music just didn’t fit. Evans thanked him, shook his hand and, within days, had scrapped the music and brought in Jerry Goldsmith to create a new score. Such was the power of a self-proclaimed turtle who lived with his mother, ate Swiss cheese sandwiches with mustard, drove a ’53 Plymouth and longed to marry Tuesday Weld.
Kimmel’s sweet tale, told almost completely in Harvey’s repetitive, rapid-fire yakky cadence, is a love letter to film, to the golden age of Major Studio Previews, to the “preview nuts” like Harvey who loved them, and to the power of being a square peg in a theater full of round holes.
The world would be a better place if there was room on the red carpet for everyone, even a 5-foot-3 motormouth like Harvey.
Patricia Routledge performs "I've Been to a Marvelous Party":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-comi6A3Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-comi6A3Q)
I think I've posted this one before, but I love it.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7510.0;attach=20931)
I have experienced this.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7510.0;attach=20933)
Shen Yun has the marketing budget of some countries. I’ve read it has weird propaganda scenes regarding the persecution of the cult that runs it, Falun Gong.
For other locations across the country:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/long-solar-eclipse-darkness-last-110253544.html
Shen Yun has the marketing budget of some countries. I’ve read it has weird propaganda scenes regarding the persecution of the cult that runs it, Falun Gong.
DR John, it is super cool that you are on the path of the total solar eclipse this year.
The opening number of Ragtime, from the recent Carnegie Hall tribute to Stephen Flaherty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5BMa6-1uWM
DR John, it is super cool that you are on the path of the total solar eclipse this year.
Last year’s, too. I kept the glasses.