Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 21, 2024, 12:12:37 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of Rosemary's BooBoo, and now it is time for you to post until Rosemary's cows come home - they're having a devil of a time.
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And the word of the day is: EXUBERANT!
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Here's a write-up for An Inspector Calls that was posted on Seattle's Broadwayworld.com:
AN INSPECTOR CALLS Comes to the Dukesbay Theater Next Month (https://www.broadwayworld.com/seattle/article/AN-INSPECTOR-CALLS-Comes-to-the-Dukesbay-Theater-Next-Month-20240925)
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Wordle 1,220 5/6
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Good morning.
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You know it's going to be a long day when you give up trying to get back to sleep before the bars close.
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Good morning, all.
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First day of work.
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Good morning, all!
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I slept well for the ost part. Annabelle and Thatrood company. I have no idea where Stella was, but the neuropathy in my feet and the aches in my leg joints had me dozing for a while followed by rtoo long periods of wishing I could get back to sleep.
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DR George, I doubt the Styne estate will pay for a new Gypsy vocal score. What they've actually needed for the past 60 years is a rental piano-celesta part that actually follows the scores as opposed to forcing a show's pianist to play performances with the orchestra from the published vocal score.
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"The Strip" went much faster yesterday than I expected. The version I edited is the one on the tape of Merman's final; performance. By that time, the production had dropped Minsky's Salute to Christmas for something else,
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Monday morning greetings! Last week I had AAUW commitments Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings and that schedule about did me in. Fortunately, it’s very unusual for those 3 events to fall in the same week.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Who decides these things?
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Last full day of vacation.
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Good morning, all.
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Well, it's a Monday
(in case no one's noticed yet)
and I've got a full day of music scanning and studying to do.
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:P
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A bit of news that I'm delinquent on passing on to you fine people:
Remember Once Upon a Mattress, and how that went to a little place we like to call Broadway, so our rights were yanked? Do you also remember The World According to Snoopy, our replacement for Mattress? Did I ever tell you that we couldn't cast the menfolk, so the theeder had to make a run on yet another show? No, I believe I did not.
Well, here it is:
The November-December show is now Winter Wonderettes, the holiday-themed followup to The Marvelous Wonderettes. And yes, it is cast, thank the goddesses. We had our first music rehearsal last night...exactly one (1) (count 'em) day after the materials arrived, so everyone - EVERYONE, including Yrs Truly - was sightreading. Today I'll get to actually learn some of it so as to pound notes with a wee bit more confidence tonight.
That's Winter Wonderettes. Remember, you read it here first.
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In a Halloween mood . . .
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Oh my gosh, DR ChasSmith!
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DR George:
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DR George, I doubt the Styne estate will pay for a new Gypsy vocal score. What they've actually needed for the past 60 years is a rental piano-celesta part that actually follows the scores as opposed to forcing a show's pianist to play performances with the orchestra from the published vocal score.
I shouldn't even admit to this, but in a small production several years ago I was handed a synth-strings book (cobbled together by the MD) to play. As for piano-celesta, the MD was piano-conducting so he played whatever he felt was needed, keyboard-wise. He was only sent the published vocal score to play or conduct from, and he arranged my strings book from that, not from the string parts. Except for the brass and winds playing their parts faithfully, nothing about that pit was adequate in my estimation.
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Oh, my, DR Iris, I just skimmed the posts for the days I missed here and found your news. It’s great to have you back and I’m so sorry about what you’ve been going through. Congratulations on the grand baby news!
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You know it's going to be a long day when you give up trying to get back to sleep before the bars close.
That's a fascinating combination of thoughts. What time do the bars close?
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First day of work.
Vibes that work goes well!
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Great pianist news in last night's Notes, BK!
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Page Two!
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DR CHAS SMITH - I feel your pain. Last year we couldn't get firm answers on two of our shows....both of which were eventually denied....so half of our season was a surprise.
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I didn't have an ice cube to put in the cup for the pair of keets this morning. So I used some crushed ice.
They are both enjoying it and commenting on it incessantly - of course it will only last about ten minutes.
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For some reason my old Facebook page showed up on the PCPH page where my ID is different. Here's the message:
The last few years have taught me that when it is our time to leave this body no one can stop it. We have one life to live. The material things we invest in are left behind only to be discarded. Memories are important to me. I'm going to start a "reunion of friends and family".
The idea is to see who reads a post without a picture. If no one reads my post, this will be a very short experiment. But if you are reading this message, make a comment using a single word about how we met. Please, don't just view without leaving a word. You'll ruin all the fun and reminiscing.
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Kitty cleanup is over and I need to make the bed.
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For some reason my old Facebook page showed up on the PCPH page where my ID is different. Here's the message:
The last few years have taught me that when it is our time to leave this body no one can stop it. We have one life to live. The material things we invest in are left behind only to be discarded. Memories are important to me. I'm going to start a "reunion of friends and family".
The idea is to see who reads a post without a picture. If no one reads my post, this will be a very short experiment. But if you are reading this message, make a comment using a single word about how we met. Please, don't just view without leaving a word. You'll ruin all the fun and reminiscing.
I got fooled on that one. I hadn't noticed the spelling of the screen name.
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I didn't have an ice cube to put in the cup for the pair of keets this morning. So I used some crushed ice.
They are both enjoying it and commenting on it incessantly - of course it will only last about ten minutes.
The ice cubes vs. crushed ice debate at work - did you think to video their comments? These days, that could go viral on Tik-Tok or YouTube.
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Bruce, congratulations on getting the BEST pianist replacement for the holiday show!
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:)
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Nice poster DR George.
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From DR George:
It's interesting...there's nothing in our production, either in the script or sound or action, that indicates that it's raining, but the poster shows the man in rain. Weird.
;D
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You know it's going to be a long day when you give up trying to get back to sleep before the bars close.
Groan.
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A bit of news that I'm delinquent on passing on to you fine people:
Remember Once Upon a Mattress, and how that went to a little place we like to call Broadway, so our rights were yanked? Do you also remember The World According to Snoopy, our replacement for Mattress? Did I ever tell you that we couldn't cast the menfolk, so the theeder had to make a run on yet another show? No, I believe I did not.
Well, here it is:
The November-December show is now Winter Wonderettes, the holiday-themed followup to The Marvelous Wonderettes. And yes, it is cast, thank the goddesses. We had our first music rehearsal last night...exactly one (1) (count 'em) day after the materials arrived, so everyone - EVERYONE, including Yrs Truly - was sightreading. Today I'll get to actually learn some of it so as to pound notes with a wee bit more confidence tonight.
That's Winter Wonderettes. Remember, you read it here first.
Vibes you have a great show!
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I didn't have an ice cube to put in the cup for the pair of keets this morning. So I used some crushed ice.
They are both enjoying it and commenting on it incessantly - of course it will only last about ten minutes.
With that reaction I suspect you will be using crushed ice more often.
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For some reason my old Facebook page showed up on the PCPH page where my ID is different. Here's the message:
The last few years have taught me that when it is our time to leave this body no one can stop it. We have one life to live. The material things we invest in are left behind only to be discarded. Memories are important to me. I'm going to start a "reunion of friends and family".
The idea is to see who reads a post without a picture. If no one reads my post, this will be a very short experiment. But if you are reading this message, make a comment using a single word about how we met. Please, don't just view without leaving a word. You'll ruin all the fun and reminiscing.
This, or something similar, has been going around on FB for a long while now. I never play these games.
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I didn't have an ice cube to put in the cup for the pair of keets this morning. So I used some crushed ice.
They are both enjoying it and commenting on it incessantly - of course it will only last about ten minutes.
The ice cubes vs. crushed ice debate at work - did you think to video their comments? These days, that could go viral on Tik-Tok or YouTube.
I'm laughing, however, it is true a video could go viral.
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A bit of news that I'm delinquent on passing on to you fine people:
Remember Once Upon a Mattress, and how that went to a little place we like to call Broadway, so our rights were yanked? Do you also remember The World According to Snoopy, our replacement for Mattress? Did I ever tell you that we couldn't cast the menfolk, so the theeder had to make a run on yet another show? No, I believe I did not.
Well, here it is:
The November-December show is now Winter Wonderettes, the holiday-themed followup to The Marvelous Wonderettes. And yes, it is cast, thank the goddesses. We had our first music rehearsal last night...exactly one (1) (count 'em) day after the materials arrived, so everyone - EVERYONE, including Yrs Truly - was sightreading. Today I'll get to actually learn some of it so as to pound notes with a wee bit more confidence tonight.
That's Winter Wonderettes. Remember, you read it here first.
Walking with a Winter Wonderette?
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I worked 4.5 hours so far. Am on lunch break. The lines are enormous.
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A bit of news that I'm delinquent on passing on to you fine people:
Remember Once Upon a Mattress, and how that went to a little place we like to call Broadway, so our rights were yanked? Do you also remember The World According to Snoopy, our replacement for Mattress? Did I ever tell you that we couldn't cast the menfolk, so the theeder had to make a run on yet another show? No, I believe I did not.
Well, here it is:
The November-December show is now Winter Wonderettes, the holiday-themed followup to The Marvelous Wonderettes. And yes, it is cast, thank the goddesses. We had our first music rehearsal last night...exactly one (1) (count 'em) day after the materials arrived, so everyone - EVERYONE, including Yrs Truly - was sightreading. Today I'll get to actually learn some of it so as to pound notes with a wee bit more confidence tonight.
That's Winter Wonderettes. Remember, you read it here first.
Walking with a Winter Wonderette?
Catchy!
Could that have been intentional?
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I worked 4.5 hours so far. Am on lunch break. The lines are enormous.
Is your neck problem handling the work OK?
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Hello
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Where are you working John?
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I've never seen Rosemary's Baby
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Or the prequel
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I am shocked that DR VIXMOM has never seen Rosemary's Baby.
SHOCKED I TELL YOU.
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This weekend was busy. We had our first of two Voices of Silicon Valley concerts on Saturday and it went well. The program included some really hard pieces by Peter Shin and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as music from Gladiator and the video games Portal II and Genshin Impact.
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Yesterday we made our first visit to a new jazz club that opened near us, rather than having to drive up to San Francisco or Oakland, or down to Santa Cruz. We saw Randy Brecker playing with Tod Dickow and Charged Particles in music of Michael Brecker.
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The drummer of Charged Particles was in the High School Symphonic Band with me when we were at Interlochen, and later we played together in the MIT Symphony Orchestra when he was a ringer from Harvard. This is the first time I'd seen him since college. We had a nice chat before the gig.
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I haven't seen Rosemary's Baby either.
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I worked 4.5 hours so far. Am on lunch break. The lines are enormous.
Is your neck problem handling the work OK?
Good question.
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THREE!
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I am shocked that DR VIXMOM has never seen Rosemary's Baby.
SHOCKED I TELL YOU.
I personally which I had never seen it even once vs the multiple times I have seen it.
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DR George, I doubt the Styne estate will pay for a new Gypsy vocal score. What they've actually needed for the past 60 years is a rental piano-celesta part that actually follows the scores as opposed to forcing a show's pianist to play performances with the orchestra from the published vocal score.
Interesting. Thanks.
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A bit of news that I'm delinquent on passing on to you fine people:
Remember Once Upon a Mattress, and how that went to a little place we like to call Broadway, so our rights were yanked? Do you also remember The World According to Snoopy, our replacement for Mattress? Did I ever tell you that we couldn't cast the menfolk, so the theeder had to make a run on yet another show? No, I believe I did not.
Well, here it is:
The November-December show is now Winter Wonderettes, the holiday-themed followup to The Marvelous Wonderettes. And yes, it is cast, thank the goddesses. We had our first music rehearsal last night...exactly one (1) (count 'em) day after the materials arrived, so everyone - EVERYONE, including Yrs Truly - was sightreading. Today I'll get to actually learn some of it so as to pound notes with a wee bit more confidence tonight.
That's Winter Wonderettes. Remember, you read it here first.
Whew!! That's great, ChasSmith!
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DR George:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7757.0;attach=23828)
Nice! Does it have a way to keep track of points?
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Nice poster DR George.
I agree. :)
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This weekend was busy. We had our first of two Voices of Silicon Valley concerts on Saturday and it went well. The program included some really hard pieces by Peter Shin and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as music from Gladiator and the video games Portal II and Genshin Impact.
Congrats, MichaelG!
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Yesterday we made our first visit to a new jazz club that opened near us, rather than having to drive up to San Francisco or Oakland, or down to Santa Cruz. We saw Randy Brecker playing with Tod Dickow and Charged Particles in music of Michael Brecker.
Sounds like you had a great evening!
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The drummer of Charged Particles was in the High School Symphonic Band with me when we were at Interlochen, and later we played together in the MIT Symphony Orchestra when he was a ringer from Harvard. This is the first time I'd seen him since college. We had a nice chat before the gig.
That's pretty cool!
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The drummer of Charged Particles was in the High School Symphonic Band with me when we were at Interlochen, and later we played together in the MIT Symphony Orchestra when he was a ringer from Harvard. This is the first time I'd seen him since college. We had a nice chat before the gig.
It is nice you were able to have a chat before the gig.
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The Brecker Brothers!
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of good sleep.
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Food has been ordered - something SAFE.
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of good sleep.
Nine hours, wow. Are you feeling ok ;)
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ChasSmith, they should have done A Carol Christmas :) Although, that can be hard to cast, too.
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Someone should do it - Jrand, ChasSmith, George...
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The drummer of Charged Particles was in the High School Symphonic Band with me when we were at Interlochen, and later we played together in the MIT Symphony Orchestra when he was a ringer from Harvard. This is the first time I'd seen him since college. We had a nice chat before the gig.
That sounds like such a wonderful time, MichaelG!
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And glad your concerts went well!
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Good afternoon!
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Wordle: 4/6
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Thanks for the Wordle comments yesterday, DRs Jane and George!
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You are welcome.
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Good afternoon.
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So sorry to hear about DR Iris's troubles. Keeping you in my prayers, DR Iris!
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Another shocking confession from DR MICHAEL G.
Oh my.
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I don't do Holiday Theeder......
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Because you are too busy with family & friends or because you do not enjoy holiday theeder?
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He's a corker, that DR MichaelG! :)
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Vixmom & Kevin, Keith also got Wordle in four.
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PAGE FOUR
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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DR George:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7757.0;attach=23828)
Nice! Does it have a way to keep track of points?
Apparently, it does.
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I have finished my first 11:45 hour shift. 1,500+ people voted.
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Lines were long, but people didn't have to wait much more than an hour, except for the idiots who somehow got the idea we were going to be open at 7 am, when we opened at 8. so they showed up at 6:30 or so.
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How is your neck feeling, John G?
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I have finished my first 11:45 hour shift. 1,500+ people voted.
WOW!
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I am waiting to see your response to DR Freddie.
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tOD:
I am not interested in sequels to A Christmas Carol. But I have enjoyed the many sequels to Jane Austen's novels especially Pride and Prejudice.
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How is your neck feeling, John G?
It's ok. No problem. I don't have to lift anything.
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This summer brought some of the best watermelon I have had in ages. Sadly the one I bought recently was after the season.
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Gratuitous post 102!
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How is your neck feeling, John G?
It's ok. No problem. I don't have to lift anything.
That's great!
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How is your neck feeling, John G?
It's ok. No problem. I don't have to lift anything.
Great to hear. Standing bothers my neck & back.
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'night
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Good night, Jane.
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Here's the 30-second "Broadway teaser trailer" showing the use of multi-media in another import from the U.K.
The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Sarah Snook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlt4KarFnJY
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I don't do Holiday Theeder......
Because you are too busy with family & friends or because you do not enjoy holiday theeder?
I've done some shows at holiday time, and family and friends have understood and enjoyed the shows. I don't really have an extended family that would visit each year, so that was never a problem for me to be busy.
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DR George:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7757.0;attach=23828)
Nice! Does it have a way to keep track of points?
Apparently, it does.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7757.0;attach=23832)
That one is cool, too. But I noticed that it only goes up to 600. We actually played s game that had one person get over 1000 points! :o
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I have finished my first 11:45 hour shift. 1,500+ people voted.
Yikes! Hopefully, you got at least a couple of breaks in there!
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tOD:
I am not interested in sequels to A Christmas Carol. But I have enjoyed the many sequels to Jane Austen's novels especially Pride and Prejudice.
I've been involved in two different productions of Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, and it's not do much a sequel as a retelling from Marley's perspective. It's why he has to help redeem Scrooge. It's a great play. :)
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https://youtu.be/jZ012u4bZc0?si=-0zct5UyszJN-gnL
The original West Side Story on stage
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https://youtu.be/jZ012u4bZc0?si=-0zct5UyszJN-gnL
The original West Side Story on stage
I'll have to watch the whole video tomorrow, but thanks for that link!
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A Doll's Life.
https://youtu.be/csef8oYvcPk?si=30WHZKmwer768ho0
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Can I stand to hear all of A Doll's Life?
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Not tonight.
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But I must quit this page.
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In just a couple of posts.
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Onward!
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Five!
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Five???
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Really???
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And JUST on page FIVE.
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Had a safe meal from Stanley's - their excellent grilled chicken pasta with broccoli, cashews, and red onions - excellent.
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The ONLY problem is, despite charging me for the meal when I ordered it, it never arrived.
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So, they refunded and I ordered again - this time the driver actually delivered it. Heaven knows where the first driver delivered to.
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Anyway, it hit the spot.
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And then the spot hit it.
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I re-recorded the two songs AGAIN - I'm done with it - I'll use whatever the best is from yesterday and today but won't listen until tomorrow.
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I finished the movie I'd begun last night.
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A masterpiece any way you slice it and perhaps the best film since the 90s. A perfect movie. More in the notes, although I've written about it many times.
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No real telephonic calls save for one with David Wechter.
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I've watched a few irritating YouTube videos, but I think I'm pretty much done with them - I've been helpful AND successful in having several idiots' videos taken down. That's been gratifying and the thanks I get from their victims is also gratifying.
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I wish my feed had more interesting things - don't want politics or any of those channels.
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I like performance videos, happy videos, movies, old TV, that kind of thing.
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I loathe the channels that do show biz history things, where all they do is cadge from Wikipedia so they're filled with lies. There was an especially egregious one about Susan Dey and the Partridge Family - only it wasn't really about her other than the usual nonsense with David - it was more about David and filled with innuendo and outright lies about him and Shirley, too. In fact, I reported the video as a privacy strike because I'm in it in a clip from one of my episodes. And YouTube argues with me. I told them that ultimately if they left it up I would perhaps take legal action - it is NOT fair use because it's just for grift on YouTube. That's where I draw the line, fellas.
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Jeez, that post could have taken us to page six if I'd made each sentence a post :)
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What the HELL was I thinking.
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Don't think I'm going to watch anything else, although I've never seen Red Dragon, which was the Hannibal Lecter book prior to Silence of the Lambs. Edward Norton stars with Anthony Hopkins.
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Just looked it up and will definitely watch it because it's the same excellent screenwriter who did Lambs. I've also never seen Hannibal - I read the book, which I found nauseating and over the top in terms of disgusting violence. Apparently, Red Dragon avoids that kind of thing.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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More people here should do holiday theater and do A Carol Christmas - it's really fun to do and has great parts for a lot of women.
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Yes.
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Absolutely.
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Trying to remember if anything else happened. I did pick up a small package at the mail place.
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Say what?
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No posts in two HOURS?
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No George, who is simply too busy for the likes of us.
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Probably eating a burrito.
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And down some down rabbit hole.
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Methinks he needs a proper bitch-slapping.
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It is overdue.
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Page six?
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REALLY?
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This is appallingly appalling.
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Where are our posting frenzies.
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Where are our dear readers?
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Why have we devolved back to the likes of pages five and six?
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George is a bad, bad boy.
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And his punishment, which is also long overdue, will be listening to eight hours of Randy Vicar stories, beginning with The Randy Vicar and the Side of Beef. That one's a corker.
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Where the HELL is George.
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Not to mention his jam.
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Not here.
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Why should he be here when he could be eating a burrito.
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Will he EVER show up?
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Apparently not.
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Not very sporting.
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What a revoltin' development this is.
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So sayeth Chester A. Riley.
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aka William Bendix.
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A fine actor.
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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 still no George.
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Oh well.
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Is there gaslighting going on?
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See?
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The page that shall not be named.
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I certainly will not name it.
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All righty, I'm giving up on our George.
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I'm sure he's doing something VERY importantly important.
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And I'm bored of looking at my face, frankly.
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Three pages of ME is quite enough ME.
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It just is.
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And so, topic change coming.