Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 12, 2024, 12:19:54 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes tripped the light fantastic, and now it is time for you to post until the tripping the light fantastic cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: LABILE!
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That was kinda scary.
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Topic of the Day: I don't really care for soups, other than tomato/tomato bisque, or Costco sells a Chicken Tortilla soup that's really good.
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The Internet went down right after my last post - but it came back up in a couple of minutes.
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Good morning.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Congratulations on your new Democratic Senator, DR Laura.
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I'm glad Kari lost.
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Good morning, all!
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French Dip.
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I wonder if "with the works" includes pineapple.
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The alarm rang at 5:30, but I was cuddled up with Thatch and did not want to move. I dozed a bit, and finally got out of bed 45 minutes later.
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DR Laura, yesterday both Annabelle and Thatch snubbed me all day; only Stella wanted to be close to me. Then last night, Alle finally came to be cuddled, and of course Thatch showed up around 3:00am to snuggle up next to me.
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TOD:
Split pea soup, thick, with croutons
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I did have a strange dream: I was working on something with Joshie at City Center, and we were sitting close to a TV monitor which was broadcasting something live from another part of the building. Steve Sondheim was interviewed, along with several thes. Then there was what appeared to be a session between a patient and a shrink, both of whom were former romances of mine.
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My mother made really good potato soup.
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Good morning, all.
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I miss my mother's cream of wheat ball soup. It's akin to matzo ball soup.
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I'll have the pizza with anchovies, thank you.
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I can make good soup. It's really not difficult. During the pandemic I made every recipe in my Avoca Cafe Soups cookbook. I think my favorite of theirs was actually from the Avoca Cafe Cookbook 2; it's a vegan concoction of tomatoes, celery and apple.
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I had another dream of working the polls that somehow turned into being offered the chance to assault sexually a migrant worker who had applied for a job. At least in my dreams I had morals. I didn't act on the offer.
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You have to be an American citizen to work the polls anyway, though that wasn't mentioned in the dream.
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I must get up and pack.
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My flight leaves at 4.
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It's cold this morning.
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Onward!
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Two!
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Only one restaurant in San Antonio received a Michelin star. Others were singled out and recommended, but the restaurant, good as it is, is not one I like. You can't choose the time you dine there or the food you get to eat. You eat what they serve at one sitting each evening and you are seated with everyone. It's interior Mexican cuisine. I like the guys who run it, appreciate their mission, but I don't want to go there.
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Good morning, all.
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~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G.!!!!
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I'm glad Kari lost.
You mean there's been one ray of light in all of this horror?
As you can see, I've paid zero attention to news this past week.
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That race was just called.
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Meanwhile, Trump voters did the exact opposite of tripping the light fantasic... they supported the dark abysmal.
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TOD
I love soups, but that love for them mostly developed in the past decade or so. As a kid I was fine with whatever Campbell's soups we had (I don't think my mother ever made a soup, herself, in her life), my favorites being Cream of Chicken, Tomato, and just one or two others. That was what we knew as soup.
In my interim years of going to school, living in L.A., and such, I rarely paid attention to soups. The epiphany happened when a friend made her Albondigas (Mexican meatball) soup that was out of this world simple (probably deceptively simple) and delicious. That opened my eyes to what could be done in a pot in the kitchen. I now appreciate that there are so many types of soup possible that it's a crime we all don't make some now and then as a routine. Of course I know a few of you do.
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I'm still lazy and keep a few sodium bombs (a.k.a. the "better" or "deluxe" Campbell's and Progresso canned soups) around because I'm a sucker for their tastes. And I know that's still ridiculous.
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DR ChasSmith, Orem's Diner, on the Norwalk/Wilton line, used to have the best split pea soup around. Don't know if it still exists.
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I'm still lazy and keep a few sodium bombs (a.k.a. the "better" or "deluxe" Campbell's and Progresso canned soups) around because I'm a sucker for their tastes. And I know that's still ridiculous.
Comfort can come in a can.
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Orem's very much exists. They moved out of the original building (which I think is still there, just south of Wilton Center?) some years ago and built a fancy new diner a little south of that which has, as far as I know, been extremely successful. I'm ashamed to say that after all the years it's been there, I haven't been in. This will be rectified. But I was in the original place in my first years here, and I only have the vaguest memory of it but I know I liked whatever the grilled sandwich was, and yes, some kind of soup.
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I'm glad Kari lost.
Yes, indeed. However, she will likely be on the "team" of losers advising the next (lower case) president.
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The other day, when we visited the farmers stand I tasted one of the sample grapes they were offering. It was a Sheridan grape, which I had never heard of. The flavor was so intense and delicious, I bought a box, probably two pints. They're still wonderful, almost Concord like. Apparently they're from the Northwest and ripen late.
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Ron, I agree with your comment yesterday about great film composers. Franz Waxman is different from Max Steiner from Dmitri Tiomkin. We have room for all. The talking heads in Ennio made it seem as if there could be only one.
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I adore soups.
CostCo and Sam's Club sell soups in their refrigerated foods areas. Mostly tomato and broccoli/cheddar soup. It is very good.
When I was working in Oakland, a local eatery had some amazing soups. My favorites were meat ball soup and lobster bisque. None by the same name have ever tasted as perfect as the ones at that eatery. It closed several years before I retired. The owner had died, and the family sold it as he was the only one talented enough to run it properly.
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Ron, I agree with your comment yesterday about great film composers. Franz Waxman is different from Max Steiner from Dmitri Tiomkin. We have room for all. The talking heads in Ennio made it seem as if there could be only one.
And therein lies the conundrum of film music "fandom". Absolute adoration with little to no tolerance of other great works by others.
Rather reeks of MAGA fever, doesn't it!
I have favorites, naturally. And some composers simply do not "speak" to my tastes but others drool over them. Ah, well.
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Ron, I agree with your comment yesterday about great film composers. Franz Waxman is different from Max Steiner from Dmitri Tiomkin. We have room for all. The talking heads in Ennio made it seem as if there could be only one.
And therein lies the conundrum of film music "fandom". Absolute adoration with little to no tolerance of other great works by others.
Rather reeks of MAGA fever, doesn't it!
I have favorites, naturally. And some composers simply do not "speak" to my tastes but others drool over them. Ah, well.
Yes, this is the case so often, with anything like this.
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Crazy good 5-year-old playing Mozart.
https://www.upworthy.com/5-year-old-italian-piano-prodigy-rocks-mozart-at-international-competition-and-holy-cow-rp
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Travel vibes for DR JOHN G.
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DR RON PULLIAM is did not mean that snow was imminent but rather that since it's November it will eventually be here.
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It is 42 degrees here headed for 52 degrees.
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Kudos to DR Rodzinski in his quest to speak la langue des Français.
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A few favorite restaurant soups in my L.A. years were the lobster bisque ("famous for this") at Hamburger Hamlet, the green pea soups at both Marie Callender's and Pea Soup Anderson's (in Buellton and Oceanside), and a cream of broccoli (as opposed to broccoli and cheddar) at whatever the coffee shop at PCH and Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance was called.
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I have five years of French behind me...way behind me.
Three of those were high school classes. At that time, the classes were for "conversational" French. No textbooks, no tests. We simply learned by hearing and speaking. Our instructor was an American who had matriculated at La Sorbonne.
Another two years at college were quite different. I wanted to satisfy my language requirement by taking German, but my faculty adviser assured me that I was better off taking French with my background
Ah, me. College French was verb declensions, translations, etc. Quite an ordeal, actually, when all I could do was speak French We had never had to read it in high school.
Still, I persevered and got through it all.
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It is 42 degrees here headed for 52 degrees.
Similar here, but the wind is supposed to be picking up through the afternoon and it's going to go down to the mid-20s overnight for the next two nights.
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I wonder if "with the works" includes pineapple.
Doesn't that go without saying?
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I've dabbled a little bit in the DuoLingo French (just the free version so far, on the desktop), and will get back on it.
Yes, the genders just have to be learned, and I struggle with that. (Were noun genders easier in German? I don't know why they would be, but I took two years of that and don't recall having such difficulty with it.)
The thing that boggles me about French, though, is pronunciation, both hearing and speaking. That's a whole world unto itself.
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More travel vibes for John G!
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TOD: My mom's and grandmother's matzoh ball soup was a particular favorite of mine.
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Page Three
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~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G.!!!!
Ditto!
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I took French for two years n high school and two semesters in college. The second semester we went from simple writing and speaking to reading Flaubert and Robbe-Grillet in the original. I was exhausted by the end of the semester.
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I do remember the teacher wouldn't let us speak in English, so none of us could tell him his fly was open because we didn't know the word for zipper.
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DR RON PULLIAM is did not mean that snow was imminent but rather that since it's November it will eventually be here.
That's good to know. At least you can expect some. It hasn't snowed here in several years.
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To reveal my French language roots, I have a grievance:
Too many times, I hear folks pronounce Le Creuset as LAY-CREW-SAY or LAH-CREW-SAY. It's nothing of the kind! It is LUR-CREW-SAY.
Or close to it.
My grievance is generally toward QVC hosts who mispronounce it several different ways during shows when a Le Creuset product is being sold.
Le Creuset has created exclusive colors just for QVC buyers. David Venable has toured the factory and done a special video of how it is made. He always pronounces it correctly, but not true with the others. They just can't quite hear the difference between "Le", "Les" and "La".
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I expect Rodzinski will master this.
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I do remember the teacher wouldn't let us speak in English, so none of us could tell him his fly was open because we didn't know the word for zipper.
Yes, no English allowed in my high school classes, either.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep.
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DR JOHN G you could have just said la mem chose.
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Wordle in 5
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From DR Laura:
Leonard put on quite a show during the zoom meeting. He zoomed back and forth along the back of the sofa, much to the delight of the other meeting attenders. I didn't realize they could see him until they laughed.
:) ;D :)
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DR Rodzinski I think it is great you are learning French.
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From Rodzinski:
The little French cartoon characters I interact with on the app are humorous. Especially Lily, who only wears purple and is a parody of the most blasé and bored-sounding French girl. I like her.
Cute :)
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Topic of the Day: I don't really care for soups, other than tomato/tomato bisque, or Costco sells a Chicken Tortilla soup that's really good.
I like tomato/tomato bisque soup.
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I'm glad Kari lost.
I didn't know this-YAY!
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I miss my mother's cream of wheat ball soup. It's akin to matzo ball soup.
While I have never had, or heard of wheat ball soup, it seems to me it would taste more like a polenta ball. than a matzo ball.
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I had another dream of working the polls that somehow turned into being offered the chance to assault sexually a migrant worker who had applied for a job. At least in my dreams I had morals. I didn't act on the offer.
Weird, and I am glad you kept your morals in your dream.
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My flight leaves at 4.
Safe and easy travels.
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Only one restaurant in San Antonio received a Michelin star. Others were singled out and recommended, but the restaurant, good as it is, is not one I like. You can't choose the time you dine there or the food you get to eat. You eat what they serve at one sitting each evening and you are seated with everyone. It's interior Mexican cuisine. I like the guys who run it, appreciate their mission, but I don't want to go there.
Definately not my kind of restaurant. Does this mean your friends didn't receive any stars?
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I'm still lazy and keep a few sodium bombs (a.k.a. the "better" or "deluxe" Campbell's and Progresso canned soups) around because I'm a sucker for their tastes. And I know that's still ridiculous.
Unfortunately I do not care for Progresso or Amy's soups.
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I always loved Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup and the Tomato, both made with milk.
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It has been so long since I have made those at home I don't know if I would still like them.
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When in a restaurant I will order mushroom soup almost every time I see it on the menu.
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I adore soups.
CostCo and Sam's Club sell soups in their refrigerated foods areas. Mostly tomato and broccoli/cheddar soup. It is very good.
I enjoy a good broccoli/cheese soup or cream of broccoli.
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A few favorite restaurant soups in my L.A. years were the lobster bisque ("famous for this") at Hamburger Hamlet, the green pea soups at both Marie Callender's and Pea Soup Anderson's (in Buellton and Oceanside), and a cream of broccoli (as opposed to broccoli and cheddar) at whatever the coffee shop at PCH and Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance was called.
If I had soup at the Hamburger Hamlet it was their Onion soup.
Anderson's Pea soup. While not as good, I will buy the canned version when I can find it. I haven't seen it for a number of years now.
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TOD: My mom's and grandmother's matzoh ball soup was a particular favorite of mine.
My mother's was the only one I really liked as she made turkey instead of chicken soup. I learned that if a restaurant has a good vegetable soup I can get a bowl of that with matzo balls on the side and mix them.
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I do remember the teacher wouldn't let us speak in English, so none of us could tell him his fly was open because we didn't know the word for zipper.
;D
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How could I forget the Hamburger Hamlet's ONION SOUP ??!!?? :)
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Good afternoon!
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Wordle: 4/6
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Page 4!
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DR JOHN G you could have just said la mem chose.
La Merm chose? Ethel chose what?
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Lobster bisque is a favorite. She-crab soup from the lowcountry is amazing. Turtle soup with a soupcon of sherry on the side is a real treat
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Nearing the time to leave for the airport.
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TOD: My mom's and grandmother's matzoh ball soup was a particular favorite of mine.
My mother's was the only one I really liked as she made turkey instead of chicken soup. I learned that if a restaurant has a good vegetable soup I can get a bowl of that with matzo balls on the side and mix them.
Good idea.
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Lobster bisque is a favorite. She-crab soup from the lowcountry is amazing. Turtle soup with a soupcon of sherry on the side is a real treat
I really enjoyed the creamy lobster bisque from STK Steakhouse near 6th Avenue.
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Nearing the time to leave for the airport.
Sending more of those HHW travel vibes! Do you have two flights again?
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Back to rehearsal tonight (following my treasured night off last night).
I just fortified myself with a foot-long (or close to it) meatball parm sub from Shop Rite ($6.99). Haven't had anything like that in ages. It did the soul good.
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And while I'm giving out prices:
$2.54 / $2.69 (BJ's credit card price, everyone else's price) at the pumps. It's been holding there for several days.
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TOD: Oh, so many soups:
- Pappa al pomodoro
- Hot and sour soup
- Cream of tomato soup
- Chicken noodle soup
- Matzo ball soup
- Gazpacho
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Damn it to HELL.
Yes, hot and sour soup. Another real favorite.
And I do like gazpacho, very much. I just never think to have it. This, too, must be rectified.
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In the winter I like a good cream squash soup.
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New England clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl.
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I used to make bread soup bowls for company.
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I think I still have the pretty shaped pans I used to bake the bread.
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Back from a fun breakfast.
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Oh dear, oh dear - it's that time of the year again to play the BroadwayWorld Awards voting game, where the winner is always whoever has the most friends who'll vote for them. These are VERY important awards and should be added to the EGOT - BEGOT! Anyway, first of all, for all the people who are saying how HONORED they are to be nominated - we all nominate ourselves 🙂 Second of all, I'm HONORED to be up in the Best Director Category for 70, Girls, 70, for which I nominated myself. The show itself and its cast is up for almost all the musical awards so if you're feeling it, please go vote right now. It's very simple and if you don't know nominees or like a category, just click on "No Nominee". We had so much fun doing the run of the show, so I feel that everyone on Facebook that I've ever met should vote for all of us. I want to be the first BEGOT. If I win this, all that's left is the EGOT part. Here is the link to vote and please tell all your nearest and dearest friends and friends of friends to vote.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/voteregion.cfm
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We need to get me up in the list. We need to show them what's what. :)
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Don't delay.
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Tarry not.
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Dally not.
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Hie thee to the voting place.
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Most important: vote for me as best director, Doug as best supporting actor, (he may actually be in the best actor category) Fay De Witt or Cynthia Payo as best supporting actress, Cheryl Baxter for choreography, and Barbara Minkus for lead actress.
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I'm waiting patiently.
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I will vote later.
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At the moment I am crying too hard. The upstairs dog, Salty, we love so much is now across the rainbow bridge :'(
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Jeremy has submitted this for the cover. I really like it.
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Salty used to love to come visit and stay for awhile. We had fun playing.
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He liked Sherlock's toys.
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So sorry to hear DR JANE.
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Page Five
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The Broadway World site has so many d$%ed popups that I avoid it if I can....but I shall check the ballot.
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So sorry to hear DR JANE.
Thank you.
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Since we moved here I have been keeping dog treats in my pocket for Salty. I would stop carrying them but now the other dogs around here also expect treats. In our minds they were always for Salty.
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Most important: vote for me as best director, Doug as best supporting actor, (he may actually be in the best actor category) Fay De Witt or Cynthia Payo as best supporting actress, Cheryl Baxter for choreography, and Barbara Minkus for lead actress.
Is that all of the categories? Nevermind as I have voted.
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And I haz voted.
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I had another dream of working the polls that somehow turned into being offered the chance to assault sexually a migrant worker who had applied for a job. At least in my dreams I had morals. I didn't act on the offer.
Good to know that you still keep your morals in your dreams!
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At the moment I am crying too hard. The upstairs dog, Salty, we love so much is now across the rainbow bridge :'(
I'm so sorry to hear this. :(
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Jeremy has submitted this for the cover. I really like it.
Excellent!
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Salty used to love to come visit and stay for awhile. We had fun playing.
Terrific photo
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And I haz voted.
Ditto!
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My missing friend has been finally accounted for.
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My missing friend has been finally accounted for.
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My missing friend has been finally accounted for.
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Lovely obituary.
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At the moment I am crying too hard. The upstairs dog, Salty, we love so much is now across the rainbow bridge :'(
Thank you.
I'm so sorry to hear this. :(
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Salty used to love to come visit and stay for awhile. We had fun playing.
Terrific photo
Thanks.
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My missing friend has been finally accounted for.
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:( It is a very nice obituary. You said accounted for. Did they find him or just presuming he is gone?
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Landed in Baltimore
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It is a presumption DR JANE.
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My sympathies, JRand and Jane.
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Made it just in time for boarding.
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I shall have to vote later tonight or tomorrow.
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Is Harris on a write-in ballot?
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Landed in Baltimore
:)
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It is a presumption DR JANE.
:(
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Made it just in time for boarding.
What a relief.
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Thank you John.
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Salty used to love to come visit and stay for awhile. We had fun playing.
Terrific photo
Thank you.
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Good afternoon.
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I picked up some kind of virus over the weekend, apparently.
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What a way to start a page.
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I'm sorry for your sad news, Jane.
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And sorry about your friend, JRand. So sad.
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I make a good split pea soup with a ham bone. Also, a good beef barley soup with the leftovers from a pot roast. My favorite is the rare time we get a prime rib roast and make soup out of the bones.
Soup is easy. If you don't have bones to cook down, just use Better Than Bullion paste. Add whatever vegetables you have in your fridge and meat that corresponds with the paste flavor.
Or leave out meat.
Lately I've made lazy meatballs in the air fryer and add them to beef vegetable soup.
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My DH refuses to eat soup. Except split pea.
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Most important: vote for me as best director, Doug as best supporting actor, (he may actually be in the best actor category) Fay De Witt or Cynthia Payo as best supporting actress, Cheryl Baxter for choreography, and Barbara Minkus for lead actress.
I voted, however, it only had one option to vote for "Best Performer In A Musical", not two. I voted for Doug over Barbara.
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Is Harris on a write-in ballot?
;D
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I picked up some kind of virus over the weekend, apparently.
Sorry. Super quick recovery vibes!
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I'm sorry for your sad news, Jane.
Thank you. He gave us much joy.
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What a way to start a page.
;D I hope you made it home before getting sick.
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In fact, I just started making some soup for dinner.
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Enjoy.
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Either they haven't counted any of the votes, or something is awry because I absolutely would have move up the food chain if they were tallied instantly.
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Reading and re-reading all I need to do before Thursday's surgery.
It's simple, actually, but anxiety has set in, and I must reassure myself that I know what to do.
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If you haven't gotten a confirmation email about your vote, then it hasn't been counted.
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I shall have to vote later tonight or tomorrow.
LOL!
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Reading and re-reading all I need to do before Thursday's surgery.
It's simple, actually, but anxiety has set in, and I must reassure myself that I know what to do.
What I didn't expect was to be put in a hospital bed for the pre-op. It took at least an hour to get me ready and to put drops in my eyes, over and over again.
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If you haven't gotten a confirmation email about your vote, then it hasn't been counted.
I received one.
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I picked up some kind of virus over the weekend, apparently.
Sending feel-better vibes, Laura.
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Reading and re-reading all I need to do before Thursday's surgery.
It's simple, actually, but anxiety has set in, and I must reassure myself that I know what to do.
Calmness vibes being sent your way, Ron.
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DR Ron, I was also nervous about the anesthetic that was used and made sure they didn't give me a pain med that would cause me to throw up. All was good with that and it really was mild so that I could follow directions during the proceedure but was relaxed.
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'night
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Good night, Jane
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LOVE that proposed book cover, DR elmore3003!!!!!
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So sorry about that loss, DR Jane.
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HOW could I forget gazpacho? One of my all-time favorites.
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In SA. Waiting for luggage.
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LOVE that proposed book cover, DR elmore3003!!!!!
I do too.
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Borscht or borsch is a favorite, hot or cold. That mixture of beef and beets is unbeatable/unbeefable. Add sour cream and dill. Heavenly.
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PAGE SEVEN
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:-*Portuguese garlic soup. Greek avgolemono. Chinese West Lake Beef Soup.
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Sorry, DR Jrand74. Thank you for sharing the obituary.
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Welcome, 312 Guests - and on a Tuesday night!
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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I've dabbled a little bit in the DuoLingo French (just the free version so far, on the desktop), and will get back on it.
Yes, the genders just have to be learned, and I struggle with that. (Were noun genders easier in German? I don't know why they would be, but I took two years of that and don't recall having such difficulty with it.)
The thing that boggles me about French, though, is pronunciation, both hearing and speaking. That's a whole world unto itself.
I have a good sense of pronunciation. How, I don’t know. And a decent ear for it. Duolingo certainly pounds it into my brain. But as soon as I hear people speaking in real time at full speed, forget about it.
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I've dabbled a little bit in the DuoLingo French (just the free version so far, on the desktop), and will get back on it.
Yes, the genders just have to be learned, and I struggle with that. (Were noun genders easier in German? I don't know why they would be, but I took two years of that and don't recall having such difficulty with it.)
The thing that boggles me about French, though, is pronunciation, both hearing and speaking. That's a whole world unto itself.
I have a good sense of pronunciation. How, I don’t know. And a decent ear for it. Duolingo certainly pounds it into my brain. But as soon as I hear people speaking in real time at full speed, forget about it.
Sounds like trying to watch a French movie from France sans subtitles.
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DR Rodzinski I think it is great you are learning French.
Simply part of my reality-avoidance scheme.
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I am home. The house is a comfortable temperature.
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Sending love to Jane.
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Le Creuset. Got it, Ron. Think we have some of those somewhere.
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Watching a Louis Malle documentary and needing the subtitles.
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Interesting reviews for both Wonderful World and Maybe Happy Ending. Really interested in hearing the score for the latter.
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I'm exhausted.
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Good night, all.
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Ah, the page that shall not be named.
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Finished with my viewing.
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DGA screeners have finally started to arrive, so I watched a new movie.
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Gratuitous Post #200!!
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Meanwhile, Trump voters did the exact opposite of tripping the light fantasic... they supported the dark abysmal.
True, but some of them are realizing what "buyer's remorse" means (that it's somewhat akin to FAFO), and can apply to them. ::)
;D
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Crazy good 5-year-old playing Mozart.
https://www.upworthy.com/5-year-old-italian-piano-prodigy-rocks-mozart-at-international-competition-and-holy-cow-rp
That was amazing!
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Been watching the Scott Pilgrim 8-episode animated series. Remarkably got every single member of the film cast (most of whom have gone in to bigger careers) to revive their role.
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Hi, G!
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And while I'm giving out prices:
$2.54 / $2.69 (BJ's credit card price, everyone else's price) at the pumps. It's been holding there for several days.
Add a dollar to each of those for Tumwater prices. ::)
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Technician was up from regular Washington to service our ancient furnace. All seems good.
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Hi, R!
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Gas prices here are in the per liter price to appease the Canucks who come here to fuel up. It’s like $1.03 a liter, which is the cheapest it’s been, but I’d have to google what that means per gallon.
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My thermostat is in Celsius, too. I’m really just pretending to be American.
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We got the youngsters their Canadian passports, so if we have to slip out of the U.S. full-time, it shouldn’t be too difficile.
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Page Eight.
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When I learn French, I could even move to Quebec!
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Although I’d need to learn their special brand of French.
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Just positioning myself for the apocalypse in the best way I can.
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I like a good tortilla soup.
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Conversely, I do not like a bad tortilla soup. Go figure.
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Here’s the full 1964 film, The Light Fantastic, which I recommend if you like low-budget indie movies from that time period.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCE0iAshVrY
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Nice to see that page eight has made its entrance.
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Notes are written.
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They have a little pith.
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And a little vinegar.
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Lots of interesting folks in the Light Fantastic movie.
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Where'd George get to?
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Out to get a burrito.
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A burrito d'amour?
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Somewhere.
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Out there.
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Not here.
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Here we plant rice - ah, the painting of the rice.
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What?
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I know not what.
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I got the eye surgeon referral approved today, so I'll call and see when I can get in there.
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That's a good thing and sooner/better.
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Better/sooner.
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No George.
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Perhaps he accidentally went down some rabbit hole.
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Just positioning myself for the apocalypse in the best way I can.
You do whatcha gotta do!
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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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All that and page nine, too.
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Where'd George get to?
Tonight, I worked concessions for A Hip-Hop Nutcracker.
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It was quite good and VERY energetic!
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They used a recording of the traditional musical score, only the staging and costumes were modern.