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Title: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 12:43:49 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a Valentine, and now it is time for you to post until the Valentine cows come home.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 12:44:41 AM
And the word of the day is: MOONSTRUCK!
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 04:09:29 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 04:12:34 AM
I was awake at 4:45 for a bathroom break and cuddle with Thatch. I slept a bit more and decided to get up around 5:45.
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 04:17:46 AM
I had weird dreams, the strangest being a trip to a performance of The Threepenny Opera with Judith Malina as Jenny and Stephen Macht as Macheath.
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 04:20:55 AM
And Happy Valentine's Day! I never got any, so it's not really one of my "days."

I'll spend it with iTunes and the mess.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:37:23 AM
Happy Valentine's Day to all who celebrate!
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:38:21 AM
So enjoyable to read the progress of the DRAT! THE CAT! rehearsals!
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:42:47 AM
We've gotten hooked on the eight-episode first season of the CIA-based series THE RECRUIT. 
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:43:05 AM
Some of the wit amidst the violence is in questionable taste, and I hope the real CIA is nothing like this, but it's really beautifully plotted. for grabbing the attention.

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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:43:36 AM
The main drawback has been that the commercials during THE RECRUIT feel so randomly inserted, but at least those ads are short (usually just 15 to 30 seconds).
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 05:18:29 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 05:19:40 AM
Horrible night of sleep. Recurring dreams of having to store stuff and not having enough place to store it.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 05:21:34 AM
I also couldn't breathe through clogged nostrils. It was not pleasant.
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 05:24:13 AM
Sixteen years ago, on Feb. 14, 2009, John McGlinn's body was discovered when the police broke into his apartment. He had died from a heart attack severaldays earlier, but the actual time of death is unknown.

Since then, I doubt there's not a day that passes without my mentioning or thinking of John; I cataloged his estate, and until 2015 I worked in an office surrounded by his scores, books, orchestra parts, and manuscripts. There were days when I would swear his ghost was haunting the space.
I've said much ill about him and most likely will continue, and yet I owe much of my career to him. Until the Big Blowout of 2002, when he blamed Robert Kimball and me for his deserved removal from a project, we were friends. It was a strange friendship, because he had a stunted and extremely limited view of what friendship was. He probably considered mea better friend than I did him because negotiating John's megalomania, treachery, and manipulations were not always fun. For him, a good friend was someone on whose shoulder he could cry about his love life or allow him to talk about himself for hours. Occasionally the conversations were two-sided, like when he'd call and we'd start casting a concert or album together.

Still, in the 1980s, working on SHOWBOAT, the Danbury Concert, the Book of the Month Club, dealing with diva Kiri Te Kanawa, and sitting in the Carnegie Recital Hall and letting him know when the band was too loud are some of my most cherished memories.  Thank you, John!
RIP, my friend and, sadly, my enemy. I will listen to one of your CDs today and mourn you. Maybe even miss you!
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 05:33:25 AM
I also couldn't breathe through clogged nostrils. It was not pleasant.


Vibes for your breathing better, John G!
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 05:46:31 AM
Larry, the split in how you feel about John McGlinn is nearly identical to my feelings about Julie Miller (former DR Julie, producer of our Last Starfighter musical at NYMF in 2007, and co-bookwriter starting in Feb. 2010 on that version of our Viva Max! book).  Julie was delightful in all regards and a wonderful co-worker all the way up to Nov. 2010, then in Dec. 2010 her emails show she decided she was a co-worker only and any sense of friendship had gone completely out the window - but we stayed co-writers because I felt the co-writing we did together was great for the particular show we were working on. 

I don't quite know what changed her so abruptly, but emails (and the dates on them) don't lie.

The only change in her circumstances that I see is that she became V.P.of MAC in Nov. 2010, just a few weeks before the abrupt change in her emails.   In Nov. 2010, Julie and I had even gone together to the Ebb Foundation Award reception, the year Doug Cohen won the Ebb Award and I was one of the six finalists, and everything was still wonderful between us then.  Then, beginning of Dec. 2010, it became different:  Many of her emails after Nov.2010 don't even feel as if the person writing them was the same Julie I knew before the change.  I suspect many of those emails after Nov. 2010 were drafted by lawyers before Julie sent them.


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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 06:02:38 AM
Julie (who is a very smart canny lawyer) had through the years become openly and vocally bothered by her share of the "Viva Max!" musical being one-sixth. 

When the musical became book by me and Julie, and music and lyrics by Skip, Julie began to characterize the sharing as her getting one-sixth, while Skip and I got five-sixths.  But it was just the way the math is on just about every musical, book gets one-third, music gets one-third, lyrics get one-third, and she and I were each half of the book's 1/3, or one-sixth.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 06:21:14 AM
Good morning, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 06:21:22 AM
And others.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 06:21:41 AM
Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 06:25:17 AM
We will not be doing anything special. The DH has to work, and so do I.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 06:39:32 AM
We will not be doing anything special. The DH has to work, and so do I.

Fashioning that book nook in your digs?
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 07:03:13 AM
Notes struck. Mooned.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 07:13:16 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:23:19 AM
Sounds like fun DR RODZINSKI.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:23:33 AM
Feel better vibes for DR JOHN G.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:23:46 AM
Sketching The Ballet vibes for MR BK.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:24:00 AM
Thanks for sharing DR ELMORE.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:24:12 AM
Thanks for sharing DR FREDDIE.
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Post by: ChasSmith on February 14, 2025, 07:24:26 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:24:27 AM
Page Two.

It is after all show BUSINESS.
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Post by: ChasSmith on February 14, 2025, 07:24:58 AM
Envious of record shoppe visit. Do report back!
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:25:11 AM
It is 19 degrees here headed for 37 degrees.
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Post by: ChasSmith on February 14, 2025, 07:26:35 AM
Got my blood work back, and everything is pretty much okay. Except for cholesterol which has been high for some time, and he'll start me on the meds to help control that. I can surely do a little better in the eating department as well.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:34:29 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:35:29 AM
Thanks for sharing DR FREDDIE.


I live to share!  :)


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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:38:04 AM
Page Two.

It is after all show BUSINESS.


As the head of the O'Neill Center musical theater section had joked before every donation pitch, "I'm often asked which came first, the music or the words, and I say the funding."  :)
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 07:56:58 AM
Back to The Substance.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 08:25:25 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 08:25:52 AM
Back to The Substance.

When will you return to Succession?
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 08:41:22 AM
Back to The Substance.

When will you return to Succession?

In a couple of weeks.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 08:59:48 AM
I wonder if DR JOHN G will have the same SUBSTANCE question I did?
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:02:54 AM
Well, the movie seems to have run out of ideas and there’s a half hour left.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:03:20 AM
I wonder if DR JOHN G will have the same SUBSTANCE question I did?

What was your question?
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:04:06 AM
I also couldn't breathe through clogged nostrils. It was not pleasant.

Yikes!  Hopefully, your nostrils get unclogged quickly (if they haven't already)!
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:04:21 AM
Wordle 1,336 3/6

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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:04:33 AM
I would definitely give this movie the makeup Oscar.
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:09:00 AM
Sixteen years ago, on Feb. 14, 2009, John McGlinn's body was discovered when the police broke into his apartment. He had died from a heart attack severaldays earlier, but the actual time of death is unknown.

Since then, I doubt there's not a day that passes without my mentioning or thinking of John; I cataloged his estate, and until 2015 I worked in an office surrounded by his scores, books, orchestra parts, and manuscripts. There were days when I would swear his ghost was haunting the space.
I've said much ill about him and most likely will continue, and yet I owe much of my career to him. Until the Big Blowout of 2002, when he blamed Robert Kimball and me for his deserved removal from a project, we were friends. It was a strange friendship, because he had a stunted and extremely limited view of what friendship was. He probably considered mea better friend than I did him because negotiating John's megalomania, treachery, and manipulations were not always fun. For him, a good friend was someone on whose shoulder he could cry about his love life or allow him to talk about himself for hours. Occasionally the conversations were two-sided, like when he'd call and we'd start casting a concert or album together.

Still, in the 1980s, working on SHOWBOAT, the Danbury Concert, the Book of the Month Club, dealing with diva Kiri Te Kanawa, and sitting in the Carnegie Recital Hall and letting him know when the band was too loud are some of my most cherished memories.  Thank you, John!
RIP, my friend and, sadly, my enemy. I will listen to one of your CDs today and mourn you. Maybe even miss you!

{ { {HUGS!!} } }
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 09:09:20 AM
I would definitely give this movie the makeup Oscar.

In a reach for wordplay - Didn't Demi Moore say the Golden Globe was "making up" for all the years of no awards?
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 09:13:09 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

That IS interesting!  So the two Vancouvers are nowhere near each other!
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:20:20 AM
Demi Moore is ready for her closeup, Mr. DeMille.
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:25:38 AM
Larry, the split in how you feel about John McGlinn is nearly identical to my feelings about Julie Miller (former DR Julie, producer of our Last Starfighter musical at NYMF in 2007, and co-bookwriter starting in Feb. 2010 on that version of our Viva Max! book).  Julie was delightful in all regards and a wonderful co-worker all the way up to Nov. 2010, then in Dec. 2010 her emails show she decided she was a co-worker only and any sense of friendship had gone completely out the window - but we stayed co-writers because I felt the co-writing we did together was great for the particular show we were working on. 

I don't quite know what changed her so abruptly, but emails (and the dates on them) don't lie.

The only change in her circumstances that I see is that she became V.P.of MAC in Nov. 2010, just a few weeks before the abrupt change in her emails.   In Nov. 2010, Julie and I had even gone together to the Ebb Foundation Award reception, the year Doug Cohen won the Ebb Award and I was one of the six finalists, and everything was still wonderful between us then.  Then, beginning of Dec. 2010, it became different:  Many of her emails after Nov.2010 don't even feel as if the person writing them was the same Julie I knew before the change.  I suspect many of those emails after Nov. 2010 were drafted by lawyers before Julie sent them.


That's too bad, Freddie. :(
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:27:14 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.

Hope you all have a great time, Rodzinski!
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:30:26 AM
Got my blood work back, and everything is pretty much okay. Except for cholesterol which has been high for some time, and he'll start me on the meds to help control that. I can surely do a little better in the eating department as well.

Very good news, ChasSmith!
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 09:31:33 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

And you'd pass right by me on your way. ;D
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:40:10 AM
Bruce, great news about casting the last gal and the three cast members getting caught up with the dance captain.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 09:42:48 AM
Larry, the split in how you feel about John McGlinn is nearly identical to my feelings about Julie Miller (former DR Julie, producer of our Last Starfighter musical at NYMF in 2007, and co-bookwriter starting in Feb. 2010 on that version of our Viva Max! book).  Julie was delightful in all regards and a wonderful co-worker all the way up to Nov. 2010, then in Dec. 2010 her emails show she decided she was a co-worker only and any sense of friendship had gone completely out the window - but we stayed co-writers because I felt the co-writing we did together was great for the particular show we were working on. 

I don't quite know what changed her so abruptly, but emails (and the dates on them) don't lie.

The only change in her circumstances that I see is that she became V.P.of MAC in Nov. 2010, just a few weeks before the abrupt change in her emails.   In Nov. 2010, Julie and I had even gone together to the Ebb Foundation Award reception, the year Doug Cohen won the Ebb Award and I was one of the six finalists, and everything was still wonderful between us then.  Then, beginning of Dec. 2010, it became different:  Many of her emails after Nov.2010 don't even feel as if the person writing them was the same Julie I knew before the change.  I suspect many of those emails after Nov. 2010 were drafted by lawyers before Julie sent them.


That's too bad, Freddie. :(


Thanks, George!
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:46:03 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.

A family Valentine's outing, I like that.  Indian food sounds good.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:55:16 AM
Got my blood work back, and everything is pretty much okay. Except for cholesterol which has been high for some time, and he'll start me on the meds to help control that. I can surely do a little better in the eating department as well.

Vibes you can get your cholesterol down.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:55:44 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

He certainly isn't driving down here ;D
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:56:48 AM
THREE!

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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:57:44 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

We have snow, and probably, ice here.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:58:13 AM
Wordle 1,336 3/6

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Very nice :)
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:59:12 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

That IS interesting!  So the two Vancouvers are nowhere near each other!

Nope.  When we told people were moving to Vancouver we could tell by their reactions if they thought we were going to B.C.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 09:59:50 AM
"Oh, it is beautiful there" or "I love Vancouver" meant they thought we going to B.C. ;D
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:01:54 AM
When traveling people tend to ask where you are from.  It is confusing when we say Vancouver and we have to explain which makes our response a bit long.

Next trip, we are going to simply say Vancouver without an explanation.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:03:32 AM
DR Freddie if I drove to the 2nd Vancouver (we were first) and left now, it would likely take 5.5 hours to get there from my address.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:04:35 AM
We know some Vancouver, WA travelers who say they are from Portland.  But then they often get asked Maine or Oregon.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 10:16:27 AM
We know some Vancouver, WA travelers who say they are from Portland.  But then they often get asked Maine or Oregon.

Skip just reminded me - when his show HERRINGBONE was done at a theater called Vancouver Arts Equity Theatre, it was right across the river from Portland, and Skip flew into Portland.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 10:17:14 AM
When traveling people tend to ask where you are from.  It is confusing when we say Vancouver and we have to explain which makes our response a bit long.

Next trip, we are going to simply say Vancouver without an explanation.


:)


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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 10:17:36 AM
Wordle 1,336 3/6

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:D

Very nice :)

Thanks, Jane!
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:18:34 AM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

And you'd pass right by me on your way. ;D

Very true. 
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 10:18:42 AM
DR Freddie if I drove to the 2nd Vancouver (we were first) and left now, it would likely take 5.5 hours to get there from my address.

I never knew Vancouver, WA had the name first!
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:20:33 AM
We know some Vancouver, WA travelers who say they are from Portland.  But then they often get asked Maine or Oregon.

Skip just reminded me - when his show HERRINGBONE was done at a theater called Vancouver Arts Equity Theatre, it was right across the river from Portland, and Skip flew into Portland.

We can see the airport from our back window.

When Skip came here we were still in Ashland.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:26:58 AM
DR Freddie if I drove to the 2nd Vancouver (we were first) and left now, it would likely take 5.5 hours to get there from my address.

I never knew Vancouver, WA had the name first!

Fort Vancouver, which I would have suggested Skip explore had I know about it, is near us.

Fort Vancouver was established in 1825, before the city was incorporated.

Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:27:09 AM
Fort Vancouver was named after Captain George Vancouver, a British explorer and sea captain. The fort was built in 1824–1825 by the Hudson's Bay Company as a headquarters for their fur trade in the Pacific Northwest.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:29:03 AM
Vancouver, B.C. is also named for George Vancouver.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:36:11 AM
Keith & I don't really do anything for Valentine's Day anymore.  Just being together is enough.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 10:36:37 AM
I expect we will have a video chat with a special little girl to watch her open our birthday gift.
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Post by: ChasSmith on February 14, 2025, 11:05:50 AM
I leave the Valentine's Day activities to my lovely housemates, but here's a regular Friday kind of TOD:

Last night I watched Brian De Palma's BLOW OUT (1981) - which always seems like it should be hyphenated, like BLOW-UP (1966), but I digress. I have a like-hate relationship with the earlier so-called "Hitchcockian" thrillers of his. There's a lot to like, but their similarities and certain things he can be guaranteed to indulge in eventually get to me and I can go a long time between viewings.

I like BLOW OUT more than some of the others. The Philadelphia setting is interesting, I like the piecing together of audio/video evidence (the basic idea being borrowed from BLOW-UP), and I think Travolta is great in it. I like Nancy Allen, but isn't she kind of the same character in all of these? Maybe not, but it sometimes feels that way. John Lithgow is a surprise (nowadays) as the bad guy. So it was good to see it, and good to watch De Palma's very sixties early experimental film MURDER A LA MOD (1968) that's included on the Criterion disc.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 11:21:36 AM
My question is about the end of the movie DR JOHN G so I'll wait until your get it all over with to ask.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 11:27:54 AM
My question is about the end of the movie DR JOHN G so I'll wait until your get it all over with to ask.
It’s over. Ask away.
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Post by: ChasSmith on February 14, 2025, 11:31:50 AM
I finished up some stuff, so I'm about to put on a McGlinn CD (haven't decided which one yet) to listen to while I bring some order to the Music Room. I've actually wanted to hear some recordings of his lately, anyway, so time to get into it. I also need to fix up those turntables, because what I'd really like is to put on the Book of the Month Club album.
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 12:03:06 PM
Exciting news from Criterion! These two films actually make up the complete novel Les Trois Mousquetaires of Alexandre Dumas
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 12:07:14 PM
I don't know if this is real, but if so, something's got the soiled panties of the Fat Orange Felon in a bunch!
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 12:54:26 PM
I'm up, I'm up - nine and a half hours of sleep.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 12:55:16 PM
Spent the last ninety minutes getting everything ready to send to the publisher and getting everything to Doug for the flap copy and blurb on the back cover - he'll also do the pre-order page.
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 01:03:26 PM
Exciting news from Criterion! These two films actually make up the complete novel Les Trois Mousquetaires of Alexandre Dumas
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7873.0;attach=25384)

Cool!  I remember my sister and I watching these on TV when we were kids. ;D
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 01:04:06 PM
I don't know if this is real, but if so, something's got the soiled panties of the Fat Orange Felon in a bunch!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7873.0;attach=25386)

I hope it's real! :))
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 01:04:32 PM
PAGE FOUR DANCE!!
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 01:13:55 PM
LOL DR ELMORE the truth hurts.
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Post by: Laura on February 14, 2025, 01:30:22 PM
Good afternoon.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:30:43 PM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

That IS interesting!  So the two Vancouvers are nowhere near each other!

Not only that, Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.
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Post by: Laura on February 14, 2025, 01:30:50 PM
TOD: We are old married people. We don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I don't think we ever have.
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Post by: Laura on February 14, 2025, 01:31:42 PM
We've had a couple of drizzles of rain today. Like the sidewalk gets speckled. That's it.
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Post by: Laura on February 14, 2025, 01:31:58 PM
Just enough to make the car really dirty.
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Post by: ChasSmith on February 14, 2025, 01:36:17 PM
The selection:  SHOW BOAT.

Fantastic. Hadn't listened to it in a few years. That was too long.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:36:28 PM
I tend to say Vancouver BC if I’m talking to people, and that’s the best shorthand because for me to explain where I really live is always going to be a big conversation.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:37:08 PM
Not complaining though. It’s good to have an instant conversation starter to lean on.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:38:04 PM
I was obsessed (Obsession!) with DePalma in my younger days. But never did see Murder a La Mod.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:39:18 PM
I tend to prefer his early, sloppier things now. Greetings; Hi, Mom!; Phantom of the Paradise… than when he became fully Hitchcock Junior.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:44:24 PM
There was a screening of Phantom of the Paradise somewhere recently. A girl I know attended and sat in the back near Paul Williams.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:46:26 PM
I tend to prefer his early, sloppier things now. Greetings; Hi, Mom!; Phantom of the Paradise… than when he became fully Hitchcock Junior.

Maybe I was really more of a Gerrit Graham fan.
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 01:47:10 PM
We all know Gerrit Graham’s greatest-ever role.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 01:52:01 PM
There was a screening of Phantom of the Paradise somewhere recently. A girl I know attended and sat in the back near Paul Williams.


For some reason, when I was in a Helen-Reddy-songs parody period around 2008, it seemed the right thing to do was to send the songwriters the YouTube link where their email addresses were easily findable online. Paul Williams sent me such a lovely email back, saying he really liked the parody of "You and Me Against the World."  It was really appreciated.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 01:52:53 PM
We all know Gerrit Graham’s greatest-ever role.

What is it?
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 01:53:15 PM
I could google, but it adds more posts to ask.  :)
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 01:54:39 PM
 :D
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 01:56:25 PM
:D


LOL!
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Post by: Laura on February 14, 2025, 01:57:16 PM
Sometimes I think that's how Leonard feels about me.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:13:05 PM
Going with the fam out for Indian tonight at a nice spot in Vancouver. I’ve been informed that a stop at a record shoppe is included for me.


That sounds like fun!  Vancouver, Canada or Vancouver, Washington?

BC Canada, I shall report back. Vancouver WA is closer to Jane.

That IS interesting!  So the two Vancouvers are nowhere near each other!

Not only that, Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.

;D

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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:17:30 PM
I tend to say Vancouver BC if I’m talking to people, and that’s the best shorthand because for me to explain where I really live is always going to be a big conversation.

I don't know, obscure border town in Washington State is very interesting.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:17:53 PM
Not complaining though. It’s good to have an instant conversation starter to lean on.

It is a great starter conversation.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:18:38 PM
I've told a few family and friends about the interesting town you live in.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:19:59 PM
TOD: We are old married people. We don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I don't think we ever have.

We used to but not for years now, even before Freyja took over the day.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:20:15 PM
We've had a couple of drizzles of rain today. Like the sidewalk gets speckled. That's it.

Sorry you didn't get more.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 02:20:49 PM
There was a screening of Phantom of the Paradise somewhere recently. A girl I know attended and sat in the back near Paul Williams.


For some reason, when I was in a Helen-Reddy-songs parody period around 2008, it seemed the right thing to do was to send the songwriters the YouTube link where their email addresses were easily findable online. Paul Williams sent me such a lovely email back, saying he really liked the parody of "You and Me Against the World."  It was really appreciated.

That is very nice.
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 02:29:59 PM
At 9:00 this morning I phoned my building's maintenance to te had no hot water. It's now eight hours later, and we still have no hot water. God dammit.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 03:26:56 PM
It has been snowing here today with more predicted tonight.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 03:27:14 PM
We have President's Day off, so I am starting a long holiday weekend.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 03:27:22 PM
PAGE FIVE
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 03:28:36 PM
We are currently not able to post photos on this here site.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 03:36:42 PM
We all know Gerrit Graham’s greatest-ever role.


A rye roll?
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 03:38:56 PM
Or a wry role?
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 03:39:46 PM
They’re opening the shelter again next week.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 03:44:37 PM
Off to see Talley’s Folly tonight. It’s been years
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Post by: elmore3003 on February 14, 2025, 03:47:36 PM
I don't know if this is real, but if so, something's got the soiled panties of the Fat Orange Felon in a bunch!

It's a fraud!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-banned-felon-white-house/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIcsidleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY3zwWNuny_dsSQQ33Mwq4wlnp78MKAnmTV9sqjiJJsg9tvGUlIKbx4M-A_aem_Jf7VbcCjQWmZSaCz3Vod9Q
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 03:48:59 PM
Grant Garret's most iconic role?

I would say Rodzinski...in Naked Space or whatever you know it as....but I could be wrong.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 03:49:57 PM
Why do I keep thinking it is Thursday?
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 03:50:11 PM
Because I am retired.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 03:51:07 PM
I am hoping Robbie Avila does a nice job in the basketball game starting in  20 minutes or so.......
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 03:52:32 PM
Winter weather advisory for my area....or not....they cannot make up their minds.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 03:59:42 PM
Because I am retired.


You're the busiest retired person I'm in contact with!  So many exciting arts possibilities!


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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 03:59:52 PM
My idea of excitement is noting that you're closing in on a very special 95,000 post millstone!
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:01:19 PM
I'm a few months from 65, and very much looking forward to being n Medicare!

But not sure about this "retirement" concept.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 04:07:24 PM
We have President's Day off, so I am starting a long holiday weekend.

Enjoy.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 04:07:56 PM
We are currently not able to post photos on this here site.

Darn.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 04:08:30 PM
They’re opening the shelter again next week.

I hope it doesn't need to stay open too many nights.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 04:10:39 PM
Off to see Talley’s Folly tonight. It’s been years


As if to back up that there was likely no New York topic that I didn't do a parody of, when I was doing a video every week.  This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playing opposite Sally in FOLLIES to playing opposite Sally in TALLEY'S FOLLY.  One of the lyrics I'd gotten Sondheim's OK to do. 

This was SALLY TALLEY's FOLLIES - "Story of Sally & Sally" - From FEB. 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-96oZeY3Q


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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 05:44:46 PM
I was not going to retest for covid today, however, Keith said we have lots of tests and why not see if the test line has gotten lighter.

The night before he tested negative you could barely see the T line.  Thing is, he felt better and I don't.

Since we had plenty and they were expiring, I tested tonight. It only took one second, if that, for the T line to be obviously positive.  It hadn't even reached the control line.

When I asked Keith where the extra test were he said there were five in the box.  Nope, I used one of the two in the box.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 05:47:08 PM
I was not going to retest for covid today, however, Keith said we have lots of tests and why not see if the test line has gotten lighter.

The night before he tested negative you could barely see the T line.  Thing is, he felt better and I don't.

Since we had plenty and they were expiring, I tested tonight. It only took one second, if that, for the T line to be obviously positive.  It hadn't even reached the control line.

When I asked Keith where the extra test were he said there were five in the box.  Nope, I used one of the two in the box.

:(
Is the miscounting  OK since they were about to expire anyway?
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 05:50:55 PM
Our other brand comes in a box of five.  I think he just expected that many.  This was the last free box we got from the government.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 05:52:38 PM
The set.

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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 05:53:02 PM
Looks like a good crowd.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 05:55:02 PM
And a good set!
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 05:57:54 PM
The set.

It looks great!
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Post by: KevinH on February 14, 2025, 06:23:26 PM
Good evening!
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Post by: KevinH on February 14, 2025, 06:24:14 PM
Wordle 1,336 3/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D



Me too!
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 06:24:36 PM
Nice going Kevin :)
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 06:26:08 PM
Keith did not do well today but at least he got Wordle in six and didn't miss.
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 06:26:23 PM
Speaking of six ;D
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Post by: Jane on February 14, 2025, 06:27:17 PM
(https://www.caviar20.com/cdn/shop/products/Caviar20_Jim_Dime-6-Hearts-1970_cleaned__01_800x.jpg?v=1612274236)
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 06:59:19 PM
(https://www.caviar20.com/cdn/shop/products/Caviar20_Jim_Dime-6-Hearts-1970_cleaned__01_800x.jpg?v=1612274236)


Beautiful!
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:06:41 PM
Thanks DR FREDDIE nice link.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:06:57 PM
Nice set DR JOHN G.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:07:22 PM
Opening Night vibes for DR MICHAEL G even though I thought it was last week.
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:08:07 PM
Next week begins six days of single digit temps for us.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:09:31 PM
Thanks DR FREDDIE nice link.

Thanks, Jrand!
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Post by: Jrand74 on February 14, 2025, 07:09:43 PM
I am hoping my theeder friend is not ONE of the Homeland Security employees who have been let go......
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Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 07:15:20 PM
I don't know if this is real, but if so, something's got the soiled panties of the Fat Orange Felon in a bunch!

It's a fraud!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-banned-felon-white-house/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIcsidleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY3zwWNuny_dsSQQ33Mwq4wlnp78MKAnmTV9sqjiJJsg9tvGUlIKbx4M-A_aem_Jf7VbcCjQWmZSaCz3Vod9Q

Darn...but it's funny because Twitter and I think the Faceplace are no longer fact-checking.  People can post funny stuff like this or not-so-funny disinformation and leOn and Zuck no longer care.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:16:11 PM
I am hoping my theeder friend is not ONE of the Homeland Security employees who have been let go......

Vibes for your friend!
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:20:46 PM
 :)
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:21:15 PM
You have a pizza my heart.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:21:36 PM
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:25:36 PM
 :)
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:30:28 PM
 :)
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:30:43 PM
Good night, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on February 14, 2025, 07:30:50 PM
And others.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 07:37:00 PM
You have a pizza my heart.


Awwww!
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 08:35:02 PM
Grant Garret's most iconic role?

I would say Rodzinski...in Naked Space or whatever you know it as....but I could be wrong.


We have a winner!
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 08:40:06 PM
There was a screening of Phantom of the Paradise somewhere recently. A girl I know attended and sat in the back near Paul Williams.


For some reason, when I was in a Helen-Reddy-songs parody period around 2008, it seemed the right thing to do was to send the songwriters the YouTube link where their email addresses were easily findable online. Paul Williams sent me such a lovely email back, saying he really liked the parody of "You and Me Against the World."  It was really appreciated.

He did a Q&A on some website back in the day and I was able to tell him how meaningful a song was to my cousin when she lost her son, and he said feedback like that is what he calls his “heart payments.”
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Post by: Rodzinski on February 14, 2025, 08:41:33 PM
Indian food was good. Record shop was nice. Was able to find a book a friend of mine wrote about Canadian Glam rock. And a couple records.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:54:04 PM
I tried watching several movies to no avail.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:54:19 PM
Then I tried watching no avail to no avail.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:54:57 PM
I sketched out the ballet thing - I know the ending and the beginning and the theft part and have ideas on how to get to each.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:55:54 PM
Had a small Marco's pizza thing for food.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:56:06 PM
Hadn't had one since mid-December.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:56:26 PM
Is page six the new page ten?
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:56:36 PM
Feeling logy.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:57:43 PM
I have had a small headache most of the day - stress-related, I'm sure.
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Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 08:58:04 PM
Ah, the page that shall not be named and yet has been named.
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Post by: Freddie on February 14, 2025, 09:11:02 PM
There was a screening of Phantom of the Paradise somewhere recently. A girl I know attended and sat in the back near Paul Williams.


For some reason, when I was in a Helen-Reddy-songs parody period around 2008, it seemed the right thing to do was to send the songwriters the YouTube link where their email addresses were easily findable online. Paul Williams sent me such a lovely email back, saying he really liked the parody of "You and Me Against the World."  It was really appreciated.

He did a Q&A on some website back in the day and I was able to tell him how meaningful a song was to my cousin when she lost her son, and he said feedback like that is what he calls his “heart payments.”

Really beautiful.
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Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:18:14 PM
Howdy, Rupert!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:20:15 PM
I enjoyed the production. The only things I remember from the show, which I haven’t seen in 40 years, is a pair of ice skates and how wounded the two characters are. I would have loved seeing Danny Burstein in the role of Matt.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: John G. on February 14, 2025, 09:21:38 PM
I am running a slight temperature. The cedar pollen really has made me sick.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 14, 2025, 10:38:35 PM
Found a movie I want to watch, but it was too late to begin it. I'll shower now, write notes, post notes, then sleep.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 14, 2025, 11:02:24 PM
Off to see Talley’s Folly tonight. It’s been years


As if to back up that there was likely no New York topic that I didn't do a parody of, when I was doing a video every week.  This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playing opposite Sally in FOLLIES to playing opposite Sally in TALLEY'S FOLLY.  One of the lyrics I'd gotten Sondheim's OK to do. 

This was SALLY TALLEY's FOLLIES - "Story of Sally & Sally" - From FEB. 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-96oZeY3Q


That was great, Freddie!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:03:30 AM
I was not going to retest for covid today, however, Keith said we have lots of tests and why not see if the test line has gotten lighter.

The night before he tested negative you could barely see the T line.  Thing is, he felt better and I don't.

Since we had plenty and they were expiring, I tested tonight. It only took one second, if that, for the T line to be obviously positive.  It hadn't even reached the control line.

When I asked Keith where the extra test were he said there were five in the box.  Nope, I used one of the two in the box.

Noooooo!!!!!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:07:08 AM
The set.

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7873.0;attach=25390)

Very nice. :)
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:07:45 AM
And a good set!

What he said! ;D
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:08:06 AM
Get me the HELL off this damn page.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:08:09 AM
Wordle 1,336 3/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D



Me too!

That's great, Kevin!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:08:17 AM
Photos can be posted now.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:08:36 AM
Keith did not do well today but at least he got Wordle in six and didn't miss.

Whew!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:08:47 AM
I couldn't even upload for the Notes. But now it's fine. Revealing the new book
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:08:55 AM
(https://www.caviar20.com/cdn/shop/products/Caviar20_Jim_Dime-6-Hearts-1970_cleaned__01_800x.jpg?v=1612274236)

Very nice, Jane!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:09:14 AM
Are we even halfway on this damnable page?
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:09:22 AM
Not very sporting.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:09:33 AM
Endless.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:09:35 AM
Nice set DR JOHN G.

What he said, too! :D
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:09:47 AM
Really endless.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:09:57 AM
Never-ending.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:10:00 AM
Gratuitous Post #203!!
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:10:04 AM
On and on it goes.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:10:12 AM
Nuts.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:10:19 AM
Nerts.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:10:37 AM
Oh well.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:10:43 AM
Well oh.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:11:04 AM
Page eight, wherefore art thou?
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:11:15 AM
Certainly not here.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:11:17 AM
Next week begins six days of single digit temps for us.

Yikes! :o

~~~STAY WARM VIBES!!~~~
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:11:25 AM
Enter page eight.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:11:32 AM
About time.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:11:37 AM
Ridic.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:11:50 AM
We wuz on that page for HOURS.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:12:18 AM
Book reveal in one minute.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:12:33 AM
You have a pizza my heart.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7873.0;attach=25393)

Yum!  It certainly looks better than the pizza I had tonight. ::)
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:15:28 AM
What I had wasn't bad, per se.  It was a frozen deep dish pepperoni and sausage pizza. 
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:15:33 AM
New notes are up.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:15:47 AM
Up are new notes.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:15:55 AM
I've seen them.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:16:01 AM
I've read them.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: bk on February 15, 2025, 12:16:08 AM
I wrote them.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:16:13 AM
I thought I cooked it according to the directions, but the crust ended up being really hard and not easily cuttable or chewable. ::)
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:16:22 AM
It tasted okay, but just hard.  The sauce and toppings were good, though, so it wasn't a total loss. :)
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:17:11 AM
:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7873.0;attach=25394)

;D
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:17:46 AM
:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7873.0;attach=25396)

:))
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:18:38 AM
There was a screening of Phantom of the Paradise somewhere recently. A girl I know attended and sat in the back near Paul Williams.


For some reason, when I was in a Helen-Reddy-songs parody period around 2008, it seemed the right thing to do was to send the songwriters the YouTube link where their email addresses were easily findable online. Paul Williams sent me such a lovely email back, saying he really liked the parody of "You and Me Against the World."  It was really appreciated.

He did a Q&A on some website back in the day and I was able to tell him how meaningful a song was to my cousin when she lost her son, and he said feedback like that is what he calls his “heart payments.”

That's so sweet.
Title: Re: I HEART DEAR READERS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
Post by: George on February 15, 2025, 12:19:13 AM
Indian food was good. Record shop was nice. Was able to find a book a friend of mine wrote about Canadian Glam rock. And a couple records.

That's great, Rodzinski!