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Title: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 12:17:04 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes felt like act two - a little rough, but we got through it, and now it is time for you to post until the second act cows come home.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 12:18:09 AM
And the word of the day is: DULCET!
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 12:18:55 AM
And now - Dino at the piano.
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 12:29:53 AM
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Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 01:06:40 AM
Yesterday, Jane wrote:  "DR George I miss hiking.  Have a wonderful day."

Thanks, Jane!  I did!
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 01:10:57 AM
To repeat from last night, this is the route that David and I walked:

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7888.0;attach=25516)
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 01:11:17 AM
We figured that we walked just over 6 miles!  And a LOT of that was uphill! :P
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:33:19 AM
Here are a few pictures that I took.  First, a random moss-covered tree:
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:35:47 AM
Here's the hat that I wore.  Two different people that we passed said that they liked it! ;D
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:36:38 AM
Here's a random shot of one of the rivers:
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:38:02 AM
A big tree that fell (or was felled):
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:39:36 AM
Here's David in between the cut pieces of an even BIGGER tree:
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:41:18 AM
And this is the road after going through the main trail system:
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:44:22 AM
I didn't know about Seabrook.  Apparently, it's small, unincorporated town where everything was designed to look like a New England ocean town (or something like that).  I really only got this picture before my camera's battery died. ::)

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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:46:03 AM
We had dinner at a pizza parlor there and it wasn't too bad...a little pricey, but good.
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:47:28 AM
We walked around the town a bit then decided to leave.  I didn't realize that the town was pretty much right on the ocean:
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:51:44 AM
We were in the car at this point, so it was a surprise that we even saw the water.  Then we left and came home.  David was really tired, so he's downstairs sleeping on the couch instead of driving home.  He'll leave in the morning (probably before I get up ::) ) because he's meeting another friend back in Seattle in the late morning.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 02:54:05 AM
And now, I need to sleep.  I'm working bar/concessions for an event at South Puget Sound Community College and need to be there by noon-thirty.  Then, I'll come home.

Good night and good morning, all!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 04:04:18 AM
George - Thanks for sharing your photos and story from your day of hiking yesterday. 

So glad you had a good time! 
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 04:05:42 AM
BK, I really enjoyed your "Chicken fried steak at the Coral Cafe" in last night's posts!

And thanks also to Rodzinski, for suggesting the song title!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 04:17:14 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 04:18:11 AM
An ungodly early one for me on a Sunday, but I must get me to the church on time and all that.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 04:20:18 AM
Yesterday was like spring, and now we’re back in the sub-freezing temperatures for a couple of days. It’s 18 out there.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 04:20:43 AM
Later!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:02:15 AM
Good morning, all!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:03:15 AM
DR ChasSmith, did you not see Mr Filichia at the ballet screening last March? He wwas there for the first act.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 05:06:06 AM
DR ChasSmith, did you not see Mr Filichia at the ballet screening last March? He wwas there for the first act.

I remember knowing he was there, but that might even have been after the fact. I didn't know to get up to see him or say hi or anything.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:06:40 AM
Well, I slept rather well. Thatch and I were having such a good time playing this moprning that, instead of getting up with the alarm, I stayed in bed to play with him and Annabelle more. My little Thatch is a Floyd Collins, always looking for caves to hide in and chill out, so I created one out of the bed clothes, and he was delighted to crawl in and look out onto the world. He was very cute.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:10:23 AM
Annabelle has decided that my new tea cart was a gift for her, and whenever I need to use it now, I have to get a crowbar to pry her off the damnmed thing. Then, when I turn my back, she jumps back onto it and refuses to move. She loves it when I push her around on it.

What I would love to do, but my walking/shopping days are over, is to taker her to a superrmarket and push her around oin a shopping cart.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:11:23 AM
DR George, those are wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing them.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:14:48 AM
I am doing very little today, maybe some iTunes work, maybe finish my mystery.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:16:16 AM
Page 2 Dance!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 05:17:01 AM
BK, thanks for the tip on the Bob Mackie documentary. I think I'll look for it tonight.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 05:20:21 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 05:21:36 AM
Slept through the night. Had odd dreams about knowing a family of brothers who designed the interiors of concentration camps.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 05:42:04 AM
403 Guests on HHW - and on a Sunday morning! 

It may not quite be the 411 Guests from the other day, but one thing can be said with certainty: that 403 is still more than 400!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Michael on March 02, 2025, 05:45:33 AM
Good morning to all
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Michael on March 02, 2025, 05:47:19 AM
I’m am curious. For those on the west coast what kind of programming does ABC air after the Oscars that the East coast doesn’t see?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 05:55:40 AM
Hi Michael! 

What's showing after the Oscars tonight here on the East Coast?  Is it another "Live with Kelly and Mark" after the Oscars show?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 05:58:33 AM
The Oscars promise to be a combination of protests and glamour.  What better way to get into the mood than this favorite mix of a protest song with high fashion:

Debbie Reynolds - "If I Had a Hammer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng2Ls4OA2k4
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 06:16:04 AM
Always love that one, DR Freddie.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 06:16:17 AM
Good morning, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 06:16:24 AM
And others.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 06:16:39 AM
 :)
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 06:25:38 AM
DR George, thank you for sharing your day with us.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 06:37:24 AM
Congrats on ACT TWO for MR BK and company.

I too enjoyed the Chicken Fried Steak and the Coral Cafe song....perhaps it should open Act Two of DRAT! THE CAT!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 06:37:39 AM
I got tired just looking at DR GEORGE's map.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 06:42:40 AM
:)


LOL!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 06:46:22 AM
Wordle in 4.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:13:06 AM
I got tired just looking at DR GEORGE's map.
Yup. Me too.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:14:06 AM
Congrats on ACT TWO for MR BK and company.

I too enjoyed the Chicken Fried Steak and the Coral Cafe song....perhaps it should open Act Two of DRAT! THE CAT!

Just use it in place of the Kabuki ballet.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 07:19:46 AM
I was looking at some more older Scarlet Street magazines and there was a letter from DR RON PULLIAM about musical soundtracks, a review of The First Nudie Musical DVD release, a couple of letters from MR BK.

It was quite the popular magazine.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 07:23:22 AM
I was looking at some more older Scarlet Street magazines and there was a letter from DR RON PULLIAM about musical soundtracks, a review of The First Nudie Musical DVD release, a couple of letters from MR BK.

It was quite the popular magazine.


IIRC, BK was able to arrange for Skip and me to be interviewed in Scarlet Street for the release of the Kritzerland CD of the original cast recording of the LAST STARFIGHTER musical.



 
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 09:12:59 AM
 :)
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:25:59 AM
George - Thanks for sharing your photos and story from your day of hiking yesterday. 

So glad you had a good time! 

Thanks, Freddie!  We did!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:27:03 AM
DR George, those are wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing them.

Thanks, Larry! 
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:28:46 AM
:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7889.0;attach=25535)

;D
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:29:02 AM
DR George, thank you for sharing your day with us.

You're welcome, Singdaw!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 09:30:23 AM
DR MichaelG, did you say you're on to Othello next? Listening to a Met rebroadcast from 2015 right now.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:31:51 AM
I got tired just looking at DR GEORGE's map.

I took pictures of all the maps we came across where they said, "You Are Here."  I figured that posting eight or so of those would definitely be too much. ;)
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:32:23 AM
I got tired just looking at DR GEORGE's map.
Yup. Me too.

;D
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:32:36 AM
Oh, look!  It's Page Three!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:33:20 AM
I was looking at some more older Scarlet Street magazines and there was a letter from DR RON PULLIAM about musical soundtracks, a review of The First Nudie Musical DVD release, a couple of letters from MR BK.

It was quite the popular magazine.


IIRC, BK was able to arrange for Skip and me to be interviewed in Scarlet Street for the release of the Kritzerland CD of the original cast recording of the LAST STARFIGHTER musical.

That's pretty cool, Freddie!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 09:33:57 AM
:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7889.0;attach=25537)

:))
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Post by: Donald on March 02, 2025, 10:16:32 AM
Hello everyone... with Concord Theatricals releasing this past week the new Off-Broadway cast recording of I Can Get It For You Wholesale, I thought it would be great to look at the Broadway career of Harold Rome on the Broadway Radio Show.  Check it out!

http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/


Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 10:27:02 AM
There's not a cloud in the...     Oh, wait.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 10:27:24 AM
 :)
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 10:35:11 AM
LOL DR singdaw....

What cloud?
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 10:35:51 AM
How exciting DR FREDDIE I have several issues yet to look at.....I am guessing I shall find the interview!  I'll let you know.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jrand74 on March 02, 2025, 10:37:01 AM
The pair of keets are singing a lot today.

I'm not sure if it is because of the sunshine or if it's because I am still home and they are not alone.

My guess is The Former.
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 10:42:55 AM
How exciting DR FREDDIE I have several issues yet to look at.....I am guessing I shall find the interview!  I'll let you know.

Thanks for looking for it. 

The Kritzerland CD came out in fall 2005.  I think the article would have come out in Scarlet Street around then.

I'm wondering whether it was BK who actually conducted that interview with us.


 
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 10:52:45 AM
DR John I could almost taste your cake with that wonderful description.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 10:56:58 AM
From DR John:

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I've started Stacy Abrams' latest romance thriller, Power of Persuasion.

I didn't realize, or remember, that she is also an author.  Have you read any of her other books?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:02:18 AM
DR George, thank for the map of your hike yesterday.  It looks like a loop that I would enjoy.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:02:51 AM
We figured that we walked just over 6 miles!  And a LOT of that was uphill! :P

Uphill is easier on the knees.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:03:07 AM
Here are a few pictures that I took.  First, a random moss-covered tree:

Pretty.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:03:23 AM
Here's the hat that I wore.  Two different people that we passed said that they liked it! ;D

Nice hat.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:03:37 AM
Here's a random shot of one of the rivers:

Lovely.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:04:10 AM
A big tree that fell (or was felled):

I remember when I used to walk across those.  No way would I do that today.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:04:27 AM
Here's David in between the cut pieces of an even BIGGER tree:

Nice photo.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:06:27 AM
And this is the road after going through the main trail system:

The Olympic National Forest is beautiful.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:26:42 AM
I didn't know about Seabrook.  Apparently, it's small, unincorporated town where everything was designed to look like a New England ocean town (or something like that).  I really only got this picture before my camera's battery died. ::)



Cool.  We have never been there.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:27:13 AM
We walked around the town a bit then decided to leave.  I didn't realize that the town was pretty much right on the ocean:

It is a lovely setting.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:28:26 AM
And now, I need to sleep.  I'm working bar/concessions for an event at South Puget Sound Community College and need to be there by noon-thirty.  Then, I'll come home.

Good night and good morning, all!

Thank you for sharing your day with us.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 11:29:52 AM
From DR John:

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I've started Stacy Abrams' latest romance thriller, Power of Persuasion.

I didn't realize, or remember, that she is also an author.  Have you read any of her other books?

I have read her thrillers, which are good. This is the first of her romance novels I have read. It’s effective. Not great, but entertaining.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 11:30:36 AM
Back to Godzilla.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 11:31:08 AM
J.B. got some shrimp today. He’s very happy.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:31:26 AM
I got tired just looking at DR GEORGE's map.

I took pictures of all the maps we came across where they said, "You Are Here."  I figured that posting eight or so of those would definitely be too much. ;)

Having those photos are good in case you get lost.  When I hiked the trails in Ashland often hikers would show me the photo of where they entered and ask how to get back to it.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:31:44 AM
I got tired just looking at DR GEORGE's map.
Yup. Me too.

;D

;D
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:32:32 AM
The pair of keets are singing a lot today.

I'm not sure if it is because of the sunshine or if it's because I am still home and they are not alone.

My guess is The Former.

Or both.
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Post by: MichaelG on March 02, 2025, 11:33:12 AM
DR MichaelG, did you say you're on to Othello next? Listening to a Met rebroadcast from 2015 right now.

Yes, DR singdaw, Otello is next with chorus rehearsals starting in just three weeks. Who's the Otello on the broadcast?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 11:33:14 AM
From DR John:

Quote
I've started Stacy Abrams' latest romance thriller, Power of Persuasion.

I didn't realize, or remember, that she is also an author.  Have you read any of her other books?

I have read her thrillers, which are good. This is the first of her romance novels I have read. It’s effective. Not great, but entertaining.

Thanks.  I put a hold on While Justice Sleeps.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 11:33:34 AM
Making Cajun deviled eggs. Hopefully they’ll be tasty.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 11:36:05 AM
Godzilla just set a block of buildings on fire. It looks like he’s standing with his back to the buildings. Or at least his feet are facing away from them. If so, his farts are a flaming terror.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 11:36:33 AM
Wasn’t that charming?
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Post by: vixmom on March 02, 2025, 11:36:58 AM
Wordle 1,352 4/6

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Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 12:09:35 PM
Godzilla just set a block of buildings on fire. It looks like he’s standing with his back to the buildings. Or at least his feet are facing away from them. If so, his farts are a flaming terror.

;D
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 12:09:54 PM
Wasn’t that charming?

It was unexpected :))
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 12:14:37 PM
J.B. got some shrimp today. He’s very happy.


:)

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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 12:16:32 PM
Godzilla just set a block of buildings on fire. It looks like he’s standing with his back to the buildings. Or at least his feet are facing away from them. If so, his farts are a flaming terror.


Was it Sondheim who wrote "Don't you love farts" - I think it was him.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 12:17:45 PM
One of the supplements is the Raymond Burr version, which adds footage and is 15 minutes shorter. I’ll give it a try.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 12:18:11 PM
Gratuitous post 101!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 12:35:32 PM
DR MichaelG, did you say you're on to Othello next? Listening to a Met rebroadcast from 2015 right now.

Whereas I am listening to and half-watching Erwartung. I just needed me some Erwartung.  :)
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 12:36:46 PM
DR MichaelG, did you say you're on to Othello next? Listening to a Met rebroadcast from 2015 right now.

Whereas I am listening to and half-watching Erwartung. I just needed me some Erwartung.  :)

A topical cream might help with that.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 12:38:44 PM
The Raymond Burr scenario is interesting. Sure, it’s the Great White Narrator here to frame the story from a white perspective, but the story is tighter, if less personal.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 12:45:41 PM
I might be here for some of the Oscar broadcast tonight, but only if I can stand to have it on. I have only morbid curiosity, not any actual interest. I've seen hardly anything new over the past year (I surely must be forgetting something?) and I wouldn't enter any horses in the race anyway.

I really want to avoid the extracurricular political, etc., nonsense. Not that it's truly nonsense, but my side or the other side, doesn't matter. I just don't want to hear it.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 12:46:47 PM
I also think it does absolutely zero good.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 12:48:34 PM

I really want to avoid the extracurricular political, etc., nonsense. Not that it's truly nonsense, but my side or the other side, doesn't matter. I just don't want to hear it.

I agree and really don't feel as if it belongs at award ceremonies.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 12:48:46 PM
I also think it does absolutely zero good.

Agreed.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 12:49:11 PM
It might actually do harm.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 01:03:13 PM
I'm up, I'm up - a bit over eight hours of sleep.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 01:03:23 PM
Weirdly weird dreams.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 01:04:04 PM
So, I can't find any seven-day free trials to watch the Oscars, so let's have full and detailed reportage, please.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:06:05 PM
The ending of the two Godzillas could not be more different. In the Japanese version, Tagaski Shimua warns the world of the dangers of nuclear experimentation. In the American version, we get a smug Raymond Burr saying nothing of value.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:06:47 PM
Weirdly weird dreams.

Of chicken-fried steak?
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:07:22 PM
French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak ...
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:07:48 PM
Not exactly Oscar Hammerstein's finest lyric.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:08:06 PM
It's time for a nap ...
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:08:21 PM
... And a page turn.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:08:29 PM
Onward!
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 01:08:36 PM
Five!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 01:27:31 PM
This has been teacart-from-hell day, beginning with the fact that Annabelle regards it as her personal property. This morning, while I cauight up on yesterday's posts and drank my coffee, she lay in the cart next to me. Later, when I began kitty cleanup, I had to fight her for the cart. I put the dirty cat dishes onto the top tier, while I retrieved their kibnble dishes from the bottom tier. As I was doing thta, Annabelle leaped onto the cart andll four paws in several dishes of uneaten kitty breakfast. She got off that cart pretty damn quick.     
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 01:34:35 PM
So, this afternoon around 1:00 Ann camne down to visit. Jen has been sick all week with the norovirus, and I'm a bit concerned with my possibility of catching it. So, we had a nice visit, Ann left just before 2:00, and I started preparing my dinner and the cats'. I took care of the cats, went back to my cooking and loaded up the cart withan almost empty 2-liter bottle of Classic Coke, a full glass of Coke, and a full plate of food. I pushed the cartout of the kitchen and one of the back wheels fell off, the cart tilted and was stopped from falling by my table, the glass fell over, spilliong Coke all over the cart and the floor. Because of the edge running around the tiers of the cart, nothing broke opr fell top the floor. And there I stood in a puddle of Classic coke, trying to hold a cart upright while I quickly as possible transferred everything on the cart to either the table or the floor.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 01:35:49 PM
Now, what the fat hell do I do? I wondered. First I went into the kitchen, grabbed a lot of paper towels, and spread them all over the spill. Then I sat down and ate my dinner.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 01:39:00 PM
Then, I turned the empty cart over to see about replacing the wheel. I went to the bathroom, got the mop, mopped the floor with clean water, sat on the floor and tried to screw the wheel back into its socket. Curiously, the top of the screw was not designed for any screwdriver known to man, so after several tries, I got the super glue and glued the sucker in. Thern I called Ann and asked her to help me.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 02, 2025, 01:43:20 PM
Ann came down, helped me gently right the cart, and while I put everything back into the various tiers of the cart, she helped me tidy up. Then . . . Annabelle - remember her? she thinks the cart is her property - decided to check out what we were doing to her cart. And she jumped onto the cart before she leaped onto the table into the remains of my dinner. While Ann and I finished up, Annabelle loudly scolded us. Luckily, this all could have been worse.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 01:47:46 PM
The ending of the two Godzillas could not be more different. In the Japanese version, Tagaski Shimua warns the world of the dangers of nuclear experimentation. In the American version, we get a smug Raymond Burr saying nothing of value.

;D
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:30:48 PM
  Who's the Otello on the broadcast?

I believe it was Aleksandrs Antonenko. The conductor was Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This was from about a month after his first Met opening night, with the same opera, in the fall of 2015.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:31:58 PM
  Was it Sondheim who wrote "Don't you love farts" - I think it was him. 

 :)
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:36:51 PM
How about two carts, DR elmore3003? One for you, and one for Annabelle.
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 02:37:27 PM
Don't you love carts?
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:38:06 PM
DR Freddie is on a roll this afternoon.      ;D
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:39:10 PM
The DH is playing another memorial service tomorrow. There's almost always a special music request. This time, it's Seal's song from one of the Batman movies.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:39:35 PM
I'm not a fan of this kind of music in a sacred space, but what do I know?
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:39:55 PM
I guess it's meaningful to the family.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:41:00 PM
A wise person once said, "No one attending will remember the inappropriate music, but if you tell the family no, they'll remember that forever."
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 02:41:25 PM
DR Freddie is on a roll this afternoon.      ;D

A rolling cart?

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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 02:41:35 PM
Or maybe a doily cart?
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 02:42:37 PM
A wise person once said, "No one attending will remember the inappropriate music, but if you tell the family no, they'll remember that forever."

That's pretty profound.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:43:52 PM
I've sung all kinds of inappropriate hideous things at wedding ceremonies.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:45:43 PM
I wonder if the person who put the cart before the horse used a rolling cart.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 02:54:31 PM
Hard to believe we SPRING AHEAD in less than a week.
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 02:55:36 PM
I wonder if the person who put the cart before the horse used a rolling cart.


:)


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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 03:05:21 PM
How about two carts, DR elmore3003? One for you, and one for Annabelle.

Or crinkle tin foil on the cart to discourage her from jumping on it.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 03:05:55 PM
A wise person once said, "No one attending will remember the inappropriate music, but if you tell the family no, they'll remember that forever."

True.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 03:07:07 PM
Jrand & Vixmom, Keith also got Wordle in four.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 03:07:21 PM
Hard to believe we SPRING AHEAD in less than a week.

In yet another week, St. Patrick's Day.

And I've got no excuse this time. I have that day off. Time to cook!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 03:07:58 PM
I don't even know what to say about Annabelle and the tea cart.

Annabelle and the Tea Cart. That's a children's story title if I ever heard one.

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Post by: ChasSmith on March 02, 2025, 03:08:14 PM
Thank the heavens for Ann!
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 03:17:29 PM
Indeed.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 03:34:58 PM
So, I can't find any seven-day free trials to watch the Oscars, so let's have full and detailed reportage, please.

I’m currently watching on Hulu, which I believe offers a 7 day free trial.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 03:35:20 PM
Will check back in later.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 03:35:30 PM
Page 6 !
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:37:16 PM
There's not a cloud in the...     Oh, wait.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7889.0;attach=25539)

Cute!  (And so's the picture. ;) )
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:37:57 PM
:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7889.0;attach=25541)

;D
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:39:20 PM
DR George, thank for the map of your hike yesterday.  It looks like a loop that I would enjoy.

You're welcome, Jane!
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:39:54 PM
Here's the hat that I wore.  Two different people that we passed said that they liked it! ;D

Nice hat.

Thanks, Jane.
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:40:46 PM
And now, I need to sleep.  I'm working bar/concessions for an event at South Puget Sound Community College and need to be there by noon-thirty.  Then, I'll come home.

Good night and good morning, all!

Thank you for sharing your day with us.

You're very welcome, Jane!
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:41:41 PM
Wordle 1,352 4/6

⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nice, Vixmom.
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:43:44 PM
DR MichaelG, did you say you're on to Othello next? Listening to a Met rebroadcast from 2015 right now.

Whereas I am listening to and half-watching Erwartung. I just needed me some Erwartung.  :)

Gesundheit!
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:44:58 PM
So, I can't find any seven-day free trials to watch the Oscars, so let's have full and detailed reportage, please.

I have no access to watching the Oscars, either. ::)
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 03:45:45 PM
An elephant family sleeping, photographed by a drone.
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:47:39 PM
This has been teacart-from-hell day, beginning with the fact that Annabelle regards it as her personal property. This morning, while I cauight up on yesterday's posts and drank my coffee, she lay in the cart next to me. Later, when I began kitty cleanup, I had to fight her for the cart. I put the dirty cat dishes onto the top tier, while I retrieved their kibnble dishes from the bottom tier. As I was doing thta, Annabelle leaped onto the cart andll four paws in several dishes of uneaten kitty breakfast. She got off that cart pretty damn quick.     

Oh, no!
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:47:50 PM
So, this afternoon around 1:00 Ann camne down to visit. Jen has been sick all week with the norovirus, and I'm a bit concerned with my possibility of catching it. So, we had a nice visit, Ann left just before 2:00, and I started preparing my dinner and the cats'. I took care of the cats, went back to my cooking and loaded up the cart withan almost empty 2-liter bottle of Classic Coke, a full glass of Coke, and a full plate of food. I pushed the cartout of the kitchen and one of the back wheels fell off, the cart tilted and was stopped from falling by my table, the glass fell over, spilliong Coke all over the cart and the floor. Because of the edge running around the tiers of the cart, nothing broke opr fell top the floor. And there I stood in a puddle of Classic coke, trying to hold a cart upright while I quickly as possible transferred everything on the cart to either the table or the floor.

Yikes! :o
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 03:48:05 PM
DR MichaelG, did you say you're on to Othello next? Listening to a Met rebroadcast from 2015 right now.

Whereas I am listening to and half-watching Erwartung. I just needed me some Erwartung.  :)

Gesundheit!


LOL!

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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 03:49:29 PM
They say Hulu has a free trial but I couldn't find it. However, interestingly, I had the Fubo app on the Firestick and apparently I did a one-month thing before cancelling - probably to watch the Tony Awards a few years ago. If I'm reading it correctly, they give Fubo free to former subscribers. In other words, I started watching the pre-show Oscars - signed up via the Firestick/Amazon. I went to my subscriptions to see if I could cancel after watching, but it doesn't show as a subscription. Fubo only has a long-expired cc on file so they couldn't charge that and if they charged my Amazon filed card it would show up immediately as a subscription. So, guess I can watch.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 03:50:00 PM
Meanwhile, some Ormandy Mendelssohn is in order.
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:50:42 PM
Hard to believe we SPRING AHEAD in less than a week.

I know, right??
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 03:50:45 PM
20 minutes to the Oscars!
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Post by: George on March 02, 2025, 03:52:29 PM
An elephant family sleeping, photographed by a drone.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7889.0;attach=25543)

That's beautiful.
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 03:52:42 PM
BK, do you remember the "Scarlet Street" magazine interview you arranged for Skip and me back when the LAST STARFIGHTER CD came out? 

And, were you the interviewer? 
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 03:52:48 PM
Oscars at five?
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 03:53:34 PM
I know I arranged it but I can't remember if I interviewed or not. I'm sure I have the issue somewhere, but where is anyone's guess.
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Post by: vixmom on March 02, 2025, 03:55:31 PM
Godzilla just set a block of buildings on fire. It looks like he’s standing with his back to the buildings. Or at least his feet are facing away from them. If so, his farts are a flaming terror.


Was it Sondheim who wrote "Don't you love farts" - I think it was him.


:D
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Post by: Freddie on March 02, 2025, 04:00:47 PM
Oscars at five?


4 pm on the West Coast, 7 pm East coast
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 04:02:35 PM
There was an interview with Keiran Culkin. I had to explain to the DH that the "A Real Pain" chyron was the name of his movie, and not an editorial comment.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 04:08:13 PM
Ariana is doing Venus on the half-shell.
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Post by: Ginny on March 02, 2025, 04:17:00 PM
Sunday evening greetings!  Couldn’t miss Oscar night at HHW.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:27:51 PM
FOUR???
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:28:08 PM
First it was six. Then five. Now FOUR???
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:28:15 PM
Ridic.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:28:45 PM
Well, can't watch it - Fubo tried to charge the expired card 100 bucks. Didn't work.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:28:56 PM
So, is no one watching???
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:29:03 PM
We need reportage.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 04:35:19 PM
Hard to believe we SPRING AHEAD in less than a week.

I know, right??

I am not looking forward to springing ahead.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:41:34 PM
First off, what is that contraption that Ariana Grande is wearing. I saw a photograph.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:41:50 PM
Not a single person is watching this???
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:52:59 PM
Can someone please explain to me in easy to understand English why not one single person is watching the Oscars???
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:53:05 PM
I don't get it.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:53:26 PM
I cannot recall even the worst year where we haven't had reportage.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:57:04 PM
If I'm reading correctly, only one award has been handed out in the first forty MINUTES of the show, just five minutes ago. Supporting actor. Culkin.
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Post by: vixmom on March 02, 2025, 04:58:05 PM
I missed the whole thing so far
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:58:05 PM
Where the HELL is Jrand? Where the HELL is Rodzinski? Where the HELL is Freddie? I know elmore doesn't watch and George can't. But where the HELL is everyone else?
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Post by: Ginny on March 02, 2025, 04:58:20 PM
Yes, that’s right, BK.  I’m watching, but you’re not missing much.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:58:37 PM
Where the HELL is Jane?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: vixmom on March 02, 2025, 04:58:38 PM
Been cooking dinner thought it started at 8
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:58:54 PM
We need REPORTAGE!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:59:15 PM
How was the opening? How is Conan? What music has been performed?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 04:59:47 PM
What is that contraption Ariana Grande is wearing and does she even weigh eighty pounds?
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:02:17 PM
Not a single person is watching this???

I'm not.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:02:43 PM
Can someone please explain to me in easy to understand English why not one single person is watching the Oscars???

I haven't watched them in years.
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Post by: Ginny on March 02, 2025, 05:05:51 PM
How was the opening? How is Conan? What music has been performed?

Show opened with a nice tribute to LA, then Cynthia and Ariana sang a medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz, Wicked, and The Wiz.  Once Conan appeared it was all downhill.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:06:57 PM
Yes, that’s right, BK.  I’m watching, but you’re not missing much.

;D
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:07:29 PM
Where the HELL is Jane?

Again, I haven't watched it in years and rarely comment. 
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:08:06 PM
I will likely look at photos of what people wore.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:08:33 PM
Three awards given in the first hour. Gonna be a long evening.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:08:47 PM
In honor of the Oscars we will watch A Complete Unknown tonight.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:08:51 PM
I'm sorry, but I cannot even look at Cynthia Erivo.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:09:20 PM
Really surprised at the absence of Jrand.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:09:26 PM
A first.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:10:55 PM
Guess I may watch a movie at some point. Right now, Mr. Ormandy and the wonderful Philippe Entremont are doing the amazing Ravel Piano Concerto and then Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain or whatever it's called.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:11:06 PM
Enter page eight!
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:11:25 PM
I had Panda Express for food.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:11:50 PM
I have a small thing of ice cream on its way and that should be it for this evening's food intake.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:12:10 PM
I may watch the Culkin movie everyone seems to love so much.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Ginny on March 02, 2025, 05:13:27 PM
Paul Tazewell, Costumes, Wicked.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:13:59 PM
The only nominated films I have seen are Conclave & Dune 2.
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Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:15:09 PM
I would like to see both A Real Pain and The Brutalist.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Ginny on March 02, 2025, 05:15:28 PM
I’ve only seen Conclave and Wicked.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:20:30 PM
I've seen about ten or twelve movies from last year. Two of my favorites have, between them, received a single nomination.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:20:50 PM
I cannot stomach Conan O'Brien. Forever.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:21:21 PM
The Ravel piano concerto is one of the most beautiful things ever.
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Post by: MichaelG on March 02, 2025, 05:31:27 PM
All I've seen from this year's nominated movies is Wicked, so I'm not watching this year either.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:32:03 PM
Conclave, a terrific movie, won best adapted screenplay.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:32:34 PM
Anora, a movie I really did not like, won for original screenplay over much better material.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:32:57 PM
Costume design went to Wicked, which was expected.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:34:36 PM
The ice cream that should have been here twenty minutes ago, still isn't here because DoorDash had the driver deliver two other orders. Apparently, they don't seem to comprehend that ICE CREAM melts if it's not delivered in a timely fashion. I will, of course, get a full refund and reorder if that's how it shows  up.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:35:53 PM
And it indeed is a puddle.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:39:15 PM
Conclave, a terrific movie, won best adapted screenplay.

Good.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:40:07 PM
The ice cream that should have been here twenty minutes ago, still isn't here because DoorDash had the driver deliver two other orders. Apparently, they don't seem to comprehend that ICE CREAM melts if it's not delivered in a timely fashion. I will, of course, get a full refund and reorder if that's how it shows  up.

I would expect there would be an ice chest to keep it cold.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 05:40:19 PM
And it indeed is a puddle.

I guess not ;D
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:42:33 PM
Refund done.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 05:43:26 PM
This is the dreariest Oscar Bash in HHW history.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 06:09:28 PM
Sorry. We are taping it and have reverted back to the Bob Mackie documentary.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 06:12:25 PM
I've seen about ten or twelve movies from last year. Two of my favorites have, between them, received a single nomination.

Are you referring to September 5 that you complained no one watched?
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: Jane on March 02, 2025, 06:13:00 PM
September 5 might have been a great story.  I too did not watch it as I couldn't get past the hand held camera.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:25:06 PM
The Ravel piano concerto is one of the most beautiful things ever.

Yes, it is.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:26:00 PM
Just home from Bible study.
Title: Re: ACT TWO - ASSEMBLED
Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:26:48 PM
In this episode of Succession, Cherry Jones and Holly Hunter guest star.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:27:10 PM
It ain’t the Oscars.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:27:19 PM
Nine!
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:36:07 PM
I love the song Home. Sadly they truncated it.

https://youtu.be/In-GXkhzFNM?si=7BUvcKKEqK6PRycB
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 06:36:49 PM
Good evening!
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 06:37:16 PM
Wordle 1,352 5/6

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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:39:35 PM
Glad The Substance won for makeup. Truly worthy.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:40:38 PM
Kieran Culkin deserved his Oscar.
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 06:41:04 PM
So far no surprises at the Oscars
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 06:43:30 PM
I thought that Conan's line was pretty funny:  In Europe they're known as "Kilometers" and "Kilometry,"  Here they are--Miles Teller and Miley Cyrus.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 06:51:18 PM
I was rather surprised by Flow winning. I had read a lot lately about The Wild Robot.
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 06:58:10 PM
Nice tribute to Gene Hackman by Morgan Freeman.
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 06:58:35 PM
Richard Sherman in the "In Memoriam" tribute
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:04:44 PM
So far no surprises at the Oscars

None at all.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:05:22 PM
They finally did a good job with the “In Memoriam” segment.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:05:49 PM
Really liked seeing so many views of the orchestra and conductor.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:06:27 PM
Fell asleep trying to watch a movie.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:06:44 PM
Back to watching.

Good job so far, in my opinion.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:06:48 PM
Wicked is only winning in the obvious categories.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:23:17 PM
And everyone left? Wacky. I mean HHW.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:23:34 PM
Three hours and ten minutes in - with all the major awards left.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:24:29 PM
I'd love to remember how many pages we were last year even. I think big mistake starting at four, but then I thought that about five.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:24:30 PM
I’m Still Here won for Best International Film.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:24:49 PM
I’m Still Here for foreign language film.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:24:58 PM
Listening to the two Prokofiev violin concertos.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:25:39 PM
It’s playing at local theaters. I may see it this week.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:26:53 PM
Best Actor is quite a contest this year.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:27:48 PM
Most other categories are rather predictable.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:28:56 PM
Wasn't so hot last year either - fifteen pages.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 07:29:22 PM
Just so unusual with no-shows from Jrand and George (even if he couldn't watch).
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:34:38 PM
Enjoyed seeing Goldie Hawn and Daryl Hannah again.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 07:35:18 PM
As well as Mick Jagger and Halle Berry.

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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:42:28 PM
Adrian Brody for actor.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:42:37 PM
Ten!
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:45:17 PM
Lost of films winning two awards each.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:50:11 PM
Sean Baker for director.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:50:32 PM
I guess it’s Anora’s night.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:50:48 PM
He’s won three so far.
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Post by: Laura on March 02, 2025, 07:51:35 PM
Good evening.
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 07:52:26 PM
An upset!
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Post by: KevinH on March 02, 2025, 07:52:37 PM
Mikey Madison for Anora
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 07:52:46 PM
 :)
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Post by: Laura on March 02, 2025, 07:52:50 PM
The DH is playing another memorial service tomorrow. There's almost always a special music request. This time, it's Seal's song from one of the Batman movies.

I attended a funeral once where they played "My Dog Thinks I'm Elvis."
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 07:53:15 PM
Good night, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on March 02, 2025, 07:53:21 PM
And others.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 07:54:46 PM
Baker is the only person to win three Oscars for the same movie. Disney is the only other person to win three in one night, but they were for different movies.
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Post by: Laura on March 02, 2025, 07:56:10 PM
Can someone please explain to me in easy to understand English why not one single person is watching the Oscars???

I was trying to book travel arrangements. Very frustrating.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:01:52 PM
Anora it is.
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Post by: vixmom on March 02, 2025, 08:02:02 PM
Anita fir best picture
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:08:19 PM
Hulu cut off its livestream before Best Actress and Best Picture.

Infuriating.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:08:54 PM
Anora will be released on Criterion at the end of April.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:09:12 PM
Very surprised that Demi Moore didn’t win.

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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:10:38 PM
The only film that I watched was A Real Pain, which I thought was excellent.

Kieran Culkin deserved his Oscar.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:11:19 PM
The only film that I watched was A Real Pain, which I thought was excellent.

Kieran Culkin deserved his Oscar.

Exactly.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:11:58 PM
Would like to see The Brutalist and I’m Still Here.

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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:12:02 PM
I also liked Conclave. Glad it got the adapted screenplay award.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:13:15 PM
Too bad Harrison Ford had to cancel tonight.

Would have been fun to see him reunite with Mark Hamill.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:16:35 PM
Oh, that was never planned.

“Shortly after Ford's announcement that he would not present Sunday, his "Star Wars" co-star Mark Hamill was announced as a presenter in the ceremony.”
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:16:40 PM
Shingles ain’t nothing to play around with.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:17:38 PM
Good night, all.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:19:15 PM
Where the HELL is Jrand? Where the HELL is Rodzinski? Where the HELL is Freddie? I know elmore doesn't watch and George can't. But where the HELL is everyone else?

I don’t have TV, brother!
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 08:20:17 PM
I also liked Conclave. Glad it got the adapted screenplay award.

That’s the other film I plan to see.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:24:02 PM
Must look up Conclave.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:24:13 PM
11!
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:25:08 PM
I saw Wicked, which meh.
I saw Wild Robot.

I didn’t see anything else that wasn’t for small children.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:27:34 PM
I interviewed Colman Domingo once. That would’ve been mildly more impressive if he won. A nice fellow, as I recall.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:35:16 PM
I interviewed Colman Domingo once. That would’ve been mildly more impressive if he won. A nice fellow, as I recall.

Loved his red and black tux.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:36:31 PM
Still watching Succession. Up to episode seven. Season two is good but it just feels a lot longer than the first season.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:37:28 PM
Season 2 congeals into something quite intriguing by the end.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:37:37 PM
As I recall.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 02, 2025, 08:38:12 PM
That show, I mainly enjoyed watching the acting.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 08:39:48 PM
That show, I mainly enjoyed watching the acting.

Yes. The acting is amazing.
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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 09:01:31 PM
Dewey defeats Truman!

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Post by: John G. on March 02, 2025, 09:07:24 PM
Good night, all.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 09:31:02 PM
I would have chosen Ralph Fiennes over Brody - he was good but got on my nerves after three and a half hours.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 09:33:09 PM
Anora was very irritating - had a few moments. The lead gal did give her all, I suppose.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 09:33:33 PM
Wicked did not fare well at all - three obvious tech wins and that was it.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 10:51:43 PM
BK, did you feel an earthquake tonight?

Reported a few minutes ago…magnitude 3.7, near Burbank.
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Post by: DR Iris on March 02, 2025, 10:54:28 PM
DR George, lovely photos of your hike.
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Post by: bk on March 02, 2025, 11:15:39 PM
Yes, one very short but scary jolt. No shaking, just a big ol' jolt.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:08:47 AM
No postings in forty-five minutes.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:09:15 AM
No George, who has been absent for most of the day and evening.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:09:38 AM
Such are the way of things.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:09:50 AM
New notes are written.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:10:14 AM
And here we are.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:10:29 AM
Our worst Oscar Bash EVER.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:10:52 AM
I didn't think it would be possible to beat last year, but we did and handily.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:11:18 AM
Sad.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:11:43 AM
Sad. Sad. Sad. What am I, Edward Albee all of a sudden?
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:12:07 AM
Who's Afraid of B and K?
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:12:15 AM
What a dump.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:12:35 AM
I guess George is just gonna wait until after midnight to post.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:12:44 AM
Such are the way of things.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:12:52 AM
Enter page twelve.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:13:11 AM
Oh, George was HERE and then left with nary a post.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:13:25 AM
I think he's got some 'splainin' to do.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:15:26 AM
New notes are up.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:15:32 AM
Up are new notes.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:15:39 AM
I've seen them.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:15:45 AM
I've read them.
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Post by: bk on March 03, 2025, 12:15:51 AM
I wrote them.