Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 30, 2026, 12:03:27 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were in a nutshell for some reason, and now it is time for you to post until the nutty cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PREEMINENT!
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Something is seriously wrong with the home page for the notes. I've alerted the media - or maybe it's just me.
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And now - all the avatars are gone.
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Good morning, all.
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I’m subbing for a high school health teacher today.
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Good morning, all!
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I am feeling under the weather this morning. Yesterday afternoon and evening were poor health periods for both Stella and me.
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I may do kitty cleanup and then go back to bed.
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Good morning, all.
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This morning I've got to go down to the road and see if I can chip away and clear any of the massive snow piled up around the mailboxes. Two of us whose mailboxes are on the same pole (I'll take a picture) are not getting mail delivered because the USPS driver can longer reach the boxes from across the snow bank.
Anyone got a flame thrower I can borrow?
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I’m subbing for a high school health teacher today.
Does that mean sex education?
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
For my eyes, "live" b&w just doesn't quite work. There's too much color in real life, what with our own flesh tones, the colors inherent in lighting, etc., and the illusion is never complete.
I was involved in such a production in, let's see, 2013. My recently retired director friend had been coerced into doing Adrift in Macao in place of something else, I forget the circumstances now. He had already taught the cast their music and at the last minute brought me in to play/conduct the 5-piece band, which was nice. We enjoyed much of the music and craziness of the show, but it was a flop in that they never were able to entice an audience to attend. Anyway, he staged it "in b&w" in view of its noir-ish setting, and the conceit only worked to a certain extent. It never really became believable, and it was a distraction when you'd remember - oh yeah, that's what they're doing here. Hopefully a more professional venue can do better than this place did, but I have me doubts.
Bottom line, Adrift could probably have used all the gimmicky help it could get. Wait Until Dark only needs fine actors and a director (and theeder) who follow the stage directions to the letter. It's one of those perfect pieces that only needs to be done right.
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Whoa. I'm just remembering that I saw a different local theeder do a noir-ish play "in b&w" only a year ago...and that one (in this regard) was a TOTAL fail.
Disclaimer: I wasn't in the mood to see it in the first place, but I kind of had to. And I didn't end up liking the casting or the play itself much, anyway. And, get this -- it took me a good long while to even discern that it was, in fact, supposed to be "b&w". To their credit, they didn't make that a selling point. It was done in support of the material, to hopefully enhance audience appreciation, perhaps subliminally. But from Row 3, Center, the set and costumes did nothing to say "oooh, look, it's in Black & White" to this viewer.
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Condolences to DR JOHN G - health teacher - on the loss of his friend.
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DR JANE Dennis the Smart Car didn't start yesterday - so if I go out I will drive Petey the PT Cruiser because it did!
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John G, condolences on the loss of your friend.
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I'm up, I'm up - five hours of lousy sleep thanks to cramping calves, runny nose.
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Notes page is fixed. Other issues still being worked on.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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I am very sorry about your sad news, DR John G.
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The Return of the Avatars..... I'd watch that movie! :)
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The Return of the Avatars..... I'd watch that movie! :)
I dunno ... sounds scary.
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I have been involved with two "monochrome" productions, a conceit that thrives in university and amateur productions, but I find them ridiculous since (a), a DR ChasSmith pointed out, life is too full of color and (b) the scenery, costumes and props may be in shades of black, white, and gray, but what the fat hell do you do about skin tones?
I've only seen it work once: the Broadway production of The City of Angels.
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I’m subbing for a high school health teacher today.
Does that mean sex education?
Thank goodness, no. I don’t need a continuing education class from them.
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I have been involved with rwo "monochrome" productions, a conceit that thrives in university and amateur productions, but I find them ridiculous since (a), a DR ChasSmith pointed out, life is too full of color and (b) the scenery, costumes and props may be in shades of black, white, and gray, but what the fat hell do you do about skin tones?
I've only seen it work once: the Broadway production of The City of Angels.
I suffered through a horrible production of Kaufman and Hart’s Once in a Lifetime that was overstylized and monochromatic. There wasn’t a single joke in the evening.
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Class is doing their work.
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Onward
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Two!
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I have a DVD of specials Lucille Ball filmed while doing I Love Lucy. I will watch those this weekend, if i have time.
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I’m subbing for a high school health teacher today.
Does that mean sex education?
Thank goodness, no. I don’t need a continuing education class from them.
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That sounds like fun DR JOHN G
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Drove the PT to Walgreens and got my prescription and spent my Humana OTC benefit.
Got some multi vitamins, Brain Booster capsules, 5000 mg B12 pills - by one get one free - and some razors.....
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Got home safely.....lots of stacked snow on the side of the road.
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Brain Booster capsules
We'll get back to you on whether we notice they're working. ;)
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Class is doing their work.
Show me on this doll where...
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This is so weird...
I glance up at my HHW tab and I'm not even sure if I'm logged in without avatars (including my own) showing. :)
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From DR Kevin,
Good to hear that Craig can drive his car. As for me, there is so much snow and ice behind my car (it looks like more than there was the other day) that it's pretty hopeless.
He started his attack on the ice with a hammer. I wish he had taken a before photo. If the mainentance crew hadn't lent him the metal shovel he might still be out there hammering away ;D
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Craig watched videos of areas that were not drivable, or walkable. He is lucky that he lives in a busy area that was cleared.
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Kevin, Lyft is a good idea.
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Kevin, you are welcome and good on your Wordle score yesterday.
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DR John, I am sorry for the loss of your friend.
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From George,
But this is a good thing to participate in:
No work, no school, no shopping: A general strike to protest ICE is attempting to go national
If you're able, this is happening tomorrow. Being retired makes it very easy to participate. ;)
When work is closed due to ice it too makes it easy to participate. Otherwise, I really can't imagine participating when the children have already missed a lot of school.
Same goes for Bryan, can't imagine him leaving people stranded in the ER. At least he isn't scheduled for today.
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Something is seriously wrong with the home page for the notes. I've alerted the media - or maybe it's just me.
It is fine now.
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Bruce, I hope you feel good about your appointment today.
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Very good.
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I’m subbing for a high school health teacher today.
Enjoy the class.
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This morning I've got to go down to the road and see if I can chip away and clear any of the massive snow piled up around the mailboxes. Two of us whose mailboxes are on the same pole (I'll take a picture) are not getting mail delivered because the USPS driver can longer reach the boxes from across the snow bank.
Anyone got a flame thrower I can borrow?
Oh no!
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
I don't see a photo. Where is it?
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The red doll sounds creepy.
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DR JANE Dennis the Smart Car didn't start yesterday - so if I go out I will drive Petey the PT Cruiser because it did!
I only wanted to know which car you prefer to drive, not which car you are able to drive in this weather ;)
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This morning I've got to go down to the road and see if I can chip away and clear any of the massive snow piled up around the mailboxes. Two of us whose mailboxes are on the same pole (I'll take a picture) are not getting mail delivered because the USPS driver can longer reach the boxes from across the snow bank.
Anyone got a flame thrower I can borrow?
Oh no!
Fortunately, I was just told that someone did chip away at it and it looks like the mailboxes are reachable from the USPS truck now.
Happy to hear that, but sad that I didn't get the picture of it! :)
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
I don't see a photo. Where is it?
It was last night. I didn't go back to it when I was posting that.
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Catherine O’Hara of SCTV and Schitt’s Creek has died.
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Oh no! That is truly a shock. What the HELL!?
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Catherine O’Hara of SCTV and Schitt’s Creek has died.
:(
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I’m subbing for a high school health teacher today.
Hope you have a roomful of good students, John.
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I am feeling under the weather this morning. Yesterday afternoon and evening were poor health periods for both Stella and me.
Hope you and Stella both feel better quickly, Larry!
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t h r e e ! ! !
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
For my eyes, "live" b&w just doesn't quite work. There's too much color in real life, what with our own flesh tones, the colors inherent in lighting, etc., and the illusion is never complete.
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I saw a summer stock production of City of Angels in the early 2000s and that was done really well. The changes from color to b&w and back were done very quickly and really cool.
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I have been involved with two "monochrome" productions, a conceit that thrives in university and amateur productions, but I find them ridiculous since (a), a DR ChasSmith pointed out, life is too full of color and (b) the scenery, costumes and props may be in shades of black, white, and gray, but what the fat hell do you do about skin tones?
I've only seen it work once: the Broadway production of The City of Angels.
And I also love the score. ;D
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I have a DVD of specials Lucille Ball filmed while doing I Love Lucy. I will watch those this weekend, if i have time.
Very cool!
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Very good.
Thanks, Jane.
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
I don't see a photo. Where is it?
It was the last post of yesterday's posts before BK locked the day.
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This morning I've got to go down to the road and see if I can chip away and clear any of the massive snow piled up around the mailboxes. Two of us whose mailboxes are on the same pole (I'll take a picture) are not getting mail delivered because the USPS driver can longer reach the boxes from across the snow bank.
Anyone got a flame thrower I can borrow?
Oh no!
Fortunately, I was just told that someone did chip away at it and it looks like the mailboxes are reachable from the USPS truck now.
Happy to hear that, but sad that I didn't get the picture of it! :)
Whew!
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Catherine O’Hara of SCTV and Schitt’s Creek has died.
What?? Oh, no! :(
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Nathan came home for something earlier and told me someone had knocked a bunch of the snow away from the mailboxes, but they pushed all the debris into the entrance of our driveway. So, one problem solved, another created. I went down with a shovel and spent about half an hour shovel-plowing it out of the way as best I could. I didn't get a "before" picture of the mailboxes, but you probably imagine from this...
Well, never mind.
The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.
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I guess the other pictures posted thus far aren't uploads, right? I'll wait till this is all behind us, then ketchup on stuff like that.
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This morning I've got to go down to the road and see if I can chip away and clear any of the massive snow piled up around the mailboxes. Two of us whose mailboxes are on the same pole (I'll take a picture) are not getting mail delivered because the USPS driver can longer reach the boxes from across the snow bank.
Anyone got a flame thrower I can borrow?
Oh no!
Fortunately, I was just told that someone did chip away at it and it looks like the mailboxes are reachable from the USPS truck now.
Happy to hear that, but sad that I didn't get the picture of it! :)
Lucky you that someone else did it :)
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Catherine O’Hara of SCTV and Schitt’s Creek has died.
I just read that and was reading the posts before mentioning the sad news.
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All I read is that she died after a brief illness. She was only 71 :(
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Good afternoon.
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Sorry about your friend, John.
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I hope Elmore and Stella are feeling better by now.
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It's a beautiful day here. I took a nice long walk with my camera. I haven't taken my camera for a walk in a long time.
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
I don't see a photo. Where is it?
It was the last post of yesterday's posts before BK locked the day.
I saw that very blue photo, plus it looks nothing like what I think Wait Until Dark should look like.
George, you really should watch the movie.
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Nathan came home for something earlier and told me someone had knocked a bunch of the snow away from the mailboxes, but they pushed all the debris into the entrance of our driveway. So, one problem solved, another created. I went down with a shovel and spent about half an hour shovel-plowing it out of the way as best I could. I didn't get a "before" picture of the mailboxes, but you probably imagine from this...
Well, never mind.
The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.
Great, mailboxes cleared yet your driveway clear was more work than the mailbox would have been.
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
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It's a beautiful day here. I took a nice long walk with my camera. I haven't taken my camera for a walk in a long time.
Lovely.
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
Because he’s George.
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The rest of us are mere mortals.
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Good afternoon, all.
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TOD: Lucinda Williams' new album World Gone Wrong, a true protest album for these times:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6VKwWexYJaTVCXbJVa-20Q1x5mXf5v1M
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In scanning the programs for my college musicals, I discovered that I was in my first show there with my third cousin! He was a senior, playing a villager in Fiddler on the Roof, while I was a freshman in the pit playing second trumpet. We didn't know we were distantly related back then.
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In my last show with that group, The Threepenny Opera, we got a rave review from the college paper. A year later, Opera Company of Boston performed it. The same reviewer panned that production and said ours was much better! Given the simultaneous pan from The Boston Globe, I suspect he was right.
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
Because he’s George.
Very true :)
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Let’s move on …
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In one
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Four!
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Has anyone heard Jimmie Herrod’s new Sondheim album, Pretty Is What Changes? First impressions were not good.
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Doctor was fine. He's going to take me off Mestinon - first down to one a day, then off, then we'll monitor, but getting off that will probably take care of the cramping crap.
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Had two hot dogs for food.
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Futzed and finessed.
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Wrote a page.
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I just have to finish this damn chapter, then it's straight onto the end and I know everything that happens from that point on.
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Pension did hit today.
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Catharine O’Hara. Such a talent.
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I feel like I read a crazy fact once that she had a rare condition where her organs were mirrored. Like identical halves. I don’t know why that’s in my brain.
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Wait, they didn’t even use grey makeup on the Wait Until Dark actors’ skin? Error.
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On a recent episode of LegoMasters Australia, the host and judge were both greyscaled. They used grey makeup and it was a good effect. You could only see a little red in the corners of their eyes or in their mouths when they spoke.
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The original Broadway production of Chess.
https://youtu.be/MZ2_6LTr4tI?si=eYnsUD-6T_IcDXxL
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Catharine O’Hara. Such a talent.
One of my favorite SCTV sketches had her was as Lucy immobile in a chair while the chorus boys did leaps over her. Occasionally she would belch out the word “Mame” about three octaves lower than anyone else. It captured the dreadful nature of that movie perfectly.
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The original Broadway production of Chess.
https://youtu.be/MZ2_6LTr4tI?si=eYnsUD-6T_IcDXxL
Ooh, Thanks for that link!
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Good medicine and doctor news from MR BK.
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LOL Thanks DR SINGDAW I look forward to the comments. I will let you know when the regimen begins.
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Friday!
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All Day!
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Sad news about Catherine O'Hara.
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Doctor was fine. He's going to take me off Mestinon - first down to one a day, then off, then we'll monitor, but getting off that will probably take care of the cramping crap.
Vibes the cramping stops. If reducing solves the cramping issue you still continue to get off of it or just stay at the lower dosage?
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Pension did hit today.
Yay.
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Catharine O’Hara. Such a talent.
Yes. IMDB has a "trailer" of her in different roles I enjoyed watching.
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I feel like I read a crazy fact once that she had a rare condition where her organs were mirrored. Like identical halves. I don’t know why that’s in my brain.
Keith mentioned it after reading about her. I also saw it mentioned on IMDB.
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Catharine O’Hara. Such a talent.
One of my favorite SCTV sketches had her was as Lucy immobile in a chair while the chorus boys did leaps over her. Occasionally she would belch out the word “Mame” about three octaves lower than anyone else. It captured the dreadful nature of that movie perfectly.
;D
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Keith got Wordle in four.
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I've seen a number of small business state their reasons for staying open today while supporting the sentiments against ICE.
I understand the need to stay open, supporting their employees by giving them work.
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I feel like I read a crazy fact once that she had a rare condition where her organs were mirrored. Like identical halves. I don’t know why that’s in my brain.
Keith mentioned it after reading about her. I also saw it mentioned on IMDB.
I did confirm this. Her organs were on opposite sides they would be on most people.
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Situs inversus, it’s called.
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Good evening!
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Sorry to hear of the loss of your friend, DR JohnG
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Very good, DR George!
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Keith got Wordle in four.
Very good!
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I had a "Phew" Wordle day: 6/6
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Thanks, DRs George and Jane!
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I took an Uber to the AMC and saw two movies: "Send Help" and "A Private Life" and enjoyed both.
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So sorry to hear about Catherine O'Hara. She was so funny.
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Done about six pages so far. Heading towards the end of an important chapter - maybe another two or three pages to get there, and then I'll be inches away from page 200.
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Need a break now.
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Page FIVE?
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Again?
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Took the break and dozed right off but thankfully only for an hour.
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Then I'd thought of a good sentence, so went back to writing, finished the important chapter and passed page 200. Twelve pages today and maybe one or two more. And then, it's the last forty pages or so.
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DR George, thanks for posting the picture of the b&w Wait Until Dark.
I don't see a photo. Where is it?
It was the last post of yesterday's posts before BK locked the day.
I saw that very blue photo, plus it looks nothing like what I think Wait Until Dark should look like.
George, you really should watch the movie.
I just placed a hold on it at the library.
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
I hyperlinked it directly from Harlequin's website. I didn't upload it to the HHW photo server.
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
Because he’s George.
There are ways. ;)
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
Because he’s George.
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The rest of us are mere mortals.
;D
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TOD: Lucinda Williams' new album World Gone Wrong, a true protest album for these times:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6VKwWexYJaTVCXbJVa-20Q1x5mXf5v1M
Good.
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In scanning the programs for my college musicals, I discovered that I was in my first show there with my third cousin! He was a senior, playing a villager in Fiddler on the Roof, while I was a freshman in the pit playing second trumpet. We didn't know we were distantly related back then.
Very cool!
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In my last show with that group, The Threepenny Opera, we got a rave review from the college paper. A year later, Opera Company of Boston performed it. The same reviewer panned that production and said ours was much better! Given the simultaneous pan from The Boston Globe, I suspect he was right.
That's great, Michael!
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George, why were you able to post a photo?
Because he’s George.
Very true :)
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Has anyone heard Jimmie Herrod’s new Sondheim album, Pretty Is What Changes? First impressions were not good.
I've never heard of him, but here's his take on "Kiss Me" from Sweeney Todd:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4InDa3Om-Jk (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4InDa3Om-Jk)
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And here's "Any Moment" from Into the Woods. This is a live video performance from November 2024:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQ5lvLbGaY (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQ5lvLbGaY)
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Doctor was fine. He's going to take me off Mestinon - first down to one a day, then off, then we'll monitor, but getting off that will probably take care of the cramping crap.
~~~Vibes It All Works!!~~~
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Pension did hit today.
Yay! I get my retirement deposit the last working day of the month, too.
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Wait, they didn’t even use grey makeup on the Wait Until Dark actors’ skin? Error.
Nope...just costumes and set