I saw on the weather today that DR Laura may have temperatures as high as 105. Ugh. I don't care if it's a dry heat. Hell is Hell ;)
No offense Laura ;D
Oh, a nice cool day! That'll be great!
A couple of days ago it was 112F.
I had a strange dream last night.
It sort of hinged upon the Disney Princesses, but had to do with their princes.
They were thinking of forming an a capella quartet. Beast was the obvious choice for singing base. Ariel's Eric bowed out, since he's a flute player, not a singer. Snow White's Prince was the obvious high tenor. But then the arguing started. Cinderella's Charming, Aurora's Phillip, and Jasmine's Aladdin couldn't work out among themselves which were the best choices for being in the quartet, and who would sing what parts. They couldn't agree to try being a quintet.
Sad, how things get ugly. Whoda thunk this group would have testosterone problems.
I have to disagree with DR Jose. Heading to the store on a nightly basis is the best way to make sure you get the freshest veggies, and that you're eating what you truly want to eat. The trick is to limit yourself to buying what you need for now (with the exception of staples) and not to stock up on junk. I rarely plan dinner ahead for even a day ahead. And cook fresh food, not that pre-packaged stuff.
And, whenever I get really sick and tired of my own cooking, that's when I get der Brucer to take me out to dinner. Which is a good thing to do every once in a while, since there are no distractions and we have very lovely conversations at those times.
At this point, we should just book the vacation, right?
...Of course, that all depends on the store and how they stock and re-stock their shelves.OK, I've got the advantage, working at the store. I can see what is being restocked, and if I haven't actually been watching what's going on, I can ask Jack or Michael or Larry in produce, or Bill and Gregory over in the meat department. (I'd ask Albert in meats, but for a department head he doesn't seem to know as much as the other guys. He didn't even know what the word charcuterie (http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/c/c0247700.html) means, which I'd have thought he would have known.)
OK... Time to head out into the rain, and down to Ripley-Grier to play for a room full of sweaty, male tap dancers. Ah, such is the life that I lead lately.
;)
Laters...
DR MattH I am very interested to find out when THE CLOSER starts here. I'm hoping soon. BUt I can't see anything on the Global tv online site right now. :(
Did you get the first season or have you not seen it at all?
ROCKAPELLA
I'm feeling a bit queasy this morning - don't know why.
That's for you, Vixmom
I want everyone to go over to their CD storage areas, retrieve the handiest recording "Mary Poppins" you have (be it CD, LP, cassette or some video forma), and then cue up "Jolly Holiday."
Wel could all use a "Jolly Holiday"!
AUGH-H-H-H-H-H!!!!
Hmmm , my handiest recording of Mary Poppoinms would be the original LP I got when I was 9? 10? Stored somewhere in the basemen..[scarypartsdeleted]
Oh, FIE!
The vixter should be getting daily doses of "Mary Poppins".
At the moment she has been listening to ... Beauty and the Beast (Broadway cast recording) while daily questioning the estimated delivery of "her" Man of LaMancha and Lestat cast recordings (since the latter two have yet to be ordered the response is "eventually")
I guess she knows that Anthony is in B&TB and he begins previews tonight. They officially open Friday, June 9 after two previews (today and tomorrow) and he has to do two shows on his birthday, Saturday, June 10.
Re my stovetop: I accepted a $65 credit and the difference between the too-small hood I bought and the larger one they will install next week.
I had a strange dream last night.
It sort of hinged upon the Disney Princesses, but had to do with their princes.
They were thinking of forming an a capella quartet. Beast was the obvious choice for singing base. Ariel's Eric bowed out, since he's a flute player, not a singer. Snow White's Prince was the obvious high tenor. But then the arguing started. Cinderella's Charming, Aurora's Phillip, and Jasmine's Aladdin couldn't work out among themselves which were the best choices for being in the quartet, and who would sing what parts. They couldn't agree to try being a quintet.
Sad, how things get ugly. Whoda thunk this group would have testosterone problems.
So, esteemed BK, what do you think of a capella groups? Impressed, take a pass, middling to so-so?
He's playing Belle's father, Maurice. I will see the show next weekend (leaving Friday, June 16th and returning Monday, June 19th). I will give a full report. He sounds happy and he's looking forward to the opening.That's right, I remember the age discussion now! I am glad he is enjoying himself. Can't wait for the full report.
You were nice. Some of us would have required that they come with the orignially ordered 5 burner version and do a swap. Are you happy with the stove top?
-And, remember, never go to the grocery store when you're hungry, or you may end up putting "stuff" in your cart that you shouldn't put in there (right now, at least). A list is a good idea.
Keanu Reeves says he's lonely and wants to get married and have children, in an upcoming issue of Parade magazine[/size]
I know I could have. But I would have bought the 4-burner stovetop at the price I paid. So the credit was a bonus.
You know what I hate? I hate it when I look at something I've had for many years and decide I'm tired of it. It's always so expensive and a lot of work.
If I never went to the grocery store when I was hungry, I would never see the inside of a Safeway, Albertson's, or even a 7-11.
;D
How are you doing there Hopalong? Are you going to rehap sessions yet? Is anyone taking care of (feeding) you?
I am doing okay. I am pretending I am retired and am too broke to leave my dingy apartment. So far, it seems to be working. However, I have noticed that I spend a lot of time at the front window yelling at those little brats who keep riding their bikes on the sidewalks. I have also found myself boring my neighbors with stories of when I was a boy and had to walk three miles to school in the snow, uphill (each way).Other than that I seem to be fine.
What do you want to replace now?
I am doing okay. I am pretending I am retired and am too broke to leave my dingy apartment. So far, it seems to be working. However, I have noticed that I spend a lot of time at the front window yelling at those little brats who keep riding their bikes on the sidewalks. I have also found myself boring my neighbors with stories of when I was a boy and had to walk three miles to school in the snow, uphill (each way).Other than that I seem to be fine.
I am looking at the wallpaper in the kitchen that I had put up in 1980.
AUSTIN, Texas - One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails.[/size]
Ryan Pitylak, 24, who graduated from the University of Texas last month, has admitted sending 25 million e-mails every day at the height of his spamming operation in 2004.
My Shelly Duvall's 6 DVD set of FaeryTale theater just arrived
My problem is that if I keep food in the house then I eat it right up.
I am in Technicolor (but not TohoScope) now
In fact, I am noticing that it's been quite a while since the living room has been painted.
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing a defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hope to use the measure to energize conservative voters on Election Day.[/size]
Supporters knew they wouldn’t achieve the two-thirds vote needed to approve a constitutional amendment, but they had predicted a majority of votes. Instead, they fell one short, 49-48.
That was one vote more than they got last time the Senate voted on the matter, in 2004. Later that year, Republicans gained four seats in the Senate.
“We were hoping to get over 50 percent, but that didn’t happen today,” said Sen. David Vitter, R-La., one of the amendment’s supporters. “Eventually, Congress is going to have to catch up to the wisdom of the American people or the American people will change Congress for the better.”
“We’re not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Thankyou Vixmom and TPunk...my avatar photo was taken last July in the living room of actress Carolyn Kearney's apartment in Los Angeles on Holt St.....just blocks from the childhood home of Benjamin Kritzer and his alter ego.
oh dear... sounds like someone is in for a lot of work
Well, I actually got the news of today's meeting early and it's now official:
The Brain From Planet X will be opening in a full production in December!
Well, I ordered DECEIT! I'm watching a fantastic French film KINGS AND QUEEN with Dylan. More to follow.
[/size]WARNING: RANT ALERT!!
I cannot understand why an adminstration with so little concern as to the state of the economy, global warming, social security, health care, pollution, hunger is so damn interested in what is going on in the beds of its citizens!!!!
End of rant
re: the closerYes, remember, i'm the one who told you how great it was!
Speaking of EBay and auction wins....
...someone named MattH said yesterday he had won a couple of laserdiscs.
Might we know the titles of these Laserdiscs?
Hmmmmmmm?
Well, I ordered DECEIT! I'm watching a fantastic French film KINGS AND QUEEN with Dylan. More to follow.
Well, I ordered DECEIT! I'm watching a fantastic French film KINGS AND QUEEN with Dylan. More to follow.
[/size]WARNING: RANT ALERT!!
Am I missing something here? Does giving same sex couples the right to legally marry also prohibit "mixed sex" couples from marrying?
I am not sure how allowing two people to legalize their loving relationship and commitment to one another has ANY impact on my relationship with my husband
In fact, doesn't the fact that they want to marry in some way validate the commitment we have made?
I can understand not requiring houses of worship from conducting ceremonies which are incompatible with their teachings, but why do we keep trying to impose religious views on a non-religous government?
Perhaps the Muslim- Americans and the Jewish-Americans should try and impose a nationwide ban on pork products.
I cannot understand why an adminstration with so little concern as to the state of the economy, global warming, social security, health care, pollution, hunger is so damn interested in what is going on in the beds of its citizens!!!!
End of rant
Oh, they don't care if we have sex together, as long as we don't try to get hitched.
Thanks Vixmom, I have been stewing on this for a few days. Although I especially enjoyed Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's coverage of this last night.
Dang, I missed this. Iwill have to catch the reruns on Comedy Central this evening
I'm kinda hankerin' to watch "The Crusades" by DeMille with Loretta Young.
Haboob is such a fun word to say. My mom was watching the weather thing on T.V. yesterday and there was a shot of the haboob. I said, "Is that the haboob?" And then the weather girl said, "Here is the haboob."
I guess you had to be there.
Yes, but is there any word more fun to say than "bulbenick," a potato concoction that was one of my Mom's specialties (as discussed here in answers to a TOD a few weeks ago). You can not only say it, but you can eat it, too.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED was the name of the revue of Stevie Wonder songs that I saw at the Venetian Hotel Showroom in Vegas, which was directed by Billy Porter and which starred Chaka Khan.
Cilla's post just reminded me of that.
I don't seem to be able to find a recipe on google, but I see that it's actually spelled "bulbenik." Glad I didn't get that word in a spelling bee.
The one important ingredient, as my mom would say, is that she made it with love.
Well, I'm going to go political here for a moment and say that much as I believe in freedom of the press, someone needs to boycott the publisher of that moron Ann Coulter for recycling the same hatred and warmongering. Or a bunch of us liberals on whom that she heaps her abuse and scorn should pay to have the braces on her brain adjusted so she can open that tiny mind a bit. She can quote God and country all she wants but I know God is not on that bitch's side.
Oh, yes, this is all in reference to her latest diatribe over the 9/11 victims in her new book CLUELESS!
Okay I am requesting VIBES for a successful outcome to a meeting this evening , for what I cannot say, oh no, I cannot say at this time.
We've had about eight orders today - nowhere near yesterday, obviously, but it's still only mid-day.
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Any takers?
ROCKAPELLA also sang the Folgers Coffee commercials. We had the pleasure of attending their concert at the Ginger Rogers Craterion Theater in Medford.
Well, I actually got the news of today's meeting early and it's now official:
The Brain From Planet X will be opening in a full production in December!
If you keep healthy foods in the house and graze throughout the day then that is not a problem.
Oh, they don't care if we have sex together, as long as we don't try to get hitched.
I agree completely, vixmom. I have never understood why the religious leaders who oppose gay marriage should have any influence on the laws of our government. You can't wish someone a Merry Christmas in a government building; but your pastor, priest, or rabbi can forbid you from spending the rest of your life in a committed relationship (i.e.: marraige) that is sanctioned exclusively by the govenment and not by God.
Okay I am requesting VIBES for a successful outcome to a meeting this evening , for what I cannot say, oh no, I cannot say at this time.
GRAZE ANATOMY - my new series about cannibals who eat all day, but small portions
I guess I am not that famliar with Ann Coulter...I thought she wrote those books about vampires...or was it those true crime books.
I guess I am not that famliar with Ann Coulter...I thought she wrote those books about vampires...or was it those true crime books.
Well, I actually got the news of today's meeting early and it's now official:
The Brain From Planet X will be opening in a full production in December!
And you probably think Shirley Temple is a synagogue!Where they sing "Hava Tequila" and dance the Whore-a?
Vampires - Ann Rice....True crime....Ann Rule.
Ann Coulter is toothpick skinny with long blonde hair. NBC Nightly News just did a teaser that they are doing a story about Ann saying "Have you no shame?" I'm waiting to see what they say
LOL, maybe I should dye it some crazy color. It might be the only chance I have to be that off the wall...hmmm
The last moments of the NBCNightly News covered it briefly, but they were sure to show footage of her on the TODAY show spewing bile about the 9/11 widows, calling them harpies. I hope she'll be revealed as the next Joe McCarthy and be shot down since she clearly has no sense of decency or morality.
Go for it! I am partial to pink.
Yes, we had a haboob. And it looks like another haboob is coming tonight. I posted a photo last night of the haboob from my house.
DR Vixmom, good luck on your meeting. I hope it is not as long as the meetings I go to!
Thanks Vixmom, I have been stewing on this for a few days. Although I especially enjoyed Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's coverage of this last night. If the american government is truly concerned about protecting marriage, they would make divorce illegal, or make re-marriage illegal. Only one time folks so make it count. Or if they wanted to go broader and really wanted to address the issues that were really and truly impacting and tearing down the institution of marriage, they would address unemployment, wage inequality, the minimum wage, the shipping of jobs oversees, the education crisis, and any number of other issues that this marriage amendment is trying to cover up. For crying out loud, how is attacking monogamous gay couples going to impact any of the real issues hurting marriage?
Well, I'm going to go political here for a moment and say that much as I believe in freedom of the press, someone needs to boycott the publisher of that moron Ann Coulter for recycling the same hatred and warmongering. Or a bunch of us liberals on whom that she heaps her abuse and scorn should pay to have the braces on her brain adjusted so she can open that tiny mind a bit. She can quote God and country all she wants but I know God is not on that bitch's side.
Oh, yes, this is all in reference to her latest diatribe over the 9/11 victims in her new book CLUELESS!
ASK BK or anyone else
Can an accapella musical be performed on Broadway without having to pay for an non existent orchestra?
Well, I actually got the news of today's meeting early and it's now official:
The Brain From Planet X will be opening in a full production in December!
George, will you please help me resize a picture for my avatar? ;D
Never mind. My brother helped me. He's good for something after all. :o :P
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OH!
And I picked up my ticket for Sunday night's Tony Awards! I'll be in Row T, Seat 508. I'll be in the rear of the orchestra section - the seating at Radio City starts with the double-letters (AA, BB, CC, etc.) and then goes to the single letters - but at least I'm not all the way over to the right of the section.
The ticket does request "Black Tie", so I'm going to head out tomorrow and find a tux. I'll probably end up renting one, but if I find a deal, I may end up buying one. We shall see.
It rained tonight. In June. DR Cillaliz, having lived in Phoenix, will also be stunned. It does NOT rain in June. Ever.
If this had happened yesterday, I'd have said it was a sign from the devil.
Jose, if you can find a deal, you'll have the tux for all the future Tony Award shows and other galas I'm sure you'll be going to in the future
I thought it was DR Jane who sang the praises of THE CLOSER. Maybe it was both of you!
-I'm going to look into buying a rental/"used" tux. If I could splurge on a $800-1000 tux, I would. But since I can't, and since I don't have to...
If I could use my old one, I would - but I would need to have it taken in quite a bit... Which is a good thing. :)
Check out Macy's!
Ginny-enjoy the clam dip.
Do you think a haboob is the same as a hubbub?
Can you use it in a sentence?
And talking about Macy's
Macy's removes gay pride display
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_re_us/macy_s_gay_display (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_re_us/macy_s_gay_display)
I thought there was some arcane law about certain theaters having a set number of musicians having to be paid whether those musicians actually played in the pit or not. (Isn't that in William Goldman's THE SEASON?)
At least I got up to Page 10!
"So you think you can Dance?... (dance.. dance.. dance..)"
Is that show any good?
Hmm I may have to check it out
Sorry for that quasi-semi-rant...
There are arcane laws in all fields, all professions... Heck, there are even some in our own local, state and federal bylaws and regulations.
;)
Can you use it in a sentence?
Sorry; DR Jose. I didn't mean to be offensive with that word "arcane." I just meant that in GOldman's book (or whereever it was that I read this), it was made to seem impractical and somewhat absurd. I'm sure there are reasons for everything. I'm just ignorant about them.
I'll leave that challenge to our wittiest denizens. Can you use Hubbub and haboob in a sentence? or two sentences?
I know! I emailed them today to express my disapointment and that I would no longer be shopping there.
I guess tomorrow I will watch OLD ACQUAINTANCE. Then possibly HUD.