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Well, you've read the notes, you took the notes' lead and you beat a hasty retreat, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're on a hasty retreat and won't be back until Monday at the earlierst.
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And the word of the day is: OBSTRUENT!
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AT least it is not hasty pudding being slapped, that would be a nasty mess...
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Would love to be in CA next week, Matt's play premiere's.... URinetown...
I just got done reading though the musical. It sounds interesting.
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It's 7:30AM in NYC. I'm here all alone at the office. I will leave now to begin work.
Later, gaters.
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If you beat a hasty retreat, is there an awards ceremony afterwards? And who wins the bronze?
I want pics, by the way.
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And the word of the day is: OBSTRUENT!
NO BUTTERS could lubricate little Orville's nasal pasages enough to loosen the OBSTRUENT pieces of candy corn he had stuck up there. It was as if he had developed a gigantic SNOT TUBER, and would have to breathe through his mouth for the rest of his life.
::) :P ;D
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TOD - Since I so often get morning shifts at work, I'm up fairly early in the morning, but I also get home in the early afternoon. I generally like to lay myself down, take the weight off my feet, and take a nap. Buster and Bonnie are usually there, even before I horizontalize, waiting to shower me with affection and saliva. Pretty soon, Fletcher the overweight Dalmatian will also lumber in, climb up onto the bed and over me, and he will lie down next to me. The problem is, once he lays down, his weight will settle, and he's big enough that his flab (there's no other word for it) will roll on top of me. If I try to move out of the way, he simply rolls a little closer, and gravity does it's thing so I end up with a ton of spots atop me once more.
It should be nice during the winter, of course, having this loving hot water bottle to keep me warm, but right now the temperature is still temperate. Such is life here in Rehoboth.
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Good morning, all! I'm off to Toyland and then to the NYPL Theatre Collection. I hope to have a rewarding day of research.
DR DerBrucer, I sneaked a peek at the site around 2 AM this morning and you caught me. I had been awakened around 1:15 AM by the sound of someone ringing the front doorbell. Could be pranksters, could be criminals, I don't care; I called 911, reported it, and went back to bed. At 1:50 the police rang my bell to check on the status of my 911 call. They were very kind and advised me to call the next time it happens, I checked my emails, looked in on the site for a moment andf went back to bed.
DR MBarnum, I'm elated to learn you've taken up reading. You never asked me to return the copy of THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE FARM that you left here and I just assumed that 3-4 syllable words were something that would always prove difficult. Whatever happened to the underwear you left behind? Didn't I auction it? :-*
DR JRand56, how did your show go last night?DR Tomovoz,did someone else besides the Andrews Sisters record "Carmen's Boogie?"
TOD: Thank God for the VCR!
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Saturday morning greetings! I'm at work, too, with a full day of information waitressing ahead.
DR Elmore - could we plan a trip to the NYPL theater collection October 2 (afternoon, maybe before an Artie's dinner?), 3, or 4? And is your recording office anywhere near the area bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 21st and 14th Streets? Richard and I want to spend a day in that vicinity visiting Chelsea Market and General Theological Seminary.
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DR Elmore.. your copy of "The Carmen Boogie" by "The Crewcuts" (of Earth Angel fame) is packed and ready for you to be presented personally to you.
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Favorite way to relax: Working on figuring out an Unseemly Trivia contest on a Saturday morning. :) :) :)
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TOTD: MMMM possibly related to DR Elmore's answer.
Don't do it often but a Spa and Sauna at the local leisure/sports centre is good.
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Saturday morning greetings! I'm at work, too, with a full day of information waitressing ahead.
DR Elmore - could we plan a trip to the NYPL theater collection October 2 (afternoon, maybe before an Artie's dinner?), 3, or 4? And is your recording office anywhere near the area bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 21st and 14th Streets? Richard and I want to spend a day in that vicinity visiting Chelsea Market and General Theological Seminary.
DR Ginny, the Lincoln Center library is closed on Mondays, so Oct. 2 is out (funding, ya know); most museums and libraries are dark on Mondays. Want to think of another number between 2 and 7?
Yes, the office is not far from 21st Street: 124th and Seventh Avenue
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DR Elmore.. your copy of "The Carmen Boogie" by "The Crewcuts" (of Earth Angel fame) is packed and ready for you to be presented personally to you.
Hate the opera, it's too highbrow
But there's one number I can dig right now
Just like driving without a clutch
I ride the boogie with the Carmen touch!
It rips up floors and tears down walls
And it's the reason that Niagra Falls . . .
That one?
I thought Patty, Maxine and Laverne were the only ones to record it!
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DR Elmore - could we plan a trip to the NYPL theater collection October 2 (afternoon, maybe before an Artie's dinner?), 3, or 4? And is your recording office anywhere near the area bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 21st and 14th Streets? Richard and I want to spend a day in that vicinity visiting Chelsea Market and General Theological Seminary.
Silly Larry, I read it wrong! We could visit the NYPL Performing Arts Library on Oct 3 or 4, pick your date and establish your schedule.
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I think so Larry. It was a top 10 hit here in late 1955. The Crew-cuts were Canadian.
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Time to get to work. And I'd love to know why der B is up so late these days.
And, if he takes grandladdie Alex away from his parents for the day, could he stop by the store, just so Alex can see his spare Grampa at work?
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Goodnight all. Have an enjoyable Saturday. Ours is neally all used up.
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Dear Esteemed, productive, hasty beating, efficient, and diaphanous BK --
Fie on the cad who keeps ringing your phone just one ring!! That kind of stuff, like DR Larry's doorbell being rung, is a real pain. Especially if you happen to be a lighter sleeper like I am sometimes.
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Welcome to new DR ASPARA.
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Show went well last night, DR ELMORE, thanks for asking. And thanks for all the fine vibes from friends here at HHW!
BLURBS! We have blurbs! I like them all - the the promise that the book is "complete & unexpurgated" is the icing on the cupcake.
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SIMPLY SONDHEIM is winging its way across the USA! Hurray!
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DR ELMORE - perhaps it was Tiffany....n'est pas?
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Well, I must say that this looks interesting, if nothing else.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ESST6U/ref=pe_5390_2999770_pe_snp_B000ESS (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ESST6U/ref=pe_5390_2999770_pe_snp_B000ESS)
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Music is my favorite way to relax.....a nice soundtrack....or an opera....
Which reminds me of George Axelrod's axim for The Girl in "The Seven Year Itch."
"This is classical music, isn't it?"
"Yes."
"I can always tell. There's no vocal."
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Kayne.....
I like Laura a lot....but I agree she won't make it to the end. The previews seem to indicate some kind of drama concerning her this week on Pwoject Wunway.
I think Mr BK's life would make an interesting reality TV show....certainly MORE interesting than BLOWOUT or THE OSBORNES.
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Good morning!
Another cool night and another hot day with the high supposed to go to 85 (tomorrow as well). I'm not complaining. I'm sleeping very well with the cool nights we're being given. I can stay inside to escape the heat and humidity that the South seems to have in excess in the late summer.
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Unless I'm not feeling up to par, I try not to take naps during the day because they invariably affect my sleep at night.
I do like to lie back on the sofa with a book I'm thoroughly familiar with and simply skim the contents. Occasionally I'll pick up things I've forgotten or facts I wasn't aware of by doing this.
If I had a hot tub or jacauzzi, I'm sure I'd use it often.
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I have one more WILL & GRACE episode to be able to finish up the Season 5 boxed set. After that, I have a long film - SAN FRANCISCO - and a short film - ON DANGEROUS GROUND ready for viewing.
I also have that Marlene Dietrich 1973 London concert on DVD that I found used and will watch while I prepare and eat lunch today.
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With nothing on TV tonight of interest to me, I'll be looking for something entertaining to consume the evening. Will probably be a previously viewed item.
I've been reading that the HD-DVD version of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is coming out near the end of this month, so I may take the standard definition (Ultra-Resolution) version of it off the shelf and see how it looks tonight. My memory is that it looks terrific.
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Page Two Mulan and Mushu Dance!!!
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Wonderful night's sleep.
Still having memories of rack of lamb.
Time to get some morning buns to accompany a freshly-brewed cup of French roast...
.....yawn.....
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Off to get lunch underway.
WBBL.
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I'm up, I'm up. Woke up later than planned, hence the big boxes may have to go out Monday morning. I have to do up invoices for them and have to be at Grant's at ten, so why rush.
elmore mentioned Patty, Maxine, and Laverne - here is what I learned the hard way: Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne.
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TOD: A nice long nap.
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TOTD:
Bubble bath and a nap...
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I am not a fan of Urinetown, I'm afraid. Maybe I'll see the production Matt's doing and maybe I'll like it better.
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TOD:
I have 2 different ways of relaxing/resting/calming the mind during the daytime hours.
If the weather isn't too hot, I like to take a slow walk around the entire backyard at our house, and I actually stop and look at, and talk to each tree that we have. We have over 40 producing fruit trees, and I tell them how nice they look, how much more they've grown, etc. I know it sounds crazy, but DP Kerry already knows that I'm certifiable.
The other is to stretch out on our wonderful "sleep number" bed, maybe read a little, and have Sugar hop up beside me. There is a definite soothing influence from just being in the close proximity to an animal that is also resting......I don't know why.
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Before I foget, I must thank elmore's comments about "Imagining You." Luckily I checked, and it was NYC Gay Men's Chorus, and the wonderfl arrangemnt was indeed by Larry. SO, Larry people are not stealing this particualr work (that I am aware of), but it's a lovely piece and would make a great solo for someone totally out of the context of the show (hear that Jason, Kevin, Liz Callaway),. Based on your recommendations, I will give the cst album another listen. I still get the feeling though that it works better within the play itself.
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Just you n me, Ben! happy saturday.
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kinda rainy here... I'm off to sunnier climes tomorrow morning. As always, I hate to leave, but I'm happy to be heading back to LA. Hate to leave this wonderful little cat. And I had FOUR-count'em-FOUR raccoons last night - a mom and her three very small babies... odd to have such young ones this time of year. I do hope they'll find enough to eat, once Aunt Pen's catfood vanishes.
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Hello all! Nice blurbs BK
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Welcome Aspara
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TOD - just being home alone with the cats is a start to relaxing. I also love going to see a movie at the theater by myself. In the dark I can get totally lost in the movie, not care if anyone else likes it and let everything bothering me just slip away.
I also like a hot bath and curling up with a cat or two and a good book
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With that in mind, I'm going to go grab a sweatshirt - it's cool today - and go by myself to the first matinee of The Illusionist.
Oh, I watched the documentary Grey Gardens this morning. I'm glad I saw it. I understand now why there is a song about Jerry liking corn....
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Better run. I'm looking forward to this movie. Then I have to go to another art show opening tonight. I have work I brought home from the office, so I don't plan to go out after the opening tonight, but who knows, I could be pursuaded.
Tomorrow we're still planning on seeing the matinee of Hollywoodland...has anyone seen it yet?
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And I had FOUR-count'em-FOUR raccoons last night -
Nope - wont touch it!
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The sentence comparing the stories to Ray Bradbury is particularly intriguing.
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Watched THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and noticed that Judy Garland was doing two a day at the Palace when the Beast came through NYC.
Wonder if she cancelled that day?
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Off to sell tickets....and do a show.....
Contemplating the purchase of the Handel Caesar and Hercules Opera DVD's.....any yeas or nays from the HHW'ers in the know....opera wise.
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I understand now why there is a song about Jerry liking corn....
More about Jerry, past and present, New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060306ta_talk_green)
LOST AND FOUND DEPT.
THE MARBLE FAUN
by Adam Green
Issue of 2006-03-06
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In the film, Mrs. Beale says, “Jerry’s out every night with a different girl.” In fact, Torre’s life outside Grey Gardens centered on local gay night spots, such as the Attic. And he often drove into the city to spend evenings cruising bathhouses in a towel (he says he was voted Mr. Club Baths 1977) or dancing in his jockstrap on the bar at the Anvil.
Though she didn’t appear in the Maysleses’ movie, Jacqueline Onassis turns up in the musical, as the young Jackie Bouvier. Torre recalls meeting Onassis when she visited Grey Gardens. He says that she used to call the house occasionally, to check on her aunt and cousin, and that she once asked him to take her out clubbing. He remembers bringing her to the Anvil, where they watched a fire-eating drag contortionist perform. Afterward, Onassis’s driver took them back to her building, where she invited Torre up for a drink. “I said no thanks,” he said. “I went back to the Anvil.”
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The other day Torre attended a preview of “Grey Gardens,” the musical, in which the role of Jerry is played by a square-jawed young actor named Matt Cavenaugh. He wears a Newsday sweatshirt and a painter’s cap, as Torre did as a teen-ager, and what looks like a Beatles wig. Torre’s eyes teared up several times during the show, particularly when, after a song called “Jerry Likes My Corn,” the stage Jerry said, “You be good now, Mrs. Beale—you take care of yourself.”
As some DRs might remember, the "Anvil" was a notorious gay sleeze bar on the lower westside. (Don't ask!)
der Brucer
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Can any New Yorker tell me what building this is?
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/197368/0_24_mow_rainbow.jpg)
der Brucer
Or maybe it's just an artist's conception!
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The "OH, GOOD GRIEF!" department:
Town's Top Cop Quits Over Nude Photos of Wife (http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/06/04/20060908155409990010)
(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/06/04/20060908155409990010)
Mayor, Councilman Also Resign Amid Backlash Over Internet Postings
By TIM TALLEY, AP
SNYDER, Okla. (Sept. 8) - The police chief, the mayor and a councilman from this small, southwestern Oklahoma town resigned Friday, saying they were fed up with the public attention and criticism they received after the chief's wife appeared in various nude poses on a Web site and the photos began circulating around town.
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Earlier Friday, the chief said the whole issue involving his 43-year-old wife had been blown out of proportion.
"People in this country do what she does on a daily basis," he said. "It's absolutely ludicrous. Makes no sense at all."
He said he has had lengthy discussions with his wife about the photos but does not tell her what to do.
"My wife is 6-foot-3 and weighs 300 pounds," he said. "If there is somebody that thinks they can control her, have at it. I have tried for 11 years and haven't been able to."
der Brucer
Love how the date got the Smilie code!
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My Garage Sale went very well. Sold almost everything and gave the rest to the cleaning lady who came just as it ended - and who does NOT have an Evil Eye.
This was a great way to get to know some of my neighbors. A number of others were also having garage sales - and I spent a bit of the money I made at mine buying things at theirs. Well, at one anyway. The woman next-door had some phenomenal vintage stuff which she was selling for a dollar a garment. How could I resist? I now own a vintage 50's Hawaiian design dress that looks like it could have come out of From Here to Eternity.
I'm going out for lunch with some of the neighbors as a post-garage sale celebration. This was not something I was planning - as I'm invited out to dinner tonight - but I didn't want to say no. So lunch will be breakfast, I guess, because I didn't have time to eat before the Garage Sale (people descend on you at 6 AM!).
And that's the report from here.
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Tomorrow we're still planning on seeing the matinee of Hollywoodland...has anyone seen it yet?
I saw a preview of it a month or so ago. I didn't like it - but that's my personal opinion. You might love it. Bob Hoskins was terrific. Ben Affleck was fine, as was Diane Lane. But the real star of the film is Adrien Brody - and I didn't care for him or that whole (fictional)story. It's not a subplot - it's a another main plot. And they should have had faith in the Reeves story carrying the entire film. It could have and perhaps should have.
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Have some great telephone conversations this afternoon, on one of mich I got the suggestion for tonight's viewing:
HOW THE WEST WAS WON. That will consume a major portion of the evening.
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I didn't get to the Dietrich DVD. I still had the final WILL & GRACE episode from Season 5 to watch, and I did. This was the one on Karen's yacht after she's gotten Stan's money in his will; Jack and Will appear to have slept together after a drunken night of partying, and Karen is pushed overboard by Stan's mistress Lorainne Finster.
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I watched a couple of what they call "themed featurettes" which are just montages of images from the season's episodes around a central theme. After a couple of those, I was bored with them.
So, I took out the DVD of the final WILL & GRACE episode and watched it, followed by the documentaries on the making of the show on that disc. Brought a tear to my eye. Whatever weaknesses the show had in its final years (and it was much weaker than it was at its zenith), I will still miss having it around when the new season commences.
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It has been a busy, busy, busy day here at the library! That's how I like it, because the time goes so much faster than when we're slow. However, what I don't like is having to untangle bungled customer service performed by people who should know better.
One of my customers today was wearing a hat that looked like the Oscar Mayer weinermobile ;D
Going home soon to eat pizza with my family and watch Munich.
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Boujour tout le monde!
A little Song Of The South info from:
http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/
This blog is by a French fellow and is all in English!!
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And here is Jim Korkis' last article of the week!
VOICES SINGING THE SONGS OF THE SOUTH
Currently I am working on an extensive article on Disney's SONG OF THE SOUTH for the magazine, Hogan's Alley, and here is a research vignette on some of the uncredited vocal work in that film:
Much of the uncredited singing was done by the Hall Johnson Choir, an African American choir led by Hall Johnson (a highly regarded African American choral director, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist) that performed to enthusiastic audiences in various prestigious New York venues. National recognition came when Johnson's choir performed under his direction in Marc Connelly's Broadway production of "Green Pastures" in 1930.
Five years later, Johnson took the choir to Hollywood, California to participate in the film version of "Green Pastures"(1936). Johnson and the choir remained in the Hollywood area and appeared in other films including "Hearts Divided" (1936), "Banjo On My Knee" (1936), "Lost Horizon" (1937), "Tales of Manhattan" (1942) and "Cabin In the Sky" (1943). Their performances also included the crows in Disney's "Dumbo" (1941) and "Song of the South" (1946). Johnson returned to New York in 1946 where he organized the Festival Negro Choir of New York. He was posthumously honored for his work in films by being elected to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, five years after his death.
The DeCastro Sisters were a female singing group: they consisted of Peggy, Cherie, and Babette DeCastro. In 1945, the DeCastro family moved to the United States from Cuba and the sisters became protégées of Carmen Miranda. They had a style similar to the popular Andrews Sisters trio but with a Latin flavor. It was probably their connection with Miranda who had worked with Disney on "The Three Caballeros" that helped get them their first film work doing some singing background vocals for "Zip A Dee Do Dah" in "Song of the South".
AND a little pic to go with it!
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4371/2021/1600/Hal1.jpg
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Samba anyone?!
Hey, Miranda!!
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Wasn't she CUTE?!?
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4371/2021/1600/Doreen.jpg
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More about Jerry, past and present, New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060306ta_talk_green)As some DRs might remember, the "Anvil" was a notorious gay sleeze bar on the lower westside. (Don't ask!)
der Brucer
The comment that he was out with another girl every night was in response to Little Edie saying all he wanted was sex with her...lol guess they were both wrong...but Jerry did like corn
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More about Jerry, past and present, New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060306ta_talk_green)As some DRs might remember, the "Anvil" was a notorious gay sleeze bar on the lower westside. (Don't ask!)
der Brucer
Thanks for the link to the New Yorker story. Very interesting
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Well, I must say that this looks interesting, if nothing else.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ESST6U/ref=pe_5390_2999770_pe_snp_B000ESS (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ESST6U/ref=pe_5390_2999770_pe_snp_B000ESS)
DR JRand56, thank you for posting this. Christopher Maltman is in it and he's one of my faves.
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I really enjoyed The Illusionist. I loved the score, the story and all in all it was a wonderful escape on a cool cloudy afternoon
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Thanks for the SONG OF THE SOUTH info, DR Francois. Now, if only DIsney execs would shake the rocks out of their heads and release the thing in a beautifully restored commercial DVD. I'm grateful for the one I have, but it really could look SO much better.
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Off to watch some DVDs.
WBBL.
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I really enjoyed The Illusionist.
Ditto. As did DR Elmore, I believe. A wonderful, old-fashioned "escape from the world for two-hours" film.
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Back from Grant's and the book fair and am running very late. So, I must jog now, then music person is coming to do the redo of one of the Brain songs (my last redo, I swear!), and then it's off to dinner.
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Got about 1/4 of the way through my book on evergreen Bollywood actress/ item dancer Helen. It was getting chilly outside.
I am thinking a nap might be in order now as my eyelids are drooping.
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Thanks for the SONG OF THE SOUTH info, DR Francois. Now, if only DIsney execs would shake the rocks out of their heads and release the thing in a beautifully restored commercial DVD. I'm grateful for the one I have, but it really could look SO much better.
Thanks!
Unfortunately, the new CEO does not want to! I guess they'd rather have the bootleggers make the profit Disney could be doing with a decent product!
This world of ours needs to be PC I guess!
PC on them I say!! :o :D
Do I feel sorry for not buying the VHS of it when it was available here just a few years ago!
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Ditto. As did DR Elmore, I believe. A wonderful, old-fashioned "escape from the world for two-hours" film.
And, boy, we sure can use an ESCAPE from this world!!
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And that's what Uncle Remus says!!
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Mr Ibert (We can't blame Michael anymore!!) is OBSTRUENT to the release of Song of the South on dvd!
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History was made today in The Big House (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060909/NEWS99/60909005)
GO BLUE!
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Hello, Ahmed20065, our newest member!
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History was made today in The Big House (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060909/NEWS99/60909005)
GO BLUE!
My! Who would have thought!
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Go Blue?!
I guess we don't get a choice!
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DR Francois --
In the "small world" department ...... I enjoyed you sharing the musical information regarding "Song Of The South." I was aware of Hall Johnson's participation and contribution to the film (and also "Cabin In The Sky" which I love!), but I'll bet you might be surprised to read that I once sang with Hall Johnson ! In the late 1950s, he would sometimes tour to high schools, do several days of rehearsal with their top choir, and then present a program to the student body assembly. It was great fun to do, and he was a warm and friendly man who got the best out of our choir. Our choir, by the way, was not too shabby....we had a great regular choral director and we won quite a few competitions.
However, I didn't know that the DeCastro Sisters were doing background vocals!!
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BK talking about the book fair made me feel deprived, so I took a drive up to Cincinnati and went to the old book haunt of my youth, Ohio Book Store, in downtown Cincy...four floors of books. It was sunny and bright, both on the drive up and back and a beautiful day for an hour's jaunt each way(...probably took BK that long just to get to Santa Monica from the Oaks of Sherman and back and it's only about ten or 12 as opposed to the 60 I was travelling).
Found some early Ibsen, a child's souvenir story book of Alexander Korda's Thief of Baghdad (15 bucks...this would probably be 50-100 in LA), the play Room Service, and a rather old book called Frightful Plays which I know nothing about, but has nice illoes in it. All for a grand total of 33 bucks (Thief included in that total).
Stopped over the river in Newport, Ky, at Dixie Chili for my two cheese coneys with onions and my four-way with onions (Cincinnati chili over spaghetti, topped with grated cheese! Yum!) and drove home listening to Bobby Vee and a recording of a TV playlet by Richard Rodgers of ANDROCLES & THE LION, starring beloved British comic Norman Wisdom, John Cullum, Inga Swenson, Ed Ames, and Noel Coward. All in all, a lovely day...
When I got back home, I called The Lovely Wife in Lexington at her sister's. She said it was pouring rain there and they had had a power failure. But here in Georgetown...not 12 miles away...it's still gorgeous! Not a dark cloud in the sky!
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DR Francois --
In the "small world" department ...... I enjoyed you sharing the musical information regarding "Song Of The South." I was aware of Hall Johnson's participation and contribution to the film (and also "Cabin In The Sky" which I love!), but I'll bet you might be surprised to read that I once sang with Hall Johnson ! In the late 1950s, he would sometimes tour to high schools, do several days of rehearsal with their top choir, and then present a program to the student body assembly. It was great fun to do, and he was a warm and friendly man who got the best out of our choir. Our choir, by the way, was not too shabby....we had a great regular choral director and we won quite a few competitions.
However, I didn't know that the DeCastro Sisters were doing background vocals!!
That's our MusicGuy, ladies & gents! Famous before I could even sing a song myself (Well, in fact, I could, in the late 50s... by myself!)!
Thanks for sharing the souvenirs!
And now... MusicGuy at the piano!
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A picture of Francis Hall Johnson!
MusicGuy's not on it because he was too small then (1951)
http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/schnit8_l.gif
Dr. Hall Johnson, leader of the Hall Johnson Choir, joins choir members at a reception in a Berlin beer hall during the Berlin Arts Festival, 1951
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Found some early Ibsen, a child's souvenir story book of Alexander Korda's Thief of Baghdad (15 bucks...this would probably be 50-100 in LA), the play Room Service, and a rather old book called Frightful Plays which I know nothing about, but has nice illoes in it. All for a grand total of 33 bucks (Thief included in that total).
DR CharlesPogue, are there any famous plays in the Frightful Plays book? I've begun reading a new book about Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and the night in Geneva that FRANKENSTEIN was conceived titles THE MONSTERS: MARY SHELLEY AND THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Should be good for the Halloween season.
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Got about 1/4 of the way through my book on evergreen Bollywood actress/ item dancer Helen. It was getting chilly outside.
MBarnum, ignore the sarcasm from elmore about you reading this weekend. I think you will really enjoy the antics of Archie and Jughead!
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Stopped over the river in Newport, Ky, at Dixie Chili for my two cheese coneys with onions and my four-way with onions (Cincinnati chili over spaghetti, topped with grated cheese! Yum!) and drove home listening to Bobby Vee and a recording of a TV playlet by Richard Rodgers of ANDROCLES & THE LION, starring beloved British comic Norman Wisdom, John Cullum, Inga Swenson, Ed Ames, and Noel Coward. All in all, a lovely day...
Thank you DR Charles Pogue for explaining a four-way with onions. Otherwise, who knows what François or TCB would have made out of it!
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The book fair was amusing. The prices, usually ridiculous by anyone's standards, were completely out of control and guess what - no one was buying anything, at least that I could see. Even the dealers who are usually a bit less than others were outrageous. I do believe it's like the real estate market - that is beginning what I believe will be a nice leisurely slide into the toilet - it happened exactly ten years ago, and it's already begun happening in LA. Mark my words.
I think these dealers are either going to just sell to each other (that's where most of the action is at these shows, and it's hilarious to watch), or they're going to be sitting on books for many years to come because no one in their right mind is going to pay these prices. And I'm not even talking about primo condition books - they're charging three hundred bucks for books with tattered dust jackets or facsimile dust jackets, and worse, these dealers are now trying to do something that would have put them out of business a mere ten years ago - selling second and third editions for high money when said editions are worthless to any knowledgeable collector. The latter is the result of eBay idiocy and these dealers have delightedly decided to capitalize on people's rank stupidity.
Were there books I wanted? Sure. I saw a The Ghost And Mrs. Muir first edition (in all my years of collecting I'd never seen the book in or out of jacket) - in jacket, close to $500. The jacket had so many tears and rips and big chips out that it was a joke. The same dealer had a first edition of the book that was made into the movie Red River. Never seen that one either - $400 - jacket was nice except that it was trimmed top and bottom by 1/4" - that's a big no-no. For $100 I would have purchased both perhaps. But greed wins the day, only greed isn't winning - those books will not sell at those prices. The dealer did say he'd "work with me." I don't think he'd be willing to work as hard as I'd want him to, however.
All of that said, I did get the one bargain of the show - a dealer friend had a lovely first edition of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, a surprisingly hard book to find in first edition and in collector shape. Usually the spine has faded completely and it's a jacket that was prone to chipping and scuffing. This copy, other than some minimal wear at the head and heel of the spine, was basically excellent with no fading at all to the spine. I looked up copies on the Internet - the highest priced of them isn't in as good condition - and that price was $450. The cheapest, which was available for $125, was in awful condition. I got this for considerably less than the latter price.
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Thank you DR Charles Pogue for explaining a four-way with onions. Otherwise, who knows what François or TCB would have made out of it!
A sexual mess for sure!!
Fingers licking good?!? :o
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Les Trois Mousquetaires.... with a fine dust cover!
(Even though MY spine seems to be fading!! ;))
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And now Mouseteers, a few words of wisdom from a very old book with a tattered jacket which is priceless!
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/jimmie-book.jpg
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New page in our Book of Wisdom?!
Let's do the Mousekedance!
Annette? Doreen?
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Les Trois Mousquetaires.... with a fine dust cover!
(Even though MY spine seems to be fading!! ;))
Or perhaps, Curly, Moe, and Larry?
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Are you talking to me?!
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/images/w-z/mmc19.jpg
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For George (and TCB) - and interested others!
Adam and Steve (http://www.epgn.com/)
(http://www.epgn.com/images/pic3.jpg)
We know God didn’t create ‘Adam & Steve’ — Craig Chester did
By Gregg Shapiro
PGN Contributor
© 2006 Gregg Shapiro
Gay cinema seems to be in the midst of yet another renaissance, but out actor Craig Chester is no neophyte to its evolution. In the early ‘90s, Chester could be seen in groundbreaking work suchas “Swoon,” “Grief,” “Frisk” and the now classic “Kiss Me, Guido.” However, just in time for GLBT film’s post-New Queer Cinema revival, Chester wrote, directed and stars in the relentlessly fun and endearing gay romantic comedy “Adam & Steve.”
If Woody Allen were gay, this is the sort of comedy the filmmaker, never sheepish about showing the social insecurity being Jewish often brings, would create. But in his work, Chester transfers the Jew-Gentile idiosyncrasies common to heterosexual celluloid relationships to that of a gay male couple.
With a stellar cast, the film, recently released to DVD, is as star studded (Chris Kattan, Sally Kirkland, Parker Posey) as it’s hilarious. Brought to us courtesy of local company TLA Releasing, the DVD features a hearty selection of special features — the most amusing a gag reel and more deleted scenes that can be viewed with or without director commentary.
[see link for interview]
der Brucer
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For George (and TCB)
Adam and Steve (http://www.epgn.com/)
(http://www.epgn.com/images/pic3.jpg)der Brucer
Ok!
I WON'T read it!! ;)
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elmore, nothing famous in Frightful Plays...were it not for the illoes (and the price $4.00), Iwouldn't have bought it.
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To honor DR George, Woody and I are going to DC on Saturday to see a production of "Cannibal - the Musical".
(With luck might get to have Jose join us for a meal.)
Later this year, the theater is doing a show on one of Pogues favorite topics:
(http://www.rippershow.com/images/jack_logo.jpg)
A Rock Opera
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der Brucer
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Thank you DR Charles Pogue for explaining a four-way with onions. Otherwise, who knows what François or TCB would have made out of it!
Well, I'm a Skyline four-way bean kinda gal myself. Go for it, guys!
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Fox Invited to Hen House (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213181,00.html)
Women's College Votes to Allow Men, Draws Outrage
Saturday , September 09, 2006
LYNCHBURG, Virginia — Amid boos and shouts of "traitors!" Randolph-Macon Woman's College officials announced Saturday that men would be admitted to the 115-year-old institution starting in 2007.
In the eyes of the board of trustees, going coed could help stabilize the school's finances as interest in all-women schools wanes.
But when officials floated the idea last month, it drew a sharp response. Online petitions and campus protests decried the move, angry e-mail flooded in, one alumnae group even hired a lawyer to try to discourage the board by citing legal concerns.
Saturday morning, an agitated crowd of some 400 students, alumnae and their supporters greeted the board's announcement by drowning out trustees president Jolley Christman as she tried to explain.
"Today we begin to heal. We begin to write the next chapter in our history," Christman said, barely audible over the shouting.
Christman said the 27-2 vote followed 2 1/2 years of study. The board determined coeducation was the best way to preserve the school's mission of high academic standards for undergraduate students and said a co-educational version of Randolph-Macon would emphasize global honors programs.
Interim President Ginger Worden told the students and supporters, "Do not, I implore you, turn your back on this college," but many in the crowd swiftly turned their backs on her in response.
Now they know how I felt when the Naval Academy went co-ed!
der Brucer
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Well, I'm a Skyline four-way bean kinda gal myself. Go for it, guys!
Well, I sure won't make friends when I observe that Cincinnati serves the worse chili on the planet - anyway!!
der Brucer
PS for really good chili, come to dinner tonight!
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO EAT CHILI TONIGHT
a film starring Ginny Hepburn and Brucer Tracy.
NOT filmed in Cincinnati, but with a special appearance by Fletcher, who's easy to spot! He chews the scenery!
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Gee, so many browsers, so few posters!
Not even FOUR posters; we can't play I DO, I DO!
In Only A Moment....
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For George (and TCB) - and interested others!
Adam and Steve (http://www.epgn.com/)
So, derBrucer, did you enjoy Adam & Steve... the movie, I mean?
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For George (and TCB) - and interested others!
Adam and Steve (http://www.epgn.com/)
(http://www.epgn.com/images/pic3.jpg)der Brucer
So "cheap" to modify posts! :)
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO EAT CHILI TONIGHT
a film starring Ginny Hepburn and Brucer Tracy.
NOT filmed in Cincinnati, but with a special appearance by Fletcher, who's easy to spot! He chews the scenery!
Ahh, shouldn't that be Ginny Heartburn?
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For George (and TCB) - and interested others!
Adam and Steve (http://www.epgn.com/)
(http://www.epgn.com/images/pic3.jpg)
der Brucer
Thanks for the info! I'm just about to go to my sister's for dinner, and our parents will be there. I hope to be able to watch the DVD after I come back home.
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Ahh, shouldn't that be Ginny Heartburn?
With chili, yes, but I don't know Ginny that well!! ;)
Chili in Chile with Carol?!
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One of the things that the family will be discussing during dinner is my loan for the condo. My mom went to a local bank and told me that their interest rate was 5.7%!! The two rates from LendingTree.com were 6.317% and 6.5%!! That's significantly less. If that's true, I'm going with the local!! ;D
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To honor DR George, Woody and I are going to DC on Saturday to see a production of "Cannibal - the Musical".
(With luck might get to have Jose join us for a meal.)
Later this year, the theater is doing a show on one of Pogues favorite topics:
(http://www.rippershow.com/images/jack_logo.jpg)
A Rock Opera
der Brucer
Cool! Let me know what you think of the show itself! I guess there isn't an "official" play script...theater companies have to adapt it themselves from the movie. ::)
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I'm off to dinner! Be back later! ;D
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MusicGuy, I know plenty of people who talk to trees and yes, I have done so myself a few times.
Cillaliz-Has your vet discussed using prednisolone instead of prednisone? Prednisone converts to prednisolone in the liver, so why make the cat work for the conversion. You might even be able to reduce the dosage.
JRand-Glad the show went well. :)
Maria I didn’t know garage sales could be so much fun.
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I'm off to dinner! Be back later! ;D
Don't THREATEN us like that! :D
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MusicGuy, I know plenty of people who talk to trees and yes, I have done so myself a few times.
Cillaliz-Has your vet discussed using prednisolone instead of prednisone? Prednisone converts to prednisolone in the liver, so why make the cat work for the conversion. You might even be able to reduce the dosage.
JRand-Glad the show went well. :)
Maria I didn’t know garage sales could be so much fun.
I talk to the trees but they never listen to me... those bloody §%$^@& dirty rotten /=/.?....
Wonder if they did listen to Clint!
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One of the things that the family will be discussing during dinner is my loan for the condo. My mom went to a local bank and told me that their interest rate was 5.7%!! The two rates from LendingTree.com were 6.317% and 6.5%!! That's significantly less. If that's true, I'm going with the local!! ;D
Make sure to check on "points" - they can turn a seemingly good deal to s**t.
der Brucer
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I talk to the trees but they never listen to me... those bloody §%$^@& dirty rotten /=/.?....
Wonder if they did listen to Clint!
I hope not, for their sake!
der Brucer
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I talk to trees but they just stand there... like so much fish, you know!
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Won't tell you about the breeze... and I!
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Ahh, shouldn't that be Ginny Heartburn?
LOL - when I got my first part in a play, in high school, my parents called me Sarah Heartburn!
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I talked to them all in vain, but also in Canada, in Florida and inamorata to no result!
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MusicGuy, I know plenty of people who talk to trees and yes, I have done so myself a few times.
Figures! Only looney-tune people talk to trees!
der Brucer (who does, however, hold conversations with tomatoes and assorted herbs; also, as a young lad received exorbitant rates for gardening - and credited the lush roses in the Jewish Widows' gardens to his frequent conversations)
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LOL - when I got my first part in a play, in high school, my parents called me Sarah Heartburn!
You mean Sarah Burntheart! (French joke!) -- knock on wood!
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CP-Your day sounds lovely. Keith & I plan to take a drive to Georgetown once our puppy travels well. We will have to make sure he likes cats since our friends there have a few. I’m not sure they are indoor cats as the cats were all strays that found a good place to call home.
I must give him a name. Keith still wants Muzbe :P, which most people groan or gag big time when I say Muzbe :-[. Keith has possibly consented to Mycroft, which so far has not fared much better than Muzbe. ;D I hate to say this but I think Muzbe is sticking. :-\
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Thanks DerBrucer, I would hate to be considered "normal" ;D
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CP-Your day sounds lovely. Keith & I plan to take a drive to Georgetown once our puppy travels well. We will have to make sure he likes cats since our friends there have a few. I’m not sure they are indoor cats as the cats were all strays that found a good place to call home.
I must give him a name. Keith still wants Muzbe :P, which most people groan or gag big time when I say Muzbe :-[. Keith has possibly consented to Mycroft, which so far has not fared much better than Muzbe. ;D I hate to say this but I think Muzbe is sticking. :-\
Don't call him! He'll call you! ??? ;)
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Thanks DerBrucer, I would hate to be considered "normal" ;D
Me & My Town!
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François- ??? Sorry, I don't get it. ;D Kind of ruins the joke when you have to ask..... ;D
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François- ??? Sorry, I don't get it.;D
Me neither!
Was just paraphrasing the showbiz sentence "Don't call us, we'll call you!" and yes, it's NOT funny!
As TCB would say; any reason to post, or something wittier to that effect! ;)
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CP-Your day sounds lovely. Keith & I plan to take a drive to Georgetown once our puppy travels well....
Jane! Do you mean Georgetown, Kentucky? Or is there a Georgetown closer to where you live?
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I hate to say this but I think Muzbe is sticking. :-\
Then it muzbe the right choice!
der Brucer
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If it's Friday.... Muzbe Belgium!!
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Or is there a Georgetown closer to where you live?
She is surrounded by Georgetowns! One in WA, one in CA.
der Brucer
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If it's Friday.... Muzbe Belgium!!
No , if were in Belgium it muzbe Tuesday!!!!
der Brucer
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Ginny-Kentucky. We have good friends from Michigan who moved there. She and I had a standing playdate with our dogs every Friday morning.
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Then it muzbe the right choice!
der Brucer
Cute :)
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Posting just for the sake of posting? Horrors!
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Posting for the sake of avoiding the bitch-slap machine? That's another story.
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Ginny-Kentucky. We have good friends from Michigan who moved there. She and I had a standing playdate with our dogs every Friday morning.
Well, then, we'll have to have a tristate (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana) HHW get together, won't we?
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With Craig & his girlfriend’s birthdays coming up I sent off a package to Romania today. It only cost $80 to mail a box of candy, dog & cat toys, candy, seaweed chips, candy, and a few other small items. I’m a horrible mother sending all that candy he doesn’t need. He wanted Red Vines, Swedish fish, sour patch kids, good n plenty & lifesavers. I added some peanut butter M&M’s and Keith added Moose caramel corn with chocolate from Harry & David.
We found the cutest birthday card with a dog that looks very much like their Yogi. Then of course we had to get them a card from the cat.
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Well, then, we'll have to have a tristate (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana) HHW get together, won't we?
Oh yes! I hope we really make it there next year. :)
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Off to watch ELIZABETHTOWN.
'night.
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She is surrounded by Georgetowns! One in WA, one in CA.
der Brucer
THere is one in Minnesota also..
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THere is one in Minnesota also..
All these states with Culture Club fans ::)
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As it has been doing for the last several nights, the temperatures have cooled considerably from daytime highs, and it's pleasant outside. I'll sleep with windows open and attic fan running again.
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Do all local news and weather people whine about the weather? It's hot..it's cold...it's too wet...it's too dry....I wish they'd just quit the whining and tell me what the weather is going to be.
Rant for today...this one has been eating at me every time I watch the news
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I finished the interviews on the WILL & GRACE final episode DVD. Since Lionsgate has been so slow releasing the seasons of the show (three more seasons to go so I guess that means it'll take three years to finish collecting the series), I'll make do with what I've got. May start watching from season 1 during the coming week, depending on what other DVDs come in.
It's a big week for new releases.
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I didn't stay at the opening very long tonight. I know Paul wanted me to stay longer, but there is only so long you can stare at the same art work. So I said I was too tired and went home. I'm glad I did. It's been a relaxing evening
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Then I put in HOW THE WEST WAS WON which took up the majority of the evening. What a marvelously involving movie, one of my all-time favorites!
But it's a movie in DIRE need of an upgrade. Yes, the DVD is a giant leap forward from the less colorful, soft laserdisc, but we're still stuck with a non-anamorphic letterboxed transfer with lots of specks, dirt, and occasional print damage. And the soundtrack is merely Dolby Surround. OK, but the Oscar-winning sound design deserves a better disc representation.
Sad to say, I haven't read anything about Warners doing any kind of upgrade for this movie.
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Lastly, I put in THIRD MAN OUT to rewatch. I enjoyed it so much a couple of weeks ago that I thought I'd enjoy a return trip.
Tomorrow, I think I'll revisit TWO FOR THE ROAD when I finish with THIRD MAN OUT. Really would enjoy seeing that again, too.
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With Craig & his girlfriend’s birthdays coming up I sent off a package to Romania today. It only cost $80 to mail a box of candy, dog & cat toys, candy, seaweed chips, candy, and a few other small items. I’m a horrible mother sending all that candy he doesn’t need. He wanted Red Vines, Swedish fish, sour patch kids, good n plenty & lifesavers. I added some peanut butter M&M’s and Keith added Moose caramel corn with chocolate from Harry & David.
We found the cutest birthday card with a dog that looks very much like their Yogi. Then of course we had to get them a card from the cat.
Gee, my mommie never sent me goodies like those when I was in Romania!!
But then, I NEVER was in Romania at all! ;)
I don't know but cats are two smart to send cards, no?!
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bk, did you finish PLAYTIME? I don't remember reading any comments. Interested in what you thought of the new transfer.
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All these states with Culture Club fans ::)
Fans of Culture or fans of clubs?!? 8)
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I've had a couple funny things happen with my car lately. I drive a Prius and have for over 3 years. Anyway, every so often people want to talk to me about my car. Yesterday I was at a red light and the guy next to me rolled down his window and we had a coversation about everything from mileage in town vs on the road to what the best color for the car is... all before the light turned green. I'm so not a car person it cracks me up when it happens
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Fans of Culture or fans of clubs?!? 8)
Or fans of Boy George
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Page Six Woody and Buzz Dance!!!
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Do all local news and weather people whine about the weather? It's hot..it's cold...it's too wet...it's too dry....I wish they'd just quit the whining and tell me what the weather is going to be.
Rant for today...this one has been eating at me every time I watch the news
They do the whining so that people watching them won't have to do it AND put the blame on them and curse them as it seems the rule!
And I have no News and Weather people in my family or friends! Amazing no?! ;)
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Or fans of Boy George
OUR Boy George who's gonna star Can in Ball?! :)
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I am sure .... I am sure??? I am sure of NOTHING!
Anyway.... I do think cats would NOT send cards! Certainly NOT ones with the text already printed on them!
What do you think Cill? You know about cats! They don't care about cards! They only like to lick the back of stamps and even then....
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Off to bed now.
Good night, everyone!
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Off to bed now.
Good night, everyone!
You just sound like Mrs Potts!
"Off to bed now, Chip!"
Spit spot! No! That's Mary!
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I'm in a NY State of mind! I had to say it! i had to! Does not make any sense but I had to say it and I did!
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Oooohhhh, yes! I forgot!
Has any of you read that Jake Gyllenhaal is to star as Lance Armstrong in a biopic of that .... "wonderful smiling" hero of the bicycle?!
THAT should be interesting.... and leaves me speechless!
Yes, speechless!
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I am sure .... I am sure??? I am sure of NOTHING!
Anyway.... I do think cats would NOT send cards! Certainly NOT ones with the text already printed on them!
What do you think Cill? You know about cats! They don't care about cards! They only like to lick the back of stamps and even then....
My cats not only send cards...they give gifts!
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Here!
På paparazzifronten har Jake Gyllenhaal på sistone synts träna landsvägscykling med Lance Armstrong, och nu har vi den självklara förklaringen. Deadline Hollywood har getts en exklusiv bekräftelse på att Gyllenhaal följt den förre proffscyklisten som ett led i tidiga förberedelser inför en bio-pic. Något mer är ännu inte känt om projektet, utöver att Sony Pictures ligger bakom.
Att hollywood skulle göra film om Lance Armstrong var väntat, som ni säkert hört har han en dramatisk livshistoria. Som etablerad toppcyklist drabbades han av cancer, men kom sedan tillbaka och vann prestigefyllda Tour De France hela 7 år i rad. Efter den senaste vinsten 2005 drog Armstrong sig tillbaka från sporten, men de doping-rykten som hela tiden följt hans karriär är fortfarande starka. Armstrong har också en intressant personlighet som verkligen sticker ut, och som bl a retat upp nästan hela Frankrike (Se honom skämta grabbigt om sin nye polare Jake här.)
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På paparazzifronten har Jake Gyllenhaal på sistone synts träna landsvägscykling med Lance Armstrong, och nu har vi den självklara förklaringen. Deadline Hollywood har getts en exklusiv bekräftelse på att Gyllenhaal följt den förre proffscyklisten som ett led i tidiga förberedelser inför en bio-pic. Något mer är ännu inte känt om projektet, utöver att Sony Pictures ligger bakom.
Att hollywood skulle göra film om Lance Armstrong var väntat, som ni säkert hört har han en dramatisk livshistoria. Som etablerad toppcyklist drabbades han av cancer, men kom sedan tillbaka och vann prestigefyllda Tour De France hela 7 år i rad. Efter den senaste vinsten 2005 drog Armstrong sig tillbaka från sporten, men de doping-rykten som hela tiden följt hans karriär är fortfarande starka. Armstrong har också en intressant personlighet som verkligen sticker ut, och som bl a retat upp nästan hela Frankrike (Se honom skämta grabbigt om sin nye polare Jake här.)
Huh?
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Oops! Sorry! Pardon my French!
Voilà!
From http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com
A Socialite's Life Image ViewerYes it’s true — I’m told Jake Gyllenhaal and Lance Armstrong are hanging at the Tour De France together because the actor is the leading contender to play the cyclist in a Sony bio pic being quietly developed. On Sunday, the two sat in a Paris hotel together with friends as American Floyd Landis stood on the podium after winning the 2006 Tour de France. Needless to say, the European press went into a speculation frenzy when the Lance and Jake first showed up together . As Saturday’s all-important Individual Time Trial began, Jake joined the seven-time TdF winner in the Discovery team car for a ride-along as Lance protégé Yaroslav Popovych pedalled away. (Lance’s Discovery team faltered without him this TdF, but Landis of Phonak took the yellow jersey and eventually won the overall race). Earlier in the day, Lance met with the Tour de France organizers to lessen the tension. Armstrong, his agent Bill Stapleton, Discovery sports manager Johan Bruyneel, and Tour de France Directors Jean Marie Blanc and Christian Prudhomme had what insiders called “a heart-to-heart discussion” aboard the Discovery bus. “The meeting went well,” Bill Stapleton said later. “Everyone left with a feeling of mutual respect.” Obviously the Tour’s assistance, while not required, would be helpful to the bio-pic. Gyllenhaal and Armstrong have become pals during Jake’s method process to get to know the sports legend. The actor of Brokeback Mountain and Jarhead fame is even a long-time cyclist and has begun training for the film. Armstrong is no stranger to Hollywood: Robin Williams used to join Lance in the Alps while Armstrong was defending his Tour titles. And Armstrong hangs with Matthew McConaughey whenever the cyclist is in Los Angeles. Also, while they were together, Lance and Sheryl Crow were fixtures on the Hollywood charity and awards circuit.
As a huge TdF fan myself, I think a Lance bio-pic is a natural: why did it take Hollywood so long to put one together? So why did it take Hollywood so long to put one together? (UPDATE: Well, Bill Gerber tried to sell it years ago after reading Armstrong’s book It’s Not About The Bike. But Warner Bros. and HBO. Then producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy got lucky that Columbia Pictures president of production Matt Tolmach is a cycling fanatic. I hear he can actually do some of those Tour De France-type climbs — though not as fast.) Given Armstrong’s unhappy youth, his sports prowess (first as a triathlete and then as a cyclist), his cancer battle, his Live Strong yellow wristband campaign and his cancer foundation work, his epic seven TdF titles, his rivalry with cocky Jan Ullrich and upstart Ivan Basso, his love-hate relationship with the French, and his battle against doping accusations, it’s a heckuva tale. And the studio as well as Lance are fortunate that an Oscar nominee like Gyllenhaal wants to do it. There’s even a slight resemblance between the two men, as seen in these close-ups.
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Huh?
Don't ask me to repeat it! :D
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Merci!
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My cats not only send cards...they give gifts!
I'd like to SEE that!! ;D
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I'd like to SEE that!! ;D
LOL, some of the gifts you don't need to see, you can smell them from across the room~! ;)
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Here!
På paparazzifronten har Jake Gyllenhaal på sistone synts träna landsvägscykling med Lance Armstrong, och nu har vi den självklara förklaringen. Deadline Hollywood har getts en exklusiv bekräftelse på att Gyllenhaal följt den förre proffscyklisten som ett led i tidiga förberedelser inför en bio-pic. Något mer är ännu inte känt om projektet, utöver att Sony Pictures ligger bakom.
Att hollywood skulle göra film om Lance Armstrong var väntat, som ni säkert hört har han en dramatisk livshistoria. Som etablerad toppcyklist drabbades han av cancer, men kom sedan tillbaka och vann prestigefyllda Tour De France hela 7 år i rad. Efter den senaste vinsten 2005 drog Armstrong sig tillbaka från sporten, men de doping-rykten som hela tiden följt hans karriär är fortfarande starka. Armstrong har också en intressant personlighet som verkligen sticker ut, och som bl a retat upp nästan hela Frankrike (Se honom skämta grabbigt om sin nye polare Jake här.)
I thought you promised us "speachless" >:(
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I'm so not a car person it cracks me up when it happens
Hey, boost your self-esteem! The guy was probably hitting on you ::)
der Brucer
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Hey, boost your self-esteem! The guy was probably hitting on you ::)
der Brucer
Naw, I know he wasn't but it was fun anyway
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Good morning, fellow Dear Readers. This morning I got up before the birds to go to the mountains. So tonight I am very tired. The end.
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Great Garage Sale news from DR MARIA....and thanks for the caveat about HOLLYWOODLAND....still interested in seeing it, I am....but the focus of the movie being Mr Nose....er I mean....Mr Brody....disturbs me. I had big problems watching KING KONG when he was on the screen. Whew!
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Play went well....no controversy as yet....sold out house....nice compliments all around.....$$$$$!!!!!
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Just about to watch RUN TO THE SUN, a 1956 version of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME with Richard Widmark, Jane Greer, and Peter Van Eyck...never seen it....
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DR ELMORE....I am still on the fence about the opera DVD....but we shall see how the commissions flow at the shop tomorrow.
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Great Garage Sale news from DR MARIA....and thanks for the caveat about HOLLYWOODLAND....still interested in seeing it, I am....but the focus of the movie being Mr Nose....er I mean....Mr Brody....disturbs me. I had big problems watching KING KONG when he was on the screen. Whew!
You know what they say about men with a big nose! :D
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...Mr Brody....disturbs me. I had big problems watching KING KONG when he was on the screen. Whew!
Yes, the Great Probiscus often hid the Great Ape.
der Brucer
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Great Garage Sale news from DR MARIA....and thanks for the caveat about HOLLYWOODLAND....still interested in seeing it, I am....but the focus of the movie being Mr Nose....er I mean....Mr Brody....disturbs me. I had big problems watching KING KONG when he was on the screen. Whew!
Think of him as a male Barbara Streisand!
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Well, it's reassuring to know that sometimes bigger is not better in the USA!
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I think Mr Brody plans to play in a new version of Cyrano de Bergerac!
They'll save on make-up that way!
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Derbrucer, you are sooo wrong about Cincinnati chili. It is a wonder unto itself. Now that doesn't mean I don't appreciate other kinds of chili, but when I was in California, it was Cincy chili I got a craving for and it would be the first place I'd go when returning to the old home town. Fortunately, they had one in the airport. And it must always come with either the spaghetti or on a hot dog with tons of shredded cheese and onions. It's not really a chili you eat unadorned. I go for a Texas chili for that.
But I have to disagree with Ginny. Cincy chili (nor any chili, for that matter) should never have beans in it. In fact, when I was growing up there...I don't even remember beans being an option on the menu. When I do the chains, Ginny, I actually prefer Gold Star to Skyline...though some outlets vary. We had both here in Georgetown, but the Skyline went kaput not long ago...their quality was inconsistent. But I actually prefer Dixie Chili in Newport, Kentucky, when I go for Cincy chili...and that's where I went today. They are especially good at getting just right the amount of chili and spaghetti, so that it all blends properly with the cheese and onions and doesn't end up too soupy which can sometimes happen. It's an art! An art!
Another great chili delicacy used to be served in Dallas at a small waystation on Lemon Avenue called Shanghai Jimmie's Chili Rice. Shanghai Jimmie was an actual person, probably about eighty when I knew him, and a fluid and lovely ice skater. Just a good skater, it wasn't his profession. He was a world traveller and his chequered career and bio was on the menu of his establishment. I think he came up with chili rice when he was in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. A wiry, thin little wizened old guy, but a bit of bantam who wore a big cowboy hat. His slogan was "Chili Rice Iz Very Nice." And it was, Chili over rice topped and mixed with shredded cheese and cubed celery. Sounds strange but was delish.
Shanghai Jimmie and his place are long gone, but when I was in Dallas about a year ago to speak, when of my hosts at the Screenwriters Association also remembered Shanghai and managed to re-create the recipe (I think he found it on the internet...though I've seen that one and I don't think it's quite right). It waz very nice! I have also re-created it...I'm known to throw a little pickle relish into the concoction as well. Good eating.
At one time, pal Larry Drake and I thought we should franchise Shanghai Jimmie, just like the Colonel and his fried chicken, but like most good ideas ennui and laziness got the best of us; we preferred just eating it to making millions from it.
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He's also working on the film version of The Me Nobody Nose!
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You know what they say about men with a big nose! :D
They're easier to pick (on)?
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His favourite song is Nose of Washington Square... a link to La Streisand again!
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All those nose puns are noseating aren't they?!
Oh, well! A nose is a nose is a nose!
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It's just me and my nose now, I guess!
Have a great week everyone! I'm out ot here (Almost 8:00am)
Time to leave work and get breakfast and hit it on the nose!
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Hasta la vista, Nosie! ... err... Rosie!
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Cincy chili (nor any chili, for that matter) should never have beans in it. In fact, when I was growing up there...I don't even remember beans being an option on the menu.
Chili History (http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Chili/ChiliHistory.htm)
DEFINITION - Chili is a stew-like soup made entirely with meat, chiles, or chili powder (or both) and according to what region of the United States that you live in, it can also include beans.
1922 - Cincinnati style chili is quite different from its more familiar Texas cousin. It is unique to the Cincinnati area and it was created in 1922 by a Macedonian immigrant, Tom (Athanas) Kiradjieff. He settled in Cincinnati with his brother, John, and opened a hot dog stand with Greek food called the Empress, only to do a lousy business because nobody there at the time knew anything about Greek food. So, it is said, that they called their spaghetti chili. He created a chili made with Middle Eastern spices which could be served a variety of ways. His "five-way" was a concoction of a mound of spaghetti topped with chili, then with chopped onion, then red kidney beans, then shredded yellow cheese, and served with oyster crackers and a side order of hot dogs topped with shredded cheese.
Beans or no beans? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_con_carne#Cincinnati-style_chili)
Pinto beans (frijoles), a staple of Tex-Mex cooking, have long been associated with chili and the question of whether beans "belong" in chili has been a matter of contention amongst chili cooks for an equally long time. It is likely that in many poorer areas of San Antonio and other places associated with the origins of chili, beans were used rather than meat or in addition to meat due to poverty. In that regard, it has been suggested by some chili aficionados that there were probably two chili types made in the world, depending on what could be afforded and how frugal the cook was.
As chili spread east into areas where beef was more expensive (beef was plentiful and cheap in San Antonio and other cattle towns), chili with Pinto or other beans became more prevalent. In some eastern areas, this dish is referred to as "chili beans" while the term chili is reserved for the all-meat dish. Other changes included the adding of other vegetables. Tomatoes are almost always used, bell peppers are common and even celery appears in recipes. Many easterners are just as adamant about the inclusion of beans in their chili for an authentic flavor as Texans are about their exclusion.
Most commercially prepared canned chili includes beans. Commercial chili prepared without beans is usually called "Chili No Beans".
Many chili experts believe, however, that beans and chili should always be cooked separately and served on the side. It is then up to the consumer to stir his preferred quantity of beans into his own bowl. Some cooks prefer black beans, black-eyed peas, or kidney beans instead of pinto beans.
A popular saying among chili purists is "If you know beans about chili, you know chili ain't got no beans".
der Brucer (in Philly ,Chili always had tomatoes and beans)
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Back from a rather amusingly amusing dinner partay about which more later. I have a splitting headache (don't know why, really - it just came upon me like a gazelle with a hernia).
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Notes are finished, but why should I post them when we're so close to 200 posts but everyone has WUSSBURGERED.
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I shan't and I won't.
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Make sure to check on "points" - they can turn a seemingly good deal to s**t.
der Brucer
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I got back from my sister's house about a half hour ago. It turns out that my mom didn't see the 5.7% interest rate at a local bank (I misunderstood her message), she searched the Internet and said that I should talk with someone at a local bank (I don't know why ::)).
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Anyway, I showed my mom the two loan offers and she said that the one that I was thinking of getting (the lower of the two Internet offers), really was a pretty good deal. So, I'm going to go with that. I do have a couple more questions for the lender (Todd), but they're just for information, not to make a final decision.
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not everyone.
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Anthing can happen in five minutes
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200 may even be reached
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Well it's possible!
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Now all I really need to find out about is if the sellers are willing to fix what needs to be fixed, mainly the bathrooms. There is moisture under both toilets and the sellers should fix it. If they don't (or don't offer some sort of allowance), then it's probably a deal breaker. We'll see.
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But if everything goes through, I should be able to move by the end of the month!! ;D
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Hi, Tom! :D
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Gratuitous Post # 204. :)
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And since I stayed at my sister's until recently, I'm not going to watch "Adam & Steve" tonight. Maybe tomorrow night, tomorrow night (a "Yentl" reference ;)).
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And since we're almost to Post # 210 (which will take us to page 8 ), let's see if we can make it (a The Rink reference :)).
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When I was packing up some stuff earlier this week, I found the program that I bought on-line for the Kennedy Center's "Sondheim Celebration." I really would have killed to see that. ;D
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Especially the Japanese production of Pacific Overtures. I wish that they could have recorded that...or even the production when it was still in Japan.
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And away we go!
(a Jackie Gleason reference)
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]PAGE EIGHT DANCE!![/move]
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I bought the Kennedy Center "Sondheim Celebration" souvenier program directly from the Kennedy Center website...not from eBay.
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You can't buy it from there anymore. It's out of print. ;)
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You can still get the Sondheim Celebration Lithograph Portfolio: "A Sondheim Celebration lithograph portfolio, which includes all ten images created exclusively by award-winning illustrator Frank Verlizzo for the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration. Images on 100% cover stock."
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That's only $20! I paid $50 not too long after the whole program was over. :(