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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were big and on Monday, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're exhausted because of only having gotten three hours of sleep. They're sMOOzing.
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And the word of the day is: LUCUBRATE!
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Well, here I am fresh from watching the 1956 Jerry Warren film MAN BEAST and I am the only one in the jernt!
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When Captain Picard was a teenager he used to hang out in the local China shop. He was often careless, and the proprietor was often heard to remonstrate: "Luc, U Brate it, you buy it!."
der Brucer
Dear Friends: - come to Haineshisway, and watch us lucubrate!
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TOD:
Worst Travel Experience: Getting a call from security 5 minutes before my plane took off for NY last year and being told that my house was on fire, and not knowing until it landed if there would even be a house there when I returned.
Best Travel Experience: Touring Ireland with the Dady Brothers.
http://www.dadybros.com
I have never travelled with a tour group but this was an easy way to take my mother (and 3 other folks) to Ireland without her having to question my judgement every step of the way. I could just leave everything to the Dadys and we had a great time. Live music every night, beautiful sights during the day; that and a bit of Guiness® and life was good!
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Does anybody know anything about this:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EZ8O5O.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V53945178_.jpg)
(Thinking Grandlads)
der Brucer
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Very tired BoyzfromOZ catching up on sleep before catching up on 5 weeks of HHW.
Very appreciative Boyzfrom OZ who have experienced first hand the warmth, friendship and generosity of such a wonderful group of people.
New York and the Island of Long
Toronto
Tacoma/Seatle/Olympia
Portland, Salem and Ashland
LA LA land
How lucky can you get.
More to follow - with photos of course.
Hugs were delivered and received from non attendees. Much appreciated.
What a wonderful world of warmth has been made possible by BK.
Love you Guys
Tom and Colin
Colin is still spreading the gospel according to the Drowsy Wicked Nun. (The praises to FJL and Elmore echo across the oceans and continents).
We still blame everything on Jose.
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And the word of the day is: LUCUBRATE!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
While the band LUCUBRATED on their theses about three-quarter time and it's affects on romance.
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Very tired BoyzfromOZ catching up on sleep before catching up on 5 weeks of HHW....
Lots of posts about housecleaning, lots of posts about what has been viewed... and that's just from DRMatt!!!
We still blame everything on Jose.
Well, don't we all!
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Best trip - three years ago, minus one week, when der Brucer and I loaded ourselves, a lot of living materials, and five (count-'em, five) dogs in the car for our cross-country trip to our new home. It was the only time I've seen our country entirely from ground-level, instead of flying over it. Quite an amazing experience. And Buster and I bonded as he spent the entire trip on my lap, refusing to get in back with the other dogs.
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Worst trip - fortunately, I don't remember it clearly, but when I was quite young my family went on one of our camping trips, and I came down with an ear infection. The change in altitude didn't help my ear in the least, what with the change in air pressure. It was not a happy time, from what little I can remember.
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When I was a child flying back from Boston (I think Air Canada) what may have been on a prop plane that was so old that the seats were not bolted to the floor of the cabin properly. We hit a storm that so bad that one of the stewardess sat next to me. It gave be nightmares (the plane crashed) and caused me to be afraid of flying for many many years
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Then there is another story on a flight from Montreal to Toronto but it will have to wait until I come home from work.
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When I was a child flying back from Boston (I think Air Canada) what may have been on a prop plane that was so old that the seats were not bolted to the floor of the cabin properly. We hit a storm that so bad that one of the stewardess sat next to me. It gave be nightmares (the plane crashed) and caused me to be afraid of flying for many many years
And your fear of stewardesses started at about the same time, I assume?
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I had a car service experience similar to BKs (mine was worse though). I won't talk about it because it still makes me angry. I know, I know let it go, but he was such an evil son-of-a-b***h that I wish him nothing but the worst for the rest of his life.
One of the best trips we ever had was being upgraded to Business Class on our trip home from London in 2003. Totally unexpected and totaly awesome (to speak in the vernacular).
TPunk, Ant is very excited to hear about your Holiday Craft Party plans. It's perked up his recovery. He's doing better. He's eating real food now (instead of toy food) and sleeping through the night. It hit him hard. I've never seen him this sick and he doesn't remember ever being this sick. Boy, it's scary when someone you love gets ill and there isn't much you can do about it aside from accompanying him to the doctor and making him as comfortable as possible and playing the role of male nurse.
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Good morning, all! DR Ben, I'm happy Anthony is doing better. Next year he must call his doctor in September - as should you - about a flu shot! I think there's so much crap in the air that any corporal fortification is helpful.
DR Der Brucer, I have seen none of those composer DVDs; I remember when they were all on VHS as I passed them on my way to the porn: they had titles like "Beethoven Lives Upstairs," and my memory is that there were four, about Beethoven, Schubert, Bizet, and Handel. There are reviews for the Beethoven on Amazon.com.
DR Pogue, yes, I came to New York to act and direct, so Sondheim is right about the roads you never take. I like what I do now quite a lot, so I regard my acting life - like the designing and directing - as one more past life I remember fondly and a craft I once possessed that has become quite rusty. My memory is that Ritch and I worked together in 1975 or 1976. I have a program somewhere.
TOD:
Best flight: Two options here. The first is flying to London in July 2001 on British Airways firstclass to record BABES IN TOYLAND and several other shows I hope we will work on. The second, sentimentally, is my trip to Los Angeles to mix "Anywhere I Wander" and "Unsung sondheim," my first collaborations with my Dear Friend BK. The excitement of what we were doing was intense, and the first trip was really special.
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I've been through the "ailing partner", Ben, twice very seriously. It is not at all fun.
A co-worker of mine is on leave of absence, since his partner is very ill. Making things worse is the partner's family, who are trying to interfere and keep Larry from caring for his partner.
It isn't for the good time that we need marriage. It's for when things go wrong.
Continued vibes for Ant.
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Off to work! :o
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DR derBRUCER, I saw a couple of those composer programs, they are good introductions for children, but most mundane even for them.
Mr BK you better get up and get going.
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I forgot the worst! Again, there are two. The first was a train ride from Goodspeed to Manhattan, 1998, after working on a production of REDHEAD. I wanted to be under the train than on it. People either loved what I did - Albert Hague was quite complimentary - or loathed it, and the chief loathers were the director and choreographer. I also had little support from the MD for Goodspeed. After the first band rehearsal, I became the pariah, partially because I couldn't rewrite the entire score and because I clearly had communication with a non-musical director whose comment after the rehearsal was "It's not sexy," a descripton that never came up during pre-production meetings. So, as soon as I could get out of Dodge, after trying to repeair as much as possible, I hightailed it. It may be my most demoralizing and humiliating work experience, right up there with the Comden & Green album, only there I didn't need to travel to get home and medicate myself!
2001, first-class from London to New York, late September 2001. The service and staff were excellent, but it was my first flight since everything had been shut down after 9/11,, Every bit of turbulence put me into panic mode. How did I know they wouldn't turn the plane around and fly it into Buckingham Palace or Parliament?
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Best trip experience - flight to NYC then to Ireland, with a bus ride across that beatiful country to the east coast, through Dublin and up to Dundalk on the Irish Sea. Lots of fun, great traveling companions (a one day trip to London), and a nice flight back. Of course this was all before travel became so difficult.
Worst, a flight to Baltimore. There was no storm but the WORST turbulence I have ever experienced. I got sick, but fortunately was sitting next to a nurse who was as upset by me as a "civilian" might have been. I was NEVER so glad to get on the ground!!
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And of course there was the Continental flight on a prop jet that held about 8 people - going to Cincinnati for a connection. The stewardess rolled the luggage out and threw it onto the plane, came aboard and checked all of our seat belts, then proceeded to sit down next to the pilot at the controls (the curtain between cabin and passengers was left open).
I hope she got paid EXTRA for all the duties she performed....airplane wise.
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DR MBARNUM...I have seen FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL...and used the opening narration and song to start my production of VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM.... MUDHONEY seemed to be exactly as you described, so I didn't watch/tape it.....
And I forgot that KWAIDON was on last night!
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Oh, Yes. I forgot to welcome back our world travelers!
We were so lucky to meet our Australian friends. What a treat. I hope your West coast foray was as much fun as your East Coast travels.
We look forward to pictures.
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Good morning!
Simply a beautiful day out, though it's definitely fall now with highs not getting out of the 50s. I love it!
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Last night, DR derBrucer wrote:
Quote from: Matt H. on Yesterday at 08:36:40pm
My DVD recorder allows me to record even high definition broadcasts, but because it's recording in standard definition, it slaps letterbox bars above and below the image.
The DVR that ComCast supplies with their HD Control Box records in HD (I think) - it sure looks like it!.
Oh, my Time Warner DVR definitely records high definition. I was talking about the DVD recorder I have hooked up to the DVR to burn programs onto DVDs.
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This lovely photo of our BK "I'm still waiting for that Fax number!" and his leading ladies Emily and Alice was posted on Broadwayworld.com this morning.
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Horrible travel tale: I feel like we've done this one before, but, oh, well. It was, IIRC, 1964 and my father was President of the SLC Lion's Club. The national Lion's Club convention that year was in LA, so we all went with the ultimate goal (at least to my extremely young way of thinking) of "doing" Disneyland. The Lion's Club had pre-booked us at a downtown hotel called the Normandy Wilshire. We drove to LA and got to said hotel, where we were met by a very small Oriental bellhop who removed our luggage from the trunk and promptly shut his tie in said trunk. My father was not paying attention and started to pull away from the curb with the bellhop still attached to the car. This should have been our first clue, but NOOOOOO.....we went inside.
To say that the Normandy Wilshire had seen better days was a bit of an understatement. It evidently had become a "residential hotel," and its residents were not exactly royalty. There was the lady in the straw hat on the folding chair outside who moved her chair up and down the street each day to follow the little bit of shade made by the awning. There was the elderly gentleman with the "talking dog" (it barked) named Earl who would run onto the elevator with anyone coming into the lobby so that he could make Earl "perform." There were many others, but time is short and memory is long, or maybe that's the other way around.
Anyhoo, we got up to our room where my Mother, not exactly a tee-totaler, announced she needed a drink. She just so happened to have her bottle of whiskey and a bottle of Seven-Up in her bag. She had unfortunately forgotten to bring a bottle opener for the Seven-Up. So she inserted the bottle into an open drawer of the chest of drawers, using leverage in the time-honored technique. The entire facade of the chest of drawers splintered off and fell into the room.
She then, in going into the bathroom to throw away pieces of wood, discovered that the sliding glass shower door was not made of frosted glass but was completely transparent.
In the meantime my sisters had discovered that they could identify cars passing below on the street by looking up at the ceiling, whose ancient (undoubtedly led-based) paint was so glossy it was virtually a mirror.
I had decided to do some exploring and found a door at the end of our hallway with steps leading downward. Of course I descended, going down two or three flights and finding another door. You may think I am kidding and/or exaggerating when I tell you this, but I am not: in opening the door, I discovered it was on what may have once been a mezzanine, only: there wasn't a mezzanine any longer. The door opened into thin air about 30 or 40 feet above the lobby! Had I been wise, I would have jumped then and there, but NOOOOOO....I went back up to the room.
Because we were all staying in one room, my parents had ordered a rollaway bed for me. It was delivered and we unfolded it. I decided to pull back the blankets and we discovered (gross-out alert): wadded up bloody kleenex.
At this point, even my usually unflappable father decided this was probably not the place for us, so he made reservations starting at the next night for the Sheraton at Huntington Beach, IIRC.
In attempting to leave the next morning, we discovered a fascinating quirk of the elevator--it responded instantly to any call button even if it were in the midst of another "delivery." How did we discover this, you may ask? Well, we were loading our bags on the elevator, when it suddenly departed without us. When we finally got on it, we then took a merry trip through the several floors of the Normandy Wilshire, going up, going down, sometimes seemingly going both directions simultaneously, all evidently based on someone pressing the call button on any given floor. Luckily someone in the Lobby must have pressed the call button because we finally got down there.
Some other day, I'll tell you about the Sheraton at Huntington Beach. :)
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Thanks for the photo, DR ELMORE. If I were the photographer, the gentleman would have been in the center!!
The girls look great!!
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Page Two Allison Hayes Fashion Forward Dance. :o
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So happy to read that DR Tom and COlin got back home safely (and, of course, bk, too). These days, one always breathes a sigh of relief when a trip by jet is completed successfully.
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Your travel stories made me think of an even more miserable flight. I tell this with the hope that it will help future travellers.
I went out to LA for a few days to edit a short film. I had dinner at a restaurant in Larchmont Village and had bad shrimp and the resulting food poisoning. I was up all night but still made it to the edit sessions. (The suite was conveniently near the ladies room!) This lowered my resistance so much that I caught a cold, which for me means no sleep. After several days of misery, my beloved grandmother, my favorite relative in the world, died. (She was 97 and had Alzheimers but I was still devestated.) So I had to fly to Atlanta, pick up Greg and then fly to Ohio to the funeral with a terrible head cold. I had always heard that you shouldn't fly with a head cold. Well, that's the last thing I heard.
My head was so congested that I thought it was going to explode on the plane! I think I would have been happier if it had. I probably came close to destroying my ear drums. I was in such pain that tears were flowing out of my eyes the entire flight. When it landed, I couldn't hear anything; it was as though I was wearing ear muffs. My ears stayed that way for almost the entire time there.
The day I was to leave, Greg bought some ear plugs---those clear ones that mold themselves to your ear canal. He told me to jam them in my ears as tight as I could and not to take them out until we landed. It was like a miracle! I had a pain-free flight and could hear when we landed. So there's a little tip if you have a head cold and must fly somewhere!
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My two worst travel experiences happened on the same trip, when we went to Mexico some years ago.
When we got to Mexico City and went to our hotel (the Balmer, as I recall), our room was not ready. In fact, there was some sort of strike and the people who had our room weren't leaving, so we had no place to stay. The hotel booked us a room for the night at a motel across the city and took our luggage and us there, all gratis. Seemed like an OK arrangement for the night.
Anyway, the place was pretty ratty looking, but we thought we could stand it for one night. But what a night! People yelling and screaming during the night. All kinds of doors being opened and closed loudly, so we didn't get great sleep that night at all.
The next day, my aunt (who was someone not to be crossed) took us back to the Balmer and told the manager we were staying and sleeping in the lobby until we got our rooms. While we were waiting that morning to be put SOMEWHERE in the hotel, we got a day old English language newspaper and read that there had been a murder the night before at the motel where we had been shipped! It might have even happened in the room where we stayed since one wall had been freshly painted.
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The other awful experience happened on the way home from Mexico City. We stayed in Mexico three weeks on that trip, and on the way back home, pur PanAm plane ran into a tropical storm over Miami, and we had to circle above it for over two hours. Even above it, there was a lot of turbulance, and once we finally landed (the storm still seemed pretty severe, so I wonder if we were running low on fuel), it was the rockiest, scariest landing I ever experienced.
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I've had so many wonderful travel experiences they'd be too numerous to name. My favorite recent one was a week at Disney World and the nother Disney parks in Orlando. We stayed a week - basically one to two days per park, and I had a great time being a kid again. Those theme parks have a way of bringing out to kid in you, or, at least, in me.
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For a change, I am not having lunch today with best friend John (doing it tomorrow). So, I should be able to get through all my shows from last night that were recorded.
I'll start with DEXTER since that has quickly become one of my favorites; it's so different with such a dark character at the center of the show. Makes TOny Soprano seem like a Kindergarten teacher.
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Off now to tend to some business around the house and then look around to something to fix for lunch.
WBBL.
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I'm an hour away from my visit to the chiropractor (oh, heavenly day). This will be visit number 2 and I've felt like "new" since the first. I can't wait to feel even better.
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Hopefully, one or two of you took advantage of NBC's "Heroes" marathon last evening.
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Save the cheerleader...
...save the World!
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I'm up, I'm up, after a lovely night's sleep - I fell asleep by eleven-fifteen, so that's over nine hours.
Glad Tomovoz and Colin are safe and sound and wish I'd seen them.
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~~~VIBES TO DR BEN'S DP ANT!!~~~
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So, BK...I don't remember if you've said, but when do you expect to start taking pre-orders on the Emily/Alice CD??
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Best travel experience was right after 9/11 on a trip from LA to London on Virgin Atlantic. We had actually booked Premimum Economy, but we must have taken the delight of the booking agent at the desk when we checked in, because we discovered our tickets were for first class. Seats that became beds, massages, lots of perks!
I also travelled first class on Virgin Atlantic both to and from London/La for the Writers' Guild; great lounges!
Worst was when we let someone else book us from LA to Louisville on United. We arrived on a Saturday and stood in hideous lines both at check-in and to go through security. It was also shortly after they stopped offering meals and replaced them with those god-awful lunch boxes they sell now.
BK, The Lovely Wife is looking over my shoulder and says you must come here NOW! Well...we'll be gone during November to England, but you must get your petite buns of steel out here soon!
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Good morning dear Esteemed, jet-setting, swarthy, and well-rested BK --
We are all glad that you are home safely, and that everything was successful in NYC. Hopefully, there will be a few pictures forthcoming (and as you would say, "also comeforthing").
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Article on Pogue's return to the stage. It could have used some fact-checking as several of the details are wrong, but it's more or less accurate:
www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/performing_arts/15803673.htm
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Welcome back home to the Aussies!!!!
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TOD:
Worst travel day:
I had played a concert at a small performing arts center in Wisconsin on a Sunday evening.
I normally would have flown home the following day, Monday, except the arts center wanted me to stay and do some consulting on possible changes to their building.
So I had my return flight booked for the next day, Tuesday. Normally, this would be absolutely no big deal.
The only problem.......
The Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday happened to be Sept. 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2001.
I spent the next 5 days stranded, phoning airlines every 2 or 3 hours, and just wanting to be back to the safety of my own home and be with Kerry.
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Hi DR Pogue.......you seem like a fascinating and multi-layered person. I hope I get the chance to meet you in person someday. You also happen to scare me.......don't know why.
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For DR TomOfOz ....... We are glad that your trip was wonderful, and that you are also now back home safely. I hope Colin enjoyed the trip as well......does he also enjoy theatre and music of the sort talked about here??
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I will go to Kentucky, I will!
I'm trying to decide if there's any way humanly possible to get the Alice and Emily CD out in time for Christmas. We're going to start mixing on Wednesday, so that part will be finished within a week or so, but the girls can't take a cover photo till Alice gets back to NY on 11/18 - however, if we have everything else ready to go, I could still conceivably have discs by 12/10 or so - it's just getting them shipped in time for the holidays. We shall see - I'm going to talk to Alice and Em about it, although both are excited by the Christmas prospect.
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For more photos of Pogue's Underpants, go to:
www.larryneuzelphotography.com
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Well, hopefully Pogue and the lovely wife will be here for The Brain.
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Article on Pogue's return to the stage. It could have used some fact-checking as several of the details are wrong, but it's more or less accurate:
www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/performing_arts/15803673.htm
DR CharlesPogue, excellent! DR Ginny wants us to come see your show while I'm in Ohio, but I can't plan anything till I see how my dad's progressing.
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I shall now be on my way to the morning meeting, then need to do a couple of errands, after which I shall return briefly.
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Monday greetings! First thing this morning, I had to teach the October version of grantseeking basics to an attentive audience of 20. Now I'm enjoying my lunch, resting my voice, and catching up on today's posts.
DR CharlesPogue, excellent! DR Ginny wants us to come see your show while I'm in Ohio, but I can't plan anything till I see how my dad's progressing.
Oh, I'm glad you haven't ruled it out entirely, DR Elmore!
Welcome home vibes to DR Tomovoz and Colin!
DR Ben, I'm glad Ant's feeling better - now you get some rest.
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Best: The three and a half week driving trip we took in 1996 when our son was almost 11 years old. We called it our "See the USA" tour, making a big loop up to the Black Hills, across northern Wyoming to Yellowstone, down to Salt Lake City, Zion National Park, and Las Vegas. We spent a 5-day weekend in the LA area, doing Disneyland on Friday and Universal Studios on Monday. Then we drove to Phoenix, picked up my mom, and she came back to Ohio with us. Early in the trip, we'd left a bag of toiletries behind in Greybull, WY, and I said if that was the worst thing that happened we'd be fine - it was and we were.
In 1999, we did "See the USA II," to the east coast and in 2001, "Colorado, Rocky Mountain High."
Worst: Flying back from visiting my mom in Phoenix, we were on TWA landing side-by-side another jet in St. Louis. The plane next to us landed and we didn't. The pilot said, "We're going to try that again." My husband said, "I didn't hear the landing gear open, did you?" I had visions of them foaming the runway for our wheelless landing and seeing fire trucks and ambulances waiting for us, but we landed fine the next time around. No explanations, nothing.
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Hopefully, one or two of you took advantage of NBC's "Heroes" marathon last evening.
And for those who didn't, this HEROES EPISODE GUIDE (http://www.tv.com/heroes/collision/episode/861501/recap.html) is very helpful.
der Brucer
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Here is a picture of Anthony from his production of Beauty and the Beast in Virginia (when he was feeling better)
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And for those who didn't, this HEROES EPISODE GUIDE (http://www.tv.com/heroes/collision/episode/861501/recap.html) is very helpful.
der Brucer
Thanks for posting this link. I never knew (or picked up on the fact) that the younger brother of the politician could take on the powers of someone that he was near. I thought that I had seen all the episodes (so far), but I guess I missed that one. :-\
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4.00am here!
New pics of Michael B and Ben. WOW.
Warm and gentle hugs for Anthony.
Just blame it on Jose BK.
The West Coast crew were of course wonderfully welcoming. They are Kimlets after all so expectations were indeed met and surpassed.
MusicGuy. After 30 years of shared domesticity Colin has indeed taken quite an interest in all that is talked about here. He's even given up watching sport. (well not really but I can hope).
He does not like "Beaches" nor "Steel Magnolias" but is a Streisand fan. We do have the same tastes in theatre, film and music - mostly. And he loves Jose - but then so does everyone - I blame Jose)
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Article on Pogue's return to the stage. It could have used some fact-checking as several of the details are wrong, but it's more or less accurate:
www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/performing_arts/15803673.htm
Some observations:
The posters for those three films hang in the basement office of the Georgetown home, where he and his wife, Julianne, have lived since last year.
They hang right beside the Iron Maiden from Crucifer of Blood.
"He was always scribbling something," Leasor says.
I don't believe a word! Pogue, "scribble"!
Now St. Peter has Pogue on his stage.
The finest in eschatological theatre.
Even Pogue, who is not shy about positive self-assessments..
Poof Proof positive that the writer has met the subject!
der Brucer
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For more photos of Pogue's Underpants, go to:
www.larryneuzelphotography.com
Photos need captions:
(http://www.larryneuzelphotography.com/Underpants/thumbnails/AGLUP101806-C008.jpg)
Change one more word and you die!
(http://www.larryneuzelphotography.com/Underpants/thumbnails/AGLUP101806-C044.jpg)
Don't rearrange the books, Please!
(http://www.larryneuzelphotography.com/Underpants/thumbnails/AGLUP101806-C049.jpg)
Wake us when you're done with her notes!
(http://www.larryneuzelphotography.com/Underpants/thumbnails/AGLUP101806-C096.jpg)
I'll give you "non-union!"
(http://www.larryneuzelphotography.com/Underpants/thumbnails/AGLUP101806-C097.jpg)
Please - you can't make Princess of Mars an alien drag queen!
All of which beggers the issue: Pogue - Jockey or Boxers?
der Brucer
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4.00am here!
And he loves Jose - but then so does everyone - I blame Jose)
Thanks to Jose, HHW will be called "Home for Home Wreckers"!
der Brucer
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Here is a picture of Anthony from his production of Beauty and the Beast in Virginia (when he was feeling better)
Looks like a scene from "MASS APPEAL"
der Brucer
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Very tired BoyzfromOZ catching up on sleep before catching up on 5 weeks of HHW.
We still blame everything on Jose.
I recall filling in for Jose during our visit in Portland. ;D
Glad you are home safe-relax & sleep for awhile.
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Ben-GREAT NEWS Anthony is on the mend.
Elmore& Bruce-nice photos.
Edisauris, before flying with a cold take a decongestant at least half an hour before take off. Just before take off, use a nasal spray.
I must get ready for our last round of company. At least I hope it’s our last round for awhile. I’ll return after they leave.
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CP-I enjoyed the links, wish I could see you in person.
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Der Brucer, love the captions how did you manage to post the pictures without the photographer's logo printed over it? Hope you don't get in trouble for any unauthorized publication of them.
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AHA - Jane has learned Edi's tricks!
Jane, try deleteing #69, and if that doesn't work, delete #68
der Brucer
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Der Brucer, love the captions how did you manage to post the pictures without the photographer's logo printed over it? Hope you don't get in trouble for any unauthorized publication of them.
I didn't copy the pictures, I just provided links to his website - the data is all still on his system.
der Brucer
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Hope you don't get in trouble for any unauthorized publication of them.
Also - notice that you can not make copies of the pics I posted! (The photographer site permits links but not copies)
der Brucer
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Okay, this is pretty freaky! What's going on with this page??
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Had a lively afternoon of viewing.
I began with DEXTER, another good episode with a man captured by the serial killer being disected bit by bit (but kept alive) just to toy with our serial killer hero. Such an intriguing, twisted show.
BTW, the loutish neighbor who was so uncivil to both Dexter and his girl friend, I was sure she would be Dexter's next victim. She wasn't, at least, not yet. I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of her, however.
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I'll chime in with that comment!
What's going on with this page. WEIRD!!
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On the business of CBS' shows starting late, I have a feeling my local CBS affiliate was playing a different game (perhaps the Panthers ) that ended later because COLD CASE didn't start here until 9:12. And since both CBS shows I recorded weren't shown in high definition, I have a feeling that local affiliate was simply recording the standard version and playing it on the digital HD channel a few minutes late. Thank goodness I did record that show after WITHOUT A TRACE, or I wouldn't have seen its ending.
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COLD CASE had a case of an autistic child helping to solve his parents' murder. The murderer's identity wasn't a big surprise, but how they got around to it using the code that the autistic child offered was very entertaining.
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WITHOUT A TRACE had the abduction of the girl friend and child of an Albanian mob boss. Very surprising end to this interesting man (actually woman and child) hunt.
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I have to say that my enjoyment of the two CBS shows was lessened by their not being in high definition. Yep, I know I'm spoiled rotten, but it just goes to show how accustomed one gets to seeing that level of sharpness and detail on network shows, and when it's taken away, it is missed, at least by me.
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This morning I was reading an internet review of THE OFFICE's second season disc set, the set I thought I had finished yesterday. In discussing the bonus features, the reviewer commented on the ten webisodes inculded on the disc.
Well, I didn't see ten webisodes yesterday. I saw four or five, so I went back to the disc's special features and sure enough, there was a second page of them that I had overlooked. So, I watched those this afternoon and saw the conclusion/solution of the missing $3,000. Glad to know that NBC did enough of these to bring the story to a logical end.
There was also another page of fake PSAs which I also had overlooked yesterday, and I enjoyed those as well.
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I have to say that my enjoyment of the two CBS shows was lessened by their not being in high definition. Yep, I know I'm spoiled rotten, but it just goes to show how accustomed one gets to seeing that level of sharpness and detail on network shows, and when it's taken away, it is missed, at least by me.
A. First, Blame Jose
B. Second, Blame the football nuts
HEIDI RULES!
der Brucer
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Okay, this is pretty freaky! What's going on with this page??
We need BK to fix the merged #68/69 posts.
Damn Jose!
der Brucer
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I had to remove post sixty-nine as it was doing unacceptable things to our family site.
Back from a good morning meeting and a jog and errands and such - have shaved, will now shower and then be on my way to our first rehearsal, then our partay. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.
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Another "I-told-you-so" moment:
SHARK is the next new series greenlit for a full season, just as I predicted last week.
One prediction I didn't make was THE GAME, a sitcom on the CW, which has also been given a full season order.
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Another "I-told-you-so" moment:
SHARK is the next new series greenlit for a full season, just as I predicted last week.
Could you try "predicting" the end of CBS Sunday Football, Please!
der Brucer
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Could you try "predicting" the end of CBS Sunday Football, Please!
der Brucer
Obviously, with the differing games being shown in different parts of the country, such predictions would be futile.
But it's the reason I detest football season on CBS. (Fox does it, too, but I don't watch any of their shows on Sunday night.)
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Off to clean the dining room and then settle in for a very full night of TV.
BTW, for those fans of Victor Garber's new series JUSTICE, a new episode does come on tonight at 9 on Fox.
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2nd flying trip
Flying from Montreal to Toronto. On airline that no longer exists. They were a turbo prop plane which landed on Toronto Island (Downtown) instead of the international airport. Flying time is only an hour. I was scheduled to leave on the 7pm flight. Plane problems. 8pm rolls around another flight is scheduled to leave. Instead of 7pm passengers leaving they allow the 8pm pasengers on. 9pm rolls around. (There goes my dinner engagement) No flight. We finally leave around 10pm and when we are up in the air we are told we have have to land in Ottawa (The Nation’s capitol.) due to a blizzard. Long story short We eventually landed around 1am and my whole evening was shot. But the employees were curt and rude and very unhelpful.
Part 2
Going back. The same two bozos were checking people in the depot. They were rude to pratically everyone. The whole experience with the airline was a nightmare. I wrote a letter to complain. I got answer back. One of the guys was fired and the other was suspended. And I was given a free round trip ticket. It was obvious that I wasn’t the only who complained.
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Save the cheerleader...
...save the World!
Well, as long as you insist on catchphrases...
May the Force Be With You.
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Play It Again, Sam.
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Beam Me Up, Scotty.
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To Infinity, and Beyond!
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To the Moon, Alice! To the Moon!
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E. T. Phone Home!
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Sock It To Me!
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Sorry About That, Chief!
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I'm King of the World!
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Be Afraid!
Be Very Afraid!
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Where's the Beef?
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If I Only Have One Life to Live,
Let Me Live It as a Blonde!
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Does She
Or Doesn't She?
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Take It Off!
Take It All Off!
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I Never Had Sex With That Woman!
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Bet'cha Can't Eat Just One!
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Nothin' Says Lovin'
Like Somethin'
From the Oven
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How about:
You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again!
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It's the Real Thing
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They're Magically Delicious!
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A Little Dab'll Do Ya!
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I Like Ike
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Who Are Those Guys?
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From The Land of Clear Blue Water
Water
Comes the Beer Refreshing
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Like Sands Through the Hourglass...
...So Are the Days of Our Lives.
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Good Morning,
And In Case I Don't See Ya,
Good Afternoon,
Good Evening, and
Good Night!
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BAM!
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What Is It, Fish?
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I Blame Jose
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Good night, Mrs. Callabash, wherever you are.
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WBBL
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Book lovers alert: if any of you belong to the History Book Club, they are having an incredible deal right now--every last one of their books is $9.99, plus if you spend over $20, you get $1.99 flat rate shipping. I have gone absolutely nuts and gotten a ton of great stuff (and like all the BOMC clubs, you're getting publishers' editions, not book club knockoffs). Stuff like the Columbia Encyclopedia (list price $125) or a compendium of every drawing and sculpture by Michaelangelo (again, $125) for a mere $9.99.
Also, if any NW denizens perchance have the major "one stop shopping" major retailer's credit card that just started up, if you've gotten your first bill, could you drop me a line? There's a very interesting anomaly that I don't want to post publicly; suffice it to say, when they say it has "rewards," they're not a-kidding. ;)
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Page Five Dance:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FRENZY!!!!!!![/move]
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I'm back!
What a swell time I had!
Will post lots of pictures (on photobucket.com, of course) after I've had a hot, steaming whirlpool bath and several pots of coffee. . .
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I am still awaiting information about DR td's unexpected encounter.
Great links, news stories, AND photos from DR CP. And if MR BK is going to Kentucky, he can always spend an hour or two at the World of Wisdom Bookstore signing some books!
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Indianapolis is in the neighborhood of Kentucky.
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S. Woody White - Come Home!
Come Home, S. Woody!
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All those posts about Pogue's underpants...and nary a link to a site where some inexplicably besotted person might purchase a pair.
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All those posts about Pogue's underpants...and nary a link to a site where some inexplicably besotted person might purchase a pair.
Vincent from Pwoject Wunway is working on the design. ::)
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TOD: Most awful trip - my DS was ill when we left and was ill the entire trip. We took him to two doctors during the trip. We found out later he had pneumonia.
Scariest trip - My DH took me up in a two-seat Cessna. I was scared to death.
Most painful trip -- I had a sinus infection. We took off and landed four times (Southwest Airlines), but saved a lot of money. It felt like ice picks in my head.
Most stressful trip (besides the two-seater) -- I was visiting MIL in Indiana when the kids called saying they found my mother passed away in her home. I was very stressed getting back, and was thoroughly wanded and searched at the airport, since I bought a one-way ticket home.
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For a surprise start to the photographic journey!
Bear #1 is "T'onto". He may look like a golf player from Ireland but when questioned he thought Tiger Woods was a character from "Peter Pan" and he has more of a Brooklyn accent than an Irish Brogue.
Bear #2 is "Miguel". San Francisco Rainbow Bear. Stange that he still has an accent from El Paso. He claims to know the way to San Jose. He is quite well known in certain Bars of special interest.
Bear ## is "Bro". He looks like a Bear with attitude but his name comes from being part of the Brotherhood of Mann. He is, despite being "Da Bear In Da Hood", quite a charmer but does have some rather strange conversation twists. He seems to be more at home with "American girl" and "Toys R Us" than with Rap Concerts. He claims to know someone quite important - "Victoria Elizabeth" from the Island of Long.
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Celebrity spotting in the Rodeo Drive area.
Screen Writer of numerous names and visiting Pastel artist Colin.
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I Am Not a Number!
I Am a Free Man!!!!!
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The Inside...
...Is Bigger...
...Than the Outside!
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Good afternoon DRs, and Esteemed BK --
this is a follow-up to TOD:
Best trips: Any number of vacation trips with DP Kerry to places like Paris, Nice, Rome, London, the Carribean, Australia, and others. Many of them cruise vacations (on a ship Jose !!), and some airline trips. Kerry has a knack for walking around neighborhoods, and stumbling upon interesting shops or restaurants.
Also, once I was on a return cruise from Australia to the U.S., and when the ship called in at Tonga, who got on board but Mr. Robert Morley and his wife. I ended up being invited to a couple of social things that they threw, and he was an absolute charmer and very friendly.
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I think S Woody White has had way too much coffee.
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I think S Woody White has had way too much coffee.
Or...he's letting off steam...or just having a good time.
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For a good time...
...call S. Woody!
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Everybody is a star...
....in some galaxy or other.
Some folks are their own galaxy!
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It has been a most unusual day.
The chiropractor was unusually cheerful this morning as he made a series of adjustments.
I'm both better-aligned and a bit sorish, as a result of the manipulations.
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I will say this: I have been in a significantly better mood lately than I've experienced in the past 15 years.
Everything old seems new again...and that's no mean feat!
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I'm misaligned and sore-ish due to spending 9 solid hours doing heavy yard work. Ouch all over!
But I am still able to proclaim that I think DR Pogue is the handsomest man in "Underpants".
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Thanks to S. Woody, I feel free to continue this line of maxims:
Everything old is new again!
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Everyone performing tonight and in the future:
Break a leg!
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Everything old is new again!
Except my body. Ouch.
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My worst trip was the return trip from Portland, ME. It started when we were at the airport in Portland and they needed a mechanic to fix something...a lightbulb or something simple, but the only mechanic lived 30 miles away and was still sleeping so we had to wait while they called woke him and he drove to the airport. I missed my connection in Chicago, finally got on a plane to Sioux Falls, we started smelling something funny, the plane turned around and the pilot announced we'd be returning to O'Hare because of smoke in the plane. When we approached the airport, there were firetrucks, ambulances etc and there were no other planes around that runway.
We landed fine and United brought in another plane and offered us $20 off our next flight on United...(gee isn't that generous) We got on another plane and on the way I can't remember what happened, but a woman was so frightened that she bit her tongue almost in half and they had to have an ambulance waiting for her at the airport when we landed.
I had a cough for several weeks from the smoke or whatever it was on the plane.
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Sorry it's late.
Happy Birthday.
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I am still awaiting information about DR td's unexpected encounter.
Like an unexpected song. . . .
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I had another flight on Republic, the old prop planes. It was really snowy and as we hit the runway in a small town (with a huge bump) the lights went out and the guy next to me dug his fingernails into my arm and then was very embarrassed when it turned out everything was ok
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I'm late for this too!
Welcome to all new DRs. Greetings, get well vibes and birthday wishes where appropriate.
If I go on holiday, the internet is not a "must do" for me.
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Oh No! An ALW reference td.
(at least it's from close to his best work!).
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Welcome home, Tomovoz! Glad you had a good trip!
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See Pictures of New York with td, EvilTwin, bk, elmoore, jonathan and JIM STANEK! ! ! !
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/october/
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. . .AND may I express my sincerest thanks (once again, but this time in a public place) to the esteemed bk; who provided so much entertainment, so many laughs, such great conversation, et cetera et cetera and so forth, on this very special (belated) birthday bash weekend. :)
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tomovoz, if you come back, I promise NO MORE ALW references. . . . :-X
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td - you might want to clear your
male mail in box.
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td - you might want to clear your male mail in box.
Why? what's it full of? ? ? ?
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Good morning, all! DR Ben, I'm happy Anthony is doing better. Next year he must call his doctor in September - as should you - about a flu shot! I think there's so much crap in the air that any corporal fortification is helpful.
Well, I have never met Corporal Fortification, but I would certainly like to meet him
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Hopefully, one or two of you took advantage of NBC's "Heroes" marathon last evening.
I did, and I loved it!
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Welcome home Tomovoz. I'm sorry I missed meeting you and Colin when you were in NYC.
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DR TOMovOZ - such wonderful photos....thanks especially for Ms Annette's STAR....so appropriate at this time of the year!
Now going back to peruse DR td's file of fo-toes.
West Coast HEROES fans - another exciting, baffling, and satisfying episode is coming your way!
Hope everything is going well in MR BK'S BIZZY DAY....
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Article on Pogue's return to the stage. It could have used some fact-checking as several of the details are wrong, but it's more or less accurate:
www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/performing_arts/15803673.htm
A very nice article and a great photo of you, Mr. Pogue. Very sexy.
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For more photos of Pogue's Underpants, go to:
www.larryneuzelphotography.com
Apparently, false advertising!
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DR td - what wonderful pictures!!! Love them all....my favorite is the one of YOU in Times Square!!!
And I really like the BREL poster! Wow! Interesting statuary as well.
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I Am Not a Number!
I Am a Free Man!!!!!
My favorite TV show EVER! I even went to The Village (on the coast of Wales) several times. This is it, my favorite place in the world:
http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/
"This fantastic acropolis is an architect's dream fulfilled -- a glorious medley of Italy, Wales, a pirate's lair, Cornwall, baroque, reason and romance."
-- Christopher Hussey
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DR EDISAURUS - DeepDiscountDvd has the PRISONER Mega Set on sale for about $86 - and it's in the Buy One Get One Free Group - so you can get something else along with it....if you don't have it already!
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Apparently, false advertising!
I've been wary of entertainment advertising since I was promised an actual ATTACK in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN. 8)
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See Pictures of New York with td, EvilTwin, bk, elmoore, jonathan and JIM STANEK! ! ! !
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/october/
You forgot to mention Martin Mull.
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Speaking of lookalikes, anyone else notice that BK's NYC assistant Jonathan looks almost exactly like Tom Kitt, who played the piano for Alice Ripley at Town hall when she did the song from FEELING ELECTRIC?
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You forgot to mention Martin Mull.
He is always around when DR td is having his pitcher made. ;D
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Speaking of lookalikes, anyone else notice that BK's NYC assistant Jonathan looks almost exactly like Tom Kitt, who played the piano for Alice Ripley at Town hall when she did the song from FEELING ELECTRIC?
It is an association of giants when MR BK is the shortest person in the photo! 8)
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I'll say what some others must be thinking - Pogue looks even better today in his Underpants attire than he did in his much-ballyhooed loincloth Shakespearean beefcake shot from years back (which we haven't seem in a while and is due for a return visit, no?)
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I enjoyed another CSI: NY from the first season boxed set. This one involved two cases - robbery and murder at a cafe and the death of an amputee. Both stories ended up being quite sad.
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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER had two wonderful guest stars tonight: Jane Seymour and Bryan Cranston, and both were marvelously funny. ENjoyed the show tonight very much.
I'd have to say if one series has improved for me from its first to its second year, it has been this one.
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THE CLASS had a better episode tonight, too, not dealing much with adultery as past episodes have done. Comedy was at the forefront, and I laughed at some of the shenanigans.
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HEROES was another excellent episode, and I frankly found some light at the end of the tunnel with it tonight. Things are starting to mesh, characters are interacting a lot more and in interesting ways, and the story is starting to take on a grandeur I wouldn't have thought was going to happen.
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And STUDIO 60 had its best episode in weeks, too, as we got to know some of the staff better. Also had a touching story with Eli Wallach as primary guest star this week. Just wonderful.
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Tomorrow will come JUSTICE, OLD CHRISTINE, and CSI: MIAMI. Looking forward especially to seeing JUSTICE again. I'll be curious to see the overnight ratings for it tomorrow.
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And STUDIO 60 had its best episode in weeks, too, as we got to know some of the staff better. Also had a touching story with Eli Wallach as primary guest star this week. Just wonderful.
Eli Wallach? I thought he had died.
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Eli Wallach? I thought he had died.
He's in his 90s, I believe, but he hasn't died.
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Now, I'm heading off to bed.
Good night!
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Page Seven ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS Dance!!!
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Thank you Dear Reader Laura. Always great to be back home. More photographs will be posted.
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Just wanted to say a "good evening" hello to all and sundried here in the Living Room. I'm gonna watch Studio 60 in a half hour, and then fall over and snooze.
Thanks for the NYC pictures TD.....I'm probably the only human being who doesn't know who Jim Stanek is ???
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He is always around when DR td is having his pitcher made. ;D
I just can't get away from that Fernwood guy, can I? ? ?
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Thanks for the NYC pictures TD.....I'm probably the only human being who doesn't know who Jim Stanek is ???
y.w., and . . .you're really NOT the only one who doesn't know who Jim is, but, I've known him since - get this - 1989 (well, that's the year that came up in our conversations), so, I've known him for a very, long time and have had the pleasure of watching his talent grow as much as his family. . . .
Incidentally, I came upon a LESTAT souvenir program at one of the Broadway shops, which Jim inscribed. Jim saved his best for the BREL Playbill though, where he crossed out JACQUES BREL and replaced them with TONY DALE as well as crossing out PARIS, to replace it with CHESWICK. He's such a card!
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Oh, yeah, I'm hooked!
Now, I can't wait for Monday nights!
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Now...more than ever....
Save the Cheerleader....
....Save the World!
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And if you can't save her, then at least buy her a new outfit!
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Re: Tonight's "Heroes" --
SPOILER
SPOILER
Loved the flying sequence. Adrian Pasdar's character is certainly becoming more interesting. And Hiro is a wonderful character.
It was interesting tonight to see Peter taking on other abilities. While I understand the idea is out there that he only takes on the powers of those he's near, I think it's too early to be certain he's that limited. It's possible that he, of all of them, may possess multiple abilities (and may be the anti-Sylar). Hiro certainly believes Peter to be essential to the future...so he obviously has great gifts.
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Thanks for the NYC pictures TD.....I'm probably the only human being who doesn't know who Jim Stanek is ???
Not at all. I saw the San Francisco pre-Broadway "Lestat" and simply don't recall him by name. Which part did he play?
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Lots of posts about housecleaning, lots of posts about what has been viewed... and that's just from DRMatt!!!
Also from DR Matt...lots of posts that aren't critical of what other people write.
;)
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Finally back home after a REALLY long day. Shall now write Ye Olde Notes and tell you all about it.