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Title: TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 12:09:38 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes both pooped and popped, and now it is time for you to post until the too pooped to pop cows come home.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 12:11:07 AM
And the word of the day is: SAPIENT!
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Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 12:14:35 AM
And now - Dino at the piano.

I hope new dear reader singingnymph will figure out that the topic changes at midnight when the new notes are posted.  And I do hope singingnymph will stick around and join our merry troupe and perhaps even come to LA to see The Brain From Planet X in December.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 03, 2006, 12:16:16 AM
No DR FJL.  I did not ask her about her relationship with Goofy.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 03, 2006, 12:17:56 AM
Is there a parade in town?
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 03, 2006, 12:18:55 AM
Cute!
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 03, 2006, 12:19:42 AM
TOTD:

DVD - "Rent"
CD: - "Gray Gardens"
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 12:20:12 AM
And now - Dino at the piano.

I hope new dear reader singingnymph will figure out that the topic changes at midnight when the new notes are posted.  And I do hope singingnymph will stick around and join our merry troupe and perhaps even come to LA to see The Brain From Planet X in December.
Oh, I did! And oh, I hope so too! I rather miss living in LA (actually it was the Valley, but close enough).
And no, we haven't met, nor danced. And I haven't sung for you, but Jeff Harlan once promised we'd sing Mustang Sally as a duet.

Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 12:28:12 AM
Jeff Harlan - perhaps my favorite Dancing Dildo.
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Post by: George on November 03, 2006, 12:28:35 AM
In my VCR:  tapes to tape tonight's shows, "Ghost Whisperer," "Las Vegas" (a guilty pleasure ;)), "Doctor Who" and "Battlestar Galactica."  I am ushering tonight for the Warren Miller movie again.  I worked concessions last night but I didn't watch any of it.  I will get to watch some of it tonight.

In my DVD player:  "Grey Gardens."  I was thinking that I might've been able to watch it a few days ago, but it didn't happen.

In my CD player:  "Grey Gardens."  I listened to it yesterday and want to hear it again.
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Post by: George on November 03, 2006, 12:31:26 AM
And now, I'm going to bed.  Good night. :)
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 12:33:53 AM
Jeff Harlan - perhaps my favorite Dancing Dildo.
Hehehehe.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 12:40:19 AM
Alas, this is where Dame Edna (my fairy godmother) turns me into a pumpkin. Good night!
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 03, 2006, 03:23:39 AM
And the word of the day is: SAPIENT!
Casey would waltz
With a SAPIENT blonde...
Well, at least she knew how to keep him from stepping on her toes!
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 03, 2006, 03:34:55 AM
Sadie wasn't feeling very SAPIENT when she was getting dressed yesterday morning.  She was so hung over that she was totally INEPT AS she tried to take A STEP IN her PANTIES, tripped, and went crashing to the floor.  She should be waking up again any time now.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 03, 2006, 03:55:37 AM
TOD:

DVD - Dinosaurs, the Complete First and Second Seasons.  I just finished watching the first season yesterday.  A warm-hearted family sit-com... if a show about reptiles, which are cold-blooded, can be warm-hearted.

I promise I won't keep repeating the show's catch-phrase, "Not the Momma!"


Car CD player - some Mario Frangoulis on our way up to pick up the grandlads from school, and the London Cast of Mary Poppins as we went from Dover to their home.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 03, 2006, 04:02:29 AM
Speaking of the grandlads, their table manners have deteriorated alarmingly.  Not that their table manners were all that great before, but when der B and I took them to a fairly nice buffet restaurant we've been to before, all they really wanted to do was blow bubbles in their sodas and egg each other on with talk about poop and fart noises.  I'm amazed they ate anything at all.  It was like they were both on sugar rushes or something.

They are very different from each other, however, something their Magic Mommy doesn't seem to understand.  Sure, Alex gets great grades, something that comes to him naturally.  But, just because William isn't following exactly in his brother's footsteps doesn't mean he's stupid.  William is the one with the fantastic imagination, which makes him just as smart, if not smarter, in my book.  Fortunately, they've both got great teachers (part of why we picked them up at school was so that der Grampa could meet with said teachers).
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Post by: Michael on November 03, 2006, 04:29:00 AM
No plans this weekend to watch or listen to anything. I am off to the "wilds" of Canada to visit my parents and other family members in Montreal. This will be the last time this year and probably will not get up there until the spring.

Therefore I cannot guarantee I will be around much here for the next few days, but I will try.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 03, 2006, 04:30:22 AM
Happy Travel Vibes, Michael S.

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And it's time I headed in to work.

Hopefully, I'll catch up when I get back.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 03, 2006, 05:15:09 AM
Good morning, all!  Before I head to Oxford, Ohio, I have a dozen errands to run with my dad.  He's come so far from last June, that I'm really happy.  Of course, after being with him for an hour in the car, I'll want to kill him and throw his body to the side of the road.

DR FJL, the 18th is definite?  Excellent!  No, I don't mind Rebecca knowing.  I'll email her before I go so that she'll put my name on the backstage lsit.

DR Jane, they don't ALL die in the end of the book, but theArthurian legend doesn't end very happily for anybody.  I think I still like THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING better than MISTS OF AVALON, but it was sure a good read.  I also liked Steinbeck's unfinished adaptation of Mallory.

BK, not having a musical director around to drum harmonies into your cast's heads is a disadvantage.  He should be around working music while you're working on something else.

TOD:  I brought four CDs with me: GISELLE, ZIGEUNERBARON, CARMEN, and Mr Kimmel singing the entire score and several outtakes of "The Brain."  I listen to them in my car's DVD player.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 03, 2006, 05:16:01 AM
No plans this weekend to watch or listen to anything. I am off to the "wilds" of Canada to visit my parents and other family members in Montreal. This will be the last time this year and probably will not get up there until the spring.

Therefore I cannot guarantee I will be around much here for the next few days, but I will try.

Have fun, DR Michael S!  Watch out for wendigos, and come back safely!
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Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 05:20:31 AM
Jeff Harlan - perhaps my favorite Dancing Dildo.

That's what I call bragging rights!
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Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 05:21:30 AM
Glad your Dad is doing well, Lar!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 06:30:50 AM
DR ELMORE is within a few hundred miles of me!

What does one do to become a Favorite Dancing Dildo....or not do, as the case may be?

Well it certainly sounds as if MR BK had a bizzy day on Thursday....but accomplishing MUCH, so it was time well used.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 06:31:12 AM
DR MS is off to north of the border....
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 06:32:24 AM
TOD:

VCR:  Grey Gardens from TCM
DVD: Teomara, a Pasolini film starring Terrance Stamp
CD:  Simply Sondheim

Good news about the preorders for Emily/Alice.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 06:32:59 AM
No, Troy Donahue, DR EDISAURUS.  As far as I know - Cowboy Troy hasn't made the leap to the big screen.  As far as I know....
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Post by: FJL on November 03, 2006, 06:35:20 AM
After all the discussion yesterday, i think i'm going to wear a clean shirt to see my brother today.  Or at least a clean sweater.
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Post by: FJL on November 03, 2006, 06:42:07 AM
Elmore - yes, Saturday the 18th evening performance is definite.  
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Post by: MusicGuy on November 03, 2006, 06:44:19 AM
Good morning dear Esteemed, dazzling, and frenzied BK --

Just my quick note to say a hearty hello, before charging out the door yet another 10 hour work day.  I'll be very glad when it is about a week from now.

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Post by: FJL on November 03, 2006, 06:44:30 AM
I won't say anything again about wishing it were Dec. 8th already, but I think I'll put "California Dreamin'" into my CD player.  :)
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Post by: MusicGuy on November 03, 2006, 06:46:04 AM

And a good morning to all of the lovely, sultry, strapping, delicate, and macho H/Ks here . (You can all choose whichever adjectives you prefer).

DP Kerry just said " ...say hello for me, and tell everyone I'm shaving."

DP Kerry says hello to everyone, and by the way, he is shaving right now.
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Post by: MusicGuy on November 03, 2006, 06:49:58 AM
And the word of the day is: SAPIENT!

Well, I can't resist.  For the word of the day :

With all of the sad and evil "hate amendments" that are on ballots all across the country, trying to disguise themselves as needing to "save marriage" or "protect families,"  I just thought it would be nice to state that .........

I am a very proud and responsible homo sapient.  
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Post by: MusicGuy on November 03, 2006, 06:51:19 AM

and now,(because Dino already has grabbed the piano bench again) I am off to the salt mines to toil and slave.
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Post by: Jeanne on November 03, 2006, 07:12:22 AM
DR Elmore,
Glad to hear your good news about your dad. I do understand the desire to kill him and leave him by the side of the road! I took care of my dad during his last year and know how love and exasperation can exist side by side.
BK, do you remember my dad? In any case, he was always his most witty and charming self when BK was around. Funny, that. Ah, parents!
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 07:15:53 AM
Good morning!

Beautiful clear day out but naturally the cold front did move through and bring us typical November chill. No complaints. Once I'm out and about in it later this morning, it'll feel wonderful.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 07:16:04 AM
Strange Happenings in the Carolinas!

 Associated Press  (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227047,00.html)

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S.C. Man Gets 20 Years for Trying to Dig Up Girl's Corpse to 'Take Her Home and Have Fun'
Thursday , November 02, 2006
 
YORK, S.C. — A 23-year-old Clover man who police say tried to dig up the grave of a 12-year-old girl after seeing her picture in an obituary has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Bryan Nicholas Garcia never did find the girl's grave and told investigators he wanted to "take her home and have fun," Clover Police Lt. Randall Horn said.

Garcia pleaded guilty but mentally ill Wednesday to two charges of destruction of a graveyard. Circuit Judge John Hayes sentenced Garcia to 20 years in prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

Two mental evaluations found Garcia has a chemical imbalance in his brain that makes him want to have sex with corpses and children, defense attorney John Rhea said.

Garcia hasn't decided whether to appeal, Rhea said.
Garcia was arrested in May 2005 after running through a grocery store where he once worked in a full-length green coat, black sweater, camouflage gloves and a mask.

Officers searching his car found a black plastic bag, shovels, a pickax and other digging tools, prosecutor Dan Hall said.

Garcia then told police he was embarrassed because he had been trying to dig up the girl's grave, Hall said.
"He had seen the name of a little girl in the obituaries in the paper," Hall said. "He thought she was cute and he wanted to take her home."

Deputies went to the cemetery and found a hole about 3 feet deep. Garcia told them he dug at the cemetery twice, but never located the girl's body, Hall said.
Garcia, who was a National Merit Scholar at York High School, told the girl's family he was sorry. "I apologize to anyone I've hurt with my actions," he said.
Clover is about 20 miles southwest of Charlotte, N.C.

A few things come to mind:

20 years in prison for digging a hole is ridiculous!

I doubt any prison time will act as a deterrent to future criminals.

On the surface it would seem the guy is a certifiable nut! Why don't we tuck him away in a humane institution where he can at least get some treatment?

Did this guy have an adequate defense? - something our system should grant to the most egregious creep.

der Brucer

Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 07:16:58 AM
That is great news about your dad, DR Elmore.

Safe travels for DR Michael Shayne.

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Post by: Jeanne on November 03, 2006, 07:18:50 AM
DR MUSICGUY,
don't get me started on all those "hate amendments"! Thirty years with the same partner--now that is awesome!
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 07:19:19 AM
Friday Media Check:

CD - GYPSY (OCR)

DVD - ROBERTA
          TREASURE PLANET
          CSI: NY, discs 1 and 3

DVR - last night's MY NAME IS EARL
          last night's THE OFFICE
          last night's SMALLVILLE
          last night's SUPERNATURAL
          UNDERCURRENT
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 07:22:14 AM
Looks like GREY GARDENS got some very positive reviews in the places I've looked. I don't know how commercial the show might be, but with reviews like that, it looks like the show will get Tony consideration regardless of its run.
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Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 07:23:12 AM
FJL:  Herringbone had a nice write up in this morning's Oregonian.  I guess I wasn't paying attention when it played here the first time (sorry), but Llew Rhoe and I collaborated when we were both part of the Wesley Balk Institute when it came to Portland years ago.  We kicked around a couple ideas for a full-length musical but none came to fruition.
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Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 07:23:52 AM
Looks like GREY GARDENS got some very positive reviews in the places I've looked. I don't know how commercial the show might be, but with reviews like that, it looks like the show will get Tony consideration regardless of its run.

I think Ebersole is the foregone conclusion for winner in Musical Actress already.
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Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 07:30:10 AM
I'm up, I'm up.  Guess I'll try to gird my loins or, at the very least, loin my girds and jog by eight.
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Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 07:42:17 AM
Media:  CDs:  well right at this moment I'm listening to the Celtic fusion band Kila.  But I've been trying to catch up on OCRs that I've gotten over the past several months (years?  :o ), so this week I've listened to Billy Elliot (fair to middling, better than most of John's theater stuff), the 70s Candide (oy--those Hershy Kay re-orchestrations make me kind of cringe, sorry--usually love Hershy), Grey Gardens (repeatedly), and, in the from the sublime to the ridiculous department, Debbie Does Dallas.  DDD was pretty bad, IMHO, but I LOL'd on track 69, the Orgasm Medley, because Blanche perked her little head up and started staring at the stereo (or, stereoing at the stareo) due to all the screaming and moaning emanating from it.

DVD:  just finished Leave Her to Heaven.  My, my, my Darryl Hickman's just the tiniest bit bitter in his commentary.  And Schickel actually managed to complete one or two sentences without 25 "ums" and "uhs" in between.  ;)
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 07:44:52 AM
I think Ebersole is the foregone conclusion for winner in Musical Actress already.

Probably so since she won all of the off-Broadway and shared off/on Broadway awards last year.

But, I won't make any predictions until we see what else opens this season. Donna Murphy supposedly had the Tony sewn up for WONDERFUL TOWN her year, too, but didn't go home with the prize.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 07:48:00 AM
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DVD:  just finished Leave Her to Heaven.  My, my, my Darryl Hickman's just the tiniest bit bitter in his commentary.  

In that child stars interview on TCM, he also admitted that Gene Tierney was the most impossible actor he ever worked with. At least he's being consistent in his condemnation of her.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 07:50:14 AM
After all the discussion yesterday, i think i'm going to wear a clean shirt to see my brother today.  Or at least a clean sweater.

I'll alert the media.  8)
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 07:50:19 AM
Strange Happenings in the Carolinas!

 Associated Press  (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227047,00.html)A few things come to mind:

20 years in prison for digging a hole is ridiculous!

I doubt any prison time will act as a deterrent to future criminals.

On the surface it would seem the guy is a certifiable nut! Why don't we tuck him away in a humane institution where he can at least get some treatment?

Did this guy have an adequate defense? - something our system should grant to the most egregious creep.

der Brucer



Der Brucer - our current criminal justice system has nothing to do with deterrence, it is only about retribution.  Because mental health is so underfunded  for some the only way to get mental health treatment is in prison, being sent to a facility without a conviction isn't in the budget.  
This guy pled guilty but insane, that's great where you can do it, he will get treatment
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Post by: MBarnum on November 03, 2006, 07:52:41 AM
I started watching that TCM child stars interview the other night...I must say that Darryl Hickman and Margaret O'Brien have both aged mighty well! They both look so young!
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Post by: MBarnum on November 03, 2006, 07:54:49 AM
Media Check:

CD: A couple of "Japanese Favorites" CDs

DVR: This weeks Jericho.

DVD: Episodes of of Ozzie and Harriett.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 07:55:39 AM
Media:  CDs:  well right at this moment I'm listening to the Celtic fusion band Kila.  But I've been trying to catch up on OCRs that I've gotten over the past several months (years?  :o ), so this week I've listened to Billy Elliot (fair to middling, better than most of John's theater stuff), the 70s Candide (oy--those Hershy Kay re-orchestrations make me kind of cringe, sorry--usually love Hershy), Grey Gardens (repeatedly), and, in the from the sublime to the ridiculous department, Debbie Does Dallas.  DDD was pretty bad, IMHO, but I LOL'd on track 69, the Orgasm Medley, because Blanche perked her little head up and started staring at the stereo (or, stereoing at the stareo) due to all the screaming and moaning emanating from it.

DVD:  just finished Leave Her to Heaven.  My, my, my Darryl Hickman's just the tiniest bit bitter in his commentary.  And Schickel actually managed to complete one or two sentences without 25 "ums" and "uhs" in between.  ;)

Ain't it the truth....and yes DR MATTH is correct, he states AGAIN his opinion of Miss Tierney.  And it ain't nice.

I can only say in her defense, she was doing a difficult role, she didn't have a particularly pleasant or supportive home life at the time, and probably the last thing on her mind was being pleasant to a kid she had to kill...  Hickman also stated that she was impossible to Cornel Wilde....so she was an equal opportunity bitch.

My guess is that when Zanuck wired the director that the lake scene was GREAT, he wasn't necessarily referring to Hickman....Tierney was in the scene, too.

Give me Dwayne anyday...his commentary with Michael Callan on CAT BALLOU is very funny.  ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 07:56:27 AM
A convicted murderer paroled from another state, killed a 16 year old girl in Indiana earlier this week.
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Post by: FJL on November 03, 2006, 07:57:43 AM
JRand - I haven't worn a media in a long time.  My shirt is at least an extra large.
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Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 08:00:24 AM
JRand - I haven't worn a media in a long time.  My shirt is at least an extra large.

Well, two mediums (a media) are at least an XL, don't you think?   ;D
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Post by: FJL on November 03, 2006, 08:03:33 AM
JMK - Thanks for the HERRINGBONE in Vancouver, WA alert.  Skip got to see this production in August and is very happy it's being brought back.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 08:04:14 AM
A convicted murderer paroled from another state, killed a 16 year old girl in Indiana earlier this week.

I think I'm going to pass on getting into this discussion.  I could go on about recidivism rates in murderers etc, but I won't.  ;)

What I've been wondering about lately are a string of fathers killing their wives or girlfriends (ie mother of children), the children and then themselves.  There have been a lot of them lately, at least around the midwest. The most recent I read about was a deputy sheriff who was exhibiting no symptoms of having problems. If they hate life and want to leave it, why not kill themselves and let everyone else live? This is something I just don't understand.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 08:06:15 AM
On a happier note, in 5 days the election will be over and the political ads will be off the air!
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 08:08:15 AM
TOD - nothing really, I've been listening to XM Radio, On Broadway - right now it's Mary Martin "I've Gotta Crow"
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 08:10:53 AM
Oh, my DVR has Grey Gardens and Hacking the Election - or whatever that new HBO doc on the voting machines is called. Haven't watched it yet
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 08:11:40 AM
The title of his new book is "Homo Sapient -- Myth or Fact" in which the writer discusses his belief that all homosexuals do not fully use the right sides of their brains, and that those who do may be guilty of a bit of homphobia themselves.








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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 08:12:03 AM
Happy Friday to ye all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 03, 2006, 08:12:14 AM
I'm stopping back in before I head to Miami Universitywhere I shall terrify the students from ever pursuing a career in the performing arts.

I had a lovely morning with my dad.  We first went to the DMV for him to get his new driver's license and register his vehicles.  I sincerely doubt he will ever be behind the wheels again (oy!) but I support anything that gives him a reason to thrive.  The poor man's deaf as a post, so when the DMV clerk asked him to read the column on the right, he responded with something like "what is it, fish?"  He needs new bifocals, so his right lens is shot to hell, his left lens is fine, but I really doubted he'd get a new license.  Well, he did!  All his vehicles are now registered and we are thrilled.

Next, a trip to the pharmacy for some refills.  That went smoothly, so we went out to see how the new hospital they're building not far from his property was progressing.  The property can only go up in value because of its prime near-hospital site, so he'll make a nice bundle when it sells.  From there, the post office, and now he's safely hme and I'm off to Miami U.

The whole trip was a good time for both of us.  I hope there will be many more.  He's already thinking about renewing his license in three years when he turns 88!

DR MattH, that was Alan Tudyk last night?  I missed the cast credits.  I saw him last year in SPAMALOT, and he was wonderful (Lancelot, as I recall).
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 08:14:12 AM

I taped my must-see programs last night but watched "Survivor" and "CSI" as each aired.

I say "watched", but I did "hear" all of it....I was sorting through YEARS of back paid invoices for cable, phone, calling card, power, insurance, etc., etc.

Outside of maintaining as many tax filings as I can get my hands on, the remander will be reduced to the last two years.  I'm wading through 11 years worth of stuff!
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:19:11 AM
Time for me to get offline and go do my Friday errands.

WBBL.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:21:42 AM

DR MattH, that was Alan Tudyk last night?  I missed the cast credits.  I saw him last year in SPAMALOT, and he was wonderful (Lancelot, as I recall).

Yes, it was Alan. I, too, saw him in SPAMALOT and was wildly impressed with him (and his physique which was gorgeous). We got to see those muscular arms several times last night. Yum!
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Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 08:26:58 AM
Back from an early-morning jog and am already pooped but hoping to pop anyway.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 08:30:38 AM
Sources disgaree on facts - but I like the news:

 TV Week (http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11008)
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ABC Wins Wednesday; CBS's 'Criminal Minds' GainsBy James Hibberd
CBS's crime drama "Criminal Minds" continued to gain steam Wednesday night, becoming the first scripted program to top ABC's "Lost" in total viewers and matching its best adults 18 to 49 delivery, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 9 p.m. drama's 5.0 rating helped CBS take second place for the night, along with 10 p.m.'s "CSI: NY" (5.4) and 8 p.m.'s "Jericho," which matched its lowest season-to-date performance (3.0).

But the  Charlotte Observer (http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/living/style/15917190.htm?source=rss&channel=charlotte_style) (wherever that is 8) says:

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Critics stumped -- `Criminal Minds' no loser
Up against the popular `Lost,' CBS drama steadily gaining viewers
SCOTT COLLINS
Los Angeles Times

HOLLYWOOD - CBS's "Criminal Minds" is a gory, creepy, serial-killer show. It's dissed by critics as a stapled-together knockoff of the network's many other crime dramas. Its mirth-free tone is epitomized by Jason Gideon, the grumpy, taciturn FBI profiler played by Mandy Patinkin. And it's up against the ultimate water-cooler show at 9 p.m. Wednesdays, ABC's mythologically complex "Lost."

Yup, conventional wisdom would dictate that "Criminal Minds," in its second season, should be moldering on TV's rubbish heap.

So why is the series growing into a bona-fide hit that last week delivered its most-watched episode, with 16.8 million total viewers, just a shade behind the still-formidable "Lost" (17.1 million), according to Nielsen Media Research?

GO MANDY!

der Brucer










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Post by: Ginny on November 03, 2006, 08:32:54 AM
Friday morning greetings!  Thanks to my wussburgering last night, I'm much refreshed and back at work.  It's a catch-up day at my desk before an all information-waitressing day tomorrow.

TOD - nothing in particular at the moment, but last night I had DH Richard move a bunch of chick flicks to the top of our Netflix list.  He's off tomorrow for his week at Nashotah House, so I'll watch them while he's gone.

Right now, courtesy of my iPod, Bryn Terfel is singing Welsh in my ears.

DR Elmore - have fun at Miami U (the campus should be in its autumn splendor today) and don't scare those poor preppies too much!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 08:34:21 AM
I started watching that TCM child stars interview the other night...I must say that Darryl Hickman and Margaret O'Brien have both aged mighty well! They both look so young!


Margo Channing: Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.


Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 08:35:32 AM
Der Brucer - our current criminal justice system has nothing to do with deterrence, it is only about retribution.

Well that ain't the way it's 'posed to be!

Seriously, is the fault:

DA's reacting to perceived public opinion?
Vengeful jurors?
Reprehensible Judges>

(We'll give incompetent defense a pass, for now).

der Brucer

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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 08:43:12 AM
Der Brucer ... Because mental health is so underfunded  for some the only way to get mental health treatment is in prison, being sent to a facility without a conviction isn't in the budget.  
This guy pled guilty but insane, that's great where you can do it, he will get treatment

Are you sure? There was a recent case that caused a lot of commotion over at "The Factor" where the judge sent the convicted sex-offender out on probation because he would not receive treatment in prison. (The state appealed, the prison system agreed to provide treatment, and the judge changed his sentence to imprisonment).

der Brucer

PS It also seems that someone who is truly mentally ill should be treated in a very different environment than the usual prison. (And yes, I'd pay more taxes to make it so!)
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 08:43:28 AM
DR FJL - clothing sizes are just a state of mind.  It says XL in my sweaters....but my mind still says Media.

Hurray DR CILLA LIZ....yes only five more days of Political Ads....thanks for reminding me.  
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 08:44:26 AM
Margo Channing: Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.




And then she throws a spoon, which I always thought was a little homage to that song from KISS ME KATE....

Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: bk on November 03, 2006, 09:33:20 AM
I shall now be on my way to Teddy and haircut, then to Vinnie's and mix, then to rehearsal and rehearse, then to opening night and viewing a play.  After which, I shall return.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 09:42:02 AM
MR BK - there's a "buy" in your great book-signing email that should be a "but."
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 09:42:38 AM
What would a play titled INTIMATE APPAREL be about, I wonder?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 09:47:06 AM
What would a play titled INTIMATE APPAREL be about, I wonder?


...ummmm...how about a person who suggests proper clothing for people to wear?

(i.e., "Whenever he felt the compulsion, he would approach the clueless and intimate apparel that would be more flattering on them...")

The "Think Pink" song from "Funny Face" is sort of what the songs would be like if it were to be musicalized.

For instance, "Nice Tie":

[Patter}
"Nice tie"
"'scuse me?
"Nice tie"
"No tie!"
"Oh! My!"
"Must tie"
"But Why"....and so forth....intimating, as it were, a piece of apparel that SHOULD be on the person's body at the time.

"Nice Bra", for example, for those who actually need one.







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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 09:47:40 AM
What would a play titled INTIMATE APPAREL be about, I wonder?
Lingering in the Lingerie?
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 09:48:04 AM
MR BK - there's a "buy" in your great book-signing email that should be a "but."


Perhaps it's a marketing tool...a subliminal "suggestion," as it were....






Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 09:56:07 AM
Oh, I oughta print this one out & take it to school with me to show the kids I work with.

Nov 2, 11:21 PM EST
Teen Points BB Pistol at the Wrong Car

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- A teenager pointed his BB pistol at the wrong car. The car stopped and the two men inside pulled out their real .40-caliber Glock handguns. They were undercover police driving an unmarked car.

They ordered Ryon Shelton, 15, of Cedar Rapids, to drop his gun, police said.

"They thought it was a real gun," police Lt. Kenneth Washburn said. "He dropped the gun and attempted to run and was apprehended."

Shelton told officers he was "just playing around" and trying to scare people during the Halloween night incident, police said.
   
He was cited for assault while displaying a dangerous weapon and released to relatives, police said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FAKE_HANDGUN?SITE=OHRAV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Post by: Ben on November 03, 2006, 10:00:03 AM
This might answer your question, JR.

Intimate Apparel (http://www.lacitycollege.edu/public/news/intapparel.htm)

I saw the show when it played in New York. It was part of Roundabout's Off-Broadway season a couple of years ago. I thought it was quite good.

Here is a more full synopsis. The blurb is more a press release announcing the show. It just mentions in passing the plot.

Imagine yourself an African-American woman in 1905 when the cut and color of one’s dress – and, of course, skin – determined whom one could and could not marry, sleep with, even talk to in public. Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she’s saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for. The Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth holds her heart and she his, but the impossibility of the match is obvious to them both. The other man is George, a lonesome Caribbean man with whom she corresponds. Will her dreams come true? Or must she refashion her dreams and make them anew from the whole cloth of her life’s experiences? An engaging and moving work, Intimate Apparel is the most produced play in American regional theatre during the last two years. Why? Nottage's play is filled with sharp dialogue, an attractive historic setting, keen insights into class and race relations, and a strong, sympathetic heroine.
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:03:53 AM
Nice. I looked it up at the Samuel French site & while they have it, they didn't have a synopsis.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 10:14:38 AM
Thanks, DR BEN....hmmm...interesting.

Of course, it could have been called HOME MADE UNDERPANTS!
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:34:16 AM
Well that ain't the way it's 'posed to be!

Seriously, is the fault:

DA's reacting to perceived public opinion?
Vengeful jurors?
Reprehensible Judges>

(We'll give incompetent defense a pass, for now).

der Brucer



Actually you can't give incompetent defense a pass.  Being a defense lawyer, nothing bothers me more.  We are the ones who stand between the government and the citizens accused of crime. If you don't want to do it right, get another job.

I don't know the case.  I can tell you that the mood in the country and in most prosecution offices - well at least federal - is to get everyone you can with them most serious offense you can and give them the most time you can.  

There are very good prosecutors out there who use reason and common sense and understand that although someone can be techincally guilty of an offense, their circumstances make that particular case different from other cases. But, that sensibility is becoming the exception rather than the rule, which it seemed to be when I started doing this 20 years ago.  This is important because there has been a shift away from giving the discretion at sentencing to a judge and toward giving that power to prosecutors through the way the charge an offense.  If an offense is charged that has a minimum of some sort and a person is technically guilty of it - there is nothing a judge can do, and absent winning an acquittal, nothing a defense lawyer can do either.  

Now - I know I am generalizing, but this is my view. Many prosecutors today are young. They have never had a real person as a client, (a victim isn't a client, it's a witness, so they don't have the same relationship and often only see them maybe once or twice - not at all like TV) so they tend to not make the human connection between the names on the paper and the person they have the power to give another chance to or send away for essentially the rest of his or her life and the family members, community members etc who will be effected by whatever happens to that person. Many view it more as a game of wits between lawyers. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "You got me this time, but I'll win the next one"

As far as the insanity issue, in many jurisdictions, you can be very mentally ill and not be considered insane.  To be insane you have to not know the difference between right and wrong and not be able to conform your behavior to those standards.  And if you know what a judge does, what a prosecutor does, what a defense lawyer does and what you are accused of - you are considered competent. Many who probably are insane are medicated by the time of trial and jurors don't believe it because the person seems quite normal sitting in the court room.

The problem with the insane label or the incompetent label is that you can end up being locked in a mental health facility for a much longer period of time than you would be if you simply went to prison on the charge.

I don't know if that answers your question.  I guess the short answer is in my opinion the criminal justice system has lost a lot of humanity and in cases, such as the one you pointed out, may be causing more harm than doing good.  

Of course there are people who do truly reprehensible things on purpose etc but those are easy cases to understand the penalties imposed, I'm not talking about those.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:36:08 AM
Are you sure? There was a recent case that caused a lot of commotion over at "The Factor" where the judge sent the convicted sex-offender out on probation because he would not receive treatment in prison. (The state appealed, the prison system agreed to provide treatment, and the judge changed his sentence to imprisonment).

der Brucer

PS It also seems that someone who is truly mentally ill should be treated in a very different environment than the usual prison. (And yes, I'd pay more taxes to make it so!)


Then perhaps you need to talk to your elected officials and ask them to do that!
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:38:25 AM
Are you sure? There was a recent case that caused a lot of commotion over at "The Factor" where the judge sent the convicted sex-offender out on probation because he would not receive treatment in prison. (The state appealed, the prison system agreed to provide treatment, and the judge changed his sentence to imprisonment).

der Brucer

PS It also seems that someone who is truly mentally ill should be treated in a very different environment than the usual prison. (And yes, I'd pay more taxes to make it so!)


There are very few prison facilities that provide sex offender treatment.  Last I knew there is only one in the federal system, don't know if every state has that type of treatment or not
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:39:08 AM
OK, Enough of this serious talk, I'll talk more about it via email if you want to, but I don't think everyone wants to talk about this all day
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:43:37 AM
I want  to talk about FOOD!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:43:58 AM
Food, glorious food!

Lunch is one hour away....and I'm HONGRY!
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:46:06 AM
I just had breakfast for lunch.  I was starving for a big breakfast so I had 2 eggs over medium, wheat toast, sausage patties and hash browns with a piping hot cup of coffee.  Yum!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:47:06 AM
Yesterday, we went to the Oakland Museum.

I had the meat loaf, with the rosemary roasted potatoes and the salad.  I also had a bowl of lentil soup.

It was fine.  But it wasn't extraordinary.

I want something that excites my taste buds.  I want something that titillates my senses.

I want complementary flavors singing a new song on my tongue.

Sigh.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:47:48 AM
I topped it off with 2 snack size Snickers bars left over from Halloween
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:48:12 AM
I want a place that serves sushi & tiramisu.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:48:23 AM
I just had breakfast for lunch.  I was starving for a big breakfast so I had 2 eggs over medium, wheat toast, sausage patties and hash browns with a piping hot cup of coffee.  Yum!


I LOVE breakfast for lunch.  And for dinner, as well.

It's a good thing you didn't say those sausage patties were piping hot....'cause I'd have had to suggest they might originally have been a piccolo player!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:49:01 AM
I want a place that serves sushi & tiramisu.


How about tiramisushi?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:49:51 AM
I topped it off with 2 snack size Snickers bars left over from Halloween


And THAT'S what all my peers are complaining about right now...the leftovers (far fewer kids showed up this year than last)...and now they're snacking on leftovers.

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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:50:25 AM
How about tiramisushi?
No thanks.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:50:37 AM
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yum
I love Greek food!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:51:21 AM
No thanks.


Awwww....nobody ever wants to try anything different!

 :-\
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:51:34 AM
....'cause I'd have had to suggest they might originally have been a piccolo player!
Well, the only good piccolo player *is* a dead one, after all.  ;)
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:51:37 AM
I LOVE breakfast for lunch.  And for dinner, as well.

It's a good thing you didn't say those sausage patties were piping hot....'cause I'd have had to suggest they might originally have been a piccolo player!

Hey, watch what you say...I was a piccolo player
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:52:59 AM
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yum
I love Greek food!
Yum, bring me back some dolmas & baklava! ;D
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:53:47 AM
Awwww....nobody ever wants to try anything different!
 :-\
You go first.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:53:58 AM
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yum
I love Greek food!

Give me the simple Greek foods....bread, raw veggies and a bowl of tsatsiki.  A few stuffed grape leaves would be nice (dolma), and a nice bit of lamb, perhaps, on a skewer.

And then......



....................BAK-LA-VA!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ben on November 03, 2006, 10:54:23 AM
I love a good spinach pie and Moussaka
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:54:50 AM
Hey, watch what you say...I was a piccolo player


Avoid anyone who goes by the name of Lovett.

Even Lyle is suspect....
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:55:18 AM
I love a good spinach pie and Moussaka


Ohhh YES.  Now we're talkin'!
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:55:26 AM
They have a great festival every summer and someone always sneaks some real Ouzo in from Greece.  Boy will that knock your socks off
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 10:56:04 AM
The worst pies in London, from what I hear.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:56:42 AM
And nothing tastes as good to me as a Greek salad with the pitted black olives and feta cheese.....
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 10:56:53 AM
DR CILLALIZ - I always appreciate hearing from those in the trenches - who know more about EVERYTHING than those elected to an office....and stop listening to anyone....
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 10:57:43 AM
I have only had Ouzo once....but I could be talked into it again...quickly.  
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:57:47 AM
Is that a good segue back to Intimate Apparel (the knock your socks off, I mean)
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 10:58:09 AM
They have a great festival every summer and someone always sneaks some real Ouzo in from Greece.  Boy will that knock your socks off

Pour some ouzo on ice.....NICE.

(I had one major run-in with some ouzo one weekend.  Drank several ouzos on ice one Friday evening....got home somehow...and didn't wake up until Sunday afternoon.  I was not refreshed, either.  But that was many years ago...circa 1975, as I recall, and I was living in Voula, a suburb of Athens.)
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 10:58:16 AM
Strega with an ouzo chaser....then I would think I was in Rome even if I hadn't left my house.
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Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 10:58:49 AM
Media update:  contuing with catch-up of OCRs.  Just listened to [title of show].  Cute conceit, nothing remarkable in its execution (maybe I'm just too old, sorry); just a little (maybe a lot) too self-aware.  I give it a B-, tops.
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 10:59:05 AM
PICCOLO: the minute dimensions of this weapon make it especially lethal as it is easily concealed and can be set off just about anywhere.

As a solo weapon, this device emits a high-pitched squeal that directly targets the inner ear. The application of this tone temporarily disorients its intended victim rendering him unable to react. The natural reaction of covering one's ears to reduce the intense pain causes military personnel within a 100 yard radius to drop their weapons leaving them defenseless to further attack.

Applied in concert with a second piccolo of slightly higher or lower pitch, the weapons produce the effect of an ice pick through the eardrum and may cause profuse bleeding of the aural cavity. These weapons are constructed in three forms; metal, composite materials, wood, or any combination of the three. The all-metal piccolos are especially lethal.

The only countermeasure to this weapon is to apply psychological warfare in the following manner. Compliment the musician on her: clothes/hair/shoes. This will distract the musician(s) from emitting her deadly tones and cause her to gab endlessly about herself.

This in itself takes us to another problem man has dealt with for a thousand years and to which there is no antidote. Good Luck!

http://www.osbornmusic.com/jokes.html
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 10:59:38 AM
DR CILLALIZ - I always appreciate hearing from those in the trenches - who know more about EVERYTHING than those elected to an office....and stop listening to anyone....

Thanks.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 10:59:47 AM
The "mysterious" WhiteSheik has sent me another typo:

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Now, I'm not chiding, oh, no, I'm not chiding, buy many of you dear, dear people have NEVER attended a signing...

I guess there is no "but"s about it, I'm a STICKLER.

der Brucer (P.I.T.A.)
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Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 11:00:10 AM
And nothing tastes as good to me as a Greek salad with the pitted black olives and feta cheese.....
Just hand over the feta. YUM
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 11:02:11 AM
Just hand over the feta. YUM


"MINE!"
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 11:04:00 AM
MR BK - there's a "buy" in your great book-signing email that should be a "but."

PARDON ME! Pedantic nit-picking is my job.

der Brucer
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 11:13:00 AM
PARDON ME! Pedantic nit-picking is my job.

der Brucer

I stand corrected.   ;D
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 11:18:41 AM
I was trying to find the words the the poem that ends "And there I stood with my piccolo" not sure if Meredith Wilson wrote it or just used it in his autobiography. I love that.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 11:19:10 AM
Well, back to work.  Toodles
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 11:19:37 AM
Sunday I'm going to the Fall dinner at the Greek Orthodox Church....yum
I love Greek food!

I presume a "Fall" dinner at a church would involve lots of apples ::)

der Brucer
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Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 11:23:35 AM
I presume a "Fall" dinner at a church would involve lots of apples ::)

der Brucer

Unless you're "Curly Lip" Haggard, or whatever that mega-church loser is named.  He "fell" in a, shall we say, different way.  ;)
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 11:24:05 AM
I was trying to find the words the the poem that ends "And there I stood with my piccolo" not sure if Meredith Wilson wrote it or just used it in his autobiography. I love that.

Wilson wrote:

Quote
"An old Moravian flute player once told me a story that went like this: ‘A very important king hired a whole orchestra to play for him one night during his supper, just because he felt lonesome. The orchestra played great, and the king was so delighted that he said, ‘Boys, your music was great, and just for that, you can all go to my counting house and fill your instruments with gold pieces.’

"I can still hear that clatter as sack after sack of golden tiddlies streamed into the tuba and slithered down the neck of the bassoon and spilled out over the bells of the French horns.

"And there I stood with my piccolo."

der Brucer
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 11:37:23 AM
I took my harp to a party.
But nobody asked me play.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 11:37:41 AM
Twenty minutes on the Pro Form Air Walker....whew!
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Post by: George on November 03, 2006, 11:44:42 AM
PARDON ME! Pedantic nit-picking is my job.

der Brucer

And to quote Carly Simon, "Nobody does it better!"

;)
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 11:51:06 AM
Unless you're "Curly Lip" Haggard, or whatever that mega-church loser is named.  He "fell" in a, shall we say, different way.  ;)

Since you brought it up:
 LA TIMES (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-evangelical3nov03,0,5544522.story?coll=la-home-headlines)

[my comments]

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Evangelical leader steps down amid allegations
The Rev. Ted Haggard denies a man's public charges that the pastor of a mega-church had been paying him for sex.
By Stephanie Simon
Times Staff Writer

November 3, 2006

DENVER — The president of the National Assn. of Evangelicals resigned Thursday after his Colorado Springs, Colo., mega-church opened an investigation into allegations that he had repeatedly paid for sex with a male prostitute.

The Rev. Ted Haggard, who regularly consults with the White House on policy matters, told a Denver television station that he "never had a gay relationship with anybody" and had been faithful to his wife of 28 years.

[I believe him. Trading dollars for a BJ with a whore is not a relationship.]

A father of five who dresses in blue jeans and drives a Chevy pickup, Haggard is well-known, and widely praised, as an energetic, charismatic pastor who has pushed to expand evangelical

A lengthy profile in Harper's magazine — which is quoted approvingly on Haggard's website — recounts how he built New Life Church in part by hanging out at gay bars and inviting the patrons to come to his sermons and be saved.

[If I had a buck for every time I heard "I’m not queer, I'm just writing a book" I'd own a tropical island!]
...
Under Haggard's leadership, the National Assn. of Evangelicals, which has 30 million members, reaffirmed a policy statement that describes homosexuality as "a deviation from the Creator's plan" and calls same-sex relations a sin that, "if persisted in … excludes one from the Kingdom of God."

[And no doubt, puts them in the Ninth Circle along side the Elmer Gantry preacher-hypocrites that solicit sex from prostitutes ]
...

"We owe it to him to hear from him," Cizik said. "Let's not crucify the man until we've gotten the facts."

[I'll supply the hammer and nails!][size]

(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/03/05/20061103063309990001)

 AOL  (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/evangelical-leader-accused-of-gay-affair/20061102182309990027?ncid=NWS00010000000001) chimes in:
Quote
Evangelical Leader Accused of Gay Affair Resigns
By CATHERINE TSAI, AP

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 3) - The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has given up his post while a church panel investigates allegations he paid a man for sex.

The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after being accused of paying the man for monthly trysts over the past three years.

Church member E.J. Cox, 25, called the claims "ridiculous."
"People are always saying stuff about Pastor Ted," she said. "You just sort of blow it off. He's just like anyone else in the public eye."
[Seems some other things are getting "blown" off!]

Haggard, 50, was appointed president of the evangelicals association in March 2003. He has participated in conservative Christian leaders' conference calls with White House staffers and lobbied members of Congress last year on U.S. Supreme Court appointees after Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.
(http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/images/haggardposter.jpg)

der Brucer

Hope this makes MusicGuy's day.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 11:53:29 AM
And to quote Carly Simon, "Nobody does it better!"

;)

Thank you, dear.

Have you shared this site with your friends:

CANNIBAL LYRICS (http://www.allmusicals.com/c/cannibal.htm)

der Brucer
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 11:55:56 AM
Twenty minutes on the Pro Form Air Walker....whew!

And now for twenty more with your Accu-whatever 8)

der Brucer
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 11:59:50 AM
Just ordered MOUSE TRACKS discussed here a few days ago.  
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 12:01:51 PM
And now for twenty more with your Accu-whatever 8)

der Brucer

I use something else I bought from a television pitchwoman!

Thank you, ThighMaster.  8)
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 12:08:05 PM
Great choice of phrase:

An evangelical, defending Haggard on  BeliefNet (http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/jwalking/)

Quote
Jesus’ earthly representatives have a long history of blowing it. First, there is Peter...and then every other disciple follows his lead.

der Brucer

Tip of the hat to AndrewSullivan.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 12:08:59 PM
I use something else I bought from a television pitchwoman!

Thank you, ThighMaster.  8)

BRAGGART!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 12:11:46 PM
Almost worth a trip back West:

Quote
Log Cabin Republicans – Los Angeles Chapter
November 2006 Meeting
 
Featuring
 
Marc Cherry
 
Creator & Executive Producer of the hit television show "Desperate Housewives"
 
Monday, November 27
[/size]
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: FJL on November 03, 2006, 12:17:25 PM
Wasn't there actually a parody circulating called "The Worst Thighs in London," where Mrs. Lovett bemoaned her lack of, er, companionship?
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 12:20:16 PM
I presume a "Fall" dinner at a church would involve lots of apples ::)

der Brucer

No, not really, they just have a Spring Dinner and a Fall Dinner as fundraisers.  This is the Fall Dinner
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 12:21:32 PM
Wilson wrote:der Brucer

Thank you, kind sir. All this talk of piccolos remided me of it.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 12:26:18 PM
I use something else I bought from a television pitchwoman!

Thank you, ThighMaster.  8)

I used to have one of those, wonder where it went....probably hiding behind my thighs!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 12:30:45 PM
From a Conservative Newsletter (http://patriotpost.us/pub/06-44_Digest-print.htm)

Quote
Republicans have, however, focused their efforts on a constitutional amendment—that’s an amendment to the Constitution —when existing law has already decided the homosexual “marriage” issue smartly. They have touted an under-funded, over-hyped and possibly “virtual” border fence that should do a fine job of keeping dangerous Americans from sneaking into Mexico. Last and quite possibly least, Republicans have banned the export of horsemeat for human consumption, thus eliminating one of our most satisfying exports to France.

Glad to see that even in the darkest hours, some keep a sense of humor.

der Brucer

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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 12:37:59 PM
Wasn't there actually a parody circulating called "The Worst Thighs in London," where Mrs. Lovett bemoaned her lack of, er, companionship?

I like this from  Corey's Journal (http://www.coreyleigh.net/webjournal/2005/11/sweeney-todd.html)
Quote
The original production used a 27 member cast, and a 27 member full orchestra. This new production has merely ten cast members. To make things slightly more interesting, they are also the pit. Yes, that's right...Patti LuPone, playing Mrs Lovett, runs around stage hauling a tuba...in a miniskirt...showing off "the worst thighs in London". Yeah.

der Brucer

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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 01:00:02 PM
Since you brought it up:
 LA TIMES (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-evangelical3nov03,0,5544522.story?coll=la-home-headlines)

[my comments]

 AOL  (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/evangelical-leader-accused-of-gay-affair/20061102182309990027?ncid=NWS00010000000001) chimes in:
der Brucer

Hope this makes MusicGuy's day.


I heard on the news this morning that he was quoted as saying it was not a homosexual encounter -- that it was simply physical not emotional.

Ah...well, in that case...
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 01:02:29 PM
My lunch:   Chicken parmesan, herbed rice, stir-fried veggies.  Iced tea.  Side salad with bleu cheese dressing.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 01:09:04 PM
The  Associated Press (http://www.newswatch50.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=FAC7122C-CC2D-49F0-A02E-27B7E1F8D812) reports:
Quote
Haggard told reporters that he bought the methamphetamine for himself. He says, "I was tempted, but I never used it." Haggard told reporters he bought the meth because he was curious -- but that he then threw it away.

He also says he never had sex with Jones. He says he received a massage from him after being referred to him by a Denver hotel.

 Andrew Sullivan  (http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/11/haggards_story.html) chimes in:
Quote
So he bought - bought - crystal meth, and was alone naked in a hotel room with a male massage therapist who says he is a male prostitute. But he never snorted and he never screwed.


Anybody know a studio that will green-light this fictional tale?

der Brucer

Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 01:12:07 PM
...was not a homosexual encounter -- that it was simply physical not emotional.

Ah...well, in that case...

In that case...my "encounter" scorecard just took a precipitous drop!

der Brucer
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:21:06 PM
It never even remotely warmed up here, and with a chilly breeze blowing, well, it DID feel like fall when I was out and about. Wonder if it'll stay this way for a few days or will we go back to moderately high temperatures?
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:23:19 PM
Page Six Dachie Dance!!!


Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Rodzinski on November 03, 2006, 01:25:52 PM
The "mysterious" WhiteSheik has sent me another typo:I guess there is no "but"s about it, I'm a STICKLER.

der Brucer (P.I.T.A.)

Good thing I'm NOT a stickler or I would have pointed out DerBrucer's error in his post at 9:27 yesterday, wherein he clearly meant to say "do" instead of "to". Or his post of 2:37pm of Nov. 1, when he misspelled "uncivilized." A stickler might note this alarming trend of two errors in two days, but I never would  ;)
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:26:56 PM
I watched two episodes to finish the first disc in the CSI: NY boxed set. The first involved a death by pool cue.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:30:32 PM
The next involved the death of a debutante under mysterious circumstances. Both of these episodes featured (then) new cast member Anna Belknap who fit in amazingly well with a seasoned ensemble.
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Post by: Rodzinski on November 03, 2006, 01:32:52 PM
So glad that Tomovoz successfully navigated this country and made it back home. Such a fun guy to meet in person!
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:35:33 PM
Next I watched ROBERTA from the Astaire-Rogers box. ROBERTA has never looked very good on TV showing, and this transfer has some light scratches and is grainier than I would have expected. Fred and Ginger don't get to do as much together as they do in their other starring vehicles of the time. Ginger, however, is so glamorous and chic in the movie that she makes poor Irene Dunne look plain in comparison to her.

Ginger comes out in a gold lame gown during the first version of "I Won't Dance," and she is simply stunning. The number turns into a solo for Fred, of course, and we never see GInger in that dress again, but she is a real knockout in it.

I hate to admit it, but I do prefer the 1952 version of ROBERTA entitled LOVELY TO LOOK AT more than this version. Though at their best Astaire and Rogers are unbeatable as a team, I have to admit that Marge and Gower Champion's dance version of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in LOVELY TO LOOK AT is head and shoulders above Fred and Ginger's version in this film.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 01:41:06 PM
Powerful ‘Kiss’
 (http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/11-3/locallife/theater/theater.cfm)
Quote
From movie to musical, Oscar and Tony-winning ‘Spider Woman’ returns

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’
Through Nov. 25
Onstage Atlanta

(http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/11-3/locallife/theater/thea-spider.jpg)
Brian Porter (right) says that playing Molina to Luke Dreiling’s Valentin requires subtlety.

Perhaps Edisaurus can report back on the "subtlety".

der Brucer
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:41:27 PM
I finished my afternoon's viewing with "Stalit Days at the Lido," an early Technicolor short on the ROBERTA disc.

Obviously Natalie Kalmus made sure there was plenty of blue in this short to show that three strip Technicolor could reproduce blue beautifully (two strip Technicolor couldn't produce blue). Second and third tier stars of the time like Cliff Edwards, Arthur Lake, Buster Crabbe, Ben Turpin, Johnny Mack Brown, Francis Lederer, and others make appearances, and we even see a quick shot of Gable with his much older wife Rhea seated at a table.
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Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 01:46:48 PM
OK...I'm sorry if I've posted these lyrics before. They are from Roy Zimmerman, a political singer/songwriter in the tradiiton of Tom Lehrer---biting wit and supernal wordplay.

I think many DR's would enjoy his song, "Defenders of Marriage".  

Here's a snippet from his website, www.royzimmerman.com:

http://snipurl.com/defenders

and the lyrics:

Defenders of Marriage
words and music by Roy Zimmerman
© 1998 Watunes (BMI)
(From Comic Sutra - Live at Luna Park)

Every time we think about same-sex marriage
Makes us sick to our guts
I mean, two people who want to commit to a stable monogamous life-long relationship
What are they, nuts?
It's unnatural!
Now a man should not lie with a person who is a guy
He should only lie to his wife, the bible is clear
We're —
Defenders of marriage
In three-button suits
We'll raise our double standard and see who salutes
Defenders of marriage
Defending the institution against people who want to get married

Every time we hear about same-sex parents
"Oh, my gosh!" we exclaim
I mean, two people who want to provide a protective and nurturing family environment
Have they no shame?
It's so deviant!
It's the Lord's holy word, as my second wife said to my third
That a family's based on obligation and fear
We're —
Defenders of marriage
Connubial narcs
Ever vigilant and patriotic patriarchs
Defenders of marriage
Defending the institution against people who want to get married

One summer evening when my woman was doing laundry
I shared a six-pack with an old John Bircher
And oh so wisely he imparted an ancient quandary, to ponder
He said, "It's nature versus legislature."
Spoken: Are people born gay, or do they turn gay just to piss off Dick Armey?

We're an army of dicks
With a militant stance
Let's get the government out of our lives and into our pants
Defenders of marriage
Defending the institution against people who want to get married
And have their insurance carried
And be beneficiary'd
And be next to the ones they love when they are buried


.

.


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Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 01:49:52 PM
[/url]Perhaps Edisaurus can report back on the "subtley".

Now what? Did I spell that wrong, too?
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 01:51:06 PM
I was so pleased to read that one of my favorite new shows, Showtime's DEXTER, has been renewed for another season of episodes. It has become Showtime's most watched program.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: JMK on November 03, 2006, 02:04:22 PM
As the grand poo-bah of Occultism, wickedest man in the world, and Sgt. Pepper cover boy Aleister Crowley proclaimed well over 100 years ago:

Spelling is defunct!!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 02:06:32 PM
Good thing I'm NOT a stickler orDerBrucer's error ...

::searches frantically for gauntlet; finding none, picks up convenient oven mitt and slaps the offender::

DAWN - BEHIND THE OLD CHURCH
(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/12217421/201628485.jpg)

der Brucer

Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 02:10:20 PM
Now what? Did I spell that wrong, too?

No, I was hoping you'd go to the show and report of the "subtlety" reported in the caption.

der Brucer
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 02:13:17 PM


Spelling is defunct!!


No way I can I aksept frivalus mispellings!

der Brucer
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 02:40:05 PM

I think many DR's would enjoy his song, "Defenders of Marriage".  


I think I'll go with conspiracy:

Heterosexual men oppose gay marriage because they fear it will remove their "boy friends" from circulation.

der Brucer
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 02:41:28 PM
Time for that most disagreeable of tasks: mopping the kitchen floor. Then, back to TV for the evening.

WBBL.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Cillaliz on November 03, 2006, 02:43:34 PM
Has anyone heard of GrooveLily's STRIKING 12?

They are trying it out this weekend in Fairmont, MN at the Fairmont Opera House. How unusual is that? Some of my family is going, I'm really curious to see what they think
 
Here's the link to the show http://www.striking12.com/index.php
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 02:54:08 PM
I think I'll go with conspiracy:

Heterosexual men oppose gay marriage because they fear it will remove their "boy friends" from circulation.

der Brucer



Or, possibly, they (many of them) fear an ultra-high standard of commitment and adherence to vows and family values that they would be hard-pressed to live up to.

Oppression exists because someone who might change the status quo and shift power from the "ins" has emerged and declared himself or herself.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 02:56:30 PM
Before you can:

(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/12217421/201643132.jpg)

you must Save the Cheerleader!

der Brucer
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 02:58:41 PM
Powerful ‘Kiss’
 (http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/11-3/locallife/theater/theater.cfm)Perhaps Edisaurus can report back on the "subtley".

der Brucer


Now what? Did I spell that wrong, too?


No, but....GASP!....der Brucer did...!


;D
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DERBRUCER on November 03, 2006, 03:39:14 PM
No, but....GASP!....der Brucer did...!


;D

Lies, more lies, and damn lies >:(

Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: elmore3003 on November 03, 2006, 04:43:10 PM
I'm back from a lovely day in Oxford, Ohio.  I had a wonderful lunch with the former chair of the theatre dept who's moved up to a dean's position and the new chair of the dept.  Then I saw my friend Gion who's directing CANDIDE in April.  I think I may try to get back for it.  After that, a session with a small group of students, but I had a good time and I think they enjoyed themselves.

The Macbeths left today for vacation.  My brother neither stopped by to check on my dad nor called him to say goodbye before they left.  My dad was hurt and I am not happy about it.  No, I am not happy.
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Post by: Jane on November 03, 2006, 05:23:38 PM
Quote
From CP:
Shame on you, Elmore!  Make her read the book!  but, of course, if anyone knows the Arthurian myths, they all know they are one big dying fall...and it ends badly for pretty much everyone.

From elmore:
Quote
DR Jane, they don't ALL die in the end of the book, but the Arthurian legend doesn't end very happily for anybody.

 ;D ;D I kind of figured this out for myself, just was wondering how this book ends.  

DakotaCelt thanks for the offer of the pages but it isn’t necessary.  

For the 1st time in my life I’m finding I can’t get any reading done, I just fall asleep after a few pages.  Not just this book but everything, so….I’m not reading anything except puppy books, for now anyway.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 03, 2006, 05:56:32 PM
This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 03, 2006, 05:57:28 PM
But mostly today we saw this:
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 03, 2006, 06:00:51 PM
I thought this was rather nice:
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jane on November 03, 2006, 06:23:55 PM
MBarnum-Since I can’t find my autographed photo, I’m beginning to doubt my memory that Darryl Hickman was my father’s patient.

I did find a autographed photos from two other child actors.  One is signed “To Doc Wagner from Dennis Joel”.  He was a cutie.  The other from Paul Playdon (Daniel Boone) to me, only he reversed my first name & middle name, not sure why he even had my middle name.

I found autographed photos to me from three hunks, Jack Kelly, Clint Walker, & the one I had a crush on…
”To Jane
Best Gal
Ty Hardin
Bronco”

I then found my missing Hoppy autograph, no photo, just on a piece of paper.  

If only my missing Fury autograph & my cherished post card from Davy Crocket had been saved with these.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 06:32:33 PM
Before you can:

(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/12217421/201643132.jpg)

you must Save the Cheerleader!

der Brucer


THAT's the spirit, Der Brucer!


[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Save the Cheerleader...save the World![/move][/b]




Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jane on November 03, 2006, 06:35:54 PM
Now you're talkin'!

I've acquired, over the years, autographed photos of some of my favorites... Peter Brown from "The Lawman,"

Another missing one! :( He was so cute when he visited our elementary school.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 03, 2006, 06:36:24 PM
It's time to fix some supper.

I've got some shows to catch up on from last night....some more sorting/throwing out to do...and tomorrow afternoon, I hope my cable reception problems get sorted out.


Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jane on November 03, 2006, 06:43:12 PM
Sherlock needs attention, but before I go…..

While searching down memory lane I found a home-made birthday card, for my 16th or possibly 17th birthday.  It even has a cute poem:

There once was a girl
Who ran in the rain,
Everyone said,
She was insane-
Except Bruce knew
Insanity wasn’t it-
Bruce knew she was a twit



Wasn’t that sweet!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: George on November 03, 2006, 06:46:00 PM
Sherlock needs attention, but before I go…..

While searching down memory lane I found a home-made birthday card, for my 16th or possibly 17th birthday.  It even has a cute poem:

There once was a girl
Who ran in the rain,
Everyone said,
She was insane-
Except Bruce knew
Insanity wasn’t it-
Bruce knew she was a twit



Wasn’t that sweet!

You have an original Bruce Kimmel poem!!  Sell it on eBay!! ;D

;)
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: George on November 03, 2006, 06:48:00 PM
Well, it's official...Doogie Howser has finally come out!  This is from Comcast's (http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/11/03/513290.html&cvqh=itn_doogie) short article:

LOS ANGELES - Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary. "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.

The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent "speculation and interest in my private life and relationships."

Harris stars on the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother." He started on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series "Doogie Howser, M.D."


Click HERE (http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1554852,00.html) to read the People magazine article.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Jrand73 on November 03, 2006, 06:57:44 PM
Friday night....lovely pomes and pitchers here at HHW!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: MusicGuy on November 03, 2006, 07:53:40 PM
c r e a k ------s n a p ----- g r o a n ----

Those are the sounds eminating from my poor wracked body, after 9 hours of lifting and carrying parts and components around all day and packing things.

I must definitely go fall over soon, and get ready for the same thing all over again tomorrow.

Good night, Esteemed and dashing BK--

...good night Lucy, you red-headed temptress....

Good night lovely H/Ks .  :)
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:28:48 PM
Had a very full evening of viewing and managed to get all the shows from last night watched plus two from tonight.

I began with MY NAME IS EARL, a funny outing with Roseanne as special guest star playing a woman Earl once tricked into thinking he was God. Roseanne is not the best actress in the world, but she can be funny.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DakotaCelt on November 03, 2006, 08:29:48 PM
On a happier note, in 5 days the election will be over and the political ads will be off the air!

AMEN!!

They are really annoying me!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:32:23 PM
I watched THE OFFICE next, probably the season's best episode to date in which Michael and the other staffers went to a Diwali celebration. SOme got into the spirit of the night; others were ducks out of water and completely inappropriate. Very funny and poignant, too, with some events that occurred involving a marriage proposal gone sour.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:34:46 PM
Then came the first new episode of VANISHED in over a month. For a serialized drama like this, I was afraid I would have forgotten too many plot details to get back into it, but I had a surprisingly easy time, and the episode ended up being quite dramatic and close in tone to a '24' episode. The program probably won't last to get all 13 of its episodes broadcast, but I thought tonight's show was worthy enough to see the show to a conclusion.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on November 03, 2006, 08:34:51 PM
How about tiramisushi?

Interesting dish Ron...

I like both tiramisu  and sushi but not together. WE finally got a sushi bar not too long ago in North Dakota..
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:35:39 PM
SMALLVILLE came next with Clark fighting another escapee from the Phantom Zone. Good action and another turning point for Clark reached by the end of the episode.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:36:53 PM
SUPERNATURAL had a tense episode involving H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer. I had thought the producers were working in a love interest for Dean, but, at least, on the basis of this episode, perhaps not the person I was expecting the love interest to be.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:39:05 PM
And I ended the evening with LAW & ORDER, the episode based on the Mel Gibson incident of a few months ago. Of course, once we got past the drunkeness and racist talk, the story spun into a murder and cover-up which (I don't think) was based on the Mel Gibson incident.

Still, it had some powerful stuff in the hour though I'm not sure Chevy Chase was the best person to have been chosen for the celebrity under the influence.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: DakotaCelt on November 03, 2006, 08:40:38 PM
Beautiful photographs Laura!!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: singingnymph on November 03, 2006, 08:42:37 PM
Well, it's official...Doogie Howser has finally come out!  This is from Comcast's (http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/11/03/513290.html&cvqh=itn_doogie) short article:
Does he need a hag?  ;)
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Post by: Rodzinski on November 03, 2006, 08:49:16 PM
Well, it's official...Doogie Howser has finally come out!  This is from Comcast's (http://www.comcast.net/tv/index.jsp?cat=TELEVISION&fn=/2006/11/03/513290.html&cvqh=itn_doogie) short article:

LOS ANGELES - Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary. "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.

The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent "speculation and interest in my private life and relationships."

Harris stars on the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother." He started on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series "Doogie Howser, M.D."


Click HERE (http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1554852,00.html) to read the People magazine article.


Wonder if Big Brother's Dr. Will will still dream of him at night.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:57:43 PM
Many of us knew this already, but I'm pleased Neil felt the need to set the record "straight" once and for all.
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Matt H. on November 03, 2006, 08:58:20 PM
Now, I'm heading to bed.

Good night!
Title: Re:TOO POOPED TO POP
Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 10:34:23 PM
Many of us knew this already, but I'm pleased Neil felt the need to set the record "straight" once and for all.

I wondered about that. I thought he was great on Broadway in Cabaret!
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Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 10:46:38 PM
Just came home from being at a 7 hour party at an edit place that used to be my home base, celebrating their 30th anniversary. It was the first place I was allowed to edit. Had they not been so generous with their projects, (the owner/filmmaker had always cut his own projects in the past) I might not have been a working editor today. I'm so grateful to him for giving me that opportunity. There was a lengthy montage of stuff I had edited in the past, including our Olympic bid film, lots of PBS stuff, etc. It was like my life flashing before my eyes and I felt all weepy.

I was also nostalgic because this was the building where I met my soulmate while working on a friend's film, and also where I attended the life-changing Halloween party. It was great to see all those old film folks!
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Post by: Edisaurus on November 03, 2006, 10:49:05 PM
Alone...so alone...

I had TFNM CD for my driving music. It's amazing how much of the melodies and lyrics of these songs I remembered from only seeing the movie once, a few decades ago. That's the mark of a good song! And I love Grant's contributions, too. Nice!
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Post by: MBarnum on November 03, 2006, 11:00:01 PM
MBarnum-Since I can’t find my autographed photo, I’m beginning to doubt my memory that Darryl Hickman was my father’s patient.


I found autographed photos to me from three hunks, Jack Kelly, Clint Walker, & the one I had a crush on…
”To Jane
Best Gal
Ty Hardin
Bronco”



Jane, I thought it was Peter Brown you had a crush on! Boy you were a fickle girl! LOL!

By the way I interviewd two of the kids from Fury...Roger Mobley and Jimmy Baird...but your autograph is probably the main star Bobby Diamond...or is it?
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Post by: DakotaCelt on November 03, 2006, 11:05:21 PM
Watched Bride and Prejudice earlier this evening. What a fun movie!!

In the CD player is : Leahy, Mary Black and Usung Sondheim