None of the costumes? Not even the Mickey Mouse shirt? ;D
Nope, all gone. That was my own Mickey Mouse shirt, too. In fact, almost all my costumes were my own.
I remember THEN CAME BRONSON and used to have an LP by its star Michael Parks!
I'm about ready to move down under after seeing all those beautiful birds. You do indeed live in paradise, Tomovoz!
WASHINGTON (Nov. 24) - An Ohio-based company is recalling 46,941 pounds of turkey and ham products that officials fear could cause listeriosis, a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.
HoneyBaked Foods Inc. is voluntarily recalling the meat, which includes cooked, glazed and sliced ham and turkey, USDA said in a statement.
The meat, which was produced between September 5 and November 13, may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which can bring about high fever, headaches, neck stiffness and nausea, USDA said.
...and perhaps put up some outside lights while the weather is still good
Thanks for the follow-up on GHOST WHISPERER, DR Ron. I will give it another look-see next week. I might not have if you hadn't spken up about that episode being a bit "off the beaten path" of the show.
Hi, guys - swilling down the caffeine, here, and gearing up for another fun-filled day of final papers. I finally stopped at just after 8 last night, having done some of the preliminary work assembling a semblance of the ANTAH and COMM papers. Said semblance is mostly just the references. I think once I finish these, I'm basically done with the quarter work at Cal State. THEN I have wads of assignments to complete for next weekend. Ah, la vita studentesca...
So, i think I'm going to go to opening night of BRAIN. Who else is going that night?
And the word of the day is: DAEDAL!Casey would waltz
And now - Dino at the piano.Dino ate the piano?
...I love to go to big department stores, the few that are left. I feel like that's an era that I pretty much missed out on. In Atlanta, all we have left is Macy's, and since there are plenty of Macy's at the malls, people rarely venture to the downtown store.At some time in the near future, all department stores will be named Macy's.
Montreal had four count them four major department stores! Three of them were within (if memory serves me ) within ten blocks of each other.
All of them were in the downtown core. Only one still exists.
They were Simpson's, Eaton's and Morgan's. Morgan's eventually was renamed The Bay (The Hudson Bay Company). Simpson's was eventually bought out by The Bay and operated as separate entity for a while. Eaton's was eventually run into the ground and bankrupcy by the younger Generation. The Bay is still around. Simpson's and Eaton's buildings are still around but I don't remember what they have become. I had moved away by then.
A picture of the Simpon's Building
(http://www.genivar.com/img/apropos/prix/imax_Montreal.jpg)
The Bay department as it looked when it was Morgan's circa 1890
(http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/ObjView/V2539.JPG)
And as it looks today as the The Bay/ La Baie
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Hudsonsbayco.jpg/240px-Hudsonsbayco.jpg)
Two memories of Eaton's were: that the elevator's were opearated by employees in uniforms. The door was an old accordian type and you see the shaft as you moved up or down. The other was the restaurant on the top floor. Splendily designed in art deco it reminded me of the dinning room's you would see in the old ocean liners. (Memories from movies of course) They had a wonderful lunch and the also had the oh so very proper "afternoon tea". Below is the Eaton's Building.
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/4/4e/200px-Eaton_montreal.png)
The fourth was Oglivy's. It was a British compay. It is still a department store type a concept, but the boutiques are owned by different companies. They had two traditions which one still exist today (I believe) is their animated Christmas window. The other one at a certain times of the day (it might have been only once) a man in full highland costume played the bagpipes as he walked through the store.
Below is a pucture of the buidling and their Christmas Window.
(http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:pvy4TDpb01v0kM:http://www.taschen.ca/montreal)
(http://www.hour.ca/_images/montreal/1348/texte/news_insight2_1348.jpg)
I didn't think Connie Francis was in a Disney film.
Welcome to newest member François.
The ghosts aren't always hostile, DR MattH, but several have been angy, and - in the case of last year's plane crash episodes - they have been quite frightening to see. I do like the show a lot, but I don't believe MEDIUM's any less unsettling.
I see this week we have the serial killer doctor based on the Chicago serial kller from the Chicago World's Fair back this week on MEDIUM.
Welcome, Francois!!!!!!
Now, that sure is a trip back down Memory Lane!
(For some reasons, I am quite fond of department stores!)
Well, I have visited that La Baie store quite often in the... seventies! AND I do have a story: I vividly remember the day I used the revolving (HUGE) doors of the big main entrance and... being stuck holding it for everyone else who was entering... After a while, I yelled that I was going to let the door go... I did... and some jerk yelled back because he had gotten that door on his face! He may not remember that event, but I obviously do; Mr Cellophane I was! Story of my life!!
I also interviewed for a window dresser position at Ogilvy's (THAT Ogilvy's!) and got the job... which I declined because I also got an offer I grabbed at the same time! Ogilvy's WAS very old English and they were very nice to me -- whatever that means!! -- when I "auditioned" for them that I almost felt guilty for turning them down!
Yes, their Xmas window displays were quite something!
TWO THINGS:
How is Francois a newbie????
When did you live in Montreal?
Welcome home, Francois.
I LOVE the photos, Tomovoz! They have you well trained.
You know what I really hate? I really hate it when you drive 60 miles to the arboretum and then discover that you left the memory chip for the camera at home.
This morning I went to the arboretum for a walk. Although I left the memory chip for the camera at home, the camera has an internal memory that holds a very few pictures. This is what I saw:
Most frequent and demanding of my feathered friends is this male King Parrot.
It's been a good morning.
The nice thing about starting over again is that you get to become a god all over again.
It's been a good morning! Strictly for the birds.
François - the King Parrot assured me he was not a Queen Parrot. The Females are Emerald green and no trace of red on their heads.
Most frequent and demanding of my feathered friends is this male King Parrot.
It's been a good morning.
That Cockatoo is not coy!
DR FRANCOIS!!!!!! So glad to see you, I missed you while you were away.
Man am I tired. My mother really had lots and lots of work for me to do over the past few days. She decorates for every season and every holiday. She's always done it, only now she's getting to the age that it's physically difficult for her and she shouldn't be climbing up and down the ladder in the garage - something whacked her on the head last week when she went up there. So I climbed up the ladder, and down the ladder, and up the ladder and down the ladder and up the ladder....oh! dead mouse..PU that stinks...take it down the ladder......then there was down the basement stairs and up the basement stairs...repeat ad nauseum. Who needs a gym? I just need to work with my mother
Ain't it true that life is made of ups and downs!
Great Butterfly, great birds....the photography on this site is really incredible
Thanks. I'm sure we delete more than we save.
Lovely review from the New York Times of "Molly - an American Girl". - screenplay by Maria/Anna/Panni.
I'd post a link it if I knew how!
DR FRANCOIS I remember the original ads for FOLLOW ME, BOYS! featured Mr. Disney and proclaiming that he had seen the finished film shortly before his demise and enjoyed it.
Saw it on the original run and certainly thought Kurt Russell was very good and just like you....Vera Miles makes a terrific Disney mom....with an edge that Dorothy McGuire didn't have. Vera was much tougher.... I really liked her in THE CALLOWAYS, too...or maybe it was THOSE CALLOWAYS....
Saturday night.
And you still get glances from the handsome men
So...
Kes-ke-seh Pram???????
:)
Leaving early means never having to say you're sorry!
Who among us has not had a cockatoo?
I originally thought that line took place during Prohibition: "And your still gets glances from the handsome men."
But I refuse to color my hair.
DR MattH, re: the nine.
Thanks for the info. At least we got to find out a bit more info during last week's show (like why lizzie was mad at scott wolf). But i'm actually more disappointed not to see the end of vanished.
I wish they would just put the remaining shows on in the middle of the night so people could record them!
I was watching the Spanish language version of Universal's 1931 DRACULA, the version filmed with the Spanish speaking cast, but doggone it if'n I can only get the English subtitles for the hearing impared to come on rather then just plain English subtitles...so not only does it give me the English traslantion it tells me when something creaks, when someone laughs, giggles, screams, ect.
It was most annoying so I turned it off. I wanted to watch it because I will have the opportunity to meet it's star, Lupita Tovar, when I go to L.A. as she is being honored at a Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event that I plan to attend...I am hoping her daughter Susan Kohner will also be there!
This morning I went to the arboretum for a walk. Although I left the memory chip for the camera at home, the camera has an internal memory that holds a very few pictures. This is what I saw:
Next I put in MRS. SANTA CLAUS. I hadn't watched this special since it first appeared on CBS-TV almost ten years ago. At the time I was disappointed in the Jerry Herman music and story.
I have to say on this second hearing, the songs are more tuneful and lilting than I gave them credit for being when I first saw it. The story is still kind of all over the place, but for lighthearted holiday entertainment, it's fine.
I watched the commercial VHS tape I was given as a Christmas present and had never watched until tonight. I think I will probably find a used copy of the DVD to buy for myself so I can have it with a bit better quality.
Speaking of a movie, tomorrow I'm seeing Dreamgirls.