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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had resonance and rhythm, and now it is time for you to post until the counting-down cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PRINK!
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And a very happy haineshisway.com birthday to former dear reader Maya. She defected to other boards, but we always liked her and it's too bad she forsook us.
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I've been listening to "the Soho collection" today. It's a collection of greatest songs from musicals sung by British performers.
Tonight's DVD is yet to be chosen.
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I shall reach 22222 before toddling off to the bedroom environment.
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Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about CDs and DVDs.
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Paul McCartney's brother Mike McGear's group (Scaffold) had a hit with "Lily The Prink". Of course that may have been Pink.
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Bk has disappeared . Perhaps he has mislaid and is looking for his six posts.
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There is a programme on TV at the moment - about Ukelele Clubs here in Australia. Perhaps DR Ben's partner Ant. will set up a club on the Island of Long or in Chelsea.
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When I was preteen, the Victorian Banjo Club here in Melbourne would have had thousands of members - many of whom played the ukelele or the mandolin.
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I was perusing eBay - always interesting things to look at.
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A mere four more postings.
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Since I'm tired, I may as well just get them done.
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I'm listening to my iPod, something I haven't done in months. I forget what lovely music I've got in there - and I need to update it because I've put lots more into iTunes in the last few months.
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Well, this is the penultimate posting of the evening.
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And here it comes: Post number 22222. I like the way that looks, don't you? It shall stay until I arise in the morning.
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Congrats on your plateau bk!
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And the word of the day is: PRINK!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
Who had PRINKED herself to a faretheewell
In pink satin, rose silk, and silver lame...
and forgotten to zip up the back of her dress.
Fortunately, Casey's hands were warm, if wandering.
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I've no idea why I woke up at four thirty this morning.
I've also no idea why I couldn't get back to sleep, just kind of laying there, dozing a little and giving the doggies cuddle time.
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TOD -
Book - Bill Buford's Heat. He's about to head off to Italy, to learn how to make fresh pasta. Someone on-line (elsewhere) has said that this is where they got bored and put the book down. I think that someone was from NYC, however, and only wanted the dirt on Mario Batali. Wrong reason to read the book.
I'm not sure what we've got in the DVD stack right now. :-\
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Good morning, all! I'm sleeping too late the past few days. and I have been pondering the possible reasons. There have been peculiar dream as well, the last of which last night had to do wth recording the Brel song "Brussels." Oy!
This evening, I'm having dinner with my friends Cathie and Alice, so I need to wrap their Christmas gifts this afternoon as well as do a bit of laundry. I think I will go back to the NYPL till tomorrow.
TOD:
DVD: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
CD: Teresa Stratas Sings Kurt Weill, Guy Haines,
VCR: Cheap porn
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Friday morning greetings! Another work day. I've discovered, throughout this first holiday season in my "new" position as a specialist, that this is a very slow time for me at work. I should have taken this week off.
TOD - CDs(car) Barry Manilow Greatest Songs of the Sixties and Bryn Terfel Tutto Mozart, both Christmas presents from my DS Rob.
DVD - Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection, a Christmas gift from DH Richard. We also have more episodes of season 1 of The Closer, borrowed from the library. Our DVD player clonked out on Christmas Eve, so DH Richard and I are on the lookout for a good buy on a DVD/VCR combo. In the meantime, we can watch our DVDs on one of the 4 computers in the house.
Congratulations to BK on his all-2 milestone - I just noticed that this post is my #4000!
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BK, Mr. Donner one called me the most disrespectful writer he ever met. It came in the wake of a conversation about a series of what I felt were illogical re-writes he wanted me to make and he said: "Now are you going to write what we tell you or not?" I replied: "You don't need me for that, Dick, you can get secretary to do that." I actually enjoyed Dick, but I don't think I'd want to do a movie with him...leastways, not the one we were working on.
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I'm sleeping too late the past few days.
Me, too, but I'm allowing myself to to get over this 48 hour virus thing and recharge. It's such a luxury to get 9 hours sleep, snuggled up with DH and a few cats! I've had a very hectic last few months, with double sessions almost every day, but going into the new year, I only have a few days of work booked. That's kind of scary but I hope to use the down time productively to get the house finished so we can move!
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Book - Bill Buford's Heat. He's about to head off to Italy, to learn how to make fresh pasta. Someone on-line (elsewhere) has said that this is where they got bored and put the book down.
Hmmmm...I might pick that book up!
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Good morning dear elmore, Edi, and FJL -- I hope everyone has a splendid day as we enter into this sometimes crazy weekend.
TOD :
DVD - A Monk episode......and I have some Sopranos to catch up
with.
CD - I've been revisiting "A Wonderful Guy" and listening in detail
to the glorious elements in the arrangements and orchestrations,
and the way the Haines voice makes the lyric real and warm!
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Dear Edi -- what part of the Atlanta area is your new house in?
And why the hell can't I seem to write a sentence that doesn't end in a preposition??
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Or, I should have said.... a preposition is what all of my sentences end with !
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I've always loved Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Room 22222.
DVD: I watched The Miracle at Morgan's Creek for the first time yesterday. What a wonderful pushing of the 1943 envellope. Then I started The Five Pennies, starring former DR Susan Gordon.
CD: Making it through all my holiday presents. Currently listening to the contemporary Christian group Jars of Clay, who remind me of a cross between America, mid-career Beatles and late-career Tears for Fears.
Book: Finishing up Misquoting Jesus, a fascinating history of scribes and how they sometimes intentionally and unintentionally changed the New Testament.
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DR MBarnum, thanks for watching Jay's movie! I'm glad you liked it. He financed it all himself and it's been almost a 4 year labor of love that he has managed to fit in around his job of editing and co-producing "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" for the Cartoon Network. He has screened at lots of festivals and is distributing the film himself. (His editing room is piled high with boxes of DVD's!) We've been at 3 festivals together, so it's been fun to catch up. (He used to be the edit assist at a post house that was my base of operations for many years.)
His website: http://www.stompshoutscream.com has reviews of SSS and a journal he has kept since a few weeks before starting the film. It's a great insight into the mind of someone who is launching a huge endeavor, not knowing if anyone besides himself will even appreciate his movie. Fortunately, he has found lots of fans!
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From the mouths of semi-babes department:
We, bad parents that we are, finally unloaded the kids' backpacks yesterday from the last day of school before winter break. Inside Zach's we found this beautiful piece:
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There, in very neat printing underneath said art, was the lovely title:
DEATH
by Zach Kauffman
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We asked Zach why it was called "Death," to which he responded with obvious exasperation that he had incarnated into such a group of idiots:
"It's a pictogram!"
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Good morning!
Another beautiful day here with temps in the low to med 60s. Still amazing how warm in general this December has been.
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DR derBrucer:
I'm sure the players will drop within one and a half to two years. I remember paying $300 for my first DVD player back in 1998. Right now, because of the inflated prices, neither high def format has truly taken off, and until one of them manages to snare a respectable number of users/buyers, the format may remain a niche market for awhile.
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Friday Media Check:
CD - Lucy/MAME soundtrack
DVD - CSI, Season 6, disc 2
HARPER
CORPSE BRIDE (blu-ray)
DVR - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Keira Knightley)
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Now, I'm off for my usual Friday errands.
WBBL.
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Friday media report (amended)
Audiobook for the car - Bill Buford's Heat, narrated by Michael Kramer, who is married to narrator and DC-area actress Jennifer Mendenhall. And why is this so interesting to me? Because, one of Jennifer's pseudonyms is Kate Reading, who is my all-time favorite audiobook narrator!
Thanks for leading me to this recording and to this info, DR SWW!
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"It's a pictogram!"
Duuuuhhhhh!!!!
Thanks for the laugh of the day...glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee!
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I will check out that website Edisaurus!
I also forgot to tell you that I laughed heartily when I saw your business card! It is great!!!
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what part of the Atlanta area is your new house in?
It's an old neighborhood called Peachtree Hills, which is a few blocks off the main drag of Peachtree Street, just south of Buckhead. Our house is the second oldest one there, built in 1904. It was originally the caretaker's cottage for the family that owned all the land that became the Peachtree Hills, Peachtree Heights and Garden Hills neighborhoods. The house was teensy when it was built and in the 40's, was added on to, badly. Subsequent owners moved walls and butchered it, so it has little character or curb appeal. We hope to return some character to it, and expand a little. (I really would like more than one bathroom, which is already tiny!)
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TOD's media check:
DVD:
JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT starring Rad Fulton and a lot of Italian and French actors
Episodes of the 1950s TV show MEDIC, which I am now addicted to.
CD:
I am hoping something new will arrive in todays mail. Otherwise, one of my Amr Diab CDs.
DVR:
I don't know yet, but I do know I have a ton of movies on there I need to watch.
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We didn't buy this house because we liked the house. We bought it because we liked the yard! The moment I saw it, I thought "if that house is even inhabitable, I'm buying this!"
It's 3/4 of an acre-rare in downtown neighborhoods--backing up to Peachtree Creek, with another creek on the side. This means our house is surrounded on two sides by a flood plain and another half-acre of unbuildable land. After being forced out of Marietta by the 5 story loft a few feet from our property line, I now look upon the flood plain as an "amenity"!
Here's the side of the house and the land behind. The caretaker's horse barn can be seen in the distance. The cats will love having a big screened in porch to lounge on, but they will still be indoor cats. (Coyotes and owls have done away with quite a few kitties!)
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The splendiferous back yard, waiting for a gardener!
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Love the house DR EDISAURUS!!!
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TOD:
DVD: MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT
CD: INFERNAL VIOLINS (Angele Dubeau & La Pieta), Guy Haines
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Yes, EDISAURUS, lovely house and yard. How nice to have that space!
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Heaven Amy. You're moving to heaven.
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Good morning, Tutti ( & Frutti).
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What?
It's Friday already?
Why, oh, why, does time fly?
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I'd love to say my Thursday was terribly productive and filled with adventure.
Alas, alack...no such thing.
My evening was quite mild...watched reruns of Ugly Betty and CSI.
To bed at an early hour.
And am llooking forward to going to see "DreamGirls" sometime today.
Am awaiting a call from a friend as to the time and other particulars.
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I also forgot to tell you that I laughed heartily when I saw your business card! It is great!!!
The edisaurus was drawn by Jim Morin, Pulitzer prize winning political cartoonist for the Miami Herald. We exchange music and he usually does little drawings when he writes to me.
I was at work one day and ran into an old friend. He gave me his card as he was leaving and asked for mine. When I told him that I didn't have one, he was appalled. He asked me to email him my information and said he would make me a card that night. When he asked if I had a logo or any artwork to use, I said no, but as I was driving home, I remembered the edisaurus drawing, asked Jim if I could use it on my card and he said he would be honored.
I emailed the file to a printer, picked out paper and ink and by the end of the week I had my first business card after 20-some years of editing!
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The downstairs apartment doesn't quite look the same since it has been gutted by fire, but that's one of the things we have to deal with before moving in.
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Hey, DR Edi:
I got your DVD of LIFE AFTER TOMORROW into the mail before noon today. I don't know if that made any difference as far as when it would set out for your place of residence, but it's finally on its way.
You never can tell about the mails. Lately, it's been a week between getting an Amazon shipping notice e-mail and the actual delivery of the package.
Today, I got an Amazon order and the shipping notice from them was Wednesday so a mere two day turnover. You NEVER can tell!
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Now, off to have some lunch.
WBBL.
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DR Edisaurus - What a beautiful setting for your new home! How soon do you plan to move?
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I'm up, I'm up. Looks like another sparkling day - just sparkling - oh, a Last Starfighter reference.
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This is what we're running away from---a 5 story loft that was plunked down right in the middle of our National Register Historic District. The developer even got a half-million dollars in TAD funding (basically our tax dollars) from the city because they thought he wasn't making ENOUGH PROFIT, even though his proforma statement showed he would be making substantial $ on the development. The developer is in business with the city councilman who cast the deciding vote to give him the money. (The councilman has recused himself in the past from voting on projects involving this developer because of their financial involvement.) We fought this development with everything we had for over two years. We hired a lawyer and brought ethics charges against the councilman. We lost (he hired our ex-Governor as his lawyer!) but it did bring about a revamping of our ethics code. After many tears shed and many sleepless nights, we are leaving the town where our family and friends are, and moving on. The house isn't nearly as nice as our dream house, (a 1901 folk victorian) but at least we won't have people out on their decks looking into our windows!
This is not our house BTW...our house is a smaller one behind this house but you can't get the same perspective as in this photo. Feel our pain, and our joy at finding a great place to land!
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I had a completely odd dream, one in which I kept forgetting there was a houseguest and I kept walking in on him and not only did I not know he was there, I didn't know who he was. But, in the dream, my ex-wife was still in the house so maybe she knew him. Wacky.
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I have to ungroggify so I can joggify. I haz spoken.
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DR Edisaurus - What a beautiful setting for your new home! How soon do you plan to move?
I had hoped that we would celebrate DH's 50th birthday there on Jan 28th, but we may not be ready then. But, then again, with all this time off...
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I've been talking so much about myself that I bumped us to page 3!
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Heaven Amy. You're moving to heaven.
And only 3 miles from where I usually work! After 2 highway wrecks the past year, I'm ready for a shorter commute!
I hope to be able to walk to work when the weather is nice.
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I don't think Mr. Donner is a great director, but he has made at least two films I'm very fond of, Superman, The Movie, and The Omen (and I like the first Lethal Weapon movie, even though it's stupid). Interestingly, in the documentary, Leslie Newman and Robert Benton are interviewed about their involvement, and they never mention David Newman and Robert's involvement with a little show called It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman on Broadway. And apparently that's what they brought to their rewrite of the script - campy humor. And to give Donner his due, when he came on board he said no, got to believe the story and the world and really have to believe the love story, otherwise there's no movie. He brought in Tom Mankiewicz and he did the job. I still think there's a little awfulness left in the Ned Beatty character, but they did strengthen the story and make the love story believeable.
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Dreams of strangers in the home are of course harbingers of meeting someone who will become an instant friend....very soon.
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DR JRand, interpreter of dreams, I used to have a recurring dream of finding a room in my house that I didn't know existed, or a whole floor or wing. I loved this dream, and it always made me feel good after I'd had it. My DH thinks it just means that I want to live in a bigger house, but I've always thought there might be some deeper psychological meaning. (Although the house I've been in for the past 28 years is VERY SMALL!)
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Good Afternoon!
Whew! I slept in again...
Whatever that means... or doesn't mean... :-\
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The trash collectors finally came - three days late.
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The gardeners never showed up.
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Media Check
TIVO: THE STINGIEST MAN IN TOWN--this is the Rankin/Bass cartoon from sometime in the late 70s. I dimly remember it. I don't know if it has any relation to the TV musical other than the title.
DVD: SNL: SEASON ONE--I can't wait till I crack this one open!
PC Hard Drive: Even though I'm a bit Christmas'ed out, I had downloaded a boatload of the Firestone and Goodyear Christmas albums of the 60's that I would like to give a listen to.
CD: The DREAMGIRLS soundtrack.
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As for the Friday Media Check:
Hmm...
In the DVD player... Well, I haven't watched anything lately (as usual), but, of course, that hasn't stopped me from buying a couple - well, more than a couple - of DVDs over the past couple of weeks. Including the complete boxed sets to five different TV/Cable series. Yes, Five! Guess how I'll be spending my 2007? ;)
In the CD player... A bunch of Christmas CDs, a couple of OCRs, a couple of film soundtracks, some classical selections, a bit of jazz, a smidgen of pop, vocals, etc... Of note:
Julia Murney - "I'm Not Waiting"
Audra McDonald - "Build A Bridge"
Lea DeLaria - "Double Standards"
"Dreamgirls" - Soundtrack
Spring Awakening OCR - *I'm finding myself listening to this one repeatedly already. Good stuff.
"A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector" - I've always had a soft spot for The Ronettes rendition of "Sleigh Ride" among others.
Gabriela Montero - "Bach And Beyond" - Simply stunning playing and invention!
Bette Midler - "Cool Yule"
"The History Boys" - Soundtrack
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DR JRand, interpreter of dreams, I used to have a recurring dream of finding a room in my house that I didn't know existed, or a whole floor or wing. I loved this dream, and it always made me feel good after I'd had it. My DH thinks it just means that I want to live in a bigger house, but I've always thought there might be some deeper psychological meaning. (Although the house I've been in for the past 28 years is VERY SMALL!)
DR Edisaurus, I often have a similar dream. In mine I find a very narrow space in a cornor of a room which I never noticed before. I squeeze through it and find an entire new wing to my house. It's sort of dusty, but very nicely furnished and cozy.
So, yeah, DR JRand--what's this mean?
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DR Ginny - Ah! Small world! Michael Kramer and Jennifer Mendenhall! Good People. Michael stage managed a show a did a couple of years ago, and he's also quite a good actor. And Jennifer is one of the "grand dames" of the DC theatre scene. -And her brother is a hoot too!
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DR edisaurus - I'll be in Atlanta the second week of March for the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference. Will you be receiving visitors by then? ;)
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The trash collectors finally came - three days late.
Are you sure they weren't just on holiday schedule? I know that here in DC that since Christmas (and New Year's) fell on a Monday, that it shifted the trash collection schedule more than one would think it would.
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DR edisaurus - I'll be in Atlanta the second week of March for the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference. Will you be receiving visitors by then? ;)
Hmm...
And do you think a pianist who actually likes to play for 900 actors/actresses over a three day time period would make a good subject for a documentary?
;D
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DR Ginny - Ah! Small world! Michael Kramer and Jennifer Mendenhall! Good People. Michael stage managed a show a did a couple of years ago, and he's also quite a good actor. And Jennifer is one of the "grand dames" of the DC theatre scene. -And her brother is a hoot too!
Oh, thanks for the info, DR Jose! I've been a huge fan of Jennifer's voice (aka Kate Reading) since I started listening to audiobooks more than 10 years ago. Now, I really want to see her perform in person - any way to know if she'll be appearing in anything in DC, June 22-27, 2007? That's when I'm hoping/planning to be there for the American Library Association Annual Conference.
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The downstairs apartment doesn't quite look the same since it has been gutted by fire, but that's one of the things we have to deal with before moving in.
Hmm... Just trying to figure out the time line here... When did the fire occur? Hmm...
;)
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Oh, thanks for the info, DR Jose! I've been a huge fan of Jennifer's voice (aka Kate Reading) since I started listening to audiobooks more than 10 years ago. Now, I really want to see her perform in person - any way to know if she'll be appearing in anything in DC, June 22-27, 2007? That's when I'm hoping/planning to be there for the American Library Association Annual Conference.
Well, that's usually the time of the Source Theatre Festival... And I believe the BIG Shakespeare Festival will still be going on by then. -That will be starting shortly with a reading of "Twelfth Night" being held on the Twelfth Night of Christmas. In any case... So, there's a good chance she'll be appearing in something around that time. In the meantime, I'd check out the websites for The Source Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre...
OH! After some Googling, I came across this TCG profile about her:
Jennifer Mendenhall (http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/Oct06/mendenhall.cfm)
-Where it says that she'll be starring in Sarah Ruhl's new play, Dead Man's Cell Phone, at Woolly Mammoth (http://www.woollymammoth.net) from June 4-July 1, 2007.
And the play is described thusly:
How much could someone learn about you if they found your cell phone - and started answering your calls? From the lyrical author of The Clean House comes this oddly mythic love story in which a lonely woman answers s stranger's cell phone and finds herself the unwitting guardian of his memory. Traveling literally to hell and back, Ruhl's quirky comedy is set amidst a world where technology is swallowing our souls, grieving is more complicated than we think, and everyone is desperate to make connections.
Sounds right up her alley.
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DR edisaurus - I'll be in Atlanta the second week of March for the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference. Will you be receiving visitors by then? ;)
Fabulous! If I haven't learned how to cook by then, we will at least take you out for dinner! We may even have a guest room and a tuned piano at that point, too! I'd love to see you and hear about your adventures in music!
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Hmm... Just trying to figure out the time line here... When did the fire occur? Hmm...
It happened the day before our New Orleans evacuees left....one event having nothing to do with the other.
Unfortunately, the apartment will not be an apartment again for a few years, until we decide on our expansion plans. So you can't have your own apartment---sorry!
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And do you think a pianist who actually likes to play for 900 actors/actresses over a three day time period would make a good subject for a documentary?
Yes. And I think "A Handful of Keys" would be a good title!
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DR Jose, we should be in town until around March 23rd, when we open Sacco and Vanzetti in NY. Maybe if you're back in NY you can come to our opening night. DR Elmore has already agreed to meet me while I'm in town---maybe we can have a mini HHW convocation and pull in a few others!
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DR edisaurus - I'll be in Atlanta the second week of March for the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference. Will you be receiving visitors by then? ;)
Where is you conference?
BTW, Atlanta has many "places of interest".
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Well, just had a lovely telephonic conversation and must now get crackin'.
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...-Where it says that she'll be starring in Sarah Ruhl's new play, Dead Man's Cell Phone, at Woolly Mammoth (http://www.woollymammoth.net) from June 4-July 1, 2007.
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If I'm reading my DC maps correctly, Woolly Mammoth is not far from the Hampton Inn where I've made a reservation. It's near the Convention Center.
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Ah....
Well for DREDISAURUS - I would say your dream about the lovely room in your home means that to you, every day is a discovery, a welcome discovery. And that you value even the unexpected. You are also unafraid of new challenges.
DR DtM - since your room was difficult to get to, I would say your dream is similar, but that challenges are just that to you. And that you value the job well done rather than the job itself.
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Fabulous! If I haven't learned how to cook by then, we will at least take you out for dinner! We may even have a guest room and a tuned piano at that point, too! I'd love to see you and hear about your adventures in music!
Cool! I'm usually booked solid while at the Convention - literally my days usually start at 9:00am, and end a little after midnight - but I'm trying to finagle an extra hotel day out of the office so that I can actually spend some quality time in Hotlanta. I've been there many times, but I've always been working, so... Maybe if I come in a day earlier and/or later... It could work out nicely.
Oh, we'll be at the Hilton Atlanta this year.
And, yes, I know about some of those "special interest places". However, I'm hoping there someone of interest playing at The Tabernacle while I'm there. The last time I was there, I saw Maceo Parker. What an amazing show! And what an amazing crowd and venue!
...And I have yet to dine at Pittypat's Porch. ;)
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Woolly Mammoth - DR MBARNUM didn't he make a movie with Rad Fulton?
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DR Jose, we should be in town until around March 23rd, when we open Sacco and Vanzetti in NY. Maybe if you're back in NY you can come to our opening night. DR Elmore has already agreed to meet me while I'm in town---maybe we can have a mini HHW convocation and pull in a few others!
Don't forget the photographic device. :D
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If I'm reading my DC maps correctly, Woolly Mammoth is not far from the Hampton Inn where I've made a reservation. It's near the Convention Center.
Nope not too far at all - a nice couple-blocks walk. And there are some great restaurants around there too. Just ask DR Jane. ;)
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DR JMK (or other who owns it) - does the WD Tin YOUR HOST WALT DISNEY contain the episode that includes the Mouseketeers trying to talk Mr Disney into producing The Rainbow Road to Oz?
Some sources say it was to be there, but it is not listed or reviewed as such at Amazon.
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Yes. And I think "A Handful of Keys" would be a good title!
I'll save "A Handful of Keys" for Fats Waller. However, the title of the book I've been working on - and off(!) - for the past couple of years, has a working title of "A View From The Bench".
;)
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There's always Muscle Bench Party, Bench Blanket Bingo, or Bikini Bench.
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Well, I need to head over to theatre office to take care of a fax, as well as some end-of-contract business...
Laters...
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Dear Tech Support:
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance -- Particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, NBA 3.0, and Golf Clubs 4.1.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate
Dear Desperate:
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package. While Husband 1.0 is an Operating System.
Please enter the command:"http: I Thought You Loved Me.HTML" and try to download Tears 6.2 and don't forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.
Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources). Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Food 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.
Good Luck,
Tech Support
der Brucer
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Good morning, all! I'm sleeping too late the past few days. and I have been pondering the possible reasons.
Might it be you are just tired from your travels and the holidays? I wish I could sleep in late :)
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And the word of the day is: PRINK!
PRINk!
Isn't that a sound effect from MAD Magazine?
der Brucer
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Nope not too far at all - a nice couple-blocks walk. And there are some great restaurants around there too. Just ask DR Jane. ;)
DR Jane, care to elaborate?
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DR derBRUCER - that made me LAUGH!!!
My suggestion is to get the bugs out of your Boyfriend 5.0 BEFORE uploading to Husband 1.0
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Edisauris during our multiple moves I have seen some horrendous development but I think this is the worst yet. How on earth that legally passed is beyond me. Have you sold your current home?
Your new home and setting is lovely. We too have purchased home simply for the setting. May your remodeling days ahead go smoothly.
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Hey, DR Edi:
I got your DVD of LIFE AFTER TOMORROW into the mail before noon today. I don't know if that made any difference as far as when it would set out for your place of residence, but it's finally on its way.
You never can tell about the mails. Lately, it's been a week between getting an Amazon shipping notice e-mail and the actual delivery of the package.
Today, I got an Amazon order and the shipping notice from them was Wednesday so a mere two day turnover. You NEVER can tell!
Wednesday morning, I brought my Netflix movies to work to mail back because we have mail pick-up twice a day. I got it in the mail tub in time for the morning pick-up at 11am. Anyway, Wednesday afternoon, I got an e-mail from Netflix saying that they had received them! I got another e-mail a little later Wednesday evening saying that my next movie ("The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years," it's for my friend Margo...no, really, it is!!) had been shipped! AND it arrived yesterday! That's quick!
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I agree with DRJANE - that is the WORST example of building next door EVER.
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And only 3 miles from where I usually work! After 2 highway wrecks the past year, I'm ready for a shorter commute!
I hope to be able to walk to work when the weather is nice.
I love short commutes!! I used to live about two miles from where I work and I now live less than a mile! :D I plan on walking also when the road construction is over (hopefully soon). :)
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Back from a jog - much easier today - it usually is easier when I have a lot of things to think about, which I did today.
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Edisaurus, congrats on the new place! The pictures make it seem like a wonderful place to move to. :)
And I can't believe that other people in the place you're leaving would allow that sort of construction to happen! That's just wrong!
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Ginny-In the Dupont Circle area (great place to walk, especially along Embassy Row) I had a fantastic meal at the Afgan Grill, a charming restaurant with food a bit like non-spicy Indian food with a Mediterranean flare. If you get there be sure to try the pumpkin.
Jose and I had lunch at another wonderful restaurant which I don’t recall the name of (it began with a Z?) and I have no idea where I was. Jose picked me up at the Library of Congress & drove me there. So Jose, I’ll pass the details back to you.
In Georgetown, another great area to walk around, I was trilled to find a Thomas Sweet Ice Cream shop, so be sure to have stop in for ice cream if you are at 3214 P Street NW. I had the butter brickle. I recall the coffee and/or vanilla health bar used to be good too.
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DR JMK (or other who owns it) - does the WD Tin YOUR HOST WALT DISNEY contain the episode that includes the Mouseketeers trying to talk Mr Disney into producing The Rainbow Road to Oz?
Some sources say it was to be there, but it is not listed or reviewed as such at Amazon.
I haven't gotten that far yet, but I don't think it's on Disc 1, at least. That one has the 5th anniversary of Disneyland episode, plus another kinescope of that event (plus maybe one other--the kids were playing army when Leonard Maltin was doing his intro thing). I'll try to look at Disc 2 sometime this weekend and see if it's there.
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Wednesday morning, I brought my Netflix movies to work to mail back because we have mail pick-up twice a day. I got it in the mail tub in time for the morning pick-up at 11am. Anyway, Wednesday afternoon, I got an e-mail from Netflix saying that they had received them! I got another e-mail a little later Wednesday evening saying that my next movie ("The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years," it's for my friend Margo...no, really, it is!!) had been shipped! AND it arrived yesterday! That's quick!
DR GEORGE,
I, too, have been amazed at how quickly Netflix turns orders around. When I first joined I did not expect the "1 day or so" response that they advertise. But they usually receive my return the next day and ship out the new one that same day. Isn't it interesting that my other mail seems to take much longer? I've often wondered if Netflix made some sort of special arrangement with the USPS. Does anyone know?
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I shall shortly be on my way to lunch, after which, I shall return. I have decided not to ship today, but will tomorrow morning - that way if any orders come in today I can send them along, too.
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Bk - Having trouble getting zip files, since the stuffit expander is acting up. could you resend what you were sending as a pdf?
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DR GEORGE,
I, too, have been amazed at how quickly Netflix turns orders around. When I first joined I did not expect the "1 day or so" response that they advertise. But they usually receive my return the next day and ship out the new one that same day. Isn't it interesting that my other mail seems to take much longer? I've often wondered if Netflix made some sort of special arrangement with the USPS. Does anyone know?
Maybe they're in league with the devil!! :o
;)
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Maybe they're in league with the devil!! :o
;)
I think that's Blockbuster!
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MY STUFFIT EXPANDER IS ACTING UP - that's the title of my next...well, it sounds like a title of something.
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Jose and I had lunch at another wonderful restaurant which I don’t recall the name of (it began with a Z?) and I have no idea where I was. Jose picked me up at the Library of Congress & drove me there. So Jose, I’ll pass the details back to you.
ZAYTINYA (http://www.zaytinya.com/)
It's a mezze restaurant. Lots of little dishes from the Eastern Mediterranean: Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, etc. They also some worthwhile main dishes, but the mezze are the way to go, and they're perfect for sharing. Just order a couple for the table, along with some wine if you so desire, and you're all set for a wonderful meal. It can get quite busy and hectic in there, so I usually suggest going there in the mid-afternoon between the lunch and after-work rush. However, at night, with all the candles lit up, it's quite a nice room to dine in.
Zaytinya is one of the sister restaurant's to chef, Jose Andres, first restaurant,
JALEO (http://www.jaleo.com/),
which is a tapas restaurant. Another "small plates" affair, this time focusing on the food of Spain. *And I highly recommend splurging on the White Sangria there with your meal.
And if you want to try out the small plates of Mexico, he has another restaurant
OYAMEL (http://www.oyamel.com/).
Alas, it's currently closed - he's moving it from one location to a new one, but it should be open by the time you make your trip to DC.
Then there's also his South American restaurant,
CAFE ATLANTICO (http://www.cafeatlantico.com/),
which is also the home of
MINIBAR (http://cafeatlantico.com/miniBar/miniBar.htm).
Cafe Atlantico is more of a formal sit-down restaurant, while miniBar is a chance to experience quite the culinary odyssey. -It's a bit hard to explain, so check out the website for details. However, I do have to say, that they do some amazing and delicious things there with crushed Altoids, various foams, syringes, cotton candy, vaporizers and foie gras. -Among other things. :)
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I shall shortly be on my way to lunch, after which, I shall return. I have decided not to ship today, but will tomorrow morning - that way if any orders come in today I can send them along, too.
Hmm... My computer/Safari doesn't seem to be agreeing with kritzerland.com right now... Although, this also seems to be the time of day when the Verizon service here tends to get a little klunky, so... I'll try again in a few.
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DRs Jane and Jose - thanks for the DC info. I've pasted it all into an email and sent to myself at home.
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DR Jrand;
this might answer your question!
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/yourhostwaltdisney.html
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/yourhostwaltdisneyb.html
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This is what we're running away from---a 5 story loft that was plunked down right in the middle of our National Register Historic District.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/community/attachments/loft_of_evil.jpg)
Looks like reasonable precautions are being taken to defend the area from re-invasion by the Damnyankees.
Nicely protected arches from which to fire cannon, and well positioned windows to harbor rifleman.
What's not to love :D
der Brucer
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... and it seems it HAS what you're looking for!
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I had hoped that we would celebrate DH's 50th birthday there on Jan 28th, but we may not be ready then. But, then again, with all this time off...
Perhaps JRand can provide a "youthening elixir" for DH to buy you more time.
der Brucer
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Including the complete boxed sets to five different TV/Cable series. Yes, Five! Guess how I'll be spending my 2007? ;)
In indentured servitude to VISA ???
der Brucer
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In indentured servitude to VISA ???
der Brucer
Well... I've actually been a "good boy", and I have not used any or my credit cards for my recent - and not so recent purchases. It's all been on ATM/Debit/CheckCard. -Of course, that's only because I used to be an indentured servant to VISA... And MC. :-\
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Hmm...
And do you think a pianist who actually likes to play for 900 actors/actresses over a three day time period would make a good subject for a documentary?
;D
Suggested title: "One Flew Back to the Cuckoo's Nest"
der Brucer
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KEYS IN THE CITY?
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And I can't believe that other people in the place you're leaving would allow that sort of construction to happen! That's just wrong!
What is it about the efficacy of political corruption you folks don't understand?
der Brucer
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A friend called me last night who was in NYC the Friday before Christmas and scored tickets for SPRING AWAKENING. He liked it a lot, but he said I probably wouldn't care much for it.
Who else has seen it and has opinions?
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DRs Jane and Jose - thanks for the DC info. I've pasted it all into an email and sent to myself at home.
The butternut squash soup at ZAYTINYA was delicious as well as beautiful.
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I began my viewing this afternoon with another CSI episode from the set. This was a George Eads-centered story, probably his best episode from last season concerning the search for a missing child involved in the massacre of her family. Beautifully written and performed, it's one of my favorite episodes from last season.
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Hello from Fabulous Las Vegas! We didn't have internet connection here because I am too cheap to pay what the hotels charge for it. We are in a coffee lounge just about to head back home.
We have some swell photos waiting to be posted upon our return.
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I've always loved Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Room 22222.
Last night TV was showing "Wind and the Lion" which has neat Goldsmith score - a tad intrusive, but loads of fun.
A rolicking movie with Sean Connery doing his fine Scots brogue as a Berber Pirate, and Candace Bergen managing to keep an outrageously contrived up-do (think "Hepburn") in place whilst spending days traveling by camel over the desert.
Teddy Roosevelt's "My Way or the Highway" foreign policy threw echos to the present.
der Brucer
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Damn, I bent down to reach something at pulled my hip or sciatica, not sure which yet, and I can hardly move. Just in time to take Sherlock for a walk. At least Keith is going with me and can walk Sherlock, it will be all I can do to walk myself, plus we are driving to this walk, getting down & back up from a sitting position isn’t all that easy either.
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The rest of the afternoon was given over to the recent remake of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. What a beautiful film this is! Exquisitely photographed (some of those vistas in the second half of the movie just took my breath away), and the last 20-25 minutes of the movie worked its magic on me the way the story always has and had me in tears.
I recorded this off of HBO-HD, so the panoramic sweep of the photography was presented in superb detail. It's a movie I'll want to see again soon.
Nope, can't replace the Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth version, but for a quick Cliff's Note version of the story, it's really outstanding and well worth seeing.
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DrLaura & Sandra, have a safe & fun drive home.
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I had planned to watch CORPSE BRIDE tonight, but I'll start with FANTASTIC FOUR on Blu-ray (which came today) and save CORPSE BRIDE for later.
Both of these are supposed to have superb transfers.
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Oh, DR Jane, I'm so sorry you're experiencing back pain. Been there and it's not fun.
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Oh, yes, back pain is no fun at all, so my deep empathies go to you, DR Jane.
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Feel better, Jane!
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Nope, can't replace the Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth version, but for a quick Cliff's Note version of the story, it's really outstanding and well worth seeing.
That's sort of how I felt; I would have liked 20 minutes more to fill out the strange gaps. I also loved Donald Sutherland, but he wasn't the sarcastic, unhappy-in-choice-of-dumb-wife that Austen imagined.
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TOTD: We ended up watching " Das Boot" which turned out not to be the sequel or prequel to "My Left Foot".
We'd not seen this movie since 1981. An extra hour and the movie still does not drag - not sink.
A wonderful film.
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Nor was the movie written by Hugh Leonard.
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Today's listening may be to Alfred Drake and Doretto Morrow in "The Adventures of Marco Polo"
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Doretta Morrow get to sing that wonderful Olivia Newton John song "Xanadu.
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I wonder if any DRs have seen the movie. (TV). Columbia recorded the soundtrack.
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Perhaps I should watch "Das Boot - The Musical"
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So, I'm about to leave work and won't be back until 2007. Is it bad luck to change my calendars now? Or should I wait until Tuesday morning?
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Good Afternoon!
Well... I'm currently working my way through a quite delicious chocolate bar. It's crystallized ginger in dark chocolate - although, the main label lists it as "Ginger Crystallized in Dark Chocolate'. In any case, it really is quite good, and the chunks of ginger are still sort and moist too. Great tastes and textures...
I have two 'rows' left, and I believe I shall save that for my post-show snack. :)
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Perhaps I should watch "Das Boot - The Musical"
Well, there is one floating out there somewhere. Just not sure if it's available on video/DVD/etc.
;)
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DR Jane - I hope your pain goes away as fast as it came on.
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Well, there is one floating out there somewhere. Just not sure if it's available on video/DVD/etc.
;)
"Val Kilmer is Das Boot"
That maybe something else on my list of to see in the New Year - (Moses) with a group of "select" friends.
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But then I did live through "Blood Brothers" and "Heathcliff". How bad can it be?
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I forgot to mention the other day when we were talking about our favorite movies of 2006 one that I greatly enjoyed: V FOR VENDETTA.
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Yes, DR Elmore, I remembered your positive comments about the new version of P & P. Wasn't Brenda Blethyn a hoot as Mrs. Bennett. Oh, so lacking in tact and the graces!
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I've got that kitchen floor to mop now. Then back to the TV for more diversions.
WBBL.
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Friday media report (amended)
Audiobook for the car - Bill Buford's Heat, narrated by Michael Kramer, who is married to narrator and DC-area actress Jennifer Mendenhall. And why is this so interesting to me? Because, one of Jennifer's pseudonyms is Kate Reading, who is my all-time favorite audiobook narrator!
Thanks for leading me to this recording and to this info, DR SWW!
You're welcome!
Out of curiosity, is the language, um, well, is there a lot of use of the "f" word? (And I don't exactly mean "fabulous." :o)
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Welcome Miss Karen.
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Mr. Elmore, darling, your Miss Karen has your New Year's surprise -- she's officially a Pansy/Gimlet now. Happy New Year!!
P.S. Love, and I don't mean platonically, your Xmas CD. It's the "CD of the Week" on my car CD player. Muchas Gracias, Senor!
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Right now, der Brucer is watching some movie where Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Michael Gambon and a bunch of other Brits are using the "f" word a lot. And I don't exactly mean "fabulous." Proof that not every Brit is twee.
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Welcome to new D(ear) R(eader) Miss Karen!
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Well, I believe I'm going to get ready for tonight's show...
Laters...
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DR MISS KAREN has arrived.
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DRJANE - please feel better.
DR FRANCOIS - thanks SO MUCH for the links. DR JMK - the segment is indeed on the DVD set. I didn't know it existed, I think I dreamed about the Mouseketeers and OZ, but I must have seen it when I was six years old or so...or maybe we didn't have ABC yet....
ANYWAY....I shall be ordering YOUR HOST WALT DISNEY and THE HARDY BOYS!!
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Tonight on TCM:
Rock and roll movies including the notorious:
DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST featuring fabulous Twist Fashions and probably the scene that killed the twist: a group of over 40's folks twisting to beat the band. Choreography by Hal Belfour - including The Twist of the Seven Veils.
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DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST features Georgine Darcy (the Body from across the way in REAR WINDOW). ;D
(http://i5.ebayimg.com/01/i/06/e4/98/e4_1.JPG)
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PAIN FREE VIBES TO DR JANE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Meanwhile, I'm doing a venison pot roast for tonight's dinner.
Step One: pull venison roast from freezer. It's a roast from last year. Der Brucer's son-in-law, our venison purveyor, failed to purvey a deer this year, so when last year's venison is gone, it's gone. Might as well enjoy it.
Interesting, the roast is bone-in. Well, the idea with a pot roast is that it is best when it's falling-from-the-bone tender.
Step Two: render some bacon fat in a large dutch oven or pot. I like to use my pasta pot, because it's heavy, large, and fits in the oven nicely. I also like to nosh on the bacon after I've rendered the fat.
Step Three: sear the roast in the bacon fat. Doesn't take long. This isn't so much to "seal in the juices," a notion that has long been disproven. It does provide a nice caramelization on the outside of the meat.
Step Four: add the braising liquids to the pot. I poured in one bottle of beer (Dogfish Head India Pale Ale, if you must know, a highly regarded local brew), one can of beef broth (no, I don't make my own, I don't have that much time on my hands these days), and maybe a quarter cup of soy sauce. Don't tell der Brucer I use soy sauce, he claims he hates can't stand the stuff. ::) I also added one carrot, diced, one onion, diced, maybe fifteen whole black peppercorns and five whole cloves.
Step Five: cover the pot and place in an oven that has been preheated to 300. Close door and walk away for a while.
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TCM evening starts with one of my favorites starring two movie stars that are one of a kind:
"I would like to go out with you, Mr. Beasley, if I didn't find you so personally repulsive."
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Since the stod (sub-topic of the day) seems to be travel.....I have just booked a flight and reservations at the Hotel Edison in NYC for March 1st - 4th. I decided that the best way for me to get through a stressful January and possibly a stressful February would be to have something great to look forward to, so here I come!
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I plan to see several shows and would love to see some of my HHW friends. Edi - I would love to have planned the trip later so I could go to the Sacco and Vanzetti opening, but I have a big trial set that week, so it's the first weekend in March or I have no clue when I could do it.
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This means I won't be going to San Diego for the conference in February. I booked the hotel, but after about 3 weeks I still hadn't gotten around to thinking about airplane tickets or the registration fee. I decided that must mean I really didn't want to go
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It's been cold and rainy all day. I have a friend in town from New Orleans. We talked about getting together for dinner at 6:00 PM. She's supposed to call and I don't have her number. If I don't hear soon, I think I'll just make dinner. This isn't a big deal, she has lots and lots of friends in Sioux City and we've already gotten together twice. I'm secretly hoping she doesn't call so I can just stay home, do some cooking and relax.
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Lots of Friends in Sioux City - that sounds like a song from GUYS AND DOLLS
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Welcome to Miss Karen!
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Lots of Friends in Sioux City - that sounds like a song from GUYS AND DOLLS
;D ;D
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Well, I haven't managed to get a lot of work done for the office, but I did manage to take 4 big bags of clothes down to Goodwill. I had a couple of them ready to go a long time ago, but just didn't get there. I now have my receipt for the taxman so I'm good to go.
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Think I'll go feed the cats and see what I have that I could make for dinner.
Oh, I 'm glad I left my parents' when I did. My mother had the stomach flu all night last night. So far I'm still feeling pretty good. Hopefully I wasn't exposed to it
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I bought a nice Corduroy Sport Coat from GAP at the Goodwill today for $6.99!
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Will look very nice at the World of Wisdom....and it doesn't matter if it starts to absorb the incense!
Sorry I didn't answer the Merlin questions....he was a cat taken in by a friend about six months ago. Very thin and nearly gone, but nursed back to health and normal weight...and now ours.
Will take some pics after January 1 - when he becomes official.
He is a black American short hair, with one small patch of white on his chest.
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Listening to Sting's album of Dowland songs. The music is great, the readings--not so much. ;D
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I got my Royskopp Cd today, DR JMK. Thanks for the recommendation. It is very entertaining.
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Muscatel, for milady's pleasure.
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Dog in the snow dance. ;D
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Yes, DR Elmore, I remembered your positive comments about the new version of P & P. Wasn't Brenda Blethyn a hoot as Mrs. Bennett. Oh, so lacking in tact and the graces!
She is!
I think the whole cast is quite wonderful, and I loved the grittiness of the locations; I just wish there had been a bit more of what makes the book one of my fave novels, and the A&E works so well. I always want more of the Bingley sisters snobbery and they and Lady Catherine don't get enough screen time in the new film.
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Mr. Elmore, darling, your Miss Karen has your New Year's surprise -- she's officially a Pansy/Gimlet now. Happy New Year!!
P.S. Love, and I don't mean platonically, your Xmas CD. It's the "CD of the Week" on my car CD player. Muchas Gracias, Senor!
Miss Karen! C'est toi? Vraiment?
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Right now, der Brucer is watching some movie where Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Michael Gambon and a bunch of other Brits are using the "f" word a lot. And I don't exactly mean "fabulous." Proof that not every Brit is twee.
How do we know that Peter Pan didn't say fuck occasionally? Even the twee ones get a bit pissed every now and then. Just my observation.
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Lots of Friends in Sioux City - that sounds like a song from GUYS AND DOLLS
Or CALAMITY JANE!
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Elmore -- I told you I'd get her on here by week's end.
I swear, her arrival here on this board has been more heralded than Jesus coming into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday...
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Elmore -- I told you I'd get her on here by week's end.
I swear, her arrival here on this board has been more heralded than Jesus coming into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday...
Well, if Jesus had come for the opening of "The Brain from Planet X," I might have urged him (Him?)(hmmmmm) to join HHW, too. But, then he'd think it means "Him His Way."
My friend Alice needs everyone's vibes!
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Miss Karen, I am so glad you have arrived!!!
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I'm back from a lovely dinner with Alice and Cathie. They gave me delightful Christmas gifts, excellent wine, and great company. While Alice was out of sight, Cathie told me that she's had a CAT scan for severe abdominal pains lasting several days and Cathie is worried. And I am, too. My dear friend Alice needs your vibes, please.
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Back from my lovelier than lovely luncheon with Lauren. We both had the Combination Louie with lots o' dressing and we shared some bread pudding for dessert. I'm quite full now.
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A very happy haineshisway.com welcome to new dear reader Miss Karen.
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Miss Karen, I am so glad you have arrived!!!
Well, if it isn't the Past of Christmas Ghost!
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Alician vibes from the fields of OZ.
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Excellent vibes and xylophones to Alice.
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I stopped by Heavy Rotation to visit and watch them pack up - sad, but we had a lot o' laughs, too.
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I shall finish Cesar and Rosalie now, and then try to figure out what else to watch - so many choices, but nothing's really grabbing me right now. I hate when nothing does that - just grabs me out of the blue, sometimes even out of the red.
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Mr Alfred Drake is singing "Beyond The Sunrise". I think he is playing polo in the morning.
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Doretto is going to see the game. She is now singing "You'll be Seeing Me"
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VIBES TO ALICE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Yeah!!! My friend called, she invited me to stop by to see some of her friends that I don't know. Since she has plans and I'm really into staying home, we decided to have breakfast instead. YEAH! Plus, my stomach is feeling a little queasy and I'm quite concerned that I may be getting the stomach flu. I'm going to have a bland dinner and rest. Maybe I can avoid it
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Love to hear Alfred singing "So In Love" from Kiss Me Kate.
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Maybe I Can Avoid It
Wasn't that a Rock Hudson-Doris Day movie? Or ALL of them.
DR CILLA LIZ - it's rock and roll night on TCM....that should make you feel better!
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The TCM Remembers for 2006 is very good.
Last year's was NOT...didn't like it at all....lots of non-movie-related clips to make some kind of dumb story...almost as if the people who passed away were not important enough, or were just a sidebar to the "movie."
Looking at the names and faces....June Allyson, Glenn Ford, Don Knotts, Richard Fleischer Elizabeth Allen, Mae Marsh......
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Love to hear Alfred singing "So In Love" from Kiss Me Kate.
He's about to sing "The Tartar Song". I know think that he is referring to Doretta.
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No mail service Monday OR Tuesday.
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He's about to sing "The Tartar Song". I know think that he is referring to Doretta.
Or at least her teeth.
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He's about to sing "The Tartar Song". I know think that he is referring to Doretta.
Doretta was an amazing soprano. She was in the original cast of WHERE'S CHARLEY? I haven't decided if I prefer her or the late great Lee Venora opposite Alfred in KISMET. They both had flings with him.
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He's about to sing "The Tartar Song". I know think that he is referring to Doretta.
LOL...I agree.
MR BK has had lunches, telephone calls, and much to think about. Perhaps 2007 will start with some ANNOUNCEMENTS! 8)
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No mail service Monday OR Tuesday.
Three days of no mail? I shall go mad!
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Doretta was an amazing soprano. She was in the original cast of WHERE'S CHARLEY? I haven't decided if I prefer her or the late great Lee Venora opposite Alfred in KISMET. They both had flings with him.
Have ONLY heard the recordings....but I think I will take Lee. But not if she is flung. :P
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Page Eight Christmas Dance. ;D
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LOL...I agree.
MR BK has had lunches, telephone calls, and much to think about. Perhaps 2007 will start with some ANNOUNCEMENTS! 8)
Well, I do know that Cathie and Alice want to see "The Brain from Planet X!"
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Have ONLY heard the recordings....but I think I will take Lee. But not if she is flung. :P
Isn't it Thelma Ritter who says flings is wonderful things?
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I'm quite enjoying this musical. I suspect it is for the music and the voices rather than the lyrics though.
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Patti Page sang "Thay wonderful things to me". Sung not flung.
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Patti Page sang "Thay wonderful things to me". Sung not flung.
Not "thay wonderful thingth"?
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DR Elmore - would you like aDVDs copies of "Patience" and "Pirates of Penzance" - Anthony Warlow in both
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How do we know that Peter Pan didn't say fuck occasionally? Even the twee ones get a bit pissed every now and then. Just my observation.
Only when played by Robin Williams.
Come to think of it, those pirates were always terribly polite, weren't they!
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My friend Alice needs everyone's vibes!
~~~Vibes for Elmore's friend Alice!!~~~
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Indeed, vibes for Alice.
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The pot roast has had it's vegetables added (rose taters, carrots, boiler onions.
And der B wants me to watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie with him, because he never finished it the first time and suspects it would make sense to watch #1 before watching #2.
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Welcome, DR Miss Karen!
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DR Elmore - would you like aDVDs copies of "Patience" and "Pirates of Penzance" - Anthony Warlow in both
DR Tomovoz, I already have the "Patience." It's available in the States. I don't know anything about the "Pirates" DVD!
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I am listening to Howard Hanson music and nosing around the Internet.
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Only when played by Robin Williams.
Come to think of it, those pirates were always terribly polite, weren't they!
And, with Cyril Ritchard leading them, nellier than Richard Simmons in a thong and singing "I feel pretty"! I think Jason Isaac butched them up in the last PETER PAN film. I gather that the original Hook, Gerald du Maurier (Daphne's father), was every child's nightmare as Hook.
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One always finds the most interesting things when nosing around the Internet.
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I am listening to Howard Hanson music and nosing around the Internet.
Remember: there's only one t in cathouse.
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WELCOME MISS KAREN!!!! [/size]
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Ginny & Matt H-Thank you for the back pain sympathy. I often have that, & there is a good chance will by tomorrow, but at the moment it’s my hip. I’m very disappointed as we had plans to go out to dinner tonight & enjoy the winter lights. This was our only opportunity before the lights come down after the New Year. Alas, I had to pass since sitting is very difficult.
FJL, JRand56, & Cillaliz-Thank you. If I keep moving it isn’t as bad. I also had a nice glass of Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry. :)
Thanks Jose-A blink of the eye for the pain to hit, that would be very fast relief indeed. Maybe if I move the “right” way instead of the “wrong way”.
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Elmore-VIBES TO ALICE!
NO FLU VIBES FOR CILLA!!
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I'm back from a thoroughly enjoyable viewing of "DreamGirls". What a phenomenal debut for Jennifer Hudson!
The girl can SANG!
Very moving performance, too. Eddie Murphy was a revelation.
The rest was "nice" icing and fun.
When it comes to serious awards, I think only Hudson and Murphy merit acting nominations.
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Oh, yeah! Keith Robinson was pretty terrific, too!
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Vibes to Larry's friend Alice.
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Welcome (at last) to Miss Karen
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Elmore-VIBES TO ALICE!
NO FLU VIBES FOR CILLA!!
Thanks Jane, I had some turkey and mashed potatoes, no gravy. I feel better. I think maybe it was just the Chex Mix I was eating earlier....I'm hoping....
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Ah....
Well for DREDISAURUS - I would say your dream about the lovely room in your home means that to you, every day is a discovery, a welcome discovery. And that you value even the unexpected. You are also unafraid of new challenges.
DR DtM - since your room was difficult to get to, I would say your dream is similar, but that challenges are just that to you. And that you value the job well done rather than the job itself.
Okay, I'll buy that. I'm just glad that it didn't mean that I was maladjusted in some way.
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I'm back from a thoroughly enjoyable viewing of "DreamGirls". What a phenomenal debut for Jennifer Hudson!
The girl can SANG!
Very moving performance, too. Eddie Murphy was a revelation.
The rest was "nice" icing and fun.
When it comes to serious awards, I think only Hudson and Murphy merit acting nominations.
I'm so jealous. I would love to see Dream Girls, but it doesn't get here until january 12th. Maybe I'll see if it's in Omaha. I could make a trip tomorrow.
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~~~NO MORE PAIN VIBES FOR DR JANE!!~~~
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~~~STAY WELL VIBES FOR CILLALIZ!!~~~
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Isn't it Thelma Ritter who says flings is wonderful things?
DR ELMORE - I bought that LP for ten cents MANY years ago and fell in love with the score. And Thelma was a delight. ;D
The CD is still played quite often around these here parts.
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Well, I'm goin' home...I'm bailin'...I'm blowin' this joint...I'm makin' like a baby and headin' out! ;)
Have a good evening, all! ;D
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Okay, I'll buy that. I'm just glad that it didn't mean that I was maladjusted in some way.
Maladjustments are inconsequential on the internet. 8)
I wonder what interesting things MR BK is finding. :D
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Poem discovered on the internet:
When the time comes
For the final line to be
Drawn through my name
In those personal address books,
Will it be done slowly
Or rapidly?
I should like to leave
More than one less "H"
So please hear me
I have been poisoned.
Written by Miss Allison Hayes on the realization that she had less than six months to live. :'(
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I'm listening to "Edward Scissorhands" - 2005 London Stage premiere recording.
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Great find JRand.
I don't cross out names of deceased friends. I avoid the finality and buy a new address book.
I still have Oz Derek's final text message in my cell phone!
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Great find JRand.
I don't cross out names of deceased friends. I avoid the finality and buy a new address book.
I still have Oz Derek's final text message in my cell phone!
I don't cross out either....the names stay in until I have to buy a new book. :-\
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Jean Ratcliffe told me that she used to hear her typewriter clicking during the night after she wrote Frances Farmer's "autobiography."
I told her to leave some paper in it and see what was being written. She shuddered and only said: "I don't think I want to know."
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Thirty minutes until IT'S TRAD DAD and then DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST!
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I prefer "It's Trad Dad", "Just for Fun" and "The Knack" to "A Hard Day's Night".
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They're going to execute Saddam within the next hour.
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I prefer "It's Trad Dad", "Just for Fun" and "The Knack" to "A Hard Day's Night".
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT is so tied up with my 14th year, I can't watch it now and not be wistful.... :D
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Hope you enjoy the "Lose Your Inhibition Twist" JRand, and "Another Tear Falls" by Gene McDaniels.
Stars Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas didn't make it to your side of the pond!
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They're going to execute Saddam within the next hour.
Whew!
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Hope you enjoy the "Lose Your Inhibition Twist" JRand, and "Another Tear Falls" by Gene McDaniels.
Stars Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas didn't make it to your side of the pond!
I am looking forward to it, and will use my latest 20th Century Technology to put the movie on tape! :o
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I've always loved Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Room 22222.
DVD: I watched The Miracle at Morgan's Creek for the first time yesterday. What a wonderful pushing of the 1943 envellope. Then I started The Five Pennies, starring former DR Susan Gordon.
CD: Making it through all my holiday presents. Currently listening to the contemporary Christian group Jars of Clay, who remind me of a cross between America, mid-career Beatles and late-career Tears for Fears.
Jars of Clay........a cross between..............
LOL. I get it!
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The internet must have eaten MR BK.
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THANK YOU GEORGE!
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Someone may have purchased him on ebay.
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They're going to execute Saddam within the next hour.
I hope there aren’t terrible repercussions around the world.
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Don't forget JRand56 that all of those twist and rock/roll movies are coming out on DVD next month!
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I hope there aren’t terrible repercussions around the world.
Me too
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'night
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]WELCOME, MISS KAREN![/move]
If you are half as beautiful, as your son is handsome, then we are indeed privileged.
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Great find JRand.
I don't cross out names of deceased friends. I avoid the finality and buy a new address book.
I still have Oz Derek's final text message in my cell phone!
And Derek's e-mail address remains in my address book.
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Saddam has been executed.
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They're going to execute Saddam within the next hour.
I do not approve.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]WELCOME, MISS KAREN![/move][/color]
If you are half as beautiful, as your son is handsome, then we are indeed privileged.
I can verify - as can DRs MBarnum, DearReaderLaura, MusicGuy, and BK- that she is a lovely woman!
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Saddam has been executed.
They certainly bulldozed that one through! I believe one of the purposes of this immoral Iraq invasion was to accomplish what was just performed. Saddam was not my dictator - I dislike the one we have - and I believe this execution should never have happened.
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I do not approve.
I'm with you on this... but it is too late!
The wrong has been done!
Shame!
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Finished Cesar and Rosalie, and want more Claude Sautet. As far as I can tell, the only other film available with English subs is Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, which I'll try to pick up.
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Finished Cesar and Rosalie, and want more Claude Sautet. As far as I can tell, the only other film available with English subs is Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, which I'll try to pick up.
Very good choice!
And nobody is executed in this film, except the story, and properly!
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They certainly bulldozed that one through! I believe one of the purposes of this immoral Iraq invasion was to accomplish what was just performed. Saddam was not my dictator - I dislike the one we have - and I believe this execution should never have happened.
I agree with you.
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I have this weird region 2 DVD called Death Of A President - I may try that next - it's a what if sort of a "docu-drama" - what if President George W. Bush had been assassinated, told in the style of a retrospective documentary looking back at the event. Sounds interesting. If not, I shall shut it off.
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The Geneva Convention was well and truly torn up and the invader (and allies) has so much blood on its hands.
Free David Hicks! Not even a trial for him yet and no presumption of innocence.
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I have this weird region 2 DVD called Death Of A President - I may try that next - it's a what if sort of a "docu-drama" - what if President George W. Bush had been assassinated, told in the style of a retrospective documentary looking back at the event. Sounds interesting. If not, I shall shut it off.
I"ll be curious to see what you think of this one
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Is it a musical?
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The Geneva Convention was well and truly torn up and the invader (and allies) has so much blood on its hands.
Free David Hicks! Not even a trial for him yet and no presumption of innocence.
One of his lawyers is a friend of mine. I'm also part of a committee that has assisted with finances for experts and to provide transportation for his Austrailan lawyers. It is a travesty
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"The March of the toys" from the 1929 Milton Aborn revival of BABES IN TOYLAND, conducted by Max Hirschfeld who conducted the show in 1903.
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I'm feeling a bit queasy. Think I'll try to get some sleep.
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I'm feeling a bit queasy. Think I'll try to get some sleep.
Victor Herbert can affect some listeners that way.
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Before I go, DR Elmore, did I ever tell you that I listened to this album over and over and over when I was a kid? I found the cover when I was home, but not the album....I'm sure it's there somewhere, not sure it's in very good shape
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Before I go, DR Elmore, did I ever tell you that I listened to this album over and over and over when I was a kid? I found the cover when I was home, but not the album....I'm sure it's there somewhere, not sure it's in very good shape
Cil, I believe elmore hates this version!
I have this Lp on cd!
And those toy soldiers are for fun!
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Is it a musical?
It should be!
Springtime for Bush with Pretzels and Beer!
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Before I go, DR Elmore, did I ever tell you that I listened to this album over and over and over when I was a kid? I found the cover when I was home, but not the album....I'm sure it's there somewhere, not sure it's in very good shape
And not a single acknowledgement of Victor Herbert anywhere on the cover! It's great to see it! Thanks.
I would like - and I think DR JRand56 would too - the soundtrack with Ms Annette on CD.
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Cil, I believe elmore hates this version!
I have this Lp on cd!
And those toy soldiers are for fun!
I am not fond of the Disney film since I think it dilutes the piece badly, but I am all for anyone listening to Victor Herbert.
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One of his lawyers is a friend of mine. I'm also part of a committee that has assisted with finances for experts and to provide transportation for his Austrailan lawyers. It is a travesty
on behalf of Australians who care about that old concept of "Justice" - thank you.
David's father was a people's nomination for Australian of The Year and Father of The Year.
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I am not fond of the Disney film since I think it dilutes the piece badly, but I am all for anyone listening to Victor Herbert.
Well I haven't listened to it since I was a kid. I can't say I remember the tunes, but I'm sure I would if I heard them again. I wouldn't mind getting a good recording of it, any recommendations?
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I didn't order YOUR HOST WALT DISNEY but I did get THE HARDY BOYS. It's next on my list to watch after I finish the CSI box set I'm watching now. May take awhile since I've also been so enamored of the Blu-ray discs for the last few days.
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on behalf of Australians who care about that old concept of "Justice" - thank you.
David's father was a people's nomination for Australian of The Year and Father of The Year.
You are most welcome, but I'm not doing as much as the lawyers in the trenches. The money comes from a foundation associated with The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. I have heard many many stories about what is happening and has happened at Guantanamo. It isn't pretty.
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Well I haven't listened to it since I was a kid. I can't say I remember the tunes, but I'm sure I would if I heard them again. I wouldn't mind getting a good recording of it, any recommendations?
Now there's a recommendation we're all waiting for.
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I had a nice evening of video delights.
I began with another CSI episode, this one dealing with the murder of a mother with her baby in the room. But, the woman was a virgin and not the baby's biological mother, so what to think? When the murderer was finally revealed, the ice coldness of the person gave me the shivers.
The episode also featured a rival forensic specialist presenting evidence in court that Dr. Grissom was asked to refute. Great duel of smarts that I enjoyed.
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Good Evening!
Back from the show... I was a bit hungry since I did not have a proper dinner earlier, so I just had some cereal...
And now I'm looking at the menu for the pizza delivery place...
Decisions, decisions...
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~~~VIBES to Alice~~~
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Well I haven't listened to it since I was a kid. I can't say I remember the tunes, but I'm sure I would if I heard them again. I wouldn't mind getting a good recording of it, any recommendations?
I bought the DVD of the Annette BABES IN TOYLAND. I saw it at the movies when I was younger and thought it was OK.
The DVD is full screen (boo!) but it was pretty much as I remembered it.
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And a hearty welcome to DR Miss Karen!
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Hmm... Pizza? Calzone? Buffalo Wings? Philly Cheese Steak?... Hmm...
???
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For the main feature tonight, I put in FANTASTIC 4 on Blu-ray, another stunning high definition transfer. There was also a terrific DTS soundtrack that just about blew up my speakers.
FANTASTIC 4 is pure escapist comic book stuff, but I have to say that the guys are very easy on the eyes, made even more so by the high definition image.
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As for the execution of Saddam Hussein and his half-brother... I believe one of my neighbors down the hall is having a party in "honor" of the executions right now.
*And when I came in, I noticed some pizzas being delivered to his place, so... :-\
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After it finished, I watched several high definition trailers of Fox movies coming soon to Blu-ray. I didn't see any I particularly wanted. Some I had in SD and that's good enough; others like THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN were bad enough for me to stay away from in ANY format.
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Page Eleven Roquefort Dance!!!
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...And the pizza has just been ordered...
-Of course, by the time it gets here, I probably won't be hungry anymore... Probably... ;)
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Well, I gotta tell you, the first twenty minutes of this thing are riveting, provocative, and so realistic it's unbelievable - strike that - it's believable. I'll have a full report, but I must get back to it right now.
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I keep forgetting I have these pizzas that David Wechter had sent to me for my birthday, sent in dry ice, and they look quite yummilicious and perhaps tomorrow I shall make one.
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I finished the evening by putting back in the Blu-ray version of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
I watched "The Making" of documentary on the disc. It wasn't about the making of the film, as it turns out, but rather the creation of the theater piece. I have to admit, I did learn a few things about the creation of the show that I didn't already know - the replacing of the original Phantom during rehearsals, the replacing of the original lyricist. I never really knew why there were two billed lyricists for the show, and now I know.
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I think I need to go to bed. Night all
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A rave review for the Skinner/Ripley CD.
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/cdshop/cd_shop.htm
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We just got back from our second viewing of Dear Friend Milla's cabaret act at Danny's. A little crowded, but that's good for Milla.
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Nice review.
In an odd coincidence, Seth Bisen-Hersh, the critic who wrote the review, was the subject of some conversation at dinner last night with Glenn Slater and his lovely wife Wendy Wilf. What are the odds of that? (I told you it was an odd coincidence.)
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I'm heading for bed now, too.
Good night, all!
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Isn't it Thelma Ritter who says flings is wonderful things?
Yes, on here:
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/47/3a/7db91363ada0cc13fe8ad010._AA240_.L.jpg)
der Brucer
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- and I believe this execution should never have happened.
You're probably right - should have just shot him in his spider hole.
der Brucer
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The wrong has been done!
Shame!
And what "right" would you have had imposed on the Iraqui government?
der Brucer
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BK - I got the pdf's. No problem opening them.
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Hmmm.. Pizza.
:)
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News Analysis: Joy of capture muted at end
By Jeff Zeleny
Published: December 29, 2006
CRAWFORD, Tex.: The capture of Saddam Hussein three years ago was a jubilant moment for the White House, hailed by President Bush in a televised address from the Cabinet Room. The execution of Hussein, though, seemed hardly to inspire the same sentiment.
Since his arrest on Dec. 13, 2003, Hussein has gradually faded from view, save for his courtroom outbursts and writings from prison. The growing chaos and violence in Iraq has steadily overshadowed the torturous rule of Hussein, who for more than two decades held a unique place in the politics and psyche of the United States, a symbol of the manifestation of evil in the Middle East.
Now, what could have been a triumphal bookend to the American invasion of Iraq has instead been dampened by the grim reality of conditions on the ground there. Hussein's hanging means that the ousted leader has been held accountable for his misdeeds, fulfilling the American war aim most cited by the White House after Iraq's weapons of mass destruction proved nonexistent.
But that war is now edging toward its fifth year, and the sectarian violence that has surged independent of any old Sunni or Baathist allegiances to Hussein has raised questions about what change, if any, his death might bring.
"Saddam's face has been on this process from the beginning and here goes that face," said Bruce Buchanan, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. "But in many respects, he's a bit player now."
Even as a bit player, though, the specter of Hussein remained intimately entwined with Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush. Two years after the Persian Gulf war, Hussein ordered an assassination attempt on the elder Bush, an act of spite that the 43rd president would never forget.
"There's no doubt his hatred is mainly directed at us," the current president said, speaking to a Republican fund-raising crowd in Houston on Sept. 26, 2002. "This is the man who tried to kill my dad."
For his part, Hussein referred to the younger Bush as "son of the viper." He delivered a famous snub of the 41st president, constructing a mosaic of the elder Bush's face on the floor of the Rashid Hotel, perfectly positioned to be repeatedly stepped on. After the American troops reached Baghdad, they crushed the mosaic.
When Hussein was captured, the president said: "Good riddance, the world is better off without you." But he dismissed suggestions that a family grudge played a role in shaping his Iraq policy or influenced his decision to go to war. "My personal views," he said, "aren't important in this matter."
But Buchanan, a longtime observer of the Bush political family in Texas, said that these were no ordinary archenemies and that setting aside personal views entirely seemed impossible.
"I think the president will see this as justice done and may well feel some sense of vindication, in part because of the attempt on his father's life," he said. "It's definitely part of the drama."
Here in Crawford, where the president is spending the week between Christmas and New Year's, aides planned for how the White House would respond to Hussein's execution. They quickly ruled out the idea of putting the president in front of television cameras, fearful of sending a message that Bush was crowing or that the United States was orchestrating the execution, which officially was carried out by the Iraqi government.
But a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy, also acknowledged that the challenges in Iraq contributed to the president's decision to simply issue a brief written statement after the execution. The White House concluded that even a development as dramatic as Hussein's hanging could not be used to renew support for the war.
"Americans have already taken that into account," said Frank Newport, the editor in chief of the Gallup Poll. "The benefits of deposing Saddam Hussein are far exceeded by the cost of the war."
Indeed, a Gallup poll taken Dec. 8 to 10 showed that 64 percent of Americans said the costs of the war outweighed the benefits. Only 33 percent disagreed, saying the benefits — including the ouster of Hussein — outweighed the costs.
It is a striking change in thinking, Newport said, considering that since the first Gulf war a wide majority of Americans have supported the removal of Hussein. It was a chief reason, he said, that polls showed that more than 60 percent of Americans initially supported the war in Iraq.
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In June 1993, after the failed attempt by Iraqi government agents on the life of the elder Bush, 53 percent of Americans said of Hussein in a Gallup Poll that they supported "the extreme action of having him assassinated to remove him from power," while 37 percent said they did not.
Those sentiments, of course, were expressed a full decade before the invasion that began the current war.
Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who ran against Bush in 2004 and has become increasingly vocal in his criticism of the war, said executing Hussein was hardly worth the cost.
"To go to war to kill one guy? Please," said Kerry, who recently returned from a visit to Iraq. He added that the execution had become "almost a sideshow to the fundamental dilemma and quandary of Iraq."
"What will not be resolved by his death is the political resolution that is critical to changing the direction and dynamic of the country," he added. "Those stakes remain fundamentally the same."
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When I was preteen, the Victorian Banjo Club here in Melbourne would have had thousands of members - many of whom played the ukelele or the mandolin.
My grandmother was a member of an all-girl uke band when she was young. (Stop me if I've told this story!) My cousin, who doesn't take care of things, had tons of pictures that she took from my grandmother's home when she was moved to a nursing home, includinghe picture of the band that I coveted. Of course, she has no idea where it is now. But it was a wonderful picture of the band, all standing on top of milk cans holding their ukeleles. Underneath, my grandmother had written ""Raised On Milk".
She used to call me every year on my birthday, play happy birthday to me on the uke and then hang up without saying a word. The first year that I didn't receive a phone call from her, I was very depressed. After that, my mom started calling me on my birthday and playing Happy Birthday on her Casio keyboard.
I was working one day with the head of TBS on-air. It was my birthday and my mother called, so I put her on speaker so he could hear. He had lost his mother when he was young, so he thought it was a wonderful thing to have a mom to call you and sing to you. When his birthday came around, my mom indulged my wishes by calling him and singing to him, too. (She's such a good sport---if not a particularly good singer.) Now it's become somewhat of a tradition!
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I don't cross out either....the names stay in until I have to buy a new book. :-\
I don't cross out either. It just seems wrong.
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I don't cross out either. It just seems wrong.
Do you think Mr Bush All Mighty is going to cross Saddam's name in his book?!
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I was on the road when the big news story hit and didn't hear about it until I got home.
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Lovely Story DR Edi.
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Do you think Mr Bush All Mighty is going to cross Saddam's name in his book?!
I doubt he could have written it in the first place! Both name have two syllables.
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Ukulele Ike Cliff Edwards would have loved that story too!
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The ukulele one that is!
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I doubt he could have written it in the first place! Both name have two syllables.
Instead of writing the name, he pasted a picture!
Remember the "playing cards"?
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Do you think Mr Bush All Mighty is going to cross Saddam's name in his book?!
I suspect he was not on the White House Christmas card list.
I hope Iran and North Korea are taking notice!
der Brucer
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I doubt he could have written it in the first place! Both name have two syllables.
Please...the man has an MBA from Harvard!
der Brucer
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LOL François. Yep!
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JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT was a lot of fun although major characters would vanish from the plot and then later you would have someone say that they had been killed. That was sort of odd.
Now on to my Bollywood movie:
IZZAT (1968) starring Dharmendra and Tanuja.
I haven't a clue what the plot is about.
(http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/nehaflix_1929_188573033)
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Please...the man has an MBA from Harvard!
der Brucer
Yes, and he's even President of the United States!
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Finished the docu-drama, which was really well done and, as I said, riveting. More about it later.
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They certainly bulldozed that one through! I believe one of the purposes of this immoral Iraq invasion was to accomplish what was just performed. Saddam was not my dictator - I dislike the one we have - and I believe this execution should never have happened.
Word.
We have invited members of anti-death penalty groups to our Sacco and Vanzetti screenings. In Arizona, which is close to abolishing it (if they get a new governor!) we had great speakers with very depressing statistics about the number of wrongful convictions.
"Deadline", a documentary dealing with the death penalty, has compiled a state-by-state rundown of information on their website. See where your state stands:
http://deadlinethemovie.com/state/
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Poll: Most Favor Execution (http://www.nbc30.com/news/10624216/detail.html)
A Harris Interactive study for broadcaster France 24 and the Le Monde newspaper found that large majorities in six countries supported the enforcement of Saddam’s death sentence and favor the withdrawal of troops in Iraq.
Apart from Italy (46 percent), majorities of adults in each of the countries support Saddam's execution, the Harris poll found:
United States: 82 percent.
Great Britain: 69 percent.
France: 58 percent.
Germany 53 percent.
Spain: 51 percent.
Italy: 46 percent.
der Brucer
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Well... I want to get at least one or two more boxes packed up before I head to bed... -I'll be taking some out to my parents' house in the morning - I'll be stashing them there next week before I head back up to NYC. So...
Goodnight.
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Poll: Most Favor Execution (http://www.nbc30.com/news/10624216/detail.html)der Brucer
What can I do if "my" country's sick too???
(Prividing those polls mean something too!)
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George Harrison was a big uke fan. Here is my favorite uke player, who got to know George before he died. George and his family became instant fans. I saw him on tour opening for Jamie Cullum. I told him about my grandmother---he said he'd love to see the picture I mentioned. Oh well...
Check him out; he's known as the Jimi Hendrix of the uke, a dynamic performer and a sweet guy as well. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Jake Shimabukuro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
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Finished the docu-drama, which was really well done and, as I said, riveting. More about it later.
I would love to see that!
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DR Miss Karen, it's about time! Happy to have you here. Set a spell!
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This is the one I remember:
(http://www.ukulele.org/graphics/godfrey/godfrey15.jpg)
der Brucer
Even better than Tiny Tim 8)
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Welcome, DR MissKaren. Glad you joined us!
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Divers - Agadou Dou Dou Lyrics
{refrain:}
Agadou dou dou pouss' l'ananas et mouds
l'café {2x}
Tap' la pomm' tap' la
poir' pouss' l'ananas et mouds l'café
{2x}
L'an dernier à tahiti
Une jolie
vahiné
Avec son ukulélé
M'a vraiment ukulélé
Ell'vendait de forts beaux fruits
Avec son
ukulélé
Quand on les avait choisis
Y avait plus
qu'à les manger
{au refrain}
Accusé
d'avoir goûté
Aux pomm' de ma vahiné
Paraît-il sans permission
On me jeta en prison
Je
dus payer au papa
Comme une poir' mon ananas
Et
puis le dédommager
D'un ukulélé très laid
{au
refrain}
Si tu vas à tahiti
Prends garde au
ukuklélé
Dis-toi que ces fruits si beaux
Sont destinés
aux gogos !
{au refrain, 2x}
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Oh... welcome Miss Karen!
Did you bring your ukulele along?!
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On our trip to Las Vegas, we were speeding along until five miles before Hoover Dam. Then we came to a dead stop. It took us almost three hours to go those five miles. I don't know if you can see it, but the line goes over the mountain.
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And I can't believe that other people in the place you're leaving would allow that sort of construction to happen! That's just wrong!
It's hard to fight it because when the city puts an overlay on historic property it makes the ground more valuable than the structures sitting on it. My town calls itself "Historic Marietta" yet has repeatedly refused to enact a state certified preservation ordinance. The councilman (in office since he was in his early 20's and pretty much runs the city) who is so anti-preservation owns most of the buidlings downtown, including a gorgeous art deco theatre that he has let rot and has a lifetime demolition permit. A group has been trying to save the theatre but they can't raise the money because the councilman is willing to lease the theatre but not sell it to the group. So any money put into the building will just be making capital improvments to the despised councilman's property.
Meanwhile, It's hard to fight the loft when our neighbor, the 5th generation to live in this antebellum Greek revival, used as a hospital during the war, sold it to a developer so sleazy that even his own mother is suing him for stealing her inheritance money. (He also stole acres of property from my brother through a loophole in a real estate contract.) If it were any other developer, I might have considered sticking with this house. He has basically strip-mined this plantation house by surrounding it with asphalt and is now selling it off after all his talk about preserving it. OK. Rant done.
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Shouldn't that be DarnTraffic? (The children, you know)
der Brucer
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The Strand Theatre, before Goldstein, the councilman:
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And after Goldstein. I think they'd stand a much better chance of raising money if Goldstein would give up his demolition permit!
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The councilman (in office since he was in his early 20's and pretty much runs the city)...
How does he buy off the voters?
der Brucer
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My town calls itself "Historic Marietta"
Seems it survied Sherman and the Carpetbaggers only to fall victim to good ole homeboy greed.
der Brucer
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Seems it survied Sherman and the Carpetbaggers only to fall victim to good ole homeboy greed.
We like to blame Sherman but most historic homes in Atlanta have been destroyed due to greed and/or neglect.
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I picked up one of those cheap Naxos CDs - Mr. Howard Hanson - what a composer he was. It's shocking Hollywood never tapped him because his music SOUNDS like great filmmusic - better than most. Ridley Scott, of course, angered fans of Mr. Jerry Goldsmith by replacing some Goldsmith with Hanson for the end credits of Alien. The last ten minutes or so of ET was clearly temp-tracked with the final movement of Mr. Hanson's Romantic Symphony - same rhythms, same harmonic structure, same emotion.
The Naxos disc is marvelous and can be had for about six bucks. It has his Organ Concerto - I wonder if MusicGuy has heard this wonderful, brilliant piece? It also has the Nymphs and Satyr Ballet Suite and a bunch of other pieces for solo instrument and string orchestra. I'd say it's one of the best releases of the year.
We issued the Organ Concerto and the Nymphs and Satyr Ballet Suite on Bay Cities (our classical line was predominantly American composers), but these performances are really good, and the Bay Cities discs are long out of print. It was our devotion to American classical music that got us our first devoted fans - there was basically only one other label doing it, and they were REALLY tiny. After we made our splash, I must say other major labels really jumped on the bandwagon. It was most amusing to watch. Sort of like what happened when we started up at Varese - Broadway music (and especially B'way vocalists) were dead on CD. Maybe ten releases a year from ALL the labels put together. I came out swinging, and in the first year and a half did twenty-seven CDs. Within six months, all the majors were back into it, gobbling up stuff we were getting, and also getting their feet wet with vocalists. It was amusing to watch.
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Sherman And The Carpetbaggers - wasn't that a UPA cartoon?
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We've got a quorum on the forum.
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It sure doesn't seem like Friday, does it? She of the Evil Eye is coming tomorrow - can't believe it - have to get up early!
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Anyone for four hundred postings?
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What am I, doing a monologue?
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Maybe with a little elbow-grease Edisaurus could have her new place looking like this:
(http://images.forbes.com/media/lifestyle/2006/07/24/5_0724home_na.jpg)
der Brucer
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How does he buy off the voters?
There are very few people who vote in his ward. They are mostly immigrants who rent. (He is a slumlord as well...) Most of the buildings are businesses. The established voters are mostly old people. Strangley enough, we've seen city crews coming to edge their lawns, etc. He doesn't pay them off, but he does "take care of them".
No one bothers to run against him because nobody in his ward cares. We found a candidate willing to run against him but when we were campaigning for him, some of our door-to-door people were chased down and harassed by the councilman. Everyone is afraid to get on his bad side because he is so powerful and if they ever want anything like a variance, or permission to do something on their property, they don't want him against them because he badgers the other council members to vote his way.
His support of the loft and pushing to get this developer money is payback for the developer's votes for him as a member of the Downtown Marietta Development Authority, which controls the square. The developer was put on this board when the councilman tried to build a 12 story tower on the square, which consists of 2 story buildings. He was put in place by the councilman when his sister resigned because she wasn't allowed to vote on her brother's tower. Because of the relationship between the developer and the councilman, he didn't get to vote on the tower after all. (This was the basis for our ethics charges.)
I can't wait to get away from small town politics. I don't pretend that Atlanta will be any better, but I am certain we will be less consumed by it!
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We've got a quorum on the forum.
What a Funny Thing!
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Quick, let's get to page fourteen.
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Lucky Page 13!
DH and I played the lottery tonight, something we rarely do. I should go and find out if we won and if we can start the remodeling job Der B proposes...
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Actually, if I won the lottery I would enjoy buying the loft and blowing it up.
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I could get us to Page 14 quick.
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I would enjoy buying the loft and blowing it up.
How very S&V of you 8)
der Brucer
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On our trip, we stopped for lunch at this lovely coffee shop in Wickenburg, Arizona:
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I don't know if this site has ever been mentioned before, but I love surfing around http://cinematreasures.org . I like to look up theatres that my clients remember from their youth and they end up on this site for hours. They have a good list of past and present theatres. The demolition page is VERY DEPRESSING, though,
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Will there be close up shots of carpets in Las Vegas DearReaderLaura?
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We enjoyed this sumptuous buffet (a Forever Plaid reference) a couple of times:
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Will there be close up shots of carpets in Las Vegas DearReaderLaura?
No. Casino carpet photos are old news. We have something much better.
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I'll stay tuned. It's so difficult to keep up with USA kulture.
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How very S&V of you 8)
LOL. Yes, but at least I would be blowing up my own building!
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Casino Ceilings!
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The Aladdin:
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On our trip, we stopped for lunch at this lovely coffee shop in Wickenburg, Arizona:
Love the name. Pony Expresso!
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Bally's:
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Bellagio:
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Love the name. Pony Expresso!
And they make a very good sandwich.
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Caesar's Palace:
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Where is the glass ceiling?
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Things are looking up.
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The Flamingo:
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Harrah's
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And they make a very good sandwich.
I hope it's not made from....PONIES!!
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Imperial Palace:
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MGM Grand:
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and the beat goes on. Stunning pics DearReader Laura.
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New York New York:
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Paris Las Vegas:
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You must have had a lot of drinks!
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The time has come the Walrus said
To speak of................
Ceiling wax!
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The Venetian:
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We did it! Page 14 Rhoomba!
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And the place we stayed, The Gold Coast:
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At least my silly photos got us to Page 14.
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perhaps the Venetian Glass Ceiling DR Edi.
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I wondered when I took these photos what the people peering through the security camera thingies in the ceiling were thinking.
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and possibly to 400!
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It was a very cold and WINDY day in Las Vegas yesterday. The wind gusts were 55 with sustained wind speed of 25-35. We didn't get very far down the Strip.
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My DH worked on a PBS show called "Building Big". It was a nice series, shot on film. They did an episode on domes, and shot at the Georgia dome during a football game. The video crews were all astounded to see his crew shooting nothing but the ceiling. They also wanted to know what kind of camera they had. The tv crews had never seen a film camera!
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"Downtown" with Mrs Miller.
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We did see two shows: Plaid Tidings and the WSMA in Phantom the Las Vegas Spectacular.
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Yay, 400!
Yes, DR Laura---I was wondering that, too. They probably thought you were just a spy.
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Too cold and windy to finish the Strip! Where would you be, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Did you see the unmasked Mr Barrett?
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At least my silly photos got us to Page 14.
I think it is a neat series of photos, and a perspective on the place that people rarely see (unless theypre passed out on the floor...)
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The monorail was not working because of the wind, so we didn't get very far in the one afternoon we had to goof off.
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Did you see the unmasked Mr Barrett?
Not this time -- but the last time I was there, in August, he was wandering about the Gold Coast incognito.
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I think it is a neat series of photos, and a perspective on the place that people rarely see (unless theypre passed out on the floor...)
DR Sandra has ideas for the next couple of times we are there. You lucky people!
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LOL Laura.
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We had a long drive home, and we had dam traffic coming home, too (although only an hour to go five miles), so I am tired and am going to sleep! Good night.
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Goodnight Phoenix.
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George Harrison was a big uke fan. Here is my favorite uke player, who got to know George before he died. George and his family became instant fans. I saw him on tour opening for Jamie Cullum. I told him about my grandmother---he said he'd love to see the picture I mentioned. Oh well...
Check him out; he's known as the Jimi Hendrix of the uke, a dynamic performer and a sweet guy as well. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Jake Shimabukuro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo)
WOW! This guy is incredible! Who'da thunk that anyone could play the ukelele like that! :D
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I finished the evening by putting back in the Blu-ray version of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
I watched "The Making" of documentary on the disc. It wasn't about the making of the film, as it turns out, but rather the creation of the theater piece. I have to admit, I did learn a few things about the creation of the show that I didn't already know - the replacing of the original Phantom during rehearsals, the replacing of the original lyricist. I never really knew why there were two billed lyricists for the show, and now I know.
Forshadowing of Sunset Boulevard. ::)
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I went to a party tonight and some of our S&V actor friends were there. One of them asked me why films like Michael Caine's Harry Palmer films were $115-150 on Amazon. I looked it up---The Ipcress File, which I thought should be famous enough to be found pretty cheaply, was only cheap in region 2 format.
My question to BK if he comes back---are multi-region players expensive? How long do you think it would take for films like this to be released at a reasonable price, or would they even BE released widely in the US?