And the word of the day is: HERMITAGE!
Escaped tiger kills man at S.F. Zoo
By Charles Piller and Tim Reiterman
Animal mauls two more victims before being shot to death by police. The same tiger attacked a zookeeper last year.
And the word of the day is: HERMITAGE!
Ron, enjoy your last full day of vacation.
DR Jennifer - powdered sugar is also called confectioner's sugar...
...This morning I have cartons and packing crap to cart down to the basement...
DR MATTH - BONJOUR TRISTESSE is one of my favorite movies. It is very unusual - beautiful b/w AND color photography...and some really nifty performances from Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Mylene Demongeot, and Geoffrey Horne...great locations!
I had seen Seberg in SAINT JOAN and of course AIRPORT and PAINT YOUR WAGON and really liked her....but I think her role in BT is my favorite.
Columbia Pictures - TCM has been showing a lot of those this year....so we shall see.
The DVD is barebones, but nice to have.
A friend is coming over this morning to see if he can finally make us wireless, internet capability wise. I have a wireless modem, but I've never been able to get it to work properly. I'm hoping he can, because then the kids won't need the stupid USB wireless connector for their Wii and their new XBox will also have internet, and, most importantly, my HD DVD player will have all its bells and whistles. :)
Will we have to start calling you George Jetson? ;D
I've never seen SAINT JOAN or BONJOUR TRISTESSE, two notable failures with Jean Seberg, so I'll be interested in reading comments from any and all who have seen either or both of them.
Awwww.
Are you feeling better JRand?
DR Jose: I didn't realize your brothers would be so much OLDER than you. You must have been a late-in-life baby for your folks!
;)
Feel better, Jeanne!
My first question for ASK BK DAY - since you are re-visiting some Preminger, what do you think of BONJOUR TRISTESSE?
And the word of the day is: HERMITAGE!The longer Milton stayed at the HERMITAGE, THE GAMIER he got. Someone should have installed a shower at that retreat, or something.
I am off to work in a few minutes. Hopefully, I can get hold of my doctor and find out what the next phase of treatment for pneumonia will be. The antibotics have come and gone, and if anything, I am feeling worse.
...Today is my final "full" day in Johnston SC....In other words, they've finally run out of food and you either return home or start fasting, right?
Lovely photos.....DR GEORGE I like the pro-feel photo of Miss Ebonie.
Happy Boxing Day everyone!Icing sugar, confectioner's sugar, and powdered sugar are all the same thing: very fine sugar, to which a bit of corn starch has been added to prevent clumping. Because of the corn starch, it is not recommended for sweetening iced tea or other beverages - the starch molecules get gummy when wet, which makes the drink's mouth feel very strange.
Since Boxing Day seems to be much more celebrated in Canada than in the US it made me think of a food dilemna i've been having.
I have a recipe for Reese's peanut butter cups (which i love. It is a US recipe. And it asks for "powdered sugar."
Now this is not an ingredient that we use here. I even asked my mom and aunt who bake a lot.
But what i am wondering for the food experts. Is it the same as what we here call "icing sugar"?
I also received a painting done by a very dear friend as a gift. I love it.That's not the sun shining though the leaves? :D
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w247/SaltonSeaTrip/tree.jpg)
Of course, the flash hitting the glass makes a bright spot, but I can't get the photo to show up without the flash.
I either need a nap or a shot of espresso.
I'm heading down now to ...tiny up some clothes in the bedroom...Washing the woolens in hot water will tiny up the clothes in no time!
Here are a couple of shots of espresso:I only see one picture.
(http://www.cafeatray.com/images/espresso_N0OE.jpg)
;)
So, here is the cake that I made yesterday for my niece Alexandra. -The one from the box mix, that I whipped up with the small whisk. ;)You would have preferred she spell out BAD PITHY HARPY?
My Mom had found some candles at Walgreen's, and she set them up on the cake...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/BirthdayHappy.jpg)
She could not understand all of our "reactions" when we saw the cake. It looked right to her. ::)
I only see one picture.
;D
A question for BK:
If you were staging Lady in the Dark today, or recording the full score, who would you cast as Liza Elliot?
I am off to work in a few minutes. Hopefully, I can get hold of my doctor and find out what the next phase of treatment for pneumonia will be. The antibotics have come and gone, and if anything, I am feeling worse.Walking pneumonia can be either bacterial (in which case the anti-biotics should have worked) or viral, in which case the antibiotics are useless. Did your Doc do any cultures to determine which kind you had?
A question for BK:
If you were staging Lady in the Dark today, or recording the full score, who would you cast as Liza Elliot?
Washing the woolens in hot water will tiny up the clothes in no time!
Lovely photos.....DR GEORGE I like the pro-feel photo of Miss Ebonie.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to try to remember that.
There are still two more bonus features on the disc, and then I can start on THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT III.
I would like it even more if Ebonie had one of those $5 tags on which is embossed her phone numeber ( you can get yjem at any pet food store). Murphy's law says cats are always lost on the first day of a three day weekend when the government agencies that connect the cat to owner via the license are closed.
der Brucer
Yes, George, there is no end to the nagging.
And I thank you for the nagging...but just to let you know, I have a mother who nags and over the years, I've developed a high tolerance for nagging. ;)
Try to remember, the time in December
You washed the woolies in water, steamy
The clothes were clean, and smelled so dreamy
But they were teeney, teeney, teeney
der Brucer (doing a poor job filling in for FJL)
Do you excpect THAT'S DANCING to follow soon?
der Brucer
...I was thinking that I could actually scratch the number on the tag.
And does your mother share my curiosity about the box beneath your bed?
der Brucer
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Zoo was closed to visitors Wednesday as police investigated a tiger attack they say may have been provoked by visitors' taunting the animal, leaving one man dead and two brothers injured.
Police searched the zoo to ensure there were no others injured and no more animals out of their cages after the Christmas day attack in which the 300-pound tiger, Tatiana, escaped its cage.
One witness said at least one of the victims had provoked the tiger, which had been out of its cage an estimated 15 to 20 minutes, police said. Tatiana also ripped the flesh off a zookeeper's arm just before Christmas 2006.
ENCHANTED will be out on Blu-ray in four months or so as well.
Premminger was talented at almost any type film he touched:
Musical - Porgy and Bess
Comedy - The Moon is Blue
der Brucer
Explain SKIDOO.
Knowing that you are a Naomi Watts fan,
A question for BK:
If you were staging Lady in the Dark today, or recording the full score, who would you cast as Liza Elliot?
Jennifer, I would say that icing sugar is confectioners or powdered sugar.
POLICE: SAN FRANCISCO TIGER ATTACK MAY HAVE BEEN PROVOKED (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318365,00.html)Doesn't take long to blame the victim, does it!Where's that tiger? Where's that tiger?
der Brucer
Hi Julie. I hope you are feeling better by now.
Well, I was back home by 10:00 this morning, the doctor's called back at 10:30 and said they were faxing a prescription to my pharmacy immediately. I then fell into a deep sleep until 5:00 when Angel woke me up for dinner (hers, not mine). I got dressed and was about to drive to the pharmacy, when I got the bright idea to call ahead. I am certainly glad I didn't because there was NO presciption called in or faxed by my doctor.
I have now called and left a blistering message at the doctor's office, phoned work and told them I would gone tomorrow, fed the cats, and am now going to crawl back to the bedroom.
And how was your day?
Thanks all for the info re: icing sugar/powdered sugar.
I just found it so odd that we would call the same thing something totally different!
And DR Kerry was such a dear and was so patient with my feeble attempts at cooking.
DH Richard and I are off to meet my family at the local Mexican jernt, where I think I'll opt for a vegetarian selection tonight...
I'm off to Costco. I need to return a couple of things...nothing that I received, though. :)
Well, in America, we have cotton candy but in England, they call it "floss sugar." ??? Where'd that name come from...or which came first?
It is unclear who was the first person to invent cotton candy. Four people, Thomas Patton, Josef Delarose Lascaux, John C. Wharton, and William Morrison, have all been named as the inventors of the candy.
Wharton and Morrison received a patent for the cotton candy machine in 1899. They created the first electric cotton candy machine to melt and spin sugar through tiny holes using centrifugal force. After the two candy makers from Tennessee received the patent, Wharton and Morrison took the invention to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
Patton received a separate patent in 1900 for his process of making cotton candy. He was experimenting with caramelizing sugar and forming threads using a fork. Patton used a gas-fired rotating plate to spin the cotton candy threads. He introduced the candy at Ringley Bros. Circus and it became popular with children.
Around the same time, a Louisiana dentist, Lascaux, introduced cotton candy at his dental practice though he never received a patent or trademark for the confection.
America celebrates National Cotton Candy Day on December 7th
Cotton candy was originally called fairy floss
In 1920 fairy floss was re-named cotton candy
I cannot find anything that I feel like watching, therefore I may watch nothing. What time is the Kennedy Center thing on in LA?
Will we never get to page nine?
I presume that will be a simulaneous release with the sDVD?
der Brucer
And The Song Of The Day Is : HERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY
We had our first major technical meltdown tonight. Some wizard in the booth deleted one of the prerecords, and didn't notice until (guess what!!) it was time to play it. It unfortunately was one of most complex pieces I did, the "gavotte" with changing styles to accompany the various dance moves they did. They first hit the preceding track (the Act II curtain music, which is basically The Search), realized that was wrong and then they just sat there like so much fish while the actors (most of them kids) and I wondered what was going on. Then for some inexplicable reason they turned the follow spot on and started madly shining it back and forth all over the place. At that point I just decided to put us all out of our misery and I played the damn thing live. :)
Virgin Megastore to close shop
Another one bites the dust: The Virgin Megastore on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, just down the street from the shuttered Tower Records, will close when its lease is up in January.
The rent is simply too high, Simon Wright, chief executive of Virgin Megastores North America, said Wednesday.
"We're trying to reposition the business," Wright said, "and a lot of our stores are too big for the future, primarily due to the drop in music sales."
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Sales of CDs were down 23% last week from 2006, Billboard reported, as people continue to turn to the Internet for music. Best Buy Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers account for at least half of album sales, Mayfield said.
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Amoeba Records, with locations in Hollywood, San Francisco and Berkeley, tells a contrasting story. Amoeba has a broad selection of music, sells used discs and is a young company with good prospects, Mayfield said.
For music lovers, Amoeba will be one of the only places to shop in the neighborhood after the Virgin Megastore closes, said Justin Goldberg, founder and CEO of online music network indie911, whose offices are a few blocks from the Sunset store.
Harry Potter wizard Robert "Cedric Diggory" Pattinson has been tapped to star in thirteen director Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight, based on the popular series of books. Pattinson will play the high-school vampire whose blood boils for classmate Kristen Stewart. In other words, he's Angel to her Buffy. — Ben Katner
LIVE music? Wow??!? That must have been weird.
;D
Oh - just the stuff you stole ;D
der Brucer
DR George, I have the same pillow that says "If you want the best seat in the house, you'll have to move the cat"!
Sadly, it's only the beginning for Virgin Megastores - as I mentioned before, the entire chain is on its way out. Someone who is pretty in the know told me so and that's when I reported it earlier this year. I was in Virgin here a few weeks ago and there was literally no one in the store except me and the employees.