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Title: MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 12:18:11 AM
Well, you've scoped out the notes, you've scooped out the notes, you've had the notes with a cherry on top, so now all you must do is simply post until the cows come home.

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Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 12:51:00 AM
Good morning!

-Wow!  It's been a while since I've been a "late night denizen".  Guess that means I'm getting back to normal!

T-o-D - as opposed to D-i-T - Ray Bradbury.... Hmm.. I may have to sleep on that one, literally.  I recall having "Farhenheit 451" on my reading list in high school sophomore year... Was that the one with the tattooed man on the cover?  ???  Movies - ???

In other news...

DR George - Did they really take off "Making Love Alone" from later reissues of the Bernadette Peters' CD?!?!?  I'm gonna go have to check the bins at Tower now!

-And if you're interested in the sheet music, you may message me too. ;-)

-What light through yonder window breaks..  -Oh, it's just the motion detector light on the porch next door.. their dog sets it off... ;)

Goodnight.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 12:54:53 AM
OOohhh.. and first post too! :D
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Charles Pogue on February 14, 2004, 12:56:02 AM
I haven't really read that much Bradbury, but he had a story which I believe is called THE FRUIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL which was memorable.  I love the film FAHRENHEIT 451...well, I don't love it, but I admire it very much because it is about books and reading and the importance of both.

My favourite author is probably H. Rider Haggard who wrote my favourite book of all time SHE.   A haunting, eerie epic that stirs deeper waters than one would think for an adventure novel.   I have about thirty variant editions of the book, including two firsts.  I also have a letter written by Haggard where he talks about it without mentioning it by name.

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: S. Woody White on February 14, 2004, 01:00:43 AM
My favorite book by Bradbury would have to be Dandelion Wine.  I don't think anyone has captured a summer the way he did in that tome.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jed on February 14, 2004, 02:48:27 AM
Pretty sure the only Bradbury I've read is Fahrenheit 451, which I do remember enjoying.

Will try to have more to say later, but my bed awaits!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 03:12:04 AM

Happy Valentine's Day!   ;D

Wonderful pictures MBARNUM.....  No Frances never did the honors at the Chinese Theater!  But thanks for looking.

DRSWW has already chosen my favorite Bradbury book:  I wish someone would take some of the stories in Dandelion Wine and make a movie....especially "Lime Vanilla Ice Cream" and "The Long Walk Home."  NOT a tv movie....a MOVIE MOVIE.

As for Bradbury movies Farenheit 451 of course and Something Wicked This Way Comes.  Of course my major problem with 451 was that nobody was memorizing any of Jackie Susann's books.....
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 04:31:43 AM
I just watched Blue Denim on the Fox Movie Channel.  I still like that movie....stagebound and product of its time, though it is.

I only wish the all the parents involved weren't written as such idiots and boobs!   :(  Has anyone seen the play - does it have different ending?

Brandon deWilde and Carol Lynley and especially Warren Berlinger give sincere performances and they all look great!

DREMILY there is a nice hairstyle in this movie!  Like the one she wore in Hound Dog Man.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 05:50:54 AM
Good Morning and Happy Valentines day to all!

Here's your cyber smooch, Bruce.   (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/travesmilies/smilie_herz.gif)

Well, Jose, I will confess that yesterday I ate some things I shouldn't have and I have gained a whole pound back.  Sigh.  I'll be back on track today and will lose it quick!  

Funny thing,  I haven't been eating sugar since I started and, man, did I have a headache last night.  That will help keep me on the straight and narrow if nothing else.

Ray Bradbury--I remember a short story of his  that made me stop and think--I think it was called A Sound Of Thunder.  I also liked several of his books.

Well, I've got to run.  I have some plumbers putty to buy.  Before I do here's a little picture story of what I hope happens for each and every one of you today!

First, when you open the door here's what you'll see:
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Then you'll either go out or have a lovely candle lit dinenr at home:

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And then later on.....
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Have a wonderful day/night!

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 05:52:00 AM
MBARNUM Freddy is a kewl Kat!

LOL DRDanise - I loved your smileys!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:15:10 AM
As to HHAs:
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td: Vibes and prayers. If you want to hear stories about Home Health Aides, we had one for Joe (actually many over the course of ten years) and he finally decided he'd rather not spend the money.
Thanks for the thoughts, fortunately though, I don't have to "hire in;"  between the retired friends of my folks, my cousins and my personal friends, I have been able to create a monday thru friday schedule which filled up quickly.  

In regards to "Making Love Alone:"
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Do you mean a recording or sheet music? If you mean recording, did you know that Bernadette Peters recorded it on her "Sondheim, Etc." CD when it was first released, but the song is no longer on the CD? Does anyone know why it was removed from the recording?
Wow!  I never knew that it had been removed!  I guess buying it blindly on the day of release was a good thing.
Ray Bradbury:  while in junior high, I hated to have to read THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, but, now it is one of my favorite anthologies.  Very fond of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, too.  (Does everybody remember WHO starred in the tv-miniseries of TMC?)  F451, I like both the book and the film - -BUT, hasn't Bradbury done a George Lucas to go back and revamp his original novel? ? ? ?   DANDELION WINE is good too.   SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES gives me goosepimples.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: PennyO on February 14, 2004, 06:38:12 AM
Love and Smooches to you all. I'm feeling giddy and wonderful today - I met my pianist yesterday, and he is superb! he can transpose at sight (I didn't even ask him to - but he asked "what key do you want this in? at the top of the very first song!!!), does lovely 'fills' and has his own signature style - all this while really tuning in and LISTENING to me. A veritable jewel of an accompanist. So any lingering and nagging misgivings have evaporated, and I spent much of the night rehearsing in my mind, instead of sleeping. Oh, I am inspired!!!

And - I don't know if I am allowed to say this? - thanks for the manuscript, Sveetie. I'll get to it immediately. Can't wait!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 06:44:18 AM
Bruce, surrounded by hainesy/kimlets:

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Bernadette Peters:  George, are you sure you don't have the Walmart version of the CD.  Since Walmart is the largest single retailer of CDs in the U.S., many rock/pop groups record a separate sanitized version that meets their squeaky-clean standards.

Or perhaps John Ashcroft has determined that "Making Love Alone" violates the Patriot Act.  I'd hate to think of Bernadette detained incommunicado at Guantanamo.  I mean, she's never even sung "Guantanamera" as far as I know.  (I'll tell you my "Guantanamera" story some time.)

Ray Bradbury:  I devoured his books as a wee twig of a sprig of a lad in high school and college, as did Stephen King, evidently, considering how much he stole from was influenced by Bradbury.

Favorites:  "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl".  Every time Joe gets obsessive with cleaning, I tell him, "Don't forget the fruit at the bottom of the bowl."

Something Wicked This Way Comes:  often imitated, never duplicated.

Dandelion Wine:  Always wanted to make a musical of it.  Even wrote the lyric to a very decent title song, if I do say so myself--and I do.

Speaking of Bernadette and Bradbury in the same post, what are other readers' views of her performance in the TV version of The Martian Chronicles some years back?  And of the entire adaptation?  Also, what about Rod Steiger's self-indulgent film of The Illustrated Man?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: DERBRUCER on February 14, 2004, 07:08:55 AM
Well, Damn It! Damn It all to Hell!

Thanks to one DR's hint, I figured out how to get here without reading the daily sermon notes - and then disovered I needed to go back and read them to get the drift of things.

In did learn something though:
BK says:
"...love and romance in all its incarnations or even its outcarnations..."

So, carnations are like navels, they come in two versions: "innies" and "outies".

We are also exhorted: "And let’s all share the love, baby, and shake our collective bootys."

And what of thos of us who have out-gown "bootys" and now wear Birkenstocks?

I share with you my Valentine from DR SWW:

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der Brucer (viewing with apprehension our Valentine Treat - going to a Bingo Game at the Convention Center! "Well, Toto, looks like we're back in Kansas!")

2 shakes of a lambs tail to notice pic too big; 3 more shakes to modify pic; 3MegaMillion shakes to fuss with AOL bumping me about so I could fix it

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: DERBRUCER on February 14, 2004, 07:13:49 AM
Ray Bradbury did a fasconating interview for The Onion (http://www.theavclub.com/avclub3523/avfeature3523.html).

Excerpts:

RB: It's amazing. I never thought it would happen. I wrote stories to please myself, and it's very gratifying to see that Fahrenheit, or The Martian Chronicles, or Something Wicked are in schools all over the country.

O: It's also relatively unusual for a science-fiction writer.

RB: I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

O: What's the distinction for you?

RB: Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

O: Fahrenheit 451 is one of the definitive anti-censorship books. What do you think of the renewed efforts to restrict or regulate the content of books, movies, music, and the like?

RB: That's not censorship. You have to have taste. You know, there's a hell of a lot in movies that doesn't have to be there. I'll give you a good example: Mel Gibson is doing a new version of Fahrenheit 451 next year some time. There are nine screenplays—nine screenplays! Now, if you know the book, you can just shoot the book off of the page. It's an automatic screenplay. Well, I gave them one screenplay, and there are eight more by various screenwriters. And to give you an example of what should not go into a film—and it's not censorship, it's taste—there's one of the scenes by this other screenwriter. The fire chief comes to visit Montag, and Montag's wife, Mildred, says to him, "Would you like some coffee?" And the fire chief then says, "Do bears shit in the woods?" Do you want that in a film?

O: It's certainly not necessary.

RB: No, it's not. It's not in the book. It's not me. So, that's not censorship. It's just their bad taste.

O: Is it hard to watch people changing what you wrote?

RB: Oh, sure, because I don't have control. Once you sell those things to the studio, they can do anything with it that they want. You have the privilege, of course, of not selling it to them. But Mel Gibson is a fine director and a fine actor, and I trust him to do a good job. But at the right moment, when they start production, I'll make a list of things that don't go into the film. And if he doesn't [listen], I'll call a press conference.

RB: Also, I deal in metaphors. All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. If you speak in tongues, if you write in metaphors, then people can remember them. The stories are very easy to recall, and you can tell them. So it's my ability as a teller of tales and a writer of metaphors. I think that's why I'm in the schools.

O: Do you find it inspirational that people are still attracted to your writing through all the changes in fads and tastes?

RB: Nope. I write just for myself. My tastes are the same. I've always loved Tarzan, I've always loved John Carter Of Mars, and I still collect Buck Rogers comic strips. I still love Prince Valiant. It doesn't change.


O: On the subject of computers, I found a quote from you that says, "I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all those people?" That's from 1995.
RB: That's right. And I haven't changed my mind. Bill Gates was at the library ahead of me two years ago. He signed in the guest book, and I wrote underneath his name, "I don't do Windows."


O: As a writer, do you feel like a teacher yourself?
RB: You must be. You can't be self-conscious about it, but Dr. Schweitzer said years ago, "Do something good and someone might imitate it." So if you like my writing, you may very well imitate my passion.

der Brucer (who as a teen was addicted to Fantasy/SciFi short stories)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 07:39:35 AM
td:  You are blessed to have such family members.  We had a family meeting a few weeks ago, with 5 of Mom's 7 kids in attendance.  The idea was maybe each one could cover a day with Mom.  Amazing how quickly they remembered things that absolutely prevented them from doing that.  Right down to "I have to make lunch for my teenage daughter."

The Martian Chronicles miniseries?  That wouldn't be The Rock, would it?  No, no, not the Scorpion King-- the real Rock.  Hudson.

And speaking of twivia, Elmer, since no one posted Picard's third lady love (unless I missed your post), it was Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas (mother of McKenzie Phillips) in the episode "We'll Always Have Paris".  Oh, a Casablanca reference.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matt H. on February 14, 2004, 07:41:54 AM
A few musings on yesterday's posts since I didn't feel up to logging back on when I got in from the theater last night.

Loved the pics, DR MBarnum, and I'm so proud of your resolve to quit "the habit." It WAS very brave to share with us, and I hope you'll use us for support if you need it.

I taught a fair amount of Ray Bradbury short stories during my years, but my favorite story was the one Danise mentioned, "The Sound of Thunder." For those of you who love twist endings, this is a wonderful tale. Many of my kids years later would return to see me and mention how they remembered that story. Funny how certain stories can stay with you for years and years while others, just as well written, don't strike a chord and stay with you.

I have read a good many of his books, but I haven't been overly impressed with any of the film versions. I guess I should give them another chance as I only saw each of them once and in the intervening years may have developed more of a taste for them. I know a guy I dated last year was in a state of rapture when he found out SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was being released on DVD. He really loved that film.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matt H. on February 14, 2004, 08:21:55 AM
Also wanted to say a HAPPY HEART DAY to DRs here who have made such an impact on my life over the previous year.

It's so nice to know there are kindred spirits here.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William E. Lurie on February 14, 2004, 08:23:04 AM
BK - why would anyone abandon gay?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Panni on February 14, 2004, 08:33:28 AM
Good morning. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Good interview with Mr. Bradbury. He mentioned in his intro at the theater last night (yes, I was there, too) how they had told him that his screenplay was not good enough. He seemed resigned to the fact, took it with good humor -- but I think that was just in the telling of the tale. I mean, the man is in his 80's, hard of hearing, gets around with a walker, has a magnificent body of work behind him - why the hell should he care what Mel Gibson or anyone else thinks? But of course he does - I guess that never ends.
He told lovely stories of working with Charles Laughton -- how Laughton and his producer took him out to get him drunk before telling him that his first attempt at a stageplay stunk. (I love to hear phrases like, "Then Charles and Elsa came over to the house...")

Must run out and do a few errands before getting back to cutting my opus to shreds and then putting it back together and making it sing like the birdies.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 09:00:54 AM
:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

...And Good Morning!

-The internet can be a most wondrous place at times!  I started on a very personal query for a friend of mine last night before heading to bed last, and, lo and behold, when I logged on this morning, there were two "answer" e-mails in my Inbox!

The local public radio station is currently their self-produced show, "The Sound of Swing".  This week's theme is very neat.  They're playing Gershwin songs back to back.  Well, first they're playing a classic and/or original vocal version of song, then following it with one - or two - swing/jazz/big band versions of the same song.  I didn't know Kate Smith could swing!  ;)

As for Ray Bradbury movies... I'm guessin' I've seen the movie version of Fahrenheit 451, but I can't even recall the details of that one right now.  And I know we watched some of the television adaptations in high school, but again, the details and titles are foggy at this moment.

-Uh-oh - Steve just IMed me... He baked up a batch of "Bubble Bread" this morning... and it just came out of the oven.   He mentioned something about "gooey pecans".  He actually started making it last night when i was over there after the show.  It's another one of those "dump" recipes.  This time, you take frozen bread dough rolls, place them in a pan, then cover them with cinnamon, sugar, butter and pecans - some variants also use butterscotch pudding mix!  You just place the pan in a turned off oven overnight to defrost and rise, then come morning, you heat up the oven and bake them off.  Hmm... I may have to think about this... "gooey pecans..."... Hmm... ???
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Noel on February 14, 2004, 09:03:36 AM
I've often thought ill of Valentine's Day, for with the obsessive commercialization that just about every holiday gets, it seemed like a slap-in-the-face of the lonely.  "Here's a holiday, just for us lovers.  The rest of you might as well face a regular work day."  Should a holiday serve to make people feel bad?  Don't get me started on Yom Kipper...

But the wonderful Orr-view on Sunday in the Park With George last night served to remind me that there are other ways of loving.  When the character looks at the painting and sees all this evidence that Georges loved Dot, a whole warm world is opened up.  Making art can be a form of loving, and the evidence can be seen centuries later.

So, ignore the pressure, if you can.  But make love today... in whatever form.  Panni's writing.  Others are doing the nasty.  But it's all love.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 09:23:14 AM
Well, DSL isn't happening today.  We tried, oh, yes, we tried, but the fershluganah DSL green light is blinking when it should be solid.  This is a bad thing apparently, so now they are doing a line check again and may have to send someone out here to see if there's a problem somewhere.  Somehow, I do not think the problem is here, since my dedicated computer line has never had a problem.  Very frustrating morning, starting with trying to get an answer from Dell about configuring my TCP/IP address.  I was on hold for fifteen minutes, then the technician said he'd have to switch me to a higher technician.  On hold for another fifteen minutes.  The higher technician, Ulysses, was one of the stupidest people I've ever had the displeasure to talk to - I mean, it's SIMPLE what I was trying to do.  He said he'd have to switch me to someone else.  He then switched me, on hold for another five minutes, only to find he'd switched me (on purpose, I believe) to the wrong department.  I gave up at that point.  The DSL person helped me configure the TCP/IP address for the computer in ten seconds.  So at least the wire goes directly into the computer rather than the ethernet card.  In any case, someone is supposed to call me tomorrow with information and we shall see what that yields.  If they can't get it working tomorrow, then someone has to come out.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 09:27:14 AM
My apologies to Robin.  I just read the back posts and saw that you did indeed get Michelle Phillips.  And the Mamas and the Papas had a hit with Rodgers & Hart's "Sing for Your Supper", of all things, from The Boys from Syracuse.  It's a naughty song, originally in six-part harmony, I believe.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JMK on February 14, 2004, 09:33:22 AM
So much to reply to, and it's still so early:

Ray Bradbury:  there is a great documentary on all of the Harryhausen DVDs featuring a bunch of Ray interviews and Ray presenting Ray (Harryhausen) with the special Oscar.  It's really special.

BK's keyboard:  BK, if you have a really good memory, you may recall I was the one who solved your Word problems on your old computer by telling you about the nasty "Normal.dot" file.  If you have a separate keyboard (I'm not sure if your Dell is a laptop or not), another "quick fix" for a non-functioning keyboard is to simply unplug the keyboard from the tower and plug it back in.  We had to do this on a virtually weekly basis with our old Gateway (which similarly had the Word problem you did).

Ask BK day:  I do not believe I ever received an answer to my question:  What is your favorite Mimsy Farmer film?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matthew on February 14, 2004, 09:34:52 AM
I think the only Bradbury book I read in High School was "The Martian Chronicles" I read that about the same year I read "Alas Babylon" and they all run together!  Happy Valentine's to all of you.  :)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JMK on February 14, 2004, 09:36:03 AM
Should a holiday serve to make people feel bad?  Don't get me started on Yom Kipper...

Try having a birthday that frequently either falls right on Yom Kippur or is within a stone's throw of the holiday.  Talk about mixed messages!!  :)  But my wife helped deepen my understanding of this holiday--I no longer dread it, but see it as a wonderful chance to start anew.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: George on February 14, 2004, 09:42:07 AM
Bernadette Peters:  George, are you sure you don't have the Walmart version of the CD.  Since Walmart is the largest single retailer of CDs in the U.S., many rock/pop groups record a separate sanitized version that meets their squeaky-clean standards.

WFO, I most fortunately have the original, unexpurgated release (no pun intended) that includes the fabulous song "Making Love Alone."  I happened to notice on amazon.com a couple of years ago that it does not list the song as being on the CD.  Several "reviews" note that the song is not on it.  Also, I have seen (and held in my hand) a copy in either Tower Records or Borders that does not list the song.  So, it isn't Walmart's copy that I got, although I have heard that they sell edited versions of CDs and they don't tell their customers.  Not good, if you ask me (someone who works for a library...intellectual freedom, and all that).
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: George on February 14, 2004, 09:50:23 AM
I know a guy I dated last year was in a state of rapture when he found out SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was being released on DVD. He really loved that film.

I had to watch this when I was in high school (in a science fiction/literature class) and I was riveted.  It was very engaging and held my attention the whole time.  Of course, I haven't seen it since (21 years) so I don't know how I'd feel about it today...but at the time, it made an impression on me.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 09:55:54 AM
For Valentine's Day - which Hollywood couple shared this first kiss as man and wife?   8)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 09:58:10 AM
DR Noel - What a yom kipper?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 09:59:48 AM
Was Riot on Sunset Strip with Mimsy?  If so, I liked that one.

I have DSL anger now.  I am trying to channel it into something positive like beating a dead horse.

I have a laptop, so I cannot disengage the keyboard.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: George on February 14, 2004, 10:04:10 AM
Another video based on a Ray Bradbury story that we had to watch in high school (which I also enjoyed) was "All Summer In a Day."

"Captures the story about a group of children who live on a planet where the sun shines only once every nine years [it rains all the time and none of the kids have ever seen the sun]. Jealousy leads one of the children to deprive another of seeing the sun when it appears [the girl gets locked in a closet or something like that]. By the time the other children learn of the incident, it is too late; the rain has begun to fall again."  And they won't get to see it again until they're in their late teens!  How sad. :'(
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 10:07:28 AM
DR George I remember that show....oh my, I think Bradbury writes yearning so well.  Especially his boys in DANDELION WINE.....  I think they may even be the same characters as the boys in SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...I can't remember and I don't have the books handy.

I guess I was disappointed with the tv MARTIAN CHRONICLES, because my imagination was so vivid when I read it, and it seemed so set-bound to me....I wanted to really feel as if I were on MARS!!!!!!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 10:07:55 AM
Sorry about your DSL problems, MR BK....but I think if anybody comes out tomorrow - it should be Clay Aiken.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: DERBRUCER on February 14, 2004, 10:50:11 AM
DR Noel - What a yom kipper?

I think it's a typo; it should be "yum kipper". It's what an appreciative Englishman says to his breakfast fare.

der Brucer (of "Yum Scrapple" fame)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jed on February 14, 2004, 11:24:04 AM
I had no idea (until yesterday's posts) that there was an alternate version of Bernadette's Sondheim, Etc without the wonderful "Making Love Alone."  As a couple others have said, I guess it pays to have bought it within days of its release! :D

Author-wise, I'm more of a Vonnegut guy.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JMK on February 14, 2004, 11:24:23 AM
I think it's a typo; it should be "yum kipper". It's what an appreciative Englishman says to his breakfast fare.

der Brucer (of "Yum Scrapple" fame)

Yes, and I always felt that the line in "The Rothschilds" that went "I would skip my morning kippers" should really have been "I would skip my morning Kippurs."  It really made much more sense.   :P

Also, wasn't "The Illustrated Man" Bradbury?  That's kind of a freaky movie.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Panni on February 14, 2004, 11:27:48 AM
I think it's a typo; it should be "yum kipper". It's what an appreciative Englishman says to his breakfast fare.
Me: ;D
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 11:32:08 AM
That's right, der Brucer....yum
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 11:38:51 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day!  :)

ladodgerjon your son is darling.

Kerry it really is a battle for me to eat less sugar.  I try not to keep much in the house, just enough to satisfy my cravings.  I use to carry sliced carrots around and munch on those when I wanted to buy junk food.  I will buy only one or two pieces of candy instead of a box.  I will order a dessert out, have a couple of bites and stop.  I am really big on trashing junk food when I’m on a binge & can’t stop eating.  I also find if I have sugar, especially chocolate, anytime past the afternoon I don’t sleep.  So reducing the times of day I eat sugar has helped to reduce the amount I eat.  I eat only a fraction of what I use to eat and am pretty pleased with myself.  Keith on the other hand complains all the time I eat too much junk.

SWW your son-in-law smokes.  I hope not around the grandlads.  Could that be the true cause of their “allergies”?

Now to read today’s posts.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: TCB on February 14, 2004, 11:46:35 AM
Love and Smooches to you all. I'm feeling giddy and wonderful today - I met my pianist yesterday, and he is superb!

What a coincidence, I met mine, too!  No, wait ......... you said pianist.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jed on February 14, 2004, 11:46:40 AM
Ahh, I am happy now.  Just heard the maintenance guy talking to my manager outside my door, saying that our apartment complex should have hot water again as soon as the newly-repaired water heater heats what's in the reservoir.  We've been without hot water since about 9am yesterday, and I want to take a fershluganah shower!!!  Soon... (oh, an A Little Night Music reference)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 11:56:19 AM
Ray who?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: S. Woody White on February 14, 2004, 11:59:55 AM
SWW your son-in-law smokes.  I hope not around the grandlads.  Could that be the true cause of their “allergies”?
I don't think so.  They've been exposed to his smoking enough that they've probably built up a resistance to the smoke.  (It's kind of like the advice that, if you're going to be in an area and know you're going to have pollen allergies, you should get some honey from that area to build up an immunity.  Apparently, it works!)

More likely, since it's the younger grandlad that had the problems and he went down into the basement, which is damp, he got exposed to some mold or something and was reacting to that.  And their mother loves to panic over everything.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: TCB on February 14, 2004, 12:00:05 PM

The local public radio station is currently their self-produced show, "The Sound of Swing".  This week's theme is very neat.  They're playing Gershwin songs back to back.  Well, first they're playing a classic and/or original vocal version of song, then following it with one - or two - swing/jazz/big band versions of the same song.  I didn't know Kate Smith could swing!  ;)


Are you kidding?  What do you think caused the Great Earthquake of '06?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: S. Woody White on February 14, 2004, 12:03:34 PM
I had no idea (until yesterday's posts) that there was an alternate version of Bernadette's Sondheim, Etc without the wonderful "Making Love Alone."  As a couple others have said, I guess it pays to have bought it within days of its release! :D
All right, here's something someone might want to check (and I would, but don't have the CD with me right now).

As I recall, the CD was at least partly done as a fundraiser for various AIDS charities, as was the concert.

Is the current CD release, sans "MLA", still a fundraiser, or has that been eliminated as well?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: TCB on February 14, 2004, 12:04:42 PM
For Valentine's Day - which Hollywood couple shared this first kiss as man and wife?   8)

Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 12:08:04 PM
Matt H how do you feel?  Did you enjoy your evening out?

Fahrenheit 451

Td- Rock Hudson, Bernadette Peters, & Darren McGavin.  

Penny-great news!

DerBrucer thank you for posting the fun interview.  He is such a warm, delightful man.

Bruce did you say hello to Ray Bradbury?  Was Susan, his daughter, there by any chance?  Do you remember her?

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jed on February 14, 2004, 12:18:58 PM
Yes, SWoody, the original CD was partly a GMHC fundraiser.  Dunno about the newer release, as I've never seen it.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matthew on February 14, 2004, 12:19:00 PM
Sitting here wondering what to get my guy for the big V-day.  We're going to a nice dinner, he hinted about bringing me a special dessert (he being the pastry chef and all) I'm thinking a lovely card and some Romantic type CD....
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 12:29:52 PM
I don't think so.  They've been exposed to his smoking enough that they've probably built up a resistance to the smoke.  (It's kind of like the advice that, if you're going to be in an area and know you're going to have pollen allergies, you should get some honey from that area to build up an immunity.  Apparently, it works!)

More likely, since it's the younger grandlad that had the problems and he went down into the basement, which is damp, he got exposed to some mold or something and was reacting to that.  And their mother loves to panic over everything.

Well, my guess is that the grandlads' exposure to cigarette smoke has made their bodily systems - especially their sinuses and lungs, unfortunately - more susceptible to other environmental allergens and "stuff in the air".

From my own personal experience, I know that when I come home from a cast party or bar or some other place where people have been smoking A LOT, it can sometimes take me a few days to get back to normal.  My sensitivity to dust and molds becomes more acute - as opposed to just more cute. ;)  Just too much "particular detritus" in my system.  I have to flush it out of my system.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 12:35:06 PM
Sitting here wondering what to get my guy for the big V-day.  We're going to a nice dinner, he hinted about bringing me a special dessert (he being the pastry chef and all) I'm thinking a lovely card and some Romantic type CD....

How about a strategically placed big, red bow?!?!?

 :-X

-Remember, no groaning allowed here at HHW...  But eye-rolling may be allowed.  ::)  -Especially since there is a smiley icon for it!

We all look forward to your V-Day report.. tomorrow morning!... Or afternoon if you are so inclined!

-Must be the sugar withdrawal... Or not...
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 12:35:38 PM
My mother-in-law, whom has never smoked, has emphysema from living with smokers all her life.  My mother was a smoker & I’m allergic to it.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 12:40:14 PM
We watched "Mona Lisa Smile" on DVD last night. (Yes S Woody it has just been released at the movies here).
We were wondering if the depicted 1950s elitist type "finishing school" society still exists in the USA. We still have some Seconday Schools in Australia (Up to Snr High!) that would be considered elitist in terms of entry requirements $$$$$$, but have never had a similar strata of education at higher levels.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 12:40:49 PM
DR PennyO - I keep meaning to ask... And maybe you mentioned it earlier, but I somehow missed it...

Are you doing a residency at Bristol Riverside?  Or did they just offer you two weeks in an Elysian setting complete with gym?  -I wish I could make it up to see you show, but, hopefully, I'll make it to one of them sometime sooner or later.

And who is your pianist?  What is his name?  Just curious.  -Thanks.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 12:44:36 PM
Echo and I are off to the nursing home.  Sadly it has been awhile since I have been able to go.  
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matthew on February 14, 2004, 12:46:22 PM
DR Jose... thanks for the suggestion :-P  I'll post the report sometime after this eve.  I think I've settled on a journal or some sort or a CD.  I'm doing "Joseph" now and he has no clue about the show (that's a good thing) so I thought about a Joseph CD, although that's not very  romantic!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Charles Pogue on February 14, 2004, 12:49:16 PM
DR William F. Orr, my lovely wife says the same thing to me about the FRUIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL when I start getting obsessive.  I use Harriet Craig references on her.

The book discussion late last night sent me into my library to pet my books...yes, you heard me right, to "pet" my books...to hold, open, fondle them, gaze lovingly on their dust jackets or caress their pages, to climb the library ladders (two, count 'em, two) like Romeo to get lost in their scent and delicately finger their spines.   (Hold!  Enough!  It's beginning to sound like a very kinky porno site.  "Guys who do books.")

Anyway, I made a couple of delightful discoveries.  One, I have a small autographed short story in a decorative pamphlet form by Ray Bradbury called The Dragon which I had completely forgotten I had.

The other, I happened to open a book called THE SNAKE & THE SWORD by P.C. Wren (author of BEAU GESTE), with the idle thought: wouldn't it be nice to find one of those forgotten treasures inside it...and low and behold, there was a lovely old stiff cardboard bookmark inside it, with a Christmas Greeting and a Dickensianish character on it...I suspect Mr. Fezziwig from Christmas Carol or Mr. Pickwick...that looks like it might be hand-painted.  There is a little poem: "When you leave your book/Tuck me in the  place/Next time you need only look/ For my jolly face."  It looks like it comes from the era of the book, late twenties/early thirties, and will go nicely with my book-mark collection.

By the by, BK, the obscure swashbuckler that our friendly bookdealer, Mr. Len Unger, was offering for $225 at the book fair last weekend...I went online and found it...in almost as good a condition, with dj...for only forty bucks.  It should be winging its way to me from the wilds of Canada.  Damned President's Day that will delay the mail one day.

BK, you are not the only one underwhelmed with Mr. Bradbury's skill as a playwright.  A fellow noted author equal to Mr. Bradbury's reputation, a mutual friend of his and mine, told me one time..."I've got to go see this bad play of Ray's tonight.  God knows, I love the guy, but he's not a playwright."
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 12:52:59 PM
I should have waited to put Echo’s pet volunteer bandana until I was ready to walk out the door.  She is so excited she is bouncing all around-such a smart cutie.  This dog can even tell the difference between my daily jeans and my hiking jeans.  Sometimes I have trouble telling the difference without looking closely at them.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 12:59:37 PM
NO TCB -- guess again since we are the only ones playing it seems.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 01:01:20 PM
Susie Bradbury wasn't there, and yes I remember her well.  It's always to weird to try to talk to people like Ray when there are that many people around, so I didn't.

Back from my errands and waiting for a callback from the DSL people, who left a message while I was out (naturally).
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jennifer on February 14, 2004, 01:28:52 PM
Hey, happy Valentine's Day everyone!

(http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/travesmilies/valentinesday/smilie_liebe10.gif)        (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/travesmilies/valentinesday/smilie_liebe6.gif)            (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/valentin/smilies-6766.png)

It's been a very nice day so far.  Got up very early to go get free boxes of chocolate at the mall.  Spent the morning shopping.  Had a really nice Valentine's call and some ecards (which I LOVE - I would highly recommend sweet mushy Valentine's ecards).  Sent some cool Valentine's stuff (which of course arrived early and WAS OPENED).  All in all a nice day.  And now I'm sleepy.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Panni on February 14, 2004, 01:35:20 PM
 God knows, I love the guy, but he's not a playwright."
Yes, the play was rather deadly (plays, actually -- two one-acters). And deadly Irish, which is even worse.
It's interesting how many excellent prose writers, simply cannot handle the stage (and/or screen) Back in my acting days I was in LEAVEN OF MALICE at the Shaw Festival. It was a play by Robertson Davies, no slouch in the prose department. But, God, what a terrible play. For the first and only time in my entire career, I had trouble remembering my lines - even months into the run. It was like speaking a novel, not dialogue. I remember that Mr. Davies came backstage opening night - wearing a cloak, no less, and I went and hid so I wouldn't have to speak to him. What would I have said? "Stick to novels, sir."...?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Panni on February 14, 2004, 01:49:34 PM
FS Pogue - I was going to say in my last posting, but forgot...
After last night's little escapade in the library, I hope you'll be a gentleman and get your books a dozen roses and a box of chocolates today.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: TCB on February 14, 2004, 01:51:23 PM
I just received an e-mail from a fellow Kimlet reminding me that I had previously expressed dislike of anyone perpetuating the Hudson / Nabors marriage myth from the early 70s.  They are, of course, quite correct.  I do indeed dislike what has become a rather nasty urban legend, and I do complain when others continue to bring it up, as if it were true.  Which I guess just shows how low I will stoop for a cheap punch line.

My apologies to Jim Nabors and the late Rock Hudson.  I should really learn to censor myself before I try to censor others.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Therefore, my only other guess, Jrand, would be Pee Wee Herman, and just about any hand puppet.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 01:57:04 PM
A punch line is nearly always worth stooping for TCB. Of course with my imposing stature I do not have to stoop. The only Hollywood couple I can think of is the Newmans.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 02:06:16 PM
Both guesses are incorrect.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 02:17:55 PM
I'm going to have to be off-line for a bit because the DSL people say they need the line free for testing, so keep the home fries burning until my return.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matthew on February 14, 2004, 02:26:11 PM
Gift update - I settled on a nice coffee table type book  1000 Chocolate Recipes.  It's a lovely HUGE book.  
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 02:34:49 PM
Gift update - I settled on a nice coffee table type book  1000 Chocolate Recipes.  It's a lovely HUGE book.  

OH - Wait, DR Matthew, I already have that book!

-Oh, nevermind... ;)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Michael on February 14, 2004, 02:39:41 PM
i have the computer working again, but that's anther story. Now I have to catch up pn a week's worth pf postings and email.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 02:43:30 PM
Good luck DR Michael Shayne.

Great gift choice DRMatt
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: MBarnum on February 14, 2004, 02:49:33 PM
I haven't a clue as to the identity of the Valentine's day couple! My first thought was Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay. Maybe Lana Turner and somebody? I think I will need a few clues. Are they still married?
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Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 02:50:44 PM
I think someone mentioned yesterday encountering "Big Spender" as an inappropriate audition song.

When Cy Coleman spoke at Hoftstra last year he told a little story about Peggy Lee.  He had sent her a song and hadn't heard and hadn't heard, so he phoned her.

"Did you get the song?"

"Yes.  What are you working on now?"

"Oh, I'm doing a show with Dorothy Fields.  Have you looked at the song?"

"Yeah.  What sort of a show is it?"

"A big jazzy thing, lots of dance.  What did you think of the song?"

"Working on a number from the show?"

"Yes.  What did you think of the song I sent you?"

"Play it for me.  The number from the show."

"It really wouldn't be right for you.  It's a big ensemble dance number."

"Play it."

"Bum bum de bum bum bum.  The minute you walked in the joint..."

"Send it to me.  I'll make it a hit."
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 03:03:55 PM
TCB:  Hey, we all tell tasteless, insulting jokes about celebrities sometimes--as if they weren't real people who could be hurt by it.  But I remember what Liz Taylor said when she got out of rehab.

She was at an AIDS benefit with Joan Rivers, and Joan said, "You know Elizabeth, all those jokes I made about your weight... I did it for your own good, you know."

And Liz replied, "No.  You did it for a cheap laugh, and you know it."
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 03:08:32 PM
No MBARNUM it's not Mickey & Jayne nor is it Lana Turner and 1 of 7.

Clue - it was the first marriage for both, but not the last.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 03:20:03 PM
JRand: Thought of Bobby & Sandra but they were married in December. Colin suggested a Gabor with anyone! At least we are here for you!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JMK on February 14, 2004, 03:29:56 PM
Debbie & Eddie.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 03:38:29 PM
All good choices but it was not Bobby & Sandy, Debbie & Eddie or ANY of the Gabors at ANY of their weddings.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JMK on February 14, 2004, 03:46:59 PM
Ooh, ooh, I know, I know:

Allison & Gabby Hayes.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 03:48:40 PM
JMK -  you go stand in the corner right now!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 04:11:22 PM
Matthew I agree the book is a great gift.

Michael Shayne I just finished reading “In a Deadly Vein”.  I might get hooked on the series.

Echo & I had a very nice visit with our friends at the nursing home.  I also exposed myself to a violent intestinal virus.  The clothes I was wearing went directly into the washing machine.  

We have decided to go out for dinner tonight.  Our first choice of restaurants had one opening left, unfortunately they have a special menu tonight which doesn’t include many vegetarian dishes.  Our second choice is booked until 9:30.  So we will just go into town and “wing” it.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 04:16:52 PM
DR's Jane & Keith.....winging it is as much fun as following a plan.....surprises!!!!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: MBarnum on February 14, 2004, 04:17:45 PM
Ok, I did some sleuthing and came up with two possibilities.

From the looks of the hats and clothes it is in the 1950s. And as the bride is a blonde it must be either:

It might be Mari Blanchard and  Reese H Taylor JR. (married 2/14/60). But as Mari, I think, was a brunette in 1960 I am going to go with my other choice..

Is it...could it be...Venetia Stevenson and Russ Tamblyn???
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jennifer on February 14, 2004, 04:23:49 PM
I was cutting a pineapple on a glass cutting board.  Said cutting board somehow slipped off the counter and onto my foot. Ouch :(

Does anyone know if icing it is the way to go? (20 minutes on every little while).  It hurts.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 04:26:41 PM
Iced pineapple is so refreshing. Go for icing!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 04:28:56 PM
Yes ice it.  I would do what you are doing.  I gather the glass cutting board didn't cut you.  I hope you have soft comfortable shoes to wear tomorrow.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 04:29:08 PM
'ello, Ducks!  I finally got around to changing my profile photo, since the other one was too wide, and instead of pan and scan, the site squished me all up.

While I was playing with my photo program, I came up with these variations:
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 04:31:51 PM
Or Me as an Alien:
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 04:33:13 PM

Is it...could it be...Venetia Stevenson and Russ Tamblyn???


His hair looks very dark for Russ Tamblyn. Speaking of Russ, he was on his daughter's show last night. :)

I had better put something nice on to wear tonight.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jane on February 14, 2004, 04:34:56 PM
WFO please don't go with the Alien look.  LOL :D
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 04:42:35 PM
WFO - oh my!  Technology does strange things.

Sorry MBARNUM....but VERY good guesses.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: PennyO on February 14, 2004, 04:56:22 PM
DR PennyO - I keep meaning to ask... And maybe you mentioned it earlier, but I somehow missed it...

Are you doing a residency at Bristol Riverside?  Or did they just offer you two weeks in an Elysian setting complete with gym?  -I wish I could make it up to see you show, but, hopefully, I'll make it to one of them sometime sooner or later.

And who is your pianist?  What is his name?

Said pianist is Peter de Mets - third generation musician, dad still plays, older brother is a pianist, this guy is mostly a singer
!!! Sings Finishing the Hat so beautifully, I asked him to sing it as an epilogue to my show!

No, no residency. I offered. Somehow it never came together - but the accommodations are wonderful, there is a salaried guy from the theater whose sole job is to keep the talent happy. They are giving me a per performance fee (and a damn fine one, at that! just like the old days...) PLUS a percentage!!! And somehow, they've handled the weather, too. Been sunshiney since I got here.

Jose, if you're in NYC between Feb 23 and Mar 1, I'll be around, and I'd love to meet you.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 05:22:52 PM
The answer to the will be revealed at the top of page 5!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: MBarnum on February 14, 2004, 05:24:22 PM
Well, let's get to page 5 then. I want to know who the happy couple is/was!!!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 05:25:31 PM
or there's me as a spirit being:
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 05:27:36 PM
Doing my bit to get to page 5, here's me twisted:
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 05:29:03 PM
Are we on page 5 yet?   Here's me under water:
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 05:30:55 PM
Dr PennyO - Thanks for the info.  Sounds like a great gig.  *It's sort of like when the GM from Universal Studios Japan asked me last summer if I wouldn't mind being flown to Australia a day or two early to help with the jet lag.  "ummm.... YES!!!"   ;D  -And, best of all, I have no jet lag!!!

As for meeting in NYC, I may be up there Feb 29-March 2 to catch some friends in some shows and cabarets.  Will you be leaving March 1?  Or March 2?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 05:31:54 PM
If this isn't page 5, I'm going to go watch Angels in America.

Me starring in Chekov's The Nose.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 05:33:08 PM
Fondest Greetings from yet another rain soaked weekend in Florida.  Land of Sunshine,  M-F, 8-5.  



Echo & I had a very nice visit with our friends at the nursing home.  I also exposed myself to a violent intestinal virus.  The clothes I was wearing went directly into the washing machine.  

We have decided to go out for dinner tonight.  Our first choice of restaurants had one opening left, unfortunately they have a special menu tonight which doesn’t include many vegetarian dishes.  Our second choice is booked until 9:30.  So we will just go into town and “wing” it.


Oh my, Jane, I do hope you don't get it.  Best heath vibes to you to ward off any germs you may have picked up!

I'm glad your both going out for a romantic dinner.  At least someone had my wish for you all come true.  

Well, what a day, what a day, what a day.  That's 3 what a days in a row!

Bought all the parts for toilet so that project awaits me on the morrow.  I’m so looking forward to it—NOT!  Cover your ears.  That noise your going hear is me.  I don’t mean to say the things I do but I’m my Daddies girl in the “fix it while cursing” dept.  I guarantee that tomorrow night at this time, it WILL be fixed.

Big news of the day–I have a new fish!  He’s not a red or blue/green run of the mill color.  He’s got a dark face and a steel blue/grey body.  Very usual. He “spoke” to me from the money I set eyes on him so I had to get him.  I’ll have pictures when I get him settled in his new home on my desk at work.

The other news is that I spotted two houses on the net  that I thought I would like to take a look at so Mom and I went and had a look see.  I liked what I saw thru the windows.  I’ll call the realtor on Monday to see if I can get the key to see the insides.  Who knows....Maybe.   Just maybe.  

Jrand, I don’t remember who the man was but was the female Liz Taylor?

Jennifer, Ouch!  I had a bottle of hair spray drop on my foot just the other day.  It hurt.  A lot.  Of course, in our house, you takes your chances every time you open the freezer door.  Ever had a frozen chicken hit your foot?  How about a nice rump roast?  No fun.  Good vibes to you as well!

1000 Chocolate Recipes.  Yum.  I'm hoping the Slim Fast Low Carb bars I bought today are good then I won't be to deprived.    :)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 05:35:40 PM
WFO - that is too twisted for color TV!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 05:37:08 PM
No DRDanise it is NOT Elizabeth Taylor and her first husband Nicky Hilton.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 05:40:03 PM
Scum--Foiled again.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 05:46:14 PM
On a personal note...

I feel a feeling coming on!

It's been a good evening.  What started off as a lazy day - very lazy, has turned into a slightly productive one.  And once close to my normal routine.  Which is a good sign.  A very good sign.  -Maybe tomorrow morning... ;D

I cleaned up the kitchen.  Put some fixin's in the slow-cooker - I'll have it tomorrow for lunch/brunch.  I cleaned those dishes.  Set out some recyclables.  And then I decided to light a nice scented candle I bought last year - the scent is called "Havana" - Cuban tabac, bergamot, and ylang-ylang.  Very nice.  *The hint of tobacco is actually quite nice... and masculine.  <insert ape sounds here>

Oh, and as for what's in the slow-cooker - stew beef, chunks of pork shoulder, onions, carrots, cumin, oregano, salt, pepper, garlic (4 cloves!), diced green chiles, black beans and some salsa verde.  Basically, an improvised chile - one of those "let's see what I have in the cupboard" affairs.  We'll see what happens.  8)

OK - well, time to sit back, relax, watch "Trading Spaces", enjoy my candle, and check back here every now and then...

-What a nice Valentine's Day!  :)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 05:57:39 PM
DR Jose - I have seen those candles but never purchased one....hmmmmmmmm
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:16:44 PM
Someone just sent this to me and it's cute.

http://www.americanbridge.com/taters.htm

Sweet Taters.  I can have them.  They're low carb.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:17:11 PM
If this isn't page 5, I'm going to go watch Angels in America.

Me starring in Chekov's The Nose.

How about William F. Orr as St. Valentine?

(http://www.atrifleofthis.com/images/Saint_Valentine.jpg)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:18:53 PM
Hey, I'm just trying to get to page five! ! ! !

Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner?
Robert Wagner and Clifton Webb?

William Inge and Warren Beatty?
Jose Quintero and Warren Beatty?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:20:34 PM
Are we on page five yet? ? ? ?

well. . .

The Origins of St. Valentine's Day

A quick quiz: St. Valentine was:

a)  a priest in the Roman Empire who helped persecuted Christians during the reign of Claudius II, was thrown in jail and later beheaded on Feb. 14.

b)  a Catholic bishop of Terni who was beheaded, also during the reign of Claudius II.

c)  someone who secretly married couples when marriage was forbidden, or suffered in Africa, or wrote letters to his jailer's daughter, and was probably beheaded.

d)  all, some, or possibly none of the above.

If you guessed d), give yourself a box of chocolates. Although the mid-February holiday celebrating love and lovers remains wildly popular, the confusion over its origins led the Catholic Church, in 1969, to drop St. Valentine's Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide Catholic feasts. (Those highly sought-after days are reserved for saints with more clear historical record. After all, the saints are real individuals for us to imitate.) Some parishes, however, observe the feast of St. Valentine.

The roots of St. Valentine's Day lie in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on Feb. 15. For 800 years the Romans had dedicated this day to the god Lupercus. On Lupercalia, a young man would draw the name of a young woman in a lottery and would then keep the woman as a sexual companion for the year.

Pope Gelasius I was, understandably, less than thrilled with this custom. So he changed the lottery to have both young men and women draw the names of saints whom they would then emulate for the year (a change that no doubt disappointed a few young men). Instead of Lupercus, the patron of the feast became Valentine. For Roman men, the day continued to be an occasion to seek the affections of women, and it became a tradition to give out handwritten messages of admiration that included Valentine's name.

There was also a conventional belief in Europe during the Middle Ages that birds chose their partners in the middle of February. Thus the day was dedicated to love, and people observed it by writing love letters and sending small gifts to their beloved. Legend has it that Charles, duke of Orleans, sent the first real Valentine card to his wife in 1415, when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. (He, however, was not beheaded, and died a half-century later of old age.)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:25:10 PM
Wow, td, I guess that's why your a God and I'm a lowly human.  I didn't know all that about St. Valentine.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 06:26:31 PM
Has anyone seen Wonderland?  That's what I think I'll watch tonight - perfect Valentine movie, don't you think?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:30:42 PM
No, I haven't seen "Wonderland" so I wouldn't know if it was the perfect Valentine movie.  "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" is more my speed.  It's a 4 hankie film.  Is "Wonderland" a 4 hankie film?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 06:31:30 PM
Well Lisa Kudrow and Val Kilmer would think so, MR BK.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 06:32:32 PM
And DR TD  was correct.  

It was indeed Natalie Wood and RJ Wagner!  ;D
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:33:54 PM
Has anyone seen Wonderland?  That's what I think I'll watch tonight - perfect Valentine movie, don't you think?

Whoah!  On Vaentine's Day we should watch a brutal movie about murders? ?  ?
When does HELTER SKELTER arrive on dvd? ? ?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:34:16 PM
JRand--It wasn't page 5 yet!!

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:34:47 PM
And DR TD  was correct.  

It was indeed Natalie Wood and RJ Wagner!  ;D

That's not Natalie Wood!  That's Clifton Webb in a dress!   :D
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:35:23 PM
JRand--It wasn't page 5 yet!!



The godlike td provided a correct guess before page five. . . :P
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 06:37:07 PM
Yes, once I got a correct response, I had to capitulate....although it is NOT Clifton Webb.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 06:37:38 PM
DR Jose how is the candle doing?  And how was the dump cake?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:39:04 PM
But, pardon me, it WASN'T page 5!   :D

So how is the computer doing, Bruce, I see your online so it must be alive.  Is it as fast as you thought it would be?


NOW IT'S PAGE 5!!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:39:13 PM
WONDERLAND (true crime, not the movie):
On the evening of July 1, 1981 four people were bludgeoned to death in a split-level home on a street in the Laurel Canyon section of Hollywood called Wonderland Avenue. Police believed they were murdered in retaliation for a robbery some days earlier of heroin, cocaine, jewels and cash belonging to underworld figure and drug kingpin Adel Gharib Nasrallah, aka Eddie Nash. The link between Eddie Nash and the people at 8764 Wonderland Avenue was 1970's porn super star John Holmes. By the late 1970's Holmes had a $1500 a day cocaine habit. Although he was a marquee figure in the porn industry and stared in over 2,500 porn films, his unreliability brought about by his addiction cost him work. Like the character played by Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights" (who was based on Holmes), John Holmes was reduced to petty crimes including drug running to support his habit. It did not take long for Eddie Nash to figure out who had set him up. When the drug dealer found Holmes, he forced the porn star to lead Nash's thugs to the house on Wonderland Avenue. Holmes was then made to watch as each of the victims was brutally murdered.

The Los Angeles police video-taped the crime scene which was later submitted as evidence in the trial of Holmes. (This was the first time that video was introduced as evidence in a criminal trial.) Holmes was acquitted and died of an AIDs-related illness in 1998. Though Eddie Nash went to jail for unrelated narcotics possession following the murders (his attorney argued that the $1 million worth of cocaine was for his personal use), he has evaded conviction t wice for participating in the crime; once in 1990 because of a hung jury and again 1991 by acquittal. Nash was indicted in May 2000 on racketeering charges including the bribery of a juror in his 1990 trial.


BK - did you get the two disc edition which has the John Holmes documentary on it?  That's the edition I'm looking for.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:40:05 PM
But, pardon me, it WASN'T page 5!   :D


It's PAGE FIVE NOW! ! !  :o
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:41:23 PM
Yes, once I got a correct response, I had to capitulate....although it is NOT Clifton Webb.
Can you be positively sure?  Did Clifton attend the wedding of his protege?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jrand73 on February 14, 2004, 06:41:42 PM
He was kind of a Nash rambler, wasn't he?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:43:36 PM
. . .and all you songwriters and tunesmiths out there, yeah that mean you NOEL and you BK -  it sure would be sweet if someone adapted "When the Children are Asleep" for my home front situation:  "When the Parents are in Bed" would do nicely  ;)

. . .and if you could take it down about a step so that I wouldn't have to hit that High A. . .  ::)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:45:38 PM
He was kind of a Nash rambler, wasn't he?

This kind of Nash ramblings? ? ?

http://www.westegg.com/nash/ (http://www.westegg.com/nash/)
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:46:22 PM
I just finished watching,  well,  listening was more like it to a Yanni DVD my boss loaned me.  He's ok but I don't think I could take him in large doses.  I can't honestly remember one of the songs I just heard.  

Any one here like Yanni?

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 06:47:00 PM
nope, yanni makes me yawny.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:49:40 PM
Maybe he should change his name to "Yawni".
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: MBarnum on February 14, 2004, 06:56:42 PM
Natalie Wood! I had better put on my glasses next time. I could have sworn that bride had blonde hair!

Picked up the 8 movie Abbott and Costello DVD set today and just finished watching BUCK PRIVATES. My gosh but those two guys are down right funny! I used to watch their movies all of the time on tv when I was a kid! It is nice to see them again! And two of my favorites are on this disc...WHO DONE IT and HOLD THAT GHOST! Lots of good Boogie woogie music too! Has anyone else picked up this set, or the Ma and Pa Kettle set?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JoseSPiano on February 14, 2004, 06:59:27 PM
The candle is nice.  Well, was nice.  A very intense, pure scent.  It was actually getting a little scent-saturated in my living room.  But I had it lit for two hours, and since it was the first time it was lit, that's a good way to break the candle in.  But, still, a very good scent.  It should linger for a while.

OK - Back to Trading Spaces... Fun tonight!  -As always.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Danise on February 14, 2004, 06:59:39 PM
And isn't it amazing that they didn't have to talk trash or curse to BE funny?

Well, almost 10 bells here.  I'm hitting the old sack a roo.  I've got a lot to do tomorrow.  

Good night all.  Sweet Valentine Dreams to you all.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 07:07:53 PM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001AW07U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

April 6th just can't come soon enough for me. . .
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 07:14:41 PM
And I would still like to hear the complete score td. I have a feeling we have missed out on much beauty.
BTW. I gave my sister a DVD of "AI" for Christmas. She has now watched it and loved it. Of course she as our sort of background!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 07:18:42 PM
And I would still like to hear the complete score td. I have a feeling we have missed out on mcuh beauty.
BTW. I gave my sister a DVD of "AI" for Christmas. She has now watched it and loved it. Of course she as our sort of background!

Tomovoz, you dear reader you, I would be thrilled to make you a copy of a VERY COMPLETE SCORE. . .NOT the original soundtrack, mind you, but that soundtrack PLUS the additional music including the deleted song, "Matters of Consequence."  Just say the word.

I'm thrilled to hear that your sister so loved A.I.!  
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: JMK on February 14, 2004, 07:19:15 PM
Hey, I forgot to mention earlier:

BK, there is indeed a Secretary's Day already--I think it's in spring sometime, and it's when bosses take their secretaries out to lunch and pretend to make them feel wanted for about 45 minutes.

Do any other DRs ever have the feeling that whatever force controls the universe has a special archangel or archdemon or something whose sole appointed purpose in life (or whatever it is they have) is to drive you personally crazy with niggling little problems?

Case in point:  the church I work for had all its microphones stolen.  I special ordered the lectern mic, a very high-end Audio Technica.  Said microphone got into the store last Monday.  Well I had a Valentine's gig out by the church, so I decided to drop by there afterwards to setup the new mic, and are you ready for this--the thing is missing its head!!  (It was wrapped in bubble paper in the box so you couldn't see it clearly).  The metal diaphragm is sitting there exposed and the mic is useless.  Of course the music store is closed now and there's nothing I can do until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.

Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 07:21:36 PM
Why thank you DR td, but don't you think this is a closer rendering?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 07:23:59 PM
Now, don't lose your head, Mr. Orr!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Tomovoz on February 14, 2004, 07:25:31 PM
"The word" td
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: S. Woody White on February 14, 2004, 07:50:03 PM
Der Brucer and I had a very romantic evening...playing bingo?

I'll explain later.  I've been catching up on the notes, and almost have dinner ready.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 07:54:52 PM
Can anyone tell I've got waaaay too much time on my hands without my Honey Bunny here on Valentine's  Day?

Thanks for the history lesson, td.  Glad to see Charles d'Orléans getting into it.  He also became famous for his lyrical rondeaux (in the strict poetical sense).

One year he held a contest for the best ballade (in the strict poetical sense) using the refrain "Je meurs de soif auprès de la fontaine."--I die of thirst beside the fountain.  (French écoliers sometimes quote this line in reference to having to read the Fables of La Fontaine in school.)

Among the entries, later scholars found one by François Villon.  That one has become the only well-known entry.  I don't know if the winner was ever recorded.

Interestingly, Villon evidently wrote it on a trip to Orléans after he escaped from prison in Paris.  His crime, however, was not political but simple theft.

I can tell you more about Villon than some people can tell you about Frances Farmer.



Waaaaaaaaaay too much time!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Michael on February 14, 2004, 07:58:14 PM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001AW07U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

April 6th just can't come soon enough for me. . .

Can't miss a good Donna McKechnie movie!!!
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: td on February 14, 2004, 08:01:52 PM
. . .and it's better cover art than the original promotional material.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: William F. Orr on February 14, 2004, 08:04:55 PM
Here is your François Villon picture for today:
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matt H. on February 14, 2004, 08:34:58 PM
I was going to guess Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan.

Thank you, DR Jane, for asking about my health and the quality of last evening. We had dinner that was very enjoyable and a play that was less so. I'm not sure if CHAPTER TWO is one of Neil Simon's longer plays or if it just SEEMED that way due to poor direction and my less-than-perfect health. I was going downhill when we walked out of the theater.

I've felt better today, and it's a good thing since I have had to be away from home meet boy friends of friends and having Chinese lunch with said friends old and new on Valentine's Day. Looking forward to spending a quiet, regular day at home tomorrow.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Matt H. on February 14, 2004, 08:39:08 PM
I've ordered the Kettle set but it hasn't arrived yet. Haven't gotten around to the A&C set, but I will have it. I, too, love HOLD THAT GHOST abnd WHO DONE IT.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: DERBRUCER on February 14, 2004, 10:03:43 PM
..The metal diaphragm is sitting there exposed

You left an exposed diaphram in church on St. Valentine's Day...now that's très tacky!

der "guardian of good taste" Brucer
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: DERBRUCER on February 14, 2004, 10:09:49 PM
...and just finished watching BUCK PRIVATES...

And the sequel BUCK-NAKED PRIVATES!

der Brucer (expecting BK to ruminate on why we can't have STAG-NAKED SERGEANTS, etc )
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: Jennifer on February 14, 2004, 10:13:18 PM
DR Jane wrote:
Quote
Yes ice it.  I would do what you are doing.  I gather the glass cutting board didn't cut you.  I hope you have soft comfortable shoes to wear tomorrow.

It was a glass cutting board. But it is very well protected. So no I didn't get cut.  I don't like wearing shoes (just wear boots outside or socks inside). I took off the sock and put a slipper on it.  But I hope I can get it in a shoe or boot tomorrow.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: DERBRUCER on February 14, 2004, 10:17:03 PM
Current lead-in line on FoxNews site:

"U.S. Seals Saddam's Hole"

der almost speachless Brucer
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: TCB on February 14, 2004, 10:34:20 PM

No, no residency. I offered. Somehow it never came together - but the accommodations are wonderful, there is a salaried guy from the theater whose sole job is to keep the talent happy.


Damn!  How do you get to be the talent?
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: TCB on February 14, 2004, 10:46:06 PM
That's not Natalie Wood!  That's Clifton Webb in a dress!   :D

Or was it Christopher Walken in a dress?  Only Robert Wagner knows for sure.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: S. Woody White on February 14, 2004, 11:33:19 PM
How about doe-naked WAVES (for the other guys around here)?

(Just trying to be fair.)

Now, about that bingo...

Apparently, several times a year a group representing a coalition of Delaware charities gets together and holds a bingo night.  The locations of choice are the Rehoboth Convention Center and another hall up in the northern half of the state.  Admission is $12 in advance, and $15 at the door.  For this, people are given a stack of ten bingo game cards, with three boards per card.  They can also buy extra stacks of cards, and for an extra eight dollars get another stack of "special cards" for special games, which have four boards per card.

They also sell refreshments, and have a 50/50 raffle.  Prizes for all the games are donated by local businesses (as a tax write-off, I'm sure, and why not?), usually with the sponsor businesses supplying someone to read for each of the games and promote their businesses.

This being Rehoboth Beach, there is the added twist of the hostess and several of her assistants being in drag.  Most of them were quite attractive, but there was one lady who should be reminded that drag and tattoos don't really mix, unless it's a deliberate impersonation of Charity Hope Valentine.

For nine of the rounds, it was regular bingo, get five in a row.  The five rounds with special cards required the players to fill in special patterns, with the cards themselves printed to show what squares were needed.  The final round required the entire card be filled.

Did we win anything?  No.  Did we have a good time?  Uh, yeah!  There were over a thousand people in that hall, with friendly cheering and applause for the winners every round.  The 50/50 raffle itself took in over $1600, making for a tidy purse for the winner and the charities both.

I don't see how this could be done as easily in some urban areas.  The opportunities to be jaded and cynical are too hard to deny there.  But here, in this more relaxed atmosphere, it seemed natural, and was a great deal of fun.

The only thing that could have made it more romantic for Valentine's Day would have been candlelight.  But that would have made reading the cards a little difficult.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: bk on February 14, 2004, 11:56:43 PM
Yes, it's the two-disc version of Wonderland.  

Thanks to all for keeping the home fries burning.  I'm afraid I was all in from dealing with all these incompetent DSL people.  They're now sending someone to my house on Monday.
Title: Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Post by: PennyO on February 15, 2004, 06:04:12 AM

As for meeting in NYC, I may be up there Feb 29-March 2 to catch some friends in some shows and cabarets.  Will you be leaving March 1?  Or March 2?

I leave NYC on March 1, to catch an early morning plane out of Philly on March 2. Hope to be able to meet you while I'm in town!