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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had relish on them, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - their currently putting condiments on their cud.
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And the word of the day is: SLUMGULLION!
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Last night, I went to see the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical revue, A Grand Night for Singing, and let me tell you, it was. I have worked with all the actors (four of them were in Side Show last year) and it was a total delight. They're all good singers. The costumes were simple and clean and the set was lovely. The staging was quite good. Everyone moved well and nothing seemed forced or awkward. I was able to see the cast and chat a bit afterwards and they said that they've been having quite full houses the entire run. They got a partial standing ovation. Not everyone stood, but the applause was genuine and deserved. A Grand time for everyone. ;D
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Looking through iPhoto - I think I'll share some photos I didn't even know I had.
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That is if they'll ever upload properly to tinypic.
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From The Donny and Marie Show - D&M and Cindy Williams and myself.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/728wig.jpg)
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From my favorite Happy Days.
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2a5ag2.jpg)
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And from The Apple Dumpling Gang, with the great Harry Morgan and John McGiver.
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A few years ago, I downloaded a whole bunch of recipes, but have never made any. Here's one that sounds very good:
Hearty Rice Skillet
Total time to prepare: 25 min
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
• 1 15-ounce can black, garbanzo, or kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 14-1/2-ounce can stewed tomatoes, cut up
• 2 cups loose-pack frozen mixed vegetables
• 1 cup water
• 3/4 cup quick-cooking brown rice, uncooked
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme or dillweed, crushed
• 4 - 5 dashes bottled hot pepper sauce (optional)
• 1 10-3/4-ounce can condensed tomato soup
• 1/3 cup slivered almonds, toasted
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella or cheddar cheese (2 ounces)
Directions:
1. In a large skillet stir together beans, undrained tomatoes, vegetables, water, uncooked rice, thyme or dillweed, and, if desired, hot pepper sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 12 to 14 minutes or until rice is tender. Stir in soup; heat through.
2. Before serving, stir in almonds and sprinkle with cheese. Makes 4 servings.
Nutritional Information:
1 serving: Calories 369; Fat 11g (Saturated 2g); Cholesterol 8mg; Sodium 972mg; Carbohydrate 57g (Dietary Fiber 1g); (Protein 19g)
Recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens®. Copyright 2002. Meredith Corporation.
For more recipes, please visit http://www.bhg.com/
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Great pictures, BK.
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BK, here's a recipe for you the next time that you have melon balls:
Sorbet-Melon Parfaits
Total time to prepare: 15 min
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
• 3/4 cup chilled, seeded watermelon balls
• 3/4 cup chilled, seeded cantaloupe melon balls
• 3/4 cup chilled, seeded honeydew melon balls
• 1 cup lemon or mango sorbet
• 1/2 cup sweet sparkling wine, chilled**
• 4 sprigs fresh mint (optional)
Directions:
Arrange melon balls among four wine glasses or goblets. Scoop about 1/4 cup sorbet atop melon. Pour about 2 tablespoons sparkling wine over sorbet and melon. If desired, garnish with mint sprigs. Serve immediately. Makes 4 servings.
Food exchanges: 1/2 fruit.
Nutritional Information:
1 serving: Calories 131; Fat 2g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 26mg; Carbohydrate 22g (Dietary Fiber 2g); (Protein 1g)
Recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens®. Copyright 2002. Meredith Corporation. For more recipes, please visit http://www.bhg.com/
** I would assume that sparkling cider or other juice would be fine.
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Love the photos, bk!! :D
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***MEDICAL VIBES***
to DR Jeanne!!!!!
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From my favorite Happy Days.
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2a5ag2.jpg)
"I promise, sir, that your elder son Chuck's being in the "home" will never be revealed to anyone. We'll take good care of him, you can rely on me."
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From The Donny and Marie Show - D&M and Cindy Williams and myself.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/728wig.jpg)
"All things considered, this dance routine would work a whole lot better if we'd use my "Kimmel Hands.""
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On tv tonight:
Premiere of SURVIVOR!
New Ugly Betty.
Cross-over Grey's anatomy and Private Practice!
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re: American Idol last night.
Funny thing happened. My 3 year old niece was sleeping over. And she watched for the first time. She kept saying that she did not like it. But she also kept commenting in the cutest way.
After the first sing-off all i could hear was her mumbling, "alex made it, cody didn't, why didn't cody make it?"
Then one of her favorite people, jen korbee from the kid's group hi-5 had her sing-off. And my niece kept saying, "they don't like jen". "What's the guy's name who liked jen? (simon)". "Jen didn't make it". She kept repeating this over and over. And then "why didn't jen make it?". Interesting how simon wanted to keep her. That was close!
I actually liked last night's show better. The sing-off concept was interesting (to watch). Although it looked torturous for the contestants since they pitted friends.
One person who i was shocked didn't make it was danny's best friend (danny is the guy whose wife died). I think his bf's name was jamal. I was really surprised considering some of the guys they let through. And i actually think that kid cody would have been very popular with the young girls. He had the right look!
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Medical vibes for DR Jeanne!
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From Mark Rothman:
Okay, I guess I feel the need to defend myself.
First, I never asked Bruce to link his website to my blog, merely to check it out for himself.
I wouldn't, in a million years, have expected him to give me a link. That would require a magnanimity that I never thought he was capable of.
I sent PM's to all of you because I felt I had a right to, as none of you are owned outright by Bruce, and I had what I considered to be a well earned access to you through all the time I spent playing the Initials game with you. I do not consider it poaching.
Bruce has reminded me many times of how many hits he gets here all the time. I can't imagine I'd make a dent in his stats.
I know that many of you liked the game, and might welcome the opportunity to play it again on a fairly regular basis. And I extend that invitation to Bruce as well.
I thought if I posted my invitation here, it wouldn't stay up for long.
Through some key endorsements, (Leonard Maltin, Mark Evanier Ken Levine),my hit numbers have become quite impressive. Getting the twelve or so extra people I'd get from here really doesn't make much difference. I thought you had the right to find me, and play Initials if you have missed it.
As far as ego, I plead guilty. Very guilty. And my ego has grown exponentially with the growing success of my blog. As has Bruce's. The kind of mail and comments I've been getting would turn anybody's head. Yes, my ego has become more and more unbridled. But I'm much more of a specialist than Bruce. My ego is all about my work. I admit it. I'm far more egotistical about my work than he is. I think he is much more egotistical in general, although, at the rate I'm going, I might get there too. At the moment, if there were an Ego Olympics, I would definitely take the Gold in one event. And Bruce would at least medal in the Decathlon.
Until now, I have never tried to trash Bruce in public, and wouldn't do it now, if he didn't take public umbrage at me. In fact one of the posts on my blog praises him and "Planet X", because he deserves it. And he neglected to mention that I'm a big fan of his books. I wasn't going after him on that score. I was actually alluding to someone else. The only thing I needled him about, without referring to him by name, was the notes on his blog. I've tried to keep all this private, and would have been happy if it stayed that way. I didn't out him. He outed himself. Bruce and I are friends, but sometimes it's been a rocky road. One reader mentioned that he thought I was being unfair to Ira Gershwin. If he'd read more thoroughly, he'd have realized that it was a joke.
If this post doesn't survive very long, so be it.
If necessary, it will surface somewhere else. I don't know if you heard, but I have a pretty successful blog.
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DR Jose, i'm just catching up on yesterday's posts.
re: your comment that i was yelling at my tv. Well i do know what you're referring to. But i actually already knew she didn't make it to top 36. So i was okay (i'm talking about jen korbee). Although i had not realized how close it actually was. It was nice to finally get to see her. Wow i wish we had gotten to see her husband. That was an interesting angle they could have shown.
The worse part is that my niece who never watched was a bit upset. She was actually very happy for those who made it (she clapped). But she was upset that they "didn't like jen" (as she put it).
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I did not get to see Lost. But after my niece fell asleep (at 10pm) i watched Top Chef.
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my 2 favs (stefan and fabio) made it. But it was close for the first!
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Yet another article about the what/how/why of TWITTER (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology) and Twittering.
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Your young men'll be twittering, twittering away
(almost a Music Man reference)
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The OLD Craig Bierko frittered.
The NEW, airbrushed Craig Bierdo twitters.
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CORN FRITTERS:
(http://www.healtheries.co.nz/images/recipes/lge/kumara_corn_fritters.jpg)
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Just because! :D
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I am anxiously anticipating DR Ben's theatre report from last night.
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And why oh why can I not stop singing in my head the songs from Goodbye Mr. Chips??
I tell you...
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Miss Fond is very good in 33 Variations. I saw the third performance last night. Moises Kaufman, the writer and director, came out just before the show began to say that it's still a work in progress and, in fact, the actors had gotten new pages about an hour before.
While it's a good and interesting piece I don't think it's as strong as Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde or The Laramie Project. I'm not exactly sure what he's trying to say here. Is it about the choices we make and the way we treat people in our lives after we make those choices? Is it about obsession and how it can drive our lives even in the midst of "problems" (if you don't know what happens I won't reveal any plot points). Fonda gets better as the show progresses and does an excellent job of transforming (if you see the show you'll understand). Colin Hanks (Tom's son) is also very good. The man playing Beethoven is excellent portraying a tortured genius in his last months. Susan Kellerman as a librarian at the Beethoven archives in Bonn is wonderful. The cast is all around very strong. My main complaint is length (or feeling of length). It's about 2 1/2 hours including a 15 minute intermission but, especially in the second act, it feels long. Perhaps it's the new pages but there were times when I felt they were feeling their way. If the show continues to be on TDF I will try to see it again once it's closer to frozen. As I said, Miss Fonda acquits herself well for someone who hasn't been on a Broadway stage in 46 years. She looks great, she knows how to speak and project and she doesn't seem like a film or television star trying to gain respectability by appearing on Broadway.
Tonight I see The Story of My Life which is at The Booth, one of my favorite theatres on Broadway (actually 45th Street).
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Thanks for that report, Ben
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Thanks for that report, Ben
DITTO! :)
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TOD:
I don't really have any recipes of my own, but I will tell of the time I first made my somewhat popular Christmas Garlic Dip.
The recipe I decided to make it from called for two packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese and four cloves of garlic. So when I went food shopping, I bought two packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese and four cloves of garlic. And when I prepared it, I peeled and mashed all four cloves of garlic and added it all to the cream cheese.
I thought that the dip turned out to be a trifle strong and judging by the bug-eye and teary reactions of my guests who tasted it, they thought so too. It wasn't until later, when someone explained to me the difference between a clove and a bulb, did I realize where I went wrong.
I now make one batch of the dip with just four cloves of garlic but I also make another using one whole bulb--some people actually like it that way.
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And the word of the day is: SLUMGULLION!
And The Song Of The Day Is: ROCK AND ROLL STEW
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Thanks for the report, DR Ben.
Hmmm...while this play doesn't exactly tickle my fancy, I think it would be fascinating to see Ms. Fonda on stage.
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It wasn't until later, when someone explained to me the difference between a clove and a bulb, did I realize where I went wrong.
:o :o
:D
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What we need is a lime rickey.
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I'm fond of Fonda.
And I'm fond of fondant.
But is Fonda fond of fondant? Or fondue?
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What we need is a lime rickey.
Where do you keep them, Lucy?
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And as we sang in church at Christmas:
I Fonda as I found her out under the sky...
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From Mark Rothman
For the record, I was not lurking on the website yesterday when it was implied that I was.
If I was, I would have responded immediately.
I checked yesterday's posts early this morning, to see if there was any comments about it. That's when I posted.
I reiterate: I never asked Bruce to link my URL.
This is what I wrote to him, in part:
"I should alert you that in the first post, at the bottom of the page, I essentially trash you pretty good, although not by name. (I would NEVER do that, and this is not why I started the blog). If you can get past that, and still think of me as a friend, I think you will enjoy it very much, and maybe even spread the word about it.. "
I never really thought he'd get past it.
I concluded with:
"If you can keep your sense of humor, and a sense of magnanimity, we should remain friends, and you can take what I wrote as constructive criticism.
If you don't think the shoe fits, then don't wear it. Maybe nobody else will think so either. Then maybe I didn't trash you."
JoseSPiano, I didn't send you a message because you expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Initials game was going towards the end. I didn't think you'd want to play.
See, that's all it was about in the first place.
For those who'd like to reach me about that, or anything else, my email is macchus999@aol.com
Bruce, if after all this, you still think I'm out of line, then maybe you shouldn't like me.
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DR Jose re: AMERICAN IDOL
Actually after i posted my other response i realized you were maybe referring one of my not favorite gals getting in! Oy what were they thinking!
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up.... And well...
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I have just finished my bowl of oatmeal, and I'm sipping a cup of green tea. And I've started a load of laundry - whites, if you must, care to know.
*And all before 10:00AM!?!?!? Waddup widdat?
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The recent winter storms that didn't give me a headache left snow not too far north of the Phoenix area. It is visible from the Valley (which is what we call the Phoenix area). So before it melts, my DH and I are thinking about driving north a bit for a hike so we can see some.
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DR Jose re: AMERICAN IDOL
Actually after i posted my other response i realized you were maybe referring one of my not favorite gals getting in! Oy what were they thinking!
DR Jennifer - I was mainly referring to the fact that they weren't showing as much singing as (I thought) you had hoped.
-I actually didn't even bother watching the second hour, since I switched over to "Lost".
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The recent winter storms that didn't give me a headache left snow not too far north of the Phoenix area. It is visible from the Valley (which is what we call the Phoenix area). So before it melts, my DH and I are thinking about driving north a bit for a hike so we can see some.
Don't forget your camera!!!!
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Good morning, all! I did sleep late, till 8:30, and I'm cautiously puttering about the apartment. I've got to do a lot of BABES edits and get further into the SPRING IS HERE score today.
I just had a call from Susanna Moross Tarjan, one of my favorite ladies, who's going through hell with the printing company that just returned to her too many badly printed vocal scores for THE GOLDEN APPLE. I'm getting her dad's BALLET BALLADS to begin proofing, another copyist is sending me the Suite from the film THE CARDINAL to proof,so I suspect March will be a big Moross and Loesser month for me.
One or these days - I don't have the time today - on a recipe day, i will drag out my favorite fruitcake recipe which is quite spectacular and wonderful, leaving all commercial fruitcakes by the side of the road.
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It's not the camera I'm likely to forget -- it is the battery that is currently in the recharger.
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What we need is a lime rickey.
I'd settle for a margarita!
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BK, some day you should ask for bad recipes. I have some of those.
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I have just finished my bowl of oatmeal, and I'm sipping a cup of green tea. And I've started a load of laundry - whites, if you must, care to know.
*And all before 10:00AM!?!?!? Waddup widdat?
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Bleach with those whites?
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I've got to do a lot of BABES
Please don't bring your camera. ;)
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DR Laura, I don't know if you've heard or not, but Antiques Roadshow (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/tickets.html) is coming to Phoenix. It's also coming to Atlantic City. I've put in for tickets.
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Thursday morning greetings! I'm going to the hospital soon - to tour their conference facilities with a grantwriter associate. We're planning a conference to be held there in September and wanted to get the "lay of the land" before proceeding.
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DR Ben - Thanks for the theatre report.
I'm interested in seeing 33 Variations mainly because I was almost a part of one of the first readings of the show down in DC. Arena Stage and Georgetown University had a one-week workshop about three years ago. Arena Stage subsequently produced a full-fledged mainstage production a year later as part of their season. -I believe it was also further workshopped at Sundance. In any case...
Since the play does feature the music of Beethoven, "The Diabelli Variations" - which are the "33" of the title - they needed a pianist for the workshop. I was put on stand-by to play for the workshop due to a scheduling conflict with the originally contracted pianist. It was an interesting script then, and I'm sure it's still an interesting script now.
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I have just finished my bowl of oatmeal, and I'm sipping a cup of green tea. And I've started a load of laundry - whites, if you must, care to know.
*And all before 10:00AM!?!?!? Waddup widdat?
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Bleach with those whites?
But, of course.
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I'm fond of Fonda.
And I'm fond of fondant.
But is Fonda fond of fondant? Or fondue?
Fondly, of course.
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I have just finished my bowl of oatmeal, and I'm sipping a cup of green tea. And I've started a load of laundry - whites, if you must, care to know.
*And all before 10:00AM!?!?!? Waddup widdat?
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Bleach with those whites?
But, of course.
And now they're in the dryer. Hmm... Warm socks. :)
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Thursday morning greetings! I'm going to the hospital soon - to tour their conference facilities with a grantwriter associate. We're planning a conference to be held there in September and wanted to get the "lay of the land" before proceeding.
Your retirement didn't last long. ;)
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DR Laura, I don't know if you've heard or not, but Antiques Roadshow (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/tickets.html) is coming to Phoenix. It's also coming to Atlantic City. I've put in for tickets.
I did that once. They didn't have tickets at that time, though. I stood in line (literally) for eight hours.
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Yet another article about the what/how/why of TWITTER (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology) and Twittering.
@pogue previewed that, his article yesterday on @twitter.
;)
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TODAY IN THEATRE HISTORY...
Nothing terribly interesting happened but to perhaps tie in to the rather strange GUYS & DOLLS billboard pic that DR Jose posted last night...CRAIG'S WIFE opened on this date in 1947 at the Playhouse Theatre.
Of further interest, the interior and exterior of Playhouse Theatre are seen in the original THE PRODUCERS movie. It was demollished in 1969.
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I don't have a recipe to share but I am looking forward to all the postings today to see what I can cook in my small kitchen.
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PAGE THREE TWITTER BIRDS DANCE
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Thursday morning greetings! I'm going to the hospital soon - to tour their conference facilities with a grantwriter associate. We're planning a conference to be held there in September and wanted to get the "lay of the land" before proceeding.
Your retirement didn't last long. ;)
LOL! Staying involved in a couple of professional organizations is part of my transistion strategy.
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Yet another article about the what/how/why of TWITTER (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology) and Twittering.
@pogue previewed that, his article yesterday on @twitter.
;)
And DR Daw continues not to Tweet at all!
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Don't feed the animals.
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bk - Thanks for posting those pics. I think I remember seeing all of those moments "originally". ;)
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Semi-random musing:
The new commercial for Chef Boyardee still makes me giggle, at the very least smile, each time I see it.
Did you know that each can of Chef Boyardee contains a full serving of vegetables. ;)
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Don't feed the animals.
And just what are you insinuating, exactly?? ;)
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Tweets from Mars (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/02/12/nasa.twitter/index.html)
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After the tour at the hospital, I'm going to take my mother shopping - bye for now!
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DR Dan (the Man) - I just saw this on, where else, Twitter. -But I'm guessing you may have seen it somewhere more locally.
Philly Transit Agency Uses Photo of NYC on Rail Pass (http://gothamist.com/2009/02/12/philly_transit_agency_uses_photo_of.php)
Spoo!
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
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DR Dan (the Man) - I just saw this on, where else, Twitter. -But I'm guessing you may have seen it somewhere more locally.
Philly Transit Agency Uses Photo of NYC on Rail Pass (http://gothamist.com/2009/02/12/philly_transit_agency_uses_photo_of.php)
Spoo!
DR Jose, nope--I hadn't seen that one yet.
$9.00 for a day pass for Beer Week--phooey! I'll drive in and save the money for two more beers!
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I always feed the animals.
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
And what about the new IKEA spots? Strange, but funny. I think. ;)
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DR Ginny, my brother-in-law retired. He had been looking forward to it for months and had plans to do absolutely nothing for the first few weeks. On his first day, the office called and insisted he come in, because they couldn't figure anything out at all without him.
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I always feed the animals.
And just look at the results.
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And what about the new IKEA spots?
If they're anything like leopard spots, I'm sure they're quite fetching.
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DR Ben - Thanks for the theatre report.
I'm interested in seeing 33 Variations mainly because I was almost a part of one of the first readings of the show down in DC. Arena Stage and Georgetown University had a one-week workshop about three years ago. Arena Stage subsequently produced a full-fledged mainstage production a year later as part of their season. -I believe it was also further workshopped at Sundance. In any case...
Since the play does feature the music of Beethoven, "The Diabelli Variations" - which are the "33" of the title - they needed a pianist for the workshop. I was put on stand-by to play for the workshop due to a scheduling conflict with the originally contracted pianist. It was an interesting script then, and I'm sure it's still an interesting script now.
Yes, in the midst of all that theatre reporting I forgot to mention that piano playing is a big part of the show. We don't hear all 33 variations but we hear many of them and some of Anton Diabelli's waltz, which is a major thrust of the whole play.
The pianist gets her own applause. That's nice.
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...And between "Lost" and "Damages", it really is best just not to think too much about either show's twists and turns, otherwise, major headaches will ensue. -Or something like that.
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DR Ginny, my brother-in-law retired. He had been looking forward to it for months and had plans to do absolutely nothing for the first few weeks. On his first day, the office called and insisted he come in, because they couldn't figure anything out at all without him.
Did they put him back on payroll for the day?
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DR Ben - Thanks for the theatre report.
I'm interested in seeing 33 Variations mainly because I was almost a part of one of the first readings of the show down in DC. Arena Stage and Georgetown University had a one-week workshop about three years ago. Arena Stage subsequently produced a full-fledged mainstage production a year later as part of their season. -I believe it was also further workshopped at Sundance. In any case...
Since the play does feature the music of Beethoven, "The Diabelli Variations" - which are the "33" of the title - they needed a pianist for the workshop. I was put on stand-by to play for the workshop due to a scheduling conflict with the originally contracted pianist. It was an interesting script then, and I'm sure it's still an interesting script now.
Yes, in the midst of all that theatre reporting I forgot to mention that piano playing is a big part of the show. We don't hear all 33 variations but we hear many of them and some of Anton Diabelli's waltz, which is a major thrust of the whole play.
The pianist gets her own applause. That's nice.
Very nice.
*And, frankly, I breathed a sigh a relief when I found out I did not have to play for the workshop. That was a lot of notes to learn in less than a week. A whole lotta notes. The pianist definitely deserves a bow.
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Did they put him back on payroll for the day?
He was probably classified as a contractor/consultant and got paid twice as much. :-\
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I don't think they paid him. I think he went in all week.
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I don't think they paid him. I think he went in all week.
Hmm.. I hope they at least took him out to lunch each day.
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Today is the day of the first roofing estimates. Oy.
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Re: John McGiver. Does anyone remember his short-lived series MANY HAPPY RETURNS? It's one of my earliest TeeVee memories, I think mostly due to Mr. McGiver's very distinctive ideolect.
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As for the Topic of the Day...
Here's one of my favorite cake recipes. It's a bit "fussy", but worth the effort.
Dark Chocolate Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Chocolate Glaze
From the April 1998 issue of "Gourmet"
Yield: Makes 16 to 20 servings
2 1/4 cups cake flour
3/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sour cream (8 1/2 ounces)
2 1/4 sticks (1 cup plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon chocolate extract (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 large eggs
3 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Accompaniments:brown sugar sour cream
strawberries
Do not preheat oven. Butter and flour a 12-cup bundt pan, knocking out any excess flour.
Into a small bowl sift together flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. In another small bowl stir together baking soda and sour cream.
In a large bowl with an electric mixer (preferably a standing electric mixer) beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes. Beat in extracts and add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer at low speed, add flour mixture and sour cream mixture alternately in batches, beating until just combined.
Pour batter into bundt pan and put in middle of cold oven. Set oven to 350°F and bake cake 1 hour and 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a rack 15 minutes and turn out onto rack to cool completely. Pound cake keeps, wrapped in plastic wrap, at room temperature 1 week. Alternatively, pound cake may be frozen, wrapped well in plastic wrap and foil, 3 months.
Chop bittersweet chocolate and in a double boiler or a metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring until smooth. Transfer glaze to a pastry bag fitted with a #3 plain tip (slightly smaller than 1/8 inch). (Alternatively, transfer glaze to a small heavy-duty sealable plastic bag and press out excess air. Snip off 1 corner, making a small hole.) Pipe glaze back and forth over top of cake, letting it drip down sides. Let glaze set 30 minutes at room temperature.
Serve cake with dollops of sour cream and strawberries.
**It's best to double the amount glaze. :)
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Good morning!
Beautiful day here, and the highs should be in the mid-to-upper 60s. A gorgeous February day.
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Page Four Dance!!!
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...And between "Lost" and "Damages", it really is best just not to think too much about either show's twists and turns, otherwise, major headaches will ensue. -Or something like that.
Haven't gotten to last night's DAMAGES yet, and I probably won't until Sunday. Just too much stuff to watch, and most of it exceptional!
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Re: John McGiver. Does anyone remember his short-lived series MANY HAPPY RETURNS? It's one of my earliest TeeVee memories, I think mostly due to Mr. McGiver's very distinctive ideolect.
I remember it. I also remember how surprised I was that it didn't last long. Back in those days with almost no access to ratings, when shows went off after a brief run, it was always surprising.
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On TV Tonight!™
ABC - UGLY BETTY, GREY'S ANATOMY, PRIVATE PRACTICE
CBS - SURVIVOR, CSI, ELEVENTH HOUR
NBC - comedies, ER
FOX - NAACP Image Awards
USA - BURN NOTICE
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Since I seem to have annoyed a few people last week with my over-enthusiastic reminder to DR Elmore about BURN NOTICE, I'll simply say:
DR Elmore, please don't forget about BURN NOTICE tonight!
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Extremely disappointed that BONES isn't on this week. And SUPERNATURAL and SMALLVILLE are in reruns this week.
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(http://www.cinefania.com/pics/personas/5/5041.jpg)
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I'll be globe-hopping with Jessica Fletcher for a good bit of time today and tonight. There are 22 episodes in the set, and I've only done 8 of them thus far.
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
Ooooh! Let's talk about commercials we hate. I cannot stand the car insurence commercials with the obnoxious chunky actress with the black hair blowing a kazoo and trying to be funny. She isn't.
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Since I seem to have annoyed a few people last week with my over-enthusiastic reminder to DR Elmore about BURN NOTICE, I'll simply say:
DR Elmore, please don't forget about BURN NOTICE tonight!
DR MattH, was there really some annoyance? I greatly appreciated it. How rude of them to take it amiss. Boobs!
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And here's a recipe for something to have before you have the chocolate pond cake...
Turkey Meatloaf with Cranberry Glaze
Ľ cup Brown sugar
˝ cup Mashed cranberry sauce
2 pounds Ground turkey
ľ cup Milk
ľ cup Bread crumbs
3 Eggs; lightly beaten
1˝ teaspoon Salt
⅛ teaspoon Pepper
Ľ cup Diced red onions
˝ cup Chicken broth (just enough to moisten)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
For the glaze, spread the brown sugar over the bottom of a greased loaf pan and spread the cranberry sauce over the sugar.
In a large bowl mix all the remaining ingredients until well incorporated. Form the meat mixture into the loaf pan, laying out over the cranberry glaze.
Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour.
Serve with green beans (almondine) and potatoes of your choosing.
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Words with a K are funny. Kazoos are funny, not if you blow them but if you SAY them.
(almost a Sunshine Boys reference)
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Oh dear.
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Thanks to DR BEN for the 33 VARIATIONS report.....interesting.
I still can't figure out how to use TWITTER.....but then I am still working on Facebook. At least I am a Twitter member.
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Great photos, MR BK.
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
I agree I just can't stand the way she is simpering at that money packet - like I don't know what and ignoring her dinner companion
I think the whole campaign is dumb though
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TOD:
One piece of white bread
Spread on a layer of Hellman's Mayonnaise
Put on two slices of Hormel's Spam
Add one piece of Kraft American Cheese
Another piece of white bread on top.
Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
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Yes, the new GEICO campaign with the craft eyes on the money is missing the mark by a wide margin.
The Safe Auto woman named FLO who helps people with their insurance is also annoying.
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I don't think they paid him. I think he went in all week.
WHAT?! THat's just wrong.
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Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
On the side, or in the sandwich, too? ;)
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Since I seem to have annoyed a few people last week with my over-enthusiastic reminder to DR Elmore about BURN NOTICE, I'll simply say:
DR Elmore, please don't forget about BURN NOTICE tonight!
No annoynace here
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I still can't figure out how to use TWITTER.....but then I am still working on Facebook. At least I am a Twitter member.
I really liked David Pogue's article about Twitter.
"Twitter, in other words, is precisely what you want it to be. It can be a business tool, a teenage time-killer, a research assistant, a news source — whatever. There are no rules, or at least none that apply equally well to everyone."
For myself, it's truly become a strange and wonderful "addiction". For better or worse. ;)
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Boobs!
DR elmore3003 is full of BOOBS and BABES today.
Did something change, and I didn't get the memo?
;)
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*However, I have cut down the amount of time I used to spend on Facebook. ;D
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BK I loved the photos thanks for posting them
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Laura I look forward to your snow photos!!
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Ginny I think you are busier than ever since you retired, you go girl!
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TOD:
One piece of white bread
Spread on a layer of Hellman's Mayonnaise
Put on two slices of Hormel's Spam
Add one piece of Kraft American Cheese
Another piece of white bread on top.
Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
Grilled SPAM? I could never eat SPAM cold, but heated up in a skillet for a few minutes... YUM! SPAM omelets were a regular breakfast item growing up too.
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Oooh... And canned corned beef sauteed with onions and a couple of glugs of ketchup.
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Laura I look forward to your snow photos!!
And I hope that there will be pictures of snow angels, too. :)
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a couple of glugs
Don't get all technical on us...
;)
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
I agree I just can't stand the way she is simpering at that money packet - like I don't know what and ignoring her dinner companion
I think the whole campaign is dumb though
I also don't understand these dumbass "when life comes at you"car insurance commercials in which a young man or woman looks out the window calmly watching the car of the friend to whom they're asking about car insurance get demolished as all hell breaks loose from a fallen window washer to a domestic fight. They never say anything like, "holy sh*t! A lady just threw a sofa out the window and demolished the roof of your car!" or "call 911; a window washer fell to his death!"
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Oh, my. Canned Corned Beef!!! I used to love that. I haven't had it since before I moved away from Minnesota. I don't know what it is about that stuff but I'm salivating just thinking of canned Argentinian corned beef (the can always said it was from Argentina).
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I can't remember the last time I watched a commercial....not since the invention of DVR.
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I make a chicken pie which Vixdad loves. I made it up and I I don't have exact measurements. I admit I cheat on the pie crust. I find the Pillsbury refrigerated piecrust an acceptable substitute for home made - for the truly good cooks amongst you feel free to make the pie crust from scratch
Pillsbury Pie Crust
4 lbs boneless chicken breast
1/2 stick butter
1 small Vidalia (or other sweet white) onion
1 package (10 oz I think) fresh white mushrooms
1/2 package fingerling carrots
1 can sweet peas (another short cut I take - purists feel free to shell your own)
1 cup white cooking wine
some flour for thickening purposes
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
put bottom layer of pie crust in deep dish pie plate
Clean and thickly slice the mushrooms
peel and thinly slice the onion
melt 1/4 stick of butter in heavy skillet and sautee onions and mushroom until onions are translucent - remove from pan
Clean and cut the chicken breasts into bite size cubes
Melt remainder of butter in skillet add chicken and keep turning until pieces are golden brown on all sides.
remove from pan
add wine to pan drippings and cook over low heat till reduced add flour (or corn starch if you prefer) until desired thickness (sometimes I add a drop of Gravy Master in here for color)
Put chicken, onion mushroom mixture and cleaned carrots back in skillet and stir until nicely mixed
Pour the whole thing into bottom pie crust
Stir in drained peas stir gently taking are not to squish peas
put top layer on pie and seal put a couple of decorative steam holes witha fork
bake at 375 until crust is brown and flakey (about 30 minutes)
Serves 6 - 8
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I can't remember the last time I watched a commercial....not since the invention of DVR.
You probably think they're Bollywood movies.
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TOD:
One piece of white bread
Spread on a layer of Hellman's Mayonnaise
Put on two slices of Hormel's Spam
Add one piece of Kraft American Cheese
Another piece of white bread on top.
Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
Grilled SPAM? I could never eat SPAM cold, but heated up in a skillet for a few minutes... YUM! SPAM omelets were a regular breakfast item growing up too.
My mom occasionally had grilled Spam (with cloves) as the central entree of our dinner, and then we'd have Spam sandwiches the next day for lunch, so I grew up eating Spam hot and cold.
I don't think I've had a piece of Spam in 30 or 40 years at least.
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TOD:
One piece of white bread
Spread on a layer of Hellman's Mayonnaise
Put on two slices of Hormel's Spam
Add one piece of Kraft American Cheese
Another piece of white bread on top.
Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
Grilled SPAM? I could never eat SPAM cold, but heated up in a skillet for a few minutes... YUM! SPAM omelets were a regular breakfast item growing up too.
My mom occasionally had grilled Spam (with cloves) as the central entree of our dinner, and then we'd have Span sandwiches the next day for lunch, so I grew up eating Spam hot and cold.
I don't think I've had a piece of Spam in 30 or 40 years at least.
You and me both. I discovered Spam in college and made it into sandwiches on occasion. I got my M.A. in 1970 and haven't thought of Spam since.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3395/3273071459_2d6b3a6cb9.jpg)
I almost didn't see Monkey in there - nice picture!
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I forgot to mention AS THE WORLD TURNS last night. I did get a chance to watch the episode. While I'm glad the mystery story is now underway, I absolutely HATED that it was Reg who was the murder victim. I always liked him, and I think the boneheaded writers underused a potentially fascinating character. Why not have a love triangle with Luke-Noah-Reg? Luke and Reg always seemed to have a connection (and judging by his reaction to Reg's death, maybe something happened we never got to see on-screen), and it's a waste of a good character.
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
I agree I just can't stand the way she is simpering at that money packet - like I don't know what and ignoring her dinner companion
I think the whole campaign is dumb though
I also don't understand these dumbass "when life comes at you"car insurance commercials in which a young man or woman looks out the window calmly watching the car of the friend to whom they're asking about car insurance get demolished as all hell breaks loose from a fallen window washer to a domestic fight. They never say anything like, "holy sh*t! A lady just threw a sofa out the window and demolished the roof of your car!" or "call 911; a window washer fell to his death!"
EXACTLY!!!!
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I like Spam also (grilled). I guess growing up in Minnesota (even though Austin, MN is not near Minneapolis, it's south of the Twin Cities) had something to do with it.
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Oh, my. Canned Corned Beef!!! I used to love that. I haven't had it since before I moved away from Minnesota. I don't know what it is about that stuff but I'm salivating just thinking of canned Argentinian corned beef (the can always said it was from Argentina).
Yes, always from Argentina!
And those cans! With that key! And those sharp edges! -Which is the source/cause of the scar on my right thumb. OUCH!
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Spoo! And Luke and Noah were in the previews so they're back again today. Good!
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Hmm.... For some semi-unknown reason, I have a craving for some mini-pigs-in-a-blanket made with Vienna Sausages. ;)
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Now I must head down to get cleaned up for my lunch out with friends today.
WBBL.
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I don't think I've had a piece of Spam in 30 or 40 years at least.
Then you're about due, don't you think? :)
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the scar on my right thumb.
And hereforto I thought you were perfect.
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I almost didn't see Monkey in there - nice picture!
Thank you, DR vixmom.
Thankfully, the vendors in the Grand Central Market didn't see him there either. ;)
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a waste of a good character.
That should be the title of something or other.
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MONKEY CENTRAL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108900@N02/sets/72157613683788650/)
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Yes, those damned keys. If the small piece of metal broke off before you got the key started you couldn't open the can!
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I object to all the prescription drug commercials. I wonder how much less those drugs would cost if they weren't paying millions for advertising them.
and the side effects are ridiculous - can lead to liver disfunction, known to cause sudden heart attacks, etc etc why are these things even FDA approved?!
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the scar on my right thumb.
And hereforto I thought you were perfect.
And then there's the scar on my left thumb from the mug-washing incident a few years ago...
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Yes, those damned keys. If the small piece of metal broke off before you got the key started you couldn't open the can!
Or worse yet: You get home from the grocery store, and find that the key is missing!?!?!??!!
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the scar on my left thumb
A matched set?
From France, yet!
[ a Yentl reference! :D ]
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I forgot to mention AS THE WORLD TURNS last night. I did get a chance to watch the episode. While I'm glad the mystery story is now underway, I absolutely HATED that it was Reg who was the murder victim. I always liked him, and I think the boneheaded writers underused a potentially fascinating character. Why not have a love triangle with Luke-Noah-Reg? Luke and Reg always seemed to have a connection (and judging by his reaction to Reg's death, maybe something happened we never got to see on-screen), and it's a waste of a good character.
From some of the gossip I've heard lately, the show is in such danger of being pulled that they have no money for extras - which explains why there were no police in the kidnapping or anybody in the bar - and I guess they're weeding the cast ASAP.
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Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
On the side, or in the sandwich, too? ;)
On the side, in a Tupperware container.
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the key is missing!?!?!??!!
I sense a recurring theme here... ;)
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Oh, my. Canned Corned Beef!!! I used to love that. I haven't had it since before I moved away from Minnesota. I don't know what it is about that stuff but I'm salivating just thinking of canned Argentinian corned beef (the can always said it was from Argentina).
Yes, always from Argentina!
And those cans! With that key! And those sharp edges! -Which is the source/cause of the scar on my right thumb. OUCH!
And I thought it was from a zipper.
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DR elmore - That scar is not on my thumbs.
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PAGE SIX PÉTANQUE DANCE!!!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3320/3272730575_5080f19735.jpg)
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*You may provide your own captions. ;)
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Nice to see that Monkey is well read.
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Nice to see that Monkey is well read.
Alas, I don't think the current financial market has been too kind to him.
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*You may provide your own captions.
It is rife with possibilities.
Rife, I tell you. :)
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Miss Piggy was just interviewed on The View - apparently "she" has just "written" a book
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From Mark Rothman:
Okay, I guess I feel the need to defend myself.
First, I never asked Bruce to link his website to my blog, merely to check it out for himself.
I wouldn't, in a million years, have expected him to give me a link. That would require a magnanimity that I never thought he was capable of.
I sent PM's to all of you because I felt I had a right to, as none of you are owned outright by Bruce, and I had what I considered to be a well earned access to you through all the time I spent playing the Initials game with you. I do not consider it poaching.
Bruce has reminded me many times of how many hits he gets here all the time. I can't imagine I'd make a dent in his stats.
I know that many of you liked the game, and might welcome the opportunity to play it again on a fairly regular basis. And I extend that invitation to Bruce as well.
I thought if I posted my invitation here, it wouldn't stay up for long.
Through some key endorsements, (Leonard Maltin, Mark Evanier Ken Levine),my hit numbers have become quite impressive. Getting the twelve or so extra people I'd get from here really doesn't make much difference. I thought you had the right to find me, and play Initials if you have missed it.
As far as ego, I plead guilty. Very guilty. And my ego has grown exponentially with the growing success of my blog. As has Bruce's. The kind of mail and comments I've been getting would turn anybody's head. Yes, my ego has become more and more unbridled. But I'm much more of a specialist than Bruce. My ego is all about my work. I admit it. I'm far more egotistical about my work than he is. I think he is much more egotistical in general, although, at the rate I'm going, I might get there too. At the moment, if there were an Ego Olympics, I would definitely take the Gold in one event. And Bruce would at least medal in the Decathlon.
Until now, I have never tried to trash Bruce in public, and wouldn't do it now, if he didn't take public umbrage at me. In fact one of the posts on my blog praises him and "Planet X", because he deserves it. And he neglected to mention that I'm a big fan of his books. I wasn't going after him on that score. I was actually alluding to someone else. The only thing I needled him about, without referring to him by name, was the notes on his blog. I've tried to keep all this private, and would have been happy if it stayed that way. I didn't out him. He outed himself. Bruce and I are friends, but sometimes it's been a rocky road. One reader mentioned that he thought I was being unfair to Ira Gershwin. If he'd read more thoroughly, he'd have realized that it was a joke.
If this post doesn't survive very long, so be it.
If necessary, it will surface somewhere else. I don't know if you heard, but I have a pretty successful blog.
I will, of course, let this post speak for itself, which I feel it does very well. A couple of corrections, however...
I was absolutely asked to mention the blog here - maybe the word "link" wasn't used.
There are two mentions in this post about posts being removed. I have, in all these years, removed, I think, two posts, and I removed them because they were made by an obvious troublemaker and stalker - everyone knew it. So, would I have removed a post if Mr. Rothman had come and plugged his blog - no. Will I remove the post above, even though it fairly drips with attitude? No. The End.
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Miss Piggy was just interviewed on The View - apparently "she" has just "written" a book
Tomovoz may know this, but Miss Piggy made her professional debut on a skit which introduced Miss Lani Hall singing the incredible Dave Frishberg piece "Wheelers and Dealers" on an early 1970s Herb Alpert special. You can find it on YouTube. Lani and band are performing live, BTW--it's not a lip synch, to her lasting credit.
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This morning I made Vixdad's lunch
Ham and American cheese with honey mustard, lettuce and tomato on whole wheat bread
with a sidee of Sweet baby gherkins,
pretzels
an apple.
and I made the The Vixter's luch as well
Turkey salad (plain she doesn't like any "stir-ins")
baby dill pickles
ritz crackers
(she doesn't like her turkey salad on bread)
green seedless grapes
oreo cookies
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I always feed the animals.
Well, that explains the children that went missing from Daily Vacation Bible School.
der Brucer
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I do believe I'm up.
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"Maybe he shouldn't like me."
As Jack Benny would say (after doing a long and classic Benny take): "I'm thinking, I'm thinking." :)
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*You may provide your own captions.
It is rife with possibilities.
Rife, I tell you. :)
The ball(s) is in your court.
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MONKEY CENTRAL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108900@N02/sets/72157613683788650/)
Monkey makes my day.
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My throat is so very sore today - I coughed all through the night.
It feels so very raw. Vixdad tried giving me some cough medicine last night before bed (doctor said it was OK to use some Robatussin) but I didn;t notice any improvement.
My Dad just called to see if I wanted company. I had to tell him "No, I am just not up to it"
That short whisper put me into a coughing spasm.
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Anti coughing vibes for DR Vixmom.
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And "Make-up with friends" vibes to BK and Macchus (because life is too short and you guys have known each other for a loooooooooong time)
You both have egos and you're both pretty. Ok.
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vixmom - if it would make you feel better, I might send you an advance uncorrected copy of the new book via e-mail. I could do that in a week or two.
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This sort of topic makes me HUNGRY.
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MONKEY CENTRAL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108900@N02/sets/72157613683788650/)
Monkey makes my day.
He makes mine too. :)
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I have, in all these years, removed, I think, two posts
I told Mr. Rothman as much, privately.
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I love rice dishes and yet I never eat rice dishes, why is that? When I was a newly-married young person one thing we used to do was Rice-A-Roni, which I was sort of hooked on for a long time. I had it about six years ago and it was really not very good.
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~~~~~COUGH-BE-GONE VIBES TO DR VIXMOM~~~~~
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DR vixmom - many people do not know that Cole Porter's original draft was "Cough Through the Night." ;)
I hope this major inconvenience subsides quickly, and that you feel better very soon.
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vixmom - if it would make you feel better, I might send you an advance uncorrected copy of the new book via e-mail. I could do that in a week or two.
that would be AWESOME!! Thank you!!
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thank you all for the vibes - I hate to whine but it is terribly frustrating and painful
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...you're both pretty.
"I'm thinking. I'm thinking."
;)
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1 can sweet peas (another short cut I take - purists feel free to shell your own)
If you use frozen peas, they'll maintain some texture.
der Brucer
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PAGE SEVEN CUPCAKE DANCE!!!!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3273550654_54306aab0c.jpg)
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We're having high winds advisory here(winds of 54 + MPH ). I have the news on in the background. A lady driving down a highway in New Jersey was killed this moning when winds toppled a tree on to the car she was driving crushing the car and killing her instantly
and here on Long Island a tree fell on a family's car in their driveway crushing the entire car. Fortunately no one was in that car at the time.
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It occurs to me, we could have a Jack Benny/Fred Allen thing going on here.
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CUPCAKES!!!
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I've noticed here in LA that cupcakes are the new hip thing. A year ago a cupcake specialty jernt opened in North Hollywood and now I see them (not the same store) everywhere.
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Fads are funny.
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Nice and sunny out, so I'll definitely do the long jog.
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1 can sweet peas (another short cut I take - purists feel free to shell your own)
If you use frozen peas, they'll maintain some texture.
der Brucer
The only peas the two fussbuckets in this house will eat are Le Seuer (the ones in the silver paper)
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The caption: Pinot Noir Chocolate Cupcake with Sea Salt Caramel Glaze from FreeFoods NYC.
The comments: The cake part was dry and dense. The chocolate ganache icing was a little grainy. And the sea salt caramel glaze seemed to be missing the sea salt. However, it was "all organic". :-\
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Fads are funny.
So is alliteration. :)
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I shall jog at ten, James.
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The comments: The cake part was dry and dense. The chocolate ganache icing was a little grainy. And the sea salt caramel glaze seemed to be missing the sea salt. However, it was "all organic". :-\
Is this from a web report, or from personal experience?
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I shall jog at ten, James.
So make sure the car is ready promptly. ;)
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I've noticed here in LA that cupcakes are the new hip thing. A year ago a cupcake specialty jernt opened in North Hollywood and now I see them (not the same store) everywhere.
I occassionally watch a show on WE channel called Amazing Wedding Cakes - they had one last week that was really a hundred or more cupcakes - each one decorated as an minature wedding cake. I thnink the cake shop that made it is based in LA
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I shall jog at ten, James.
I'll alert the media (an Arthur reference)
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...and the side effects are ridiculous - can lead to liver disfunction, known to cause sudden heart attacks, etc etc why are these things even FDA approved?!
Because the potential good outweighs the potential harm - almost any effective pharmaceutical will have some chance of adverse side effects.
der Brucer
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I've noticed here in LA that cupcakes are the new hip thing. A year ago a cupcake specialty jernt opened in North Hollywood and now I see them (not the same store) everywhere.
I believe SPRINKLES CUPCAKES (http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/) is/are responsible for the bring the cupcake craze to the Los Angeles area. It's a good cupcake, but I'm still partial to Magnolia, Billy's, Buttercup, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, etc. ;)
(http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/images/gifts/favor-image.jpg)
*Sprinkles also markets their own make-at-home cupcake mix which is available at Williams-Sonoma and other outlets. Any time I've sampled them in-store, well... not so much.
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There's a blonde gal outside my house pacing back and forth with her Peet's coffee, talking on her cell.
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Bruce,
I know you don't think all that much of me these days, but do you honestly think I'm that stupid as to ask you to link my url after what I told you what I wrote about you? Obviously your endorsement didn't matter to me that much, or I wouldn't have told you or written it. Check the e-mail. I could print it in it's entirety. There was no "asking". No mention of linking. You admit that yourself. I know you think your website is that important. That's one of the Decathlon events. If "Dripping with attitude" was the criteria, you'd have to take out almost all the posts you've ever written about me.
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The comments: The cake part was dry and dense. The chocolate ganache icing was a little grainy. And the sea salt caramel glaze seemed to be missing the sea salt. However, it was "all organic". :-\
Is this from a web report, or from personal experience?
From personal experience. Yesterday. :-\
*And, then, to add insult to injury, I had hoped to have a cup of Hot Chocolate from 'wichcraft in Bryant Park, but they weren't selling hot chocolate yesterday?!?!?!??!
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The comments: The cake part was dry and dense. The chocolate ganache icing was a little grainy. And the sea salt caramel glaze seemed to be missing the sea salt. However, it was "all organic". :-\
Is this from a web report, or from personal experience?
From personal experience. Yesterday. :-\
*And, then, to add insult to injury, I had hoped to have a cup of Hot Chocolate from 'wichcraft in Bryant Park, but they weren't selling hot chocolate yesterday?!?!?!??!
However, I could tell that the cupcake had potential. I could taste the pinot noir, and it complemented the chocolate. A good balance of flavors. It was the texture that turned me off. Maybe it would have been better had I come earlier in the day when the cupcake was fresher - and hadn't been sitting out on a display tray for a couple of hours.
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And I still can't find that darn "Ignore DR" button...
DR macchus, your blog is a worthwhile read. I wish I could say the same about your posts here.
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OK... I think I'm going to venture out for a bit. Hopefully, I won't get picked up by a wind gust and whisked off to some foreign land.
???
Laters...
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Take it off-board, or just pick up your telephone(s).
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TOD:
I don't really have any recipes of my own, but I will tell of the time I first made my somewhat popular Christmas Garlic Dip.
The recipe I decided to make it from called for two packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese and four cloves of garlic. So when I went food shopping, I bought two packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese and four cloves of garlic. And when I prepared it, I peeled and mashed all four cloves of garlic and added it all to the cream cheese.
I thought that the dip turned out to be a trifle strong and judging by the bug-eye and teary reactions of my guests who tasted it, they thought so too. It wasn't until later, when someone explained to me the difference between a clove and a bulb, did I realize where I went wrong.
I now make one batch of the dip with just four cloves of garlic but I also make another using one whole bulb--some people actually like it that way.
It didn't take long to figure where this was going ;D ;D
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OK... I think I'm going to venture out for a bit. Hopefully, I won't get picked up by a wind gust and whisked off to some foreign land.
Hint: don't hold up your shirt or jacket like a sheet.
(http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/stage/blog/shipwreckedOBprod200.jpg)
photo: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
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Alright I am going to see if I can doze a little bit - laters
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OK... I think I'm going to venture out for a bit. Hopefully, I won't get picked up by a wind gust and whisked off to some foreign land.
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Laters...
Don't get blown away vibes to Jose :D
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First, I never asked Bruce to link his website to my blog, merely to check it out for himself.
I wouldn't, in a million years, have expected him to give me a link. That would require a magnanimity that I never thought he was capable of.
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If this post doesn't survive very long, so be it.
A. Considering that this site is filled with folks hawking their own endeavors, I would be amazed to see bk pull a post that linked to something he didn't like.
B. If bk pulled all the posts that took issue with him, his ideas or his opinions, my post count would be in single digits.
C. Your use of PM/Email rather than an upfront post with a "join me on my blog" link does suggest, perhaps unfairly, a certain guilt.
der Brucer
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
A REALLY DUMB COMMERCIAL!
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Since I seem to have annoyed a few people last week with my over-enthusiastic reminder to DR Elmore about BURN NOTICE, I'll simply say:
DR Elmore, please don't forget about BURN NOTICE tonight!
;D
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I think all that need be said has been said, at least by me.
CUPCAKES!
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It's really pretty out.
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Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.
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For DR Laura's Public Art portfolio:
CALIFORNIA BRIDGE SCULPTURE IS LITERALLY FOR THE DOGS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491284,00.html)
(http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/photoessay_6556_images/0211092049_M_Berkeley-Art3.jpg)
(http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/photoessay_6556_images/0211092049_M_Berkeley-Art4.jpg)
(http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/photoessay_6556_images/0211092049_M_Berkeley-Art5.jpg)
der Brucer
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Another of my ex-wife's favorite things to make was London Broil, wherein you'd take a slab of beef, put a packet's worth of Lipton Onion Soup over it and then stick that in the oven and somehow it came out okay. She also made a really good chicken and rice dish that was baked in the oven and involved rice. It was good, too.
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I gotta tell you.
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It's really pretty out.
The weather or the lurking blonde?
der Brucer
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Portland Public Schools has just announced their "plan" to make up the many lost snow days. In addition to cancelling one "teacher development" day (where the kids wouldn't have been in school), and extending the school year by one day, they are now starting school 10 minutes early for the duration of the year. I hope their "plan" includes a special attendant who can come and drag Zach out of bed each morning. ;)
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That's lovely, DR dB!! ;D
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There is now a woman outside the house kicking her legs up in the air. Very outre.
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I hope their "plan" includes a special attendant who can come and drag Zach out of bed each morning.
No; that's already covered in the Stimulus Package working its way through Congress.
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There is now a woman outside the house kicking her legs up in the air.
She could try just ringing the doorbell.
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Or maybe the audition notice said that they were right in front of bk's house?
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It is VERY windy here in Manhattan. I went to Trader Joe's at lunch to get some things for the home environment. I bought lettuce, carrots, grape tomatoes, milk, some
Port Salut Cheese (http://bonjourlafrance.net/french-food/french-cheese/port-salut.htm)
a pack of Dark Chocolate bars and some smoked turkey. I LOVE Port Salut. I had it first in France when I spent a summer there in 1988. Anthony doesn't like it much so I get it when he's away. He prefers Muenster.
As I was walking home with my Marks and Spencers bag the wind came up so strongly that I had to stop walking. Winds are predicted to be over 50mphs. I may not walk to the theatre tonight. We will see how it is at 6:30pm
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Der Brucer,
Bruce seemed highly insulted by my original e-mail.
Not being a groupie who attends this sight religiously, I couldn't tell you what Bruce's policy is about pulling posts.
I thought making an upfront post would be flaunting it in Bruce's face, and I thought that would be "unseemly".
No guilt is involved here. If you feel I didn't have the right to send you a message, that's unfortunate.
I think I deserve better than this. Be better than this.
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That's lovely, DR dB!! ;D
Well, this site can use some tasteful art!
der Brucer
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There is now a woman outside the house kicking her legs up in the air. Very outre.
Perhaps the Rockettes have moved to Studio City and she's simply the first to arrive.
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And "Make-up with friends" vibes to BK and Macchus (because life is too short and you guys have known each other for a loooooooooong time)
You both have egos and you're both pretty. Ok.
DITTO!!
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I hope the kids at Phoenix High School are OK. Apparently there's been a bomb threat?
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DR macchus - I think you've made your point. Can we let go and move along, here? Thank you. :)
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I hope the kids at Phoenix High School are OK. Apparently there's been a bomb threat?
It was a hoax.
der brucer
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thank you all for the vibes - I hate to whine but it is terribly frustrating and painful
I don't even think of it as whining. I am very moved by the fact you have shared your difficult journey with us. I just wish your pain would end soon. Continued good vibes & wishes.
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I don't even think of it as whining. I am very moved by the fact you have shared your difficult journey with us. I just wish your pain would end soon. Continued good vibes & wishes.
Ditto! Very nicely put, DR Jane.
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der B - People hawking their own endeavors? What's an endeavor?
:)
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I never have blonde women in front of my house on their cell phones, or women kicking their legs up either.
But then again, I was never on the DONNY & MARIE SHOW.
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There was a hoax threat?
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For DR Laura's Public Art portfolio:
CALIFORNIA BRIDGE SCULPTURE IS LITERALLY FOR THE DOGS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491284,00.html)
I would not be happy if my tax dollars went to pay for this. ::)
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More semi-random musing:
I can't stand the woman who is eating at the Chinese(?) restaurant in the Geico commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoLzKBMJ38). What the heck is she playing? First she sits there smiling at the money-pack and then acts shocked when told it's the money she could have saved blah blah blah and then she is suddenly all smiles and says "I know..." like she's the cat that just swallowed the canary. What the--?!?
Ooooh! Let's talk about commercials we hate. I cannot stand the car insurence commercials with the obnoxious chunky actress with the black hair blowing a kazoo and trying to be funny. She isn't.
I don't like her either--she reminds me of the Tivo girl, who I also don't like.
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DR Jose I hope if I’ve ever in NY again you will make your Dark Chocolate Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Chocolate Glaze.
Monkey is sitting in a lovely arrangement of fruit. It is a beautiful photo.
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Who needs AS THE WORLD TURNS when we have HHW? :)
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Both LIFE and LIFE ON MARS were really wonderful and very similarly themed, although I found the end of LIFE ON MARS very sad and moving. It was nice to see my old friend Wallace Shawn in it.
One of Keith’s favorite actors, in part because his face his so memorable.
We have never seen LIFE ON MARS. I added it to the NetFlix queue for when the show is released.
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TOD:
One piece of white bread
Spread on a layer of Hellman's Mayonnaise
Put on two slices of Hormel's Spam
Add one piece of Kraft American Cheese
Another piece of white bread on top.
Serve with Fritos brand corn chips.
...and now we return to Kraft's Music Hall with tonight's host, Mel Torme...
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MONKEY CENTRAL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108900@N02/sets/72157613683788650/)
I am becoming more and more enamored of Monkey with each photospread.
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der B - People hawking their own endeavors? What's an endeavor?
:)
You're safe - Fine Art YouTube parodies qualify as Grand Exposition, not simple endeavors.
der Brucer
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I was intending to be jogging at ten, James, but I got waylaid at the piano. NOW I shall jog.
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Both LIFE and LIFE ON MARS were really wonderful and very similarly themed, although I found the end of LIFE ON MARS very sad and moving. It was nice to see my old friend Wallace Shawn in it.
One of Keith’s favorite actors, in part because his face his so memorable.
He was perfect as Zek, the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi.
der Brucer
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There was a hoax threat?
I hate it when someone threatens my hoax.
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..but I got waylaid at the piano...
By the lurking blonde?
der Brucer
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
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I hope their "plan" includes a special attendant who can come and drag Zach out of bed each morning. ;)
That would be child abuse. The "plan" does provide for the Department of Parental Responsibilty to send a family interventionist to your home, daily, to
rip you from your slumber so you can "parent" Zach.
der Brucer
Tell Betsy that the interventionist will be happy to join you all for breakfast.
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Good for him! Are you feeling better?
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Why not non-sugar cupcakes (made with Splenda)?
der Brucer
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Obama invoked the actual name of the Scottish play inside Ford's Theatre.
We're all doomed. :P
;)
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Obama invoked the actual name of the Scottish play inside Ford's Theatre.
We're all doomed. :P
;)
My partisan friends would suggest that happened on the first Tuesday in November.
der Brucer
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Obama invoked the actual name of the Scottish play inside Ford's Theatre.
We're all doomed. :P
;)
My partisan friends would suggest that happened on the first Tuesday in November.
der Brucer
Considering that we're just rising out of an 8-year hell supported/created BY your partisan friends, I'd say ignore 'em!
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Good morning (while I can still say it PST).
I went to bed, utterly and thoroughly exhausted, at 8:40 p.m. yesterday.
I arose at 8:40 a.m. today.
12 hours.
12 wonderful, glorious hours.
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Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
Today is a County of Alameda holiday.
Today is day 1 of a 5-day holiday I've created for myself that involves taking tomorrow off.
Monday is President's Day that honors both George Washington and Lincoln.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3395/3273071459_2d6b3a6cb9.jpg)
I almost didn't see Monkey in there - nice picture!
That's because he looks like an overripe kumquat!
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DR Jose I hope if I’ve ever in NY again you will make your Dark Chocolate Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Chocolate Glaze.
Monkey is sitting in a lovely arrangement of fruit. It is a beautiful photo.
It's a fruit display at a market. And "Monkey" is posed rather than "sitting". Moneky cannot, as it were, "sit"!
It's a photo.
;)
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Good morning (while I can still say it PST).
I went to bed, utterly and thoroughly exhausted, at 8:40 p.m. yesterday.
I arose at 8:40 a.m. today.
12 hours.
12 wonderful, glorious hours.
Drugs/Magical Enchantments work wonders.
der Brucer
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Good morning (while I can still say it PST).
I went to bed, utterly and thoroughly exhausted, at 8:40 p.m. yesterday.
I arose at 8:40 a.m. today.
12 hours.
12 wonderful, glorious hours.
showoff! I'm jealous!!
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BK, the play we saw which had a character named Benjamin Kritze which The Lovely Wife was trying to remember in her phone call to you last night is COMPLICIT.
Now playing at the Old Vic, directed by Kevin Spacey. Richard Dreyfuss plays the character, Ben Kritzer. He is lead and he is not nearly as charming as the young Benjamin Krtizer of your novels.
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That's because he looks like an overripe kumquat!
Considering Monkey's growing legion of loyal followers, I'd beware of making scurrilous comments.
der Brucer
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making scurrilous comments.
If you have something scurrilous to say... sit next to me. ;D
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Well I have nothing new to add. The Vixter should be arriving home from school soon.
Thanks for the vibes! I coud use some patience vibes too if you can spare 'em... I am in dire need of more patience today.
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speaking of vibes...
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showoff!
I don't wanna show off no more...
***VIBES OF INFINITE PATIENCE***
for DR vixmom!!!!!
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~~~~~VIBES FOR THE CONTIUED SAFETY OF TOMOVOZ AND COLIN AND THEIR LOVED ONES, NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS~~~~~~
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~~~~VIBES FOR DR LAURA'S DEAR SISTER~~~~~~
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PAGE TEN DANCE
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Laters!
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... I am in dire need of more patience today.
I am sure Elmore could recommend a good recording of same.
der Brucer
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AL0PLsG3L._SS500_.jpg)
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I never repeat scurrilous remarks - so listen carefully the first time
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showoff!
I don't wanna show off no more...
Too bad you can't sho woof!
der Brucer
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Too bad you can't sho woof!
How do you know I can't? ;)
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Breezy today, but NO rain!
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Breezy today
But how is the weather?
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Happily, my Benjamin Kritzer has a lovely copyright of 2002. I'm glad I made the name popular, though :)
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Back from the long jog. Even though it's sunny out, it's actually a little chilly.
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I suppose I shall now go back to work on script conforming.
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Employment opportunities abound:
ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-drug-kidnappings12-2009feb12,0,1264800.story)
Phoenix, kidnap-for-ransom capital
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It was Phoenix, after all: More ransom kidnappings happen here than in any other town in America, according to local and federal law enforcement authorities. Most every victim and suspect is connected to the drug-smuggling world, usually tracing back to the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, Phoenix police report.
Arizona has become the new drug gateway into the United States. Roughly half of all marijuana seized along the U.S.-Mexico border was taken on the state's 370-mile border with Mexico.
der Brucer
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... I am in dire need of more patience today.
I am sure Elmore could recommend a good recording of same.
der Brucer
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AL0PLsG3L._SS500_.jpg)
DR Danise and I saw Michael Ball, who was excellent, in PATIENCE at New York City Opera. It was a lot of fun.
However as Mrs Squeezum says in LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS in the verse to "When does the Ravishing Begin?":
Patience is a virtue very few possess
And I confess I feel myself possess it less and less
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Happily, my Benjamin Kritzer has a lovely copyright of 2002. I'm glad I made the name popular, though :)
Well, Adolph Hitler's name is popular in New Jersey - just sayin'
der Brucer
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Back from the long jog.
Did the blonde keep up?
der Brucer
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Good for him! Are you feeling better?
Actually I am feeling tons better now that I have cut down a lot on carbs/sugars. And I don't feel constantly hungry either.
PS: Dr. Radakrishnan is a she.
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Why not non-sugar cupcakes (made with Splenda)?
der Brucer
Even the sugarless stuff tends to still be high in carbs.
Carbs/sugar= bad for diabetics
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Hopefully good news--two (count 'em) roofers have said we do NOT need a new roof! Yay! The one guy who seems to really know his business seems to think our leak, if indeed we had one, came from the snow storm. A box vent on the roof is right over where the leak was and he said melting snow probably caused it.
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Good news, DR JMK!! :)
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Happily, my Benjamin Kritzer has a lovely copyright of 2002. I'm glad I made the name popular, though :)
Well, Adolph Hitler's name is popular in New Jersey - just sayin'
der Brucer
Not to mention the most conservative parts of the Republican party.
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Did the blonde keep up?
Who was chasing whom?
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Why not non-sugar cupcakes (made with Splenda)?
der Brucer
Even the sugarless stuff tends to still be high in carbs.
Carbs/sugar= bad for diabetics
Have a muffin.
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Have a muffin.
:)
And let us hope that that is not a euphemism!
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Did the blonde keep up?
Who was chasing whom?
The bull is chasing the heifer
The aphis chases the pea
The breeze is chasing the zephyr
But nobody's chasing me
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Why not non-sugar cupcakes (made with Splenda)?
der Brucer
Even the sugarless stuff tends to still be high in carbs.
Carbs/sugar= bad for diabetics
No true for SPLENDA (http://www.splendaprofessional.com/splendaprof/pages/splenda_sweetener_products_calorie_carbohydrate_comparison.jsp)
The carbohydrates and calories in SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener Products come from maltodextrin and/or dextrose. These are common food ingredients used in other no-calorie sweeteners that add bulk but only minimal carbohydrates and calories to each serving of SPLENDA® Granulated Sweetener. Note that up to 8 teaspoons of SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener Products or up to 4 packets of SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener is considered a free food 1 in a diet for diabetes and can fit easily into a meal plan for people with diabetes.
der Brucer
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Have a muffin.
:)
And let us hope that that is not a euphemism!
Nope. Euthenasia.
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Have a muffin.
:)
And let us hope that that is not a euphemism!
Nope. Euthenasia.
When I first started hearing news reports about euthanasia (maybe during the Kevorkian years), I honestly couldn't figure out why so many people were discussing the young people of China.
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DR dB - the problem is not the Splenda. It's the white flour.
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When I first started hearing news reports about euthanasia (maybe during the Kevorkian years), I honestly couldn't figure out why so many people were discussing the young people of China.
Me, too! :)
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I have to run to a florist and order flowers for tomorrow. My goddaughter Charlotte turns 20!
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When I first started hearing news reports about euthanasia (maybe during the Kevorkian years), I honestly couldn't figure out why so many people were discussing the young people of China.
When I was a lad, there were signs all over Pittsburgh urging us to SAVE SOVIET JEWRY; I honestly read it to mean saving JEWELRY and could not comprehend why the Soviet Jewels were more important than others. . .
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I have to run to a florist and order flowers for tomorrow.
And don't forget my dozen long-stem roses for Sunday!! :-*
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Lovely photo DR ELMORE!
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We don't have weather here in Indiana, DR DAW - we have conditions.
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Monday is a Federal Holiday, and according to the USPS website, there will be no delivery that day.
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So many wedding shows on television show so many delusional people.
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Many weddings come with "conditions," too.
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Hello, everyone.
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Monday is a Federal Holiday, and according to the USPS website, there will be no delivery that day.
At first I read that as a "feral holiday" and was thinking about wild cats.
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DR JMK, FWIW I also didn't "get" SIDEWAYS. Or maybe I just didn't like it. I can't understand what so many people saw in it.
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I have to run to a florist and order flowers for tomorrow. My goddaughter Charlotte turns 20!
She looks a bit like a young Liza in that pic.
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As for the other blog mentioned here, I received neither an email nor a PM, and it is just as well. My views on this "discussion" are in the same camp with singdaw's--only he said it more nicely than I would have.
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... there will be no delivery that day.
Will the midwives be on strike too?
der Brucer
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My thanks to all who have sent me medical vibes. I do appreciate them.
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Need to return a phone call.
TTFN.
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DR Jose, re: IDOL, other than some of the selections the show actually did not annoy me last night. It was pretty much what i expected. Although there were so many people i'd never seen before. And some chosen to go thru will have a lot of trouble i think (because of that).
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zw1roYIvL._SS500_.jpg)
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I don't think I've had a piece of Spam in 30 or 40 years at least.
Then you're about due, don't you think? :)
You can have my piece. :D
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Do you have problems with mud slides caused by rainfall in burned out areas, or is the terrain mostly flat?
der Brucer
It is hilly to mountainous area where nearly all the fires are or have been. The valleys of course funnel the fires. Eucalpyts "explode" with fire and this of course increases the heat. Much of vegetation regeneration relies on bush fires. The problem is of course that we like to live in the areas!
Mud slides are not a big issue - more of an issue is the impingment on our water catchments. We have so little water as it is. I thought the Califonia Hills north of LA were simialr to many of the areas here - but of course here they are covered in eucalypt forest and scrub. Now to check on today's Fire reports.
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There are more urgent warning this morning.
I also noticed that that there was a fire incident at "Elmore".
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Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.
I absolutely adore Rice-a-Roni, but it costs more than regular rice, and since I eat a fair amount of rice, I tend not to buy it very often. But I think it's delicious.
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Who needs AS THE WORLD TURNS when we have HHW? :)
My god, ain't that the truth!
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I have to run to a florist and order flowers for tomorrow.
And don't forget my dozen long-stem roses for Sunday!! :-*
Don't you mean Saturday, Valentine?
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It is a beautiful day here. I didn't need to wear a jacket at lunch (won't be so lucky tomorrow when I'm out running my Friday errands). Not a cloud in the sky.
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Lovely photo DR ELMORE!
Thank you, DR JRand58! She's grown into a beautiful young lady and I'm quite proud of her,
The flowers are ordered and, while i was in the market, I ran into a soprano friend, who was in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, I haven't seen in at least 12 years! She looks so fabulous, I said to her, you look younger than when I met you 100 years ago!
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Monday is a Federal Holiday, and according to the USPS website, there will be no delivery that day.
I have already uttered my first round of curses about that. I'm sure on Monday, I will begin a new round of invective.
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I watched three MURDER SHE WROTE episodes this afternoon. Two took place in Cabot Cove and one in New York. Lots of guest stars including Richard Beymer, Edd Byrnes, Amy Brennaman, Larry Wilcox, Dennis Christopher, Michael Tolan, Julie Adams.
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I also had time to skim through AS THE WORLD TURNS to see the latest developments in the Reg murder. But nothing in the previews for tomorrow.
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Miss Piggy was just interviewed on The View - apparently "she" has just "written" a book
Tomovoz may know this, but Miss Piggy made her professional debut on a skit which introduced Miss Lani Hall singing the incredible Dave Frishberg piece "Wheelers and Dealers" on an early 1970s Herb Alpert special. You can find it on YouTube. Lani and band are performing live, BTW--it's not a lip synch, to her lasting credit.
DR JMK is alluding to my liking for the voice of Mrs Alpert rather than to my adoration of Ms Piggy.
(I always thought of Miss Piggy as being another version of Loretta Switt).
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Heading down now for more mystery adventures with Jessica Fletcher.
WBBL.
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showoff!
I don't wanna show off no more...
***VIBES OF INFINITE PATIENCE***
for DR vixmom!!!!!
DITTO, FOR TODAY & EVERYDAY!
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LATIMES (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/season/2009/02/can-wall-e-make.html)
Can 'Wall-E' make Oscar history?
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Because of its unusual pedigree, "Wall-E" now has the opportunity to make Oscar history and be the first animated feature to win BIG outside the best animated film and music categories (plus one win for "The Incredibles" in 2004 for Sound Editing when there were only three nominees in the category and two were animated). Sure, three of its six nods come for the usual areas (music score, song, animated film)), but it has a real shot in the other three categories in which it's competing: sound editing, sound mixing and, particularly, best original screenplay.It has a decent chance to rack up at least four wins if the Oscar gods are on its side but Original Screenplay is the nomination co-writer/director Andrew Stanton told me he is happiest about.
"I am prouder to be in writing more than anything else. At Pixar we say 'story, story, story.' It's the root of everything," he says. "It's the biggest pat on the back I can think of. We put ourselves fully into every aspect but it's all in service of the story."
It could be a tough sell to the overall academy (every branch votes on the final screenplay award) as a lot of members just don't understand how a virtually silent movie, in which the main characters speak their own language, could possibly have been "written." But Stanton says it's no different than the process any other writer would go through.
"How you tell a story is just as important as what the story is. In my mind these characters were gonna speak. They just weren't gonna speak in a language you and I knew. When they spoke and why they spoke was just as important as if you could understand their language," he says.
Key to all this was the contribution by the sound team led by Ben Burtt whom Stanton calls his most important cast member.
"I needed someone who could make language out of sound and convey intention and emotion through sound," he says. The sound branch must agree since it has awarded Burtt and company two nominations , and it certainly is the most unique work in a category where the winner usually is the loudest movie (again, all branches get to vote for the final winner here, and they often don't get subtlety).
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Like "Milk" and its uncanny timeliness in regard to Proposition 8, "Wall-E" is being celebrated for its social consciousness and environmental concerns, but Stanton is blatantly honest in his original intention.
"I am very honored it is being associated with issues of the planet, but I would be lying if I said that was my agenda. It wasn't. It's not about global warming. I wanted to show the last robot on earth, and I wanted to show the loneliness so I could have the most potent love story imaginable," he says. "Anything I chose environment-wise was a selfish choice in order to make the love story work."
So can this lovestruck "Hello Dolly"-loving tin 'toon actually turn the tide and make Oscar history by prevailing in some categories, primarily in Writing, where animated films are strangers to the winners circle? Certainly it would be a popular win with the audience, but the academy may be just too set in its ways to go for the unexpected.
For Andrew Stanton, what counts is the experience of getting to make this very different concept come to life; everything else is gravy.
"I made 'Wall-E' out of an exclusive love of cinema and thought that might make it an odd man out. But I guess that was the right thing to do," he says now. "It gives me a lot of confidence to follow that voice again."
der Brucer
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I love cupcakes. I don't get to eat them any more. Dr. Radakrishnan has seen to that.
Good for him! Are you feeling better?
Actually I am feeling tons better now that I have cut down a lot on carbs/sugars. And I don't feel constantly hungry either.
PS: Dr. Radakrishnan is a she.
I must have missed the she part. I'm glad you are feeling better.:)
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Back from the tour of the faboo conference facilities at our local hospital and a fun afternoon with my mom. We went to lunch and then grocery shopping. When she goes to the grocery on the bus from the retirement home, she feels rushed. Today, I did my small shopping then waited at the Starbuck's kiosk while she savored the Kroger Marketplace. She's probably taking a nap now.
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DR Ginny, my brother-in-law retired. He had been looking forward to it for months and had plans to do absolutely nothing for the first few weeks. On his first day, the office called and insisted he come in, because they couldn't figure anything out at all without him.
My workplace did the unprecedented and brought my replacement in for my last week. It was helpful to her AND to me - I walked away from there knowing that the job was in very capable hands and have not lost a wink of sleep worrying about what's happening there.
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making scurrilous comments.
If you have something scurrilous to say... sit next to me. ;D
We'll be sittin' for a spell, then...! :)
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JMK-great news regarding your roof. Vibes it turns out to be an easy fix.
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DR Ginny, my brother-in-law retired. He had been looking forward to it for months and had plans to do absolutely nothing for the first few weeks. On his first day, the office called and insisted he come in, because they couldn't figure anything out at all without him.
My workplace did the unprecedented and brought my replacement in for my last week. It was helpful to her AND to me - I walked away from there knowing that the job was in very capable hands and have not lost a wink of sleep worrying about what's happening there.
It is difficult for me to imagine any workplace would not have a qualified employee train the new person before leaving.
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~~~~VIBES FOR DR LAURA'S DEAR SISTER~~~~~~
Thanks, Vixmom. Today should be her third chemo treatment.
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DR Ginny, my brother-in-law retired. He had been looking forward to it for months and had plans to do absolutely nothing for the first few weeks. On his first day, the office called and insisted he come in, because they couldn't figure anything out at all without him.
My workplace did the unprecedented and brought my replacement in for my last week. It was helpful to her AND to me - I walked away from there knowing that the job was in very capable hands and have not lost a wink of sleep worrying about what's happening there.
It is difficult for me to imagine any workplace would not have a qualified employee train the new person before leaving.
Usually, there is the hope that there's a period of time when that salary is not being paid to anyone and that the replacement will come in much lower on the pay scale than the predecessor.
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Third-treatment vibes for DR Laura's sister!
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We hear about kidnappings rather frequently here. I don't mean to seem racist (a terrible crime here), but they are usually Mexican males.
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It is difficult for me to imagine any workplace would not have a qualified employee train the new person before leaving.
Well, there are two occasions when this happens.
A. Retirement - the time frame for planning on a replacement is too long - so management forgets about it 'til it's too late.
B. Employee quits (gives two weeks notice) - and two weeks is rarely time enough to hire a replacement (even if the replaceement is an in-house transfer, you usually have to "advertize the positon" and do interviews and evaluations).
Also, today's workplace seems adverse to succession planning - no matter how often they get burned.
It's even more fun when a worker is a "one man show" - Woody is the only billing clerk at his market; there are no comprehensive written procedures for the job; if he should be absent for more than a day, they would be required to call in someone from out-of-town and hope they could help (of course all of the out-of-town candidates are in "one man show" jobs of their own. The store has no provision for Woody to ever be able to use his vaction time.
der Brucer
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Monday is a Federal Holiday, and according to the USPS website, there will be no delivery that day.
I have already uttered my first round of curses about that. I'm sure on Monday, I will begin a new round of invective.
Hurray! My DH has Monday off!
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We hear about kidnappings rather frequently here. I don't mean to seem racist (a terrible crime here), but they are usually Mexican males.
OK - you're not a racist - YOU"RE A SEXIST! :D
der Brucer
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DR Vixmom - you have every right to be an impatient patient!
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...Also, today's workplace seems adverse to succession planning - no matter how often they get burned....
der Brucer
My former workplace got lucky, ver-r-r-ry lucky.
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...Also, today's workplace seems adverse to succession planning - no matter how often they get burned....
der Brucer
My former workplace got lucky, ver-r-r-ry lucky.
And you got lucky training someone who is competent.
That statement from DB is why I never get the "waiting until the person leaves" mentality. At least for most jobs.
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DR Laura, THIRD CHEMO VIBES FOR YOUR DEAR SISTER!
MAY THIS ROUND BE EASIER THAN THE LAST ONE!
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All this time I thought the new movie THE UNINVITED was to be a remake of the 1944 Ray Milland film. To my relief, I now realize it is a remake of the 2003 Korean Horror film JANGHWA, HONGRYEON.
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...JANGHWA, HONGRYEON.
Which loosly translates as "Jane, Hungry!"
der Brucer
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We hear about kidnappings rather frequently here. I don't mean to seem racist (a terrible crime here), but they are usually Mexican males.
OK - you're not a racist - YOU"RE A SEXIST! :D
der Brucer
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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DR Laura, THIRD CHEMO VIBES FOR YOUR DEAR SISTER!
MAY THIS ROUND BE EASIER THAN THE LAST ONE!
I'll drink to that! Oh, waiter, another margarita, please!
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DR Laura, THIRD CHEMO VIBES FOR YOUR DEAR SISTER!
MAY THIS ROUND BE EASIER THAN THE LAST ONE!
I'll drink to that! Oh, waiter, another margarita, please!
Don't get too sloshed - In case you've forgotton, BURN NOTICE is on tonight!
der Brucer
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My computer has frozen up four times this afternoon.
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I just spent way too much money at FSM. Is it too late to attach a special rider to the Stimulus Bill?
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My computer has frozen up four times this afternoon.
Perhaps you need to defrost it?
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I just spent way too much money at FSM. Is it too late to attach a special rider to the Stimulus Bill?
I should own stock in Amazon.com!
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Today we went for a drive, and this is what we saw:
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All this time I thought the new movie THE UNINVITED was to be a remake of the 1944 Ray Milland film. To my relief, I now realize it is a remake of the 2003 Korean Horror film JANGHWA, HONGRYEON.
I kinda got excited about a remake since it may be the only way the original film will get released on DVD, and I was both grateful and sorry that ithe new UNINVITED was not what I hoped/feared. The old film, 9 guess, is too subtle for today's obvious school of horror.
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Someone just had the really bad form to send me someone's private PM to them - and I have to say I'm a little nauseous from what I read. There are times when I just don't understand things and I'm afraid this is one of them. Ah, well.
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...JANGHWA, HONGRYEON.
Which loosly translates as "Jane, Hungry!"
der Brucer
That's me :)
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I guess I should eat something.
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My computer has frozen up four times this afternoon.
:( no more freezing vibes!
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Today we went for a drive, and this is what we saw:
I may be seeing a lot more snow than that tomorrow, though at the moment it is difficult to believe.
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I guess I should eat something.
I was going to reply to an earlier post and realized I had nothing to say!
BK, do you remember on my first trip to LA for UNSUNG SONDHEIM and Liz' Loesser album that great fried chicken place you took me to? That and some mac&cheese sound awfully good right now!
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My computer has frozen up four times this afternoon.
:( no more freezing vibes!
It's too warm here. I can't get enough cool air into the apartment and the heat from the radiators, even though they're turned off, is irking me.
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I think I will call Harrriet's Kitchen and get myself some chicken, not fried, and some mac&cheese. And some green beans and carrots. Or do I want a burger?
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All this time I thought the new movie THE UNINVITED was to be a remake of the 1944 Ray Milland film. To my relief, I now realize it is a remake of the 2003 Korean Horror film JANGHWA, HONGRYEON.
I kinda got excited about a remake since it may be the only way the original film will get released on DVD, and I was both grateful and sorry that ithe new UNINVITED was not what I hoped/feared. The old film, 9 guess, is too subtle for today's obvious school of horror.
And I was just about to put it on my NetFlix queue. I have all Ray Milland movies set to record. Keith said the next time it comes on he will watch it with me. He doesn't remember THE BIG CLOCK either so we will have to watch that as well :)
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All this time I thought the new movie THE UNINVITED was to be a remake of the 1944 Ray Milland film. To my relief, I now realize it is a remake of the 2003 Korean Horror film JANGHWA, HONGRYEON.
I kinda got excited about a remake since it may be the only way the original film will get released on DVD, and I was both grateful and sorry that ithe new UNINVITED was not what I hoped/feared. The old film, 9 guess, is too subtle for today's obvious school of horror.
And I was just about to put it on my NetFlix queue. I have all Ray Milland movies set to record. Keith said the next time it comes on he will watch it with me. He doesn't remember THE BIG CLOCK either so we will have to watch that as well :)
I have a nice copy of the novel of THE UNINVITED as well, and I think it's a great little ghost story. I don't know why it isn't on DVD. but I'm also surprised at other lacunae in the DVD catalogue.
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Fried chicken does sound good. Hmmm.
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Mexican food sounds good, too. Damn.
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Fried chicken does sound good. Hmmm.
I can't blame my mac&cheese fixation on you since I've always lked it, but you are the prime enabler of my dotage.
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Good Evening!
WHEW!!! IT'S W-I-N-D-Y out there!
I was down by Columbia University a little while ago, and as soon as I turned onto 122nd street... YOWZA!!!! There was a group of us, and we all really had to stop and plant ourselves in order not to be blown over. One gust was so strong that I was able to lean into it and not fall down. Cool, funny and a little dangerous all at the same time.
*And since tomorrow is trash day, there was lots of stuff blowing down the street and in the air.
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Fried chicken does sound good. Hmmm.
I can't blame my mac&cheese fixation on you since I've always lked it, but you are the prime enabler of my dotage.
DR elmore - Just walk up to PINCH & S'MAC (http://www.pinchandsmac.com/) over on Columbus. At least for the mac'n'cheese. -And a really good salad. Too bad the Russian fried chicken place closed a while back.
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DR Jose, funny because you weren't blown away. If you had been holding an open umbrella you might have been able to fly.
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BK - Didn't you know that you have to be extremely careful using the Matt Ashford words without first posting a warning? The use of the M.A. words have been known to generate enough heat to single-handedly melt all of the snow and ice in the entire state of North Dakota!
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Beautiful pic DR Elmore. Happy Birthday to Charlotte!
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Yeah almost time for SURVIVOR.
And new TAR this sunday!
Btw, re: AMERICAN IDOL, Joanna Pacitti who made the top 36 has been disqualified for having connections to some entertainment execs.
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This crap still goes on - I am now being told by the person (I think you can guess who it is, but if you can't, it's the person who was posting here earlier) that not only did the person who's PM he sent me have some unkind things to say about me, but apparently he's received several e-mails defending him and dissing me. I think you all know me well enough that I grow weary of this crap and, as has been the case several times in the past, it just makes me want to shut the site down. I'm really quite upset by all this childishness, frankly. I'm going to eat now and decide what I want to do.
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Speaking of cupcakes i had to make some for my niece's Valentine's party tomorrow. Only i forgot that making them entails me making them and her watching! :)
Actually she likes to help with the mix. But after that she's done!
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My computer has frozen up four times this afternoon.
Freezing in Phoenix?
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BK - Didn't you know that you have to be extremely careful using the Matt Ashford words without first posting a warning? The use of the M.A. words have been known to generate enough heat to single-handedly melt all of the snow and ice in the entire state of North Dakota!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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This crap still goes on - I am now being told by the person (I think you can guess who it is, but if you can't, it's the person who was posting here earlier) that not only did the person who's PM he sent me have some unkind things to say about me, but apparently he's received several e-mails defending him and dissing me. I think you all know me well enough that I grow weary of this crap and, as has been the case several times in the past, it just makes me want to shut the site down. I'm really quite upset by all this childishness, frankly. I'm going to eat now and decide what I want to do.
If this is all about another blog, ignore anything he's telling you and drop the friendship: he's playing you like a violin.
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Oh, Mac and Cheese sounds so good!
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bk - Thanks for posting those pics. I think I remember seeing all of those moments "originally". ;)
But not when they were "originally" shown.
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BK - Didn't you know that you have to be extremely careful using the Matt Ashford words without first posting a warning? The use of the M.A. words have been known to generate enough heat to single-handedly melt all of the snow and ice in the entire state of North Dakota!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
My reaction precisely
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BK, I agree with Elmore (for once). Don't let it get your goat.
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This is the cold virus
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Who knew it had stars!
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bk - Until someone picks up a phone or knocks on your door, just hit the "Delete" button before reading anything else.
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BK - Didn't you know that you have to be extremely careful using the Matt Ashford words without first posting a warning? The use of the M.A. words have been known to generate enough heat to single-handedly melt all of the snow and ice in the entire state of North Dakota!
I was thinking the same thing.
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bk - Thanks for posting those pics. I think I remember seeing all of those moments "originally". ;)
But not when they were "originally" shown.
Actually, I think I do remember them from when they were originally shown.
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This is the cold virus
And may we all live to see the cure!
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BK, I agree with Elmore (for once). Don't let it get your goat.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he's playing on your anxieties to make you shut down HHW and he is not your friend in any way, shape, or form.
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BK, I agree with Elmore (for once). Don't let it get your goat.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he's playing on your anxieties to make you shut down HHW and he is not your friend in any way, shape, or form.
I don't think you're wrong. Just ignore him, BK.
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I must say that the line-up for this weekends Ray Courts Show is something!
Joan Collins,
John Saxon,
Beau Bridges,
Carrie Fisher,
Tony Curtis,
Yaphet Kotto,
Bruce Dern,
Malcolm McDowell,
John O'Hurley,
Stephanie Powers,
Pee Wee Herman,
Debbie Reynolds,
Eric Roberts,
Erik Estrada,
Daniel Baldwin,
Robert Carradine,
Bruce Davison,
Dom DeLuise,
Dwayne Hickman,
Arch Hall Jr. (BK, you ought to record him!)
Jayne Meadows,
Terry Moore,
Patrick Muldoon,
Amanda Plummer,
Susan Olsen,
Judy Tenuta (I love her!),
Nancy Olsen (would love to meet her),
Bobby Sherman,
and many, many more.
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Since I seem to have annoyed a few people last week with my over-enthusiastic reminder to DR Elmore about BURN NOTICE, I'll simply say:
DR Elmore, please don't forget about BURN NOTICE tonight!
Really? I thought it was funny.
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I think your blogging acquaintance has come to piss in the punch and ruin the party. Don't let him.
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Mmmmmmmmm! Mac and cheese, green beans and carrots with garlic, and chicken. Yum yum yum.
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Oh, my. Canned Corned Beef!!! I used to love that. I haven't had it since before I moved away from Minnesota. I don't know what it is about that stuff but I'm salivating just thinking of canned Argentinian corned beef (the can always said it was from Argentina).
I love canned corned beef sandwiches!
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Oh, my. Canned Corned Beef!!! I used to love that. I haven't had it since before I moved away from Minnesota. I don't know what it is about that stuff but I'm salivating just thinking of canned Argentinian corned beef (the can always said it was from Argentina).
I love canned corned beef sandwiches!
I remember loving corned beef hash as a kid.
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This crap still goes on - I am now being told by the person (I think you can guess who it is, but if you can't, it's the person who was posting here earlier) that not only did the person who's PM he sent me have some unkind things to say about me, but apparently he's received several e-mails defending him and dissing me. I think you all know me well enough that I grow weary of this crap and, as has been the case several times in the past, it just makes me want to shut the site down. I'm really quite upset by all this childishness, frankly. I'm going to eat now and decide what I want to do.
If this is all about another blog, ignore anything he's telling you and drop the friendship: he's playing you like a violin.
I think that's probably a fair assessment, and he's very good at it. But the thought of all this e-mailing behind backs is just anathema to me. It happened once before on this site, when a former dear reader caused all sorts of problems by doing the exact same sort of thing - e-mailing behind backs, causing people to leave the site and take sides - awful and disgusting. Most people finally realized what it was all about, that it was some personal crap going on, but still some people didn't even bother to hear the other side of the story or even care that there WAS another side to the story - a side, I may add, that explained everything.
I have told the person involved, who has sent me a barrage (well, three) of the most disturbing and nauseating e-mails, that I am done. Finis. No more.
Whether others have e-mailed him supportive e-mails while taking the time to insult me, I don't know. Certainly he is saying it's so, and certainly, in the case of the PM that he forwarded, it IS so, although he didn't forward me any more, so maybe he's just BSing. In any case, it's really put a damper on my day. I shouldn't let it, but I think if you put yourself in my shoes, you'll understand why. But, as elmore says, he's probably reveling in me thinking about shutting down the site. One of the things he said was "There's dissension in the ranks." And here I thought I'd graduated high school.
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I must say that the line-up for this weekends Ray Courts Show is something!
Joan Collins,
John Saxon,
Beau Bridges,
Carrie Fisher,
Tony Curtis,
Yaphet Kotto,
Bruce Dern,
Malcolm McDowell,
John O'Hurley,
Stephanie Powers,
Pee Wee Herman,
Debbie Reynolds,
Eric Roberts,
Erik Estrada,
Daniel Baldwin,
Robert Carradine,
Bruce Davison,
Dom DeLuise,
Dwayne Hickman,
Arch Hall Jr. (BK, you ought to record him!)
Jayne Meadows,
Terry Moore,
Patrick Muldoon,
Amanda Plummer,
Susan Olsen,
Judy Tenuta (I love her!),
Nancy Olsen (would love to meet her),
Bobby Sherman,
and many, many more.
Mikey, are you going?
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MONKEY CENTRAL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108900@N02/sets/72157613683788650/)
Thank goodness those photos were at Flickr. I thought you were going to force us to twitter, jsut so we could see monkey. ;)
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bk - Until someone picks up a phone or knocks on your door, just hit the "Delete" button before reading anything else.
After the last missive, I told him I was done. He sent me another thanking me for the clarification. I gotta tell you. And you're totally right, Jose - the delete button it is from now on. I feel a little battered right now, but I'm a Jew and I suppose I'll get over it.
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This crap still goes on - I am now being told by the person (I think you can guess who it is, but if you can't, it's the person who was posting here earlier) that not only did the person who's PM he sent me have some unkind things to say about me, but apparently he's received several e-mails defending him and dissing me. I think you all know me well enough that I grow weary of this crap and, as has been the case several times in the past, it just makes me want to shut the site down. I'm really quite upset by all this childishness, frankly. I'm going to eat now and decide what I want to do.
If this is all about another blog, ignore anything he's telling you and drop the friendship: he's playing you like a violin.
I think that's probably a fair assessment, and he's very good at it. But the thought of all this e-mailing behind backs is just anathema to me. It happened once before on this site, when a former dear reader caused all sorts of problems by doing the exact same sort of thing - e-mailing behind backs, causing people to leave the site and take sides - awful and disgusting. Most people finally realized what it was all about, that it was some personal crap going on, but still some people didn't even bother to hear the other side of the story or even care that there WAS another side to the story - a side, I may add, that explained everything.
I have told the person involved, who has sent me a barrage (well, three) of the most disturbing and nauseating e-mails, that I am done. Finis. No more.
Whether others have e-mailed him supportive e-mails while taking the time to insult me, I don't know. Certainly he is saying it's so, and certainly, in the case of the PM that he forwarded, it IS so, although he didn't forward me any more, so maybe he's just BSing. In any case, it's really put a damper on my day. I shouldn't let it, but I think if you put yourself in my shoes, you'll understand why. But, as elmore says, he's probably reveling in me thinking about shutting down the site.
Ban the jerk! Before I emailed him anything bad about you, I'd tell you to your face. That's what friends are for.
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MONKEY CENTRAL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108900@N02/sets/72157613683788650/)
Thank goodness those photos were at Flickr. I thought you were going to force us to twitter, jsut so we could see monkey. ;)
There are surely other moneys you'd twitter for?
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DR elmore - That scar is not on my thumbs.
I thought that was a dueling scar!
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The mac and cheese was delish!
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I think it is in extremely bad taste for funeral homes to call people who are awaiting medical test results asking them if they would like to make their funeral plans.
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That was random, wasn't it?
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I think it is in extremely bad taste for funeral homes to call people who are awaiting medical test results asking them if they would like to make their funeral plans.
Did this just happen to you?
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Yes.
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When there are "issues," especially when I'm not directly involved, I prefer not to take sides.
On that note (B-flat), I think we need some Angela Lansbury and Jerry Herman:
If music is no longer lovely,
If laughter is no longer lilting,
If lovers are no longer loving,
Then I don't want to know.
If summer is no longer carefree,
If children are no longer singing,
If people are no longer happy,
Then I don't want to know.
Let me hide ev'ry truth from my eyes with the back of my hand,
Let me live in a world full of lies with my head in the sand.
For my memories all are exciting.
My memories all are enchanted,
My memories burn in my head with a steady glow;
So if, my friends, if love is dead,
I don't want to know.
;D
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/AngelaLansburysingsIDONTWANTTOKNOW.png)
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I forgot about UGLY BETTY!
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Yes.
Are you facing some terrible tests I've missed because of my preoccupation with myself?
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I would never say anything behind one's back which I wouldn't say to their face; but, that's just the way I was raised.
Incidentally, I went through something quite similar with members of the Scarlet Street gang; I used the delete button often.
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DR Elmore,
I will not be attending this Ray Court's Show, unfortunatley, but I do have plans of attending the show in April.
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BK, I agree with Elmore (for once). Don't let it get your goat.
I agree.
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I am awaiting the results of some standard tests.
But they shouldn't make those kinds of calls. What if it was someone who had bad news recently?
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Vibes to DR Laura
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VIBES to DR LAURA
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Listening to the other half of the new Kritzerland CD - sounds really good - one of those 1960s wide stereo sound recordings that I'm so partial to.
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Since I seem to have annoyed a few people last week with my over-enthusiastic reminder to DR Elmore about BURN NOTICE, I'll simply say:
DR Elmore, please don't forget about BURN NOTICE tonight!
Really? I thought it was funny.
I thought DR Matt H was joking about all the teasing. Am I correct Matt H? If not I'm sorry I laughed at your post.
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Nothing to be worried about. But what about when they call someone who just had bad news?
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Matt H, I hope you weren't referring to me. I meant it to be light-hearted and funny.
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I think it is in extremely bad taste for funeral homes to call people who are awaiting medical test results asking them if they would like to make their funeral plans.
ROTFLOL!
EXCELLENT VIBES FOR THE TEST RESULTS!
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I am awaiting the results of some standard tests.
But they shouldn't make those kinds of calls. What if it was someone who had bad news recently?
They would probably use a different funeral home.;)
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DR Elmore,
I will not be attending this Ray Court's Show, unfortunatley, but I do have plans of attending the show in April.
Banned from LA again?
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I am awaiting the results of some standard tests.
But they shouldn't make those kinds of calls. What if it was someone who had bad news recently?
I wish they'd called the Macbeths. Or the Fat Conductor of Limited Talent and Limitless Ego.
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DR Elmore,
I will not be attending this Ray Court's Show, unfortunatley, but I do have plans of attending the show in April.
Banned from LA again?
Did those nursing homes for old actors send the governor another petition?
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TODAY IN THEATRE HISTORY...
Nothing terribly interesting happened but to perhaps tie in to the rather strange GUYS & DOLLS billboard pic that DR Jose posted last night...CRAIG'S WIFE opened on this date in 1947 at the Playhouse Theatre.
Of further interest, the interior and exterior of Playhouse Theatre are seen in the original THE PRODUCERS movie. It was demollished in 1969.
Today in Non-Theatre History...
It's Abraham Lincoln's birthday...exactly 200 years ago today. Also, the NAACP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
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"Anna Nicole Smith: The Opera"
??? ??? ??? ??? ???
(I saw this on MSN.com)
FJL -- Some possible song titles?
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I'm trying to lift myself out of this momentary funk by dancing the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance) - so far, it's not working. Of course, it's difficult to do the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance) when listening to the incidental music from Rashomon.
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Well, I must now leave and go downtown to usher for a new play, Israel Horovitz's "Sins of the Mother (http://www.harlequinproductions.org/seasonpages/09/sins.html)," put on by Harlequin Productions. Here's what it says on Harlequin's website:
We're thrilled to be working with world-renowned playwright Israel Horovitz on his new play before it opens in New York. When a young man returns to the small fishing town he grew up in, he is drawn into a mystery that threatens to reveal his own past. A powerful and compelling drama about revenge, forgiveness, and the comically human struggle to decipher which is which.
This sounds very good!
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TODAY IN THEATRE HISTORY...
Nothing terribly interesting happened but to perhaps tie in to the rather strange GUYS & DOLLS billboard pic that DR Jose posted last night...CRAIG'S WIFE opened on this date in 1947 at the Playhouse Theatre.
Of further interest, the interior and exterior of Playhouse Theatre are seen in the original THE PRODUCERS movie. It was demollished in 1969.
Today in Non-Theatre History...
It's Abraham Lincoln's birthday...exactly 200 years ago today. Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
Lincoln's mother is one of my ancestors. My brother Randy and Macbeth are crazy about him.
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I'm trying to lift myself out of this momentary funk by dancing the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance) - so far, it's not working. Of course, it's difficult to do the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance) when listening to the incidental music from Rashomon.
The image of a gazelle in tights and tutu just flashed across my weary brow.
And kabuki makeup.
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TODAY IN THEATRE HISTORY...
Nothing terribly interesting happened but to perhaps tie in to the rather strange GUYS & DOLLS billboard pic that DR Jose posted last night...CRAIG'S WIFE opened on this date in 1947 at the Playhouse Theatre.
Of further interest, the interior and exterior of Playhouse Theatre are seen in the original THE PRODUCERS movie. It was demollished in 1969.
Today in Non-Theatre History...
It's Abraham Lincoln's birthday...exactly 200 years ago today. Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
Lincoln's mother is one of my ancestors. My brother Randy and Macbeth are crazy about him.
Lincoln's mother was a HIM??
;)
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Be back later!
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TODAY IN THEATRE HISTORY...
Nothing terribly interesting happened but to perhaps tie in to the rather strange GUYS & DOLLS billboard pic that DR Jose posted last night...CRAIG'S WIFE opened on this date in 1947 at the Playhouse Theatre.
Of further interest, the interior and exterior of Playhouse Theatre are seen in the original THE PRODUCERS movie. It was demollished in 1969.
Today in Non-Theatre History...
It's Abraham Lincoln's birthday...exactly 200 years ago today. Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
Lincoln's mother is one of my ancestors. My brother Randy and Macbeth are crazy about him.
Lincoln's mother was a HIM??
;)
Thank you, Ira!
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TODAY IN THEATRE HISTORY...
Nothing terribly interesting happened but to perhaps tie in to the rather strange GUYS & DOLLS billboard pic that DR Jose posted last night...CRAIG'S WIFE opened on this date in 1947 at the Playhouse Theatre.
Of further interest, the interior and exterior of Playhouse Theatre are seen in the original THE PRODUCERS movie. It was demollished in 1969.
Today in Non-Theatre History...
It's Abraham Lincoln's birthday...exactly 200 years ago today. Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
Lincoln's mother is one of my ancestors. My brother Randy and Macbeth are crazy about him.
Lincoln's mother was a HIM??
;)
ROTFLMTO!!!!
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This crap still goes on - I am now being told by the person (I think you can guess who it is, but if you can't, it's the person who was posting here earlier) that not only did the person who's PM he sent me have some unkind things to say about me, but apparently he's received several e-mails defending him and dissing me. I think you all know me well enough that I grow weary of this crap and, as has been the case several times in the past, it just makes me want to shut the site down. I'm really quite upset by all this childishness, frankly. I'm going to eat now and decide what I want to do.
Mr. Rothman has a very strange way of trying to get converts to his new blog. He apparently believes that we will go running from this site to his, if he insults us by referring to us as groupies.
What Mr. Rothman doesn't grasp is that we do not gather here, day in and day out, hour after hour; because we are groupies, crazed fans, or fanatics of any kind. We gather here at HHW because we are friends. We are friends with BK and we are friends with each other. And even when we squabble with each other, we never attempt to tear down or destroy each other.
I guess some lessons just can't be learned.
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Now listening to the Death of a Salesman half of the CD and despite the less than optimal sound - WAY less - the music is wonderful.
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Vibes of comfort to Laura and to her dear sister.
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Thanks for the vibes, all.
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I did catch part of UGLY BETTY. I got all weepy at the end and I've loved Lauren Velez ever since the funny I THINK I DO.
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I did catch part of UGLY BETTY. I got all weepy at the end and I've loved Lauren Velez ever since the funny I THINK I DO.
OH! Go watch the second act of Into the Woods now!
;)
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I did catch part of UGLY BETTY. I got all weepy at the end and I've loved Lauren Velez ever since the funny I THINK I DO.
OH! Go watch the second act of Into the Woods now!
;)
Why for God's sake?
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I'm not sure that made sense. I think. Or not.
::)
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I did catch part of UGLY BETTY. I got all weepy at the end and I've loved Lauren Velez ever since the funny I THINK I DO.
OH! Go watch the second act of Into the Woods now!
;)
Why for God's sake?
I guess it didn't. ;)
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PAGE 16 S'MAC MAC'N'CHEESE DANCE!!!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/3123300116_70d6632fa3.jpg)
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MR BK - I think the best thing you can do this evening is watch ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN - with it's stunning visuals and rousing Ronald Stein score.
Remember that the two major motivations for any human behavior are LOVE or JEALOUSY.
One of them makes the world go 'round - the other is completely useless and never accomplishes anything constructive.
I know which one motivates me to come to HHW every day - many times a day.
In a way, for me, it's kind of like those kids that go see RENT or SPRING AWAKENING time after time...a feeling of being connected to the wonderful world of entertainment - sharing time and words with those who actually make their living in that wacky world - and hearing about the lives of all the other people gathered here from all over the U.S. and beyond - being part of the larger world.
HHW is a unique place on the web. I don't even think "blog" is the proper term for it. It is a community. The nice thing is - anyone can be a part of it...I don't like it when there is a disturbance...
And if nothing else....just start singing the song that plays at the beginning of the radio show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ
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Good evening all. Well, I caught up on three days worth of posts, and I'm tired out! We went through another round of illness with Tobes, thankfully just a cold, but it's left me desperately sleep deprived. Glad to be back where I belong, on HHW
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Years & years ago we had two very, very very good friends. They were best friends with each other. Friend #1 was frustrated with friend #2 & kept telling us stuff about friend #2 we didn’t need to hear, much of what were negative comments about us. Some of it was pretty bad.
I am very pleased to say we did not let it ruin our friendships. They are still best friends while we are still in touch with friend #1, & still very, very good friends with #2.
I will admit this was so long ago I’m the only one that remembers the details.
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Welcome back, DR Ann. I hope you and DR Jed and "Tobes" are able to get some good, well-deserved rest this weekend.
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Hi Ann. It is good to have you back.:)
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~~~~~VIBES TO DR LAURA AND HER SISTER~~~~~
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I think I will watch THE WOMAN EATER again.
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I think that Jack said things better than I ever could, so...............
G'night!
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Hi Ann. I hope Toby is feeling better and you can get some rest. Oh, how I remember those days!
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Hi Ann. I hope Toby is feeling better and you can get some rest. Oh, how I remember those days!
So, funny lady, after reading Mae-Ling's reason for coming to visit you, when are you sending me something good to eat?
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I do believe I'm going to go watch RENT: FILMED LIVE ON BROADWAY.
(I do know two people in that final cast from their days at CMU).
Anyone have any opinions on this particular film version?
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LOL. A jar of Ragu, a bag of turkey meatballs out of the freezer, and a package of angel hair pasta is her definition of good cooking.
She loved the bit about throwing the pasta at the wall to see if it was done. She laughed and laughed at that.
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Dear Bruce,
HUGS & VIBES!
'night
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LOL. A jar of Ragu, a bag of turkey meatballs out of the freezer, and a package of angel hair pasta is her definition of good cooking.
She loved the bit about throwing the pasta at the wall to see if it was done. She laughed and laughed at that.
You are such a dream breaker!
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I had fried chicken for dinner - from Popeye's. Haven't done that in ages and ages and I just felt I needed it. Happily, they screwed up and only gave me one biscuit, so I didn't overdo that. I had two chicken breasts, one of which was really tiny, so that's good, too. So, now I'm thinking about a sweet - I'll toddle over to Gelson's and take a gander at what they've got. Maybe some fruit, maybe some biscotti, maybe something wholly other.
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Because I now would not put anything past him, if anyone receives a copy of any e-mail I sent IN RESPONSE to the awful e-mails I was receiving, in other words OUT OF CONTEXT, please let me know. I will then post each and every e-mail here so you can see what I was dealing with today. I hope I don't have to do that, but anyone who would forward a private PM is not to be trusted.
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Jrand, thanks for those words of wisdom and also for the link.
As the President said in his inaugural speech: "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off"
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Did I fill the world with love?
Did I fill the world with love?
Did I fill the world with love
My whole life through?
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The haters and naysayers will never win in the end.
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Did I fill the world with love?
Did I fill the world with love?
Did I fill the world with love
My whole life through?
I hear you've been trying, if nothing else!
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I did catch part of UGLY BETTY. I got all weepy at the end and I've loved Lauren Velez ever since the funny I THINK I DO.
She's always wonderful. She was great on OZ and she's currently sensational on DEXTER. And a wonderful match for Ignacio on UGLY BETTY.
And is it just me or have the makeup folks been using some hair dye and more makeup on Tony Plana so the difference in their ages wouldn't look SO pronounced.
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I wonder if bk went out and got some cupcakes?
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/3123303978_0801e73897.jpg)
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I watched three (or four) more episodes of MURDER SHE WROTE. (They all kind of start to meld together in my head after awhile.) I think I have six more to do.
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Next, I skimmed through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. Yep, the boys were there, but the progress on their murder investigation is going to be slow going (typical of soaps).
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The haters and naysayers will never win in the end.
And what of the "whozzits" and "whatzits"? Surely they cannot win, either!
I've received two e-mails today as, I assume, has everyone here.
As soon as I realized who it was from and what it was about, I was more over it than I was over the concept of President George Bush in January 2001.
What the hell do I have to do with any of this, I asked myself. Myself answered rather vigorously that something was awry, amiss and askew.
All that BK has written, thus far, has led me to the conclusion that myself was accurate.
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Next, I enjoyed UGLY BETTY. I just love Judith Light, and the woman looked dazzling in that white gown at the end of the show. Just stunning. Glad to see some chinks in Whilamina's armor starting to show, too. Makes it much easier to root for her romance.
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GREY'S ANATOMY came next.
Nice way to write Melissa George off the show, and that's fine with me. I hated her on ALIAS and I didn't like her here. I thought the Izzy-contest storyline was kind of silly, but it was entertaining.
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I ended my evening watching last night's LAW & ORDER. It was a mess of a case and trial but an intriguing conclusion.
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Page Seventeen Dance!!!
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Page 17 "We learned the truth at 17, That love was meant for beauty queens" dance
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Page 17 "We learned the truth at 17, That love was meant for beauty queens" dance
I always liked Janis Ian. She and Dory previn could always perk me up in the 70s!
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I tried to no avail to find a link to the Simpsons clip where "At Seventeen" was sung as an up-tempo during a beauty pageant.
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I tried to no avail to find a link to the Simpsons clip where "At Seventeen" was sung as an up-tempo during a beauty pageant.
Really? That's very funny. Back in the mid-1970s, Janis and Dory could make me suicidal before one side of an LP was over. I still love 'em both. "At seventeen" and "Lady with The Braid" were such total downers. and Janis' song "and in the winter extra blankets for the cold." They still get me weepy.
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I'm heading down to bed now.
Good Night!
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Wow! My friends Curtis Moore and Tom Mizer got a Jonathan Larson Grant!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/126236.html
Let America come!
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Well, like DR Jose said early on--don't feed the animals.
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I do believe I'm going to go watch RENT: FILMED LIVE ON BROADWAY.
(I do know two people in that final cast from their days at CMU).
Anyone have any opinions on this particular film version?
Stupendous. Much better than the "real" film, not that that's much of a challenge.
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Jonathan Larson Grant--another three name composer?
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I tried to no avail to find a link to the Simpsons clip where "At Seventeen" was sung as an up-tempo during a beauty pageant.
Really? That's very funny. Back in the mid-1970s, Janis and Dory could make me suicidal before one side of an LP was over. I still love 'em both. "At seventeen" and "Lady with The Braid" were such total downers. and Janis' song "and in the winter extra blankets for the cold." They still get me weepy.
"In The Winter" used to be the "pop song" of choice for some musical theatre students. Great song, but, yes, depressing.
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Wow! My friends Curtis Moore and Tom Mizer got a Jonathan Larson Grant!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/126236.html
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I tried to no avail to find a link to the Simpsons clip where "At Seventeen" was sung as an up-tempo during a beauty pageant.
Really? That's very funny. Back in the mid-1970s, Janis and Dory could make me suicidal before one side of an LP was over. I still love 'em both. "At seventeen" and "Lady with The Braid" were such total downers. and Janis' song "and in the winter extra blankets for the cold." They still get me weepy.
"In The Winter" used to be the "pop song" of choice for some musical theatre students. Great song, but, yes, depressing.
I used to play and sing In the Winter over and over and over. Both on the record and on the piano. I loved Between the Lines too.
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I tried to no avail to find a link to the Simpsons clip where "At Seventeen" was sung as an up-tempo during a beauty pageant.
Really? That's very funny. Back in the mid-1970s, Janis and Dory could make me suicidal before one side of an LP was over. I still love 'em both. "At seventeen" and "Lady with The Braid" were such total downers. and Janis' song "and in the winter extra blankets for the cold." They still get me weepy.
"In The Winter" used to be the "pop song" of choice for some musical theatre students. Great song, but, yes, depressing.
I hear those songs and 60s things like "Four Strong Winds" and don't know if it's the sadness of the song or my lost youth I'm weeping over.
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And Bright Lights and Promises a pocket full of dreams, that's what they pay me to be....
I was in high school when At Seventeen was a hit. It really hit home for a lot of us
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Yay for Curtis and Tom
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Flight 3407 from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house tonight. Just getting coverage on CNN
It hit a house by Clarence Center if that means anything. The flames are incredible
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48 people on board
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And this just in from the AP:
AP: Media reports say a suspect has been charged with arson over deadly Australian wildfire
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Hmmm they are talking about Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. DR Laura, did you know your relative had a hospital?
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Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
National Association for the Control of Colored People?
der Brucer
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Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
National Association for the Control of Colored People?
der Brucer
Umm... We didn't need that. Well, I didn't need that.
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Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
National Association for the Control of Colored People?
der Brucer
Umm... We didn't need that. Well, I didn't need that.
Me, neither.
My earlier inclination this evening was to write to Fox about preempting "Bones" for the NAACP Image Awards because it seems to me to be an outmoded organization.
Now this. Perhaps it's still needed after all.
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Flight 3407 from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house tonight. Just getting coverage on CNN
It hit a house by Clarence Center if that means anything. The flames are incredible
Twitter is very "noisy" right now with news from Buffalo. The various news outlets are releasing updates, and there are also people near the scene of the crash describing what they're seeing. :-\
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CNN has been showing local coverage.
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Page 17 "We learned the truth at 17, That love was meant for beauty queens" dance
I always liked Janis Ian. She and Dory previn could always perk me up in the 70s!
I've noted that IMDb says that Dory and Andre were married from 1959 to 1970, yet she went by "Dory Langdon" in the early 60s (born, according to IMDb, Dory "Langan" in 1925). Any idea when she changed her name professionally? Two of her Oscar nominations ("Pepe" and "Two for the Seesaw") were under "Dory Langdon" and a third, in 1966, was under "Dory Previn".
I first sat up and took notice of her with her work on "Inside Daisy Clover".
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Page 17 "We learned the truth at 17, That love was meant for beauty queens" dance
I always liked Janis Ian. She and Dory previn could always perk me up in the 70s!
I've noted that IMDb says that Dory and Andre were married from 1959 to 1970, yet she went by "Dory Langdon" in the early 60s (born, according to IMDb, Dory "Langan" in 1925). Any idea when she changed her name professionally? Two of her Oscar nominations ("Pepe" and "Two for the Seesaw") were under "Dory Langdon" and a third, in 1966, was under "Dory Previn".
I first sat up and took notice of her with her work on "Inside Daisy Clover".
From the "Things I Learned When I Used To Run A Sheet Music Store"...
She started going by Dory Previn in 1965, shortly after her nervous breakdown. -Which was brought on in part due to her severe fear of flying. By that time André Previn's conducting career had kicked into high gear, and due to her fear of flying, she did not join him on his travels.
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Umm... We didn't need that. Well, I didn't need that.
Me, neither.
Now this. Perhaps it's still needed after all.
It's just a harmless bit of satirical levity - lighten up. :)
der Brucer
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Umm... We didn't need that. Well, I didn't need that.
Me, neither.
Now this. Perhaps it's still needed after all.
It's just a harmless bit of satirical levity - lighten up. :)
der Brucer
Levity? Satirical? Well...
I guess it is/was all in the timing.
After a day here on HHW that has once again demonstrated the POWER of words, well...
Just remember, there are reasons why people have left this site. It's not a matter of being "too sensitive" or not being able to "lighten up". It's a matter of not feeling comfortable or welcome anymore.
*And, technically speaking, I'm "colored" too.
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I'm listening to a really great album called Up, Up, And Away: The Hits Of Jimmy Webb - made in 1970 and played by some German big band - great charts.
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I do appreciate the posts today.
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I did have to have sweets tonight - I went to Gelson's and got a little triple moose thing - white chocolate, chocolate and dark chocolate - yummilicious, and pretty small. Also, they have these little bite-sized versions of Parisian cake - excellent.
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I do appreciate the posts today.
At least you're not in the Poster Doghouse.
der Brucer
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And...
Goodnight.
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And...
Goodnight.
Sometimes it's like water off a duck's back.
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I've been up watching CNN. It's so sad. They interviewed the brother of one of the passengers who said he feared the worst, and he didn't know what to tell his children about their aunt. God bless them all.
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I've been up watching CNN. It's so sad. They interviewed the brother of one of the passengers who said he feared the worst, and he didn't know what to tell his children about their aunt. God bless them all.
I switched to MSNBC. They are reporting all 48 people killed from the plane and one on the ground. They had an eye witness whe said there is a crater and nothing there. I saw the same interview, how sad. My heart goes out to all those impacted by this horrible crash
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Good night.
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Terrible tragedy, as are all these types of plane crashes, which happen a little too regularly.
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Listening to Cal Tjader and zoning out.
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Listening to Cal Tjader and zoning out.
Enjoy the zoning. I'm off to bed.
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G'night, all and one.
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I'm tired - a rather exhausting day thanks to someone sucking the life out of the latter half of the day.
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Will we never get to page nineteen?
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Will we never get to page nineteen?
Only if someone makes 15 more posts.
der Brucer
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There is a conspiracy to interfere with The Long Jog.
LATIMES (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/rain-la.html)
Storms expected to hit Southern California this weekend
der Brucer
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Well, I must now leave and go downtown to usher for a new play, Israel Horovitz's "Sins of the Mother (http://www.harlequinproductions.org/seasonpages/09/sins.html)," put on by Harlequin Productions. Here's what it says on Harlequin's website:
We're thrilled to be working with world-renowned playwright Israel Horovitz on his new play before it opens in New York. When a young man returns to the small fishing town he grew up in, he is drawn into a mystery that threatens to reveal his own past. A powerful and compelling drama about revenge, forgiveness, and the comically human struggle to decipher which is which.
This sounds very good!
I'm back from seeing the play and it was very good! There are only four actors in the show (all men) and one of them plays twins...one twin in the first act and the other twin in the second act. I can't even describe what it's all about (and I forgot to take a program with me), but everyone in the audience seemed to love it. :)
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Oh - look - another LA fad!
LATIMES (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octuplets13-2009feb13,0,3363063.story)
Octuplets doctor has another patient expecting quadruplets
The patient, who is in her late 40s, wanted one baby. Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred at least seven embryos to her. She is now hospitalized without insurance.
...
der Brucer
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Also, the NACCP was founded in 1909...exactly 100 years ago today. :)
National Association for the Control of Colored People?
der Brucer
AARRGGHH!! It's fixed...he said sheepishly.
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I can't even describe what it's all about (and I forgot to take a program with me), but everyone in the audience seemed to love it. :)
You could post a link to THREE REVIEWS (http://seattleperforms.com/index.php?option=com_nathevents&show_id=3845&action=details&editsection=see_reviews)
der Brucer
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AARRGGHH!! It's fixed...he said sheepishly.
Don't remind me :-X
der Brucer
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I can't even describe what it's all about (and I forgot to take a program with me), but everyone in the audience seemed to love it. :)
You could post a link to THREE REVIEWS (http://seattleperforms.com/index.php?option=com_nathevents&show_id=3845&action=details&editsection=see_reviews)
der Burcer
der "Burcer"??
;D
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I do believe I'm going to go watch RENT: FILMED LIVE ON BROADWAY.
(I do know two people in that final cast from their days at CMU).
Anyone have any opinions on this particular film version?
I thought that it was very well done except that there too many close-ups...not enough shots of the whole stage (or just a little further away) so that you get more of a sense of what's going on on the whole stage. I think some moments were lost because of this, but not so many that the show was ruined.
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Mr. Rothman has a very strange way of trying to get converts to his new blog. He apparently believes that we will go running from this site to his, if he insults us by referring to us as groupies.
What Mr. Rothman doesn't grasp is that we do not gather here, day in and day out, hour after hour; because we are groupies, crazed fans, or fanatics of any kind. We gather here at HHW because we are friends. We are friends with BK and we are friends with each other. And even when we squabble with each other, we never attempt to tear down or destroy each other.
I guess some lessons just can't be learned.
Nicely put. :)
However, I do have a soft spot for the term "acolyte." ;)
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Do you think that we'll make it to Page 19?
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...before BK closes the day?
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Jonathan Larson Grant--another three name composer?
Any relation to an Elliot Garfield Grant?? [a "Goodbye Girl" (the musical) reference]
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Gratuitous Post # 538. :)
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And since we're so close...
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PAGE 19 DANCE!!
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My work here is done.
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Terrible tragedy, as are all these types of plane crashes, which happen a little too regularly.
Actually,
LATIMES (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,492164,00.html)
It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Aug. 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner took off from a Lexington, Ky., runway that was too short.
der Brucer