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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were filled with lovely love and Cupid's arrows, and now it is time for you to post until the love-filled cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SPOONY!
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And a very happy haineshisway.com birthday to dlevy, former business associate of mine at some label or other.
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Is dlevy a delovely person?
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DR Jose: PEDANT!
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DR vixmom: My lunch yesterday was a smoked turkey sandwich on dark rye, made at home with my own hands.
I am "over" my cold. Side effects continue to linger -- I tire more easily than I like, for instance. And in the evenings, I'm ready for bed way earlier than normal. But these things shall pass.
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A Very Happy Birthday to dlevy!
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Topic of the Day: just about anything by Donna Summer. :D
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My favorite album of hers was her double-LP (and I got it new on vinyl back in the late 70s), "Donna Summer: Live and More (http://www.amazon.com/Live-More-Donna-summer/dp/B000M6CEY2/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1234599859&sr=1-8)." It was a live concert with a bonus studio recording of the medley, "MacArthur Park Suite" at the end. When it was eventually released on CD (http://www.amazon.com/Live-More-Donna-Summer/dp/B000001F3A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1234599859&sr=1-2), they had to use a different song ["Theme From The Deep (Down Deep Inside)"] because "MacArthur Park Suite" was too long for the single CD. I MUCH prefer the "MacArthur Park Suite" over "Theme From The Deep (Down Deep Inside)." But I love that album. When I was in college, I sold some of my vinyl albums, this one included, but I did eventually get it on CD and the Dance Collection (http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Collection-Donna-Summer/dp/B000001FKP/ref=pd_sim_m_2) CD that had the almost 18-minute "MacArthur Park Suite." :)
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Time for me to go to sleep. Good night, BK.
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Happiest of birthdays to DR dlevy!!!
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TOD: We're on the same wave-length, George. My favorite is also a Donna summer number, "This Time I know it's for Real."
Runners-up for me are
Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around"
Laura Branigan's recording of "Gloria"
- and if it counts as disco:
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine's recording of "1-2-3"
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DLEVY!!!!!!!!!!
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bk certainly conveyed quite an image of lovers cavorting, didn't he?
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I am working today....oh well...
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TOD:
So many, some already mentioned.....but I will add:
Doctor's Orders - Carol Douglas
I Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet - Gonzalez
Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer
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I think I have a trophy for dancing to this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lklV1ywRSOg&feature=related
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Another hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAJBHGZHnCY
Let's all dance!
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Gonzalez certainly has aged well
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Gonzalez certainly has aged well
Ain't it the truth!
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Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine and "1-2-3" because I need to WAKE UP!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgVPRc5FBtk
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That got me in the mood for accounting and taxes - but I hope no one earned more than $11, because 11 is as far as I can count right now.
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Does "Parker and Penny" (the try-to-fool-the-DJ's pseudonym for Steve and Eydie) singing "Hallelujah" count as disco?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnwwO4nBiXo
:)
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Strange, as I march further into muddle age, Steve and Eydie seem more and more hip to me
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Or at least more in line with what my hips can move to
:)
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Here's Helen Reddy's foray into disco, seriously - a number called "Ready or Not"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtGi9i0nWc
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Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
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re: last night's GHOST WHISPERER
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As for why she didn't use her intuitions to know she was being televised. I'm sure she knew she was being televised. But she probably had no idea jim/sam would see it the exact second they filmed her. Also re: intuition they never really show her as being that intuitive. To me not in her general life. Not like alison on MEDIUM. adjkldfsijfdasiuodfsouifdsouidfsoiudfsoiusoidfsoi iudfoiudiuoiuoiuoiuoiuoiu
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Happy Valentine's day everyone. Gotta run!
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And the word of the day is: SPOONY!
And The Song Of The Day Is: (Why Not?) MY FUNNY VALENTINE
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Ghost Whisperer spoiler
Just odd that it wouldn't have occurred to Melinda that what she was doing was so public (helping to find the girl), but I see what you're saying, Jennifer
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Good morning, all! I dreamed that a whole group of friends from the Kern-Herbert project and I went to a horror film and this dream became intertwined with a dream about a group of 1917 Kern musicals I was touring with as the musical supervisor. I remember little now of this megillah: talking on the phone to Sargent Aborn of Tams-Witmark about the production, riding in a car to the horror film and going to the balcony to look for better seats, talking to a young lady at the box office who was seeing the shows when the tour got to Egypt or wherever, trying to wash my hair with a shampoo that would lighten it because there was no other in the bathroom and wonderng why a friend had left it behind, and waking up because of mass murder in the theatre. Oy.
I suppose it was last night's PSYCH that brought this on; it certainly wasn't the bio I'm currently reading.
I have a Finale lesson at 11 and this evening, dinner and a visit with DR Ben.
TOD: I Will Survive, It's Raining Men, One Night Only
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Don't change a hair for me..not if you care for me
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Strange, as I march further into muddle age, Steve and Eydie seem more and more hip to me
Steve and Eydie will always be hip.
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And The Song Of The Day Is: (Why Not?) MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Jason Graae's version.
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TOD: I never liked disco.
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I think I will take my walk, wander about the Upper West Side for a bit, pick up a treat for DR Ben's visit, and then come back and do a little Finale work before my lesson. I'm getting worried about this Finale 2006 program possibly expiring before too long, and if Josh doesn't take care of registering it, I'll lose it and have to find a used or program for 2006 sitting on a shelf somewhere. Does anyone know of a possible source if I need to handle this myself?
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Good morning, everyone.
A rainy day here. I like rainy days.
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL MY PALS AT HHW!
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TOD:
I WILL SURVIVE
There was another whose name I can't recall at the moment.
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VIXMOM, you need Marvelous Matt! Seriously, you may be able to find someone from the construction business who is in need of work right now--so many are. I certainly hope you do!
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TOD:
It's Raining Men
I Will Survive
No More Tears (Enough is Enough)
The Main Event
Go West
In the Navy
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I am in that minority than does not love or obsess over granite countertops. Some are lovely, yes, and one friend who has them says they're indestructible, but I had Corian in my last kitchen and was really very happy with it. I did a lot of Indian cooking at one time and some tumeric stained the Corian. Matt did a little research and learned that Soft Scrub is a bit abrasive and took the stain right out, without any shadow.
I agree that lighter floors show less dirt than darker ones. In one house I installed a lovely dark cobalt blue tile in the kitchen, thinking it wouldn't show the dirt. It did. But the white tile I installed in the bathroom did not. Live and learn.
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My oatmeal has been consumed, I drank my coffee, I washed my bowl and coffee mug, I went to the Post Office, I ran my virus scan and now I will shave. Later I will visit my dear friend Larry Moore (some of you may know him).
Oh, yes, I got an on-line Valentine from Anthony. I sent him a card and an on-line card as well.
My Valentine's Day is very nice so far.
AND I don't have to go to work on Monday!
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Hi Ben.
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When you're working with small spaces, as I was in my last house, you can often use pricier materials, because you need so little of them. When I remodeled the bathroom in my last house I used marble tiles for the countertop. Since Matt did all the work we were able to achieve a posh look at a budget price. In fact, the whole remodel was the price of the first cabinet estimate, ie cabinet ONLY.
I have a friend in my old neighborhood who buys house that really need work. He guts them, then does much of the work himself, assisted by a handyman who works very cheaply. Bart's houses always turn out very nicely. He is VERY budget-conscious, but he is also extremely talented artistically. You can indeed achieve a lot without paying a lot.
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I have this great tile floor in my kitchen that hides an amazing amount of dirt. It was in the house when we bought it, so it's got some chips by now. I love it.
Some day we will all have to post photos of our floors, you know.
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FWIW, I ADORE MY FUNNY VALENTINE. It's one of my all-time favorites.
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Won't you all be my Valentine!
Happy Valentine's day to everyone!!
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Laura, I had a carpet like that once. It had little specks of different colors in it. You could drop anything on it and it wouldn't show. You also wouldn't be able to find said dropped object again.
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See you at the HOLLYWOOD COLLECTOR'S SHOW, BK.
:)
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I don't think there is a disco song that I do not love!
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Must now take care of some other things. WBBL, I think.
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From yesterday MBarnum said
Just finished enjoying Clint Walker and now am off to bed.
My question is what room were you enjoying Clint Walker in and how good was he? ;D
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Good morning!
It was raining lightly here this morning, but it appears the skies are clearing a bit as I type this. The forecast said it was going to rain all day, so we'll see about that. Temps are in the 50s.
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TOD:
"Last Dance" is my favorite ever disco song.
Other favorites: "It's Raining Men," "I Will Survive," "Y-M-C-A," "Stayin' Alive," "On the Radio."
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Since I watched SHADOWS last night (but didn't write much of it up since I was working on finshing up the MURDER SHE WROTE review), I will work on the remaining bonus features on that Criterion disc before moving on.
It's obvious this is a simple reprint of an earlier Criterion release (2004?) of SHADOWS. There don't appear to be any new bonuses or a newly remastered transfer. The film is always going to look raw and grainy so I guess they just didn't bother trying to make it look any better.
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Speaking of Miss Linda Purl, I meant to mention the other night after I watched it that Linda Purl did guest star on one of the episodes I watched in this 9th season set. As it turned out, she was the murderer. Funny because she guest starred in an earlier season episode (one set in the South with Barry Nelson as a Tennessee Williams-like playwright), and she was the murderer on that one, too. Though MURDER SHE WROTE recycled guest stars many times during its 12 season run, it's rare when the same guest star would be the murderer more than once. Sometimes they'd be the murderer in one episode and years later be the victim in another episode.
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RE: GHOST WHISPERER:
Melinda isn't particularly intuitive at all about her own life; that's not her talent. She sees ghosts and can communicate with them. But she's not psychic; she doesn't have visions about the future. So, it didn't surprise me at all that she got caught on camera. As I said, I just saw no reason for her to be lying about being at the firehouse. It's a small town and an easy lie to refute. It was just dumb, and I think clunky writing on the part of the show's writers just to add some conflict between Melinda and Sam/Jim so he'd doubt whether he could get serious about a girl who'd lie so easily. Bah! I guess they have to stretch out Melinda's revelation to Sam about his true identity until the end of the season for the cliffhanger.
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I hope to see my first episode of BURN NOTICE recorded from USA-HD today while I eat lunch. (I did see a couple of episodes from season one in HD recorded off Universal-HD a few weeks ago.) I'm excited to see it, and am SO happy that now MONK, PSYCH, BURN NOTICE, and LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT will be available to me in HD after such a long period of waiting.
Now, if my cable system would add FX-HD, I'd have to start searching around for something else to bitch about!
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Valentine's Day greetings! DH Richard is off to sing with the shape-noters and Rob and Mary Linda are hanging out here before her flight to Denver for an audition. I'm about to bake Valentine cookies.
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Hi TD!
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Strange, as I march further into muddle age, Steve and Eydie seem more and more hip to me
Have you heard their astoundingly cool version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun"?
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TOD:
"Last Dance" is my favorite ever disco song.
Other favorites: "It's Raining Men," "I Will Survive," "Y-M-C-A," "Stayin' Alive," "On the Radio."
RE: It's Raining Men
It's Raining Men was the very first music video I ever saw. Coming from Canada I had never heard of MTV. I was visiting NYC staying at a guest house and in the common room the tv was on and the video was being played. I asked the host what movie it was and he told me it was a music video and had to explain to me what one was.
I even remember the date
May 12, 1983.
I was coming to NY on a trip (driving in a car) and I was planning to see Dance a Little Closer. On the radio as I was approaching Manhatten I heard on the radio that the show had closed the night before. So that's how I remember the date of my first musical video ever
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Quoth BK yesterday: "Dusty Groove, my new home away from home."
Well I hope you know whom to thank for that. :)
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I'm listening to a Gracie Fields collection right now as I contemplate riding the exercise bike.
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
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I'm up and it's too early, but in about forty-five minutes I'll be doing the long jog because the sun is out.
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For you Twitterers--the Oregonian reports on its front page this morning that bunch of people who took Mad Men character names are actually Portlanders, and it turns out "Peggy Olson" is a very great sounding jazz vocalist I know.
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TOD:
"Last Dance" is my favorite ever disco song.
Other favorites: "It's Raining Men," "I Will Survive," "Y-M-C-A," "Stayin' Alive," "On the Radio."
RE: It's Raining Men
It's Raining Men was the very first music video I ever saw. Coming from Canada I had never heard of MTV. I was visiting NYC staying at a guest house and in the common room the tv was on and the video was being played. I asked the host what movie it was and he told me it was a music video and had to explain to me what one was.
I even remember the date
May 12, 1983.
I was coming to NY on a trip (driving in a car) and I was planning to see Dance a Little Closer. On the radio as I was approaching Manhatten I heard on the radio that the show had closed the night before. So that's how I remember the date of my first musical video ever
That show was referred to as "Close a Little Faster". I didn't see it but I do think there are some wonderful songs in the score (listen to Jason Graae's album to hear one).
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
I bought 3 sheets of the commemorative stamps and sent one to my mother in her Valentine.
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
And
Weekend Edition Saturday (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100714479)
has done a story on that very fact. There is an audio clip of Stan Freberg singing "Oregon, Oregon". The full audio is not up yet. It should be up around Noon Eastern Time but the Freberg clip is available
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There's also a great OCR on that other Bruce's label.
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
And Arizona's 97th.
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
And Arizona's 97th.
Talk to me when you're 125, baby. ;D
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Happy Birthday, Oregon and Arizona!
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I was going to take the Goldstein sisters out for the morning, but their mother is over there banging on the door with a suitcase.
Well, she is banging on the door, and she has a suitcase with her. Not that she is using the suitcase to bang on the door.
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I'm hoping it's not forty degrees outside - it LOOKS quite pretty, though.
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It's sixty-two INSIDE, but I'm heating it up as we speak.
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I've performed a couple of songs from DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER in various revues I've been a part of. The show must have been awful, but the score is very nice.
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Three disco or semi-disco songs that I bet no one other than Tomovoz might know, though 2 of them did chart:
I'll Tell You
Lonely Woman
The Real Thing
All three recorded by Sergio, of course, the last one written by and featuring Stevie Wonder (it's the least discofied of the three, but got a lot of dance airplay. The first two were off of Sergio's one "real" disco album, a pretty lamentable affair that nonetheless featured incredible horn charts by Tower of Power).
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I'm heating it up as we speak.
Yes, that is what one does on Valentine's Day.
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So, DR Michael, what show did you go to since DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER wasn't an option?
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There's also a great OCR on that other Bruce's label.
The original release on the short lived IBR (?) was mastered incorrectly. In sounded as if it was recorded in an echo chamber.
They also release another version of The Secret Garden and Sugar Babies.
They were release on LP, CD & Cassette. Each version was different. (The cassette version having the most music)
I believe when BL re-released them on cd Secret Garden had all the music that was featured on the CD and Sugar Babies had everything with one the exception of one cut: Ronn Lucas did a musica/comedy #.
Sugar Babies couldn't be called a true Original Cast album even though it was recorded during the run. It featured songs that were cut before the show opened, songs cut during the run, songs added during the run. Featured performers who were replacement cast members and others who appeared on the Sugar Babies tour.
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My favorite disco song is On The Radio. And I like the Village People's songs.
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Ethel Does Disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBf-oGC7yg)
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Dance A Little Closer has some lovely numbers and some bad numbers and poor Len Cariou's voice was, unfortunately, fairly trashed by that point.
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Ethel Does Disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBf-oGC7yg)
On A&M Records, no less.
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Mr. Geissman will be here at ten-thirty so I have to be done with the long jog and ready for the show by then.
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Happy Birthday dlevy!
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Love and chocolate to all!
TOD:
"Love's Theme" and a couple fo others by barry White
"Spring Rain: (by Silvetti)
"Je T'aime"
"Like an Eagle"
"Gotta Keep Dancing"
"Last Dance"
"Thank God, It's Friday"
"Never Can Say Goodbye"
And whatever the first Village People album was.
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Good morning all. I'm up, as is Toby. I "slept in" this morning until almost 7. Since my usual waking time is 5 or earlier, this felt wonderful. Toby is getting over his cold, and I am slowly getting over mine. Thank god for Afrin.
Last night, DH Jed and I let a dear friend of ours take care of Toby, and we went out for a night on the town. We had some fabulously fabulous Greek food, including souvlaki (I had chicken, Jed had lamb) on noodles in garlic sauce, and some tzatziki with a radish base instead of cucumber, which was delicious.
Then we went to see our own DR TCB in the production of Glorious. Well, I wish the reviewer of last week could have been at this performance, because it was just marvelous. DH Jed and I both agreed that our TCB has such perfect comedic timing and delivery, and he was so very funny. The show itself was very enjoyable too, and the woman playing Florence Foster Jenkins was absolutely hysterical! It takes a great singer to be able to deliberately sing that badly. All in all, we really enjoyed it, and it was great to have a night out, just the two of us, to relax a bit. It's been a very long week.
When we got home, we had about 20 minutes of peace before Toby woke up and the usual nighttime hell of trying to sleep with a stuffy nose began. Today I'm going shopping for remedies that might possibly help. I've already got the humidifier and the bulb aspirator, but there must be something else.
Oh yes, Happy Valentines Day to one and all, and also all and one.
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
:D
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My favorite disco song is On The Radio. And I like the Village People's songs.
I also like The Village People's movie: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.
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I guess I'll head down now and check the last mail delivery for a few days, and then start thinking about what's for lunch.
WBBL.
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The Secret Garden had some beautiful ballads: Something Special being the standout.
It had a great studio cast
Barbara Cook
Judy Kaye
John Cullum
George Rose
Max Showalter.
The major problem in my opinion was the varying quality of the lyrics. There were three credited lyricists. Some of them were stronger writers than others.
The "tone" of the score was less dark than the Simon/Norman version that played Broadway.
1. Overture
2. Any Minute Now
3. I Will Do Nothing
4. Just Like Me
5. Wings
6. Dickon Is My Name
7. Somewhere In the Past
8. Wishful Thinking
9. My Mother
10. Before You Know It's Summer
11. I've Got a Secret
12. No One Needs Me
A Secret Place
13. Something Special
14. Entr'acte
15. The Likes of You and Me
16. Traditions
17. I Don't Want to Be an Angel
18. One Patch of Blue
19. How We Love Children
20. My Favorite Song
Wings (Reprise)
21. Weave a Spell
22. Your Best Foot
23. I Shall Live Forever
24. The Secret Garden (Right Before Our Eyes)
25. The Finale
The cd that BK re-release did not have tracks # 12, 17, 23 which were all I think Collin's songs
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Theme From The Deep (Down Deep Inside)"]
Yes, George! I even bought the one-sided Casablanca Label one song LP of that.
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My favorite disco song is On The Radio. And I like the Village People's songs.
I also like The Village People's movie: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.
Memory serves me that it was originally being promoted under the title: DISCOLAND: WHERE THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS.
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some trivia posted on IMDB site re: Can't Stop the Music
* The first draft of this movie was written by Bruce Vilanch.
* This film was promoted with a nationally syndicated one-hour TV special entitled Magic Night (1980) (TV) also directed by Nancy Walker and featuring a roller-skating Cher, a pajama-clad Hugh M. Hefner and a The Village People song cut from the film ("Ready for the '80s!").
* Glenn Hughes actually did work as a tollbooth operator when he was discovered by the Village People and invited to join the group.
* $10 million of the film's $20 million budget was spent on a lavish world-wide publicity campaign that included spectacular openings across the United States and Europe.
* The leading role was originally offered to Olivia Newton-John who turned it down to do Xanadu (1980). She was replaced by Valerie Perrine.
* Bruce Jenner turned down the titular role in Superman (1978) to appear in this film.
* Was the film that "won" the very first RAZZIE award for Worst Picture.
* Playing on a 99-cent double bill with Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980), this film "inspired" John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Awards in 1980.
* This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE.
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DR Ann, a romantic evening out with DH Jed & a great show- :) I especially enjoyed reading about our talented DR TCB.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ARIZONA & OREGON!
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Ethel Does Disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBf-oGC7yg)
I still have hung on to my copy of the Ethel Merman Disco album.
It's kind of like seeing a car wreck and can't look away although you want to.
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
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It's so cold in this home environment right now.
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Love roses. And Jane might remember I love blue roses - name that play.
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Our jellyfish art has a new name:
"Her Secret is Patience"
It is supposed to look like a saguaro blossom.
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BK:
How is the first name of the late composer Claibe Richardson (Night of the Hunter. Grass Harp, Lola) pronounced?
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Love roses. And Jane might remember I love blue roses - name that play.
Well, "Glass Menagerie' of course. i assume you played the Gentleman Caller.
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some trivia posted on IMDB site re: Can't Stop the Music
* The first draft of this movie was written by Bruce Vilanch.
* This film was promoted with a nationally syndicated one-hour TV special entitled Magic Night (1980) (TV) also directed by Nancy Walker and featuring a roller-skating Cher, a pajama-clad Hugh M. Hefner and a The Village People song cut from the film ("Ready for the '80s!").
* Glenn Hughes actually did work as a tollbooth operator when he was discovered by the Village People and invited to join the group.
* $10 million of the film's $20 million budget was spent on a lavish world-wide publicity campaign that included spectacular openings across the United States and Europe.
* The leading role was originally offered to Olivia Newton-John who turned it down to do Xanadu (1980). She was replaced by Valerie Perrine.
* Bruce Jenner turned down the titular role in Superman (1978) to appear in this film.
* Was the film that "won" the very first RAZZIE award for Worst Picture.
* Playing on a 99-cent double bill with Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980), this film "inspired" John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Awards in 1980.
* This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE.
The casting calls and casting couch alone must have been something!
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My favorite disco song is On The Radio. And I like the Village People's songs.
I also like The Village People's movie: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.
You're the one!
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Claibe - rhymes with nabe as in neighborhood or Gabe as in Gabriel. In other words, the "ai" is the same as the "a" in "save"
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She of the Evil Eye will be knocking at the door in but a moment and then I will be jogging a moment later, after which I'll return, take a quick shower, coif my do, and then wait for Mr. Geissman's arrival.
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Welcome nine GUESTS.
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Got my delivery, and now on my way to the tax office
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My favorite disco song is On The Radio. And I like the Village People's songs.
I also like The Village People's movie: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.
You're the one!
Yes, that's ME!
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Pictures of Joe Biden at BILLY ELLIOT last night
http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=354541&str=76004&styp=clbi&navtyp=gls
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I'm listening to the OBC of GOLDILOCKS.
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I am listening to the York Theater Company of Merrily We Roll Along.
I think after Follies; Merrily We Roll Along is my favorite score music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
PS
I think I will add A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum
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I am in that minority than does not love or obsess over granite countertops. Some are lovely, yes, and one friend who has them says they're indestructible, but I had Corian in my last kitchen and was really very happy with it. I did a lot of Indian cooking at one time and some tumeric stained the Corian. Matt did a little research and learned that Soft Scrub is a bit abrasive and took the stain right out, without any shadow.
I agree that lighter floors show less dirt than darker ones. In one house I installed a lovely dark cobalt blue tile in the kitchen, thinking it wouldn't show the dirt. It did. But the white tile I installed in the bathroom did not. Live and learn.
I don't really care about granite countertops and I think that stainless steel appliances look cold and have no desire to have them in my kitchen.
There are a lot of good appliances you can get for less than $7000
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
I'm up, I'm up... And it was nice to sleep in this morning. :)
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Fair Warning: To all those who are posting unheatlhy food pix -- especially cupcakes and other sweets -- I am ON to your motives. Many folks here are trimming down and it seems others wish to tempt them with photos of foodstuffs.
Here's my warning: Post all the pretty cupcake/fat-inducing/heart-attack-causing sugary treats you like. I, in turn, will post photos of the ultimate end-product -- the POOH...or the fat such foods metabolize into.
I'm not kidding. ;D
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I have this great tile floor in my kitchen that hides an amazing amount of dirt. It was in the house when we bought it, so it's got some chips by now. I love it.
Some day we will all have to post photos of our floors, you know.
I hate my kitchen floor and would like new countertops, but that's down the road.
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Page 5 "Monkey Bread for Monkey See, Monkey Do equals photos of Monkey Pooh" dance.
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TOD:
"Last Dance" is my favorite ever disco song.
Other favorites: "It's Raining Men," "I Will Survive," "Y-M-C-A," "Stayin' Alive," "On the Radio."
Have to agree with you on Last Dance. I was in high school and college for Disco.
I loved Earth Wind and Fire
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I love Gershon Veroba's parody of the song "September" by Earth Wind and Fire.
(I'm pretty sure I have JMK to thank for introducing me to that CD.)
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For Bruce
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/keg434/blue_roses1.jpg)
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I am up, and I am trying to energize myself for my two-a-day shows. Bleh (to quote that ancient swami, Woody)!
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I love Gershon Veroba's parody of the song "September" by Earth Wind and Fire.
(I'm pretty sure I have JMK to thank for introducing me to that CD.)
My brother's birthday is September 21, so I always think of him when I hear that song
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Ok, time to go to the store and see if I can find the flanel sheets my mother wants me to pick up for her. I have a big pile of "Would you see if you can find this and I'll send you a check for it" stuff for my mother. I hope she still wants it all when I finally see her next.
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Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
It is not where your peanut butter is made, Jennifer, that you have to worry about. The problem is where they purchased the peanuts to make the butter.
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Hmmm...
Sounds like someone needs a Chocolatine and/or Morning Bun from La Farine.
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From Jennifer:
Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
It isnt just about peanut butter, it is about all the other products that might contain a peanut product shipped from the contaminated source. Most major peanut butter brands are ok. Even knowing this I went directly to a few of the websites & they all stated their peanut butter was safe. I suggest doing the same before purchasing any new jars of peanut butter.
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Fair Warning: To all those who are posting unheatlhy food pix -- especially cupcakes and other sweets -- I am ON to your motives. Many folks here are trimming down and it seems others wish to tempt them with photos of foodstuffs.
Here's my warning: Post all the pretty cupcake/fat-inducing/heart-attack-causing sugary treats you like. I, in turn, will post photos of the ultimate end-product -- the POOH.
I'm not kidding. ;D
Well... It's not like I haven't posted photos of pooh before. Remember this?
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/RooPoo.jpg)
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And the word of the day is: SPOONY!
And The Song Of The Day Is: (Why Not?) MY FUNNY VALENTINE
Be hold the way our fine
feathered friend
His virtue doth parade
Thou knowest not my dim witted friend
The picture Thou hast made
Thy vacant brow and Thy tousled hair
Conceal Thy good intent
Thou noble upright, truthful, sincere
And slightly dopey gent
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Hmmm...
Sounds like someone needs a Chocolatine and/or Morning Bun from La Farine.
Someone GOT a Chocolatine from La Farine!! Also, he got a ham and cheese puff pastry that was "to die for." The pastry is history. I went next door to Peet's and got a particularly strong large latte.
The latte is currently working on the puff pastry...the chocolatine can wait.
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Fair Warning: To all those who are posting unheatlhy food pix -- especially cupcakes and other sweets -- I am ON to your motives. Many folks here are trimming down and it seems others wish to tempt them with photos of foodstuffs.
Here's my warning: Post all the pretty cupcake/fat-inducing/heart-attack-causing sugary treats you like. I, in turn, will post photos of the ultimate end-product -- the POOH.
I'm not kidding. ;D
Well... It's not like I haven't posted photos of pooh before. Remember this?
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/RooPoo.jpg)
Why does that look more like a mating grounds for snails than a pooh patch? :D
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VIXMOM, you need Marvelous Matt! Seriously, you may be able to find someone from the construction business who is in need of work right now--so many are. I certainly hope you do!
Do you think we could pay to fly Marvelous Matt down to Florida to help Danise, if things don't work out with her guy?
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Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
It is not where your peanut butter is made, Jennifer, that you have to worry about. The problem is where they purchased the peanuts to make the butter.
I was under the impresson that it was the plants where the peanut butter was made...not the actual harvest of peanuts used.
Has this been changed to more closely reflect the hysteria we endured last year over tomatoes?
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I hated 70s disco during the 70s. But I loved 80s disco during the 80s. Nowadays I don't mind some of the 70s stuff.
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VIXMOM, you need Marvelous Matt! Seriously, you may be able to find someone from the construction business who is in need of work right now--so many are. I certainly hope you do!
Do you think we could pay to fly Marvelous Matt down to Florida to help Danise, if things don't work out with her guy?
Danise needs to befriend either a power gay or a power lesbian. Either way, they either know somebody sensational AND reasonable/responsible or they ARE that somebody sensational and reasonable/responsible.
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* Bruce Jenner turned down the titular role in Superman (1978) to appear in this film.
Bruce Jenner could have played Lois Lane?!?
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I hated 70s disco during the 70s. But I loved 80s disco during the 80s. Nowadays I don't mind some of the 70s stuff.
When I left the U.S. in 1973 for a tour of duty in Italy, folks slow-danced, holding one another closely.
When I returned to the U.S. in 1977, folks weren't touching at all when they danced...and dancing had become an endurance event.
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Good morning, all! I dreamed that a whole group of friends from the Kern-Herbert project and I went to a horror film and this dream became intertwined with a dream about a group of 1917 Kern musicals I was touring with............................................. ..
That isn't a dream, my dear; but rather a memory!
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As for the Topic of the Day...
"Knock On Wood" - Amy (or Amii) Stewart
"On the Radio" - Donna Summer - I even bought the sheet music for that one.
"Le Freak" and "Good Times" - Chic
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* Bruce Jenner turned down the titular role in Superman (1978) to appear in this film.
Bruce Jenner could have played Lois Lane?!?
"Bon mots" aside, I'm guessing Jenner thought he was protecting his Olympian image from becoming stereotyped as a cartoon character.
And look at the end result!!! From Cheerios box cover photos to schlock guest appearances on cheesy TV shows.
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Did you know that BK produced CD and LP of Return to OZ is going for $99 starting bid at two different Stores. Another going for $32 and one going for $8.00
Another international seller $86 and $47
Truthfully would anyone really pay between $32 and $99 for this recording?
Wow!!
And I own two copies!!
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Good morning, all! I dreamed that a whole group of friends from the Kern-Herbert project and I went to a horror film and this dream became intertwined with a dream about a group of 1917 Kern musicals I was touring with............................................. ..
That isn't a dream, my dear; but rather a memory!
Are you certain he's not channeling a former chorus boy?
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For Bruce
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/keg434/blue_roses1.jpg)
You're a good friend, DR Jane. Lovely gesture!
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Happy Valentine's Day to all at HainesHisWay.com
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Hmmm...
Sounds like someone needs a Chocolatine and/or Morning Bun from La Farine.
Someone GOT a Chocolatine from La Farine!! Also, he got a ham and cheese puff pastry that was "to die for." The pastry is history. I went next door to Peet's and got a particularly strong large latte.
The latte is currently working on the puff pastry...the chocolatine can wait.
So...
-One can describe which "pretty cupcake/fat-inducing/heart-attack-causing sugary treats" they are eating, but they just shouldn't post pics of them?
-Does "latte + puff pastry = POOH"? If so, I look forward to the resultant pictures. ;D ::)
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Happy Valentine's Day to all at HainesHisWay.com
I changed the color. Pink is hard to read
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
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(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/CharminTS2008.jpg)
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I don't think there is a disco song that I do not love!
R U Gay?
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Ethel Does Disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBf-oGC7yg)
Frightening!
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Good morning all. I'm up, as is Toby. I "slept in" this morning until almost 7. Since my usual waking time is 5 or earlier, this felt wonderful. Toby is getting over his cold, and I am slowly getting over mine. Thank god for Afrin.
Last night, DH Jed and I let a dear friend of ours take care of Toby, and we went out for a night on the town. We had some fabulously fabulous Greek food, including souvlaki (I had chicken, Jed had lamb) on noodles in garlic sauce, and some tzatziki with a radish base instead of cucumber, which was delicious.
Then we went to see our own DR TCB in the production of Glorious. Well, I wish the reviewer of last week could have been at this performance, because it was just marvelous. DH Jed and I both agreed that our TCB has such perfect comedic timing and delivery, and he was so very funny. The show itself was very enjoyable too, and the woman playing Florence Foster Jenkins was absolutely hysterical! It takes a great singer to be able to deliberately sing that badly. All in all, we really enjoyed it, and it was great to have a night out, just the two of us, to relax a bit. It's been a very long week.
When we got home, we had about 20 minutes of peace before Toby woke up and the usual nighttime hell of trying to sleep with a stuffy nose began. Today I'm going shopping for remedies that might possibly help. I've already got the humidifier and the bulb aspirator, but there must be something else.
Oh yes, Happy Valentines Day to one and all, and also all and one.
Thank you DDIL Ann for the kind words. Last night's audience was with us from the start. A wonderful crowd. Ole! Our leading lady Sharry, who BK, Jose, and Michael Shayne met at WHAT IF?, was very sick last night. Still she gave a wonderful performance.
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My favorite disco song is On The Radio. And I like the Village People's songs.
I also like The Village People's movie: CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.
Me too!
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DR Ann, a romantic evening out with DH Jed & a great show- :) I especially enjoyed reading about our talented DR TCB.
Thank you, Jane. I wish you could have seen me on stage sometime.
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Here's a pic of "Kitty" and my roommate, Jim, that was taken a couple of minutes ago.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/KittyandJim.jpg)
It was sort of a "Farewell Kitty" pic. Faith had been trying to find a shelter that would take Kitty, but it turned out that her boyfriend - who lives in Brooklyn - decided to keep and take care of Kitty. -Which would allow Faith to keep seeing Kitty. ;)
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Pictures of Joe Biden at BILLY ELLIOT last night
http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=354541&str=76004&styp=clbi&navtyp=gls
Woo-hoo, Mr. B.T. McNicholl.
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Here's a pic of "Kitty" and my roommate, Jim, that was taken a couple of minutes ago.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/KittyandJim.jpg)
It was sort of a "Farewell Kitty" pic. Faith had been trying to find a shelter that would take Kitty, but it turned out that her boyfriend - who lives in Brooklyn - decided to keep and take care of Kitty. -Which would allow Faith to keep seeing Kitty. ;)
Is Jim still available for adoption?
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Hmmm...
Sounds like someone needs a Chocolatine and/or Morning Bun from La Farine.
Someone GOT a Chocolatine from La Farine!! Also, he got a ham and cheese puff pastry that was "to die for." The pastry is history. I went next door to Peet's and got a particularly strong large latte.
The latte is currently working on the puff pastry...the chocolatine can wait.
So...
-One can describe which "pretty cupcake/fat-inducing/heart-attack-causing sugary treats" they are eating, but they just shouldn't post pics of them?
-Does "latte + puff pastry = POOH"? If so, I look forward to the resultant pictures. ;D ::)
You ASKED, Jose. I answered your question. I didn't just put it out there over and over and over again....
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Happy Valentine's Day to all at HainesHisWay.com
I changed the color. Pink is hard to read
I think one of the things I like least about HainesHisWay, lately, is this tendency on the part of others to correct someone's spelling or word usage. Now we can add to that "color" usage.
I suggest folks use the colors and words THEY wish to...and others might reconsider their tendencies to "correct". It comes off rather badly, in translation,I think.
I chose pink for my Valentine's Dayt greeting because I wanted it to be pink. I had a blue background. The red looked crass to me.
If it's hard to read, do one of YOUR OWN rather than correcting mine and calling attention to it.
I took it as a slap....and I did not appreciate it one bit.
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Got snot?
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Is Jim still available for adoption?
Not right now. But I'll keep you posted.
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Back from the long jog and have showered and am waiting on the very errant Mr. Geissman.
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Who hasn't even left his house yet - he'll be here in about fifteen minutes - most unseemly.
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Got snot?
Oh, I think you have a sufficiency of that!
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Love roses. And Jane might remember I love blue roses - name that play.
Well, "Glass Menagerie' of course. i assume you played the Gentleman Caller.
I played Tom, actually. "I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve."
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I don't think there is a disco song that I do not love!
R U Gay?
Which reminds me of a License Plate I once saw in Boston, MA
GAY RU2
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
Happy Birthday, Oregon!
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Today is Oregon's 150th birthday.
And Arizona's 97th.
And Happy Birthday, Arizona! ;D
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Dance A Little Closer has some lovely numbers and some bad numbers and poor Len Cariou's voice was, unfortunately, fairly trashed by that point.
And it was one of the biggest horrors onstage i've ever seen! Liz Robertson looked lke Cyd Charisse doing a Julie Andrews impersonation.
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For you Twitterers--the Oregonian reports on its front page this morning that bunch of people who took Mad Men character names are actually Portlanders, and it turns out "Peggy Olson" is a very great sounding jazz vocalist I know.
"@PeggyOlson" or "@Peggy_Olson" or @BadPeggyOlson"?
Regardless of who she is, did she attend the "Shorty Awards" earlier this week here in NYC?
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Got snot?
Oh, I think you have a sufficiency of that!
Got glop then?
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From yesterday's NY Times' "Wordplay" blog:
How I Proposed to My Wife, by Jeremy Zilar (http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/daredevils/)
...Which appears after the initial daily puzzle blurb.
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And from today's "Wordplay" blog...
Just a neat picture of Edith Head working on her designs:
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/13/crosswords/13edithhead_533.jpg)
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Pictures of Joe Biden at BILLY ELLIOT last night
http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=354541&str=76004&styp=clbi&navtyp=gls
Woo-hoo, Mr. B.T. McNicholl.
I had no idea BT was working on "Billy elliot!" He's a great guy. I didn't see my friend David Chase. I'm sure he was conducting.
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I was up early, and at the store by six AM. When I arrived, there was already a customer, waiting for the store to open.
From six to seven, there was a regular stream of customers, all male.
And it stayed like for the rest of the day, plus the usual customers.
A steady stream of men.
A steady stream of heterosexual men.
A steady stream of poor, poor, pussywhipped heterosexual men.
In fact, the stream was building in momentum as the morning came to a close.
Very few of the men were smiling, by the way. Many of them looked downright grim.
Gina, who runs the Florist's department, is going to have phenomenal sales once again this year.
There were a few women buying flowers and other gifties, but not nearly as much as the men, and they usually had their girlfriends with them.
Occasionally, there was the guessably gay fellow getting something for his sweetie.
There were no straight women getting gifties for their fellows, as far as I could tell.
Nope, for the most part Valentine's Day is men giving gifties to their ladies fair, but not vice versa.
At least, gifties that involve spending money.
And that is the supermarket report for today.
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Pictures of Joe Biden at BILLY ELLIOT last night
http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=354541&str=76004&styp=clbi&navtyp=gls
Woo-hoo, Mr. B.T. McNicholl.
I had no idea BT was working on "Billy elliot!" He's a great guy.
Yep, B.T. is the "Resident Director" for Billy Elliot.
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And this year's Beard Award Nominations for Chefs and Restaurants have been released.
One of the nominees for Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic Region, is Jay Caputo, who owns and runs Espuma, here in Rehoboth!
Chef Jay was busy at his restaurant today, so one of his sous chefs came in and bought about $100 of lobsters. I sent congrats via the sous chef.
I actually know a Beard Award Nominee. I feel like I'm moving up in the world!
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Page Seven "I need a nap" Dance:
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Congrats to Chef Jay!
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VIXMOM, you need Marvelous Matt! Seriously, you may be able to find someone from the construction business who is in need of work right now--so many are. I certainly hope you do!
Do you think we could pay to fly Marvelous Matt down to Florida to help Danise, if things don't work out with her guy?
that's actually not a bad idea.
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Congratulations to Chef Jay on his Beard nomination and belated congratulations to DR Elmore's friends on their Larson grant.
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Here's a pic of "Kitty" and my roommate, Jim, that was taken a couple of minutes ago.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/KittyandJim.jpg)
It was sort of a "Farewell Kitty" pic. Faith had been trying to find a shelter that would take Kitty, but it turned out that her boyfriend - who lives in Brooklyn - decided to keep and take care of Kitty. -Which would allow Faith to keep seeing Kitty. ;)
What a doll!! I'm so glad kitty has found humans who will take care of her
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Jim is cute too!
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I was up early, and at the store by six AM. When I arrived, there was already a customer, waiting for the store to open.
From six to seven, there was a regular stream of customers, all male.
And it stayed like for the rest of the day, plus the usual customers.
A steady stream of men.
A steady stream of heterosexual men.
A steady stream of poor, poor, pussywhipped heterosexual men.
In fact, the stream was building in momentum as the morning came to a close.
Very few of the men were smiling, by the way. Many of them looked downright grim.
Gina, who runs the Florist's department, is going to have phenomenal sales once again this year.
There were a few women buying flowers and other gifties, but not nearly as much as the men, and they usually had their girlfriends with them.
Occasionally, there was the guessably gay fellow getting something for his sweetie.
There were no straight women getting gifties for their fellows, as far as I could tell.
Nope, for the most part Valentine's Day is men giving gifties to their ladies fair, but not vice versa.
At least, gifties that involve spending money.
And that is the supermarket report for today.
Or Maybe the "Ladies fair" purchased their gifts before Valentine's day and not at the last minute
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Jim is cute too!
What kitty?
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Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
It is not where your peanut butter is made, Jennifer, that you have to worry about. The problem is where they purchased the peanuts to make the butter.
I read the list DR Jane posted for Canada. I did not recognized 90% of the brands. And the ones i did recognize i don't buy.
There hasn't been much news of the recalls here. It doesn't seem like they are recalling any main brands.
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I tried to go to the mall and do some errands. As soon as I got outside and headed toward town I realized that I have a headache a bit of a sore throat and am a little dizzy. I started to feel a cold coming on last night, but was hoping it wouldn't really happen.
So, I went to the grocery store - where I saw a number of men and women buying the $9.99 per dozen roses - and got my weekend supplies. MAN has steak gone up in price. I was going to make a nice steak dinner, but not for these prices. Anyway, after getting groceries and a quick trip to Petco, I am in for the weekend. I did bring home the work I want to do and the info I need to do my taxes, so I may do that here at home.
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Last night on the news they reported that home values here increased 5% over the past year and foreclosures are at the lowest in 5 years. Our local economy was bad when everyone else was good. The inflation, however we have. It seemed like all the prices at the store today were higher than in the past.
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Happy Valentine's Day. Almost forgot to say that.
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Off to do two shows. Back late (r).
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Off to do two shows. Back late (r).
Break a leg!
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DR Samantha has created facebook profiles for 2 of their dogs - apparently Zoey isn't interested in facebook. The funny thing is they each have about a dozen friends already!
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Break A Leg - Twice, DR TCB!
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For you Twitterers--the Oregonian reports on its front page this morning that bunch of people who took Mad Men character names are actually Portlanders, and it turns out "Peggy Olson" is a very great sounding jazz vocalist I know.
"@PeggyOlson" or "@Peggy_Olson" or @BadPeggyOlson"?
Regardless of who she is, did she attend the "Shorty Awards" earlier this week here in NYC?
I think it's the first one, Jose, and, yes, she's in NYC at this very moment. Some big announcement was made yesterday at the Twitter Awards or whatever the hell they're called. The fact that this made the front page of The Oregonian may give some indication of the lack of anything ever happening out here. ;)
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Wow, I introduced Singers Unlimited to DAW, Gershon's "September" to FJL, and Dusty Groove to BK. I'm quite the social butterfly. ;)
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I just went a little nuts at the Circuit City going out of business sale and picked up a ton of BDs at 40% off.
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For you Twitterers--the Oregonian reports on its front page this morning that bunch of people who took Mad Men character names are actually Portlanders, and it turns out "Peggy Olson" is a very great sounding jazz vocalist I know.
"@PeggyOlson" or "@Peggy_Olson" or @BadPeggyOlson"?
Regardless of who she is, did she attend the "Shorty Awards" earlier this week here in NYC?
I think it's the first one, Jose, and, yes, she's in NYC at this very moment. Some big announcement was made yesterday at the Twitter Awards or whatever the hell they're called. The fact that this made the front page of The Oregonian may give some indication of the lack of anything ever happening out here. ;)
Yep, "she" won the Advertising "Shorty" over some "real people". There was a lot of speculation over who would actually show up to accept the award - especially since Elizabeth Moss is currently in town with Speed the Plow.
SHORTY AWARDS (http://www.shortyawards.com)
*A bunch of the real people behind the Twitter screen names have been revealed over the past couple of months. I do have to give them credit for staying in character an "in era"(!) when people have asked them questions. They've had to be very careful when responding to a query about a particular brand name, product or song.
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Yes--the Oregonian specifically mentioned that "Peggy" thought the Super Bowl was Tupperware. :)
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OK - I believe I'm going to spend a few hours of this February 14th/Valentine's Day/Single's Awareness Day down in Chinatown. -I'm in the mood for some pork and chive dumplings from Prosperity Dumpling - five for a dollar! Sounds like a "romantic meal" to me. ;)
Laters...
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Careful, DR DAW - Those might be considered sugar-laden and fattening.
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Does anyone know of a possible source if I need to handle this myself?
We get the new upgrade every year, DR elmore3003. But the software is registered and can't be re-installed on another machine.
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Careful, DR DAW - Those might be considered sugar-laden and fattening.
Quite right, DR JoseSPiano. I've deleted the offending image.
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Does anyone know of a possible source if I need to handle this myself?
We get the new upgrade every year, DR elmore3003. But the software is registered and can't be re-installed on another machine.
I know this probably further aligns me with the luddites, but I hate, hate, hate Finale. It is the most non-intuitive music notation program I have ever encountered. For everyday SATB charts I still use Encore. So sue me.
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
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What a doll!! I'm so glad kitty has found humans who will take care of her
I'm glad too. And I'm really glad that both Faith and Jim realized that it would be impractical and totally unfair to Kitty if they had decided to keep Kitty here. All of us here have very non-regular schedules, and it would have been nearly impossible to make sure that Kitty got fed regularly and was given the attention and petting and cuddling that he deserves.
They're also still trying to figure out if Kitty was a real stray or if someone just abandoned Kitty. Kitty seemed very clean (healthy paw pads, etc.) and well-behaved, and responded to "Come here", "Don't go there", "Go outside". But Kitty was not spayed - that will happen next week. So... ??? But there have been no signs up in the neighborhood about a missing cat - well, at least one matching Kitty's description. And Faith also checked craiglist over the past week and a half looking for notices.
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Careful, DR DAW - Those might be considered sugar-laden and fattening.
Quite right, DR JoseSPiano. I've deleted the offending image.
NO MORE DELETING!!!!!!!!
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Exactly!
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Congrats!!!
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Here part of those pounds are...probably all derived from sugary treats:
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How about this one:
(http://www.nutritioncouncil.org/memberservices/images/Fat.jpg)
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Exactly!
It's not the gaining of weight...it's rubbing folks' nose in things they might be trying to avoid.
It's called "common courtesy" or "respect" for folks trying to eliminate a lifetime of bad habits and impulse eating.
But DO continue to "enable" and "facilitate" with all that free time you have to visit all those bakeries.
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How about this one:
(http://www.nutritioncouncil.org/memberservices/images/Fat.jpg)
Even better...that's how the fat looks to surgeons who have to perform bypass surgery.
Glad you recognize what it looks like.
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Got this from a friend as an animal valentine.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=Rooyt3ptNco
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For Valentine's I took myself to Star India for lunch after my grocery shopping. It was yummy, and I read the latest issue of FILMFARE magazine while I ate.
Dog Bosco and Freddy got me several vintage Bollywood movie press books which I have enjoyed adding to my collection. That was sweet of them.
Now I need a nap.
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Here part of those pounds are...probably all derived from sugary treats:
I think many of mine were from lots of meat and potatoes and butter and sour cream and.....
I think this is a little like a spoiler, if you don't want to look at the photos, don't look at them. DR Jose is truly a gifted food photographer and I truly enjoy looking at the composition of the photos. I'm not trying to be snarky about it, but I'd really miss seeing the photos
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Looking a photos of delicous treats will not bother me while I am trying to lose a few pounds.
However looking at photos of pooh will make me vomit on the ground.
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Maybe some CHEYENNE before I take that nap. Might help with pleasant dreams.
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Exactly!
It's not the gaining of weight...it's rubbing folks' nose in things they might be trying to avoid.
It's called "common courtesy" or "respect" for folks trying to eliminate a lifetime of bad habits and impulse eating.
But DO continue to "enable" and "facilitate" with all that free time you have to visit all those bakeries.
Don't forget the burger joints, the hot dog stands, the candy stores, the street carts...
Speaking for myself - With the very recent health scares and concerns that both of my parents have been dealing with, I am very aware of the pitfalls of some of the foods I eat and enjoy. But just because I take a picture of a macaron, Levain cookie or a cupcake from Magnolia, does not necessarily mean I've eaten said treat. Or eaten them on the day I posted the picture. -BK mentioned cupcakes the other day, and I just happened to have taken a pic of cupcakes a few months ago... -FYI - There were four cupcakes in that picture, in that box - one was for me, and the remainder were for my roommates.
I know I have a tendency to indulge. However, I've made a very conscious effort over the past year to make sure I balance that out with additional physical activity. Do I go to the gym regularly? No. However, I usually walk anywhere from four to eight miles a day. I do eat and enjoy "healthy food" too. I just tend not to take pictures of those items. In fact, I lost 15 pounds and two inches off my waist last year in spite of and despite my Enabling.
Food is primarily nourishment - it's what keeps us alive. Food should also taste good. Food should be savored and enjoyed - whether it's meat, fish, vegetable, fruit, flour-based, sugar-sweetened or cream-laden. If pictures and descriptions of food are making you "uncomfortable", well...
Put down the Morning Bun and the Chocolatine!
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And speaking of walking and eating and walking and eating and walking... I believe I was on my way to Chinatown...
Laters...
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Maybe some CHEYENNE before I take that nap. Might help with pleasant dreams.
(http://www.mambaonline.com/images/features/gossip_040408_lrg1.jpg)
Or is that too sugar-laden and therefore also forbidden?
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Happy Valentine's Day to all at HainesHisWay.com
I changed the color. Pink is hard to read
Really? I didn't have any trouble reading it.
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I've just heard that John McGlinn is dead.
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There are a lot of good appliances you can get for less than $7000
Yes, if you want a Happy Days kitchen. If you want a professional high-powered 6@ 14" burner cook top with the necessary 1200cpm venting system and a pair of 30" bake/convection ovens, freezer, refrigerator and dishwasher - the tab goes up! And when you are preparing a holiday feast for 14 you are happy to have six burners and two ovens.
der Brucer
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Congrats on the weight loss.
No, you won't gain weight by looking at them, but personally *I* don't need the reminders of what I'm giving up presently. Subliminal messages of those pictures can linger. And they do say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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There are a lot of good appliances you can get for less than $7000
Yes, if you want a Happy Days kitchen. If you want a professional high-powered 6@ 14" burner cook top with the necessary 1200cpm venting system and a pair of 30" bake/convection ovens, freezer, refrigerator and dishwasher - the tab goes up! And when you are preparing a holiday feast for 14 you are happy to have six burners and two ovens.
der Brucer
Yes, I agree. But if you don't need that high powered and professional of a kitchen, you can have a nice one for much less. It all depends on what your needs are.
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Congrats on the weight loss.
No, you won't gain weight by looking at them, but personally *I* don't need the reminders of what I'm giving up presently. Subliminal messages of those pictures can linger. And they do say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Thanks and I do understand your point of view
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Maybe some CHEYENNE before I take that nap. Might help with pleasant dreams.
(http://www.mambaonline.com/images/features/gossip_040408_lrg1.jpg)
Or is that too sugar-laden and therefore also forbidden?
As an avowed meat eater, I must say that beefcake is NEVER forbidden.
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Does anyone know of a possible source if I need to handle this myself?
We get the new upgrade every year, DR elmore3003. But the software is registered and can't be re-installed on another machine.
I know this probably further aligns me with the luddites, but I hate, hate, hate Finale. It is the most non-intuitive music notation program I have ever encountered. For everyday SATB charts I still use Encore. So sue me.
I have no choice because it's the program everyone who's anyone uses in the NY theatre and it's program we're using on the Kern-Herbert project.
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Well, I watched BURN NOTICE (in HD!!!!!) while I ate lunch. And what a fabulous episode it was! Really, one of the most enjoyable caper episodes in the history of the show, I thought. I just LOVED how Michael turned the bank into one big booby trap for the bad guys. Fabulous in every way!
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I also spent the rest of the afternoon watching the rest of the bonus features on the SHADOWS DVD. One feature called "restoration comparison" was a bit of a misnomer. It was actually a documentary on how UCLA restored the film from the horrifying shambles it was in so that it could be watched. Only 11 1/2 minutes long, but every second of it was really fascinating.
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Tonight I'm going to watch SAVE ME, that movie about Christian ex-gay ministries starring Chad Allen and Robert Gant, among others. The DVD is available for purchase, but I thought I'd watch it on Showtime first (got the DVR to record the HD edition), and if I really liked it, then I'd think about a purchase.
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The next movie in my review queue is also gay-oriented: OUT AT THE WEDDING. I know nothing about it except what I read in the press release.
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I was in high school and college for Disco.
And here I thought college was for Pre-Law.
der Brucer
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I must jump off-line now to get some writing done.
WBBL.
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I was in high school and college for Disco.
And here I thought college was for Pre-Law.
der Brucer
Naw, I didn't decide to go to law school until my junior year in college
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Maybe some CHEYENNE before I take that nap. Might help with pleasant dreams.
(http://www.mambaonline.com/images/features/gossip_040408_lrg1.jpg)
Or is that too sugar-laden ...
No, but some added whipped cream topping might be nice.
der Brucer
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There are a lot of good appliances you can get for less than $7000
Yes, if you want a Happy Days kitchen. If you want a professional high-powered 6@ 14" burner cook top with the necessary 1200cpm venting system and a pair of 30" bake/convection ovens, freezer, refrigerator and dishwasher - the tab goes up! And when you are preparing a holiday feast for 14 you are happy to have six burners and two ovens.
der Brucer
Yes, I agree. But if you don't need that high powered and professional of a kitchen, you can have a nice one for much less. It all depends on what your needs are.
Well, if truth be told, there was probably a lot more "want" than "need" :)
der Brucer
Although, I think two ovens is close to a "need" if you any sort of dinner entertaining.
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Sugar is being too cute and sweet. She had to roll aoround on my bed for a bit and for some reason nibble on the corners of my pillowcases. I told her not to and that it was just a sham.
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Maybe some CHEYENNE before I take that nap. Might help with pleasant dreams.
(http://www.mambaonline.com/images/features/gossip_040408_lrg1.jpg)
Or is that too sugar-laden and therefore also forbidden?
I think that is worth any heart attack, stroke, high-cholesterol, anemia. gout....
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DR Ann, a romantic evening out with DH Jed & a great show- :) I especially enjoyed reading about our talented DR TCB.
Thank you, Jane. I wish you could have seen me on stage sometime.
Me too! Maybe one day I will.
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Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
It is not where your peanut butter is made, Jennifer, that you have to worry about. The problem is where they purchased the peanuts to make the butter.
I read the list DR Jane posted for Canada. I did not recognized 90% of the brands. And the ones i did recognize i don't buy.
There hasn't been much news of the recalls here. It doesn't seem like they are recalling any main brands.
The contaminated "peanut product" is mainly used by food processors (cookies, candy, etc.) and also packaged in bulk for institutional users - hospitals, schools, prisons, hotel kitchens, etc.)
der Brucer
My Mother used to pick-up some extra bucks working for a local "snack" distributor. She would sit in the back room of a store front moving peanut butter from 5 gallon "buckets" onto a variety of crackers and then rolling the finished product in cellophane and sealing the packages on a hot plate. I had to check in every day after school before I went about my business. It was piece work - so Mom could run home and check on a simmering pot roast if she wanted. When Mom combined her cracker earnings with my delivery boy/gardening funds, we had enough to pay for a two week family vacation in Sarasota Florida.
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Here's a pic of "Kitty" and my roommate, Jim, that was taken a couple of minutes ago.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/JoseSPiano/KittyandJim.jpg)
It was sort of a "Farewell Kitty" pic. Faith had been trying to find a shelter that would take Kitty, but it turned out that her boyfriend - who lives in Brooklyn - decided to keep and take care of Kitty. -Which would allow Faith to keep seeing Kitty. ;)
Sweet photo with a happy ending :)
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Sugar is being too cute and sweet. She had to roll aoround on my bed for a bit and for some reason nibble on the corners of my pillowcases. I told her not to and that it was just a sham.
I guess Sugar can't groan!
der Brucer
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Last night on the news they reported that home values here increased 5% over the past year and foreclosures are at the lowest in 5 years. Our local economy was bad when everyone else was good. The inflation, however we have. It seemed like all the prices at the store today were higher than in the past.
I should tell Craig to look for a job near you.
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
CONGRATULATIONS!
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CONGRATULATIONS to DR Cillaliz on such a super milestone! :)
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I've just heard that John McGlinn is dead.
I wonder if any of the wronged parties will have a hard time getting their purloined scores back now.
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Thanks for the congrats. It's still a long way to go, but I am very proud I'm half way there
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Well, I watched BURN NOTICE (in HD!!!!!) while I ate lunch. And what a fabulous episode it was! Really, one of the most enjoyable caper episodes in the history of the show,
It was a great episode :)
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I've just heard that John McGlinn is dead.
I wonder if any of the wronged parties will have a hard time getting their purloined scores back now.
I was on the phone about this with Ron Raines; I doubt McGlinn had a will or an executor and I wonder if any of his family who end up cleaning out his mess will know what to do with all of his "borrowed" items and return them to the proper places, like the original scores for NO NO NANETTE, or the stuff he was supposed to send to the Library of Congress when they bought his collection and found a lot of what he supposedly sent wasn't sent.
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Thanks for the info DR Jane. I will take a look at it. Although the peanut butter i buy is made in canada.
It is not where your peanut butter is made, Jennifer, that you have to worry about. The problem is where they purchased the peanuts to make the butter.
I read the list DR Jane posted for Canada. I did not recognized 90% of the brands. And the ones i did recognize i don't buy.
There hasn't been much news of the recalls here. It doesn't seem like they are recalling any main brands.
The contaminated "peanut product" is mainly used by food processors (cookies, candy, etc.) and also packaged in bulk for institutional users - hospitals, schools, prisons, hotel kitchens, etc.)
der Brucer
My Mother used to pick-up some extra bucks working for a local "snack" distributor. She would sit in the back room of a store front moving peanut butter from 5 gallon "buckets" onto a variety of crackers and then rolling the finished product in cellophane and sealing the packages on a hot plate. I had to check in every day after school before I went about my business. It was piece work - so Mom could run home and check on a simmering pot roast if she wanted. When Mom combined her cracker earnings with my delivery boy/gardening funds, we had enough to pay for a two week family vacation in Sarasota Florida.
I figured someone would have answered the question by the time I caught up.
Interesting story, and sweet you combined your part time earning for a vacation.
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This afternoon the Goldstein sisters and I went for a walk, and this is what we saw:
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The Daily Irony:
A provision limiting compensation for top executives of companies receiving federal bailout assistance was dropped from the Stimulus Bill - the Government didn't want to lose the expected $11 billion they will collect on the multimillion dollar salaries.
der Brucer
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Where did you walk DR Laura, your garden?
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
If pictures and descriptions of food are making you "uncomfortable", well...
Put down the Morning Bun and the Chocolatine!
I seldom -- SELDOM -- have a morning bun OR a chocolatine. Do remember that it was YOU who brought them up, not me.
I love it when we have pictures of favorite foods.
But when one person posts cupcake photos, does it then require several people doing it, too?
What is cute the first time one reads or sees it becomes VERY tired the 4th, 6th or 7th time it's repeated.
I'll get over it. I always do. I hope you will, too.
;)
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Interesting story, and sweet you combined your part time earning for a vacation.
And mine was the larger portion. This blue-eyed bond-headed pre-teen could charm the bucks right out of the old ladies purses; just sit and be interested in tales about "when I was young". Actually, it wasn't hard to "be interested". A lot of the stories were about life in late nineteenth century rural America, and other's were tales on immigrating from Europe or Russia. (And the scrap book pictures were amazing!)
der Brucer
I wish now I'd kept a journal.
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Where did you walk DR Laura, your garden?
We went to the arboretum about 50 miles away.
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Where did you walk DR Laura, your garden?
We went to the arboretum about 50 miles away.
Dang! That was a LONG walk!
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Indeed!
Then we stopped at the Black Bear Diner for lunch before heading home. Mr. Goldstein has pneumonia, so I know he needed the time to catch up on his rest.
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Where did you walk DR Laura, your garden?
Heck with the walk, I want to hear more about Mrs Goldstein's rendition of "Another Suitcase In an Another Hall".
der Brucer
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...the Black Bear Diner
Is the Black Bear proprietor, guest, or entree?
der brucer
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I dunno. I didn't see her. I guess he let her in.
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I hope Mr Goldstein feels better very soon.
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How did McGlinn die?
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I always enjoy the food pictures from Jose and others. Even though I've lost forty-five pounds I, too, like to look - it's not a temptation, just fun, for me at least.
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I"m spending Valentine's with my niece who is watching Dora in the other room.I guess the movie Dora and the pirate piggies must be hilarious because she is laughing like crazy!
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This site is becoming more and more difficult to read at the office! :) :)
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I've just heard that John McGlinn is dead.
And even if he's not, his career is.
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Back from the Hollywood Show. Yes that's the new name because after all these years, Ray Courts has sold the show to someone else. I don't know how much they paid him or what the deal is, but he's on for the next two years as a "consultant." I will say that today's show was pretty jammed - all you need is Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Malcolm MacDowell and a few more heavyweights. But the thing that really did it, I have to tell you, is Joan Collins. For the first time ever, they put her in another room all by herself, and for the first time ever you have to pay to even get IN the room - that's on top of the twenty bucks to get into the show AND whatever she's charging for her pix and autograph. And yes, huge lines for her, MacDowell, Curtis (who looks TERRIBLE and is in a wheel chair), Debbie, and Debbie's daughter, Carrie Fisher, who doesn't even resemble what she used to look like.
It was very hard to see who was there, because there were people everywhere, but I spied usual suspects such as Dwayne Hickman, Warren Berlinger, Jon Provost, but also newer folks like Yaphet Kotto and Bruce Davison. People seemed to be spending a LOT of money, too. I also saw our very own Druxy. Grant and I had a good time - he bought one magazine for $5.00. There were more dealers, too. I did hear the ominous rumblings that the new owners will try to bring in a younger crowd - I do hope that doesn't mean they'll only want current people signing - that would be the kiss of death for this show. But, if they can get the kind of lineup they had today - well, they'll be back on their feet, I think.
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DR FJL your music links from this morning were most enjoyable.
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I'm spending Valentine's Day evening alone - and I'm not so happy about it.
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Page Ten.....but this is not exactly dance....in fact, I think it is the ANTI-Dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOP8PiWauHM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOP8PiWauHM&feature=related)
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Grant and I went to the Daily Grill next door to the show - I had the salad wedge - they've changed the way they do it - it used to be a wedge with bleu cheese crumbles, bacon, diced tomatoes, and a very good and light vinaigrette. The latter has been replaced by a creamy bleu cheese dressing. But they were kind enough to do it the old way for me.
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Extra money to see Joan Collins? I am appalled.
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Oh, and I had nice chats with writer Arnie Kogan (who was visiting), Gary Owens, and Chuck McCann.
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I'm spending Valentine's Day evening alone - and I'm not so happy about it.
Learn to dance and a whole new world will open up to you.
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Two episodes of COPS tonight!
Happy Birthday to Oregon and Arizona!
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Any photos from the Hollywood Show?
How was DR DRUXY doing?
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So, I'll have something very light for later, plus a sweet or two, since I did do the long jog.
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The Jim that's in Jose's photos with the kitty is the very same Jim who, along with the wonderful people at his company, is responsible for the visual aspects of the videos I've been posting on youtube and linking here, like the "Fish" parody with its fabulous and inventive photo selections and timing.
Definitely not disco, but here are a couple of the most recent ones, which I don't think I've linked here before. These two are wedding-related, one a "traditional" ceremony song as written in the show it was written for, the other a same-sex ceremony song:
"I Look Into Those Eyes" - In the show, it's a ballad in which the character celebrates being accepted into a new family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HcENPH12UU
"A Perfect Day" - same-sex wedding vows - vocals on the demo are performed by Janie Smulyan and Maureen Silliman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrH_uvXk_0
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When I saw Druxy, his whole aisle was fairly empty, but I'm sure that changed as the day went by. His ever-lovin' Sandy was with him. I honestly don't know if I'll have time to get there tomorrow. I wouldn't be able to be there before three-thirty, and I know that on Sunday a lot of people pack up early if it's not busy - and do I need to spend another twenty bucks to hang out for an hour - I would like to say hey to Linda Purl and my pal Nick will be there so I'd get to meet Malcolm MacDowell, but, you know, I'm thinking not.
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I hope Mr Goldstein feels better very soon.
He has a followup appointment this week, which he needs.
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Can you truly pass up a chance to meet Alex from A Clockwork Orange?
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Jrand - You could show Malcolm a few of your own steps from your SINGIN' IN THE RAIN. :)
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I'm spending Valentine's Day evening alone - and I'm not so happy about it.
Well, you have that fan club at the French Marketplace ;D
der Brucer
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Nice CHEYENNE...but this is the CHEYENNE I was enjoying.....
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/271468749_e49e98343e.jpg?v=0)
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I always enjoy the food pictures from Jose and others. Even though I've lost forty-five pounds I, too, like to look - it's not a temptation, just fun, for me at least.
Congrats BK, I hope to catch up with your weight loss soon
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Got a couple of mini-desserts plus some cucumber roll. And shortly I shall watch a nice long motion picture on DVD.
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The insufferable putz has emailed me an apology. Methinks I'll let him stew for a while before I accept. :)
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I"m about to take a nice long hot shower, put on my comfy clothes and curl up in my chair to see what's on TV. I may make a batch of popcorn later. I'm hoping that staying home and relaxing tonight may keep away the cold I seem to be trying to catch.
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I'm watching Charlie Brown Valentines shows. I always identified with Peppermint Patty. Which Peanuts character does anyone else identify with
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JMK - What if the putz reads HHW?
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Having played Lucy in the Camp Loyaltown production of YAGMCB, i guess the counselors must have seen some Ven Pelt in me. :)
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Ok, instead of cake or candy, here is a different kind of "sweets" picture.
(http://i41.tinypic.com/21m80ts.jpg)
My little Valentine :D
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I'm watching Charlie Brown Valentines shows. I always identified with Peppermint Patty. Which Peanuts character does anyone else identify with
Keith calls me Pig Pen. ;D
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DR Ann that is the best kind of "sweets" picture.:)
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It looks like we shall have snow tonight.
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What a great picture, DR ANN!!!
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LOL...DR FJL....as if I would remember any of those steps.
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Sugar has taken me or 4 walks today so far and made friends with 4 kids, the mail woman, an old man at a bus stop, 2 joggers, etc.
She's going to have me in great shape in 2 weeks.
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Page Eleven Dance
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FM8KKMJWL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
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Congrats to DR KERRY.....
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I made the mistake of switching to TCM and finding LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING.....one of my favorite romantic/tragic movies.....
And such beautiful music...and lovely CinemaScope photography....
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And I love the book as well.....if you like the movie....read the book.
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And Bruce, being alone this evening is not such a bad thing. Two friends whose romances collapsed have made me realize how lovely my time is. Yes, a warm breath on the back of neck, a kiss, etc., would be nice, but I hug lots of people, and that will do for now.
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JMK - What if the putz reads HHW?
Well, I guess that would be a suitable punishment... ;D
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Sweet little Toby! What a cute picture!!
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I'm watching Charlie Brown Valentines shows. I always identified with Peppermint Patty. Which Peanuts character does anyone else identify with
Keith calls me Pig Pen. ;D
Perhaps - with a lot of Sally mixed in.
der Brucer
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TOD
(not yet mentioned)
Disco Annie
Disco Evita
der Brucer
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JMK - What if the putz reads HHW?
Well, I guess that would be a suitable punishment... ;D
Or I could register for DVDTalk and make editorial comments on his posts.
der Brucer
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Finished watching the Bollywood movie I started last weekend, MISSION ISTANBUL (2008), an action film with the heros fighting a terrorist cell.
Every action film cliche ever is in this film and it was driving me crazy. Although I do think Nikitin Dheer might be a new favorite actor.
And there were a couple of amusing scenes featuring an actor playing George W. Bush not knowing where/what Turkey (the country) is, and that the US can't attack India because we would lose all the call centers and our economy would collapse. I guess India is not too fond of GWB.
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Nikitin Dheer
(http://www.masala.com/images/tmp/full/nikitindheer_full.jpg)
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JMK - What if the putz reads HHW?
Well, I guess that would be a suitable punishment... ;D
Or I could register for DVDTalk and make editorial comments on his posts.
der Brucer
Yes, you're right, that's a much better punishment! ;D ;D ;D
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Off to play an evening of love songs at a nice little bistro. TTFN.
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MBarnum - Do you know him well enough to call him Dheer?
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Watching a long motion picture - it's enjoyable, though. I'm really chilly, even though the heat is on and working fine.
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Happy Valentine's Day to all!
My valentine is currently winging his way to LA. Too bad he won't have time for the Collector's Show...
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TOD:
PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC
PICK UP THE PIECES
(don't know if those are real disco songs but I remember dancing The Hustle to these...)
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Any photos from the Hollywood Show?
How was DR DRUXY doing?
I sold/signed a few books, which is the reason I was there.
:)
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Congratulations, Cillaliz!
I'm at 31...I seem to be stuck here.
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And I like seeing the pictures, too!
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I'm spending Valentine's Day evening alone - and I'm not so happy about it.
Me, too. At least Greg is in the same city with YOU!
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I made the mistake of switching to TCM and finding LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING.....one of my favorite romantic/tragic movies.....
And such beautiful music...and lovely CinemaScope photography....
Did you know that the title song for that film, written by Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain, was almost thrown out of the picture?
No major recording artist wanted to record it. Not Tony Martin. Not Doris Day. Not Nat "King" Cole. Nobody!
Finally, Fox got The Four Aces to record it, but in order to do that, they had to cover the cost of an entire album.
Of course, the tune went on to win the Oscar and become one of the greatest love songs of all time.
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bk, if you go back tomorrow and see Bruce Davison, please tell him hello from Amy Baker in Georgia. He was the first actor I ever worked with, on SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER. He was so nice to everyone that I thought that's what all actors are like. Boy, it didn't take many films to prove that theory wrong!
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Congratulations, Cillaliz!
I'm at 31...I seem to be stuck here.
31! You should be proud of yourself-congratulations!
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MOON RIVER was almost thrown out of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S!
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I'm watching a documentary about calypso music. The Mighty Sparrow looks amazing for being in his '70's!
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I'm watching Charlie Brown Valentines shows. I always identified with Peppermint Patty. Which Peanuts character does anyone else identify with
Keith calls me Pig Pen. ;D
Perhaps - with a lot of Sally mixed in.
der Brucer
;D Except I was not a couch potato unless I was reading. Even then I often walked & read a book at the same time. There is a woman I see on the hiking trails that hikes and reads. I don't know how she does it.
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'night
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Hey, I like seeing sugar laden and fattening. I don't gain weight by looking at them.
Oh, have I mentioned I'm now half way to my goal. I've lost 35 pounds!
Congratulations, Cillaliz!
I'm at 31...I seem to be stuck here.
Congrats on 31! I was stuck for a little while and gained a little, but the past week I walked a lot and was really careful about what I was eating and think I'm back on track.
I need to lose lots this week because I will be eating whatever I want to while I'm in New Orleans. I will go to Cafe DuMond and we already have reservations at NOLA where we like to eat whatever they have for their multiple course dinner that day - complete with wine with each course. I can always lose it when I get home
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If you like Somewhere In Time, it's on over and over and over tonight.
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Good Evening!
I'm back from Chinatown which was quite crowded and busy, surprisingly so. -Although, I chatted briefly with a friend before his show tonight, and he said that Times Square was filled to the brim with tourists. "Recession? What recession?"
I did not end up having dumplings for dinner. Instead I had an amazingly delicious Vietnamese sandwich, banh mi. It was my first time checking out Banh Mi Saigon (http://www.yelp.com/biz/banh-mi-saigon-new-york), and I'm sure it won't be my last. The sandwich was very good, but the most interesting part of the dining experience was sitting down on the makeshift table-seats and "making friends" with my fellow diners - very close quarters. Oh, and the sandwich counter is in the back of a jewelry store!
For dessert, I tried to search out the famed "Tofu Man", but he did not seem to be out on the streets tonight. However, I believe I found his wife's store. For an amazingly reasonable $1.50 she ladled me out some fresh, still warm, tofu - Dou Hua - from a huge stock pot into a quart container, and then placed two small containers of ginger-infused simple syrup into the bag. I then hightailed it to the nearest park bench, opened the container, splashed some ginger syrup on top, and... :) I just hope my leftovers are even half as good tomorrow.
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Alas - and I guess "thankfully" - the Dou Hua was not at all photogenic. ;)
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DR Elmore - I've seen reports about John McGlinn's passing on other sites, but none of them have yet to have listed a cause of death, or even a place of death.
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:) :) HI, TOBY!!!!!! :) :)
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Sam (female) and Bob are recovering together and reportedly have bonded and hug each other frequently.
Sam is the Koala in the photo with the fireman
REFILE - ADDING NAME OF WILDLIFE CENTRE A koala named Bob (top), rescued from last week's deadly bushfires, puts his paw around new friend and fellow fire survivor Sam as she recovers from her burns at Southern Ash Wildlife Centre near Melbourne February 11, 2009. A love story about two koalas rescued from Australia's deadliest bushfires has provided a glimmer of hope after days of devastation and the loss of more than 180 lives. REUTERS/Southern Ash Wildlife Centre/Colleen Wood (AUSTRALIA)
9:01 a.m. ET, 2/11/09
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On Paula's Party tonight, Billy Joel's wife revealed that Billy Joel thought "chicken with dumplings" was a Chinese dish. The audience sounded amused, as did paula.
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Jose - Our Toby thought you were talking to him.
Silly dog, he doesn't know he can't read.
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Has anyone ever done a disco song called MY FUNKY VALENTINE?
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Great Photo of Toby!
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There is a woman I see on the hiking trails that hikes and reads. I don't know how she does it.
For starters, she probably leaves the dog at home.
der Brucer
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Enjoyed some wonderful things in tonight's viewing.
I began by watching "Fever," the last episode on disc one in the MOONLIGHT set. This is one of my favorite-ever MOONLIGHT episodes, and I savored every minute of it seeing it again.
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Great Photo of Toby!
Yeah - soon everybody will want one of their own.
der Brucer
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Next I watched SAVE ME, a film about an ex-gay organization in New Mexico. It's a fictional film with super performances by Chad Allen, Robert Gant and especially Judith Light. Stephen Lang is also in it. It's not a hysterical film about the subject, but rather a more reasoned and quiet look at one such organization. The Allen-Gant pairing showed some early chemistry but by the end, it seemed more tentative and I wasn't quite buying it. Still, a very enjoyable movie.
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Great Photo of Toby!
Yeah - soon everybody will want one of their own.
der Brucer
Uh, not everybody.
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Next up was PSYCH (in HD!!!!) Truth to tell, though the episode was very entertaining, it wasn't all that great in HD. It was grainier than I was expecting and a little washed out compared to other HD programming.
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Next was MONK (in HD!!!!!) and it was quite wonderful seeing it in HD for only the second time ever. (I saw one episode when NBC showed MONK and PSYCH on Sunday night's last season for a couple of weeks.) An amusing case with Steve Valentine as a great magician. Not a great mystery, but the show was less over the top than usual.
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Showtime was showing THERE WILL BE BLOOD in HD tonight, and so I tuned in to it for about 40 minutes. Looks much better in HD than the standard DVD I reviewed about 10 months ago.
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Love the photo of Toby!
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Next was MONK (in HD!!!!!)
First Burn Notice, then Psych, and now this.
Have you sent roses to your cable provider?
der Brucer
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Great Photo of Toby!
Yeah - soon everybody will want one of their own.
der Brucer
Not at my age...
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I just borrow them and return them.
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believe all reports on McGlinn's death have stemmed from the original emails I sent out to everyone I could think of whose email I had and who had worked with him, been burned by him, or knew him between 1984 and 2002. I also poasted it on the Cast Recording List so the news would travel fast from all that.
He was found dead in his apartment and it's believed he was dead 3 or 4 days. The detective in the apartment must have used his address book to call Russell Warner and others looking for a next of kin.
The detective told my friends he called that he suspected heart attack, but nothing would be certain till the coroner's report. Around 6:20, Kim Criswell called me from London, and she believes, since she spoke to him last month, it was a suicide. DR Ben arrived while I was on the phone with her.
After that, DR Ben and I went to Artie's for dinner, came back and watched the Bristol Old Vic production of Sheridan's THE RIVALS, a complete delight. It was a very lovely evening and nice to have a laugh after the shock of McGlinn's death.
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DR Ann - thank you for the lovely picture of DS Toby!
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Next was MONK (in HD!!!!!)
First Burn Notice, then Psych, and now this.
Have you sent roses to your cable provider?
der Brucer
But they made me wait SO long! Lots of you folks around the country have had USA-HD long before we got it.
Still, I will send an e-mail thanking them (and urging them toward FX-HD soon!)
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I, of course, knew nothing about Mr. McGlinn personally (except DR Elmore's bits and pieces the bulk of which are being saved for his memoirs). But I do know that his CDs of SHOW BOAT and BRIGADOON are often played and hugely enjoyed.
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Now I'm going to head downstairs and go to bed.
Good night!
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Hmm... Apparently some gunshots were fired a few blocks south of here (my apartment)... :-\
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Jose - did you hear the shots, or just heard reports of them?
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3446/3272729889_3b2966c206.jpg)
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Jose - did you hear the shots, or just heard reports of them?
I heard some police cars - and sirens - rushing by outside. And then some reports popped up on Twitter. And there's a helicopter overhead now too.
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DR Elmore - I've seen reports about John McGlinn's passing on other sites, but none of them have yet to have listed a cause of death, or even a place of death.
I went to Broadwayworld.com and Allthatchat and posted correctionsto a lot of the errors: one post said he died in London and someone put a whole article that could be better on wikipedia. Also, he did not die on 2/14/09.
The weirdest thing is that I had two friends named john, one McGlinn and one Schneidler, both dead now, whose birthdays were Sept. 18 and 20. My birthday is Sept 19.
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I, of course, knew nothing about Mr. McGlinn personally (except DR Elmore's bits and pieces the bulk of which are being saved for his memoirs). But I do know that his CDs of SHOW BOAT and BRIGADOON are often played and hugely enjoyed.
I think the SHOWBOAT and the BRIGADOON are the best things he recorded.
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Great Toby picture!!!
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I just borrow them and return them.
Are you charged a fine if they are overdue?
der Brucer
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Congrats to our weight loss twins Cilla and Amy :)
And to Bruce too, though he has been quiet about it lately.
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I had a wonderful evening at Chez Moore. Artie's is a great place for dinner and the waitress just let us gab and gab. Mushroom Barley soup and cheese blintzes. Yummy!
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Watching "SNL"...
Alec Baldwin as a "CouGay": :)
The Jonas Brothers: ??? I swear I can't understand a single word that they are "singing". -And I wonder if "America" knows that most of the instrumental sound they are hearing is coming from their "backup band". ::)
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It was great seeing a solid production of The Rivals. I read the play in college and did scenes from it in various classes. I also used a piece for auditions early in my "career". This was a well cast and all around well done production.
Next up on our "Classical" Theatre agenda, She Stoops to Conquer.
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Oh, yes, I forgot, after Artie's, at Intermission of The Rivals, there was pecan pie from Magnolia Bakery and Hagen Daz ice cream. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
When I left I walked to 79th Street and got on the downtown train which was just pulling into the station as I swiped through the turnstile. It was a crowded train. What are all these people doing out on a Saturday night ;)
I got home in a very short while and now I'm up past my bedtime because I had pecan pie, ice cream and Constant Comment tea.
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The Jonas Brothers: ??? I swear I can't understand a single word that they are "singing". -And I wonder if "America" knows that most of the instrumental sound they are hearing is coming from their "backup band". ::)
They are not "artists", they are "objects of adoration".
der Brucer
(or in some cases, lust)
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The Jonas Brothers: ??? I swear I can't understand a single word that they are "singing". -And I wonder if "America" knows that most of the instrumental sound they are hearing is coming from their "backup band". ::)
They are not "artists", they are "objects of adoration".
der Brucer
(or in some cases, lust)
I suspect the the lead-singer Jonas brother - Joe? - will be branching off to a solo career. -His two brothers are growing out of their "cute phase".
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Next up on our "Classical" Theatre agenda, She Stoops to Conquer.
238 years old - and still funny!
It was used as an introduction to English drama in out 9th grade all-male English class.
der Brucer
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Next up on our "Classical" Theatre agenda, She Stoops to Conquer.
238 years old - and still funny!
It was used as an introduction to English drama in out 9th grade all-male English class.
der Brucer
and that was 238 years ago? ;)
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Well, 12 hours from now I will actually be supervising some vocals for a recording project. -I just got recruited for it earlier this afternoon. And, yes, some "See-lebrities" will be involved. :) So...
Goodnight.
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Finished with my viewing. A peculiar Valentine's Day, but, you know, it is what it is. I'm listening to CDs now. I went to Staples to Xerox the new Nudie script so I could proof a hard copy before Xeroxing 15 copies for Wednesday, but apparently they close early on Saturdays (I was there at seven-thirty). The good news is that I'm laying down the demo tracks on Tuesday and we'll do the vocals on Friday.
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Amy/Edi, you're a sweetheart!!!
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Next up on our "Classical" Theatre agenda, She Stoops to Conquer.
238 years old - and still funny!
It was used as an introduction to English drama in out 9th grade all-male English class.
der Brucer
and that was 238 years ago? ;)
Well, my memory is a bit fuzzy.
der Brucer
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Happy Valentine's Day to all at HainesHisWay.com
I changed the color. Pink is hard to read
I think one of the things I like least about HainesHisWay, lately, is this tendency on the part of others to correct someone's spelling or word usage. Now we can add to that "color" usage.
I suggest folks use the colors and words THEY wish to...and others might reconsider their tendencies to "correct". It comes off rather badly, in translation,I think.
I chose pink for my Valentine's Dayt greeting because I wanted it to be pink. I had a blue background. The red looked crass to me.
If it's hard to read, do one of YOUR OWN rather than correcting mine and calling attention to it.
I took it as a slap....and I did not appreciate it one bit.
It was not meant to be that. I apologize, I was just trying to be helpful. Believe me Mr. Pullium there was no bad intention on my part and I hope you can see that.
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I'm full from eating too many grapes. Yes, I have gripes about grapes.
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I'm full from eating too many grapes. Yes, I have gripes about grapes.
And from eating too many grapes a person can develop la grippe.
der Brucer
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I made the mistake of switching to TCM and finding LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING.....one of my favorite romantic/tragic movies.....
And such beautiful music...and lovely CinemaScope photography....
Did you know that the title song for that film, written by Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain, was almost thrown out of the picture?
No major recording artist wanted to record it. Not Tony Martin. Not Doris Day. Not Nat "King" Cole. Nobody!
Finally, Fox got The Four Aces to record it, but in order to do that, they had to cover the cost of an entire album.
Of course, the tune went on to win the Oscar and become one of the greatest love songs of all time.
but didn't Frank Sinatra sing it in the film uncredited?
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I'm thinking about taking a shower. And yet, I'm just sitting here like so much fish on a Saturday night.
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I've just heard that John McGlinn is dead.
I know just how devastated you are over his death.
No more cryptic postings about a certain conductor.
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Do any of you people do occasional Spring cleaning, people-wise?
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I only met Mr. McGlinn once - had lunch with him at some restaurant on Broadway on the Upper West Side. He wanted to talk about us doing a project together - I told him quite honestly that I didn't think he'd be happy with a hands on producer who was involved in every aspect of a project. I think he knew I was right.
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I, of course, knew nothing about Mr. McGlinn personally (except DR Elmore's bits and pieces the bulk of which are being saved for his memoirs). But I do know that his CDs of SHOW BOAT and BRIGADOON are often played and hugely enjoyed.
I think the SHOWBOAT and the BRIGADOON are the best things he recorded.
If I may I would like to add
Anything Goes (Original Broadway version with dropped songs)
Kiss Me Kate (Complete recording although I am not crazy about all the singers on it)
Annie Get Your Gun (Original Broadway version with Kim Criswell)
Sitting Pretty (A great studio cast Judy Blazer, Davis Gaines, Jason Graae, Paige O'Hara, Roberta Peters, Paula Laurence, Beverly Lambert)
He made an attempt to record original complete scores that had never been done before
add: Broadway Showstoppers
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I only met Mr. McGlinn once - had lunch with him at some restaurant on Broadway on the Upper West Side. He wanted to talk about us doing a project together - I told him quite honestly that I didn't think he'd be happy with a hands on producer who was involved in every aspect of a project. I think he knew I was right.
I also met him once and at the same time Paige O'hara & Cris Groendaal
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However his big mistakes were
Lambert Wilson's musical album
Kiri Sings Gershwin (Kiri Te Kanawa)
Cole: Night and Day (Thomas Hampson)
My Funny Valentine (Von Staade)
Classic artist doing Broadway never did anything for me. Although Mr. lambert was not a classical artist.
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I've just heard that John McGlinn is dead.
I know just how devastated you are over his death.
No more cryptic postings about a certain conductor.
I can reveal now that he was indeed the Fat Conductor of Limited Talent and Limitless Ego. This is not the place or time to be his critic and I, as one who worked with him for nearly 20 years, am most likely his largest critic. I think his SHOW BOAT is a great achievement, but I'm also aware of his failings as scholar, researcher, musician and friend. I believe I am most saddened by the fact that the breach in our friendship is now irreparable and that his inner demons, of which there were many ugly ones, prevented him from having the helluva career his ego craved and the financial security his extravagance required.
Danny Burstein just emailed me and I know he and Rebecca are very sad, as are many of the talented performers John worked with.
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I would like to add to McGlinn's plus column
Kurt Weill On Broadway (A lot of unrecorded Love Life on this disc)
Gershwin, Porter, Kern Overtures
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Elmoore:
What about the recording of Leave It To Jane. Did that ever happen?
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Do any of you people do occasional Spring cleaning, people-wise?
What? Give up the source of our cherished grudges - NEVER!
der Brucer
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Elmoore:
What about the recording of Leave It To Jane. Did that ever happen?
I doubt it will ever be released.
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I can't sleep.
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I'm back from seeing our very own TCB and my friend Josh in Glorious! In a word: delightful! Sharry O'Hare played Florence and Tom played her boyfriend, St Clair (that's his name). Josh played Cosme (that's how it's spelled...it's pronounced COZ-may), Florence's accompanist. And he really played the piano. Everyone was very good. The house was more than three-quarters full and everyone seemed to have a great time. If I hadn't been able to usher and see the show for free, I definitely would not have minding paying for a ticket! ;D
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Hi, Larry!
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Gratuitous Post #400.
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Back to Page 8. :)
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Hi, Larry!
Hey, George! Do they mention in the play that Cosme McMoon later ran a gay whorehouse?
I can't sleep and I keep getting emails from folk who worked with John. I just heard from the wonderful and adorable Donna Lynne Champlin; her first job in New York, I think, was the lead in McGlinn's VERY WARM FOR MAY at Carnegie Recital Hall. I've had a couple of mails from George Dvorsky, Danny Burstein, Jeanne Lehman. Ron Raines . . .
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Hi, Larry!
Hey, George! Do they mention in the play that cosme McMoon later ran a gay whorehouse?
No, the show ends when Florence dies. They don't hide the fact (to the audience) that Cosme is gay, although Florence never suspects...or it's not in the show that she knows.
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Angela Lansbury is singing "And I Was Beautiful" (beautifully) on the digital show tunes channel. :)
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This site is becoming more and more difficult to read at the office! :) :)
I don't worry about it. ;)