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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were collectible, and now it is time for you to post until the collectible cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: LUDIC!
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As George pointed out in the other thread, I guess I've achieved 47,000 postings.
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I'm watching the TCM tribute to Chuck Jones from last week. They showed a dozen or show short cartoons (maybe less), as well as "The Phantom Tollbooth," which I've never seen. There was another long cartoon that I decided not to record, but I don't remember what that was. I had recorded the first three hour block to my DVD burner, but there was an emergency alert broadcast during the recording and the playback stopped. The recording didn't. I thought that the EAB might've happened during the original recording onto my DVR, but fortunately that didn't happen. I just have to re-record the shows onto my DVD burner.
Isn't that just thrilling?? ;D
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Collections? I suppose that you could say that I collect Kritzerland CDs. ;)
But actually, I collect key chains/key rings. I have no preference as to what kind. Anything and everything. What's great is that when friends/co-workers go on trips, they can't afford to get everyone a gift, but key chains are very cheap, so they usually get ME something. :D
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To bed.
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Yes, I am up late (early). Long story. Boring.
On to collections. I started my Farmer collection before eBay and like Bruce loved the hunt and the score. Finding the three 1937 Life Magazines she was in was one of my first major achievements because I had nothing to go on. I found a decrepit used bookstore in Portland with piles of magazines all over the floor and I literally just spent an afternoon there until I had found all three. Years later trying to find the 1941 Sunset that had a Natural Gas ad featuring Frances in her lovely Santa Monica home (next to the Del Rio/Gibbons manse) was also a snark hunt.
Once eBay came along, I was overwhelmed with the kinds of items that were available and, like Bruce, I just bought and bought and bought, frequently on pure whimsy, just because it was there. Interestingly, though, some of my coolest Farmer items have come extra-eBay, through email connections and the like. I think my favorite thing in that regard is her obviously one of a kind Passport from 1935, the Passport that took her on her journey to Europe and Russia and ultimately Paramount Pictures. But there are some other cool items I *did* get on eBay, like one of the few copies of Ferber's Come and Get It she must have signed at the Bon Marche in Seattle during the film's premiere, before storming off refusing to sign someone else's book, LOL.
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And for those of you waiting breathlessly to the one degree of separation between Frances and Kritzerland, it's Chet Forrest and Robert Wright, adapters of "Anya," who wrote the lyric to the theme from Frances' film "South of Pago Pago." That film had a bit played by Arnold Biberman, who went on to direct Miss Susan Gordon in an episode of "Ben Casey."
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CONGRATULATIONS to bk on his lofty new perch in the HHW firmament! :)
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Job vibes for DR Jane's DS Craig. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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My brother-in-law was painting the baby's room this weekend so my niece (and sister) stayed over for 2 days. My niece slept with me and when she woke up this morning she said, "what are you doing here?" I said, 'it's my bed!" :)
The funnier part was then she said, "no it's auntie's bed!". I said "I am auntie!"
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DR Jrand why do you dislike the red-heads? they are my favorite team!
Although i think that tammy/and victor (my second fav team) are the strongest
by far. I just love the red-heads. They are improving a lot. And they seem really
sweet and kind. I'm surprised anyone would dislike them! Btw, i was sad to see
the team that went go. It just shows that one stupid mistake (someone telling
them the gorilla statue was near the beach) and cost you the whole race!
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let bet met eiuoeriu het eekeke klele why oh why whe hey there one two three
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re: DR Cillaliz's comments from last night
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Pendants · Rings · Sets · Bracelets . Earrings · Pendants · Rings · Sets . Pendants
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DR Cillaliz i actually totally agree with what you wrote yesterday about the
stuntmen. I actually liked them better last night (even though they pulled that
stunt) than in the past. They are growing on me. They aren't my fav team. But
at least they showed a lot of personality. And in regards to them putting all the
bike stuff in that bin. IT wasn't right. BUt at least it wasn't malicious. They wanted
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Pendants · Rings · Sets · Bracelets . Earrings · Pendants · Rings · Sets . Pendants
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Congrats to MR BK on 47.000 posts!
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Doing some stuff.....back later.
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Congrats to BK on his new plateau
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Good morning, all! I'm off to Toyland for a bit and then back here to continue my edits on the Main Report for the new BIT edition.
On my way home, I need to stop at the post office and mail to Mr Kim Kowalke of the Kurt Weill Foundation a CD he requested of me. And that leads to the TOD: for a while I collected records and CDs but the inventory got too large and cumbersome, most of the new recordings of shows I loved sucked for various reasons and I stopped caring about thebulk and began paring down the collection to essentials. I also collect books on orchestration and authors I loke and books on composers I admire and scores, both orchestral - miniature and full - of musical theatre: opera, ballet, and musicals.
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I collected theater ticket stubs rather completely and thoroughly for a long long time. They were much easier to keep as a memory than the Playbills (which I gave up keeping long ago). But the proliferation of printable full-sheet tickets somehow helped stopped the completeness insanity of my ticket collection. I'm not sure whether I'm grateful for the madness being stopped or bothered that they're no longer automatically the easy and compact keepsakes they once were. :) I have a dear friend who will not voluntarily opt for the full-sheet printable tickets no matter how convenient that purchase option might otherwise be at the moment, because there is no traditional ticket to keep if you choose that option.
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I used to do the same, FJL, until the collection became too large. Of course, mine were the local shows and the tours, so I knew they had no value at all. So I dumped them all. I didn't have room for it.
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Lessee...
I've my cookbook collection (over 425 titles).
Der B has his collection of playbills (unknown quantity).
We share our collections of DVDs and CDs (How many? Oompityfratz is about as good a number as I can think of.)
Which, I suppose, is better than collecting dust.
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There has, of course, been a collection of dogs that have shared their lives with us over the years. Eightteen so far, if you include JJ, the cat. (JJ was an honorary dog.) Some have been with us for a very short time as foster children. Some have been with us their entire lives.
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BK, like you I'm a hopeless collector: Books: I have probably five to six thousand -- mostly late 19th century to 20th century adventure, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction. A huge portion of the books is film and theatre, particularly plays. Many of the books don't have any inherent value (though many do)...I've never bought a book I don't intend to read at some point.
When I moved from LA, I got rid of about 200 books...mostly seconds or what I call "behinders" --editions of books that I have upgraded and put on the shelf behind those books displayed there. It's the only time I've ever gotten rid of books.
I still have about 3,000 comics that I collected in college and a few years later.
I have sprawling CD, DVD, and video tape collections.
Most of the art in my home is comprised of vintage movie posters.
For a while, I dabbled in collecting walking sticks.
I also think I have a programme for every play I've ever been to since I started going to the theatre seriously in high school. One of the nice things about the home here in Kentucky is that there were photo display rails in the Hall in the library and they make a perfect place to show off the programs in a rotating display which I change every so often.
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TOD:
I've collected a lot of different crap stuff over the years: comics, old magazines, LPs, CDs, toys and action figures, toy robots, cereal premiums, Peanuts items, Popeye items...
The trouble with me is that I'm cheap and I could never make that leap to become a true collector who will put out the money for the truly valuable items. I've let slip by a lot of Holy Grails--the Remco LOST IN SPACE Robot, the LOST IN SPACE Switch 'n' Go playset, the Chien Charlie Brown talking bus--all because I didn't want to pay that high a price for them.
The two items that I did pay for: the Marx Mr. Magoo Jalopy (an early eBay purchase and I did get it at a good price considering it's near mint condition) and the often bragged about Alexis Smith Tony Award, both of which I continue to cherish.
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I've mentioned here before that while I was initially ecstatic over the treasure troves that became available via eBay, I've come to feel that it has also put a damper on my desire to collect. The site has made collecting much much too easy. I don't even have to really be vigilant these days--I search and more than likely, the sought-for item is there, in one condition or another. The thrill of the chase is gone.
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Aside from 1000s of movies/TV shows on DVD, I collect theatrical/motion picture memorabilia.
I have 10 signed/numbered Al Hirschfelds, plus many original lobby cards/posters/sheet music signed by various stars.
Because of my move, I've been selling a lot of these pieces off because there will not be room for them in out new house.
Among the items I'm keeping are LCs of STAGE DOOR (signed by Hepburn, Rogers & Ball), BLACK LEGION (signed by Bogart), G-MEN (Cagney), BODY & SOUL (Garfield), BAND OF ANGELS (Gable), JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (both Abbott & Costello), THE TALL T (Randolph Scott & Budd Boetticher), THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (Wayne) and CITIZEN KANE (Welles).
I'm also fond of pieces of sheet music signed by George M. Cohan, Al Jolson, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire/Rita Hayworth.
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My mother collected bells.
It wasn't intentional, at first. And it was kinda sorta my fault.
I'd given her a glass dinner bell one year, as a Christmas present. And, lacking imagination (and not really being satisfied with the sound of that first bell), gave her a second glass bell after that. Then I found a chrystal bell, which was much nicer. And we kinda sorta thought that was enough.
But then, Mom was looking for something to put on the mantle, as a decoration, and she took the three bells and put them together. And then she had a thought. She added to the three bells a small brass bell that looked like it had some from India, and a cow bell, something we had used when I was younger when one of us was ill as a way of signalling for attention. So that started her collection of bells.
The collection slowly grew, in bits and pieces. She'd find something at a charity event, or while travelling. The year der Brucer and I went to England and Germany, I found three bells to give her - a Wedgewood bell in blue, a small Swarovski bell with a very nice tinkley sound, and a wooden-handled bell from Amsterdam. Mom never got to Europe herself. Those three bells were her way of having been there. Kinda, sorta.
By this time, she and Dad had moved from Burbank to Sonora, where the bells were on display on a large shelf that separated the living room from the stairway to the basement. Also on display were the quilted pieces she had made, and needlepoint, but it was the bells that caught people's attention. And it was bells that people would give her, whether it be as a birthday present or some secret Santa gift. She knew where each and every bell had come from, of course.
After she died, of a cancer that we thought had been taken care of when I was in Junior High but instead had lurked for years in the shadows before returning with renewed viciousness, Dad relocated the collection to a special display case.
It was a shock, therefor, when my sister declared that she wanted the bell from India and the cowbell back. "Those are mine," she told us. No, they became Mom's. They were the seeds of a grand collection. The rest of the collection, my sister had no interest in.
It's been years since I've been to that house in Sonora, separated by long drives and now by an entire continent. It wouldn't surprise me to find the cowbell and the little bell from India gone. But I'm sure the rest of the collection remains where it is, where it should be. My step-mother knew my mother, knew what those bells meant to her. In fact, I think she gave my mother one or two of those bells herself.
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There have been many times during this move, which will (hopefully) happen this week, where I have seriously considered getting rid of everything. Because of the delays, these posters and LCs have been packed up for over a month now. Out of sight. Out of mind.
We are prisoners of our possessions. Just think of how free we would all be without them.
I remember when I first moved to Los Angeles (from Seattle) when I was 22-years-old.
Everything I owned fit in the trunk & back seat of my car. That's the way it was for the first few years I lived here, too.
There was something nice about that kind of freedom.
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Most of my e-bay purchases were Evelyn Nesbit and Marilyn Monroe vintage postcards for my girls. I believe they still have them all, too.
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Oh, thrill of thrills! I may be driving again today!
Der B has a doctor's appointment, this time off in Long Neck. The doctor had his office here in Rehoboth, but for some reason (probably rising rents) has moved. Der B has been quite disgruntled about that, of course, but these appointments need to be kept from time to time. And better for me to get stopped without a licence (yet) than he. At least it will be the first time stopped if I'm behind the wheel.
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DR Jrand why do you dislike the red-heads? they are my favorite team!
Although i think that tammy/and victor (my second fav team) are the strongest
by far. I just love the red-heads. They are improving a lot. And they seem really
sweet and kind. I'm surprised anyone would dislike them! Btw, i was sad to see
the team that went go. It just shows that one stupid mistake (someone telling
them the gorilla statue was near the beach) and cost you the whole race!
auoida iu iu iu iu iulkjlkjewiuo 78 87 ilaejlka kjl oui oiu jk ui ui ljkalkj kj kj kj kjkjljk
let bet met eiuoeriu het eekeke klele why oh why whe hey there one two three
four five sixe fdiu pick up sticks si ui iu iu iu iu iul let us go le drum rum tum lum
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I was also sorry to see Mike and Mel go last night, too. I like them a lot but they were not a powerful team.
I kind of like the redheads, myself. It seems weird that the show last night suddenly tried to put them in a bad light (the one is being portrayed as impatient and mean.) But I guess because there are no out-and-out villians, the show has to try to create some kind of drama.
My favorite team continues to be Luke and Margie, but I'm beginning to doubt that they will make the final three. AS it stands now, I think that could only happen if either Tammy and Victor or the redheads or the short guys make a big mistake. The previews show the short guys blowing a fuse next week, but again, it's probably just created drama.
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...We are prisoners of our possessions. Just think of how free we would all be without them....
Free, yes, but our posessions may be part of what makes a home, as opposed to just a place where we live.
A home is where we keep our things, whether they are a specific collection or just what we've collected around ourselves. This is where they are on display, or put away safely for use later. This is where we coccoon ourselves, warming ourselves both physically and emotionally.
A home is where we collect our dishes, our bedding, our clothes. It is where we collect the items that we treasure, things we don't want to forget. It is where we collect our friends for our celebrations, and where they come to comfort us in our times of sorrow.
Dang, I'm poetic today, ain't I!!!
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All and all, not a bad way to dance to Page Two!
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***DRIVING VIBES***
for DR SWW!!!!!
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TOD:
I collect cookbooks, also. And CDs. And DVDs. And sheet music. And if my DH had his way, it would all be chucked. Immediately. :P
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Hello, everyone. Happy Monday. (I can hear the chorus of jeers.)
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That's the title of the next installment of my memoirs:
I Was Tried By a Chorus of My Jeers
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Hi Jeanne!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Laura DR - would you really have us believe that you did not troll ebay seeking Donny Osmond souvenirs?? ;)
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I am over him, DAW, after he didn't personally answer the letter I mailed when I was 12.
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...We are prisoners of our possessions. Just think of how free we would all be without them....
Free, yes, but our posessions may be part of what makes a home, as opposed to just a place where we live.
A home is where we keep our things, whether they are a specific collection or just what we've collected around ourselves. This is where they are on display, or put away safely for use later. This is where we coccoon ourselves, warming ourselves both physically and emotionally.
A home is where we collect our dishes, our bedding, our clothes. It is where we collect the items that we treasure, things we don't want to forget. It is where we collect our friends for our celebrations, and where they come to comfort us in our times of sorrow.
Dang, I'm poetic today, ain't I!!!
Isn't that what we call "baggage"?
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Good morning!
Another beautiful early spring morning. A bit chilly when I went out to get the newspaper, but it's supposed to get to the mid-60s today which is perfect for this time of year.
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On TV Tonight!™
NBC - CHUCK, HEROES, MEDIUM
CBS - comedies, CSI: MIAMI
ABC - DANCING WITH THE STARS, CASTLE
FOX - HOUSE, '24'
CW - GOSSIP GIRL, ONE TREE HILL
TNT - SAVING GRACE
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TOD:
Ah, collecting! I am a real collector/pack rat at heart. I've always had a strong interest in art. When I lived in Santa Monica in the 1970's I began buying antiques--not priceless pieces, mostly used furniture that had good lines. Like many DRs, I picked up quite a few items dirt-cheap that are now worth far more. One of my LA friends had a house at the top of Pacific Palisades that he'd had built to his own specifications. In it he had both furniture from St Vincent de Paul thrift shop (he had both money and a sense of value) and art by up-and-coming artists. I have no doubt that his art collection was partly responsible for my soon-to-be art purchases.
My aunt and uncle (for JRand's benefit, Eddie Fitzgerald and his wife) had a home in Cheviot Hills. One Thanksgiving or Christmas, while visiting, a neighbor on Aiken Ave (Jane, any memories here?) was having an art show in his home, selling works of local artists. I attended and fell in love with a signed print by Helen Mollar Mallet, called "Steambath." I bought it--my first "real" art purchase. It's in storage at the moment with most of my things, but I still love it. I soon learned that LA had at that time a sizable population of very fine artists, many of whom just weren't big names yet. Using that strategy, I continued to buy works by lesser-priced artists when I moved to DC. I have not sold any of them, but I do feel that having a few lovely antiques plus a small art collection helped to sell my house.
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Laura DR - would you really have us believe that you did not troll ebay seeking Donny Osmond souvenirs?? ;)
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I collect movies on whatever media I can find my favorites on: VHS, laserdisc, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray. I couldn't begin to count how many I have.
Back in the LP days, I collected cast albums, but while I'll get many of the newest shows that get a CD, I have lost some of my passion for collecting them.
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Hi Jeanne!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, Laura!
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Laura DR - would you really have us believe that you did not troll ebay seeking Donny Osmond souvenirs?? ;)
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I am over him, DAW, after he didn't personally answer the letter I mailed when I was 12.
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If the Blu-ray version of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS arrives today, that will be my work project. If not, I'll be working on the DVD version of BEDTIME STORIES (have already watched the Blu-ray version, so it will be an easy job just watching it to note picture and sound quality).
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I also love books and find it very difficult to get rid of ANY of them. Of course, a relocation REALLY, REALLY makes you rethink what you're keeping.
Re the prisoner of one's possessions argument, yes, I used to travel from more lightly in my younger days, but I now feel that my collections--and other mementos--do enrich my life. Not only am I happy to have my collections, but I wish I had not gotten rid of some things. But how do you know what you'll miss later?
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Monday morning greetings! It's a beautiful day here in SW Ohio.
TOD - I have long collected images (prints, posters, postcards, etc.) of women reading. It all started with a print of Fragonard's "A Young Girl Reading" that I purchased in the gift shop at the National Gallery of Art in 1969.
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I can empathize with DR Druxy and his relocation. Once you start getting rid of things, I do feel it gets easier. "You mean I can survive without THAT??"
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ON THIS DAY IN THEATRE HISTORY:
Lauren Bacall opened in APPLAUSE in 1970 at the Palace Theatre.
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As for the art that got away, there were a number of people whose work I SHOULD have collected but didn't, and which is now worth $$$.
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There have been many times during this move, which will (hopefully) happen this week, where I have seriously considered getting rid of everything. Because of the delays, these posters and LCs have been packed up for over a month now. Out of sight. Out of mind.
We are prisoners of our possessions. Just think of how free we would all be without them.
I remember when I first moved to Los Angeles (from Seattle) when I was 22-years-old.
Everything I owned fit in the trunk & back seat of my car. That's the way it was for the first few years I lived here, too.
There was something nice about that kind of freedom.
Druxy, during my move I never got to the point where I wanted to divest myself of all my stuff, but it did make me examine a lot of the crap I was keeping and why I was keeping it.
I had a PLAYBOY collection from my college days up to about the 2000 when I decided to stop subscribing to the magazine. I first tried to sell them to magazine dealers who weren't interested because, they said, they had had such large publication runs, they weren't worth all that much. So I culled out just the particular issues I wanted to save for one reason or another, and put the rest out in my garage sale, for a quarter a piece or a few bucks for a box. No takers, even after I dropped the price. So I trash-canned them all because I didn't want to move them. My neighbour was witness to the garbage men picking up the trash the next day. He heard their shout of surprised joy as they hauled teetering stacks of Playboys to the cab of their garbage truck.
I remember going through several boxes of clippings and articles that I've kept on me and my work over the years and whittling ten copies of something down to three, thinking "What do I need ten copies of this article for?" In truth, why do I need three? Won't one or two do?
But I think it's an interesting phenomenon that we spend our younger lives acquiring stuff and, then as many of us get older, we look around and say: "I have too much crap!" and start divesting ourselves of much of it. How many of us have memory boxes like mine stuck in the garage or attic that we haven't looked at in years?
Still and all....I ain't parting with the books...
http://poguespages.blogspot.com
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I don't actively collect books, but I do love them and also have a hard time weeding out those that don't fit in my bookshelves, particularly those to do with theatre.
Of those volumes that I have sought out to own, I'm happy to say that last year I finally got my mitts on two of them: the coffee table editions of TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA and the '73 CANDIDE revival. They are both primarily score books, but they are chock full o' pictures. I had been searching for them for over twenty years and finally found them in a used book store in New Hope, PA (not at the same time, though.)
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I still have way too much stuff. As it's a given that my next house will be smaller than my last one, I know I'll be tossing more again.
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Time to take care of other matters.
TTFN.
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And the word of the day is: LUDIC!
And The Song Of The Day Is: KITTEN ON THE KEYS
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Congrats to BK on His Millstone
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As it's a given that my next house will be smaller than my last one
*IF* you ever decide to leave Florida for L.A. ;)
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And A Millstone of my own-The Number of My Posts equals the Year I was Born.
Huzzah I guess
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I don't have to work today. :)
*Although, I do have to head into the office/studio for a little while just to take care of some non-show-related work.
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I noticed the UPS man pulled up alongside my house a little while ago though I didn't see if he got out on my side to deliver a package or the other side to go across the street. I'll head down now to check on that. Then, it's off to get cleaned up for lunch out with best friend John.
WBBL.
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And I guess I should "Thank" the maintenance team here at Edgewater Plantation for being my alarm clock this morning. I ended up staying up late (early?) last night to finish reading Blair Tindall's "Mozart in the Jungle". And then I needed another hour or two for my mind - and "heart" - to stop racing, to calm down. That happened around 6:15am. Four hours later, I heard the knocking.. "Maintenance". -At least they knocked at 10:30 instead of 8:30.
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Woody holding his wood guitar.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9iUYRro2BF4/SdArk4FH2wI/AAAAAAAAADg/TTTjzXuEIYM/s320/finian%27s+rainbow+Joan+Marcus.gif)
photo: Finian's Rainbow
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DR JoseSPiano - I was going to read that book, but if it's that upsetting, perhaps I'll skip it. :-\
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Good Morning, All!
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As for the Topic of the Day...
I'd consider myself more of a "pack rat" rather than a "collector". However, I do have tendencies to "gather" CDs, cookbooks, sheet music, Playbills, ticket stubs, etc., etc., etc.
I did go through a phase when I was a "completist": Whenever I saw a show I would buy (if available) the script, the score, the poster, the t-shirt, the cap, the mug, the magnet... Of course, I never had the wall space to hang all the posters - nor the extra cash to invest in decent frames. Due the size of my head - literally speaking ;) - I could never wear baseball caps (I'm almost an 8). I never drink coffee that much at home. And I was always afraid to wear the t-shirts since I didn't want to ruin them by wearing and washing them. But at least I had them. ;)
I would do the same thing with a piece of classical music that I happened to hear in concert. I would buy the score, and then a couple of different recordings of the piece, as well as other recordings by the soloist and/or orchestra. -Some of the clerks at Tower Records in DC knew me on a first name basis. I also believe I had all but a handful of the "Three Rosettes" recordings listed in the first few volumes of the Penguin Guides. -And I still have those Penguin Guides - six or seven inches-thick paperback books - sitting on a shelf... In my parents' house. ;)
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Tonight I am attending a concert by Chanticleer, American's pre-eminant all-male professional choir.
(http://www.singers.com/groupimages2/chanticleer.jpg)
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Woody holding his wood guitar.
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photo: Finian's Rainbow
"Hey, yeah, this bit of wood of mine has a really long neck. Wanna watch me strum it?"
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(Just remember, DAW started it!)
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TOD: Yes, I collect. Boy, do I collect. I have always collected, Books, LP's, art, photos, junk. I never set out to collect or focused on any one thing; I just bought what I liked and was limited to what I could afford. Some piecves have turned out to be wonderful investments, although this doesn't appear to be the time to sell anything.
Like Bruce, I also love drawings and paintings by illustrators. One of my prizes is an original Richard Amsel painting that he did for the cover on a book about Tarzan. I also have a copy of the paperback bbok with that cover. I was lucky enough to get this through an auction at Illustration House.
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Tonight I am attending a concert by Chanticleer, American's pre-eminant all-male professional choir.
(http://www.singers.com/groupimages2/chanticleer.jpg)
Amazing, how they've managed to get their blacks to all match!
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And A Millstone of my own-The Number of My Posts equals the Year I was Born.
Huzzah I guess
Happy Millstone. Have an eggroll!
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DRs Laura, Sam, George, Jose, & Jennifer, the vibes are much appreciated.
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DR Laura Your pastor does have make a good point ;) ;D
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From Larry:
Nursie, I liked LITTLE DORRIT very much. The first episode is typical: a million characters to keep track of and a lot of information that will pay off later. I first thought Mrs Clennim was a nice old lady but the wonderful actress Judy Parfitt imakes her a mass of contradictions and I am wondering if she may be perhaps not such a nice old lady.
I do believe this novel may contain the first British lesbian in print; the only other ones I can think of in 19th-century literature are the whore-actress Nana who flaunts her lover in front of the men paying her for sex in Zola's novel and Mlle Danglars and her singing teacher in THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.
Thank you for the review. Granted it as been a number of years since I read either book, however I don't remember a lesbian in either one. I don't remember much of LITTLE DORRIT so that is understandable. I suspect I was too young to pick up on it in THE COUNT, at least the first time I read it. ;D
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THE COUNT
(http://blog.rifftrax.com/wp-content/uploads/thecount.jpg)
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Boy, do I collect.
And you share, too! ;D
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DR JoseSPiano - I was going to read that book, but if it's that upsetting, perhaps I'll skip it. :-\
You should still read it, DR DAW. I went through a vast array of emotions and reactions while reading it. There is a good deal of investigative journalism presented in the book, and that information was fascinating. Frankly, I was surprised, as well as a little ashamed, for not knowing more about this country's recent musico-business history. -Especially in regards to the whole Broadway scene.
Some of the truly personal recollections in the book were quite eye-opening. Ms. Tindall was only born eight years before I was, but what a difference those eight years made in the how and the why of her upbringing and professional pathways. She is very forthcoming with the details of her personal life - which includes sexual dalliances with a number of men. Some of the men that she's been involved with have been "regular Joe's", while others have been famous or at least "known". And how she got permission (legal or otherwise) to name some of those "names" is, well... I mean, I guess I now know that Keith Lockhart is straight - and that he cheated on his wife.
Because she too came from a classical background and then ended making a living working on Broadway, I recognized a lot of the names that she mentioned throughout the book. In fact, I know(!) some of the people she mentions in the book - and not all of them are presented in a flattering light. I've already mentioned her connection to the great collaborative pianist, Sam Sanders, and reading about how their relationship and his life played out until his final days was heartbreaking.
The book became a more personal read than I expected it too. However, now that I think of it, it was recommended to me by a friend and professional colleague after we had chatted with last year. We had both just come out of one of those inevitable professional/personal funks, and she mentioned the book. And now, a year later, well, I'm glad I didn't get to reading it until now. All in timing.
Definitely food for thought.
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DR Jennifer, I guess your niece thought you were her mother ;
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THE COUNT
(http://blog.rifftrax.com/wp-content/uploads/thecount.jpg)
I was expecting this-lol.
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Back to "Mozart in the Jungle" for a bit...
After I finished the book, I decided to go ahead and look up some of Blair Tindall's latest writings. I knew that she had written for the New York Times, so I started with NYTimes.com. After doing a search for "Blair Tindall", I notice that the most recent article by her was dated in 2005. Hmm... So after some further Googling, I came across her websites and her blog, as well as a post on TheSmokingGun.com about an incident involving her and Bill Nye "The Science Guy". The restraining order against her is posted on the site. Hmm...
Balanced everything out, I guess.
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Tonight I am attending a concert by Chanticleer, American's pre-eminant all-male professional choir.
Are they presenting one of their more traditional programs tonight? Or is this performance part of their "new" tour for this season?
*If that picture is of their current roster of singers, it's good to know that Michael McNeil is still with them. I saw him during his first tour with the group a few years ago. Truly one of the most amazing male sopranos I've ever heard - and it seemed like he had even pleasantly surprised - and inspired - his fellow singers.
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Amazing, how they've managed to get their blacks to all match!
Photoshop, DR SWW, Photoshop. ;)
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I was expecting this-lol.
Gosh, it's horrible being so predictable. :)
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And for any DRs contemplating future travel plans...
Jet Blue (http://www.jetblue.com) started another airfare sale today. Hmmm... R/T from NYC-SFO for about $215. Hmmm..
And QuikBook (http://www.QuikBook.com) is starting another NYC hotel room sale tomorrow.
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Thanks for the input on the book, DR JoseSPiano. I guess I'll give it a try. Despite the restraining order. :)
*If that picture is of their current roster of singers
That I do not know. They seem to have had a much higher rate of "turnover" in recent years than they used to. And as for tonight's program - I don't know the answer that, either. :-\
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OK, it's time for me stop frittering away and Twittering away my day off.
Laters...
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I like the mental image of a photohop.
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...We are prisoners of our possessions. Just think of how free we would all be without them....
Free, yes, but our posessions may be part of what makes a home, as opposed to just a place where we live.
A home is where we keep our things, whether they are a specific collection or just what we've collected around ourselves. This is where they are on display, or put away safely for use later. This is where we coccoon ourselves, warming ourselves both physically and emotionally.
A home is where we collect our dishes, our bedding, our clothes. It is where we collect the items that we treasure, things we don't want to forget. It is where we collect our friends for our celebrations, and where they come to comfort us in our times of sorrow.
Dang, I'm poetic today, ain't I!!!
Isn't that what we call "baggage"?
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I've had to think on this one for a bit. It's the difference in words that counts.
We collect the things we love.
"Baggage" is more like the rotten stuff... which we make everyone else carry for us.
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By the way, DR JoseSPiano, did you see that Ms. Tindall's college professor repudiates her behavior in an Amazon reader review of her book?
(http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:earTfUxMqr1NJM:http://www.beautyinmusic.com/assets/artists_large_pics/blair_tindall_o.jpg)
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Thanks for the input on the book, DR JoseSPiano. I guess I'll give it a try. Despite the restraining order. :)
You're welcome. You can always put it down - and pick it back up later. Or not.
*If that picture is of their current roster of singers
That I do not know. They seem to have had a much higher rate of "turnover" in recent years than they used to. And as for tonight's program - I don't know the answer that, either. :-\
Yes, there has been a lot of turnover in the recent years, and from the biography listings on their website, it looks they a few more of singers in their debut season this year.
I'm also surprised that their website doesn't list the program info. It used to. ???
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OMG!!!
So... The daytime version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" just came on, and, lo and behold, the second contestant to come on is Ethyl Will. A Broadway Musician! -And Fellow Pit Pianist!
I guess it really is a Full Circle type of day.
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By the way, DR JoseSPiano, did you see that Ms. Tindall's college professor repudiates her behavior in an Amazon reader review of her book?
Ah... I hadn't gotten to the Amazon reviews. Yet.
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DR Jennifer, I guess your niece thought you were her mother ;
It's funny that you said that because she did. Not sure why, but it was just so cute when she opened her eyes for the first time. I'd say that, and when she just gets out of the bath are her cutest times.
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I am watching Ethyl!
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By the way, DR JoseSPiano, did you see that Ms. Tindall's college professor repudiates her behavior in an Amazon reader review of her book?
(http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:earTfUxMqr1NJM:http://www.beautyinmusic.com/assets/artists_large_pics/blair_tindall_o.jpg)
OH! I thought the review was going to be by one of her journalism teachers at Stanford... It was her college oboe professor! And I know him too! OY!
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OK - In the immortals words of DR MattH:
Now I'm really going!
And, once again, in my own immortal words:
Laters...
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...And I know him too! OY!
How well, dare we ask?
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I collect books. Also photos, posters, etc for particular performers....I.E. - Allison Hayes (first photo purchased for 50 cents in 1964) and Frances Farmer (first photo sent to me in 1963 by HERSELF).
Carroll Baker and John Saxon are a couple of others I have some books of photos on. At DR MBARNUM's suggestion (I probably would have never thought of it) - I bought a few 3 Ring Binders, put the photos is sheet protectors, and now my collection is much easier to look at.
Playbills - DR JOSE sends me NYC paper regularly and it is most appreciated. I also have programs from the touring shows and also shows I have been in or worked on.....mostly in alphabetical order in a file cabinet in the closet.
A bit of art - I have a Helen Frankenthaler print from her exhibition at the Whitney in 1969. It is framed under heavy glass and is movie poster sized....very nice piece....purchased at the Amvets Thrift Store for $7.99.
Books, movies, cd's - too many of course. But since I haven't moved since 1971, it hasn't become burdensome - YET. When I go there will be a big wake and yard sale!
Best Book Buy - First Edition Atlas Shrugged - $50 less the 30% discount card I had - and paid for with a $125 gift certificate to Half Price Books that I had received for correctly guessing three movie related music snippets on a local radio station.
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Mozart in the Jungle....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Ethyl is phoning a friend.
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Ethyl is phoning a friend.
Perhaps it is our very own DR JoseSPiano!! :D
I wonder who will play him in the Slumdog sequel??
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As it's a given that my next house will be smaller than my last one
*IF* you ever decide to leave Florida for L.A. ;)
Perhaps I should explain. My Florida sojourn was never intended to be more than a brief stop. What happened was this: I have been receiving a series of medical treatments here. The doctor here is far more experienced in "my" ailments than the others I had seen in Virginia and immediately told me that the condition was considerably more advanced than I knew. Thus, we have had add to deal with some additional issues. Hence the delay. All is fixable, according to the new doc. I am trying to do all I can with her while here.
Are one or two of our DRs experiencing some "Florida envy"? ;)
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Ethyl is continued tomorrow.
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And now I am off to my treatment.
TTFN.
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Vibes for DR Jeanne - niece of Eddie Fitzgerald who knew Gale Storm from horn to hoof!
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I don't dislike the redheads on TAR - in fact they were very good last night. I guess I mean to say, of the teams left, they are my next least favorite.....Victor and his Sister are my least favorites. I hope for another Victor meltdown in the next week or so.
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***HEALTH AND ULTRA-STRENGH RECOVERY VIBES***
for DR Jeanne!!!!!!!
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I almost bought the 2-disk QUANTUM OF SOLACE dvd.....but I think I will wait until I can get it for $10 at Blockbuster....in a few months.
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I don't really have any favorites on TAR at the moment, all the teams I liked got booted off early.
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I don't really have any favorites on TAR at the moment, all the teams I liked got booted off early.
Well yes any male with definition is gone - that's for sure.
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I don't really have any favorites on TAR at the moment, all the teams I liked got booted off early.
Mikey, have you seen any non-regional blu-ray DVD player advertised?
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TOD:
I began collection movie material when I was in 8th grade. My first items were lobby cards from ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE and ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN. I bought them through the mail from a dealer who advertised in some movie magazine. I didn't even know what a lobby card was. They were $3 a piece.
Over the years I collected many, many posters, lobby cards, pressbooks, and stills from B films of the 1950s. In recent years I decided to pare down my collection to mainly stills and press books, and collect only on a handful of performers, rather then all of my favorites. I sold off a lot of posters and lobby cards for a very nice profit (which funded a Los Angeles and a NY trip).
For a time in the 1990s I collected personally signed and through the mail signed autographs which I would never part with.
When I discoverd Ebay I began collected Gumby items, but ended up selling a lot of it, with the rest boxed up in the garage.
Old paperback books are another collection I have enjoyed over the years. The cover graphics are so beautiful. Alas, I have developed an allergy to them and now they are all boxed up. I have yet to decide what to do with them.
My latest collection is Bollywood movie material.
I am very, very grateful to Ebay...it has only enhanced my collections and brought to me things I would never have been able to find.
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I've been printing orders for the last hour! So, I'm up. So, I need to do the long jog.
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Mikey, have you seen any non-regional blu-ray DVD player advertised?
Do a google search Elmore, there are plenty of them for sale including at 220 Electronics, where I think you bought your previous region free machine. http://www.220-electronics.com/dvd/dvdorig.htm (http://www.220-electronics.com/dvd/dvdorig.htm)
I haven't really done any looking for one myself, as no movies of interest to me have been released on Blue Ray.
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I am most excited about the ILLYA DARLING cd release.....
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Anyone with Playbills and programs - if you have a local theatre company doing a production of one of the shows, they might like to have them for a lobby display.....or even your whole collection for one reason or another.
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I don't dislike the redheads on TAR - in fact they were very good last night. I guess I mean to say, of the teams left, they are my next least favorite.....Victor and his Sister are my least favorites. I hope for another Victor meltdown in the next week or so.
I was never crazy about Tammy and Victor but the India episode sealed the deal. Of all the teams, they appeared to be not at all effected by their surroundings. Everyone else expressed some feelings about the poverty they saw, but I don't recall any such comment from T & V. Again, it could just be editing.
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DR JoseSPiano - I was going to read that book, but if it's that upsetting, perhaps I'll skip it. :-\
DON'T skip it, it's fabulous.
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Lunch time
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Tammy & Victor are very single-minded, DR DtM....I don't recall that they have talked about anything but themselves and the game either.
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Anyone with Playbills and programs - if you have a local theatre company doing a production of one of the shows, they might like to have them for a lobby display.....or even your whole collection for one reason or another.
Hmmm..I wish I had known that when I weeded out my collection about five years ago. Got rid of programs from repeated visiits, tours and performances that I did not actually attend along with back issues of the monthly Playbill magazine.
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Ya know, there really hasn't been anyone to totally dislike on TAR since Mearna and Schmerna.
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Again, it could just be editing.
THAT'S my new philosophy! :D
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ON THIS DAY IN THEATRE HISTORY:
Lauren Bacall opened in APPLAUSE in 1970 at the Palace Theatre.
And if DR FJL were't buried in tax work, we'd probably have a delightful new entry in the "But Alive" parody gallery to commemorate the fact! :(
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TOD - I'm sure this will come as a shock to everyone, but it seems like over the years I've been collecting everything Sunset Boulevard. Mostly, some sort of recording of the song "With One Look" and "The Lady's Paying". I guess the cast recording collection can be considered a collection, but while it's large, it's not even close to being complete.
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TOD:
When we were kids, my brother collected matchbooks. Grandma wrote, "I'm sending some more matchbooks for Richard. What does Bill collect?" I guess I felt there was something wrong with not collecting anything, and I spent days trying to think of something to collect. I didn't realize at the time that the impulse comes first, the collection after.
But when I was in high school, I read in Clifton Fadiman's introduction to an edition of Alice in Wonderland, "...you may even find La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando, which, if you must know, is Alice in Esperanto." Being a budding Esperantist at the time, I wrote to the Esperanto-Asocio de Nord-Ameriko, and they said they had one copy, in fair condition, and sold it to me for something like a dollar, which was great for a 1911 paperback in actually pretty bad condition. I had it rebound when I was in college, and now you can find it at Project Guttenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17482).
So that began a growing collection of translations of Alice. Guided by Warren Weaver's Alice in Many Tongues, I managed to acquire, mainly during the '70s, German, French, Italian, Spanish translations, Vladimir Nabokov's Russian version (not rare in the Dover reprint I have), Czech, Latin, Hungarian, Swedish, Dutch, two different Japanese, a Chinese, and the newer Esperanto translation by Donald Broadribb. I have translated all the poems from the two Alice books into Esperanto, and those versions were on my late, lamented website, and will be again--they were heartily praised by the British Esperanto poet Marjorie Bolton for my rendering of Carroll's British cultural references to equivalents in Esperanto culture.
Along the way, I picked up some versions of Through Looking-glass, and began accumulating translations of St.-Exupery's Le Petit prince--in English, Spanish, all the usual culprites, Esperanto, and--joy of joys!--papiamentu, which I happened upon in a bookstore on Aruba.
I have a Hobbit in Spanish and the complete Lord of the Rings in William Auld's Esperanto translation. I am lusting after the Latin Harry Potter, but if I start on Rowling, it will never end--her books must be in every language on earth and outsell the Bible regularly.
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Ya know, there really hasn't been anyone to totally dislike on TAR since Mearna and Schmerna.
Betsy and I loved Mirna and Schmirna! We still laugh about the "evil sheep" moment. "It's that one!"
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BK himself once commented that my Percy Faith collection was excessive.
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As he stood gazing at it longingly.
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I forgot that I also collected stamps when I was a kid, starting in about 6th or 7th grade. Had a darn nice collection, too.
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I collected Saturday Evening Posts when I was a kid and I still have a huge stack of them which date back into the 19th century.
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the Latin Harry Potter
I didn't know about this - what fun! :)
Today's TOD has inspired some fascinating posts.
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At the office... Waiting for the boss to get back from lunch and/or meeting... So that he can sign my paycheck... La-dee-da, dee-day...
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More on TOD:
During the Rubik's Cube frenzy in the '70s, I solved the puzzle forthwith and procrastinated writing a book on it--within months there were about a dozen. DR vixmom also solved it, and when I told her she had been doing math, she was stunned--"I'm terrible in math," she whined. Nonetheless, it's math.
That led to a collection of all those variations on the cube that were coming out in those days: 2x2x2 and 4x4x4 as well as the traditional 3x3x3; octohedra, tetrahedrea, octagonal prisms; as well as the traditional cube with different markings on it: calendars, flags of all nations, animals, and DR vixmom brought me one from Hawaii with all the islands on different faces. Those sit on a shelf at work as I type, knowing that I would be hard pressed to solve the cube today, not having touched it for many years.
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RE: Matchbooks - A friend of mine documents her restaurant meals by not only writing the date of the meal on the matchbook, but by having her dining companions sign the matchbook too. :)
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DAW wrote in « Reply #14 on: Saturday 03/28/09 08:03:06 »
Tonight, the synagogue where my DH plays is hosting a cabaret night featuring Jonathan Schwartz
Ah, me! I was featured on Schwartz's radio program alas these thirty years ago. Well, not quite featured, but mentioned. Cabaret singer Cathy Carpino was his guest, and she sang a song with my lyrics and Michael Kingsley's music. Strange, I cannot remember today whether it was "Fly to Carracas" or "Learning to Love Rainy Days", both of which were lyrics I had written to Michael's rags. I'm having a McCain moment here.
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qXGxfLeEyEg/SX3asMuF26I/AAAAAAAAAWw/XuvSsem07d0/s400/Gerard+Hoffnung+Cartoon.jpg)
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(http://www.knowsleyonline.com/hoffnung_tuba.gif)
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DR William F. Orr, you are a man of many mysteries. And talents!! :)
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And from DR JoseSPiano in « Reply #70 on: Saturday 03/28/09 13:03:48 »
And now for something completely different... And very moving and inspirational... *And I'm sort of surprised I didn't come across this before today.
Karl Paulnack To The Boston Conservatory (http://greenroom.fromthetop.org/2009/03/11/karl-paulnack-to-the-boston-conservatory-freshman-class/)
Thank you so much, Jose. I have saved this speech and printed it out for rereading. Perhaps Bobby Jindal should have a copy, as he is about to cut arts funding to next to nothing, on the grounds that the arts are unnecessary frivolities. As though New Orleans without jazz would still be New Orleans.
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Oh... And since there really is no time like the present, I called my parents to see if I could still travel to the Philippines with them. Well, it turns out they had to shift their travel dates, so... I should know by the end of the day if I'll be going back to the Islands. :)
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Way cool, DR JoseSPiano. ***VIBES*** that it all comes together. :)
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DR William F. Orr, you are a man of many mysteries. And talents!! :)
Thank you.
And I love the Hofnung pictures, always have.
As to my Alphabetic Musicals Project: I listened to A Connecticut Yankee during my weekend shopping and into work this morning. On the way home I will finally move out of the C's and into Dames at Sea. I think there's a pun or two in there somewhere fighting to get out.
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I have saved this speech and printed it out for rereading.
I printed it out to read later. And it sounds like it's well worth reading!
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DR WFO - You're most welcome. I had to read it in stages since I kept crying as I read it. ::)
*And reading that along with "Mozart in the Jungle", I've been having a lot of "light bulb moments" the past few days.
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I love the Hofnung cartoons too! In fact, I have a small collection of notecards somewhere in storage. They were some of the first souvenirs I bought at the Kennedy Center gift shop when I was about 11 or 12 years old.
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Yeah! Boss is back. Check is signed.
Laters...
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I love the Hofnung cartoons too!
I love the "cymbal guy" in the orchestra's back row, [previous page]. Always makes me smile! ;D
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What I wish I collected:
Those mini-cards of Playbill covers that came out at the end of the season. I got them the first two years they came out, missed a year, got the next two years, couldn't find them the following year, the year after that and then gave up on them. They are not of any value but it would be fun to shuffle through them.
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Mikey, have you seen any non-regional blu-ray DVD player advertised?
Do a google search Elmore, there are plenty of them for sale including at 220 Electronics, where I think you bought your previous region free machine. http://www.220-electronics.com/dvd/dvdorig.htm (http://www.220-electronics.com/dvd/dvdorig.htm)
I haven't really done any looking for one myself, as no movies of interest to me have been released on Blue Ray.
Thank you for the link! They're costing more than I want to pay at the moment but I do believe the DVD manufacturers will eventually fade out non-blu-ray discs.
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What I need to finish collecting:
A set of postcards from the 1939 World's Fair in New York. I started collecting them back when I was a teen mostly because I loved the artwork and subject matter. I have about 3/4 of the set. I should complete it. They're fairly common and easy to find.
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Back from the long jog and still printing out orders.
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One of my favorite pieces:
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And another:
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qXGxfLeEyEg/SX3asMuF26I/AAAAAAAAAWw/XuvSsem07d0/s400/Gerard+Hoffnung+Cartoon.jpg)
This is one of those "Where's Waldo" puzzles, right?
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Had a very enjoyable lunch out today. It's a picture-perfect day after nearly a week of spotty rain, so it was treat to be out in the fresh air and sunshine. And I'll have to be out more this week since my front yard now needs a serious buzz cut.
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And another:
This is my favorite Al Jolson song.
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RE: Matchbooks - A friend of mine documents her restaurant meals by not only writing the date of the meal on the matchbook, but by having her dining companions sign the matchbook too. :)
That is an absolutely cool idea!
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RE: Matchbooks - A friend of mine documents her restaurant meals by not only writing the date of the meal on the matchbook, but by having her dining companions sign the matchbook too. :)
That is an absolutely cool idea!
Unless you're at a banquet with 100 people. "Bigger matchbook, please."
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When I got in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS on Blu-ray had arrived, and so I watched it. The film has never been my favorite MGM musical even though I recognize the tremendous array of talent before and behind the camera that went in creating it.
On Blu-ray, it is simply stunning to watch. The Ultra-Resolution restoration has transformed it into a candy box of color. The ballet has never looked so glorious, and unlike that old original DVD issue with lots of dirt and print damage, this one is as glorious as can be.
Warners goofed by only giving it a lossy Dolby Digital 1.0 track compressed at 192 kbps. (Criterion gave the mono track of THE 400 BLOWS an uncompressed PCM track which is night and day superior to this.) I know there are a few stereo audio stems for the movie that they didn't use since the rest of the film would have been mono and thus kind of jarring to the listener to go back and forth between mono and stereo, but it's a shame they didn't present the "Concerto in F" as a bonus feature with the stereo track.
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I love finding out what people collect...and more so when they include photos!
I would love to see BKs collection of paperback books...perhaps he will scan some!!
And I know Ron Pulliam has quite a collection of movie memorablia which he has shared from time to time...love seeing those lobby cards.
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I listened to about half of the commentary. It's a stitched together affair with Gene Kelly's widow narrating a string of audio interview with Kelly, Freed, Minnelli, Saul Chaplin, Nina Foch, Caron, etc. Very informative for those who don't know anything about the production.
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I began watching the "making of" featurette, but I only got about 8 minutes in. It's 42 minutes long, so I'll finish it when I go back down.
Of course, the informative Dr. Drew Casper is one of the talkling heads (since he wrote a book on Minnelli musicals. Has anyone ever read or even seen that book?).
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I guess my very first collection were the characters from the cereal FREAKIES when I was in the 3rd grade. I kept getting Goody Goody in my cereal boxes so I finally sent in my 50 cents for the whole set of characters....seemed like it took forever for them to arrive, but once they did I loved them, and I still have them!
Here are the characters...(not mine since I don't want to try to dig them out just at the moment, but just a representation of mine)
(http://www.mysteryisland.net/freakiestoys.jpg)
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And to see the FREAKIES in action, witness their first commercial circa 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8mbxZBl3k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8mbxZBl3k)
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As long as we are all posting pictures:
(http://satenhispanio.eresmas.com/Libroservo/AlicoMirlando.jpg)
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The above was the new Broadribb translation. Below is, evidently, a reprint of the 1911 Kearney version:
(http://www.evertype.com/pics/bookpics/alicio.jpg)
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DR William Orr, DR Sandra is taking a correspondence course in Esperanto. When she completes it, she will receive "a certificate suitable for framing." She is very excited.
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Will shortly go pick up some packages and have a light lunch and go over my notes for tonight.
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And just to prove it exists:
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Druxy, who or what are your Hirschfelds of?
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Hopping off-line now to get some writing done and then it's back downstairs to finish the AN AMERICAN IN PARIS bonus features and then watch some prime time TV.
WBBL.
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The above was the new Broadribb translation. Below is, evidently, a reprint of the 1911 Kearney version:
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I like these. Please share more. Did all "Little Prince" covers in other languages still use the original artwork?
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DR William Orr, DR Sandra is taking a correspondence course in Esperanto. When she completes it, she will receive "a certificate suitable for framing." She is very excited.
That is wonderful news. We have missed her delightful posts here. Perhaps if she comes back we can practice our Esperanto together here, to the irritation and consternation of all and sun-dried.
Do, mi deziras al via filino ĉiun sukceson en ŝia lingvostudo.
If the special letters didn't show up on screen, they are, respectively, c-circumflex and s-circumflex, often rendered cx and sx or ch and sh on low-tech devices. One needs Unicode for them.
In any case, I have been E&T and also T&E for some time here. What news on DD and DR Sandra? I will be leaving work now, but will check in from time to time this evening.
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Druxy, who or what are your Hirschfelds of?
Charlie Chaplin
Greta Garbo
Bogart/Bacall
Woody Allen/Diane Keaton
Shubert Theatre
High Noon
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Clark Gable
James Cagney
Classic Comedians (Laurel & Hardy/Abbott & Costello)
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I like these. Please share more. Did all "Little Prince" covers in other languages still use the original artwork?
Yes, the ones I have. The 1911 Alice used other illustrations, I presume because there was a copyright problem at that time.
Carroll is particularly challenging to translate because of the word-play and puns. If one cannot render that with equal cleverness (or groan-inducement) in the target language, the flavor is lost.
My own attempt at translating Lolita has concentrated for about five years on finding the perfect rendering of the first sentence. If one could live forever...
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I used to collect rare musical cast recordings, but due to the advent of cds my collection went down the toliet.
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But now I collect( for the covers) the mystery novel with my name sake.
I try to add to them every now and then.
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MICHAEL SHAYNE DANCE
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DR Sandra feels that she has nothing to contribute, as there is little of interest that goes on in a garage booth.
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I, however, have absolutely nothing to contribute, but that doesn't stop me.
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We're having meat loaf for dinner at our house tonight.
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Plates! Our walls are covered with plates!
The first plate was given to my grandmother by her son, the air force colonel, when he returned from a tour of duty in Japan, circa 1945. Since then anyone who went anywhere brought my grandmother back a plate.
In the mid-seventies, when she was incapacitated by a broken hip and living with us, the plates moved across the street from her house to our house, where the remain.
People still give us plates from wherever they've been, and there are a little more than a thousand plates hanging on our walls.
I'm so glad we don't live in an earthquake zone.
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Mikey, have you seen any non-regional blu-ray DVD player advertised?
I got my region-code-free standard DVD player at HKFlix (http://www.hkflix.com/home.asp). :) I think it was BK that recommended this site in the first place.
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BK himself once commented that my Percy Faith collection was excessive.
Talk about your euphemisms! :o
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I forgot that I also collected stamps when I was a kid, starting in about 6th or 7th grade. Had a darn nice collection, too.
I collected stamps for a while when I was in middle school and high school...but (horror of horrors), not knowing any better, I used scotch tape on many of them. Not a good thing to do. :-\
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After turning down two opportunities to be the executor for John McGlinn, I've ended up being a co-executor with John Vogel of Pennsylvania. Poor John! The news would kill him if he weren't already dead.
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Ate some lunch and am now relaxing, printing out orders.
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After turning down two opportunities to be the executor for John McGlinn, I've ended up being a co-executor with John Vogel of Pennsylvania. Poor John! The news would kill him if he weren't already dead.
I thought you had mentioned that Paige O'Hara was be the executrix of the estate,
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BK
For the reading of First Nudie Musical is this thing we need to order tickets in advance or just show up where its being done.
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Good Evening!
I am currently in the midst of a most wonderful meal. That is all. For now.
:)
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After turning down two opportunities to be the executor for John McGlinn, I've ended up being a co-executor with John Vogel of Pennsylvania. Poor John! The news would kill him if he weren't already dead.
I thought you had mentioned that Paige O'Hara was be the executrix of the estate,
She must have declined the honor.
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After turning down two opportunities to be the executor for John McGlinn, I've ended up being a co-executor with John Vogel of Pennsylvania. Poor John! The news would kill him if he weren't already dead.
I thought you had mentioned that Paige O'Hara was be the executrix of the estate,
She must have declined the honor.
Probably because she's expecting.
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I don't dislike the redheads on TAR - in fact they were very good last night. I guess I mean to say, of the teams left, they are my next least favorite.....Victor and his Sister are my least favorites. I hope for another Victor meltdown in the next week or so.
I agree JRand.
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I collect a number of things and sort of go from one collection to another and back if that makes any sense. I have a huge cat figurine collection, my mother started giving them to me years and I've added to it. I have all shapes and sizes, many are unusual and fun
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I have a campaign button collection, all the states coins, I used to collect unusual musical instruments like bamboo flutes etc. Modern Priscilla magazines....and more
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Testing to see if my transfer of images from my old computer to new was successful - another woman reader image:
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Yay, it worked!
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More TOD - angels. It all started about 10 years ago when I set up an Advent wreath here at home and included some Nativity scene figures. I made the casual remark that I needed "multitudes of angels" and it happened to be right at the peak of the angel craze. Everyone started giving me angels and now they cover the piano and the shadow box above it:
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Once I had a sore throat, so I bought a teapot so I could make hot tea. The teapot was blue with a white duck on it. I bought it because it was blue. Then someone saw it and assumed I collected White Duck Things. So she gave me a White Duck poster. Someone else gave me White Duck canisters. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Soon I had a room full of White Duck Things. I never wanted White Duck Things; I only wanted to make hot tea.
The End.
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re: TAR and some of the teams that are left
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blah blah blah here i go with some comments about last night's TAR ** ** ** **
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re: tammy and victor. Just because they did not show them saying something
about the poverty in india does not mean that they did not say something. So
that means nothing to me. It's more if they had made a snarky comment. However
it appears that tammy and victor are the most affluent of the contestants. They
seem to have gone to fancy schools and are probably well-off. I don't dislike this
team. And i actually think they are by far the strongest. But i can see how they
(especially victor) could rub some people the wrong way. But i am sort of expecting
them to win and for sure be in F3. I mean obviously anything can happen. But
they are very strong. Especially compared to what is left! jkkjkj kjkjkjkjkjkjkj kjkj
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I am now gonna watch DWTS and then MEDIUM!
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Re Nudie reading - you'll need to be on the list, so anyone here who's coming should shoot me an e-mail with date (June 15 or 16) and number of guests.
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June 16 is my mom's birthday.
Just had to share. :)
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Time to head home.
Until later.
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G'night!
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Good Evening!
So... On May 7, I'll be flying out of JFK to Detroit, and then from Detroit to Manila. -It's a 19-hour flight!?!?!?! But I think I may have enough frequent flyer points to hopefully get some sort of upgrade. However, I may just save those points, since upon my return from the Philippines on May 16, I will have enough points for a free domestic flight. :)
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G'night!
G'night, DR TCB.
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PAGE EIGHT GOODNIGHT DANCE!!!!
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DR Jose - exciting travel plans!
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Who is this strange vacuum cleaner salesman with the really sssssssibilant ssssss talking about hisssssss dessssignssssss on the commercials during MEDIUM? Issssss it bad denturesssssss?
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So...
I treated myself to a dinner a FIG (http://www.eatatfig.com). In short, it truly was one of the best meals, and one of the best restaurant experiences I've ever had. I just took a seat at the bar, and started taking the recommendations of my bartender, Sam (short for Samantha). There were a couple of other solo diners sitting at the bar too: a local jazz musician who seemed to know almost everyone who walked through the door, a businessman/farmer up from Savannah for the day, a chef from an Italian restaurant enjoying a meal on his night off, a wine buyer, a local executive. I didn't chat with all of them, but it was fun checking out what each of us ordered. And Sam took care of all of us.
I arrived a little after 6:00, and by 7:00 the place was filling up nicely - and on a Monday night too! There appeared to be lots of regulars. "Cacky", the manager, greeted many of them by name and with a hug. On my way out, I mentioned to her that I was down from NYC for a couple of weeks, and had been tipped of to the place by a couple of people. She asked what my name was and what brought me down to Charleston. When I told her that I was working with Charleston Stage, she said that Monday is the perfect night to dine at the bar. Lots of musicians and artists come in, and she'd be more than happy to introduce me to my fellow diners on my next visit. -Which will most likely be next Monday. Although, I'm tempted to head back there on Thursday since the menu will be changing over this weekend, and I really do have to have their almost-ethereal ricotta gnocchi topped with a spicy lamb bolognese and pecorino at least one more time.
YUMMERS!
*I would post pics, but I didn't take any. It just didn't feel right. And I also didn't want my food to get cold while I staged my shots. ;)
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DR Jose - exciting travel plans!
YES! I'm glad it all worked out. My parents had offered to pay for a trip to the Philippines later on if I wanted to go by myself, but I really do want to make the trip with them. The timing really works out well too. I'll have a little over a week back home in NYC before I fly to Manila, and then I'll only be there for nine days - instead of the originally planned three weeks. Yes, a longer visit would be nice, but that just seems a bit daunting to me right now, especially right after my stint down here in Charleston.
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June 16 is my mom's birthday.
Just had to share. :)
June 16 is my dad's birthday :)
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Jose, I'm so glad that you get to make the trip!
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Wow! DRJOSE has a paycheck, a plane ticket, a restaurant full of new friends, AND a mysterious relationship.
2009 should be so great for ALL Virgo-ans!
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June 16 is my mom's birthday.
Just had to share. :)
June 16 is my dad's birthday :)
And my cousin Dan's. And that of several people at our Cincinnati church, including the little girl who sat with me during yesterday's service.
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Watching more Hammer Noir.....
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Oh, just in case anyone is interested:
-Windy Knoll Spicy Lamb Bolognese, Ricotta Gnocchi, Pecorino
-Pan Roasted Grouper, Caramelized Fennel, Braised Cranberry Beans, Arugula, Ham Jus
Paired with a glass of Verdejo Rueda
-Banana Tarte-Tatin, Maple Ice Cream
:)
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And Sam even offered me a nice sample of the new Barbera d'Alba they just started serving. -Too bad they're not open for lunch. ;)
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Once again, back to the Topic of the Day...
I also went thought a Boyd's Bear phase. I had "innocently" bought a few off of QVC. Then I noticed that my favorite home decor store in Richmond started carrying Boyd's. Then when I was on the road, I would inevitably come across a sale table of Boyd's Bears in some random store in some random neighborhood. There was one store in Evansville, IN, that happened to be going out of business. I managed to buy about $400 worth of bears for about $60 - and there were some limited editions in the bunch too! I think I ended up with about 80 of them - various shapes, colors, animals. Two years ago, I selected about 20 of the ones I really wanted to keep, and dropped the rest off at a consignment store that one of Steve's sisters owns. I think I just received that last check for the lot a few weeks ago - they just trickled in every few months. All in all, I made back about $300.
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After turning down two opportunities to be the executor for John McGlinn, I've ended up being a co-executor with John Vogel of Pennsylvania. Poor John! The news would kill him if he weren't already dead.
What? So... You're a co-executor with a dead man? Or was the second "John" in reference to McGlinn?
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Laura DR, you DO make me laugh!!! :D In a good way. :)
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DR elmore3003: Congratulations?? :-\
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The Chanticleer program turned out to have a "music of the Americas through the centuries" kind of a theme, including an absolutely stunning number from Eric Whitacre's new opera. I go to hear them whenever I can - two hours of pure choral bliss. :)
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I was going to say something, but God only knows what it was. Oh well....... :-\
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No! No white ducks!
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After turning down two opportunities to be the executor for John McGlinn, I've ended up being a co-executor with John Vogel of Pennsylvania. Poor John! The news would kill him if he weren't already dead.
What? So... You're a co-executor with a dead man? Or was the second "John" in reference to McGlinn?
I see there are two different Johns in the sentence, but if you can't figure that one, too bad. I'm off to bed. It's exhausting being an exector,
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DR elmore3003: Congratulations?? :-\
I run on guilt.
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Got my WARNER ARCHIVE titles today. What a cheap-a** job they did on these. First of all, on the packaging for TOAST OF NEW YORK, they have an abysmal, low res scan of Edward Arnold and Frances. I could have provided them with all sorts of decent photos. :) The print looks pretty similar to the VHS, though I'll have to do a side by side comparison, but it's awfully soft and has a lot of damage. No title menu, nada. Haven't looked at BEGGAR'S OPERA yet, but I expect the same.
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The Train Station Is Alive With The Sound Of Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UE3CNu_rtY)
:)
*Be sure to keep watching for the remix section!
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Ooohh... Seth Rogen is on "Letterman" tonight.
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I spent a good portion of the evening watching the rest of the bonus features on AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. I had never seen that ANATOMY OF A DANCER special from AMERICAN MASTERS, so that was quite wonderful and just makes me hope that INVITATION TO THE DANCE will be included either in the Warner Archive program or in a Warner Bros. release with other lesser known Gene Kelly offerings.
The "making of" feature had the priceless Dr. Drew Casper adding his own brand of luster to the occasion.
I also laughed a lot at the Tex Avery cartoon on slang that was included.
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Got my WARNER ARCHIVE titles today. What a cheap-a** job they did on these. First of all, on the packaging for TOAST OF NEW YORK, they have an abysmal, low res scan of Edward Arnold and Frances. I could have provided them with all sorts of decent photos. :) The print looks pretty similar to the VHS, though I'll have to do a side by side comparison, but it's awfully soft and has a lot of damage. No title menu, nada. Haven't looked at BEGGAR'S OPERA yet, but I expect the same.
I was quite pleased with THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS, so I'm thinking the quality will vary wildly on a disc-by-disc basis.
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Next, I skimmed through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. Nothing of interest, but the boys are on tomorrow as featured in the previews.
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Then I watched tonight's CHUCK episode. Pretty predictable, I thought, though certainly entertaining enough. Like we really thought one of the series regulars was going to be fired.
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'24' had another involving episode with a couple of exciting twists. I'm just loving this season.
And no wonder in a recent interview, someone asked Kiefer Sutherland if this was going to be his last season on the show! Major complications with Jack tonight!
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Page Nine Dance!!!
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And I concluded my evening with tonight's MEDIUM. Once again, I was ahead of DA Devalos (who seems to be getting more insulting to Allison every week even though she's right time and again) and pretty much figured out what had gone on about halfway through the episode. Also figured out why the interview with Joe's former assistant wasn't causing the buzzer to go off in Allison's head.
I really loved that feature of tonight's show. It made me smile, especially using it with her family.
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I, for some idiotic reason, forgot to set the DVR to record CASTLE tonight, so I'll have to watch it on-line. I hate to do that but it can't be helped.
I was hoping maybe they'd run it on Saturday night as they've done for the past few weeks, but ABC is rerunning the pilot for CUPID this Saturday.
Argh!
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Oh, my, I'm all alone in this place.
So, I'll head downstairs and go to bed.
Good night!
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I'm here catching up little by little (a Brad Ross reference). Good night, Matt!
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I watched "Chuck" and "Heroes." Now, I'm watching "Medium." I keep forgetting that "Castle" is on Mondays. It had just started when I read Matt's post, so I was able to start recording it, right after the opening scene.
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June 16 is my mom's birthday.
Just had to share. :)
June 16 is my dad's birthday :)
And my cousin Dan's. And that of several people at our Cincinnati church, including the little girl who sat with me during yesterday's service.
Let's have a party! ;D
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Back from a really fun Cabaret Workshop - in fact, I had a total blast - I kept it loose, off the cuff, funny, and also serious in terms of the work that goes into creating an act. We had about forty-five people there and they seemed to have a great time. And even people who were not necessarily there because they'd ever do an act said the truths about structure and point and clarity apply to many other types of work and shows. I spoke for close to two hours and had about fifteen minutes of questions.
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I got my Warner Archive shipment today, too. Best of the lot so far is the anamorphic scope transfer of The Money Trap - really good. The other titles vary wildly, with some being pretty decent to others being just barely above VHS quality. I was happy to see that Wichita was one of the good looking transfers.
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too tired to catch up till tomarrow afternoon.
just wanted to say BK is really cute when he smiles.
the cabaret workshop was fun.
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good night all.