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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were paranoid and schizophrenic, and now it is time for you to post until the adolescent cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: EXORDIUM!
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Fascinating notes, bk. On my eighteenth birthday I had to register with the Government, but thankfully was never called for duty. I don't think they do that anymore, do they?
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Great photographs yesterday from DRs Cillaliz, Jane, and JoseSPiano!! :D
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Thanks, DR JoseSPiano, for the video clip! :)
And also for the heads up about the shenanigans at Amazon.com :(
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A belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DR MBarnum's mom!
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Beautiful clip from DR JOSE from Britain's Got Talent.
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Very difficult notes for those of us of a certain age to read. It was a different time and place, and many of us faced a crisis of conscious during those days.
I was completely through the process with a 1-A-O classification. But the month that I had my physical was also the month that the Lottery was put into effect, and my birthday was number 245 - meaning I spent the rest of the years of my eligibility with my file in a drawer.
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It is still the law that 18 year old men must still register with the Selective Service branch of the Armed Forces.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/defenseandsecurity/a/draftreg.htm
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Sorry I have been E & T things have been a big crazy lately.
Dad had his surgery Friday, they had to slice his leg from buttock to knee to get the tumor out of his thigh. It had wrapped arpund the main nerve of the leg as well as the muscles.
It seesm that he has not sustained any nerve damage as he can still wiggle his toes and move his foot on command. We are still awaiting the results of the biopsy.
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I hope everyone has had a nice Passover and Easter
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I will try and check inmore often - it will depend on what happens with Dad.
Mom and Dad (77 and 79) live here in town and they were chauffering me to doctors' appointments and running errands etc etc for the past several months, now it is my trun to reciprocate
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Vibes for one and all - I must get ready for work!
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BK,
I planned it a little differently, less dramatic than you and I didn't poop my pants, but I didn't have to go into the service either.
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Good news so far about your father, DR vixmom!! :)
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Vibes for the father of DR VIXMOM.
I am awaiting the call for when I can pick up my car....which is important since Kiss Me Kate rehearsals begin tonight!
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And the word of the day is: EXORDIUM!
And The Song Of The Day Is: COMEDY TONIGHT
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New First Dog "Bo":
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01156f1f9b5d970c-800wi)
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I love the rainbow fur.
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Monday morning greetings! It's rainy here in SW Ohio today and I'm slowly recovering from Easter weekend.
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* * * * * VIBES FOR DR VIXMOM'S DAD * * * * *
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At least there are lots of leftovers in the fridge, so I don't have to think up meals for a couple of days.
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! ! ! ! ! BELATED HAPPY EASTER GREETINGS TO Y'ALL ! ! ! ! !
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Good morning!
It's overcast here this morning, but the rain they predicted for the morning hasn't happened so far. It may come later than they expected. Chilly, too, so I'll have to wear something a little heavier than last week when I go out later to lunch.
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DR S. Woody.
I don't think I ever answered you about my favorite Brosnan Bond. I like GOLDENEYE the best. In fact, I think each of his four Bond films get progressively worse. I like TOMORROW NEVER DIES more than THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUOGH which is far better than DIE ANOTHER DAY.
In terms of box-office, they were all big hits, and each one did better than its predecessor. So, someone liked them. I really thought the first three were entertaining escapist fare. The last one, not so much.
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Re: the draft. I was lucky and got a fairly high lottery number and never had to confront any decision about the serving in the military...an occupation I suspect I would have been utterly unsuited for.
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On TV Tonight!™
NBC - CHUCK, HEROES, MEDIUM
CBS - comedies, CSI: MIAMI
ABC - DANCING WITH THE STARS, SURVIVING SUBURBIA, CASTLE
FOX - HOUSE, '24'
TNT - SAVING GRACE (season finale)
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Vibes for VixGranddad.
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RE: the draft
I had a student deferment during my four years of college, but immediately upon graduation, I was sent my preinduction notice (which bk talked about in the notes).
Now, I was gay and I knew I was gay, but this was the early 1970s, and one never knew then what information you imparted to the military would end up getting back to employers, housing managers, etc. Younger people today have NO idea the kind of discrimination being gay entailed during this era.
At any rate, though quite a few guys claimed to be gay to get out of serving, I kept it to myself. I had been assured that should I be drafted, I would not be placed in an infantry unit. With a college degree and practice teaching experience and a teaching credential, I was assured I'd either be serving as a clerk in an office, or with some political wheel-greasing, I'd be teaching the children of army bigshots on some military post somewhere. Since my family were great friends of Senator Strom Thurmond who was quite pwoerful in national politics at the time, I knew I'd have the pull to get a teaching appointment if I got drafted.
So, even though they never reached my number, I was fully ready to go in if I got called.
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Today I'll be watching the DVD of Criterion's IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES for my work project. The movie isn't quite two hours long, but there are a fair number of bonus features attached, so it looks like I'll be working on this for most of the day.
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I forgot to mention last night that I also finished THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS on Blu-ray last night.
I love the movie and think it's a super thriller, but I've never quite understood why Jamie toys with Clarice at the end. I've never read the book, so maybe the book gives insight into this. Was he planning on taking her alive to get more skin for his "costume," or did he not want to put a bullet in her head to keep her lustrous hair intact? (It certainly looks like he's about to shoot her in the head at the very end.) I just never quite bought that he'd let her flail around in the dark for so long without shooting her dead.
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Page Two Dance!!!
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Good morning, all! After trying to sleep two hours last night, the barking finally drove me out of bed to post, and while I was posting I heard footsteps above me. I ran to the 4th floor and there was a young Israeli guy taking the dog for a walk. I started yelling at him and when I told him the dog had barked till 3am, he said "3am?" and I said, yes, indeedy, and the dog should be on tranqullizers. I went to bed, hoping that I would pass out before the next barking session began, and I heard the dog - it really is the cutest boxer and I honestly do feel very sorry for its abandonment this week - and his walker return. I think the kid slept all night in the apartment because the next thing I knew, it was 8 am and I had slept all night. I troed to sleep longer but I cannot fall asleep in a bright room.
Today, my neighbor returns from Toronto and I will be curious to see how this meeting goes.
I just cancelled 11 backorders with Amazon.com. Until the fascist asses controlling and censoring their stock reverse their policies, I will order from Barnes & Noble, Deep Discount, and others.
I have luckily repressed most of my draft summons memories. I remember the bus to Cincinnati and the general panic all of us students felt at being summoned, And I rememebr the party in the costume shop of the theatre dept when I reported I was a free agent.
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I really don't want to hear any stinkin' draft whining. How many of YOU had a General for a father? ;)
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Today's enigmatic email hyperlinked message:
##Nice Pills Blue click here
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Well, I need to head downstairs now to get cleaned up for my lunch out today with best friend John.
WBBL.
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How many of YOU had a General for a father?
Or Private Parts? ;)
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I slept in this morning.
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In other news...
I believe I'm actually starting to feel nervous. Hmmm... It's been a while since I've had "this" feeling. I don't really miss it, but in a way I do.
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I'm up and shall do the long jog in about forty-five minutes - hoping the sun breaks through during that time.
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DR vixmom - ~~~~~CONTINUED VIBES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY~~~~~~
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I'm tired, though.
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DR Vixmom glad your dad is doing okay. Vibes for his recovery. ~~~~~~~
DR Cillaliz nice pic of you and your mom!
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I am not feeling well. Last night my throat was hurting and i had aches and the chills (but no fever when i took my temp). I tossed and turned from midnight to 3am. Then just got up at 4am.
My throat is in excrutiating pain. Not sure what to do. I've tried gargling with salt water. and i've taken losenzes. And taken motrin (since my head was hurting too and the because of the chills and aches). I've tried drinking hot liquid.
I doubt going to the doctor so soon would help. They always want you to wait a few days to see if it gets better on its own. And they like to test for strepe and have you wait (which it never is for me).
When i swallow it is brutal. :(
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DR Elmore i like DR Jose's suggestions re: helping you to fall asleep.
Ear plugs could help. But i would go further than putting the tv on snow. Put it on any show. I find if someone is snoring or being noisy the tv helps me a lot!
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DR Jennifer - ~~~~~GET WELL VIBES~~~~
In the meantime, either see a doctor or stay home. If you do have "something", don't spread it around.
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re: last night's TAR
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It was definitely an interesting show. I did think that the sisters would get back before the stuntmen arrived (who knew they were brothers?). I was surprised that they didn't. And who knew you could not barter for your cab bill. Those stuntmen obviously did not read the rules. The sisters were lucky their passports were still there. How stupid could they be to leave them there. I could maybe understand re: the bags. But the passports and money???? What were they thinking. And why didn't the stuntmen just ask the taxi with the bags to meet them at the pit stop? I think they will be in trouble next week. And wow sister vs deaf kid. Next week looks crazy Glad my fav team (red-heads) is doing so well!
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DR Jennifer - ~~~~~GET WELL VIBES~~~~
In the meantime, either see a doctor or stay home. If you do have "something", don't spread it around.
I am staying home. I would see a doctor if i thought they would give me something. But i really think that they would want to see if it went away on its own. I just wish it didn't hurt so much.
Thanks for the vibes.
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RE: the draft
At any rate, though quite a few guys claimed to be gay to get out of serving, I kept it to myself. I had been assured that should I be drafted, I would not be placed in an infantry unit. With a college degree and practice teaching experience and a teaching credential, I was assured I'd either be serving as a clerk in an office, or with some political wheel-greasing, I'd be teaching the children of army bigshots on some military post somewhere. Since my family were great friends of Senator Strom Thurmond who was quite pwoerful in national politics at the time, I knew I'd have the pull to get a teaching appointment if I got drafted.
So, even though they never reached my number, I was fully ready to go in if I got called.
During the Vietnam era, the enlisted ranks were filled with men and women with college degrees. It was an embarrassment of riches for the military at that time. Anyone with a low draft number but with a student deferment had a better-than-even chance of applying to become an officer before being graduated. The Marine Corps visited my college campus recruiting juniors who, during the break before the senior year, would attend a basic training. The officer trainee would return to finish his last year of college at his own expense and then would be given his commission and sent off to training for whatever occupational specialty for which he was best suited. Other services did the same thing. There were other service recruiters there, but I talked to the Marine recruiter. I was ready to sign up. Unfortunately for him, I needed a parent's permission (parent being the one paying for the education, as it were). My father drove up to the school and talked me out of it. At least, it seems like that's what he did. I knew I wouldn't win the argument, but I sure did like the uniform I "might" have been wearing.
My draft number was 91, and I knew I was going to serve somewhere, somehow. (ALL of my friends had numbers in the 300s). There wasn't any question of lying my way out of it. Call it what you will, I knew the military was going to be an obstacle between me and my dreams, and I had to handle the mlitary the best way I knew how. Anything less than a medical reason for being classified 4-F (unsuitable for military service) would, at that time, follow you around and make it unlikely you'd ever get the jobs you really wanted. At least, where I came from that was the case.
As Matt pointed out about a "gay" deferment, that was like wearing a pink star. At that time, employers always checked your military status. The "gay" flag was instant "We're sorry, but we can't use you."
The military isn't suited for everyone, of course. One needs to be able to immerse oneself into being a team player. It's not about the one, it's about the many. Several guys in my company were discharged during boot camp. One was totally by design. He began wetting his bed regularly after he realized he had made a mistake by passing the physical. Another had a meltdown. Sweet guy, though.
In consonance with TOD, what is the scariest thing you've ever had to get out of (or thing you didn't want to do):
I hated my first two years in the Navy because I hated the occupational rating they forced upon me. I was a "Radioman". School was fun. I was a quick learner in Morse Code (but it was no longer used except for emergency communications) and could tune the equipment readily enough. At my first duty station, I spent my first month cleaning two bathrooms and waxing/polishing the hallway. Happily, two weeks into that another guy joined me. He had recently been graduated from Amherst. We had a lot in common and became fast friends. Sometime after that -- a week or so -- the division officer's secretary called us into her office. She was baffled why two college grads were cleaning heads and passageways when, as she put it, "idiots were running the communications center."
We were both integrated into the Comm Center within the day and two new arrivals took over the janitorial duties in the passageway and heads. In the message center, I found that I was expected to make coffee, run off messages on a mimeograph machine and, once a week, swab and wax the floor.
Over the next year, my friend and I were both promoted to Radioman Third Class (we became "petty officers"). That was still at the bottom of the pecking order, but it was a healthy pay raise. In late 1972, my friend applied for a commission and got his approval in Spring 1972. During that same spring, I applied for a change of rating to become a Journalist. That, in itself, was a minor drama with my request form being torn up by my leading petty officer (this, in the era of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt who "modernized" Navy thinking), the first person who had a crack at it.
I knew that if I was to finish my four-year obligation I'd need to improve my circumstances. Journalism had been a closed rating for several years for the Navy. It was a "plum" rating -- that's PLUM as in highly desirable. In that Spring of 1972, a friend in our personnel office informed me the rating had opened back up and thought I might like to apply.
Request forms (aka "chits") could be approved or disapproved. They had to run the course of the chain of command, however. In this case, I had a leading petty officer, five chief petty officers (whose function, as far as I could tell, was to drink all the coffee I and another guy in my section could make in an 8-hour shift), the communications officer (the division officer to whom I referred earlier) and, ultimately, the Commanding Officer of Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.
Another petty officer in the division heard about what happened and told me to fill out another form. When I had, he went to the leading petty officer with me and told him, point-blank, that he could approve it or disapprove it, but that he had to send it along.
The LPO smirked and disapproved it and handed it back to me to take to the chiefs. The other petty officer said, "No! You take it in. Pulliam doesn't get it back until the final sign-off."
A day later I was called in by one of the chiefs. They were all in one room, fingers firmly hooked into their coffee-cup handles. I was told to sit and, one by one, I was regaled with stories about "other radiomen" they knew who had attempted to change ratings and failed. The Navy, they said, "spent thousands of dollars on you" to make you into a Radioman. They further reminded me that they had recently gotten me a top secret clearance and decryption training. "This", they said, is what you are meant to do. I thanked them kindly, told them I understood their points-of-view, and absolved them by telling them I understood they'd have to disapprove the request, but that I still wanted it to go forward.
A day later, the commander in charge of the division called me in. He asked me what the chiefs had said to me. I told him. He then said, "If those chief petty officers have told you this is a waste of time and disapproved your request, do you think I'm going to do any differently?" I professed innocence in having a clue what he might make of it but I still wanted to be a journalist and that I wanted my request to go forward.
Two days later, I got a call from the secretary of the base commanding officer requesting I come to his office after work that day (2 p.m.) for an interview on my request.
This was a wholly different experience from anything that had gone before. I was nervous, but not particularly scared. I knew if I could impress upon him the sincerity of my request, I might have shot.
The CO's office was huge compared to any I'd been in since being on active duty. His secretary was a lovely woman and her desk was near a set of "saloon doors" that led to his inner santcum. I had only been seated a few seconds when one of those doors swung open and Captain Smith looked directly at me, smiled and said, "Petty Officer Pulliam, come on in!"
I moved quickly and waited to be told to sit. He asked his secretary to bring us coffee. He looked at me and said,"I'm told by one of your co-workers that you drink coffee." Wow! He caught me off guard with that one! This was the number-one dude on base, and I was one of a thousand next-to-nobodies He made small talk, and I'm certain I joined in, while the coffee was put before us. He took a sip, and then asked me: "Why do you want to be a Journalist?"
I told him about my college years, my double major in theater and English, my interest in writing, and my interest in learning about public affairs. I then told him how disappointed I'd been when, in boot camp, I'd been placed into the radioman rating. I had, I explained, done a very good job on the Foreign Language Aptitude Test and that I'd hoped I might have been taken into one of the "naval intelligence" programs at the very least.
He laughed. Yes, he admitted, I had a very high FLAT score. (He had reviewed my records!!!) He said he was amazed that they'd decided on the radioman rating for me, too. Radioman, as a rating, was considered highly critical, though, and sometimes people are classified for the school based on other scores that are deemed desirable for the rating.
He asked me to write a couple of pages on why I wanted to be a Journalist and how I felt it would benefit the Navy more than my being a radioman. I was to drop it off with his secretary (in the next couple of days).
I went back to the barracks and began writing. I wrote and wrote. I edited. I wrote some more. I re-copied everything. Several times.
Next morning, on my way to work, I dropped off my final two-page declaration.
A week passed. I had no concept of when I might get some news about the CO's decision. What I didn't expect, in the middle of the second week, was to arrive at work and find that the door's cypher lock codes had been changed. I rang the bell. One of my co-workers looked out the window and said, "Oh! Wait a minute!." I expected the door to open, but I waited. And I waited. And then, one of the chiefs came out. He handed me a message and told me to read it. It was my orders to report to the Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, in six weeks. The other petty officer stuck his head out the door and told me the CO wanted me to drop by his office after getting that message.
I was so happy I could barely function. My head was swimming as I made my way to the administration building. Upon entering the CO's office, his secretary stood and stuck out her hand. "Congratulations!" she said. She then handed me my two-page declaration on why I wanted to be a Journalist. Attached to it was my request chit. She told me to make note of all the signatures and recommendations. At the bottom was the CO's with a big check mark by "Approved". Above that were the signatures of the communications officer, three of the five chiefs and the leading petty officer. They were all checked "Approved", too....but the check marks in "Disapproved" had been whited out.
She laughed and said the CO had invited them all to his office the day after I'd submitted my writing. He asked them if any of them knew "why" I had requested to change ratings to become a Journalist. Not one of them knew because not one of them had asked. He then handed each of them copies of my two pages and directed them to read. He had then told them all to see his secretary who would help them, if they chose, make a better-informed decision before they left his office.
She also told me I was to spend the rest of my time at NAS Jacksonville working in the base public affairs office.
That was the beginning of a career. I didn't know it at the time, of course. I met many extraordinary people, had many extraordinary experiences, and have tons of extraordinary memories because of it. And, of course, there's the lifetime pension.
It was a good time, it was the best time...
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I still remember going to the post office to fill out and drop off the Selective Service forms... And since that was around the time when the troubles in the Middle East had started escalating again - the Iran-Iraq War, well...
*And I still remember a fellow college student who lived in my housing complex who had come back from Persian Gulf during the middle of my freshman year. It/he was the first case of post-traumatic stress syndrome I had ever seen, dealt with. Since we lived in university-sponsored off-campus housing, we had to take a bus between campus and the apartments. There was one time when he went through an episode during the bus ride back to the apartments... :-\
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Good Afternoon!
Well... I can tell that if I don't start making my way to the theatre now, I will most likely end up lazing around the apartment for more hours than I should, so...
Laters...
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HEALING & BIOPSY VIBES FOR DF OF DR VIXMOM & DGF OF DR VIXTER!
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DR Ron, GREAT STORY!
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DR Elmore i like DR Jose's suggestions re: helping you to fall asleep.
Ear plugs could help. But i would go further than putting the tv on snow. Put it on any show. I find if someone is snoring or being noisy the tv helps me a lot!
I am not going to let a barking dog alter my routine. I'll see it evicted first.
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Hello and greetings from LA!
For real this time. :) I can see and hear the Hollywood Freeway as I write.
I got in late Friday night. A friend picked me up at the airport and I've been getting settled and reacquainted with LA. DF&H#2's house is VERY high-tech. I've been getting a crash course in how to use the home theatre, the alarm, where everything is kept, etc. I can work the DVD just fine, but I'm still learning how to turn the lights on and off. ???
DF&H#2 has a dog, a beagle. I'm now Deputy Dog Walker here, too, which means I need to learn my way around the neighborhood so I can find my way home!
My car should arrive later this week, plus eight boxes of stuff I sent UPS from Florida. That's in addition to all the boxes I sent here before I actually moved. Oy! And I threw out more stuff, too! It's hell being a pack rat.
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Lots of little things to take care of. I'll try to check in later.
TTFN.
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Vibes to Vixfam! DR Vixmom - please continue taking care of yourself, too!
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DR Jeanne - congratulations on your arrival in LA!
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DR elmore there are Boxer rescue groups near you & multiple animal protection groups. There must be someone who can come to this dog's rescue, and in return your rescue. At the least help the owner take better care of his dog. I hope other people can hear the dog to verify your reports.
If nothing changes after the owner returns, or the dog is ever left alone for days again, I suggest finding a group who will come to the aid of the dog. In the meantime I suggest keeping a written record of the days & hours the dog barks.
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DR Jeanne, I hope your return to L.A. is everything & more than you hope for.
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DR Ron, GREAT STORY!
Thank you, Jane.
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Page 3: It's Monday ALL DAY...until Midnight Dance!
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DR elmore there are Boxer rescue groups near you & multiple animal protection groups. There must be someone who can come to this dog's rescue, and in return your rescue. At the least help the owner take better care of his dog. I hope other people can hear the dog to verify your reports.
If nothing changes after the owner returns, or the dog is ever left alone for days again, I suggest finding a group who will come to the aid of the dog. In the meantime I suggest keeping a written record of the days & hours the dog barks.
When he gets back today, it's his problem. I think between the landlord and, if I have to call 911 about disturbing the peace, a police order, he's going to have to find alternate ways of solving a problem caused by his irresponsibility.
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CONTINUED HEALTH VIBES
TO DR VIXMOM'S FATHER.
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I've been watching last night's LITTLE DORRIT; this series reminds me a great deal of Jane Austen, especially in the character of Amy's moronic and impossible father Mr Dorrit. I like the cast a lot. The one thing that separates Dickens from Austen, though, is the grostequerie of his character, and these people are much creepier than Miss Austen's.
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I really don't want to hear any stinkin' draft whining. How many of YOU had a General for a father? ;)
A General what?
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Well, I am off work today. I told my boss I was English. How was I to know that Boxing Day was only the day after Christmas?
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New First Dog "Bo":
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01156f1f9b5d970c-800wi)
Bo? Hmmph. I know a lei when I see one, and that dog is wearing a lei, not a bo!
Oh, his name is... never mind.
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Oy, I have spent all morning doing prerecords for the choreographer on The Producers. Larry, please tell Doug Besterman that it really isn't necessary to change key signatures every bar. :)
On a happier note (so to speak), I just had a wonderful conversation with the man who is probably going to be Oregon's next governor, and he has invited my band to play the governor's mansion once he is ensconced there.
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I guess last night's supersized DAMAGES was the season finale! Great end!
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Lots of little things to take care of. I'll try to check in later.
TTFN.
Jeanne, welcome home to the Left Coast!
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DR S. Woody.
I don't think I ever answered you about my favorite Brosnan Bond. I like GOLDENEYE the best. In fact, I think each of his four Bond films get progressively worse. I like TOMORROW NEVER DIES more than THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUOGH which is far better than DIE ANOTHER DAY.
In terms of box-office, they were all big hits, and each one did better than its predecessor. So, someone liked them. I really thought the first three were entertaining escapist fare. The last one, not so much.
For me, the four, in order, are:
The World Is Not Enough (the big failing being Richards, otherwise strong storytelling, and great villainy)
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies (love the second half, the first half with Hatcher deserves a hatchet and I don't care for Price's villain)
Die Another Day (painful to watch, really)
And that's horseracing.
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Ron, thanks for sharing your story. I really enjoyed it.
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Thank YOU, TCB.
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Speaking of "Little Dorrit", I had THE MOST UNUSUAL DREAM about the show last night.
I dreamed that one of the characters was MBarnum and that he found himself posted to India with the Army. When he arrived, he was assigned an untouchable for a secretary. The "untouchable", as it were, was rather effete and given to leering looks when he addressed MBarnum.
There was also a young British officer with whom MBarnum was to share quarters. He was a strapping young man who seemed to like MBarnum, but it was for naught.
I awakened and wondered, "What the HELL!??!"
I know the character from "Little Dorrit" from whom the "leering" part comes...but how it turned into a gay "Passage to India" I couldn't explain.
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Re: The Draft
My number in the Lottery was 8.
But, it was the last year they pulled numbers, and nobody was called.
Which is why I'm still alive.
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This might sound so weird, but can chocolate soothe a sore throat? I had chocolate and grape juice and it felt much better!
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I really don't want to hear any stinkin' draft whining. How many of YOU had a General for a father? ;)
A general? No, mine was far more specific...
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I really don't want to hear any stinkin' draft whining. How many of YOU had a General for a father? ;)
A general? No, mine was far more specific...
;D
Ahh...a local, then.
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Great story, Ron. In fact, all the posts today are great.
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Back from the jog, and from an errand. Have written one page of questions and will keep going until I have to leave to listen to tapes, after which I shall return, finish whatever questions are left, and finish at least the first act of the long musical.
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Der Brucer, too, would have some interesting tales to tell of the Military, starting with the USNA.
But he hasn't been on the computer much at all lately, and even less here.
I do not know what is up with that, other than that he hasn't been feeling well, and hasn't wanted to do much of anything.
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I've arranged for today and tomorrow as Personal Holidays. Nice to be off and get paid at the same time.
The idea was that we'd go to the DMV and get my learner's permit (at long last).
But then der B's daughter had to get into the act.
No no no, der B and I cannot drive to the DMV, because neither of us has a licence right now. She will not hear of it.
But she can't be bothered with taking us tomorrow. She'll take us next week.
How nice of her to have our lives wrapped around her schedule.
I cannot wait until she tells us that she'll take us on Wednesday or Thursday... when I have to be at work.
Because, boy will I have words to say about that!
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Incredibly busy day here at the office.
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Good Afternoon!
Greetings from the pit of the Sottile Theatre once again.
Of course, now that I'm here, and have gone through some of the "stuff" I wanted to fix/tweak, it turns out that there's no way for me to fix/tweak those things unless I go back through the show files and do a lot of editing and re-programming. Again. So...
I think I may take a nap, and maybe I'll 'dream' of a easier and less tedious way to accomplish what I want to accomplish.
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DR SWW - Just go the DMV tomorrow without DerB's daughter. Period.
*And if you are a bit wary about being "caught", I guess you could always call a cab. -Is there a co-worker who could pick you up?
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DR SWoody: What Jose said.
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Vibes to DR DerBrucer. I've missed him and his bird photos.
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DR SWW - Just go the DMV tomorrow without DerB's daughter. Period.
*And if you are a bit wary about being "caught", I guess you could always call a cab. -Is there a co-worker who could pick you up?
Cab? CAB? You've been living in cities far too long, Jose. 'Round these parts, when you call for a cab they send a tractor.
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Thanks for sharing your story, DR Ron Pulliam. Loved it.
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DR SWW - Just go the DMV tomorrow without DerB's daughter. Period.
*And if you are a bit wary about being "caught", I guess you could always call a cab. -Is there a co-worker who could pick you up?
Cab? CAB? You've been living in cities far too long, Jose. 'Round these parts, when you call for a cab they send a tractor.
I'm sure Rehoboth has some sort of car service. -Which, more than likely, would not be worth the expense. But, ya' never know.
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***FEEL BETTER VIBES***
for DR Der Brucer
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DR Jeanne: Congratulations on completing your journey to the West Coast!!! :D
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Since we didn't have our Easter DinDin last night (I was working), we'll be feasting tonight.
Roast leg of lamb. Roasted red potatoes. Carrots.
And I've a canneloni/olive spread I'm making to go with the chicken liver pate, so we can have appetizers!
(In fact, that should be cool enough to be buzzed up in the processor by now.)
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It neede salt.
:D
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DR Jeanne - Welcome back to LA!
*So, which restaurant and/or old haunt did you visit first?
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Well, the lighting guys need to do some work in and around the pit, so I guess that's my cue to go ahead and take a break.
Laters...
*Although, I do have to admit that the college's lighting assistant is a nice "distraction"... ::)
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DR SWoody: What Jose said.
DITTO!
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Well, the lighting guys need to do some work in and around the pit, so I guess that's my cue to go ahead and take a break.
Laters...
*Although, I do have to admit that the college's lighting assistant is a nice "distraction"... ::)
Friendly?
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Lunch was fine, but it's chilly out. I had to turn the heat back on as the house was 60 and uncomfortable. It'll be better a little later in the week.
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When I got in, I watched IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES. Now, I'm no prude, but I found the sex acts fairly discomforting, and already knowing how the film was going to end, I kind of dreaded every ticking moment until the inevitable happened.
Of course, even if I hadn't known what was going to happen, the director certainly dropped plenty of OBVIOUS foreshadowing to let us know of the coming events. Scissors and knives and razors all over the place. Geez!
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I went back and sample quite a large chunk of the audio commentary by Tony Rayns. It's very good and he stays away from sex talk which was a surprise. He let to film speak for itself in those areas.
I also watched the first two bonus featurettes: an interview the the director and the two leads (though the principal actor didn't get to talk) right after the film's premiere and an interview with the leading actor (Fugi) filmed last year (he still looks very nice for being in his late 60s).
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I still have two or three more bonus items to watch, and I think the film's trailer (maybe 2) is also on the disc. Still, I should be able to finish with it before I need to begin tonight's prime time TV.
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I've been watching last night's LITTLE DORRIT; this series reminds me a great deal of Jane Austen, especially in the character of Amy's moronic and impossible father Mr Dorrit. I like the cast a lot. The one thing that separates Dickens from Austen, though, is the grostequerie of his character, and these people are much creepier than Miss Austen's.
So true. Keith keeps asking what the deal is with the "creepy" murderer. I keep telling him we will find out eventually. I'm not in a hurry. ;) We will be watching it tonight.
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On a happier note (so to speak), I just had a wonderful conversation with the man who is probably going to be Oregon's next governor, and he has invited my band to play the governor's mansion once he is ensconced there.
And who might this be? I hope he is better than the current governor.
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Gracias, DAW.
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Vibes to DR DerBrucer. I've missed him and his bird photos.
Ditto!
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Fascinating notes, bk. On my eighteenth birthday I had to register with the Government, but thankfully was never called for duty. I don't think they do that anymore, do they?
Yes, they do!!!!
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DR Jennifer, my guess is the grape juice helped your throat not the chocolate. I try to remember to skip the chocolate when my throat hurts.
THROAT VIBES!!
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were paranoid and schizophrenic, and now it is time for you to post until the adolescent cows come home.
I think I saw them floating on a raft on the Red River heading towards Canada..
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Here at my favorite coffee shop checking a few things online before I head to work at in an hour.
I am hopiong in the next couple of weeks to start moving stuff back after the river recedes. They nearly had a dike break on the Sheyenne River in Valley City, ND earlier today. Not a good deal. All taht water is head this way.
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Vibes to DR DerBrucer. I've missed him and his bird photos.
Just for you - Part One
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Fascinating notes, bk. On my eighteenth birthday I had to register with the Government, but thankfully was never called for duty. I don't think they do that anymore, do they?
Yes, they do!!!!
I remember when Bryan received a letter to register. We were both surprised. He received a card he was never to lose. Of course I have no idea what happened to the card. I can't remember if Craig ever received his card. I believe having served in the Peace Corps makes one exempt from the military if we ever have a draft again.
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Sorry I have been E & T things have been a big crazy lately.
Dad had his surgery Friday, they had to slice his leg from buttock to knee to get the tumor out of his thigh. It had wrapped arpund the main nerve of the leg as well as the muscles.
It seesm that he has not sustained any nerve damage as he can still wiggle his toes and move his foot on command. We are still awaiting the results of the biopsy.
Vibes to Vixter much loved grandfather for a speedy recovery...
(((( hugs to vixfamily)
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Feel better vibes to Jennifer...
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For Laura - Part TWO
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der Brucer
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Thank you Der Brucer :D
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bk always has fascinating notes IMHO... :)
The conversation here is just as lively...
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Good morning, all! After trying to sleep two hours last night, the barking finally drove me out of bed to post, and while I was posting I heard footsteps above me. I ran to the 4th floor and there was a young Israeli guy taking the dog for a walk. I started yelling at him and when I told him the dog had barked till 3am, he said "3am?" and I said, yes, indeedy, and the dog should be on tranqullizers. I went to bed, hoping that I would pass out before the next barking session began, and I heard the dog - it really is the cutest boxer and I honestly do feel very sorry for its abandonment this week - and his walker return. I think the kid slept all night in the apartment because the next thing I knew, it was 8 am and I had slept all night. I troed to sleep longer but I cannot fall asleep in a bright room.
Today, my neighbor returns from Toronto and I will be curious to see how this meeting goes.
I just cancelled 11 backorders with Amazon.com. Until the fascist asses controlling and censoring their stock reverse their policies, I will order from Barnes & Noble, Deep Discount, and others.
I have luckily repressed most of my draft summons memories. I remember the bus to Cincinnati and the general panic all of us students felt at being summoned, And I rememebr the party in the costume shop of the theatre dept when I reported I was a free agent.
Elmore, I have never trusted amazon. I prefer Barnes and Noble. I have had better luck in getting some titles I have been interested.
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Hi Dakota. I missed the latest news on your almost break. CONTINUED DAM HOLDING VIBES!!
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In other news...
I believe I'm actually starting to feel nervous. Hmmm... It's been a while since I've had "this" feeling. I don't really miss it, but in a way I do.
Vibes to Jose...
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I am also glad to see derBrucer's pics back again!
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Well, I'm going to jump off-line now and do some writing. Then, I'll head back down to finish the bonuses on IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES and see what kind of time I have left before starting on this evening's TV line-up.
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Spoo!
WBBL.
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Vibes to DR DerBrucer. I've missed him and his bird photos.
Ditto!
And an Easter photo for Jane:
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der Brucer
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derBrucer, in your first set of pics, is the second picture a cardinal?
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derBrucer, that is quite teh bunny...
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LOL, is that real!
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derBrucer, in your first set of pics, is the second picture a cardinal?
Yes - Daddy on the left, red-winged blackbird on the right.
Third pic is the Lady Cardinal and the Black Bird
der Brucer
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I've read that Marilyn Chambers has died, aged 56.
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Vibes to DR DerBrucer. I've missed him and his bird photos.
Ditto!
And an Easter photo for Jane:
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der Brucer
LOL, is that real!
Apparently yes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f8y4SR9mjU
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I see that Mel Gibson's wife has filed for divorce after 28 years. I guess she just learned that he was the son of an ass as well as a bad drunk and an anti-semitic homophobe!
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This afternoon I went outside, and this is what I saw:
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LOL, is that real!
See HOAX-SLAYER (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/giant-rabbit.shtml)
der Brucer
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This afternoon I went outside, and this is what I saw:
Does she know her children are in danger of burning up?
der Brucer
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Thanks, DerBrucer.
The big black bird in the first picture. Is that a grackle of some kind?
Your habitat is very different than mine, so most of our birds are different.
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Aww, poor Robert. That is sad. I was kind of glad the video was in German so I could know if they were to be food. Sooo cute & a reminder why I don't eat rabbits anymore.
Keith saw our Jack Rabbit today, lucky him.
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DR Laura I'm pleased one of your photos came out.
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From Craig & Ioana's walk yesterday.
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Uh-oh.... Or not...
I just discovered that the Italian café across the street from the theatre has a "Happy Hour": $1.00 shots of Espresso (they use/serve Caffé Moak beans), and $1.25 single scoop cones of gelato.
;)
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In other news...
I believe I'm actually starting to feel nervous. Hmmm... It's been a while since I've had "this" feeling. I don't really miss it, but in a way I do.
Vibes to Jose...
Um, no vibes necessary, at least not right now, DR DakotaCelt. But.. Thank You.
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I've read that Marilyn Chambers has died, aged 56.
Star of one of the top three.
Imagine the baker's challenge in providing an appropriate cake for the funeral festivites.
der Brucer
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I should have asked if Craig or Ioana photographed the close-up on the flowers.
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Thanks, DerBrucer.
The big black bird in the first picture. Is that a grackle of some kind?
Yep.
der Brucer
And the other stranger is a rufus-sided towhee.
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I've read that Marilyn Chambers has died, aged 56.
...Now I'm trying to remember if I ever saw "Behind the Green Door"...
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OK... Half hour to go until we start rehearsal. Time for me ensconce myself in the pit.
Laters...
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I've read that Marilyn Chambers has died, aged 56.
...Now I'm trying to remember if I ever saw "Behind the Green Door"...
You'd remember the fuss over the inter-racial fornication.
der Brucer
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Don't get all pitted out, Joe!
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Time for me ensconce myself in the pit.
NEWSFLASH - KEYBOARD ARTIST FOUND IMPALED ON GIANT CANLESTICK.
der Brucer
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We just got BeeGee's DNA results back: he is Labrador Retriever, Rottweiler (!!), Curly Coated Retriever and Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Why, then, does he refuse to retrieve? ;)
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This afternoon I went outside, and this is what I saw:
Does she know her children are in danger of burning up?
der Brucer
Most of the ladybug children have metamorphasized (is that a word) into ladybugs now.
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We just got BeeGee's DNA results back: he is Labrador Retriever, Rottweiler (!!), Curly Coated Retriever and Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Why, then, does he refuse to retrieve? ;)
Maybe because you've never shot a bird?
der Brucer
Unlike Miss Doolittle, retrievers do not fetch slippers!
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I thought that one was a towhee of some kind. We have Abert's towhees as yard birds here. Spotted towhees in the winter (not in town, usually).
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I just talked to the nice policeman.
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Great story, DR Ron!
All of my uncles as well as my father served in WW II; my Uncle Bud was a air force career man (he's the one who was Marilyn Monroe's escort on her USO tour of Korea); I knew at an early age that I would never be eligible to serve due to health issues.
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I just talked to the nice policeman.
Postal Workers
Game Wardens
Policemen...
you sure go for guys in uniforms!
Are you a Village People fan?
der Brucer
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I just talked to the nice policeman.
Postal Workers
Game Wardens
Policemen...
you sure go for guys in uniforms!
Are you a Village People fan?
der Brucer
I am! I am! I am!
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Alas, The Game Warden has abandoned me.
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Alas, The Game Warden has abandoned me.
Well! That's just not FAIR!
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Alas, The Game Warden has abandoned me.
So, are crawdads back on the menu?
der Brucer
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We just got BeeGee's DNA results back: he is Labrador Retriever, Rottweiler (!!), Curly Coated Retriever and Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Why, then, does he refuse to retrieve? ;)
Must be the Rottweiler in him-lol. I think it is great you did the DNA testing. We wish it had been available when we had Belle, our "Belgian Shepherd"
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Los Angeles has finally found an intelligent jury.
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WOW Ron - what a great story
I am so glad your persistance paid off
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Thank you all for the vibes - Dad is having some complications - I won't go into the gruesome details but it involves a catheter
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Marilyn Chambers 56??? Are you joking? That would have made her seventeen at the time of filming Behind The Green Door and she'd already been a working model doing print ads for several years - as an adult. No, I'm afraid there's no way Ms. Chambers was anything less than sixty-seven.
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and no biopsy results yet
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DR JMK, how accurate is the DNA testing & why did the Golden Retriever rescue group think he was part Golden, part Newfie ;)
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Back from tape listening session and the news is all good and I've just put in for the licenses on all three titles - this in addition to the cast album title I signed the contract for last week. There's another potential cast album coming, too, if everything works out.
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The draft ended the year I was a juinor in high school much to the relief of my male classmates
however grwoing up I watched the boys in my neighborhood leave one by one for The War.
The boy next door who used to watch us when my folks went out joined the Marines - when he came home he would not leave his yard without holding his mother's hand
his best friend, who used to come and help watch us lost both arms, a leg and his sight.
The boy on the next corner who used to play ball with us didn't come back at all.
It was a terrible time.
I have two older male cousins, the one with the low draft number has such bad eyesight that he is very clsoe to legally blind and he did not pass the physical - the other one lucked out with a high draft number and was never called
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Back from tape listening session and the news is all good and I've just put in for the licenses on all three titles - this in addition to the cast album title I signed the contract for last week. There's another potential cast album coming, too, if everything works out.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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Marilyn Chambers 56??? Are you joking? That would have made her seventeen at the time of filming Behind The Green Door and she'd already been a working model doing print ads for several years - as an adult. No, I'm afraid there's no way Ms. Chambers was anything less than sixty-seven.
I'm just sayin'....that's what the news story said. The IMDb gives her birth year as 1952, as well (not that "that" makes it so).
But with "Behind the Green Door" being released in 1972, Chambers would have been 20.
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The Vixter heard about Selective Service Registration at school and was quite concerned that it would apply equally to both sexes and that she would be forced to go to Iraq on her 18th birthday
We were able to releive her fears by assuring her that she was in no danger of being drafterd and that in fact neither were her classmates at the moment as there is no draft currently.
I wonder if the Equal Rights for Women Amendment had ever been passed whether the Selective Service registration would apply to both sexes......
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Marilyn Chambers 56??? Are you joking? That would have made her seventeen at the time of filming Behind The Green Door and she'd already been a working model doing print ads for several years - as an adult. No, I'm afraid there's no way Ms. Chambers was anything less than sixty-seven.
I'm just sayin'....that's what the news story said. The IMDb gives her birth year as 1952, as well (not that "that" makes it so).
But with "Behind the Green Door" being released in 1972, Chambers would have been 20.
Two famous porn stars dead in less than a week!. There is a serial killer out there! :-)
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I have NOT received my cd of Two For the Seesaw as of today.
Anyon else not get theirs yet?
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WOW Ron - what a great story
I am so glad your persistance paid off
Thank you, Debra. Me, too!!
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Great story, DR Ron!
Thanks, Tony.
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DRs Dan (the Man) and Michael Shayne should expect somethings in the mail soonly. ;)
I'm just sayin'.
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Great story, DR Ron!
It was, Ron! ;D
I vaguely remember having to sign up when I turned 18. My dad (who retired after 20 years in the army when I was 11) took me to the recruitment center. I never was called to serve. ::)
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DR Vixmom that was a lot of loss in one small neighborhood.
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Sorry I have been E & T things have been a big crazy lately.
Dad had his surgery Friday, they had to slice his leg from buttock to knee to get the tumor out of his thigh. It had wrapped arpund the main nerve of the leg as well as the muscles.
It seesm that he has not sustained any nerve damage as he can still wiggle his toes and move his foot on command. We are still awaiting the results of the biopsy.
~~~Vibes for DR Vixmom's Dad!!~~~
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My neighbor is back from Toronto and I believe that we are okay with hte issue of the barking canine. I thought the dog was a pup but he's 10 years old and unneutered. He may have caught a scent of another dog in heat, but I suspect he was fraught over his abandonment. My neighbor said he tried to et his girlfriend to stay in the apartment with the dog, but she felt uncomfortable being here alone.
I just send my landlord an email and a phone message saying that we had talked and I hoped that everything was fine between us now,
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Vibes to DR DerBrucer. I've missed him and his bird photos.
Just for you - Part One
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der Brucer
I have missed you DR derBrucer. I hope you feel better soon.
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DR elmore if there continue to be problems the neighbor might be willing to give you his cell phone number for you to call him home.
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On a happier note (so to speak), I just had a wonderful conversation with the man who is probably going to be Oregon's next governor, and he has invited my band to play the governor's mansion once he is ensconced there.
Congrats, JMK!
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DR elmore if there continue to be problems the neighbor might be willing to give you his cell phone number for you to call him home.
Everything has been covered.
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Thanks for the welcoming posts. Leave it to Jose to ask where I ate first. :) I was in the mood for Mexican food and DF&H#2 chose a restaurant called Talpa, I think, on Pico Blvd. It was very good. DF&H#2 has introduced me to many good restaurants over the years.
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I enjoyed all the TOD stories today. I wouldn't have guessed that the topic was so interesting.
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Congrats to JMK!
Continued good health to Vixmom and family.
Continued stay-dry vibes to Dakota. Glad to see you posting again.
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Quiet nights vibes to Larry.
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DF&H#2 stopped at the supermarket on his way home today, where he ran into a neighbor. Said neighbor said he'd seen "the puppy" being walked by a strange girl. Do the burglars here walk the dog after breaking in? It's always interesting to hear the feedback from the neighbors. :)
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DR Jennifer, my guess is the grape juice helped your throat not the chocolate. I try to remember to skip the chocolate when my throat hurts.
THROAT VIBES!!
Actually i tried the grape juice by itself and it did not help.
So i am going with the chocolate! :)
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Feel better vibes for DR Der Brucer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Those flower pics are really amazing.
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DR elmore if there continue to be problems the neighbor might be willing to give you his cell phone number for you to call him home.
Everything has been covered.
I'm very happy to hear this. I've been worried about the dog, and of course your lack of sleep.
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Thank you DR Jennifer. Chocolate does coat the throat though I regret to say it has ever really soothed it for me. My guess, the chocolate coated your throat so the juice didn't burn it & then the fluids & vitamins in the juice helped. ;)
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I'm not sure what i'm most looking forward to watching tonight. Probably MEDIUM.
HEROES is just doing it for me this year. I look forward to watching LOST, but JEROES not so much.
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Thank you DR Jennifer. Chocolate does coat the throat though I regret to say it has ever really soothed it for me. My guess, the chocolate coated your throat so the juice didn't burn it & then the fluids & vitamins in the juice helped. ;)
Maybe. I was thinking maybe somehow the chocolate coated it. I will try this combo again and see if it works. Luckily i don't have to swallow that often. But it is excruciatingly painful when i do.
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Good and even better vibes to all-- whether you think you need them or not. It can't hurt to have a few extra good vibes! :)
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When I got in, I watched IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES. Now, I'm no prude, but I found the sex acts fairly discomforting, and already knowing how the film was going to end, I kind of dreaded every ticking moment until the inevitable happened.
Of course, even if I hadn't known what was going to happen, the director certainly dropped plenty of OBVIOUS foreshadowing to let us know of the coming events. Scissors and knives and razors all over the place. Geez!
Oh. A slice of life movie, eh?
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Shayne, everyone else has got theirs. Speak to your carrier. I personally addressed and packaged your CD so I know it was sent in the first batch, last Wednesday. What I ALWAYS find out is that it's the post office or the carrier.
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TOD: I honestly wish I could say I've gotten out of some scary situations and things I didn't want to do, but fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I have had to face and go through all the scary things and the things I didn't want to do. If I hadn't gone through them, my life might have been easier, but I wouldn't be the person I am now if I hadn't gone through those things. Granted, the military was not one of those things mainly because Yes, I did register with the Selective Service, but the draft ended before anything else happened.
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And now for something completely different...click HERE (http://www.ktla.com/photo_gallery_landing?galleryID=843) for some FUNNY pictures!! ;D
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DR Vixmom glad your dad is doing okay. Vibes for his recovery. ~~~~~~~
DR Cillaliz nice pic of you and your mom!
Thanks DR Jennifer
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Marilyn Chambers 56??? Are you joking? That would have made her seventeen at the time of filming Behind The Green Door and she'd already been a working model doing print ads for several years - as an adult. No, I'm afraid there's no way Ms. Chambers was anything less than sixty-seven.
It was all that Ivory Soap Flakes, or whatever it was she was plastered on the box for.
(And didn't she claim to be plastered later in her career, as well?)
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Back from tape listening session and the news is all good and I've just put in for the licenses on all three titles - this in addition to the cast album title I signed the contract for last week. There's another potential cast album coming, too, if everything works out.
Cool! I can't wait to find out what they are. Any clews?? :D
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I think one of my deepest desires has come true: chocolate is making me ill.
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I just talked to the nice policeman.
As in there is only one nice policeman?
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I have met several.
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I think one of my deepest desires has come true: chocolate is making me ill.
I'm sorry to say that doesn't stop me from eating it.
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DR Jean we have never eaten at Talpa's. I'll have to pay attention next time we pass it.
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No clews at this time, but soon all will be revealed.
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I talked to a nice policeman today, too. He pulled me over as I rushed back after lunch to get to a hearing. He walked up to my car and said "I know you!" He used to be on the drug task force and was involved in a lot of my federal cases then (they rotate the task force positions)
I told him I was late to court and he said "Ok, I was only going to write a warning, but I'll skip it if you're late to court. Just don't speed, there are a lot of officers out right now and you may run into one who doesn't like you" I appreciated the warning
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I've decided to be in the Susan G. Komen 5 K on Mother's day. I decided to do it so that I'd have something to train for and to keep exercising. It's a walk/run so if I can't run the whole way, it's ok.
I didn't originally do it for the fundraising, but it's a great cause. if anyone feels so inclined you can link to my sponsor page through my facebook or I can send a link. If you don't want to, that's cool too, just offering a chance to donate to help fight breast cancer.
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I think i will go watch DWTS now!
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Also on Mother's Day, Habitat for Humanity is doing a "women's build". Don't think I can do both, but Lowe's is doing a power tool training this Saturday for women who will be working on it. I'm going to see if I can go and do the training. Maybe then I can finish framing out the basement and be ready to work on some builds this summer.
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Congratulations Bruce!
DR Cilla, you did meet a very nice policeman! :)
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A very nice policeman, Cillaliz!
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Dinner is almost ready.
The lamb is roasted, and der B has told me that he's carving (something I'm not terribly good at).
The taters are also roasted (drenched in balsamic dressing).
And the carrots are almost finished.
Time to depart.
Hasta.
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A very nice policeman, Cillaliz!
Yeah, I've always gotten along with him. I actually get along with most of the law enforcement officers on the other side of my cases. I have no qualms about attacking them on the witness stand, but it's not outrageous or personal, it's strictly about how they did their job. I've had a couple be mad at me for a few days, but in general, I don't have a problem. I even had one in Phoenix thank me for letting him know what not to do next time....he was a rookie.
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someone else reposted the clip from BGT... What a voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
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A very nice policeman, Cillaliz!
Yeah, I've always gotten along with him. I actually get along with most of the law enforcement officers on the other side of my cases. I have no qualms about attacking them on the witness stand, but it's not outrageous or personal, it's strictly about how they did their job. I've had a couple be mad at me for a few days, but in general, I don't have a problem. I even had one in Phoenix thank me for letting him know what not to do next time....he was a rookie.
The best kind of rookie, one that seemed to care about being the best policeman possible. :)
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someone else reposted the clip from BGT... What a voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Third time I have watched this today, amazing. I read she sings in her church choir and many of those people had no idea how talented she is. I wonder if she will be singing a few solo's now.
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RE: the draft
At any rate, though quite a few guys claimed to be gay to get out of serving, I kept it to myself. I had been assured that should I be drafted, I would not be placed in an infantry unit. With a college degree and practice teaching experience and a teaching credential, I was assured I'd either be serving as a clerk in an office, or with some political wheel-greasing, I'd be teaching the children of army bigshots on some military post somewhere. Since my family were great friends of Senator Strom Thurmond who was quite pwoerful in national politics at the time, I knew I'd have the pull to get a teaching appointment if I got drafted.
So, even though they never reached my number, I was fully ready to go in if I got called.
During the Vietnam era, the enlisted ranks were filled with men and women with college degrees. It was an embarrassment of riches for the military at that time. Anyone with a low draft number but with a student deferment had a better than even chance of applying to become an officer before they graduated. The Marine Corps recruited at college campuses recruiting juniors who, during the break before the senior year, would attend a basic training. The officer trainee would return to finish his last year of college at his own expense and then would be given his commission and sent off to training for whatever occupational specialty for which he was best suited. Other services probably did the same thing. I talked to the Marine recruiter. I was ready to sign up. Unfortunately for him, I needed a parent's permission (parent being the one paying for the education, as it were). My father drove up to the school and talked me out of it. At least, it seems like that's what he did. I knew I wouldn't win the argument, but I sure did like the uniform I "might" have been wearing.
My draft number was 91, and I knew I was going to serve somewhere, somehow. (ALL of my friends had numbers in the 300s). There wasn't any question of lying my way out of it. Call it what you will, I knew the military was going to be an obstacle between me and my dreams, and I had to handle the mlitary the best way I knew how. Anything less than a medical reason for being classified 4-F (unsuitable for military service) would, at that time, follow you around and make it unlikely you'd ever get the jobs you really wanted. At least, where I came from that was the case.
As Matt pointed out about a "gay" deferment, that was like wearing a pink star. At that time, employers always checked your military status. The "gay" flag was instant "We're sorry, but we can't use you."
The military isn't suited for everyone, of course. One needs to be able to immerse onself into being a team player. It's not about the one, it's about the many. Several guys in my company were discharged during boot camp. One was totally by design. He began wetting his bed regularly after he realized he had made a mistake by passing the physical. Another had a meltdown. Sweet guy, though.
In consonance with TOD, what is the scariest thing you've ever had to get out of (or thing you didn't want to do):
I hated my first two years in the Navy because I hated the occupational rating they forced upon me. I was a "Radioman". School was fun. I was a quick learner in Morse Code (but it was no longer used except for emergency communications) and could tune the equipment readily enough. At my first duty station, I spent my first month cleaning two bathrooms and waxing/polishing the hallway. Happily, two weeks into that another guy joined me. He had recently been graduated from Amherst. We had a lot in common and became fast friends. Sometime after that -- a week or so -- the division officer's secretary called us into her office. She was baffled why two college grads were cleaning heads and passageways when, as she put it, "idiots were running the communications center."
We were both integrated into the Comm Center within the day and two new arrivals took over the janitorial duties in the passageway and heads. In the message center, I found that I was expected to make coffee, run off messages on a mimeograph machine and, once a week, swab and wax the floor.
Over the next year, my friend and I were both promoted to Radioman Third Class (we became "petty officers"). That was still at the bottom of the pecking order, but it was a healthy pay raise. In late 1972, my friend applied for a commission and got his approval in Spring 1972. During that same spring, I applied for a change of rating to become a Journalist. That, in itself, was a minor drama with my request form being torn up by my leading petty officer (this, in the era of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt who "modernized" Navy thinking), the first person who had a crack at it.
I knew that if I was to finish my four-year obligation I'd need to improve my circumstances. Journalism had been a closed rating for several years for the Navy. It was a "plum" rating -- that's PLUM as in highly desirable. In that Spring of 1972, a friend in our personnel office informed me the rating had opened back up and thought I might like to apply.
Request forms (aka "chits") could be approved or disapproved. They had to run the course of the chain of command, however. In this case, I had a leading petty officer, five chief petty officers (whose function, as far as I could tell, was to drink all the coffee I and another guy in my section could make in an 8-hour shift), the communications officer (the division officer to whom I referred earlier) and, ultimately, the Commanding Officer of Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida.
Another petty officer in the division heard about what happened and told me to fill out another form. When I had, he went to the leading petty officer with me and told him, point-blank, that he could approve it or disapprove it, but that he had to send it along.
The LPO smirked and disapproved it and handed it back to me to take to the chiefs. The other petty officer said, "No! You take it in. Pulliam doesn't get it back until the final sign-off."
A day later I was called in by one of the chiefs. They were all in one room, fingers firmly hooked into their coffee-cup handles. I was told to sit and, one by one, I was regaled with stories about "other radiomen" they knew who had attempted to change ratings and failed. The Navy, they said, "spent thousands of dollars on you" to make you into a Radioman. They further reminded me that they had recently gotten me a top secret clearance and decryption training. "This", they said, is what you are meant to do. I thanked them kindly, told them I understood their points-of-view, and absolved them by telling them I understood they'd have to disapprove the request, but that I still wanted it to go forward.
A day later, the commander in charge of the division called me in. He asked me what the chiefs had said to me. I told him. He then said, "If those chief petty officers have told you this is a waste of time and disapproved your request, do you think I'm going to do any differently?" I professed innocence in having a clue what he might make of it but I still wanted to be a journalist and that I wanted my request to go forward.
Two days later, I got a call from the secretary of the base commanding officer requesting I come to his office after work that day (2 p.m.) for an interview on my request.
This was a wholly different experience from anything that had gone before. I was nervous, but not particularly scared. I knew if I could impress upon him the sincerity of my request, I might have shot.
The CO's office was huge compared to any I'd been in since being on active duty. His secretary was a lovely woman and her desk was near a set of "saloon doors" that led to his inner santcum. I had only been seated a few seconds when one of those doors swung open and Captain Smith looked directly at me, smiled and said, "Petty Officer Pulliam, come on in!"
I moved quickly and waited to be told to sit. He asked his secretary to bring us coffee. He looked at me and said,"I'm told by one of your co-workers that you drink coffee." Wow! He caught me off guard with that one! This was the number-one dude on base, and I was one of a thousand next-to-nobodies He made small talk, and I'm certain I joined in, while the coffee was put before us. He took a sip, and then asked me: "Why do you want to be a Journalist?"
I told him about my college years, my double major in theater and English, my interest in writing, and my interest in learning about public affairs. I then told him how disappointed I'd been when, in boot camp, I'd been placed into the radioman rating. I had, I explained, done a very good job on the Foreign Language Aptitude Test and that I'd hoped I might have been taken into one of the "naval intelligence" programs at the very least.
He laughed. Yes, he admitted, I had a very high FLAT score. (He had reviewed my records!!!) He said he was amazed that they'd decided on the radioman rating for me, too. Radioman, as a rating, was considered highly critical, though, and sometimes people are classified for the school based on other scores that are deemed desirable for the rating.
He asked me to write a couple of pages on why I wanted to be a Journalist and how I felt it would benefit the Navy more than my being a radioman. I was to drop it off with his secretary (in the next couple of days).
I went back to the barracks and began writing. I wrote and wrote. I edited. I wrote some more. I re-copied everything. Several times.
Next morning, on my way to work, I dropped off my final two-page declaration.
A week passed. I had no concept of when I might get some news about the CO's decision. What I didn't expect, in the middle of the second week, was to arrive at work and find that the door's cypher lock codes had been changed. I rang the bell. One of my co-workers looked out the window and said, "Oh! Wait a minute!." I expected the door to open, but I waited. And I waited. And then, one of the chiefs came out. He handed me a message and told me to read it. It was my orders to report to the Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, in six weeks. The other petty officer stuck his head out the door and told me the CO wanted me to drop by his office after getting that message.
I was so happy I could barely function. My head was swimming as I made my way to the administration building. Upon entering the CO's office, his secretary stood and stuck out her hand. "Congratulations!" she said. She then handed me my two-page declaration on why I wanted to be a Journalist. Attached to it was my request chit. She told me to make note of all the signatures and recommendations. At the bottom was the CO's with a big check mark by "Approved". Above that were the signatures of the communications officer, three of the five chiefs and the leading petty officer. They were all checked "Approved", too....but the check marks in "Disapproved" had been whited out.
She laughed and said the CO had invited them all to his office the day after I'd submitted my writing. He asked them if any of them knew "why" I had requested to change ratings to become a Journalist. Not one of them knew because not one of them had asked. He then handed each of them copies of my two pages and directed them to read. He had then told them all to see his secretary who would help them, if they chose, make a better-informed decision before they left his office.
She also told me I was to spend the rest of my time at NAS Jacksonville working in the base public affairs office.
That was the beginning of a career. I didn't know it at the time, of course. I met many extraordinary people, had many extraordinary experiences, and have tons of extraordinary memories because of it. And, of course, there's the lifetime pension.
It was a good time, it was the best time...
Great story.
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Cillaliz, I just read this article...have you come across anything like these stories?
Immigration legal system does not protect rights (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090413/Mistaken.for.Illegal.II/)
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Quote from Susan Boyle, the sensational singer:
"I was born with a disability and that made me a target for bullies. I was called names because of my fuzzy hair and because I struggled in class. I told the teachers, but because it was more verbal than physical I could never prove anything. But words often hurt more than cuts and bruises and the scars are still there. I still see the kids I went to school with because we all live in the same area. They're all grown up with children of their own. But look at me now - I've got the last laugh...Mum loved the show and used to tell me I should put my name down and that I'd win it if I did. But I never thought I was good enough. It was only after she died that I plucked up the courage to enter. It was a very dark time and I suffered depression and anxiety. But out of the darkness came light. I realised I wanted to make her proud of me and the only way to do that was to take the risk and enter the show."
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I have a question about police officers.
Exactly when did it happen that they are all young enough to be our kids?
(Edited to include our daughters, as the officer who came to take fingerprints was a young woman.)
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Cillaliz, I just read this article...have you come across anything like these stories?
Immigration legal system does not protect rights (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090413/Mistaken.for.Illegal.II/)
Yes, I've seen more than one U.S. Citizen in deportation proceedings. Some people don't know they are actually citizens through their parents or grandparents. Others just don't understand what's happening in the court proceeding and they have no right to an attorney
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Quote from Susan Boyle, the sensational singer:
"I was born with a disability and that made me a target for bullies. I was called names because of my fuzzy hair and because I struggled in class. I told the teachers, but because it was more verbal than physical I could never prove anything. But words often hurt more than cuts and bruises and the scars are still there. I still see the kids I went to school with because we all live in the same area. They're all grown up with children of their own. But look at me now - I've got the last laugh...Mum loved the show and used to tell me I should put my name down and that I'd win it if I did. But I never thought I was good enough. It was only after she died that I plucked up the courage to enter. It was a very dark time and I suffered depression and anxiety. But out of the darkness came light. I realised I wanted to make her proud of me and the only way to do that was to take the risk and enter the show."
Well, that was an incredible video to watch
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Cillaliz, I just read this article...have you come across anything like these stories?
Immigration legal system does not protect rights (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090413/Mistaken.for.Illegal.II/)
Yes, I've seen more than one U.S. Citizen in deportation proceedings. Some people don't know they are actually citizens through their parents or grandparents. Others just don't understand what's happening in the court proceeding and they have no right to an attorney
That's pretty darned scary. :-\
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I have a Canadian friend who had an immigration horror story. She was almost deported.
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Well, I'm now leaving work. At 8:00 pm., I'm auditioning for the Theater Artists Olympia (TAO) gender-open(!) production of "Romeo and Juliet." The original idea was to have two men play Romeo and Juliet, but they've announced that all roles are no longer gender-specific. Who knows? They could have a man play Juliet and a woman play Romeo! ;D
Until later!
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Great story.
Thank you, sir!
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If any of you haven't yet clicked on that link to the "Britain's Got Talent", I want you to reconsider and then do it NOW.
Remember the name SUSAN BOYLE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY) from this day forward.
And make a note of the exact moment during the video that you dissolved into tears!
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I have a question about police officers.
Exactly when did it happen that they are all young enough to be our sons?
At about the same moment you were old enough to be their mom, I'm thinking. ;)
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Quote from Susan Boyle, the sensational singer:
"I was born with a disability and that made me a target for bullies. I was called names because of my fuzzy hair and because I struggled in class. I told the teachers, but because it was more verbal than physical I could never prove anything. But words often hurt more than cuts and bruises and the scars are still there. I still see the kids I went to school with because we all live in the same area. They're all grown up with children of their own. But look at me now - I've got the last laugh...Mum loved the show and used to tell me I should put my name down and that I'd win it if I did. But I never thought I was good enough. It was only after she died that I plucked up the courage to enter. It was a very dark time and I suffered depression and anxiety. But out of the darkness came light. I realised I wanted to make her proud of me and the only way to do that was to take the risk and enter the show."
Well, that was an incredible video to watch
Yes I agree.
Anyone know how she is progressing?
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Michael, I believe this first audition was as far as it has gone.
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Quote from Susan Boyle, the sensational singer:
"I was born with a disability and that made me a target for bullies. I was called names because of my fuzzy hair and because I struggled in class. I told the teachers, but because it was more verbal than physical I could never prove anything. But words often hurt more than cuts and bruises and the scars are still there. I still see the kids I went to school with because we all live in the same area. They're all grown up with children of their own. But look at me now - I've got the last laugh...Mum loved the show and used to tell me I should put my name down and that I'd win it if I did. But I never thought I was good enough. It was only after she died that I plucked up the courage to enter. It was a very dark time and I suffered depression and anxiety. But out of the darkness came light. I realised I wanted to make her proud of me and the only way to do that was to take the risk and enter the show."
Well, that was an incredible video to watch
I totally agree.
Those with disabilities often shine in other areas aside from their challenges. Some are amazing artiists and writers.
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Les Mis is one of my favorite musicals and the piece she did is one of my favorite songs. She did an amazing job, I had chills after the first few notes
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Good Evening!
About to go over notes from tonight's tech...
That is all.
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...And now I'm back at my apartment...
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...And now I shall catch up on a couple of pages of posts....
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...And after I read said pages of posts, I shall respond and/or comment on said posts...
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...And then, I believe, I will shut down my mind for the evening and go to bed...
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Marilyn Chambers 56??? Are you joking? That would have made her seventeen at the time of filming Behind The Green Door and she'd already been a working model doing print ads for several years - as an adult. No, I'm afraid there's no way Ms. Chambers was anything less than sixty-seven.
I was wondering the same thing. I mean, she was already "old" - well, at least "older" - by the time I first noticed her. -And those videotapes were already old themselves. ::)
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Thanks for the welcoming posts. Leave it to Jose to ask where I ate first. :) I was in the mood for Mexican food and DF&H#2 chose a restaurant called Talpa, I think, on Pico Blvd. It was very good. DF&H#2 has introduced me to many good restaurants over the years.
Just remember, it's all about the food!
::)
*And I actually think I've eaten at Talpa during one of my visits to LA. Nice, old school Mexican place. Pico and Gateway area?
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Had a full evening of filmed entertainment.
I began by finishing the bonus features on IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES. There wasn't quite an hour of stuff left to watch, but I did get it all done, and some of it was quite interesting, especially the discussions about the censorship of the film in Japan where they showed different ways the film has been censored down through the years.
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Next, I watched the last film in the Alice Faye box - FOUR JILLS IN A JEEP. Ha! Alice was in three minutes of the movie, enough to sing "You'll Never Know."
Funny that Dick Haymes, being introduced in the movie, got the most musical numbers: three songs. Martha Raye and Carol Landis got one each and Mitzi McCall got two dances.
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I couldn't understand why they only gave Martha Raye one musical number until I looked at the outtakes where she had two other major musical sequences cut from the movie. It made much more sense having seen those.
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Also took a peep at the "making of" documentary on the disc. Yes, the ever-knowledgeable Dr. Drew Casper was front and center to start off the featurette.
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Then I watched tonight's CHUCK. Not interested in the Buy More/ ALL ABOUT EVE scenario, but Chuck's mission to find his dad by using his ex- girl friend was very involving, and I enjoyed that part of the show a lot.
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Next was another fantastic episode of '24' which both tear-inducing scenes and a heartbreaking one when the villain was revealed. Argh! (I will hope against hope that this is another elaborate black op that we'll eventually be filled in about.)
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And I concluded my evening with MEDIUM, one of the best episodes in quite a while. Lots of shocks, surprises, and twists. I loved it, and the final scene was really heartwarming.
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I noticed that Luke and Noah were on AS THE WORLD TURNS today, but I didn't have time to watch it. I'll catch up to it tomorrow during lunchtime.
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I also have to spend some time in the morning having the oil changed in my car and getting it inspected for another year. That's always a pain, but it has to be done. I'll be glad to have that chore over with.
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I can't get with the motion picture I'm watching - really bad - The Crowded Sky. So, I'll finish writing questions, take a long hot shower and maybe read some more of the long musical.
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I had a question for Ask BK Day. I hope I remember it by Wednesday.
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DR Ron Pulliam - Was the term "chits" short for something else? An acronym possibly? -I'm just trying to remember if I ever heard that term when I worked at Coast Guard HQ, and had to process and file the paperwork for billet changes.
And you may have mentioned this before, but... How long did you end up staying in US Navy? -And was there a possibility of being drafted into the Marines (instead of the Navy) at the time? And do you still keep in touch with some of your fellow enlisted personnel and officers?
And, yes, that is a great story.
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Well I'll go on record (so to speak) guessing one of the OCRs is CRY FOR US ALL
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OK... I believe I have a tech-induced headache... which should abate once I get ready for bed, so...
Goodnight.
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I'm heading downstairs to bed. I stayed up WAY too late last night reading, and my eyes are now very heavy indeed.
Good night!
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And it would be simply mahvelous if BK's recent incursion at WB has led to A TIME FOR SINGING.
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Oh... And before I head to bed...
For anyone following the whole "Amazon FAIL" situation, here's a very interesting post from DearAuthor.com:
Amazon Using Category MetaData to Filter Rankings (http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-possibly-using-category-metadata-to-filter-rankings/)
I know there has been some follow-up from Amazon.com today, but there's still something fishy and just plain wrong about the whole situation - regardless of the fact that they started de-ranking some titles and authors a few months ago.
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JMK, it's not either of those, but I don't rule out the possibility of someday being able to get them - but I've been saying that for twenty years.
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I can't get with the motion picture I'm watching - really bad - The Crowded Sky. So, I'll finish writing questions, take a long hot shower and maybe read some more of the long musical.
Uh, maybe I had better not order that one!
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I have missed you DR derBrucer. I hope you feel better soon.
Thank-you; between the drugs and the multi-liters of cranberry juice, this woman's plague is waning.
der Brucer
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JMK, it's not either of those, but I don't rule out the possibility of someday being able to get them - but I've been saying that for twenty years.
Could it be something really rare like the withdrawn live version of YAGM,CB?
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HACKER: I WAS BEHIND AMAZON GAY BOOK DELISTING (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514923,00.html)
A cautionary tale about taking Blogs and Twitter as gospel.
der Brucer
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DR Ron Pulliam - Was the term "chits" short for something else? An acronym possibly? -I'm just trying to remember if I ever heard that term when I worked at Coast Guard HQ, and had to process and file the paperwork for billet changes.
And you may have mentioned this before, but... How long did you end up staying in US Navy? -And was there a possibility of being drafted into the Marines (instead of the Navy) at the time? And do you still keep in touch with some of your fellow enlisted personnel and officers?
And, yes, that is a great story.
I believe the term "chit", as used in the Navy during my 23 1/2 years in it, was basically the noun definition of a short official note. The special request "chits" we used could be applied to official requests for leave, vacation, or other things such as my change of rating request.
Actually, only the U.S. Army "drafted". The Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard benefitted from volunteers (especially during times of the draft).
I am in touch with a number of former colleagues in the Navy, as well as from other branches of service.
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HACKER: I WAS BEHIND AMAZON GAY BOOK DELISTING (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514923,00.html)
A cautionary tale about taking Blogs and Twitter as gospel.
der Brucer
I'm glad that I didn't tell anyone at my work. That could've created a bit of a panic. :-\
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I'm trying to catch up on the notes but I'm so tired , I'm moving like a snail.
TCB sorry about the mix up, I was in a hurry and not thinking. (Peeps)
Amazon.com, bite me.
Michael S., never saw the latte boy video before, thanks.
Ron Pulliam, I liked your story too.
I'm still only on page 4 from today.
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I'll try to reread the last 6 pages from today, tomarrow.
I'm really tired.
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My first year of highschool had our older friends coming back from Vietnam and committing suicide. That was my introduction to the war. My boyfriend all during those 3 years had two older brothers. Terry died playing Russian roulette when he came back from Vietnam, Dinny who served as a medic in Vietnam is only alive because he covered himself with dead soldiers during a raid. Many more stories but not the place to tell them.
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Goodnight everyone, till Tuesday.
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All caught up with the posts, just in the nick of time as it's getting late. I have nothing else to say.
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Well, my audition for "Romeo and Juliet" earlier this evening went well. I did cold readings (they supplied the excerpts). The first was a speech for Juliet professing her love for Romeo. ;) The director (Chris, who played Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew" that I did two years ago) had me read it again in a slightly different way, and then I read it for a third time after a little more direction (it was all of about 30 seconds long). Then, he had me read another speech (for Juliet's father, I think) and he asked me to read it with rage. I think I was rage-ful...I certainly read it differently than the first excerpt (I can show range). Chris thanked me and said that they will let everyone know one way or the other by Wednesday morning for call-backs that night. So, we'll see. :D
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I'm now watching "Castle." It's a fun show. :)