PURLICUE
And the word of the day is: PURLICUE!
DR MATTH have you had to update your firmware? On the Blu Ray, that is.
DR MATTH have you had to update your firmware? On the Blu Ray, that is.
Tuesday morning greetings! It's warm and humid today in SW Ohio and I'm off to Dayton for 2 meetings with the grantwriters. The mood should be interesting, because it was announced this morning that NCR is moving their world headquarters to Duluth, Georgia, creating a loss of 1000+ jobs in Dayton.
Tuesday morning greetings! It's warm and humid today in SW Ohio and I'm off to Dayton for 2 meetings with the grantwriters. The mood should be interesting, because it was announced this morning that NCR is moving their world headquarters to Duluth, Georgia, creating a loss of 1000+ jobs in Dayton.
I anticipate an increase in crime in Franklin OH!
Well the Samsung BD P 1500 had been reduced another $58 - to $140.....so I bought it. Thanks to DRMATTH and DR JMK for their info.....I can hook the player up to the internet via the connection from the APPLE for awhile if it needs updated.
I shall hook it up in a bit and have a full cussing....or rather.....discussion later today.
I bought ONE Blu Ray disk - GREASE.....since it was only $20....so we shall see.
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Pray for Rosemary's Baby.
Can someone you've never heard of BE a celebrity?
;)
Can someone you've never heard of BE a celebrity?
;)
DR Jose, how much of I'M A CELEBRITY did you watch?
It was crazy and not what i was expecting. I wonder what the producers promised Spencer and Heidi Pratt to get them not to walk? It was weird that they did not compete in the challenge.
I think they are the most popular celebs on there right now. And I'm sure the producers would have been upset if they had walked.
For those who didn't watch, these two said they were leaving about 5 minutes after they arrived. Yet somehow they returned (only to walk off again and return again). It was very odd! But i love watching those two.
DR Jose, how much of I'M A CELEBRITY did you watch?
It was crazy and not what i was expecting. I wonder what the producers promised Spencer and Heidi Pratt to get them not to walk? It was weird that they did not compete in the challenge.
I think they are the most popular celebs on there right now. And I'm sure the producers would have been upset if they had walked.
For those who didn't watch, these two said they were leaving about 5 minutes after they arrived. Yet somehow they returned (only to walk off again and return again). It was very odd! But i love watching those two.
DR Jennifer - I watched about two minutes of it... Then switched over to the rerun of "Big Bang Theory" as well as the Stevie Wonder concert on PBS. Then I switched back to it again a couple of minutes later, and only made it through 30 seconds of it.
IMHO, it's just a truly stupid program. With some truly stupid people on it. And most of those "celebrities" are more the product of hype and self-over-exposure rather than talent and true charisma. And the hosts: Who? What? Why? And then there was the whole "we're-not-"Survivor"-but-we're-going-to-make-the-show-seem-like-"Survivor" look. UGH!
*And it was fun when I would check my Twitter feed last night... Lots of people were changing the channel.
Happy Freedom Day (observed) to everyone!
Freedom Day is a holiday I made up. Everyone should have a holiday of one's own invention.
Or as it's known in the 21st century:
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself An Email
Gas here in downtown Salem is at 2.59 or so, I think.
They got a big the-a-ter
They call a Purlicue
For fifty cents you can see a dandy show
(almost a Hammerstein reference)
DR JOSE when/what is your next gig?
Jose, I keep meaning to ask, have you ever heard of (I'm sure you have) Mystery Dinner Theatre in Richmond. A dear friend from the old days, Jim Daab, has run it for the past many years, approaching 20 years, I think. He's coming to town on Friday with his wife for their 25th Wedding Anniversary. I haven't seen him in years. I'm looking forward to seeing him and Laura (and then on Sunday spending Tony night on the Upper West Side).
I was moving some boxes in my laundry room yesterday and came across two pages from LIFE magazine (It could be LOOK, but the layout looks more like LIFE). It's a two page spread from 1961 on the effervescent starlets on TV that season: Judy Lewis (Outlaw), Lori Patrick (Tales of Wells Fargo), Gigi Perreau (Follow the Sun), Roberta Shore (Bob Cummings Show), Cynthia Pepper (Margie), Joan Patrick (Dr. Kildare), Mary Tyler Moore (Dick Van Dyke), Joan Freeman (Bus Stop) and Karen Kupcinet
(Mrs. G Goes to College).
I was moving some boxes in my laundry room yesterday and came across two pages from LIFE magazine (It could be LOOK, but the layout looks more like LIFE). It's a two page spread from 1961 on the effervescent starlets on TV that season: Judy Lewis (Outlaw), Lori Patrick (Tales of Wells Fargo), Gigi Perreau (Follow the Sun), Roberta Shore (Bob Cummings Show), Cynthia Pepper (Margie), Joan Patrick (Dr. Kildare), Mary Tyler Moore (Dick Van Dyke), Joan Freeman (Bus Stop) and Karen Kupcinet
(Mrs. G Goes to College).
I bet I know which one has had the most success on television!
I'm not a happy camper.
I'm not a happy camper.
I guess there won't be S'Mores and KUM-BA-YA around the campfire, then?
Looks like EMI will be doing a new anthology of John McGlinn's Broadway recordings.
More work for DR elmore3003 and the estate lawyers?
Eye check vibes for DR GEORGE.
I would like to know what you've uncovered about EMI, DR singdaw!
I would like to know what you've uncovered about EMI, DR singdaw!
DR elmore3003: some details HERE (http://www.emiclassics.co.uk/release.php?id=5099969524028).
And one for Freedom Day
I'll bet that DR MBarnum would like to see THIS (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/06/02/natpkg.harlequin.cover.art.cnn) exhibit in person!! :)
Good morning, all! The bass part to go and then a day typing up all of my edits.
BK, I wasn't apathetic about yesterday's topic. I had nothing to report, not that I was unwlling, but romance and I are strangers. I haven't necessarily wanted to be single for the past 30 years. It wasn't to be and I say this with no self pity.
I do like DR George's proposed topic today. I've had two grisly moves, one from Oxford OH and grad school to Pennsylvania to a teaching job was I pressured into taking and the various moves about New York before I found an apartment. I'll write about the move in 1971 and save the New York stories for the next tiem the topic comes up.
In 1970, after grad school, I worked at Miami University on the library staff. I had a nice second-floor apartment on High Street, which became the place for any of my friends to stop by whenever they left the campus and went into town. My academic seniors, mainly the theatre dept faculty, kept pressuring me to find a "real" job, meaning a teaching position and I finally accepted one that was handed to me, I had to be in Pennsylvania by Sept 1, 1971. Around 11 am, early in August, a friend came into the Miami U library and told me the building at the end of my block was on fire; it had started in the basement dry cleaning business and was quickly taking the building down.
On the advice of my fellow staff members, I ran uptown, parked my car in front of my building and started evacuating. I also called my mother, who told me she and my brother Randy would be over to help me clear out what I could. Since it was about a 40-minute drive, I started carrying priorities - manuscripts of music, books and records mostly - down to my car and dumping it in the trunk. By the time my mother arrived, High Street was closed off, more fire departments were arriving, and my building was closed by the Oxford fire dept.
For the next several hours, my mother, Randy and I stood in a crowd about 2 blocks from the fire and watched a building collapse, killing a couple of firemen, and watched the various fire departments' attempts to put out the fire in the building next to mine. Around 4 pm, the fire was under control, my apartment building was condemned and no one could enter it, I had only what I had removed from it, none of it clothing, and I had no place to live. So I moved home to Middletown and drove back to Oxford every morning. My days were a mess of attempts to get into the building to empty it by Aug. 15 and giving up a job I really liked for a move to an unkown experience I was dreading. I must have at some point purchased new clothes, but I have no memory of it.
When I was finally allowed back into the building, it was a Saturday morning and I was accompanied by the fire marshall. I removed everything I wanted to keep and left the rest for the landlord to remove. All my clothes were smoke damaged and needed dry cleaning. A lot of it was tossed when the dry cleaning was returned, I rented a U-haul truck, packed it and moved to Chambersburg, PA, for a disastrous year of academia. I remember being stopped by a cop for driving the wrong way down a one-way street during my apartment search in Chambersburg, I remember that the Pennsylvania turnpike is endless and always provides its drivers with rain or other precipitation, if not fog as well, and I remember how lonely I was away from friends and family for the first couple of months. What I learned in Pennsylvania was that one tiny second-rate college theatre program is much like the other and that leaving Oxford OH for a job in the "real" world was only moving from one hornet's nest to another.
In retrospect, I should never have taken the job, but I would not be the person I am today if I had stayed on the library staff. God alone knows what I would be doing today instead of editing THE MOST HAPPY FELLA and writing these notes to you DRs.
I'm going to write for just a bit and then head downstairs to rejoin Perry, Della, and Paul in the middle of the case they're actively investigating, the murder of a cosmetics tycoon.
WBBL.
On TV TOnight!™
ABC - ACCORDING TO JIM (series finale)
I've only had extremely lurid sexual encounters, hence my reticence to post yesterday. :)
Happy Freedom Day (observed) to everyone!
Freedom Day is a holiday I made up. Everyone should have a holiday of one's own invention.
Among the guest stars in the episodes I've watched (in addition to Redford) are Phil Ober, Hal Smith, Russell Arms, Sue Randall, Connie Hines, John Lupton, Patricia Breslin, and Dabs Greer. All of these folks were mainstays in TV of this period.
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are reality show celebrities but in my opinion can't compare with the notoriety of a Lou Diamond Phillips who has done stage, screen, AND television for many years, been nominated for awards, and is generally acknowledged as a very talented actor. That he would do a show like this means his career is in the doldrums at the moment, but just a look at him in something like COURAGE UNDER FIRE lets you see what a talented and charismatic talent he can be with the right material.
We both ate too much, so we came home to spend the rest of Freedom Day doing nothing.
The End.
We went up to Nothing, AZ. Nothing used to be a town with a population of 4 and they sold rocks. It is about a third of the way to Las Vegas. It was recently sold, and I read in the paper that the new owners of Nothing opened a pizza place. The owner said the oven was being repaired and there would be no pizza until much later today. Darn.
Among the guest stars in the episodes I've watched (in addition to Redford) are Phil Ober, Hal Smith, Russell Arms, Sue Randall, Connie Hines, John Lupton, Patricia Breslin, and Dabs Greer. All of these folks were mainstays in TV of this period.
I always loved John Lupton. I am not sure the feeling was mutual.
Work did let one person go last week, and since I'm the only non family member in the office, well I hope things pick up.
Two dear readers have been proofing and testing the new Kritzerland site - we've all found lots of little things to fix, but they're both very happy with the design, cleanliness, ease of operation, and all that jazz.