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Title: BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 12:34:26 AM: Well, you've read the notes, so now it's time to keep the home fries burning until my computer returns.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on April 02, 2004, 01:07:00 AM: Good morning!

I have no idea why I'm still up at this hour... well, I think it's basically because I can, so... but my bed is calling me, so...

Sorry I missed you guys yesterday... Slept in way too late, and spent the afternoon taking care of "real life" stuff - bills, e-mails, phone calls, etc. Then the show. -And still no review in the Post - although, from the looks of it, it looks like the reviewer was up in NYC this week, so...

Media Check - All CDs: Michael McDonald's "Motown", Mikhail Pletnev playing Schumann, and the WONDERFUL TOWN revival cast recording (Donna Murphy).

Other than that, it's been NPR on the radio... And I can't believe the voice of Morning Edition has been "fired"!?!?! Just won't be the same.

I'll catch up on posts later today...

Goodnight.
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Post by: Michael on April 02, 2004, 01:08:23 AM: DVD: Barbra: The Concert

CD: Joan Ryan, Andryan Russ
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 01:16:38 AM: I'm still up - 1 AM - all alone here. :-[

When you early birds on the East Coast log on... Remember poor bk - at home without his trusty computer - wondering what wonderful things are being discussed at HHW. So DRs, when he does get his computer back - all cleaned up and perfect and ready to go - let's make sure that he has pages of scintillating, delectable posts to savor. Meanwhile, I have to channel bk and say things like "Damn them, damn them all to hell!" and "Where in tarnation is everyone?" (Actually, at this moment, I know the answer to that one: IN BED. Which is where I'm going.) Remember - lots of lovely posts!
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Post by: Robin on April 02, 2004, 03:48:50 AM: This week's media check:

In the CD player: McQ by ~~Lalo Schifrin~~ Elmer Bernstein.

In the deeveedee player: Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Hellcats of the Navy, and Cronos.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 02, 2004, 04:08:11 AM: Good morning, all! It's 7:05 am on the East Coast, and I have to do some work on Rodgers & Hart's "Manhattan" for a pops symphony gig. I've got three songs to do right now - "Manhattan," "I Wish I Were In Love Again" and "Could You Use Me" - so I won't be watching much this weekend. I will be listening, so I have several CDs courtesy of DRS TD and MBarnum that I'm enjoying at the moment.

I just got dear friend BK's movie "Naked Space," which I've never seen, on DVD, and as a fan of "First Nudie Musical," I cannot wait to see it. That's most likely for Monday night, depending on how far I get with the three numbers.
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Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 04:49:41 AM: I'm listening to Wicked right now. I burned a copy for the office, and then a second copy, because I'm having problems with my burner (computer problems seem to be going around). The first two numbers have some interference but the rest of the disc seems to be playing without problem. I will have to try it on the actual CD player.

Anthony is working on a very low-budget indie film and his pick up call tomorrow is for 5am. They are shooting up state about 3 hours from the city so it will be an early night at Chez B&A. His call for Monday is also 5am. Oh, well. Two early nights won't kill us.
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Post by: Dave in the valley on April 02, 2004, 05:06:29 AM: Hey Jane- I'm glad you like Petey. He is a dalmation/black lab mix (our vet says there is some greyhound in him). All his brothers and sisters (born in the pound) were all black with white paws. We found him on the internet! He weighs 56 pounds, and he is just over 1 year old. He LOVES to run and jump and fetch.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on April 02, 2004, 05:25:50 AM: COME-HOME-FREDDY VIBES
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Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 05:40:45 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on April 02, 2004, 04:08:11 AM
I have to do some work on Rodgers & Hart's "Manhattan" for a pops symphony gig. I've got three songs to do right now - "Manhattan," "I Wish I Were In Love Again" and "Could You Use Me"

Three delightful numbers indeed, Elmore! I hope you enjoy the work.

Does anyone have any idea who is responsible for the arrangement of Could You Use Me in Crazy For You? (It's paired with Shall We Dance.) I had to play the damn thing in February and found it to be a prime example of taking a great comedy song are surgically removing all the humor.

Dvd: Finding Nemo
Cd: I gave the John/Rice Aida a chance this week, but couldn't get through the whole thing.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on April 02, 2004, 06:15:39 AM: CD - I've been collecting the Pearl composer series which features original cast performances from about 1910 to 1950 and I just got some of the Gershwin, Rodgers & Heart and Romberg. Also WEIRD ROMANCE in preperation for this week's Mufti.

DVD - I just got the 3 disc Jack Paar collection featuring the recent PBS documentary, 3 complete Paar shows (including one with Judy Garland, but not the one that is in the documentary), and several complete interviews and monologues. Also the AMERICAN GRAFITTI/MORE AMERICAN GRAFITTI combo.

VHS - Nothing

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It's Karen Ziemba month in New York. This week she stars in Mufti's WEIRD ROMANCE; in two weeks she is heading the cast of Town Hall's BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1949; and it was just announced that she will be playing Rose in Encore!'s BYE BYE BIRDIE. Ms. Ziemba has always been a favorite of mine. She's not just a dancer who sings, an actresses who dances or a singer who acts. She's all three!

******
If you've ever been to the Times Square TKTS in NY, you know that there are always people walking the line passing out flyers from shows and trying to convince people to see them. Well now GYPSY has done them one better. The cast of the show is doing this and since they started their TKTS sales have supposedly doubled. There was an article in the Times yesterday about this. One tourist said something to the effect that "of course I love Bernadette, but now that I have met so-and-so [I forgot the name] I'm going to see him".
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Post by: Stuart on April 02, 2004, 07:02:24 AM: CD (work): The Tap Dance Kid

CD (home): Empty

Tape Deck (Car): Old Compilation tape. (Obviously made during the 79-80 season, as songs from BALLROOM and THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG are the most recent things on it....)

DVD: Empty

VCR: blank tape set for tonight's JOAN OF ARCADIA
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 07:10:15 AM: BK here

I popped over to wfo's office on the Island of Long to use his computer, because there is an absolute dearth of posts, and I cannot tolerate a dearth. Dearths are unseemly. We shall have no dearths here. Where in tarnation is everyone? Come and cow till the posts come home and dispell this dearth forthwith.

I expect to see a surfeit of posts by the time I get back to LA. Or at the very least, by the time I get to Phoenix. And no dearths, not a one. Only surfeits. Dearths are unseemly. Surfeits are seemly.
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 07:11:42 AM: Oh, it's April Second.

Never mind.
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 07:20:52 AM: Surfeit's up!
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 07:32:58 AM: AM I TALKING TO MYSELF HERE?

Where is my surfeit? We need a three-ring surfeit at the very least.
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 07:38:23 AM: Mbarnum I enjoyed your personal history of the Ginger Rogers Craterian Theater. Thanks

Robin I like your new pic. ;)

Dan in the Valley it must be fun to have a dog that fetches. Echo rarely can catch. She will fetch a few times but then we have to bribe her to continue. The game just isn’t fun for us. On the other-hand, she found my cell phone in the fields, on command.

CONTINUED GOOD VIBES FOR FREDDY’S SAFE RETURN!!!

WFO-LOL

CD: Linda Ronstsadt with Nelson Riddle
DVD: 21 Grams
TIVO: Joan of Acadia
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 07:39:03 AM: WFO no, but I can't stay long
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 07:42:16 AM: Dan (the Man) thanks for the interesting Jordon Almond info. :)
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 08:04:24 AM: WFO I stayed to keep you company but seems you have left me talking to myself. ;D
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 08:15:30 AM: Hey good computer vibes for BK. ~~~~~~~~

And good kitty vibes to DC Freddy. I really hope you find him today. ~~~~~~~~~~
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 08:22:14 AM: Good Morning!
WFO has a good idea going there. As long as bk is E&T (with good reason, as it's hard to post without a computer - I tried once and no matter how loud I banged the pots, nobody heard me...) ...As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by...me, while bk is E&T we should post as he would were he taking over OUR computer in our home/office/whatever locale. ...Just a thought DRs. I'm the designated cheerleader today and I'd hate to be embarrassed by having my cheerleading abilities fail dismally.
Soooo - I'm putting on my cute little white skirt and red top with a giant "P" for Panni. Here come my darling white socks with a red bow on the side.... And the pompoms, of course... Ready?
Give me a P! ;D
Give me an O! ;)
Give me an S! :)
Give me a T! :D

What've we got? ....TSOP! (This is where I do the splits. :o )

So TSOP your little hearts out everyone and save me from humilitation :-\ !
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 08:22:49 AM: Re: Last night's Survivor

I totally thought that Rob was gonna blow the challenge on purpose to save Amber. But that would not have been easy since the entire group got to answer the trivia questions. I was very impressed that he made a deal with Lex on the sly (speaking to another tribe member is not allowed). And I was so happy that Jerri got voted out.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 08:29:56 AM: CD - Anita O'Day - Young Anita (4 CD set) - The Solo Sides
DVD - STILL broken
VCR - Director's cut of a film for TV
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 08:37:27 AM: P :)
O ;)
S :D
T ;D

Panni you make a great cheerleader! :)

I'm rushing around getting my house presentable for company. Our, soon to be, new neighbor s dropping in this morning so we can meet.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on April 02, 2004, 08:41:15 AM: I'm aghast.

Aghast...and a little agape.

Maybe more than a little agape, but only a tad bit agog.

And still aghast!

BK has said he does not find Rozsa's "Diana" to be top-drawer Rozsa.

And I have to say I think it one of his most glorious, ravishingly beautiful, scores.

It's not "Ben-Hur," or "El Cid" or "King of Kings" or "Quo Vadis" or "Ivanhoe" or "Knights of the Round Table", no. It's not that kind of historical spectacle. But for the kind of historical spectacle it is, a love story set in the courts of France, it's far more lavish and beautiful than it ought to have been.

The main theme to "Diane" is one of the most exquisite things Rozsa ever wrote and it's woven generously into the score.

But that's me....not BK....and that's okay.

I'm just aghast is all.....
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 08:52:04 AM: I agree, DR Panni is a good cheerleader!
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 08:53:33 AM: Hey shouldn't we be on Page Two yet? :(
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Post by: Matt H. on April 02, 2004, 09:04:06 AM: I honestly don't know HOW we existed before we got home computers. I bought my first one simply for the word processing aspect of it. I was reviewing films at the time free lance and writing them on the fly in the typewriter making tons of mistakes and having to use white-out or re-type things to get it as readable as possible for my editor. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I got my first computer, but I never expected I'd be doing anything with it except writing. But after that came games and then a 1200 baud modem, and the rest is history. Now, I spend hours a day on the internet alone and that doesn't count the writing, photo editing, game playing, etc. that I also do with it. Amazing how we come to depend on these tools. Can't imagine life without one frankly (which is why I have more than one here).
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Post by: Matt H. on April 02, 2004, 09:06:12 AM: Friday Media Check:

CD - AVENUE Q (OCR)

DVD - LOST IN TRANSLATION and ANGEL Season 2.

DVR - last night's WILL & GRACE

laserdisc - THE NUN'S STORY

(Hey, Warners, how about offering us up a remastered widescreen DVD of this classic film. We can have Audrey's WAIT UNTIL DARK from you but not the exquisite NUN'S STORY?)
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Post by: Matt H. on April 02, 2004, 09:07:40 AM: BK mentioned GIVE A GIRL A BREAK in his notes. I have that on laserdisc (in a double feature laser package with EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS), and they're both such fun, "minor" MGM musicals with major talent and lovely dancing by the Champions.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:16:11 AM: Excellent posts so far. Now let's keep posting until the heifer's make it back to the farm. ...No, that's not quite bk... How's about - All this farshtinkener trouble with AOL - drat them, drat them all to hades - and the horse they rode in on! That better?

Keep posting. Remember you're saving sweet lil' ol' moi from disgrace! I'm shaking my pom-poms. :-* :-* :-*
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 09:21:08 AM: DR RLP:

You cannot be aghast here. We will have no ghasts. Some gapes occasionally, and now and then a gog or two. But no ghasts, please. If you are one, then get thee hence.

BK not
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Post by: MBarnum on April 02, 2004, 09:31:27 AM: Still no sign of Freddy :'(

With the wedding happening today I am just trying to focus on the positive, but it ain't easy. I will wait and have a slight breakdown on Saturday maybe.

Shorty I will go to the Humane Society and find out if they have a portly Siamese mix who was picked up for truancy!

I did scour the neighborhood via car this morning and saw no squished kitties on the road so that is a good sign! Whew!

I miss my pussycat terribly and it is so strange to go to bed without him lying next to me purring away.

Ok, enough of that! On to other things....( and thanks for the continued Freddy vibes!)
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:35:50 AM: STRONG STRONG FREDDY VIBES FROM ABIE - WHO IS KINDA INTERESTED IN CATS. ABIE SAYS "WOOF!" (MEANING - FREDDY GO HOME ALREADY!)

FREDDY, COME HOME!!

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FREDDY HOME VIBES![/move]
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Post by: MBarnum on April 02, 2004, 09:39:18 AM: Media Check:

Won't likely have time to watch my weekly Bollywood movie, but I have been enjoying some new Bollywood soundtracks that I recevied in the mail this week!

Here is the CD from the film Ittefaq starring my favorite Bollywood actor Sunil Shetty!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:39:24 AM: Anybody see the Bob Dylan commercial for Victoria's Secret??? Now if someone had told you that one day Bob Dylan, THE Bob Dylan, would be pitchman for Victoria's Secret, you would've said...
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Post by: Jay on April 02, 2004, 09:40:40 AM: Quote from: MBarnum on April 02, 2004, 09:31:27 AM
I miss my pussycat terribly and it is so strange to go to bed without him lying next to me purring away.

(With those sleeping arrangements, you can rest assured that if I were Freddy I'd NEVER stray from home!)

Come home Freddy!!!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:41:04 AM: MBarnum - Both the Bollywood star's name and the movie title could be bad news in the wrong hands. Not MY hands, of course.
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Post by: Jay on April 02, 2004, 09:42:52 AM: Quote from: MBarnum on April 02, 2004, 09:39:18 AM
Here is the CD from the film Ittefaq starring my favorite Bollywood actor Sunil Shetty!

I suppose it doesn't matter very much whether he can sing or not, eh?
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:45:13 AM: We must be getting quite, quite close to Page Three.
I think I'll shake the old pom-poms and do the splits again.
... Here I go.... Ouch! :P
I'm not a kid, you know what I mean? So if I can do the splits for heaven's sake, you (and you know who you are) can post!
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Post by: Ann on April 02, 2004, 09:47:18 AM: Good morning!
Doing my part to keep the posts up...
I arose early this morning for some reason, got my room all cleaned up, took out the garbage...stopped short of doing the dishes, though. I'll do those tonight.
It's a beautiful day here in the northwest. We're supposed to finally get some great spring weather around here. About time, I say

MBarnum - Many good vibes for the return of your Freddy! I had a Himalayan cat named Gem when I was younger...raised him from a kitten. He would go wandering from time to time...we did find him in the hoosegow once. Then one day when I'd gone away to college, he wandered off and never came back...I still miss him :(
I hope Freddy comes home soon!!!
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Post by: Jay on April 02, 2004, 09:50:17 AM: Where in tarnation is everyone? My mental is going undelictated. Yes, my mental is going terribly undelictated. That sounds serious, doesn't it, Dear Readers? Yes, it sounds like a serious medical condition, indeed. I think I shall have to go to the doctor and have him check my mental in its undelictated state. Perhaps I shall see Dr. Kildare. Or perhaps Dr. Ben Casey. Better yet, I shall have a joint consultation with both of them, which would be a paradox.

What the hell am I talking about? Now post 'til the cows come home, Dear Readers, or I shall have to ply you with the tale of the Randy Vicar and the stethoscope.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:51:27 AM: When I lived in Toronto, there was a station that ran Bollywood films late every weekend night, as I recall. They were great!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:53:44 AM: I believe the bk dybbuk (the bybbuk?) has entered DR Jay.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:54:44 AM: But the thought also strikes me - Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 09:59:37 AM: Dear Cheerleader Panni,
When you were, sans computer, banging pots in hopes of making posts, were you momentarily confused by an anagram? Post - pots.

I'll admit to the same sort of confusion. I sometimes blame it on the summer thing, instead of the summer night, etc.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 10:02:29 AM: Quote from: Noel on April 02, 2004, 09:59:37 AM
Dear Cheerleader Panni,
When you were, sans computer, banging pots in hopes of making posts, were you momentarily confused by an anagram? Post - pots.

That must've been it. Although I have to admit that I'm often momentarily confused.

Will page three NEVER come?
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Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:08:52 AM: On the DVD queue for this weekend:

Tonight: The Bride with White Hair (HK horror film)
Saturday: Doris Wishman double feature: Bad Girls Go to Hell and Another Day, Another Man (complete with a "Let's Go to the Drive-In" option that includes trailers, intermission concession stand ads, etc.) Jrand, are you reading this? I'm SURE you've seen these classics...how are they? ;)
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Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:09:01 AM: All this talk of cheerleading reminds me of the wonderful cheer our university marching band would do at football games...
"Gimme an F! Gimme an A! Gimme a C! Gimme an E! What does that spell? F MAJOR SEVEN!!!"
Gotta love music nerd humor. :)

DVD and VCR both empty at the moment
CDs - The First Nudie Musical DVD companion CD, Lost in Boston III, Wicked
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:10:53 AM: POTS = STOP = TOPS
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Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:11:04 AM: *waves*

Hi, Jed!

Haven't seen you lately.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on April 02, 2004, 10:13:32 AM: I am working outside of my home office, and have sneaked into an empty office to use a computer.

Through my freelancing years - as I venture from suburb to suburb - I have discovered some of the best bakeries and restaurants in the bleakest strip malls. Today I stopped at a Lebanese bakery in Scarborough (which locals refer to as Scarberia), and am munching away at a cookie assortment. I try to observe Passover, which starts next week, so am getting my pre-matzah fix.

I love the BKesque posts, which are even better than the entries in a Faulkner competition.

Better get back to work and cookies.

Come home already, Freddy.
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Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:14:36 AM: I shall be E&T over the next couple days. Will shortly be heading in for a half-day of work, after which I shall immediately be getting in my handy-dandy automobile and crossing the state to see my cousin's high school production of Guys and Dolls this evening. Then tomorrow night, I shall be joining DR Ann at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre to see Thoroughly Modern Millie. So I may check in from DR Ann's computer at some point this weekend, but if not I shall most likely return to this divine madness Monday.
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:16:07 AM: BK? Who needs 'im? Oh my, oh my, when the cat's away [sorry, MBarnum] the mices will play. And we seem to be steaming along quite well without him. Could we perhaps foment a mutiny and take over hhw, forcing him to walk the plank?

But to redeem my above slip of the type, if vibes have any effect on the feline species, let me add:

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]COME BACK, LITTLE ~~SHEBA~~ FREDDY![/move]
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Post by: Jay on April 02, 2004, 10:16:23 AM: I actually remembered to put some fresh CDs into the car CD player this week:

William Finn's Elegies

The Judy Garland Carnegie Hall Concert

The disc from the Smithsonian Institution 4-disc set of American Musical Theatre that contains two songs from Lady in the Dark: Miss Gertrude Lawrence singing "The Saga of Jenny" and Mr. Danny Kaye singing "Tschaikowsky"

Urinetown OBC recording

A full disc of excerpts from Prokofiev's score to the ballet Romeo and Juliet
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Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:16:44 AM: 51, count them, 51 posts at 9:11 a.m. pacific time?

This will not do, no this will not do at all. I simply must have more posts. There are precisely 17.039 LURKERS online right now. Hello, LURKERS. Why not join us and post something?

I want to see more posts. Yes, I want to see more posts right now, or we will never be the most popular site on all the internet. If I see more posts PRONTO (or even Tonto), I will do the Dance of the Seven Veils (although I have but six veils) and the Hora and also the Pudding Dance (Butterscotch).

If I do not see more posts, I shall have to resort to sterner methods of persuasion, such as regaling you all with the Tale of the Randy Vicar and the Method of Discipline He Used Upon Those Who Refused to Post. Oh, it is a randy tale, full of ribaldry and tawdry, licentious, bawdy deviltry. And I shall unleash it unless I see a frenzy of posting occur, posthaste.
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Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:16:46 AM: We will be on Page 3 at Post Number 60. We go to Page 2 after Post Number 29 and we go to Page 3 after Post Number 59 and we go to Page 4 after Post Number 89, etc., etc,. etc., (a King and I reference). It's sad that I have noticed the number deliniations for posting pages, but that's part of my character. What can I say, except, KEEP POSTING until BK comes back or he might get rid of his computer!!!
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Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:17:07 AM: *whew*

Well, that's MY attempt to stand in for BK while he is computer-less.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 10:18:09 AM: [move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FREDDY COME HOME VIBES[/move]
DR MBarnum, last summer a beautiful cream colored cat made itself a guest in my mom's basement for over three days. We knew he was someone's pet because he wore a collar. But it was extremely skittish--he would calmly sit and stare at you while you were at a distance, but then would bolt behind my dad's workbench if you came near. We attempted to coax him out and lure him towards the cellar door to the backyard, but nothing doing (though he did help himself to the dishes of catfood and water we left out once we were upstairs and out of sight.) I took a picture of him with my digital cam and went around to the neighbors but no one recognized him. And calls made to the county animal welfare office were met with an answering machine. My mom wasn't about to leave the cellar door open during the night, so there were no nocturnal check-outs. Finally, on the fourth day, my mom called me to tell me that her guest didn't eat any of his lunchtime meal. And sure enough, when I got there that evening, she had already spotted him in the neighbor's yard. The good news was that my mom's basement was free of spiders for the rest of the summer. The bad news is that she has yet to find where he might have relieved himself.

So maybe Freddy is just freeloading somewhere for a few days. Try to let all the neighbors you can contact know that he's missing.
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Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:18:38 AM: Only two more posts to go before we get to the long awaited Page 3. Here's another for the effort.

Well, actually two people beat me to it and this is the post for Page 3.

Dance, Dance, Dance Little Lady, So Upset With Second Best, No Rest You'll Ever Find (a Noel Coward Reference).
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Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:18:48 AM: PAGE 3 DANCE!!!!!!
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Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:19:46 AM: *waving his fershluganah arm off*

Well, hello to you, Lulu! I've certainly been around, just perhaps not as prolific as at some other times. :) Must say again how happy I am to see you posting on a regular basis again. Definitely brings a smile to my face. Your occasional HHW sabbaticals are most unseemly, I say!
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Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:20:39 AM: Ben, you big silly. You messed up my count. :)

BTW, call me crazy (and you'd be quite correct), but I never knew until you mentioned it a few days ago that you actually WORKED for Nickelodeon in the '80s.

I just thought you enjoyed dressing up as DangerMouse.

Shows you the kind of people I typically am friends with... ;)
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:21:51 AM: Jed, I know you've been around, but we're never around at the same times. Typically you're here long after I'm tucked into bed and having frolicsome adventures with Flip and Little Nemo in Slumberland...

Nice to see you here!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:23:51 AM: I have to remember to copy the word fershluganah and keep it someplace near my computer. Every time I want to use it, I forget how to spell it and to misspell it would be most unseemly.

Post away my pretties. We are sort of like Ministers Sans Portfolio as BK is Head Honcho Sans Computer.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:23:52 AM: My goodness, we've got a full-fledged frenzy going on here, folks! I am jiggy, oh yes, jiggy am I, and am jiggy I.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Stuart on April 02, 2004, 10:24:16 AM: Quote from: Jay on April 02, 2004, 09:42:52 AM
I suppose it doesn't matter very much whether he can sing or not, eh?

My, we think alike, dear brother.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: TCB on April 02, 2004, 10:24:21 AM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FREDDY![/move]

[move=RIGHT,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FREDDY![/move]

[move=UP,scroll,6,transparent,100%]COME HOME, FREDDY![/move][/color]
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:25:19 AM: Quote from: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:21:51 AM
Jed, I know you've been around, but we're never around at the same times. Typically you're here long after I'm tucked into bed and having frolicsome adventures with Flip and Little Nemo in Slumberland...

Nice to see you here!

Damn those time zones!!! I rather enjoy being here at this hour now and then... means I got to sleep in. :D
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:29:03 AM: Careful you don't jiggy yourself into something serious young man. You never know what can happen when people get too jiggy.

Working for Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, a Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nickelodeon (I don't know if they still use that tag line anymore, but it was burned into my brain in the 80s) was fun. I did a few appearances with former Double Dare Hose Marc Summers, now the host of Unwrapped on Food Network. A nicer guy you couldn't find in all of Show Business (exception being our own BK).
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: TCB on April 02, 2004, 10:29:25 AM: Quote from: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:16:46 AM
We will be on Page 3 at Post Number 60. We go to Page 2 after Post Number 29 and we go to Page 3 after Post Number 59 and we go to Page 4 after Post Number 89, etc., etc,. etc., (a King and I reference). It's sad that I have noticed the number deliniations for posting pages, but that's part of my character. What can I say, except, KEEP POSTING until BK comes back or he might get rid of his computer!!!

Do you think, that BK might be out with the cows, and might actually stay out until said cows come home???
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 10:29:26 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:16:07 AM
BK? Who needs 'im? Oh my, oh my, when the cat's away [sorry, MBarnum] the mices will play. And we seem to be steaming along quite well without him. Could we perhaps foment a mutiny and take over hhw, forcing him to walk the plank?

Or we could do the Trading Spaces thing and completely redesign the site before he gets back. I'll volunteer to paint the walls sunflower orange if someone will go to Pier 1 Imports to buy a lot of cheap ugly picture frames.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:32:14 AM: Hmmm... a thought just occured to me. Anybody ever wonder if our favorite mathematician Mr. Orr and his Joe are perhaps extraterrestrial beings? How could we have been so blind these couple years to not figure it out?

WFO = double UFO!!!

Ok, maybe sleeping in isn't such a good idea for me after all...
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:34:34 AM: Quote from: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:29:03 AM
Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, a Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nickelodeon (I don't know if they still use that tag line anymore, but it was burned into my brain in the 80s)

And now it shall be running rampant in my brain all day. Thanks a lot, Ben!!! :D
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 10:34:59 AM: Thanks DR Ben for the page stats :)

For some reason I thought it was #26 that took us to page 2!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: TCB on April 02, 2004, 10:35:36 AM: Quote from: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:32:14 AM
Hmmm... a thought just occured to me. Anybody ever wonder if our favorite mathematician Mr. Orr and his Joe are perhaps extraterrestrial beings? How could we have been so blind these couple years to not figure it out?

WFO = double UFO!!!

Ok, maybe sleeping in isn't such a good idea for me after all...

Like father, like son! This site is in the very best of hands.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 10:37:38 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 10:29:26 AM
Or we could do the Trading Spaces thing and completely redesign the site before he gets back. I'll volunteer to paint the walls sunflower orange if someone will go to Pier 1 Imports to buy a lot of cheap ugly picture frames.

You've been to my house?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 10:38:35 AM: Great to see you, TCB! How're you doing?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jay on April 02, 2004, 10:40:26 AM: Quote from: Ben on April 02, 2004, 10:29:03 AM
I did a few appearances with former Double Dare Hose Marc Summers, now the host of Unwrapped on Food Network.

I can only imagine what a Double Dare Hose might be.

How do I meet Mr. Summers?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 10:42:37 AM: Quote from: TCB on April 02, 2004, 10:29:25 AM
Do you think, that BK might be out with the cows, and might actually stay out until said cows come home???

For that matter, maybe BK has finally ventured to Tarnation to check it out himself.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 10:43:38 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 10:29:26 AM
Or we could do the Trading Spaces thing and completely redesign the site before he gets back. I'll volunteer to paint the walls sunflower orange if someone will go to Pier 1 Imports to buy a lot of cheap ugly picture frames.

We can only do Trading Spaces if I can be Hildy. I want to staplegun platic flowers everywhere!

Btw, has anybody (DR Jose maybe) been watching Trading Spaces Home Free? It's on Sunday nights at 8pm on TLC. And it's a head to head competition where America votes on the winner each week.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:43:42 AM: And on a more serious note (G#):

Joe and I spent last evening with the family of one of his Angels, who helped him survive his recent ordeal. The gentleman has a wife and five, count'em, five kids who are living in his mother's house, struggling by until their family once more has a father.

We spent a pleasant hour or so chatting with his wife, commiserating about the *%#@$ lawyers, the *&$&# judges, the *^#%*$ correction officers, the $^^$#%& doctors and sun-dried others. She and Joe told tales of misery and heroism, and we were all very supportive of each other.

The mother then arrived, after spending a twelve-hour day decorating her church with various gewgaws made of palm fronds for Palm Sunday. Joe and I both made a special effort to praise her son and let her know that even in the most trying of circumstances he was seen as a giving and caring person, not just by Joe, but by others with physcal problems. The man himself has a metal plate in his head, having been in a coma for several days after a brutal beating by the cossacks (for which, his family has found, there is little legal recourse), and yet he showed more interest in the well-being of others than in his own during the period that he and Joe were together.

A little story from his mother: if a prisoner is attacking a guard, and that prisoner is restrained by another prisoner, thus protecting the guard and possibly saving his life, what would be the reaction of the authorities? Well, in this case he was disciplined for "interfering with orderly conduct". This is the mentality one must face in this place.

Both his wife and his mother seemed to be very strong indeed, getting through this ordeal with smiles and grit. Optimistically, the father will be returned to his family sometime this summer. Yes, sometime this summer, he'll come galloping over the green. Until that time, my Joe tells me he feels an obligation to give them some help and support in return for what was done for him while he was away.

Yes, it was rather an emotional meeting. Yes, we feel all this should never have happened in the first place. But still, I keep hearing my late mother saying, as she always would, "God must have had a reason for this." Perhaps the reason is beginning to reveal itself.

The one thing the mother kept telling us was, "Don't let evil people sour you on the whole human race. Otherwise, you become just like them, and they have won."
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 10:47:25 AM: Btw, re: Freddy

Does he go out everyday?

More good vibes for Freddy (very worried now :()
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: TCB on April 02, 2004, 10:47:30 AM: Quote from: Panni on April 02, 2004, 10:38:35 AM
Great to see you, TCB! How're you doing?

Hanging in there, for the moment, Panni. Thanks for asking.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:48:00 AM: Alright, I must be off... keep up the good work, all y'all. I expect it to take me HOURS to catch up on posts when I return from my weekend!!!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 10:50:17 AM: DR WFO: Are you trying to make us all cry again?

I think you both have the best attitude.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:53:57 AM: Quote from: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:32:14 AM
Hmmm... a thought just occured to me. Anybody ever wonder if our favorite mathematician Mr. Orr and his Joe are perhaps extraterrestrial beings? How could we have been so blind these couple years to not figure it out?

WFO = double UFO!!!

Ok, maybe sleeping in isn't such a good idea for me after all...

It took you this long? I guess I should be thankful not to hear the either/or jokes of my childhood incessantly on this site. ;D

Being an incorrigible punster myself, I have learned one principle over the years. If you think of an absolutely outrageous and original pun on someone's name and have an urge to make it--don't. They have heard it ever since they were three, and they're sick of it.

But it is sooo hard when I call roll in my current Geometry class to restrain myself when I come to Sherry Garcia.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 10:54:33 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 10:42:37 AM
For that matter, maybe BK has finally ventured to Tarnation to check it out himself.

Last report, he was seen at the corner of Ventura and Tarnation.
BTW - I have it on good authority that the technician has found a corrupted part of the hard drive which may be the source of all the tsuris. If everything goes well, the computer should be back in bk's home environment and as good as almost-new by late this afternoon.

I'm going to lead a cheer for "computer good as new" vibes...

...Once again -- the splits (gets harder :-\ each time)...a shake of the pom-poms... And on the count of three, let's send fixed computer vibes bk's way...
ONE
TWO
THREE!

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]GOOD COMPUTER VIBES![/move]
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 10:55:14 AM: DR TCB we are all thinking about you!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Danise on April 02, 2004, 10:56:23 AM: Good morning all.

I know it's 1:50 in the afternoon but I've been awake for less than an hour.

Good kitty vibes to Freddy. Please come home! Here, kitty, kitty!

Glad to know that Joe is doing better. It must be wonderful just to have him home safe.

I'm sorry about the computer, Bruce. I'm of the opinion that computer are starting to become like cars. We use them so much that when they are taken away they need to provide a loaner! I know I can't do with out my computer fix! Sad but true.

I have to leave in little while to go for a test at the doctors. It was set up way before this and has noting to do with my current ill. I'm so glad it's Friday. I hope the meds take most of this away by the time Monday rolls around again. I hate being sick.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Danise on April 02, 2004, 10:57:09 AM: Hey, Page 4 dance!

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] :) :D ;) ;D [/move]
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: elmore3003 on April 02, 2004, 11:01:23 AM: Quote from: RLP on April 02, 2004, 08:41:15 AM

BK has said he does not find Rozsa's "Diana" to be top-drawer Rozsa.

And I have to say I think it one of his most glorious, ravishingly beautiful, scores.

My fave Rozsa is "Thief of Bagdad"; when will we get a CD release of that great score?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 11:03:22 AM: That's a wonderful story, WFO. I suppose "story" is the wrong word. Observation, slice of life, whatever. The unexpected nobility of some people never ceases to amaze me. And here I'm speaking not just about the man who helped Joe and of his family -- but also about Joe and you.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: William E. Lurie on April 02, 2004, 11:03:31 AM: There is a very nice compliment to BK's PASSION IN JAZZ CD from a reader of Peter Filicia's Theatremania column in today's column.

For those newer DRs, BK produced of CDs with jazz arrangements of Sondheim musicals. They are quite good and you may want to be on the lookout for them.
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Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 11:06:09 AM: Ah, DR Jay. You of the eagle eye. Thanks for pointing out my typo. I shall leave it unchanged for the mental (and humorous) delectation of all. I'm the one that shoulda' caught it. I'm supposed to be an editor! :P ;)
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 11:17:21 AM: DR Panni: You had better watch out, or BK might have you in charge permanently! :)
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 11:17:43 AM: Quote from: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:53:57 AM
I have learned one principle over the years. If you think of an absolutely outrageous and original pun on someone's name and have an urge to make it--don't. They have heard it ever since they were three, and they're sick of it.

Now I feel sorry for thank you for your Orrder, when you became the very first to purchase Our Wedding - The Musical. www.WeddingMusical.com (http://www.WeddingMusical.com)

Today, I have a little cold, and I'm pretty sure how I got it: Too much time spent in that theatre. Earlier in the day, a childrens' show was presented, so I'm picturing a lot of germs just sat there, as the place isn't well ventilated. It's always cold, though. I arrived for rehearsal at 6, the director arrived at 6:35, and seemed surprised that the fellow who was supposed to rehearse at 6:15 had already given up and left. In fact, he initially thought his rehearsal was at 5:15. I'd gotten him to move the keyboard up a flight of stairs into the theatre, which was very helpful. The rehearsal was scheduled with various people in 15 minute individual slots. So, at the time the guy left, we were already a few minutes into the next person's time.

Another likely culprit is the dusty apartment. DW Joy has been scraping the south wall in preparation for paint and that means the air is just terrible.

So it's hard to get around to all the writing chores. But, I also have two submissions to do. Where do the Fellow Scribes go for their script covers? Are they something your agent provides?

What I need for a 71-page script is the so-called press board cover. It consists of two pieces of laminated cardboard and you fasten them together with this two-piece long metal thing that goes through the holes.

So, yesterday, I visited the new theatre district branch of Staples in search of such a thing. The salesman was, of course, an actor, and showed a great interest in a role; unfortunately, he was failing at his day job, as Staples didn't have the press board cover. He checked with his supervisor, who reported that the item is available by mail-order, but at none of the stores in the New York vicinity! How could this be possible? Are there not enough script-writers to create a demand? And in the theatre district, no less.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 02, 2004, 11:19:18 AM: TCB - did you check out the Free Juno Internet site?

FREDDY FREDDY....MBARNUM that is terrible news, but he might just be exploring, you know how cats can be....

DVD: The Conqueror with John Wayne and Susan Hayward
VHS: The Ten Commandments (Silent) courtesy of MBARNUM
CD: Thanks to Mr BK A Danny Kaye Double Feature CD!!! YEAAAAAAAA!!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Emily on April 02, 2004, 11:22:20 AM: If there's anything that'll make Freddy come home it's this:

1) find a can opener
2) find a can of cat food (tuna will work too)
3) go outside
4) open the can of cat food

(http://www.homestead.com/peaceandcarrots/files/cat_food.jpg)

This used to be the only way we could get our cats in at night sometimes...
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 11:36:04 AM: Yes DR Emily that sounds like a good idea. Although I would expect to find MANY cats stopping by for a visit. :)
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 11:46:28 AM: Quote from: William E. Lurie on April 02, 2004, 11:03:31 AM
There is a very nice compliment to BK's PASSION IN JAZZ CD from a reader of Peter Filicia's Theatremania column in today's column.

For those newer DRs, BK produced of CDs with jazz arrangements of Sondheim musicals. They are quite good and you may want to be on the lookout for them.

Oh, I thought you meant the CD of the score to Mel Gibson's film. Comes with a Jesus action figure.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 11:48:34 AM: Quote from: Panni on April 02, 2004, 09:16:11 AM
Keep posting. Remember you're saving sweet lil' ol' moi from disgrace! I'm shaking my pom-poms. :-* :-* :-*

We don't want to disgrace you, never, ever.

I almost disgraced myself. Sure glad I looked at what I had typed before posting. ;D
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 11:55:33 AM: Quote from: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:17:07 AM
*whew*

Well, that's MY attempt to stand in for BK while he is computer-less.

And a fine job you did. :)
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:01:39 PM: Quote from: Lulu on April 02, 2004, 10:20:39 AM
Ben, you big silly. You messed up my count. :)

BTW, call me crazy (and you'd be quite correct), but I never knew until you mentioned it a few days ago that you actually WORKED for Nickelodeon in the '80s.

I just thought you enjoyed dressing up as DangerMouse.

Shows you the kind of people I typically am friends with... ;)

LOL. I'm worse than you are. I didn't remember who Danger Mouse is. I asked my son & he says there is a photo of Keith with DangerMouse someplace. Since he can’t find it at his place we might have it here. I haven’t looked yet.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:07:31 PM: Quote from: Jed on April 02, 2004, 10:32:14 AM
Hmmm... a thought just occured to me. Anybody ever wonder if our favorite mathematician Mr. Orr and his Joe are perhaps extraterrestrial beings? How could we have been so blind these couple years to not figure it out?

WFO = double UFO!!!

;D ;D Aren't you clever?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 12:09:12 PM: Off to the post office to mail musicals to places that are unlikely to do them. Area 51 http://hometown.aol.com/mprovizr/Index.html (http://hometown.aol.com/mprovizr/Index.html) is going to a college noted for its musical theatre program. The Company of Women is going to a producer with an ambitious program of presenting a lot of new works this summer (kind of a mini-fringe). While on the post office line, I'll need some reading material, so, I think I'll take along Benjamin Kritzer oh yes, I think I will, and then if the postal clerk asks "What is it, fish?" that will be quite a surprise, wouldn't it.

What the hell am I talking about?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:19:55 PM: Quote from: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 10:53:57 AM
If you think of an absolutely outrageous and original pun on someone's name and have an urge to make it--don't. They have heard it ever since they were three, and they're sick of it.

If only I had a nickel for every time I was asked “where’s Tarzan?” or told “plain Jane & no nonsense” I assure you that last one didn’t help with my self confidence. ;D
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: TCB on April 02, 2004, 12:22:04 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on April 02, 2004, 11:19:18 AM
TCB - did you check out the Free Juno Internet site?

Not yet, Jrand, but thank you. First I have to figure out where I am going to hang my hat........ and then I guess I will have to get a hat.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Ben on April 02, 2004, 12:22:41 PM: DangerMouse (or DM as his friends and confidants call him) is a suave and debonair secret agent mouse who lives under a post box near Number 221B Baker Street (Sherlock's residence). He has, with his hamster pal Penfold, saved the world from utter destruction too many times to count. So Keith had his picture taken with DM. I wonder if it was with the big furry (aka Hell with Ears) costume or the rubber mask and white suit costume?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 02, 2004, 12:23:21 PM: And a cat and that's that.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: TCB on April 02, 2004, 12:28:14 PM: Quote from: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:19:55 PM
If only I had a nickel for every time I was asked “where’s Tarzan?” or told “plain Jane & no nonsense” I assure you that last one didn’t help with my self confidence. ;D

Or, Ha ha, T.B. is tuberculosis!

.........and people wonder why I use my middle intial, too?
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:30:55 PM: WFO I’m with Jennifer on the tears. What you and Joe are doing is beautiful. I feel honored and richer you have shared these difficult personal stories with us.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:38:47 PM: Good Computer Vibes!!

Ben I haven’t a clue. It was taken in England. Would that have been you?

Back when the studios would change name Jack Lemon refused to change his. I don’t remember the exact quote but the gist of it was, if he survived growing up as Jack U. Lemon………...
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:40:14 PM: I forgot, TCB is better than TB

Panni I think I have done my share of posting for you. How about another cheer? :D
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 12:43:37 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on April 02, 2004, 12:23:21 PM
And a cat and that's that.

'Cause any place I hang my cat is home?

[slinking down in his seat] Sorry about that...
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 12:50:27 PM: Maybe if we all sing, MBarnum's kitty will return:

"Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. . . ."

That didn't seem to work. . . .

How about:

"Memory, all alone in the moonlight. . ."

NO! Too overdone.

Oh, I know. . . .

Freddy my love, I miss you more than words can say
Freddy my love, please keep in touch while you're away
Hearing from you can make the day so much better
just a souvenier or even a letter
I really flipped over the great cashmere sweater
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love
Freddy you know, your absense makes me feel so blue
That's okay though, your presents make me think of you
Mama will have a heart-attack when she catches
Those little bushes with the black leather patches
Oh how I wish I had a jacket that matches,
Freddy my love
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love
Don't keep your letters from me, I quilt to every line
Your spelling's kinda crummy,
but honey so is mine I treasure every gifty,
the ring is really nifty
You say it cost you fifty, so you're drifty, I don't mind
Whoa - Freddy you see,
you'll hold me in your arms someday
(Freddy my love)
And I will be wearing your lacy lingerie
(Freddy I'm yours)
Thinking about it, my heart's pounding already
Knowing when you come home, we're bound to go steady
And through your service pay around my confetti,
Freddy my love
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love - ooh Freddy Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love - ooh Freddy Freddy my love,
Freddy my love, Freddy my love -
I'm ready Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love - ooh Freddy Freddy my love,
Freddy my love, Freddy my love...
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: William E. Lurie on April 02, 2004, 12:55:28 PM: Quote from: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 11:46:28 AM
Oh, I thought you meant the CD of the score to Mel Gibson's film. Comes with a Jesus action figure.

When I first heard of that film (before all the hype) I thought he was making a movie version of the Sondheim Musical. The same with Sylvester Stalone's ASSASINS.
This is why it is confusing to have two totally different works with the same title. Every time someone refers to MEN IN BLACK I think of the 3 Stooges classic short of tht title.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 12:57:19 PM: Yes I have done my share too!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 12:57:44 PM: Quote from: Jane on April 02, 2004, 12:40:14 PM
Panni I think I have done my share of posting for you. How about another cheer?

Just got back from doing errands. Your wish is my command...

Pull up the cute sockies, straighten the skirt, pom-poms ready...

GIVE ME AN H!
GIVE ME ANOTHER H!
GIVE ME A W! (as long as it's not Bush)

WHAT'VE WE GOT? (DoubLE splits... Ouch-ouch :P :P )

....THE BEST LITTLE SITE ON THE INTERNET!
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 01:02:47 PM: Quote from: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 11:17:21 AM
DR Panni: You had better watch out, or BK might have you in charge permanently! :)

I don't think so. My cheerleading days are numbered.
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 01:06:28 PM: PAGE FIVE DANCE!

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] :-* :-* :-* [/move]
Title: Re:BK SANS COMPUTER
Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 01:12:30 PM: Panni you missed your true calling in life. ;D
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Post by: Matt H. on April 02, 2004, 01:17:34 PM: Well, I lied. I was all prepared to sit down and watch LOST IN TRANSLATION, but I saw the Claudette Colbert/Louise Beavers IMITATION OF LIFE just sitting there begging to be watched, and I couldn't help myself. It's not as glossily campy as the Lana Turner/Juanita Moore version that Ross Hunter produced, but it's very much a movie of its era and still quite entertaining.

Claudette Colbert had quite a 1934 for herself: IMITATION OF LIFE, CLEOPATRA, and on loan out to near-poverty row Columbia to do a little nothing picture called IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT which just happened to win her an Oscar. What actress wouldn't have envied her a year like that!
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Post by: MBarnum on April 02, 2004, 01:28:48 PM: HHW is really such a wonderful place and I am grateful for everyone's concern about Freddy!

He has still not returned and I took another drive around the neighborhood. I haven't seen any of my close neighbors yet to inquire as to whether they have seen hide or hair of him, but I did go to the Humane Society and they were very nice and helpful. They took me to the stray cat section (he wasn't there) and had me fill out a "lost cat" form. I also looked through the files of cats that have been found but not brought into the HS, and I also looked at the DOA file (very sad...fortunately no Freddy was listed!)

DR Jennifer, yes Freddy goes out everyday in the morning. He often stays outside most of the day but is always back inside to eat and sleep. He likes to explore but usually only explores my back yard or my neighbor Judy's back yard (and plays with Judy's cats who are his best pals). And as to DR Dan's story, that could very likely be the case. Freddy is so friendly and loves people I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone took him in for a few days...although he has a collar and tags and is obviously very well fed, so they should realize that he belongs to someone.

Anyway, don't want to bring everyone down, however. On the upside it is a beautiful sunny warm day and my neice gets married in 4 and 1/2 hours! In fact I must do some things and get my suit laid out , etc. Keep the home fries burning and hopefully BK will be back from the land of the computerless by the time I log on again this evening (or tomorrow).
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Post by: MBarnum on April 02, 2004, 01:30:51 PM: Oh, and DR Jane, LOL there is NO way you could have EVER have been considered a plain Jane!!! You were, and I imagine still are, one most attractive gal!!!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 01:37:28 PM: MBarnum - Wouldn't it be wonderful if Freddy were back by the time you came home from the wedding! Maybe if we all concentrated on that thought...

We're doing surprisingly well, considering our fearless leader is missing. Keep posting, troops! Let's make this not just a good day, but an incredibly good day!

Speaking of which (g'day, that is) -- Where's Tomovoz? He's missing all my superb cheerleading routines.
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Post by: Ann on April 02, 2004, 01:37:49 PM: Good afternoon from the gorgeous northwest.

TCB - I do hope you find a hat hanging place soon! I would suggest my own complex (about a mile from where you are now) because the rent is very reasonable, the neighbors are nice, etc...only pets aren't allowed here, and I know you wouldn't want to leave your babies behind.

My uncle just sent me a bunch of mock "Bush/Cheney" bumper stickers, and at the risk of offending someone (I hope I don't!) I have to share a few that I thought was just too funny -

Bush/Cheney '04: Because you don't change horsemen mid-Apocalypse.

Bush/Cheney '04: Because the truth just isn't good enough.

Bush/Cheney '04: Compassionate Colonialism

Bush/Cheney '04: In your heart, you know they might or could be technically correct.

Bush/Cheney '04: Putting the "con" in conservatism

Bush/Cheney '04: How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Sand?

:)
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 01:40:29 PM: Quote from: Jane on April 02, 2004, 01:12:30 PM
Panni you missed your true calling in life. ;D

It's never too late, Jane. I'll just have to find out when the next Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders auditons are being held.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on April 02, 2004, 01:49:36 PM: All the complaints about so few posts before and we are only a few posts away from yesterday's total number and it's not quite 5:00 EDT.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 02, 2004, 01:50:10 PM: Yes, well, jokes about the name Jack cannot be repeated here nor should they be.
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Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 01:50:37 PM: Quote from: td on April 02, 2004, 12:50:27 PM
Freddy my love, I miss you more than words can say
Freddy my love, please keep in touch while you're away
Hearing from you can make the day so much better
just a souvenier or even a letter
I really flipped over the great cashmere sweater
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love
Freddy you know, your absense makes me feel so blue
That's okay though, your presents make me think of you
Mama will have a heart-attack when she catches
Those little bushes with the black leather patches
Oh how I wish I had a jacket that matches,
Freddy my love
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love,
Freddy my love
Don't keep your letters from me, I quilt to every line
Your spelling's kinda crummy,
but honey so is mine I treasure every gifty,
the ring is really nifty
You say it cost you fifty, so you're drifty, I don't mind
Whoa - Freddy you see,
you'll hold me in your arms someday
(Freddy my love)
And I will be wearing your lacy lingerie
(Freddy I'm yours)
Thinking about it, my heart's pounding already
Knowing when you come home, we're bound to go steady
And through your service pay around my confetti,

I don't think we'll get Freddy back with those amusing misprints in the Freddy My Love lyric. I suspect that TD went to one of these websites with lyrics, and, as often happens, the lyrics are misquoted because somone hasn't truly comprehended the record they're transcribing.
Now, I know this is nit-picky, but the lyric's a whole lot more amusing in correct form:
Quote
just a souvenier or even a letter
I really flipped over the great cashmere sweater
should be:

getting a souvenir or maybe a letter
I really flipped over the gray cashmere sweater

Quote
Mama will have a heart-attack when she catches
Those little bushes with the black leather patches
should be

My Ma will have a heart-attack when she catches
Those pedal pushers with the black leather patches

Quote
I quilt to every line
should be

I thrill to every line

Quote
You say it cost you fifty, so you're drifty
should be

You say it cost you fifty, so you're thrifty

Quote
And through your service pay around my confetti
should be

And throw your service pay around like confetti

Good thing Bk isn't here right now. If he doesn't like thongs, one can only imagine what he'd make of
Quote
Those little bushes with the black leather patches

:o
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Post by: Matt H. on April 02, 2004, 02:00:00 PM: Back to the 1934 IMITATION OF LIFE a second. I guess Warren William was considered a matinee idol back in 1934 (he played Julius Caesar to Claudette's Cleopatra, too), but really he seems too old for Claudette not to mention Rochelle Hudson. Wonder why Cary Grant wasn't approached to take the part? I guess he was still undeer contract to Paramount then (or maybe RKO), but he would have been so handsome and gallant in that role, just like John Gavin was in the 1959 version. Cary played similar parts in I'M NO ANGEL and BLONDE VENUS, so I wonder if he was even considered.
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 02:06:40 PM: MBarnum :-[

Searching the Humane Society for a lost pet is heart breaking. I unfortunately have been there. I shall continue to send good thoughts and vibes to Freddy to return home soon.

Do have a good time at the wedding.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 02:06:53 PM: Quote from: William E. Lurie on April 02, 2004, 01:49:36 PM
All the complaints about so few posts before and we are only a few posts away from yesterday's total number and it's not quite 5:00 EDT.

I just did a triple backflip while waving pom-poms and balancing a tray. (The tray is a uniqe touch, never before seen in the annals of cheerleading.) An awesome sight, if I do say so myself.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 02, 2004, 02:17:32 PM: DR Ann, I love the Bush/Cheney bumper stickers! Thank you.
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 02:18:25 PM: Panni-LOL
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 02:39:56 PM: The only cheerleading routine I know is The Village People's "Y. M. C. A." - a man can get hurt doing it. . . . ;)

Hey some people like black leather patches with their bushes. (There should be a Monty Python sketch about shrubbery stealing pirates. . . .)
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 02:42:13 PM: Quote from: Panni on April 02, 2004, 02:06:53 PM
I just did a triple backflip while waving pom-poms and balancing a tray. (The tray is a uniqe touch, never before seen in the annals of cheerleading.) An awesome sight, if I do say so myself.

Hey, the tray isn't that unique! I do all that every day at work, I'm certain that Swishy does, too. It's especially fascinating to see when one is serving a party of twenty. . . .sometime those pom-poms just end up in all the wrong places. . . ;)
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 02:43:06 PM: How many posts will it take to get us to Page Six?

??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Post by: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 02:45:25 PM: Listening to: Joey Nash, vocalist with Richard Himber & his Ritz- Carlton Orchestra, 1934-5. CDs my friend Roger from Lexington sent home with Julieanne. Great stuff!
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 02:49:39 PM: DR MBarnum: Do let us know about Freddy. I'm sure you're right and someone took him in. I just hope he gets fed.

Try DR Emily's idea about putting cans of cat food by your door.

Btw, going out for Chinese food now. Yum!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 02:51:56 PM: Roger also sent me Sam's Jukebox, a compliation of 22 different versions of AS TIME GOES BY. The artists: Dooley Wilson, Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Lee wiley, The flamingos, Shirley Bassey, Karaoke version, Bing Crosby, Julie London , Vic Damone, Spike Jones, Jamey Aebersold, Chet Baker, The Duprees. Carly Simon, Frank sinatra, Rosie Clooney, Babs Streisand, Larry Adler, Steve Goodman.

He once sent me a compliation of 20-odd versions of THE TEDDY BEAR's PICNIC.
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 02:52:16 PM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~MEDIA CHECK~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [/move]

CD PLAYER:
Bobby Darin:
TWIST WITH, SINGS RAY CHARLES, LOVE SWINGS.
Broadway Revival of WONDERFUL TOWN
Joe Nichols:
MAN WITH A MEMORY
Josh Turner:
LONG, BLACK TRAIN
Bette Midler:
BROKEN BLOSSOM
Janis Ian:
NIGHT RAINS
John DePalma:
THE SONG IS MINE

DVD PLAYER:
(well, I just upgraded my system to DTS, so the following have been in and out of the player in the last twenty four hours):
BROTHER BEAR
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
SHREK
CHICAGO
MOULIN ROUGE!
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (who knew that this one deserved a DTS track?!?!?!?)
BARBRA STREISAND: THE CONCERT (love the bonus clips from COLOR ME and MY NAME IS BARBRA)

VCR:
GOSPEL SESSIONS from Cinemax before they were Skinamax, featuring Paul Simon, The Oak Ridge Boys, Luther Vandross and Jennifer Holliday.
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Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 02:53:00 PM: The line at the Cathedral post office was ridiculously long, way beyond the cordons, so, I walked up to the post office that's near the Cathedral, where the line was also ridiculously long, way beyond the cordons. Still, that newer post office is a much more pleasant place. They don't have any glass between you and the clerk at that one, while at the Cathedral post office the glass is very thick, bullet-proof. What a difference 8 blocks makes.
At least I had Benjamin Kritzer with me, and enjoyed the Passover with Susan Pomeroy in attendance. I've not been invited to a seder this year, so can't drag in a shiksa to witness all that goes on.
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 02:53:23 PM: Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 02:51:56 PM
Roger also sent me Sam's Jukebox, a compliation of 22 different versions of AS TIME GOES BY.

How many of those recordings feature the verse?
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 02, 2004, 02:54:34 PM: Just checking in for a brief hello all. Back later. I've had a media free week!
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 02:54:35 PM: Well according to DR Ben's stats chart we go to page six at 149 i think (29, 59, 89, 119, 149).
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 02:59:29 PM: Quote from: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 02:54:35 PM
Well according to DR Ben's stats chart we go to page six at 149 i think (29, 59, 89, 119, 149).

Well, then, here's one for Mahler! And one for one-forty-nine, too!
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 03:00:01 PM: . . .and this is the big one-forty-nine. . . .
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 03:01:53 PM: Oops! (that's SPOO backwards) almost forgot to mention that today is
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]CHRISTOPHER MELONI'S BIRTHDAY! [/move]

Here's hoping he doesn't get a new suit. . .the birthday suit he has is just fine with his fans :o
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 03:08:32 PM: Do I have to do EVERYTHING???

PAGE SIX DANCE!

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] ::) ::) ::) [/move]
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 03:12:25 PM: I'm off to take the wonderdog to the vet. Perhaps td, who seems to have pom-pom and tray experience, can take over cheerleading duties for me while I'm gone.
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Post by: Danise on April 02, 2004, 03:35:09 PM: Any missing kitty news? I can't stand the thought of a missing pet. If it was one of my babies, I'd freak.

I think my four O'clocks are starting to grow! :) I looked at my garden before I got into the van and thought I saw little green specks. Yay!
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Post by: Noel on April 02, 2004, 03:38:07 PM: CD: Now I've got on a compilation of disco and dance "covers" of show tunes, such as Gordon Grody's Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Gloria Gaynor's I Am What I Am and Debbie Gravite's Turkey Lurkey Time as recorded by our own e & t BK.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 03:42:49 PM: td, I haven't play the CD yet, so I don't know how many have the verse. and I'm certainly not going to listen to them all in one sitting.

Tomovoz...And did you miss the media when you were free of it? When travelling without computers I find out howlittle I miss them. Same with TV. Though I've never done total media free, I sometimes think it might be a blessing (I would have to have music though).
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Post by: Robin on April 02, 2004, 03:56:28 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on April 02, 2004, 11:01:23 AM
My fave Rozsa is "Thief of Bagdad"; when will we get a CD release of that great score?

Varese Sarabande did a CD of that score, plus The Jungle Book in the mid-eighties. Elmer Bernstein did a terrific re-recording LP that has yet to make it onto CD, and is actually better.
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Post by: Robin on April 02, 2004, 04:05:01 PM: Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 03:42:49 PM
Tomovoz...And did you miss the media when you were free of it? When travelling without computers I find out howlittle I miss them. Same with TV.

Sometimes, getting the heck away from the computer, the teevee and anything that even looks like a cathode ray tube is a balm to the soul.

Every once in a while, my inner Luddite really comes to the surface....
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Post by: Robin on April 02, 2004, 04:11:07 PM: Barnes and Noble just posted my review of Kritzer Time.
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Post by: Michael on April 02, 2004, 04:21:39 PM: Need to add some cd to my weekend listening list. Anne Runolfsson, Craig Rubano, Helen Reddy and Lisa Richard's Virgin Tracks
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Post by: Michael on April 02, 2004, 04:22:20 PM: And I meant to say that Bruce Kimmel is one of Lisa Richard's Virgin Tracks.
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Post by: Michael on April 02, 2004, 04:23:46 PM: I am close to being a millennium man, but I don't feel a day over forty.
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 02, 2004, 04:35:53 PM: Media Free. I did miss the contact with some friends as it is the only contact we have.
I forgot to take tapes for the car and the radio was there but Country news broadcasts about the price of wool bales were not that interesting. The silence was good as was the thinking time.
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 05:11:44 PM: I'm back. My pom-poms are starting to wilt after shaking them around all day, so, Dear Readers, why not just post until the heifer's return to Capistrano.
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 05:50:22 PM: I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack! My computer is like a whole new machine! So fast, so easy, everything working perfectly. Hoo and ray. Now I have to catch up on yesterday's later posts and all of today's. I'll be back shortly. I MISSED YOU ALL!
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 06:05:30 PM: Lovely postings all! You've done yourselves proud. I can't tell you what a difference there is in this computer. Everything looks brighter and better and is so smooth. I'll have complete details in tomorrow's notes about what the actual problems were.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 02, 2004, 06:17:54 PM: Quote from: bk on April 02, 2004, 05:50:22 PM

I. I MISSED YOU ALL!

And, dearest BK, we missed you today as well! Welcome back. I hope you're going to hire a masseur to put DR Panni back together after all her fierce gymnastics.
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 06:18:41 PM: Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 02:51:56 PM
Roger also sent me Sam's Jukebox, a compliation of 22 different versions of AS TIME GOES BY. The artists: Dooley Wilson, Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Lee wiley, The flamingos, Shirley Bassey, Karaoke version, Bing Crosby, Julie London , Vic Damone, Spike Jones, Jamey Aebersold, Chet Baker, The Duprees. Carly Simon, Frank sinatra, Rosie Clooney, Babs Streisand, Larry Adler, Steve Goodman.

That would make the perfect birthday (April 21st) gift for Keith. Any chance I could get one of those?
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 06:24:09 PM: Quote from: bk on April 02, 2004, 05:50:22 PM
I MISSED YOU ALL!

We missed you, too!
DR Panni did a bang-up job of keeping the home fries burning; I merely served the home fires whilst shaking my pom-poms and balancing my tray. 8)
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 06:42:22 PM: Welcome back Bruce! :) :D
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Post by: Jennifer on April 02, 2004, 07:02:26 PM: Yep I will second and third it. DR Panni did a good job.
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Post by: Jane on April 02, 2004, 07:21:52 PM: That she did. :)

Tonight we are going to watch the first half of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

Goodnight.
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 07:41:08 PM: Oh, and Ron - that's what makes horse racing. Diane just doesn't do it for me, and not because it's not Ben-Hur or King of Kings or whatever. It just doesn't get to me like other Rozsa scores. Not all Rozsa is top-drawer in my opinion (IMO, in Internet lingo) - I've found a few of the FSM releases to be a bore. The one that REALLY did it for me and is one of his best, I think, is Moonfleet. THAT'S a score that gets to me.

My favorite Rozsa's tend not to be the historical things at all, but are things like Double Indemnity and his other noirs, and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Providence (a masterpiece). Of the biblical scores, King of Kings is my fave.
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Post by: Matt H. on April 02, 2004, 08:08:51 PM: There isn't much Rozsa that I don't love.

Well, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to get to LOST IN TRANSLATION during this calendar year. After I finished THE NUN'S STORY, I got curious about IN WHICH WE SERVE. I'm reading Noel Coward's diaries now, and got right past the point where the film won the NY Film Critics Best Film prize. I've had it on laserdisc forever but had never gotten around to watching it until tonight. Involving to be sure, but a smaller scale CAVALCADE on a naval ship was really all it was. I'm sure for people at the time of its release, it was heartbreaking and beautiful.
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 08:10:02 PM: Der Brucer and I are both sorry for being e & t today. He's been busy working, I've been interviewing for jobs, we've together been hithering and thithering and yon-ing until we started yawning.

DVD Player: Brother Bear, and a whole collection of Muppet things that were a bargain at WalMart. Muppet Movie, Great Muppet Caper, Muppets Take Manhattan, and twelve eps of The Muppet Show on four CDs. We had to go back to get copies for the grandlads!

Nothing on the CD player just now, because we've been listening to a bunch of LPs! Yes, the turntable is hooked up, and we've been listening to some records by Jimmy Webb lately. Songs like "Asleep on the Wind" and "The Highwayman." Love his stuff!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 08:30:49 PM: I'm too am glad bk is back! Thanks to everyone who had nice things to say about my cheerleading today. I never did it in high school, so it was nice to get a chance a few short ~~years~~ decades later.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on April 02, 2004, 08:45:58 PM: Glad to have you back, BK! You should know by now that you owe DR Panni a dinner at her favorite eatery for her display of service beyond the call of duty (or was it duty beyond the call of service?)

Congrats on finally exorcizing your PC demons. It's always great to sit down in front of a freshly loaded machine--like driving a new car.

In all the frenzy and confusion and folderol of the day, I forgot about my own media report:

CD (at home) David Byrne's Rei Momo

On the radio right now: Echoes

Tonight I watched The Major and the Minor on TCM. There was a strange "technical difficulty" I've never seen occur before: at various parts of the movie, the video froze while the soundtrack continued. Most of times that this happened it was only about 30 seconds or so in length, though the longest was close to three to four minutes. It was becoming very irritating. I wanted to ask for my money back, but of course, there was no one to ask.
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Post by: William F. Orr on April 02, 2004, 08:54:16 PM: Quote from: TCB on April 02, 2004, 12:28:14 PM
Or, Ha ha, T.B. is tuberculosis!

.........and people wonder why I use my middle intial, too?

I know what you mean, my man. Bill Orr = B. O.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on April 02, 2004, 09:24:42 PM: But BFO = boffo.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on April 02, 2004, 09:27:42 PM: BK...even non-top-drawer Rozsa is usually far better than most for me...But I think my 3 fav Rozsa might be 3 you mentioned...Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Providence, and Moonfleet. I also like the concert pieces that both Private Life and Providence are based on. But he is my favourite, favourite composer...bar none. It's that Gypsy in his soul that really knows how to make a violin cry, I think. I think I mentioned in my unseemly interview that my single best day in Hollywood was attending his memorial service. Wonderful tributes; exquisite music.

By the by, I will not be attending the Ray Court show tomorrow (if it is tomorrow). I'm behind in my work and, if I have to miss one, this is it.
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 09:43:05 PM: I totally forgot about the Courts show. I may pop in. Or not. Dear reader Panni did a most excellent job. I cannot tell you how well my computer is working - in fact, it's never worked this well, not even when it was brand new.
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 09:43:54 PM: I'm trying to watch this Showtime movie called Rated X, about the Mitchell Brothers. The direction is so annoying, though, I might have to just shut it off.
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 09:55:23 PM: I just read this in an online review:

Quote
the free-spirited Eric Balfour strips in one of the behind the scenes shots. This offers very long looks at his bare butt and even flashes his schl**g at a brief moment.
(The stars are mine, after all, this is a family site).

Now, to me, the trick to learn is how does one find a brief moment to flash at. Does one recognize a flashable brief moment? Is it a camera flash as well? When flashing does it actually light up? Does the brief moment light up after having been flashed at?
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 10:02:45 PM: I'd think the briefs would cover up anything of interest, if for just that moment.
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 10:10:45 PM: Is flashing one's schl**g at a brief moment considered a misdemeanor, or merely a misnomer?
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Post by: Danise on April 02, 2004, 10:15:13 PM: Hummm. Here's a first for you guys. It's 1:12 AM and I'm on the board. I'm either sleep posting or it's because these %$#@ pain meds aren't working and I feel like I've been punched in the jaw. :'(
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 10:21:59 PM: Oh, no, Danise! I'm really sorry to hear that.

Good vibes to you.

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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 10:25:58 PM: TD, we cannot keep talking about schl**gs, or you're going to set me off on puns.
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Post by: Danise on April 02, 2004, 10:28:20 PM: Thank you.
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 10:49:03 PM: Say, where in tarnation IS everyone? I was gone all day, I want denizens.
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Post by: td on April 02, 2004, 10:58:40 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 10:25:58 PM
TD, we cannot keep talking about schl**gs, or you're going to set me off on puns.

Pun away! ! ! !
Get thee to a punnery!
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Post by: bk on April 02, 2004, 11:15:41 PM: So sad to be all alone in the world. WUSSBURGERS! I need denizens. Or, I shall be a majority of one.
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 11:21:51 PM: Now, let's see...

There's that ditty by Joe Raposo, made famous by the Carpenters...how does it go again? Ah, yes...

Sling, sling a schl**g...

And the opening phrase of every Star Wars film, "A schl**g time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

And who could forget the classic film that Peter Jackson wants to remake, King Schl**g!
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 11:25:21 PM: And who can forget Chuck Barris taunting his talent judges into rejecting the performers by taking a mighty whack on the giant schl**g on The Schl**g Show!

BK, are you sure you want denizens at this hour of the night?
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 11:37:18 PM: Something a bit more serious.

I mentioned earlier that I've been listening to Jimmy Webb's songs, stuff he recorded himself. I particularly love the track "Land's End/Asleep on the Wind", which is a lengthy instrumental that leads into the second part, a wonderfully metaphorical love song.

For your consideration, the first verse:

Love is a glass of wine
Balanced on the siderail of a ship.
Across the sea at midnight, it may not last the daylight
And the trip is long,
And the waves are strong,
But then again it might be up there forever.
I've heard of birds that never touch the land
But sleep on the winds,
And if untouched by someone's careless hand,
Asleep on the winds,
Our love might last until the journey's end.
Alive. Alive.
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 11:43:29 PM: Oh, what the heck, second verse:

And our lives are just bubbles of time,
They're rainbow colored, and
They're shining in the sun.
They drift above the treetops now,
In danger if the breeze drops somehow,
And darling, that's all it would take,
And yet we threaten not to break.
And you know, we could be up here forever.
I've heard of birds that never touch the land,
But sleep on the winds,
And if untouched by someone's careless hand,
Asleep on the winds,
Our lives might last until the love begins.

So stay alive, and let me try as hard as you do,
To stay alive, please let me be as much alive as you.
Alive. Alive.

I made a tape of this song from the record years ago, and would play it when der Brucer and I were on long drives, usually to see my parents. Or on the return journey. It's one of our favorites.
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Post by: S. Woody White on April 02, 2004, 11:45:23 PM: I just realized, that song is about thirty years old!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 11:54:06 PM: Feel better, Danise!

I just read about a Showtime movie on this Sunday, written by Frederic Raphael, based on his novel COAST TO COAST - Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, Max Schell, SAUL Rubinek - very TWO FOR THE ROAD-ish. Directed by Paul Mazursky, Music by Bill Conti.
Sounds interesting. Although the one review I read was not positive. But that's only one person's opinion and who cares.

Okay - today was fun. Too bad we can't get 6 more posts and go to 200.

Here's one more splits for the road. One-two- three... :-*
...Eat your heart out Britney!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 11:55:47 PM: Only 3 more posts to 200! Come on SWW and Tomovoz - iIsee you there. Let's make this a 200 post day!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 11:56:43 PM: I feel like i'm cheating doing it alone. ...Don't go there!
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Post by: Panni on April 02, 2004, 11:57:30 PM: I want to get there before midnight - so here it goes - post #200.
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 03, 2004, 12:02:32 AM: At least I've now worked out the time difference with daylight savings changes. Thanks Panni.
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Post by: Tomovoz on April 03, 2004, 12:04:09 AM: Good night. Birthday party here tonight for our friend Dirk - ex Montana boy.