Just finished Starship Troopers. What a bad movie it is! What's all the more interesting is that it appears to deliberately have been constructed as a bad movie.
We just got a security alert that the infamous Fred Phelps and his band from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas will be protesting same-sex marriage out in from of my work (Justice Bldg/Supreme Court Bldg) on Monday. Lovely.
If you aren’t familiar with this group their website is www.godhatesfags.com
That should tell you all you need to know! I am gonna need some extra strong coffee for Monday morning I think! LOL!
Well, so far I'm able to get online this morning, so that much is good.
This whole week the mornings have been very light, and yesterday we barely squeaked by without achieving a new all-time low - I mean squeaked by by one post. Is everyone on vacation? There are a few regulars who I notice are almost never here anymore - too bad, really. But we shall carry on, oh, yes, we shall carry on.
We just got a security alert that the infamous Fred Phelps and his band from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas will be protesting same-sex marriage out in from of my work (Justice Bldg/Supreme Court Bldg) on Monday. Lovely.
Anyone see the Apprentice Finale?
We just got a security alert that the infamous Fred Phelps and his band from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas will be protesting same-sex marriage out in from of my work (Justice Bldg/Supreme Court Bldg) on Monday. Lovely.
We just got a security alert that the infamous Fred Phelps and his band from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas will be protesting same-sex marriage out in from of my work (Justice Bldg/Supreme Court Bldg) on Monday. Lovely.
If you aren’t familiar with this group their website is www.godhatesfags.com
That should tell you all you need to know! I am gonna need some extra strong coffee for Monday morning I think! LOL!
William F. Orr, aren't you being redundant? Am I seeing double? Are there two count them two William F. Orrs?
William F. Orr, aren't you being redundant? Am I seeing double? Are there two count them two William F. Orrs?
William F. Orr, aren't you being redundant? Am I seeing double? Are there two count them two William F. Orrs?
I'll be very interested to see what's actually causing the Adelphia problem. They SWEAR it's not their server, so it's either the actual modem box or something on the line outside the house. I shall have a full report for you.
Thanks, MBarnum, and sure thing!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10205-2004Apr14.html
I'll be very interested to see what's actually causing the Adelphia problem. They SWEAR it's not their server, so it's either the actual modem box or something on the line outside the house. I shall have a full report for you.
Stop groaning, Jay!
I'm not in the greatest of moods today and the stuff I'm coming up with for the sitcom sucks bigtime. :P
I think I'll just let it sit and get back to my other writing. But first I may eat lunch- which might put me on a better mood - or not.
That was another report from the fun person's day. Over and out. 8)
Yes. While I liked the first hour that showed Bill and Kwame managing their tasks, the second hour seemed kind of anti-clamatic, including Trump's "You're Hired" to Bill. Trump clearly didn't ahve any idea how to host this post-show wrap-up. I've never seen a bigger stiff reading from cue cards. Someone with more finess would have gotten more out of Troy, Omarosa, Ereka, Amy and Nick. Trump just seemed to think it was enough to jsut give them a little air time. The one worth-while moment was Heidi intorducing her mom and saying that she was doing fine.
I am also stunned to see that Omarosa was not a mole and that she has indeed been acting out of her own doing. Add me to the list of people who thinks she is a self-deluded, lying witch.
I think Trump picked the wrong guy. True, Bill's golf tourney went off relatively hitch-free. But the guy was all over the place, checking and double-checking and re-checking the efforts his three (actually four) people who he should have known he could rely on. Kwame's Jessica Simpson event, on the other hand, had many bumps (Omarosa), most caused by his own people (Omarosa). And yet through it all, he calmly evaluated each problem, quickly resolved it, and moved on. And in the end, his event also was completed succesfully. That's what I call a winning management style. Unless Bill learns to do likewise, I see him and his staff developing ulcers in the coming years.
I wouldn't worry much, Mike.
Phelps is the devil incarnate. Apparently he believes he is above the Christian tenet of "Love Thy Neighbor" and disregards the notion that God loves all his/her children. What evil is it that drives this semblance of a person to the antics for which he is infamous?Phelps is part of the reason I've banned the cavalier use of the word "hate" from my vocabulary. He's really worth studying, because of the clear rampaging joy he gets from that emotion. Why he needs that adrenoline thrill is the sad part of the equation.
LOL, WFO. You remind me of Leslie Nielsen's character in Airplane who kept coming into the cockpit saying, "I just want to wish you good luck and we're all counting on you."
We just got a security alert that the infamous Fred Phelps and his band from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas will be protesting same-sex marriage out in from of my work (Justice Bldg/Supreme Court Bldg) on Monday. Lovely.
If you aren’t familiar with this group their website is www.godhatesfags.com
That should tell you all you need to know! I am gonna need some extra strong coffee for Monday morning I think! LOL!
Now listening to the delightful "You've Got Possibilities", I get mad at Jason Graae for changing the genders on his BK-produced album. It would be the perfect theme for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy".Maybe they'll use Graae's release for the gender-bender version of Queer Eye. No, seriously, the producers of the original planning on a show where they remake women. (Like we haven't been doing that for ages! ;D)
But truthfully I wanted Amy to win. And apparently Trump has offered her a job.
Now that inspires a Topic of Discussion, it does. What If: Jerry Herman had written the score to the Atlanta-rape-murder-lynching musical Parade?Goodbye, Leo!
I'm not sure I agree 100%. I mean, in places there should be a bit of wink-wink-nudge-nudge, but I think you sometimes LOSE comedy when you play it too "cheekily" or "ironically." It's hard to take a show like "Where's Charley?" seriously, yes, but what's wrong with being sincere and looking for laughs within the dialogue? It's not like George Abbott was a slouch at funny lines.
Interesting news in my neighborhood. On Tuesday they opened a Krispy Kreme chain (a five minute drive away). This chain is just starting here. And I am dying to eat their donuts. The last time I got a dozen, I almost ate the whole box. :)
Does anyone know what kinds they make?
Hey Maya, can you post part of the article. Or email it to those who are interested. It's a pain to register just to read one article. :(
DR Maya, when the Kennedy Center did its one-time-only attempt at an Encores! series, I edited WHERE'S CHARLEY for the Loesser office, and I went through all the materials in the Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library. I also watched the 1952 (?) movie, and I think the reviewer is wrong. It's my impression that the original show - from reviews, interviews, and photos - was both a knockabout farce and a valentine to a Victorian era when young ladies actually required chaperones to visit men in their digs, a time far removed from 1948, and even farther removed from 2004 now! The movie kept the original Spettigue, Charley and Amy, so a lot of what they do is probably a direct copy of the stage business. The knockabout between Charley and Spettigue is very broad and very silly. "Make A Miracle" is very wonderful, and "Better Get Out of Here" is very sweet, genteel, prim, and proper. This period of calling cards, visitation, chaperones, etc. needs to be observed; the characters have similar emotions to us but they're another period of social behavior, just as a good production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" needs all the social proprieties.
The published score for WHERE'S CHARLEY? is from around 1953, when Music Theatre International revised and finalized all the rental material. I don't believe the orchestration and choral parts they rent/publish are the originals: Gerry Dolan's original chorus material in the NYPL Music Collection are much more elaborate, and Jonathan Tunick, who saw the original for his birthday, remembers the reed players doubling clarinets and bassoon. This double does not exist in the current materials. What else can I tell you? I'm glad you got a good review!
I saw Senor Discretion Himself when it played at Musical Theatre Works. I'd go again if I were near. In fact, if I were near, what I'd really like to see is Maya's Where's Charley? Love that Make a Miracle.
was quite an uproar. Sorry to be such a radical.
We just got a security alert that the infamous Fred Phelps and his band from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas will be protesting same-sex marriage out in from of my work (Justice Bldg/Supreme Court Bldg) on Monday. Lovely.
If you aren’t familiar with this group their website is www.godhatesfags.com
That should tell you all you need to know! I am gonna need some extra strong coffee for Monday morning I think! LOL!
And finally, it's official: my computer hard drive is completely dead, broken, kaput, etc., etc., etc. (a King and I reference) and ALL (every single solitary bit) of my stuff is irreparably gone .... <SNIP>
That really sux, George. There are services out there that do something along the lines of computer forensics. They can pretty much pull data off any hard drive, no matter what the condition. An amazing story I heard was how this one company was able to extract files from a hard drive that had been fired at with a shotgun! The problem is is that these services are pretty expensive, so you have to weigh the worth of the data that you lost. In any event, don't toss the old drive yet cause maybe at some point the costs of data extraction might become cheaper.
In my DVD player: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
DR George, is this the production with my friend Simon Jones?
My new job does not start until May and so I am somewhat adrift....not wanting to spend a LOT of money because of not knowing how long what I have will really have to last, so I don't get the HHW as early as I used to.....perhaps when commerce starts up again for me, I will be back on schedule.
Unless there is more than one production with Simon Jones, then Yes it is!
Jennifer if you don’t taste a Krispy Kreme then you will never crave one. Five minutes away sounds dangerous to me. :D
New job? What new job? Have I missed something here?? You have some 'splaining to do Mr. Jack Randall Earles!!
Five minutes away is dangerous, because the smell is infectious. I drove my bike down that street, and all I could smell was Krispy Kreme smell.
I've got a stew burbling in the oven, should be ready soon. Time to make fresh biscuits!
Could I go live at your house, please?Well, it would be one way to avoid your meetings, I suppose.
Well, fellow dear readers, today I am annoyed. Oh, yes, I am annoyed.
Going further back, and involving more members, who doesn't remember television sets with channel selection knobs that went from 2 to 13 and then had VHF/UHF tuning, as well?????Heck, I can remember my Grandfather's remote on his television set. It was connected to the set with a half-inch thick wire, and had the knob on the remote itself, which was a box that sat on his end-table.
Meanwhile, some thoughts:Gotta admit, the only wind-up clock I've ever used was at my grandparents' house.
How long has it been since anyone bought an alarm clock that he or she had to wind daily???? How many of our younger members even remember windup clocks??
Going further back, and involving more members, who doesn't remember television sets with channel selection knobs that went from 2 to 13 and then had VHF/UHF tuning, as well?????I very much remember our channel 2 through 13 TV. A behemoth of a Zenith, it was. Ours had pushbuttons, however, instead of a dial. As I recall, you could open up the flap and adjust the tuning so that you could pick up higher number UHF stations through those 2-13 VHF buttons.
They've replaced wind up clocks?
Dear DR Tomovoz: I understand that, when water drains out of a sink or bathtub south of the equator, it forms a funnel that rotates in a counter-clockwise direction, as opposed to the clockwise direction water drains in north of the equator.
Do you remedy this by having your clocks run counter-clockwise, as well?
;D