Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 20 => Topic started by: bk on April 05, 2011, 12:21:29 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were like a laundry list, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they never have to do laundry of course.
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And the word of the day is: ABROGATE!
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From yesterday:
~~~Vibes for DR Samantha's Boyfriend's Brother!!~~~
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Morning all.
That is all.
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From yesterday:
~~~Vibes for DR Samantha's Boyfriend's Brother!!~~~
Ditto!
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Good morning, all! I wanted to get back to my old sleeping schedule and I guess getting out of bed at 6:45 fulfilled my wishes. My last dream was truly bizarre: something about seeing a play at Town Hall, staying for a talkback after and losing my jacket, wishing an actor and actress who were in it best of luck with auditions they were going to, and getting on a train to go to Oxford, OH. The train almost hit a bicyclist walking his bike on the tracks, my father was riding on the train with me, ignoring me and washing his hands over and over again at a sink that he was filling up with paper towels, and I was discussing the situation with my brother Randy, presumably after the tran reached Oxford.
I have a bit of work on the EILEEN scores before I deliver Act One to my colleague Curtis.
DR John G, the New York State Theatre Institute is now dead; if you Google Patricia and the Institute, you will read a lot of ugly press from the General Inspector's charges via the NY State Governor's office. The witch hunt began around 2006, following an anonymous letter to the governor's offices. None of the charges are true and the actual documentation, which the Inspector General ignored in its leak to the press, refutes the charges, but this information never was given to the press. A lot of damage has been done. While I would be rash and misinformed to say it's part of a poverty-stricken state government shutting down what it feels are unwanted and unnecessary arts programs, I believe the overall plan was to oust Patricia as director, disgrace the Institute, and fold it up with no leader to fight for its support.
The saddest part is that for nearly 30 years that Institute provided professional theatre productions four days a week for school children in the Albany-Troy-Schenectady area from grades 1 through high school, ran internships and theatre programs, and introduced a lot of children to live theatre. That's an audience of children, children of children, and no one stopped this inquisition or [protected the organization..
Patricia looks great, and she will do good theatre work in other spaces now. She's very unhappy over all the charges and lies, the ugliness, back stabbing and treachery from long-term associates in the company when heads started rolling, and seeing something you created crushed. I loved working for her and NYSTI, and I'm sorry that all of this has occurred.
And so, to work.
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good morning all -- it seems that the Winds have made their way across the country -- the windows are rattling here this morning
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And the word of the day is: ABROGATE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF
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TOD:
The book I'd like to write shall remain a secret...because I might want to write it some day.
;)
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TOD: I still want to write a book about the history of the 1903 extravaganza Babes In Toyland.
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Tuesday morning greetings! I'm off to Dayton today for a meeting with the grantwriters. This will be the first meeting I've attended in 2011, for various reasons. Looking forward to seeing them.
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Vibes and prayers for DR Samantha's boyfriend's brother!
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I'm doing laundry. -Clean underwear and socks for my trek down to DC would be a good thing.
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DR vixmom - Thank You.
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Speaking of books:
I'm in the process of publishing some of the 1-person plays that I wrote (and were staged) back in the 1980s-early 1990s.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, these will be inexpensive "acting editions," published via CreateSpace and available on Amazon and also in book stores through wholesalers.
Hopefully, the wider availability of the scripts will induce some theaters around the country to mount a production.
I'm still formatting it, but the first play will be my one-woman show about Carole Lombard.
More later....
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Vibes for DR Samantha's boyfriend's brother!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Catching up on last night's posts is making me hungry for chicken salad!
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Why do I always read these posts when I'm hungry?
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DR Cillaliz did you see what happened on DANCING WITH THE STARS last night with Kirstie and Maks?
For those who did not see it the show is live. And Maks was doing this move where Kirstie sort of leans on his leg. Well his thigh gave out (i didn't think it was because he had her weight on him but it could be part of it). Anyhow he seemed really hurt. But they are not allowed to restart. He was clearly in pain. He had to stop for a few seconds and shake it off. And then he had to continue in pain.
After he went to get it iced. I hope he is okay.
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TOD:
I think I shall one day write the sequel to DR ZHIVAGO. It will be called--ZHIVAGOS. It will follow the lives of Yuri Zhivago's children and be set against the Europe and Russia of the 20s and 30s (maybe New York, too--why not?) I see son Sasha leading an amoralist life of a painter, younger sister Anna who finds herself involved with Komarovsky, Yuri and Lara's daughter Retya who is a rising member in Communist Party politics but soon becomes disillusioned with internal corruption, and Lara and Pasha's daughter Katya, a bitter and angry young prostitute who is drifting across Asia seeking some connection to her past. Tonya plays the role of matriarch and member of a group of expatriates who plot against the Soviet government. And who is the mysterious woman being held in a French asylum?
I think I have a bestseller on my hands...
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Morning. And good it is.
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TOD: I could write a book about a lot of topics, but I don't talk about my writing. I find talking about writing things dissipates the energy and you can talk something to death, but never do it. Also, as a professional writer, I learned early on, you never talk about things you haven't written yet; there's always someone out there who might steal your idea.
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...there's always someone out there who might steal your idea.
That's why I keep it a secret.
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I am working on a play.
BUT if I could write a book....it would be a biography of Miss Allison Hayes, whose life off screen was AT LEAST as interesting as anything she did in the movies.
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Greetings from Toyland! I have stopped in to pick up the mail and make sure there have been no breakins.
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I met Curtis and turned over Act one of EILEEN. He lost his bag on the subway this morning and was in a hurry to get uptown to the Bronx to see if they had it. I am home and we are due for a huge storm.
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No posts in 45 minutes? Really, people!
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I'm ready to put away the long pants for shorts, but I think I should wait another week.
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My kind of town, Zhivago is
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I go my way and Zhivago your way.
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Page Two!!
-That is all.
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And now...
Off to DC/Fairfax.
Laters...
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Hayes, Look Me Over - the title of my new novella
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Travel vibes for DR JOSE
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I'm up - I would have slept later but the gas company knocked at the door and I had to open the gate so they could read the meter.
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I usually play what I'm writing very close to the vest - in fact, I'm working on something now that's very interesting, sort of an interim project. And I never talk about the actual process with anyone while I'm doing it, other than Muse Margaret and my occasional "I wrote eight pages today" sorts of posts.
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good morning, all (for the 20 minutes that it remains morning here).
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Elmore, sorry to read about all that happened to Patricia Snyder. I know I covered some of the first waves of ugliness back in the late 1980s when I was up there. But I will never forget some of the school work that she did and her own part in tearing down the Iron Curtain. She worked with the Moscow Children's Theater back when that was a no-no and brought them to Albany. Their production of "Madame Butterfly" was spectacular.
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I would like to write an anchovy cookbook. And I may do that one of these fine days after i finish my classes, although I already have one. Well, one titled "Olives, Anchovies, and Capers."
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Sorry you didn't enjoy "Tangled" more, BK. I saw it in the theater with a group of little girls, granddaughters of a friend, and they squealed through much of it, which made it all the more fun for me. But I didn't care much for the songs, either.
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No posts in 45 minutes? Really, people!
I've been at Lowe's getting supplies for the next home improvement project.
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People are talking about--ZHIVAGOS!
(Soon to be a Major Motion Picture!)
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Or a minor motion picture
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Another good title for a book: THE METER.
The blurbs would all say, "You must read THE METER!"
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A motion picture made for television!
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I watched TANGLED this past weekend and I admit that I enjoyed more than I expected to.
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Una gran Telemundo presentación!
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Sorry you didn't enjoy "Tangled" more, BK. I saw it in the theater with a group of little girls, granddaughters of a friend, and they squealed through much of it, which made it all the more fun for me. But I didn't care much for the songs, either.
It really was mostly the lackluster and not well-used songs, and the occasional hip dialogue.
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Elmore, sorry to read about all that happened to Patricia Snyder. I know I covered some of the first waves of ugliness back in the late 1980s when I was up there. But I will never forget some of the school work that she did and her own part in tearing down the Iron Curtain. She worked with the Moscow Children's Theater back when that was a no-no and brought them to Albany. Their production of "Madame Butterfly" was spectacular.
It all began with an anonymous letter to the board and the state from someone - she believes she knows who it was - who was too cowardly to sign his/her name but the accusations, which the NYSTI board refused to believe given that the charges were unfounded, sure got the General Inspector of the governor's office into a four-year witch hunt. She suspects the writer was a troublemaking performer from Albany who acted occasionally in their productions. There's always one - sometimes it's a musician - on every production I've ever worked on.
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The computer technician has come and gone. It was very quick because as it turns out, the part was already installed. The problem was, the person who put the frontspiece on forgot to remove the bit of hard plastic which exposes the card reader AND it could only be removed by opening the computer and removing the chassis. I'm still amazed that at the final check with (I assume) the packing slip in hand, someone didn't look at that covered slot and say "Oh, that should be open so the user can insert a memory card" But all is well. The technician was nice and laughed about the silliness and it didn't cost me anything.
Now we have to put the computer in the bedroom where it belongs. We first have to arrange the desk area because this computer is a different size (smaller) than the old computer and we will try to put it ON the desk, not in the desk. But that won't happen until Saturday most likely because I'm going to see Baby, It's You tonight (the story of the creation of the girl group The Shirelles. I'm home tomorrow but I don't want to do it after work. Thursday I'm seeing the new Donna Murphy musical The People in the Picture and Friday we are having dinner with friends. Saturday it will be (after a morning at the laundromat).
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Sounds good DR BEN. Maybe it was somebody's first (or last) day on the inspection line.
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I am working on a play.
BUT if I could write a book....it would be a biography of Miss Allison Hayes, whose life off screen was AT LEAST as interesting as anything she did in the movies.
and of course I am in full support of you writing that Allison Hayes book, someday!!
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Back from shipping way too many packages (I HATE that the helper is gone for this long), picking up a few packages, and doing some errands and whatnot. I shall now proof.
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Get me off this damn page before I do something reckless.
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Back from my grantwriters' meeting and grocery shopping at Dorothy Lane Market.
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Learned today that another of my young nonprofit colleagues will be losing her job this spring >:(
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Page two, eh? This will not come to a happy conclusion, I'm afraid.
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Sorry you didn't enjoy "Tangled" more, BK. I saw it in the theater with a group of little girls, granddaughters of a friend, and they squealed through much of it, which made it all the more fun for me. But I didn't care much for the songs, either.
It really was mostly the lackluster and not well-used songs, and the occasional hip dialogue.
I haven't seen it yet but I know my niece loves it and so do her friends. Maybe some animated movies are just more suited to little kids.
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Learned today that another of my young nonprofit colleagues will be losing her job this spring >:(
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Travel vibes for DR Jose. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I am going to get 127 hours from the library and watch it sometime this week.
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I would borrow Tangled from my niece. But she doesn't understand the concept of borrowing/lending. :)
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And the reasons I would want to see Tangled are for Donna Murphy and the lead guy (Chuck on NBC's Chuck).
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Vibes and prayers for DR Samantha's boyfriend's brother!
Ditto!
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Good morning, all! I wanted to get back to my old sleeping schedule and I guess getting out of bed at 6:45 fulfilled my wishes. My last dream was truly bizarre: something about seeing a play at Town Hall, staying for a talkback after and losing my jacket, wishing an actor and actress who were in it best of luck with auditions they were going to, and getting on a train to go to Oxford, OH. The train almost hit a bicyclist walking his bike on the tracks, my father was riding on the train with me, ignoring me and washing his hands over and over again at a sink that he was filling up with paper towels, and I was discussing the situation with my brother Randy, presumably after the tran reached Oxford.
I have a bit of work on the EILEEN scores before I deliver Act One to my colleague Curtis.
DR John G, the New York State Theatre Institute is now dead; if you Google Patricia and the Institute, you will read a lot of ugly press from the General Inspector's charges via the NY State Governor's office. The witch hunt began around 2006, following an anonymous letter to the governor's offices. None of the charges are true and the actual documentation, which the Inspector General ignored in its leak to the press, refutes the charges, but this information never was given to the press. A lot of damage has been done. While I would be rash and misinformed to say it's part of a poverty-stricken state government shutting down what it feels are unwanted and unnecessary arts programs, I believe the overall plan was to oust Patricia as director, disgrace the Institute, and fold it up with no leader to fight for its support.
The saddest part is that for nearly 30 years that Institute provided professional theatre productions four days a week for school children in the Albany-Troy-Schenectady area from grades 1 through high school, ran internships and theatre programs, and introduced a lot of children to live theatre. That's an audience of children, children of children, and no one stopped this inquisition or [protected the organization..
Patricia looks great, and she will do good theatre work in other spaces now. She's very unhappy over all the charges and lies, the ugliness, back stabbing and treachery from long-term associates in the company when heads started rolling, and seeing something you created crushed. I loved working for her and NYSTI, and I'm sorry that all of this has occurred.
And so, to work.
It sounds like a powerful book itself.
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Speaking of books:
I'm in the process of publishing some of the 1-person plays that I wrote (and were staged) back in the 1980s-early 1990s.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, these will be inexpensive "acting editions," published via CreateSpace and available on Amazon and also in book stores through wholesalers.
Hopefully, the wider availability of the scripts will induce some theaters around the country to mount a production.
I'm still formatting it, but the first play will be my one-woman show about Carole Lombard.
More later....
I still want very much to get a copy of the one man show about Spencer Tracy. I have friend currently living in Cape Cod who is not only a stunning actor, but also reminds me of Tracy.
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Elmore, sorry to read about all that happened to Patricia Snyder. I know I covered some of the first waves of ugliness back in the late 1980s when I was up there. But I will never forget some of the school work that she did and her own part in tearing down the Iron Curtain. She worked with the Moscow Children's Theater back when that was a no-no and brought them to Albany. Their production of "Madame Butterfly" was spectacular.
It all began with an anonymous letter to the board and the state from someone - she believes she knows who it was - who was too cowardly to sign his/her name but the accusations, which the NYSTI board refused to believe given that the charges were unfounded, sure got the General Inspector of the governor's office into a four-year witch hunt. She suspects the writer was a troublemaking performer from Albany who acted occasionally in their productions. There's always one - sometimes it's a musician - on every production I've ever worked on.
Exactly! Blame Jose.
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I am not a writer. I have never been one and I am quite sure at my age that I will never become one. The exception would be possibly another play, but neither of these ideas would be the subject for a play.
1.) The first idea would be yet another book regarding the sinking of the Titanic. My book would focus on the other ship on that night in 1912 - The Californian No part of the Titanic story is more hotly debated than the truth(?) regarding the Californian.
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The seocnd idea would be a novelized version of the last voyage of the Andrea Doria. Hmmm, I wonder who I could get for the movie version to play Ruth Roman!
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All..........by............myself
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I don't want to be.
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All by myself.
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When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin' love was just for fun
Those days are gone
Livin' alone
I think of all the friends I've known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home...................All by myself
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Okay, not very original, but they are posts.
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And I don't notice anyone trying to cur in front of me.
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No Guests, either!
The next 3D masterpiece - 13 GUESTS!
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Okay, I admit it! I am not very creative this evening.
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However.............
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At the moment I am the most creative voice on this site.
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Perhaps there will be an upsurge of postings once DWTS is over.
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I was so tired today at work. I don't really know why. I don't think I stayed up too late reading.
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I could have used an entire case of 5 Hour Energy Drink.
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Or a six pack of No-Doz.
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or a pound of chocolate-covered coffee beans
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Or perhaps a Super-size Mocha.
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Oh boy! Ginny is here!
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I have always considered librarians to be the second most intelligent group of peopl in the world.
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Of course, the most intelligent group of people in the world would be the retired librarians
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If I could twitch my nose and have any type of food appear in front of me; I think my choice tonight would be a hot fudge sundae.
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One more
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Page Four!
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If I could twitch my nose and have any type of food appear in front of me; I think my choice tonight would be a hot fudge sundae.
Or possibly my mother's tamale pie! Yum.
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If I could twitch my nose and have any type of food appear in front of me; I think my choice tonight would be a hot fudge sundae.
Or possibly my mother's tamale pie! Yum.
Steak is okay, but I really love a good casserole. Of course, having a divorced mother raising two children on a teacher's salary in the 50's required a lot of casseroles. Strangely, raised side by side, I love casseroles and my sister can't stand the sight of them.
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I like most seafood, but I am not crazy about crab. If you grow up in the Northwet you are supposed to love crab, but I can take it or leave it. I much prefer scallops, oysters (cooked), or lobster.
And don't even ask me about salmon!
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The salmon line should have been a separate post. I messed up.
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Of course, the most intelligent group of people in the world would be the retired librarians
Not feeling very intelligent tonight, DR TCB.
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Ahhh, now Jose has joined this merry group of Ginny and me.
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We had salmon for dinner tonight.
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Of course, the most intelligent group of people in the world would be the retired librarians
Not feeling very intelligent tonight, DR TCB.
Are you not feeling well, Ginny?
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We had salmon for dinner tonight.
Gee, sorry I missed it.
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Good Evening!
Greetings from Fairfax, VA!
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Salmon was never high on my food top ten, but after a summer working in a fish processing plant, doomed any desire I might have had for salmon.
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Good Evening!
Greetings from Fairfax, VA!
Hey, Jose!
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And we now have one Guest. Do you think it might be 3D?
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Oh, I feel fine, DR TCB - thanks for your concern. I think what's bothering me is a lot of unfinished projects/business and too many distractions.
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Just back from margaritas with friends. Good to catch up again. I hadn't seen Wayne and his wife since I worked at the census last year.
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How was the trip to Virginia, Jose?
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And, TCB, you had a run of great posts tonight. Salmon obviously was not your dinner. What was?
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Just back from margaritas with friends. Good to catch up again. I hadn't seen Wayne and his wife since I worked at the census last year.
Glad you had a chance to get out for a little enjoyment tonight, John G.
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So, I gather there are TV shows on tonight, which is why no one else is here but us chickens. I used to do that. TV, that is.
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And, TCB, you had a run of great posts tonight. Salmon obviously was not your dinner. What was?
Tonight, I had the next to the last serving of tuna pasta salad that I have been eating since Sunday. That is the problem of cooking for one.
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I have nothing to say today, but here are a couple of photos:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5594046056_3a4f80a479.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5594045494_b095a5d8a1.jpg)
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Don't you watch tv, John G?
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I never learned to make a small amount of any dish.
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And the worst is my beef stew. Every night when I am eating it, I start thinking of what else would have been good in the stew. So, the next day, I add that to the stew.
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Thank You for the Travel Vibes! -If there was a day when they were needed, well...
When I got to the bus stop, my bus was not there. "It will be here in about 15 minutes.". It was there in 20 minutes - which was only 5 minutes late. However, since the bus was doing a turn-around, the passengers had to get off, and the staff needed to do a quick clean and sweep. That only took another 5 minutes, so that wasn't too bad.
I was the second person to board the bus. The second of four passengers. -I was almost expecting them to cancel the bus since another one was scheduled to leave 30 minutes later. But they didn't. However...
As the drivers were changing over, one of them mentioned that the southbound traffic on the NJ Turnpike was backed up for about 20 miles. I checked Twitter, and found reports of two accidents - sadly, both of them fatal - and that part of the Turnpike was now closed. Well...
The driver then started rattling off a series of alternate routes. And then he started driving. As soon as we caught up with the back-up on the Turnpike, he took this exit. Then that exit. Then that side road. Then... Etc., etc., etc.
We arrived in DC just 30 minutes later than scheduled - and that included a 15 minute break at the Delaware Welcome Center/Rest Area. Not bad at all!
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And, TCB, you had a run of great posts tonight. Salmon obviously was not your dinner. What was?
Tonight, I had the next to the last serving of tuna pasta salad that I have been eating since Sunday. That is the problem of cooking for one.
A challenge perhaps. A joy. But not a problem for me.
Go to your library and look for a book called "The Pleasures of Cooking for One" by Judith Jones. It's a great new way of looking at things.
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I have nothing to say today, but here are a couple of photos:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5594046056_3a4f80a479.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5594045494_b095a5d8a1.jpg)
They are great, Laura, as always.
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How was the trip to Virginia, Jose?
See above. ;)
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I thought I would play with the settings.
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Good Evening!
Greetings from Fairfax, VA!
Hey, Jose!
Hey, Tom!
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And, TCB, you had a run of great posts tonight. Salmon obviously was not your dinner. What was?
Tonight, I had the next to the last serving of tuna pasta salad that I have been eating since Sunday. That is the problem of cooking for one.
A challenge perhaps. A joy. But not a problem for me.
Go to your library and look for a book called "The Pleasures of Cooking for One" by Judith Jones. It's a great new way of looking at things.
I will check that book out. LOL!
pun intended
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Don't you watch tv, John G?
Your Nothing-to-Say photos say volumes, Laura.
No, I don't watch TV. I used to be a TV editor when I lived in Florida (TV and religion), but I got out of the habit when I moved to Texas and to the Central time zone. And I've never wanted to regain it. I'll watch shows and movies on DVD, but that's it. I don't like tying myself to someone else's schedule, I guess.
But I don't look down on it. As someone who takes ballroom classes, I like "DWTS" whenever I can see it. I just don't go out of my way to be home the night(s) it's on TV. I've also enjoyed "Top Chef" and a couple of other shows, but I can't remember any more off the top of my head. The shows I watch on DVD are "Mad Men" and "Big Love."
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Good Evening!
Greetings from Fairfax, VA!
Hey, Jose!
Hey, Tom!
That is amazing Jose. He must have driven like a bat out of Hell.
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Don't you watch tv, John G?
Your Nothing-to-Say photos say volumes, Laura.
No, I don't watch TV. I used to be a TV editor when I lived in Florida (TV and religion), but I got out of the habit when I moved to Texas and to the Central time zone. And I've never wanted to regain it. I'll watch shows and movies on DVD, but that's it. I don't like tying myself to someone else's schedule, I guess.
Religion............... habit! Hah, I get it.
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Don't you watch tv, John G?
Your Nothing-to-Say photos say volumes, Laura.
No, I don't watch TV. I used to be a TV editor when I lived in Florida (TV and religion), but I got out of the habit when I moved to Texas and to the Central time zone. And I've never wanted to regain it. I'll watch shows and movies on DVD, but that's it. I don't like tying myself to someone else's schedule, I guess.
Religion............... habit! Hah, I get it.
Good grief, it must be past my bedtime.
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Don't you watch tv, John G?
Your Nothing-to-Say photos say volumes, Laura.
No, I don't watch TV. I used to be a TV editor when I lived in Florida (TV and religion), but I got out of the habit when I moved to Texas and to the Central time zone. And I've never wanted to regain it. I'll watch shows and movies on DVD, but that's it. I don't like tying myself to someone else's schedule, I guess.
Religion............... habit! Hah, I get it.
As a certain friend of BK's once wrote, "I'll get in the habit but not in the habit ..."
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G'night!
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I sometimes watch things on hulu.com.
I watched the pilot of The Dick Van Dyke Show. It was called Man of the House, or something like that. It was the unfunniest thing I've ever seen. I am surprised that they made a series out of it.
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G'night, DR TCB.
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Hi !
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I have had a number of ideas in the past and I'm sure I'll have more in the future. Someday when I'm not writing so much for work, I'll write a book
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Speaking of books:
I'm in the process of publishing some of the 1-person plays that I wrote (and were staged) back in the 1980s-early 1990s.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, these will be inexpensive "acting editions," published via CreateSpace and available on Amazon and also in book stores through wholesalers.
Hopefully, the wider availability of the scripts will induce some theaters around the country to mount a production.
I'm still formatting it, but the first play will be my one-woman show about Carole Lombard.
More later....
I still want very much to get a copy of the one man show about Spencer Tracy. I have friend currently living in Cape Cod who is not only a stunning actor, but also reminds me of Tracy.
I promise.
Assuming the LOMBARD project goes as well as I hope, TRACY will be coming.
The problem with TRACY is that it was written on a typewriter, rather than a computer, so I have to re-type the entire manuscript into MS Word.
On the other hand, if I can find somebody local to do it for me....
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Speaking of books:
I'm in the process of publishing some of the 1-person plays that I wrote (and were staged) back in the 1980s-early 1990s.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, these will be inexpensive "acting editions," published via CreateSpace and available on Amazon and also in book stores through wholesalers.
Hopefully, the wider availability of the scripts will induce some theaters around the country to mount a production.
I'm still formatting it, but the first play will be my one-woman show about Carole Lombard.
More later....
I had to re-read this..
I thought DR Druxy had written the one-woman play about Carole Lombard for himself!
;D
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Speaking of books:
I'm in the process of publishing some of the 1-person plays that I wrote (and were staged) back in the 1980s-early 1990s.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, these will be inexpensive "acting editions," published via CreateSpace and available on Amazon and also in book stores through wholesalers.
Hopefully, the wider availability of the scripts will induce some theaters around the country to mount a production.
I'm still formatting it, but the first play will be my one-woman show about Carole Lombard.
More later....
I had to re-read this..
I thought DR Druxy had written the one-woman play about Carole Lombard for himself!
;D
I was thinking of doing it, but then I refuse to shave my beard.
:P
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Just saw a preview for "Oliver!" The announcer invites you to "Join your old friends ... Bill Sikes." Yikes! When was he ever "my old friend"? As I recall, even his dog didn't care when he died.
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Hmmm...
Do you think this could be broadcast on network TV today?
Teresa Graves & Carol Channing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RaoBR-Oj8)
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*I love that clip. It's just so full of joy and fun!
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*I love that clip. It's just so full of joy and fun!
Change my name to Ruby Begonia!
What a hoot. Reminds me of her autobiography in which she claims to be partially black. When I read that all I could picture was the billboard advertising Carol Channing as Julie in "Showboat."
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i stopped by my folks house s on the way home tonight - my brother bought them a computer and my other brother set it up for them -- tonight I showed them the joys of You Tube and seeing videos and pictures of their great grandniece in California
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Is great grandniece the right term? The daughter of her nephew's daughter......
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Back from some dinner. Rehearsal was great, save for our guest star - I guess I wasn't quite strong enough about what kind of show we do, and she didn't do her homework and took fifteen minutes to get through a four-minute song because she couldn't remember any lyrics - she was very funny about it, but I think she also clearly saw five other cast members who'd managed to learn their three songs perfectly and perform them wonderfully, in addition to a twelve-year-old girl with a much wordier song. So, I think the metaphor would be that it was like having water thrown in one's face and hopefully she'll do what she needs to do before the performance. Since she uses a folder as a prop, I told her that if she really needed to she could put her lyrics in there.
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Back from some dinner. Rehearsal was great, save for our guest star - I guess I wasn't quite strong enough about what kind of show we do, and she didn't do her homework and took fifteen minutes to get through a four-minute song because she couldn't remember any lyrics - she was very funny about it, but I think she also clearly saw five other cast members who'd managed to learn their three songs perfectly and perform them wonderfully, in addition to a twelve-year-old girl with a much wordier song. So, I think the metaphor would be that it was like having water thrown in one's face and hopefully she'll do what she needs to do before the performance. Since she uses a folder as a prop, I told her that if she really needed to she could put her lyrics in there.
Well that sounds unsettling.
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Oh dear.
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Watching "Starting Over" for the first time since it came out. Much of this movie is sweeter than I remember and I miss Jill Clayburgh. She could be irritating at times, but she's also really human.
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I have nothing to say today, but here are a couple of photos:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5594046056_3a4f80a479.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5594045494_b095a5d8a1.jpg)
o Laura ... your pictures make me so happy
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i want to go on walks with Laura
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I would love to take you for a walk.
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well until i win the lotto I will have to settle for these vicarious walks through cyberspace
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but since its already tomorrow here on the island of long I better get me to bed....
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good night Laura!!
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Good night Cillaliz!
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i want to go on walks with Laura
Me, too.
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good night John G
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Good night Mrs Callabash ... wherever you are
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Night, all.
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Well, no one can say we didn't get to page six.
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Today, I didn't go to work. My friend Margo asked if I would drive her and her two kids to the airport and I thought that I haven't taken a day of vacation in a while...not counting holidays where we didn't work.
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So, after I dropped them off at the airport, I went to Ikea and bought a couple of step-stools. My sister gave me one a few years ago, but I don't know what happened to it. It's not anywhere in my house or garage...it's not at my sister's house...it's not at my parents' house. I have no freakin' idea what happened to it. :-\
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While I was at Ikea, I ate lunch there (Swedish meatballs with cream sauce, mashed potatoes and lingonberry preserves and their apple) and I didn't even know that it was Meatball Tuesday (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/store/seattle/restaurant)...you can add an additional five meatballs for only $1. :D
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After Ikea, I went to the Tacoma Borders and saw that they're going to close! Everything was on sale. I got the original Broadway cast recording to How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the Glee version of "The Rocky Horror Show." Both of those were 20% off. As I was leaving, I saw that they had "The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker" for only $18! Over 68,000 cartoons and included two CDs with every cartoon, also.
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I then went to Casual Male and bought a new shirt (25% off) and stopped at Krispy Kreme for some donuts. I came home for a little bit and then went to rehearsal.
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Tonight's rehearsal was just a speed-through with basic blocking. We actually were able to get through the show twice and then I came home. :)
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And now for something completely different...Wash. recognizes same-sex marriages from other states (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Wash-recognizes-same-sex-marriages-from-other-1323760.php)! ;D