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Title: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 01:02:34 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were lunch-like but written after dinner, and now it is time for you to post until the dinner theater cows come home.  They're doing a production of The MOOtchmaker.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 01:03:25 AM
And the word of the day is: IRRIGUOUS!
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 01:06:22 AM
I posted this at the end of last night's posts - for those who don't read those, I repost it here because I feel like it:

I must say that there are times when I think of people like Jose and a few others who just up and leave without a word (of course they don't up and leave Facebook, where it's more about them, I suppose) that I just want to shut this jernt down because I find it so irritating.  I know Jose has done this before and then finally makes a reappearance months later, but I just will never understand it - no one did anything to him (and I'm not just talking about him specifically but he happened to be on my mind today because I'd sent him two e-mails (not about his absence) both of which went unanswered, which I find truly disgusting), and please don't tell me that everyone has been having wonderful private e-mails and he's just taking a break, because I don't want to hear it about him or anyone else, frankly - I'm at the point where if he never comes back then that's just peachy with me - I think everyone on this site has been far too good to him, and that includes me - but enough about that - my POINT is that whenever I start feeling this way, going to that place, I look at what this site really is about - TCB coming back to us and healing, Vixmom alive and well, people supporting and caring about each other - and I know I will NEVER shut it down because it's very special here.  At least the folks here have BEEN here for TCB - those who haven't probably don't even know what's gone on.  I guess it can be fun to be in a bubble or have it be all about you, but for me?  Feh.  End of rant.
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Post by: KevinH on April 15, 2012, 03:00:33 AM
Good morning! First time I'm the first poster after BK! 

I woke up early (for a weekend).  Maybe I'll try and go back to sleep.....
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Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 03:58:54 AM
Happy April 15th, even though April 17th is this year's April 15th!
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Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 04:19:59 AM
Happy April 15th, even though April 17th is this year's April 15th!

There's no accounting for your humor.

der Brucer
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 04:53:52 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: Michael on April 15, 2012, 04:59:52 AM
good morning to all
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Post by: Michael on April 15, 2012, 05:05:52 AM
If you are a TITANIC the musical fan, someone posted the complete musical on YouTube. It is broken into five parts. It is not the Broadway production, but another full scale production.

Part one of the stage musical TITANIC
http://youtu.be/sb91dVfIRaQ

Part 2 of the stage musical TITANIC
http://youtu.be/gg7ysVDbd0I

Part 3 of the stage musical TITANIC
http://youtu.be/OXkPWDIfodo

Part 4 of the stage musical TITANIC
http://youtu.be/GqLJnPeLNT4

Part 5 of the stage musical TITANIC
http://youtu.be/7sfDbyGRQhA
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Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 05:29:50 AM
There are 9 different TV programmes about the TITANIC this weekend.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 05:40:12 AM
Thanks for the links DR MICHAEL - nice to see.  I have only attended one production of the show, and it was ... well.... I am happy to see this one.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 05:40:45 AM
Rant away MR BK - it is a puzzlement.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 05:45:02 AM
I have only been to a dinner theatre a couple of times, although I have several friends who work in it locally....

I found it to be uncomfortable.

And when I went to see 42ND STREET - they cut out the Act Two opening song A Sunny Side to Every Situation.  I was talking to my friend Nicha about it afterwards.....and waitress interrupted our conversation and said: "Oh no, you're wrong.  We didn't cut out any songs."  And I said: "Well, yes, at the beginning of Act Two there is another song."  "Oh no, absolutely not."  So I just waited a moment and said in my best BK VOICE, although I didn't even know MR BK at that time:  "When we did it in NEW YORK, there was ANOTHER song at the top of Act Two."   She just walked away.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 05:45:31 AM
Good morning, all! The alarm went off at 6:30, I realized this was my first day in a while to sleep late, and I went back to bed. I have a day of working at home, and I plan to enjoy myself and accomplish a lot. I have pdf files to send to Dublin for all the DEAREST ENEMY singers, and I've got Acts Two and Three of THE ONLY GIRL waiting for me to finish.

I got a lovely email from our DR TCB this morning. I was very happy to hear from him.

DR Ginny, congratulations on the award! I guess signs of intelligent life are not yet completely dead in my hometown. That's good to know. I'll forget it as the election heats up. I'm so glad I'll be in Dublin when all the madness starts rolling.

BK, about your rant: I understand your frustrations, but people change like the weather. I had a best friend who, six months ago, stopped speaking to me and only began communicating only in short emails "Do you know of a Burton Lane collection?"  or "Funny article" and a link, etc. In our one phone call, which I now believe was to provoke a fight, in late January, he told me all my faults Then there was a period of complete silence and now the emails have sporadically begun. Two days after the Brent Barrett-Karen Mason show, he told me that Brent had mentioned me, something I knew a day earlier from a post of our DR KevnH!

I learn more about hm and our E&T DR Jose on Twitter. I no longer feel I have the best friend I once had, and it pains me greatly. It hurts, and I can do nothing about it but wonder what the hell is going on with him. I'm thinking about redoing my will and naming another executor because I don't know if I consider him a friend or not. People change like the weather.

More coffee.

And drugs.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 05:46:01 AM
I wish I was going to see The Drowsy Chaperone this afternoon.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 05:47:31 AM
Alert the media - we had a LIVE WEBCAM VIEWING rating of 18 people last night ... for our Titanic Event.  It will be shown as regularly scheduled on Thursday evening....I will try to figure out the link.  It lasted about 90 minutes and was most interesting, although I can't say entertaining.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 05:50:44 AM
I wish I was going to see The Drowsy Chaperone this afternoon.

Me, too.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:12:48 AM
It would be even BETTER to be going to see TDC with DR ELMORE!
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Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 06:13:37 AM
I've tried my best and I've watched 8 of them but there's no way I can slog my way through the rest of the 39 episodes of Perry Mason. An interesting nostalgia trip but they are so very formulaic and budget restricted.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:15:18 AM
DR JMK - how are your wrists today?  Did you ever find out what it was?

The Dream-O-Matic 6000 says that you consider taxes and by extension BIG GOVERNMENT as an invasion into your home and life, and although you realize the responsibility of paying taxes and obeying laws as a means to keeping the civil order - you would just as soon get a bill and write them a check as jumping through the hoops of booklets and forms.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 06:15:27 AM
It would be even BETTER to be going to see TDC with DR ELMORE!

Wouldn't it be fun? We would laugh ourselves silly!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:15:32 AM
Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:16:08 AM
I've tried my best and I've watched 8 of them but there's no way I can slog my way through the rest of the 39 episodes of Perry Mason. An interesting nostalgia trip but they are so very formulaic and budget restricted.

What season were you watching?  My favorite episodes of course are those featuring Miss Allison Hayes.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:16:24 AM
It would be even BETTER to be going to see TDC with DR ELMORE!

We would laugh ourselves silly!

We would be quite the audience, I am sure.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 06:17:25 AM
I've tried my best and I've watched 8 of them but there's no way I can slog my way through the rest of the 39 episodes of Perry Mason. An interesting nostalgia trip but they are so very formulaic and budget restricted.

What season were you watching?  My favorite episodes of course are those featuring Miss Allison Hayes.

Miss Hayes is the only reason to watch a lot of the stuff she was in!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:25:43 AM
Well if we don't have another "thriller" (a commentator's exact description last week) golf match on CBS today.....I shall be watchng THE AMAZING RACE, TITANIC, MAD MEN.

But an overtime golf match can mess everything up.

I AM CONVINCED that 60 Minutes, that useless hour of pandering (with the VERY RARE exception) - has always owed its great ratings to all of the sports events that it follows.  If an "event" goes overtime, they should take that time out of 60 Minutes, and show that segment the following week....of course THAT would cost advertising $$$.  60 Minutes has been out of the CBS News Division and into the CBS Entertainment Division for many seasons now.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:26:03 AM
I've tried my best and I've watched 8 of them but there's no way I can slog my way through the rest of the 39 episodes of Perry Mason. An interesting nostalgia trip but they are so very formulaic and budget restricted.

What season were you watching?  My favorite episodes of course are those featuring Miss Allison Hayes.

Miss Hayes is the only reason to watch a lot of the stuff she was in!

Yes....yes....this is true.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 06:27:30 AM
Allison and Raymond in the only FILM they made together....1955's Count Three And Pray.  ;D

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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 06:32:14 AM
Allison and Raymond in the only FILM they made together....1955's Count Three And Pray.  ;D



Mr Burr, who's looking rather hefty there,reminds me a lot of DRMBarnum's hefty Bollywood leading men from the 1960s.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 06:32:49 AM
Miss Hayes looks as if she wandered in from a bus&truck KING & I tour.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 07:00:09 AM
She is wearing one of her Jean Louis dresses that he designed for her for the movie....she had five of them.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 07:00:46 AM
Page Two Dance.

Maybe DR TCB will be here today and reach his MILLSTONE....it was great to read his posts last night....which I read this morning...
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Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 07:07:05 AM
Bill Cosby says on ABC that he would want Betty White to play him in a movie of his life.

Question for free-for-all day:  If it had to be someone of the opposite gender, who would you choose to play you in the story of your life?  (without cheating and choosing someone who's really of your same gender through some loophole)
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on April 15, 2012, 07:07:25 AM
And the word of the day is: IRRIGUOUS!

And The Song Of The Day Is:  APRIL SHOWERS
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 07:10:34 AM
Happy April 15th, even though April 17th is this year's April 15th!

There's no accounting for your humor.

der Brucer


 ;D
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 07:13:30 AM
Allison and Raymond in the only FILM they made together....1955's Count Three And Pray.  ;D



What the audience probably was doing just as the lights came down.  :)
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on April 15, 2012, 07:13:43 AM
I posted this at the end of last night's posts - for those who don't read those, I repost it here because I feel like it:

I must say that there are times when I think of people like Jose and a few others who just up and leave without a word (of course they don't up and leave Facebook, where it's more about them, I suppose) that I just want to shut this jernt down because I find it so irritating.  I know Jose has done this before and then finally makes a reappearance months later, but I just will never understand it - no one did anything to him (and I'm not just talking about him specifically but he happened to be on my mind today because I'd sent him two e-mails (not about his absence) both of which went unanswered, which I find truly disgusting), and please don't tell me that everyone has been having wonderful private e-mails and he's just taking a break, because I don't want to hear it about him or anyone else, frankly - I'm at the point where if he never comes back then that's just peachy with me - I think everyone on this site has been far too good to him, and that includes me - but enough about that - my POINT is that whenever I start feeling this way, going to that place, I look at what this site really is about - TCB coming back to us and healing, Vixmom alive and well, people supporting and caring about each other - and I know I will NEVER shut it down because it's very special here.  At least the folks here have BEEN here for TCB - those who haven't probably don't even know what's gone on.  I guess it can be fun to be in a bubble or have it be all about you, but for me?  Feh.  End of rant.

I Don't Understand It...However I Miss MONKEY more Than JOSE
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 07:14:02 AM
DR FJL - I think only a actress of great versatility could even begin to convey the complexities of my life.....I would have to choose:


Dina Merrill.
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 07:14:12 AM
No answers yet on the wrists/palms problem.  If it hasn't started to go away by tomorry, I'm off to the doctor.
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 07:17:24 AM
I think I will watch WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? - even though I have to suffer through Tony Randall.....I also get to see Jayne Mansfield be as funny as she would ever be on screen.

Randall: Perhaps you should incorporate yourself. I would help you.

Mansfield: If you're the president of the corporation, what would I be?

Randall:  Well, I would be Vice President and Treasurer of Rita Marlowe Productions, but you would be the titular head of the company.

Mansfield: *squealing as only Jayne could do*
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Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 07:17:38 AM
No answers yet on the wrists/palms problem.  If it hasn't started to go away by tomorry, I'm off to the doctor.

Good idea.
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Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 07:21:22 AM
DR FJL - I think only a actress of great versatility could even begin to convey the complexities of my life.....I would have to choose:


Dina Merrill.


Fascinating choice!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 07:22:38 AM
I think perhaps someone with wessonality to play me.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 08:01:30 AM
elmore, thanks for your post.  What I didn't want today is how people have had private e-mails and he'll be back whenever he feels like it and all that jazz.  It's just baffling and weird and weird and baffling and that's all I'm going to say about it.  As Babs and Donna so aptly put it, enough is enough.  And the unanswered e-mails is just as rude as the absence, perhaps ruder. 
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 08:01:54 AM
Oh, and I'm up.  A little earlier than my alarm but that's fine.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 08:21:43 AM
elmore, thanks for your post.  What I didn't want today is how people have had private e-mails and he'll be back whenever he feels like it and all that jazz.  It's just baffling and weird and weird and baffling and that's all I'm going to say about it.  As Babs and Donna so aptly put it, enough is enough.  And the unanswered e-mails is just as rude as the absence, perhaps ruder. 

People's mindsets change, too. Perhaps HHW was there when he needed something missing in his life to be filled. He doesn't need this site at the present time, so I hope that whatever need was covered here is sated elsewhere. It's all a pendulum and life's variables swing one way for a while and then swing back. It isn't so great news for those of us wanting instant gratification, but it's the nature of things.

I have to tackle THE ONLY GIRL now. The pdf files are sent.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 08:34:59 AM
But it all came home to me with TCB's coming back after his surgery - that's what we're about and if people don't get that then I suppose Facebook and Twitter is all about them and it's better there.  I love our denizens here and just have to move on when someone does something baffling.
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Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on April 15, 2012, 08:44:21 AM
But it all came home to me with TCB's coming back after his surgery - that's what we're about and if people don't get that then I suppose Facebook and Twitter is all about them and it's better there.  I love our denizens here and just have to move on when someone does something baffling.


And I Agree With You And Elmore 100%
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Post by: Druxy on April 15, 2012, 08:45:59 AM
elmore, thanks for your post.  What I didn't want today is how people have had private e-mails and he'll be back whenever he feels like it and all that jazz.  It's just baffling and weird and weird and baffling and that's all I'm going to say about it.  As Babs and Donna so aptly put it, enough is enough.  And the unanswered e-mails is just as rude as the absence, perhaps ruder. 

People's mindsets change, too. Perhaps HHW was there when he needed something missing in his life to be filled. He doesn't need this site at the present time, so I hope that whatever need was covered here is sated elsewhere. It's all a pendulum and life's variables swing one way for a while and then swing back. It isn't so great news for those of us wanting instant gratification, but it's the nature of things.


I tend to agree with this assessment.

And there are times when somebody feels that they don't have anything to contribute to the discussion , or they have other things in their life to do.
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 08:48:40 AM
Of course, there is no one answer why people leave, but that doesn't make it any less sad for those of us who miss them.
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 08:49:30 AM
Bill Cosby says on ABC that he would want Betty White to play him in a movie of his life.

Question for free-for-all day:  If it had to be someone of the opposite gender, who would you choose to play you in the story of your life?  (without cheating and choosing someone who's really of your same gender through some loophole)
Kristin Chenoweth. Doesn't she play all parts, great and small?
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Post by: Druxy on April 15, 2012, 08:49:50 AM
Has anybody here had any experience/dealings with Audible.com or ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange)?
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 08:50:03 AM
Bill Cosby says on ABC that he would want Betty White to play him in a movie of his life.

Question for free-for-all day:  If it had to be someone of the opposite gender, who would you choose to play you in the story of your life?  (without cheating and choosing someone who's really of your same gender through some loophole)
Kristin Chenoweth. Doesn't she play all parts, great and small?

But then again, with my luck, it would end up being Debra Messing.
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Post by: Kerry on April 15, 2012, 08:57:14 AM
I wish I was going to see The Drowsy Chaperone this afternoon.

Me, too.

Yes, me too.  And I'm sure DR Laura would agree (if she hasn't already said so).
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 08:59:11 AM
That's a lovely review that Mr Parcher - did I forget his name already? - posted on Amazon for Album Produced By!

I've done everything but make the bed this morning. That's next and then I tackle the Herbert scores. I'm a bit sour on this project for the nonce and having a hard time raising any enthusiasm. Hopefully, that will change.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 08:59:52 AM
I wish I was going to see The Drowsy Chaperone this afternoon.

Me, too.

Yes, me too.  And I'm sure DR Laura would agree (if she hasn't already said so).

She's too busy eating airplane snacks.
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Post by: Druxy on April 15, 2012, 09:00:09 AM
I wish I was going to see The Drowsy Chaperone this afternoon.

Me, too.

Yes, me too.  And I'm sure DR Laura would agree (if she hasn't already said so).

I saw a terrific production of this at the ZACH in Austin a year or so ago.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 09:02:22 AM
I gotta tell you.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 09:02:37 AM
Long drive coming up.  Sun is out, though and it looks nice out.
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 09:03:04 AM
Thanks for the Titanic connections, Mike.
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 09:05:46 AM
Page three!
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Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on April 15, 2012, 09:12:20 AM
Page three!

As If By Wizardry Page 3
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 09:35:10 AM
In about thirty minutes I'll be on my way to the Candlelight Pavillion Dinner Theatre - I'm interested to see what it's all about.
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 09:50:51 AM
In about thirty minutes I'll be on my way to the Candlelight Pavillion Dinner Theatre - I'm interested to see what it's all about.

Dinner's awfully early in your neck of the woods.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 15, 2012, 09:55:56 AM
In about thirty minutes I'll be on my way to the Candlelight Pavillion Dinner Theatre - I'm interested to see what it's all about.

Around 1981, the cast of BARNUM and I went to "New York's Only Dinner Theatre" for a midnight production of Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, set in the rubble of the hotel that burned down in Las Vegas (the MGM Grand?). it was one of the funniest events of my life: the cast used the text of the Euripides play and camped it up. Harlette Ula Hedwig played Cher playing Hecuba, Laura Kenyon played Lainie Kazan playing Andromache, Holly Woodlawn played Helen of Troy as I recall. and there were some others whom I've forgotten. I don't remember who played Elvis playing Menelaus but I'd swear now that it was Meatloaf.  The Greek chorus of Trojan women was a whorey group of chorus girls stranded from the fire.

It was in a dive in the Easy Village and, to keep up the image of a dinner theatre, when you paid for your ticket, you were given a paper plate and a plastic fork, and you joined a line to receive a huge ladle of Kraft mac'n'cheese, wich you ate during the performance.
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 10:04:24 AM
I did a tour with some comedians right after the MGM Grand burned and one of their biggest laugh lines was they had just come back from a performance in the burning sands--which was right next to the burning MGM Grand.
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 10:05:52 AM
I played a funeral yesterday and they asked me to stay and play the "after party" ;), and some woman came up and handed me a little note about her accomplishments, which supposedly included playing for TCB's own Tacoma Symphony.  When I said I had been up there a few years ago to review a concert of theirs for THE SONDHEIM REVIEW, I mentioned I had interviewed the conductor, whose name I couldn't remember, and suddenly she got quite flabbergasted and said she couldn't remember his name either.  Methinks she may have padded her CV.  ;)
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 10:56:46 AM
From DR Jennifer:
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My other niece is getting a new 2 wheeler with training wheels for her 3rd birthday in a month. She is very excited. Today she did ride on her tricyle. Although it took her like 30 minutes to get around the block. Good thing i didn't have to ride my bike beside her.

LOL, could you have even biked that slowly ;)   Running along side the bike is more exercise.

I've seen children here who have bikes without training wheels.  The bike are low enough to the ground they push with their feet & then lift their feet to coast & then eventually pedal. 
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Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 10:56:56 AM
I've tried my best and I've watched 8 of them but there's no way I can slog my way through the rest of the 39 episodes of Perry Mason. An interesting nostalgia trip but they are so very formulaic and budget restricted.

What season were you watching?  My favorite episodes of course are those featuring Miss Allison Hayes.

Miss Hayes is the only reason to watch a lot of the stuff she was in!

Yes....yes....this is true.

I've been watching series 1 from 1957.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 10:59:54 AM
DR John G I enjoyed your rich descriptions of dinner last night even if I wouldn't eat much of it.  Your white bean salad sounds good if you skipped the shrimp.
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Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 11:00:08 AM
My fridge freezer is making some very odd loud noises. Looks like I'm going to have to call out a service engineer.
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Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 11:02:14 AM
Instead of having my main meal in the evening I had it lunchtime today. Steak and kidney pie, roast potatoes and spring greens.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 11:03:54 AM
DR George congrats on your Blockbuster finds!

How did I skip DAYS OF WINE & ROSES  ::)  The first time I saw this I was in high school.  Not only was this movie great but it was the first time, outside of my home, I was introduced to the life of alcoholism and it was done with such compassion. 
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 11:06:48 AM
DR JMK I'm sorry I missed your post:
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I am experiencing the weirdest phenomenon that I think I have to go see my doctor about if it doesn't abate.  I planted some flowers last week and then within a day or two my wrists (!) and palms got covered in a really bumpy rash.  It doesn't itch, it doesn't hurt, but days of antibiotics and hydrocortisone have done nothing to make it go away.  I'm getting a little freaked out.

Who gave you antibiotics for a rash?

Maybe the doctor to see is a dermatologist, if you can get an appointment.
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Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 11:07:09 AM
I watched A NIGHT TO REMEMBER on BBC TV today. I saw it when it was first released and it's still the best film to portray the disaster. Unfortunately they showed it incorrectly in full frame.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 11:10:24 AM

please don't tell me that everyone has been having wonderful private e-mails and he's just taking a break,

I haven't a clue what he is up to & really don't know from the few posts I've seen on Facebook.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 11:12:49 AM

 In our one phone call, which I now believe was to prooke a fight, in late January, he told me all my faults

There are damn few folks that could afford the tariff to phone me with a discussion of all my faults.

der Brucer
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 11:14:45 AM
DR elmore I'm sorry about your best friend and hope one days your relationship will be good again.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 11:15:03 AM

 In our one phone call, which I now believe was to prooke a fight, in late January, he told me all my faults

There are damn few folks that could afford the tariff to phone me with a discussion of all my faults.

der Brucer

;D
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 11:16:28 AM
my POINT is that whenever I start feeling this way, going to that place, I look at what this site really is about - TCB coming back to us and healing, Vixmom alive and well, people supporting and caring about each other - and I know I will NEVER shut it down because it's very special here. 

Keep those good thoughts.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 11:30:32 AM
No answers yet on the wrists/palms problem.  If it hasn't started to go away by tomorry, I'm off to the doctor.

Maybe my re-posting this from the other day will give you a clue:

"All parts of daphne are toxic if ingested and contact with the sap may cause skin irritation."

der Brucer

SWoody, commneting over my shoulder:

"Did Jeff gat a rash from diddling Daphne?"
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 12:04:35 PM
Yesterday, driving in Marylands's lower Eastern Shore, we spotted the following car sticker:

(http://www.keepportlandweird.com/images/products/small%20KGW.jpg)

der Brucer
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 12:08:52 PM
We were gone all day yesterday on a trip to Annapolis (about which, more later). Mr SmartassPhone decided not to link up with the network, so I couldn't even read the posts.

Some ketchup thughts:

Jane posted :

Quote
I also had a garbage can incident yesterday.

Might I obseerve that Keith gave her fair warning!

der Brucer
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 12:09:09 PM
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE as dinner theater..........
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE as lunch theater..........

How about SWEENEY TODD as dinner theater?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 12:13:57 PM
I posted this at the end of last night's posts - for those who don't read those, I repost it here because I feel like it:

I must say that there are times when I think of people like Jose and a few others who just up and leave without a word (of course they don't up and leave Facebook, where it's more about them, I suppose) that I just want to shut this jernt down because I find it so irritating.  I know Jose has done this before and then finally makes a reappearance months later, but I just will never understand it - no one did anything to him (and I'm not just talking about him specifically but he happened to be on my mind today because I'd sent him two e-mails (not about his absence) both of which went unanswered, which I find truly disgusting), and please don't tell me that everyone has been having wonderful private e-mails and he's just taking a break, because I don't want to hear it about him or anyone else, frankly - I'm at the point where if he never comes back then that's just peachy with me - I think everyone on this site has been far too good to him, and that includes me - but enough about that - my POINT is that whenever I start feeling this way, going to that place, I look at what this site really is about - TCB coming back to us and healing, Vixmom alive and well, people supporting and caring about each other - and I know I will NEVER shut it down because it's very special here.  At least the folks here have BEEN here for TCB - those who haven't probably don't even know what's gone on.  I guess it can be fun to be in a bubble or have it be all about you, but for me?  Feh.  End of rant.

Thank you, BK.  I doubt I would be feeling as well as I do, if I didn't have my friends and family at Facebook Haines His Way.

I hope you never close down this site, because then we would all have to actually move in to your living room!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 12:21:59 PM
TCB - You're now only 8 away from that great millstone!!!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 12:27:39 PM
A beautiful Sunday -weather wise - around these here parts.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 12:36:36 PM
KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD has been the unofficial slogan here for at least 10 or 15 years, maybe longer.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 12:42:06 PM
Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 12:45:25 PM
elmore, thanks for your post.  What I didn't want today is how people have had private e-mails and he'll be back whenever he feels like it and all that jazz.  It's just baffling and weird and weird and baffling and that's all I'm going to say about it.  As Babs and Donna so aptly put it, enough is enough.  And the unanswered e-mails is just as rude as the absence, perhaps ruder. 

People's mindsets change, too. Perhaps HHW was there when he needed something missing in his life to be filled. He doesn't need this site at the present time, so I hope that whatever need was covered here is sated elsewhere. It's all a pendulum and life's variables swing one way for a while and then swing back. It isn't so great news for those of us wanting instant gratification, but it's the nature of things.

 
The world is a circle without a beginning,
And nobody knows where it really ends.
Everything depends on where you
Are in the cirle that never begins.
Nobody knows where the circle ends.


Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 12:49:51 PM
Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out
I always appreciate decent lung.  ;D
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 12:50:01 PM
Page four!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 12:53:47 PM
In about thirty minutes I'll be on my way to the Candlelight Pavillion Dinner Theatre - I'm interested to see what it's all about.

Around 1981, the cast of BARNUM and I went to "New York's Only Dinner Theatre" for a midnight production of Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, set in the rubble of the hotel that burned down in Las Vegas (the MGM Grand?). it was one of the funniest events of my life: the cast used the text of the Euripides play and camped it up. Harlette Ula Hedwig played Cher playing Hecuba, Laura Kenyon played Lainie Kazan playing Andromache, Holly Woodlawn played Helen of Troy as I recall. and there were some others whom I've forgotten. I don't remember who played Elvis playing Menelaus but I'd swear now that it was Meatloaf.  The Greek chorus of Trojan women was a whorey group of chorus girls stranded from the fire.

It was in a dive in the Easy Village and, to keep up the image of a dinner theatre, when you paid for your ticket, you were given a paper plate and a plastic fork, and you joined a line to receive a huge ladle of Kraft mac'n'cheese, wich you ate during the performance.

I will always be grateful for the two dinner theaters that were near us when I was growing up. I was able to see some shows that you never see done anymore, including "Can-Can" with the original script, and "Finian's Rainbow." I saw a production of "The Fantastiks," as I think I'm mentioned here before, with George Lee Andrews as El Gallo and a production of "South Pacific" with a three-man Navy and no kids. I saw some mediocre performances, sure, but I also saw a lot of creativity with limited budgets. And usually even less good food at the buffets. 
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 12:55:19 PM
Bill Cosby says on ABC that he would want Betty White to play him in a movie of his life.

Question for free-for-all day:  If it had to be someone of the opposite gender, who would you choose to play you in the story of your life?  (without cheating and choosing someone who's really of your same gender through some loophole)

I would have to say Barbara Stanwyck; but only if she wore that satin and fur coat from TITANIC.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 12:55:33 PM
Another ketchup:

Concerning TCB, Jeanne posted:

Quote
I hope that you'll get some home health aides, too. It's a shame patients have to fight so hard to get the care they need.

Well, in my case I had to fight hard NOT to get the home care they insisted I needed (which was all insurance covered). The situation got so acrimonious that I had to call the hospital and not so politely inform them that if a Visiting Nurse showed up at my door, I would not only not answer but that persistence would result in a police complaint!!!!

I argued: either I was well enough to go home, in which case leave me the hell alone, or I was not, in which case transfer me to a care facility!

I mean really - just what I needed for recuperation - set the alarm to get up early to clean house in anticipation of a Visiting Nurse, then when the nurse arrived, risk pulling loose all the staples holding my chest together trying to corral five dogs!

If I needed dressing changed, or the healing checked, I had no problem getting a lift to an out-patient facility, or the hospital itself.

Logic was of little help - they really, really wanted to do a home inspection, and I really, really had no intention of allowing them to. To aid my cause I did mention my 2nd amendment rights.

There is no tonic like fighting with bureaucrats!

der Brucer


Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 12:55:46 PM
Jane, I saw something for you at the store the other day: Canned "skinless" vegetarian haggis. It was next to the regular canned haggis. I almost bought a can just to see how horrible it was, but at $7, it was a little too much.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 01:10:38 PM
Canned "skinless" vegetarian haggis. It was next to the regular canned haggis. I almost bought a can just to see how horrible it was, but at $7, it was a little too much.

7¢ would be too much! We all know Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot.

der Brucer

Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 01:17:44 PM
More ketch-up:

Geoge was gloating keeping us advised as to this Blockbuster DVD spree.

Well, I can do him one better by sharing our Blockbuster Sale list:

Regular DVD

Closer, The - the Complete First Season
Bunraku
Crazy Heart
Deliverance
Education, An
Hereafter
Iron Man 2
Italian Job, The (1969)
Last King of Scotland, The
Tree of Life, The

Bleu & Raye

Across the Universe
A-Team, The
August Rush
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Bolt
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
District 9
Harry Brown
Informant, The
Internationale, The
Italian Job, The (2003)
Kids Are All Right, The
Knight and Day
Letters from Iwo Jima
Red
Revolutionary Road
Single Man, A
State of Play
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

For fear that we would run oput of viewing amterial, we also went to OOPS (remnder store in the Outlets) and scored the following at $5 each:

Body of Lies
Bodyguard, The
Far From Heaven
Firestarter
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Gettysburg
Notes on a Scandal
Papillon
Pelican Brief, The
Shockwave - The Complete Season One
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
Chariots of Fire
Dog Day Afternoon
Executive Decision
Unlawful Entry
Invention of Lying, The
Jackal, The
Mommy Dearest
Petulia
Ripley's Game
Training Day
Fallen

I keep hoping my time on this mortal coil will not conclude with un-viewed DVDs on the shelf.

der Brucer
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DERBRUCER on April 15, 2012, 01:19:31 PM
TOD

Maggie Smith

der Brucer
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Druxy on April 15, 2012, 01:29:10 PM
Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out
I always appreciate decent lung.  ;D

Me, too.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 01:31:37 PM
I played a funeral yesterday and they asked me to stay and play the "after party" ;), and some woman came up and handed me a little note about her accomplishments, which supposedly included playing for TCB's own Tacoma Symphony.  When I said I had been up there a few years ago to review a concert of theirs for THE SONDHEIM REVIEW, I mentioned I had interviewed the conductor, whose name I couldn't remember, and suddenly she got quite flabbergasted and said she couldn't remember his name either.  Methinks she may have padded her CV.  ;)


Were her CVs really large?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Druxy on April 15, 2012, 01:34:22 PM
The earlier remark about "SWEENEY TODD as dinner theatre," reminded me of a production of THE EVIL DEAD, the Musical, that I saw here in Austin a couple of years ago.

At the box-office, they charged you an extra $5.00 if you wanted to sit in the "Splatter Zone".  They even furnished you with a poncho, so that you wouldn't get the fake blood on your clothes.

Actually, if was a very entertaining show, but:

Can you imagine doing that play in a dinner theatre?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Matthew on April 15, 2012, 01:35:07 PM
Funny how bk is talking about people who just stop showing up or communicating.  I'm going through a bit of that on the "professional" front these days, and not only is it annoying, but it also plays with ones feelings and insecurities.  It's tough to get past, especially when you know you don't really need these people/things in your life to be successful.   
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 01:41:23 PM
My fridge freezer is making some very odd loud noises. Looks like I'm going to have to call out a service engineer.

Will he be arriving on his service locomotive?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 01:45:18 PM
TCB - You're now only 8 away from that great millstone!!!


Two!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 01:47:27 PM
Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out


They served lung for lunch?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 01:48:50 PM
Hmmmmmmmm.....I used to have a lobby card that showed that satin coat was pink/red DR TCB....obviously just using a color that they were able to print.....but I always imagine it that color when I see the movie.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 01:48:58 PM
Hello, everyone.

Nice to see TCB here and in good form. (And good spirits.)
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 01:49:08 PM
I wonder where I put that lobby card?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 01:50:01 PM
Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out
I always appreciate decent lung.  ;D

Me, too.

My first thought was, "WHAT?? People eat LUNG now?! I've heard of organ meats, but never lung!"
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 01:50:28 PM
Ah - DR DOUG R - Allison didn't appear until the third season....
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 01:50:41 PM
Lots of chuckles today while reading the posts.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 01:54:27 PM
Sigh. LA has now lost yet another good eatery. GR/Eats (strange name, I know) has closed. It was a TINY, little hole-in-the-wall on Sawtelle Blvd, aka Little Japan, that served Asian fusion, or, as I like to call it, global cuisine with a Japanese accent. Gone. A noodle shop has replaced it, but we have LOTS of noodle shops. sigh. 
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 01:57:12 PM
Sorry to hear about you getting TOO MUCH care, derB. Maybe you could send those folks to Tacoma. I'd like to see TCB have help with the cleaning, laundry, shopping, etc. Doesn't DR Laura have some laundry elves?
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 02:01:47 PM
That's some list DR derBRUCER
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 02:02:45 PM
Someone to play me? Hum...
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jeanne on April 15, 2012, 02:03:54 PM
I'd like to see Maggie Smith play der Brucer.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Doug R on April 15, 2012, 02:07:08 PM
Ah - DR DOUG R - Allison didn't appear until the third season....

Right. I might pick up the 50th Anniversary Edition which looks interesting with episodes featuring major stars.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 02:09:09 PM
Sunday afternoon greetings from HOME!  I dropped Anita off about an hour ago and have talked on the phone with my mother.  I am very glad to be home.

Thank you, DR Elmore, for your comment about the awards we accepted last night on behalf of our AAUW friends.  Here we are at the end of the awards banquet:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/529849_10150797958380049_537325048_11881039_668085926_n.jpg)

Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 02:19:30 PM
Sunday afternoon greetings from HOME!  I dropped Anita off about an hour ago and have talked on the phone with my mother.  I am very glad to be home.

Thank you, DR Elmore, for your comment about the awards we accepted last night on behalf of our AAUW friends.  Here we are at the end of the awards banquet:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/529849_10150797958380049_537325048_11881039_668085926_n.jpg)



Great photo, Ginny!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 02:21:13 PM
Page Five!

30,000 post!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 02:23:49 PM
Congratulations on your milestone, DR TCB!

And thanks for the compliment on the photo - it's the first one I've ever taken of myself with my phone.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jrand73 on April 15, 2012, 02:27:47 PM
Lovely photo DR GINNY.

DR DOUG R - the extras on the 50th anniversary set include some nice interviews and Raymond Burr's screen test for the role of Paul Drake....most interesting.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 02:31:09 PM
Great photo, Ginny!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 02:38:53 PM
Maybe everybody knew this happens, but I find it interesting -

A priority mail  envelope going from here in midtown Manhattan to a little bit further downtown within Manhattan went to Long Island before coming back to Manhattan, according to US Post Office tracking info.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 02:45:36 PM
No answers yet on the wrists/palms problem.  If it hasn't started to go away by tomorry, I'm off to the doctor.

Maybe my re-posting this from the other day will give you a clue:

"All parts of daphne are toxic if ingested and contact with the sap may cause skin irritation."

der Brucer

SWoody, commneting over my shoulder:

"Did Jeff gat a rash from diddling Daphne?"

;D
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 02:46:53 PM
We were gone all day yesterday on a trip to Annapolis (about which, more later). Mr SmartassPhone decided not to link up with the network, so I couldn't even read the posts.

Some ketchup thughts:

Jane posted :

Quote
I also had a garbage can incident yesterday.

Might I obseerve that Keith gave her fair warning!

der Brucer

LOL.  I totally forgot about that when I mentioned the latest incident.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 02:53:02 PM
Another ketchup:

Concerning TCB, Jeanne posted:

Quote
I hope that you'll get some home health aides, too. It's a shame patients have to fight so hard to get the care they need.

Well, in my case I had to fight hard NOT to get the home care they insisted I needed (which was all insurance covered). The situation got so acrimonious that I had to call the hospital and not so politely inform them that if a Visiting Nurse showed up at my door, I would not only not answer but that persistence would result in a police complaint!!!!

I argued: either I was well enough to go home, in which case leave me the hell alone, or I was not, in which case transfer me to a care facility!

I mean really - just what I needed for recuperation - set the alarm to get up early to clean house in anticipation of a Visiting Nurse, then when the nurse arrived, risk pulling loose all the staples holding my chest together trying to corral five dogs!

If I needed dressing changed, or the healing checked, I had no problem getting a lift to an out-patient facility, or the hospital itself.

Logic was of little help - they really, really wanted to do a home inspection, and I really, really had no intention of allowing them to. To aid my cause I did mention my 2nd amendment rights.

There is no tonic like fighting with bureaucrats!

der Brucer




I wonder how often they run into a problem like you DR derBrucer.    I am sure visiting nurses don't expect clean houses while patients are recuperating.  The dog situation I agree could have done more harm, and since you had a ride to go get checked out.....
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 02:53:40 PM
Jane, I saw something for you at the store the other day: Canned "skinless" vegetarian haggis. It was next to the regular canned haggis. I almost bought a can just to see how horrible it was, but at $7, it was a little too much.

NO! NO! NO!!!!!

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 02:55:42 PM
Sunday afternoon greetings from HOME!  I dropped Anita off about an hour ago and have talked on the phone with my mother.  I am very glad to be home.

Thank you, DR Elmore, for your comment about the awards we accepted last night on behalf of our AAUW friends.  Here we are at the end of the awards banquet:


Great photo, Ginny!

DITTO!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DR Iris on April 15, 2012, 02:59:59 PM
Happy Sunday!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 03:00:18 PM
Thank you, DRs JRand, FJL, and Jane!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DR Iris on April 15, 2012, 03:01:04 PM
Just stopped by to say hello and check on TCB--how wonderful to see you here, and in fine form as always!
Wishing you a very speedy recovery....you have been missed.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DR Iris on April 15, 2012, 03:01:22 PM
Lovely photo, Ginny.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 03:02:36 PM
The earlier remark about "SWEENEY TODD as dinner theatre," reminded me of a production of THE EVIL DEAD, the Musical, that I saw here in Austin a couple of years ago.

At the box-office, they charged you an extra $5.00 if you wanted to sit in the "Splatter Zone".  They even furnished you with a poncho, so that you wouldn't get the fake blood on your clothes.

Actually, if was a very entertaining show, but:

Can you imagine doing that play in a dinner theatre?


Sweeney Todd was done at the dinner theater in Richmond, Va., and meat pies were served with dinner.

I don't remember the name of place, but someone no longer visiting us would.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DR Iris on April 15, 2012, 03:02:43 PM
I just finished reading a review of Frank Langella's new book in the NY Times online.

There is a hilarious parody in the reader's comments section that I strongly suspect is the work of DR FJL.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 03:04:37 PM
Lung was decent. A chicken breast atop pasta. The actor and artistic director who invited me hung out at the table for a bit. The place itself is very nice and it's almost sold out
I always appreciate decent lung.  ;D

Me, too.

My first thought was, "WHAT?? People eat LUNG now?! I've heard of organ meats, but never lung!"
Lung is used in haggis, which is what reminded of the canned version. There is something so wrong, so horribly wrong about all that.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 03:05:33 PM
Great photo, Ginny.

And congrats, TCB on your milestone post. here's to many, many more.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:07:03 PM
Thanks for the Titanic connections, Mike.

I recommend booking first class
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DR Iris on April 15, 2012, 03:08:10 PM
So, FJL, if that is indeed your parody based on the song "Hope For The Best, Expect The Worst" from The 12 Chairs, I must tell you that you are brilliant, and I thank you for the laughter.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: DR Iris on April 15, 2012, 03:11:24 PM
Off to do errands on this lovely sunny day in California.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, everyone!
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:12:38 PM
DR TCB, so nice to see you posting just like you always have.   
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:12:48 PM
Congrats on our milestone
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:15:38 PM
It was very windy and sunny here most of the day.   Now it is very windy and cloudy.  I'm hoping for more rain.  it may just bring my yard back from the dead
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 03:16:38 PM
I didn't know Robin Gibb of the BeeGees had written a requiem in memory of the Titanic. Apparently, he wrote it with his son.
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:17:21 PM
I'm thinking about buying a riding mower.  With what I pay to have my yard done (and killed apparently) it would pay for itself in 2 years.  I got overheated using the push mower, but I think with a riding mower, I could do it quickly and it wouldn't bother me.....just thinking
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:18:10 PM
BK, if you added games to this here site, I'd spend more time here than facebook :)
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:19:54 PM
Time to go frost my cake
Title: Re: LUNCH THEATER
Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:21:01 PM
Ginny, great photos!!!!
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Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 03:22:12 PM
I just finished reading a review of Frank Langella's new book in the NY Times online.

There is a hilarious parody in the reader's comments section that I strongly suspect is the work of DR FJL.


Iris - Thanks so much!    I really appreciate it!
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 03:23:17 PM
60 Minutes tonight is a special tribute to Mike Wallace....for those who may be interested
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 03:32:32 PM
Thanks, DRs Iris, John G, and Cillaliz!
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 03:33:21 PM
60 Minutes tonight is a special tribute to Mike Wallace....for those who may be interested

Oh, thanks for the reminder!  I would have forgotten and I really want to see the tribute to my fellow Michigan alum!
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Post by: KevinH on April 15, 2012, 03:33:38 PM
Nice to see you here, TCB!  Congrats on 30,000 posts!
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Post by: KevinH on April 15, 2012, 03:35:59 PM
60 Minutes tonight is a special tribute to Mike Wallace....for those who may be interested






I'm not sure if I'll watch.  He was mean to Barbra.
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 03:37:51 PM
DR TCB, so nice to see you posting just like you always have.   

Thanks everyone, I am going to try and post on a more regular basis.  I am tired and I am sore, but I am feeling beter all the time.  Let me assure you that if I had stayed at that Care Center, I would not have gotten better with time.

The worst part about the place was the noise.  At any time, day or night, there were three men who never stopped screaming, swearing, begging, jabbering, pleading, etc.  One of the three was, I believe, a stroke victim.  He had created his own language which he shouted 24-hours a day.  There was always, at least, three or four Nurses Call Buttons ringing and never answered.  One bell, my first night, rang for twelve straight hours.  If I had been able to sleep, it might have been bearable, but since I was sleepin on a slab of concrete, that didn't happen.  Once I told them on Thursday morning that I was leaving, they brought out the strong-arm troops.

There was a whole bunch of crap, but basically I wanted out.  I have my first surgery follow-up appointment on the 26th, the office has assured me that I will be given all the tools I need at that time for my rehab.
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 03:38:15 PM
Here's another photo from the conference.  We always have a silent auction to raise money for AAUW philanthropies.  I created Middletown's contribution from a totebag that says "Got Books?"  Filled it with some items from our recent booksale and other members contributed things like a book light and a Barnes & Noble gift card.  The entire silent auction made $1,401 and our item went for $55:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/522032_10150797542345049_537325048_11878972_2002246099_n.jpg)
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 03:39:43 PM
60 Minutes tonight is a special tribute to Mike Wallace....for those who may be interested






I'm not sure if I'll watch.  He was mean to Barbra.


I kind of thought that they sounded like The Bickersons.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 03:44:30 PM
I didn't know Robin Gibb of the BeeGees had written a requiem in memory of the Titanic. Apparently, he wrote it with his son.

I've read Robin is in a coma and not expected to live much longer. :(
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 03:45:13 PM
BK, if you added games to this here site, I'd spend more time here than facebook :)

Ha! Ha!  Please, no game allowed at HHW ;)
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 03:47:06 PM
Here's the complete list of the contents of the Got Books? totebag:

$20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Assorted bookmarks, note cards, and postcards
Book Lust Journal blank book
Bookmarker Pens set
Light It! - Multiflex LED Reading Light
Wristbands

Items from our successful 56th Annual Used Book Sale

The Book Nobody Read:  Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich
The Ladies’ Lending Library, by Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
CD:  Reflections - Classical Music for Meditation
DVD:  Becoming Jane - “A Magnificent Journey to the World of Jane Austen”

All in a collectible tote bag from Dayton Metro Library
(formerly Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library)
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Post by: Matthew on April 15, 2012, 03:52:01 PM
I didn't know Robin Gibb of the BeeGees had written a requiem in memory of the Titanic. Apparently, he wrote it with his son.

I've read Robin is in a coma and not expected to live much longer. :(

I believe he has already passed away?  Or was the Maurice?  This was a few years ago, anyway....
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Post by: Matthew on April 15, 2012, 03:53:34 PM
I didn't know Robin Gibb of the BeeGees had written a requiem in memory of the Titanic. Apparently, he wrote it with his son.

I've read Robin is in a coma and not expected to live much longer. :(

I believe he has already passed away?  Or was the Maurice?  This was a few years ago, anyway....

Nevermind... you're right!
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 04:01:41 PM
I didn't know Robin Gibb of the BeeGees had written a requiem in memory of the Titanic. Apparently, he wrote it with his son.

I've read Robin is in a coma and not expected to live much longer. :(

I believe he has already passed away?  Or was the Maurice?  This was a few years ago, anyway....

That was his twin brother Maurice.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 04:02:52 PM
Here's the complete list of the contents of the Got Books? totebag:

$20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Assorted bookmarks, note cards, and postcards
Book Lust Journal blank book
Bookmarker Pens set
Light It! - Multiflex LED Reading Light
Wristbands

Items from our successful 56th Annual Used Book Sale

The Book Nobody Read:  Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich
The Ladies’ Lending Library, by Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
CD:  Reflections - Classical Music for Meditation
DVD:  Becoming Jane - “A Magnificent Journey to the World of Jane Austen”

All in a collectible tote bag from Dayton Metro Library
(formerly Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library)

Nice.

I thought you already read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.  I think you will like it.
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Post by: Laura on April 15, 2012, 04:22:16 PM
Congratulations on your millstone, TCB. And I am glad you are back home. The rehab place sounds awful.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 04:27:52 PM
Cilla, funnily I was thinking about bringing our little trivia contest back every now and then.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 04:28:11 PM
Sadly rehab places & convalescent hospitals are awful places, not that regular hospitals are fun.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 04:31:40 PM
I'm cooking rice to compliment the yummy stew Craig made last night.  Diced tofu, kidney beans, peppers, onions & mushrooms with a slight kick to the seasoning.  I don't know what else is in it.  He made it in the dutch oven I bought him a couple of weeks ago.  I would get one for me except it is too heavy for me to wash.
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Post by: FJL on April 15, 2012, 04:33:05 PM
Millstone kudos to TCB
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 04:33:17 PM
I'm back from The Drowsy Chaperone.  It was fun and very well done, BUT: In what universe does a director and choreographer take full and complete credit when the direction and choreography is a total carbon copy of the Broadway staging - every move, every hand gesture, and every performance.  Clones of Sutton (every vocal mannerism and move), Bob Martin, well the whole kit and caboodle.  The artistic director played Adolpho and was very funny and very much in the Danny Burstein mode, but at least he kind of made it his own.  The Chaperone was so like Beth Leavel you'd have thought it was a third generation copy you were watching.  The show is entertaining, but there's something about it that stops me from loving it every time.  The music was on tracks and sounded fine, and I was more than amused that whichever company created the tracks and licenses them used MY recording of the overture (where we made it sound like an old 78) - I did that session when the show was trying out here, and they ware only supposed to use it here, where I was fully credited.  But it ended up being cheaper to do a buyout than record it anew in NY, so it was used for the entire Broadway run and now apparently for every other production - I was not credited in the Broadway program or anywhere else - a thank you would have been nice.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 04:34:00 PM
The food was pretty good, too.  It's a nice space, they had a set resembling the B'way version and now I have had my first dinner theatre experience, albeit at lunch.
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 04:35:17 PM
I got a message on Facebook from one of the movie Nudie Musical dancers, someone I'd been trying to find for ages and ages, especially when we were doing the documentary for the DVD.  She's in the finale and she's in Honey, What'cha Doin' Tonight?  She's the first hooker dialogue in that number.
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 04:41:43 PM
Sadly rehab places & convalescent hospitals are awful places, not that regular hospitals are fun.

I am glad you didn't try using that word at my "care" center.  When I used it, the nurse checking me in got hysterical, because she thought I was making up the word.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 04:44:44 PM
 ???
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 05:09:07 PM
Here's the complete list of the contents of the Got Books? totebag:

$20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Assorted bookmarks, note cards, and postcards
Book Lust Journal blank book
Bookmarker Pens set
Light It! - Multiflex LED Reading Light
Wristbands

Items from our successful 56th Annual Used Book Sale

The Book Nobody Read:  Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich
The Ladies’ Lending Library, by Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
CD:  Reflections - Classical Music for Meditation
DVD:  Becoming Jane - “A Magnificent Journey to the World of Jane Austen”

All in a collectible tote bag from Dayton Metro Library
(formerly Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library)

Nice.

I thought you already read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.  I think you will like it.

DR Jane, I didn't buy the Got Books? bag.  I created it as our branch's donation to the silent auction.  It was purchased by someone from Toledo.  What I did buy, for $40, was a basket from the Worthington branch that had some books and some other items that I can use for gifts.

And, yes, I have read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK and loved it!
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 05:12:21 PM
Here's the complete list of the contents of the Got Books? totebag:

$20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Assorted bookmarks, note cards, and postcards
Book Lust Journal blank book
Bookmarker Pens set
Light It! - Multiflex LED Reading Light
Wristbands

Items from our successful 56th Annual Used Book Sale

The Book Nobody Read:  Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich
The Ladies’ Lending Library, by Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
CD:  Reflections - Classical Music for Meditation
DVD:  Becoming Jane - “A Magnificent Journey to the World of Jane Austen”

All in a collectible tote bag from Dayton Metro Library
(formerly Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library)

Nice.

I thought you already read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.  I think you will like it.

DR Jane, I didn't buy the Got Books? bag.  I created it as our branch's donation to the silent auction.  It was purchased by someone from Toledo.  What I did buy, for $40, was a basket from the Worthington branch that had some books and some other items that I can use for gifts.

And, yes, I have read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK and loved it!

At least part of my mind works ;)  I thought you walked away with all this.
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 05:25:58 PM
Here's the complete list of the contents of the Got Books? totebag:

$20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Assorted bookmarks, note cards, and postcards
Book Lust Journal blank book
Bookmarker Pens set
Light It! - Multiflex LED Reading Light
Wristbands

Items from our successful 56th Annual Used Book Sale

The Book Nobody Read:  Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich
The Ladies’ Lending Library, by Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
CD:  Reflections - Classical Music for Meditation
DVD:  Becoming Jane - “A Magnificent Journey to the World of Jane Austen”

All in a collectible tote bag from Dayton Metro Library
(formerly Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library)

Nice.

I thought you already read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.  I think you will like it.

DR Jane, I didn't buy the Got Books? bag.  I created it as our branch's donation to the silent auction.  It was purchased by someone from Toledo.  What I did buy, for $40, was a basket from the Worthington branch that had some books and some other items that I can use for gifts.

And, yes, I have read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK and loved it!

At least part of my mind works ;)  I thought you walked away with all this.

No, but I think the person who got all this for $55 got a great deal!
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 05:33:41 PM
Here's the complete list of the contents of the Got Books? totebag:

$20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
Assorted bookmarks, note cards, and postcards
Book Lust Journal blank book
Bookmarker Pens set
Light It! - Multiflex LED Reading Light
Wristbands

Items from our successful 56th Annual Used Book Sale

The Book Nobody Read:  Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, by Owen Gingerich
The Ladies’ Lending Library, by Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
CD:  Reflections - Classical Music for Meditation
DVD:  Becoming Jane - “A Magnificent Journey to the World of Jane Austen”

All in a collectible tote bag from Dayton Metro Library
(formerly Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library)

Nice.

I thought you already read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.  I think you will like it.

DR Jane, I didn't buy the Got Books? bag.  I created it as our branch's donation to the silent auction.  It was purchased by someone from Toledo.  What I did buy, for $40, was a basket from the Worthington branch that had some books and some other items that I can use for gifts.

And, yes, I have read PEOPLE OF THE BOOK and loved it!

At least part of my mind works ;)  I thought you walked away with all this.

No, but I think the person who got all this for $55 got a great deal!

:) 
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 05:55:19 PM
My dinner was definitely not a stew.  Craig called it chili.  I don't think so.  It is very Mexican tasting whatever it is, and delicious.
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 06:12:05 PM
7                                 7


Page Seven!
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 06:13:51 PM
???


She had never heard of the word "convalescent"
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 06:17:57 PM
I just had a very nice visit with former DD (and now, DD-i-l) Ann.  She brought me a wonderful dinner and even cookies for dessert.
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 06:22:01 PM
I just had a very nice visit with former DD (and now, DD-i-l) Ann.  She brought me a wonderful dinner and even cookies for dessert.

Aww, that was nice!  Wish I could do the same...
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Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on April 15, 2012, 06:30:03 PM
Page Five!

30,000 post!

CONGRATULATIONS

And It Certainly Is Nice To See You Back Where You Belong
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 06:37:38 PM
Page Five!

30,000 post!

CONGRATULATIONS

And It Certainly Is Nice To See You Back Where You Belong

Thanks, Arnold.
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 07:04:12 PM
???


She had never heard of the word "convalescent"

Really?  :o  What did she call the place then?
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Post by: Jane on April 15, 2012, 07:04:27 PM
I just had a very nice visit with former DD (and now, DD-i-l) Ann.  She brought me a wonderful dinner and even cookies for dessert.

:D
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Post by: TCB on April 15, 2012, 07:11:29 PM
???


She had never heard of the word "convalescent"

Really?  :o  What did she call the place then?

The Care Center
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Post by: bk on April 15, 2012, 07:21:11 PM
Speaking of Ann - get her back here - I really like it when she's around - good and positive energy.
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 07:39:13 PM
hello all - I tried checking inhere earlier but there were Things To Be Done  and so I had to stop ketching up and start Doing Things
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 07:40:29 PM
My Mom seems to be doing better - her face certainly  looks better  - when I first saw her it looked as if she had been attacked  witha baseball bat  -
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 07:41:38 PM
Prayers were said for TCB  and Dan the Man's Mom by a bunch of Long Island Lutherans this morning
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 07:42:25 PM
Continued healing vibes for TCB and DTM's DM
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 07:43:10 PM
JMK  - were you planting Daphne?
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 07:54:44 PM
JMK  - were you planting Daphne?

I actually was repairing a Daphne plant we had that split in the snow.  Will Daphne do that to you?  You are a MARVEL, Debby.  :0
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Post by: Ginny on April 15, 2012, 08:19:26 PM
Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed after 2 nights at the Findlay Inn - 'night!
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 08:46:37 PM
JMK  - were you planting Daphne?

I actually was repairing a Daphne plant we had that split in the snow.  Will Daphne do that to you?  You are a MARVEL, Debby.  :0

I think it can but  I didn't realize it was snowing there - ( I have not caught up Yet)but I think the sap can cause skin rashes  I do not know if the sap would be running  much if it was snowing and cold though... I know that the berries can cause throat rashes and even death to children if they eat them 
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 08:49:20 PM
Page Five!

30,000 post!

Congrats, TCB!! ;D
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 08:51:14 PM
Cilla, funnily I was thinking about bringing our little trivia contest back every now and then.

that would be fun!
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Post by: John G. on April 15, 2012, 08:51:37 PM
My Mom seems to be doing better - her face certainly  looks better  - when I first saw her it looked as if she had been attacked  witha baseball bat  -
Yay!
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 08:53:55 PM
Congratulations to TCB on 30,000!
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 08:54:43 PM
yeah for the the mom of vixmom...vibes her recover continues
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 08:58:44 PM
I watched A NIGHT TO REMEMBER last nigt.  Man, I forgot how powerful that movie is. I ended up ordering a copy of it. 
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Post by: Cillaliz on April 15, 2012, 08:59:26 PM
Ok, I have a REALLY busy day tomorrow, so I think I'll get some sleep
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 09:06:27 PM
I am having some oral surgery tomorrow so I probably won't be around
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Post by: vixmom on April 15, 2012, 09:07:43 PM
Vibes to all what needs 'em
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 09:14:58 PM
Great photo, Ginny!

Ditto!
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Post by: JMK on April 15, 2012, 09:17:04 PM
JMK  - were you planting Daphne?

I actually was repairing a Daphne plant we had that split in the snow.  Will Daphne do that to you?  You are a MARVEL, Debby.  :0

I think it can but  I didn't realize it was snowing there - ( I have not caught up Yet)but I think the sap can cause skin rashes  I do not know if the sap would be running  much if it was snowing and cold though... I know that the berries can cause throat rashes and even death to children if they eat them 

It HAD snowed a couple of weeks ago and our Daphne had split.  I actually posted about it here at the time, asking if anyone knew if I could graft or plant clippings?  (Do you know about the latter?).  It's relatively sunny now (as sunny as it ever gets here LOL), and I did in fact handle the Daphne quite a bit, so I bet that's where these rashes came from.
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Post by: Ann on April 15, 2012, 09:22:26 PM
Hello dear HHW folks.  Just wanted to pop in and report that I paid a visit to TCB today.  It was so wonderful to see him, and I was delighted to see him looking very well in spite of all he has had to endure.  I hope that someday I will get to see him up on stage with DH Jed.

All is good and busy with us.  I am finishing up the masters degree, which is keeping me busy.  Jed is just beginning rehearsals for Funny thing...Forum, which he is very much looking forward to.  (George, I believe you know a few of his fellow castmates, or at least one of them.  He seems to do a lot in Olympia.) 
DS Toby is now three and a half, and a whirling dervish of a little boy. 

I hope life is treating all of you well.  I miss keeping up with you fine folk, and I hope I am able to come around more often once the burden of schoolwork has lifted. 
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 10:14:31 PM
DR TCB, so nice to see you posting just like you always have.   

Thanks everyone, I am going to try and post on a more regular basis.  I am tired and I am sore, but I am feeling beter all the time.  Let me assure you that if I had stayed at that Care Center, I would not have gotten better with time.

The worst part about the place was the noise.  At any time, day or night, there were three men who never stopped screaming, swearing, begging, jabbering, pleading, etc.  One of the three was, I believe, a stroke victim.  He had created his own language which he shouted 24-hours a day.  There was always, at least, three or four Nurses Call Buttons ringing and never answered.  One bell, my first night, rang for twelve straight hours.  If I had been able to sleep, it might have been bearable, but since I was sleepin on a slab of concrete, that didn't happen.  Once I told them on Thursday morning that I was leaving, they brought out the strong-arm troops.

There was a whole bunch of crap, but basically I wanted out.  I have my first surgery follow-up appointment on the 26th, the office has assured me that I will be given all the tools I need at that time for my rehab.

~~~CONTINUED RECOVERY VIBES FOR DR TCB!!~~~
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 10:15:14 PM
More ketch-up:

Geoge was gloating keeping us advised as to this Blockbuster DVD spree.

Well, I can do him one better by sharing our Blockbuster Sale list:

Regular DVD

Closer, The - the Complete First Season
Bunraku
Crazy Heart
Deliverance
Education, An
Hereafter
Iron Man 2
Italian Job, The (1969)
Last King of Scotland, The
Tree of Life, The

Bleu & Raye

Across the Universe
A-Team, The
August Rush
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Bolt
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
District 9
Harry Brown
Informant, The
Internationale, The
Italian Job, The (2003)
Kids Are All Right, The
Knight and Day
Letters from Iwo Jima
Red
Revolutionary Road
Single Man, A
State of Play
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

For fear that we would run oput of viewing amterial, we also went to OOPS (remnder store in the Outlets) and scored the following at $5 each:

Body of Lies
Bodyguard, The
Far From Heaven
Firestarter
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Gettysburg
Notes on a Scandal
Papillon
Pelican Brief, The
Shockwave - The Complete Season One
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
Chariots of Fire
Dog Day Afternoon
Executive Decision
Unlawful Entry
Invention of Lying, The
Jackal, The
Mommy Dearest
Petulia
Ripley's Game
Training Day
Fallen

I keep hoping my time on this mortal coil will not conclude with un-viewed DVDs on the shelf.

der Brucer

Wow!  You definitely got me beat.
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 10:17:12 PM
Here's another photo from the conference.  We always have a silent auction to raise money for AAUW philanthropies.  I created Middletown's contribution from a totebag that says "Got Books?"  Filled it with some items from our recent booksale and other members contributed things like a book light and a Barnes & Noble gift card.  The entire silent auction made $1,401 and our item went for $55:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/522032_10150797542345049_537325048_11878972_2002246099_n.jpg)


Congrats Ginny!
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 10:57:34 PM
So this afternoon, a bunch of us read through our director Pug's first cut of "Titus Andronicus."  The actual read time was about 90 minutes, which is about where she wants it.  Of course, the actual performances will be a bit longer, but the whole thing should be less than 2 hours, not including intermission.
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Post by: George on April 15, 2012, 10:58:49 PM
Everyone there seemed pretty excited about the whole thing. :)