Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 3 => Topic started by: bk on February 05, 2005, 11:59:21 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, they were Super Notes, you know all about our celebration, and now it is time for you to post until the Super Bowl Cows come home. To it, I say.
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New notes are up.
And the word of the day (courtesy of Pogue) is: PHLEGM. What a fine word is PHLEGM. Let us use it in new and exciting ways, shall we?
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Hmmm.... All the various servers must still be playing catch up... Still can't read the notes....
Let's try again...
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I forgot to say (in last night's last post of mine) that I got a coconut cream pie at Shari's!! It was quite good! If I hadn't brushed my teeth already, I would've had another piece. But I did, so I'll have to wait until later in the day to have more.
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New Notes Read: Check!
Good Morning!
...I just checked CompUSA's website to see what the in-store specials were for this coming week, and, lo and behold, it said that were NO in-store specials this week. How unseemly!
-Maybe that will change in the morning, and they're just updating the site and that "sign" was a sort of placeholder, but still...
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Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about whatever we feel like, and we're talkin' about PHLEGM.
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I've never been here for The Big Changeover before. That was pretty cool. Like watching the sunrise, which is just a few hours off here anyway. The downside is I'll have no new column to look forward to when I wake up!
Here's a guess at the big twist in Hide and Seek. You do not have to agree or disagree: Someone who seemed alive actually turns out to have been dead the whole time! Just a guess, folks.
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BK - Which CD/DVD burning software are you using? Are you using Toast (with or without Jam), MacBurn, etc.? Or are you just using the iTunes and iDVD interfaces?
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No, that's not it.
STOP READING HERE IF YOU INTEND TO SEE THIS FILM.
Think of a recent Johnny Depp movie or think of a well-known Brad Pitt movie, or if you want to go way back, think of Tom Tryon's The Other.
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I just use iTunes, which is easy and great. I know you can do more things with Jam and Toast, but it's just one more thing to learn. That's what I like about iTunes and iDVD and iPHOTO and iMovie - easy to use.
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OK... I need to get some sleep... However, my parents are not home. And both their cars are in the garage. Hmmm... I'm guessing they went out with some of their friends - which they've done in the past, just not to my recent memory - at least not this late. So...
...Ah, I hear a car door slamming now...
Whew!
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And I hear - PHLEGM!
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DR MBarnum - Great story (from yesterday)! When I was a kid, I had a bad habit of starting some hard-boiled eggs on the stove, then going in the backyard to play. Then a few minutes later, my Mom and/or my Dad would be yelling at me from the kitchen window... -Not a pretty sight. And very hard to clean up. Ugh!
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Speaking of PHLEGM, where in tarantion IS Pogue?
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iPod is on and I'm being serenaded by my beautiful Joe Hisaishi playlist.
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Ah, that sort of twist. No worries here. I plan on never seeing the film.
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OH... And I guess that sort of leads to a Topic...
Is there any food/dish/etc. that you've always wanted to "master", but still get less than stellar results?
For myself, strangely enough, it's rice. Plain, ole boiled/steamed rice. Filipinos grow up on rice. And I did. However, whenever I make it - either measuring the water and rice out and cooking it on the stove, or using a "foolproof" rice-maker - it's either too dry or way too wet. Even my parents are surprised that I can't make rice properly. And they still use the traditional "finger method" where you pour enough rice in the pot to reach one knuckle, then pour in water to reach the next knuckle. Perfect rice every time. For them.
???
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I will not be celebrating Stuper Bowl Sunday, but my housemate Peter will be. He (Peter) has invited a friend of his (Phil) and Phil's son, as well as his (Peter's) "ladyfriend" and her daughter. They're all nice people, but they're not my friends. I don't plan to join them, although I have been invited.
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Kiki's Delivery Service by Hisaishi is currently up on the iPod. It's my favorite of all the Miyazaki films - I may have to watch it again tomorrow.
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OK... If I can get five hours of sleep...
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Goodnight.
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I am the master of all three dishes I cook.
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There are things I'd like to learn how to cook, like some nice chicken dishes.
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Has Ann caught up yet?
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I don't know what I'll be doing, but I won't have easy access to HHW. Darn. :( I may just stay in my room, watch DVDs and videotapes and read. I would not mind doing that. Actually, that might be a real good idea. I have a lot of videos to catch up on.
Okay, mini-rant: On Friday, I forgot to tape BOTH "Star Trek: Enterprise" and "Battlestar Galactica." I set my VCR to tape BOTH re-broadcasts and I got "BG" but something happened with "ST:E." I came home from Shari's (last night, although it's only been about an hour or so) and the VCR that I had set to tape Enterprise was turned on (you have to turn it off to set the timer) and there was NO TAPE IN THE VCR!! My housemate must have accidentally ejected the tape trying to watch a Blockbuster tape (there is one on the coffee table right now). Yesterday morning, he had to ask (and write down) directions on how to use the VCR! And I told him specifically which VCR and which remote to use. This guy has led a sheltered life. Anyway, I do not have an episode of "ST:E" to watch at all. Darn! End of rant.
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There used to be a chain restaurant growing up in Indiana called "Shakey's". It was a fun place for kids, they showed silent movies on the wall and all that, but they had, as part of their buffet, these enormous, flat fried potatoes. All the Shakey's closed in those parts and I've been craving those things for about 10 years now. I found a recipe on the internet for Shakey's "Mojo Potatoes". We tried to make them one night, and started an oil fire and smoked out the whole apt. And what we had were nothing like the potatoes from Shakey's. So that is both a cooking disaster story and a food I have yet to master.
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When I was MUCH younger and married with YOUNG child, we ate at Shakey's all the time and loved the Mojo Potatoes. We still have our local Shakey's - about six minutes from where I live. Perhaps I'll go there and see if they still have them Mojo Potatoes.
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Let me clarify something in my mini-rant: I have two VCRs in my living room, one right on top of the other. I told Peter, my housemate, to use the bottom VCR and I specified which remote to use.
Peter and his ladyfriend just came home. Yes, they admit to ejecting my tape while trying to watch their tape. Damn them!!
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I can't remember if it was when my family lived in Ft. Carson, Colorado (1973-1976), or when we moved here to Olympia, Washington (in 1976) or both, but we used to go to a Shakey's Pizza. I specifically remember it being "Shakey's Pizza." I don't remember anything about Mojo potatoes, though. I wonder if it's the same chain.
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Shakey's lives? I had heard there was one in Tokyo. A few survivors in Oklahoma or someplace... But California? Oh, Mojo Potatoes, you will be mine again.
Is there a food Fedex-type service? I would pay a hearty fee for Mojo Potatoes.
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Well, I have to go to my bedroom. I'm not quite ready to go to sleep, but I'll take the "Battlestar Galactica" tape with me. Good night all!
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I can't remember what I had Fed Exed to me, but someone shipped some sort of food to me once. Also, there ARE overnight food delivery services, because someone sent me something from LA to a NY studio for one of my birthdays - can't remember if it was cold or warm but remember it worked.
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Holy moley or rye - page two! PHLEGM!
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MOJO!
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I am so not tired right now. I think I'll do the mambo Italiano.
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I have also decided that each Saturday shall be a Food Day - where everyone has to partake of the Food of the Day.
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First, George, your roommate is a classic VCR ignoramous.
Second, Shakey's of my youngest youth was a pizza place. No doubt. That was what they did. Pizza, player piano, styrofoam turn-of-the-century hats, Keystone Kops movies, and balloons that looked like a little person, "Shakey". Then, in 1981 or so, they diversified, adding a big buffet. Kept the pizza, but cut back on the old-timey atmosphere.
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PHLEGM! Pogue left his computer on the page while he went out and walked Tewkes and then got distracted by Saturday Live when he should have been working. Paris Hilton is the guest host. I just don't get this talentless rich girl. She's not even pretty. Oh, I can see where some twenty year old idiot could be enamoured of her...but she such seems like the usual self-absorbed girl who because she's tanned and blonde and rich...people think she's hot.
Rodzinski, there are several Shakey's here in LA....and I think in other parts of the country as well. I still occasionally will stop in there for their lunch buffett. I think they still have mojo potatoes.
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Actually, they diversified in the mid-seventies - around 1974 to be exact. My daughter loved it there because she liked their pizza (which I hated), liked the long tables, and loved the potatoes and, I believe, broasted chicken.
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It used to be called Shakey's Bunch of Lunch. The menu has its stock and trade pizza plus chicken, pastas and sauces, mashed taters, mojo taters (I'm pretty sure) various veggies, plus a salad bar. The drink does not come with the price of lunch.
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Yes, the chicken, I think, is broasted...though it does not come close to the long-lamented broasted chicken king -- the now-defunct Ambers.
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Loved Amber's. At the corner of Woodman and Ventura. Wonderful. And caused lots of PHLEGM.
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PHLEGM!
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I don't think Ann has caught up yet.
Now THIS is the way to have a late-night partay.
I, myself, am doing the mambo Italiano.
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You have to understand the diversification may have taken some time to reach the sticks of NW Indiana. I can say without question that that place was the only exposure I had to silent films of any sort.
I can just imagine the meeting at corporate Shakey's HQ.
"Kids these days don't want Harold Lloyd and player pianos, they want video games and Donna Summer music."
Charles Pogue: I know you like quiet. Did you hear some of the deafening silence during several of the SNL sketches this evening? Gads.
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Just wait until the WUSSBURGERS log on in the morning.
Do you remember the night, Pogue, not all that long ago, just a couple of weeks ago, I think, when we had over 120 posts by two in the morning? THAT was hilarious. I think that was the first LIMBO night.
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Ann must be eating some PIE.
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You watch your phraseology.
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Ya wild kid, ya.
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Do I remember Limbo night? My back is still killing me (How low did I go?).
I will not be around here by the time post 120 happens tonight (unless it happens around ten tomorrow) as I intend to wuss out soon. I'm in that terrible work phase...the idea phase...always the hardest part for me, simply because I'm a meticulous outliner. But it's like staring at all the pieces of jigsaw and trying to fit them together.
Howcum no one does the Locomotion anymore? Where is Little Eva? Or the Pony? Remember Dee Dee Sharp and Ride (I'm gonna get onmy pony and ride).
Maybe we need a dance a day like the word a day...Black Bottom, Turkey-trot, the Carioca, the Continental, the Yam!
Rodzinski, they now have Big Screen TVs in Shakey's, mostly tuned to ESPN stations.
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Well, it's only one in the morning here? That explains me and BK. What's your excuse for being up so late, Rodzinski? What time is it where you are?
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And if I have one more post in a row, I'm wussing on out of here...
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We've done every one of the dances you list, on our various birthday days. We haven't done the locomotion for some time, but it was quite popular here about two years ago. I, myself, am thinking about toddling off to the bedroom environment.
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Nice try.
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PHLEGM!
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It's only 4:18 in the a.m. here, and wussing out time is upon me very shortly.
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I'm already thinking about what I'll eat tomorrow. I've sort of been craving pizza, but I'm not sure I'll do that. Decisions, decisions.
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We still even have three GUESTS perusing the site.
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Officially wussing. Peace, gents.
Choose Mojo Potatoes as next week's food of the week. West Coasters must mail them to East Coasters.
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I, too, shall toddle off to bed, but first...
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I must have one final word: PHLEGM!
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And one for Mahler.
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Holy moley on rye - page three! Now THAT'S a late-night do.
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I had pizza for dinner tonight. A rather nice frozen one the wife picked up at Big Lots, I think, or maybe Trader Joe's...I don't know...It warn't bad, as frozen pizza goes...just not enough of it...I just ate some god awful microwave popcorn. The fat free variety that tastes like cardboard with a slight butter flavour. I now feel like vomiting on the ground.
Rodzinski, what in the heck are you doing up till four in the morning. I mean I know were scintillating raconteurs , but...man does not live by wit and repartee alone...
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I use the fat free microwave, but the non-buttered variety - I put my own fresh melted butter on it, and it's not bad. I get the Healthy Choice brand.
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Man does not live by PHLEGM alone.
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...I should have said wit and repartee and useless cultural knowledge...speaking of which...Max Schmelling died yesterday. He was 92.
The call of the wild wusses is echoing in my ears and I must answer it. PHLEGM to all.
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I think it was the healthy choice brand...Do you hear it....WOOOUSSSS! WOOOUSSS! The wild wooly wusses beckon!
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Rodzinski has still not answered my question as to why he rambles so late at night. Is he one of the...(organ sting!)...UNDEAD!
Wooousss! There they go again! I answer your plaintive cry, O wild wooly wusses! I come! I come!... I go!
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Well, really, I'm going. I see I'm just sitting here talking to myself. Wooouuussss!
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How about Autumn Equinox, for your new book title, dear BK?
It gives you as long daylight as Vernal Equinox does, or it gives you as long darkness as Vernal Equinox does. Yes, Equi and Nox.
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As two days of my absence from HHW, go back to the preior posts for two and half days.
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I don't know from NW Indiana, but here in central Washington we were also diversification-free. Our Shakey's was pizza only. Didn't last long, only two years or so around 1985ish, I seem to remember. I also seem to think that the one here was take-and-bake, or at least had that as an option. What was odd was that they moved in to a building adjacent to the Pizza Hut, sharing a parking lot. Either way, the building is now a (thoroughly non-inspiring, IMHO) Mexican restaurant.
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It was a fun place for kids, they showed silent movies on the wall and all that...
I'd never heard of such a thing until I saw an ad just this afternoon that a place here in town is going to start showing silent movies on their wall.
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I'd like to inform you DRs that I just ordered the following 5 DVDs, which I've never seen before, on amazon.co.jp. Thank you all for your nice cooperation!
Swing Time, 7 Brides For 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate, The Harvey Girls and A Star Is Born (Judy Garland version).
The DVDs from these 5 titles, The Band Wagon, Meet Me In St Louis, 42nd Street (1933),1776 and Easter Parade are still to be released here in Japan.
Broadway Melody (will be on sale 2/25), I wonder if Broadway Melody of 1938 is different from Broadway Melody of 1940 or not. I'd like to have some information about it. ???
Unfortunately, I yet couldn't find these 3 titles, The Apple, Can't Stop The Music, Gypsy, on amazon.co.jp or on other sites. I'll wait for their arrivals in Japan.
Re The First Nudie Musical, I'm going to get VHS on amzon soon.
Maybe I'll get A Song In The Dark ( a book) in the future as well.
Basta così!
I still welcome your suggestions and/or other new recommendations. Thank you ALL! :D
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I found BK comment that Billy Wilder was better know for his writing than his director interesting. It is something I never heard before
Since he always wrote with partners among them: IAL Diamond (12 films), Charles Bracket (18 films) I would be hard pressed to say what was Wilder and what was his partner contribution. But I feel that his writing and directing went hand in hand.
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What if I don't use the word of the day, and just say Marisa Berenson?
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I can't remember if it was when my family lived in Ft. Carson, Colorado (1973-1976), or when we moved here to Olympia, Washington (in 1976) or both, but we used to go to a Shakey's Pizza. I specifically remember it being "Shakey's Pizza." I don't remember anything about Mojo potatoes, though. I wonder if it's the same chain.
Shakey's doesn't list any restaurants in Colorado on their website. They do list Washington, so that's more likely where you found the pizza. I'd provide the link, but the website stinks in a phlegmish way.
My own memories of Shakey's predates the seventies, as we would often go there for pizza back in the mid-60s. Ours didn't have the mojo potatoes; those came along later, as did the buffet with chicken and the rest of the stuff.
The first time we went, the local Shakey's had just opened. My Dad called from work, after having just come in from a road trip, and told Mom that we were all going to dinner. Mom, naturally, had my sister and myself put on our best clothes. Naturally, when we got to Shakey's we were all quite overdressed. My sister was mortified, as she had just entered her young-girl-gets-mortified years (and at last tally still hasn't left them). I just enjoyed the pizza, and the fact that we could watch them making the pizzas, too!
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DR George, I'm sorry you missed this week's ENTERPRISE. It was an outstanding resolution to last week's cliffhanger, and had a little of everything: a good fight scene, some heartfelt emoting from Scott Bakula, some genuine tension with the trapped Tripp and Malcolm, and the death of a character which led to some hostile feelings.
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Any art books we have of works by the early Phlegm masters are probably still downstairs, boxed up. At least they're in spitting distance.
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I just don't get this talentless rich girl. She's not even pretty.
The key word in all of this is "rich." Everything else is pointless.
Which is a good thing. If anything else had a point, that point might just burst her bubble.
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BROADWAY MELODY of 1938 is most definitely different from BROADWAY MELODY of 1940. Both have their pluses and both have Eleanor Powell. The former also has Judy Garland singing one of her first movie signature tunes "You Made Me Love You" to Clark Gable's photo. It's a great moment, and there are some pleasant musical interludes.
BM of 1940 has Fred Astaire and George Murphy dancing up a storm, particularly the most memorable "Begin the Beguine" tap dance finale with Eleanor Powell and Fred, one of THE great movie dances ever.
Neither of the films has a memorable plot; it's the musical numbers in each that make them must viewing today.
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The plans are right now to watch THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Extended Edition today. But my friend who's having a Super Bowl party later today called last night to say that he might need me to come over in the early afternoon and recalibrate his HDTV before his party starts. He's been fiddling with the settings I had done for him, and now the picture isn't up to where it was. He didn't write down the settings I had calibrated, so now we're going to need to do it again. He was going to fiddle with it soem more, but if he couldn't recapture what we had previously, he's going to need me back there.
So, my viewing of LOTR might get interrupted this afternoon. Drat!
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Yep, bk's hint on HIDE AND SEEK's resolution was exactly what I anticipated. My goodness, there must be dozens of movies that have used that twist, and it's definitely one that needs a rest.
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DR Hisaka, you will have some fun movies to watch!!
Are there any good Japanese musicals? Those would be fun to see!
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The Superbowl? Aren't the Detroti Red Sox and the Los Angeles Oriloes playing in it this year? Or is it the Utah Dolphins-- I forget.
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Good Afternoon!
Greetings from the Apple Store Clarendon in Arlington, VA. I'm taking the "Advanced Getting Started Class". Quite informative. I'm pretty sure I'll be taking advantage of the other classes offered here - and other Apple Stores.
Back in a little bit...
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No Super Bowl for me today, either..I am going to finish watching the Bollywood movie that I started last night and then I will work on my Tony Russel interview. I was hoping for nice weather today so I could plant some of the primroses that I purchased yesterday...but it is windy, rainy, and stormy out...so guess I will stay indoors.
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Well I'll go along with pie because you had CAKE day last week. I like Boston Cream Pie (because it's cake calling itself Pie) and Rhubarb Pie.
Favorite Bogart:
"Casablanca," "Sabrina," "Dark Passage," "Maltese Falcon," "Petrified Forest" and so many others.
Cageney:--
"Love Me or Leave Me," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," of course, "Public Enemy," "Roaring Twenties," "GoldDiggers of 1933," "Boy Meets Girl" Cagney was like a bundle of dynamite-- so much energy just waiting for an outlet.
Who was the third one? I'll have to go back and check. I need to read yesterday's notes, too.
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As for Shakey's...
-The guy is covering some topics I know already, so...
When we lived in Seattle most of our birthdays were held at Shakey's. I still remember the smiley face made with pepperoni slices on the pizza, with a marshmallow as a nose and the candle holder. However, I don't ever remember the Mojo Potatoes.
When we moved to DC, there were still a few Shakey's in the area. However, they became very adult - basically a place to drink beer, smoke cigarettes, oh..and eat pizza.
I do remember the Shakey's on Santa Monica Blvd. a few blocks down from the Hudson Theatre (when I was in LA last summer). It always looked very dark inside.
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#2 Bollywood movie for the weekend is YAKEEN (1969). I am loving this movie! A government clerk becomes inadvertently embroiled in espionage!
Stars two of my fave 1960s stars Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore.
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OK... Workshop over. -Interesting how the whole Genius Bar concept works.
Well, I need to head across the street to Whole Foods and get a bite to eat then head in for the matinee...
Signing off from the Apple Store Clarendon...
Laters...
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I guess I did read yesterday's notes, but I thought they were today's. The hazards of skipping a day.
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OH! Page FOUR!!!
In honor of the my Filipino heritage, I shall do the Tinikling - the dance that takes three people to do! Two people to hold the bamboo sticks, and one person to do the actual dance - although sometimes it's done in couples. Watch your toes!
Once again...
Laters...
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If the Oriloes win, do we here at Haines His Way get anything?
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We had a Shakey's in Ashland when I was a kid (early 70s)...I had forgotten all about it! That must be the place that I remember going to that showed silent movies...I loved it, but we only went once or twice. As we lived in Medford I have no idea why we were eating pizza all the way down in Ashland (10 miles to the south)...we must have been visiting friends or something.
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Ah Shakey's. I remember when they started and going there as a kid. There was one by my high school, and we'd go there sometimes when one of us had money. High school lunches usually consisted of going to Carnation Dairy's Coffe Shop and getting an order of French Fries and a cherry Coke (in honor of our dear Sandra who wouldn't be born for decades) or sometimes a special Chocolate Malt (since I was a regular, they knew just how I liked it-- 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream, one scoop of chocolate ice cream, chocolate syrup and extra malt). Now I'd probably have to take a Lactaid first-- the joys of aging.
BUT I do remember the potatoes at Shakey's (which is how all this started before I got on my little red wagon of lunch and went off in another direction). Of course, they weren't called Mojo Potatoes then; they were just large flat French Fries (i.e., steak potatoes) called Shakey's Fries or something like that.
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Jose, Don't worry about the rice. That's what Minute Rice and Uncle Ben's are for.
Now, if you start getting into the various Basmati Rices and purple rices and all that, I have great recipes that are very simple-- (they all get boil down, so to speak, to the same thing: let MusicGuy do it).
Actually I used to be a very good cook and did all the cooking. One of my specialties was--- you guessed it--- CAKE!!!!!!! I got tired of cooking, and somehow he started doing the cooking (probably because I was too busy with whatever I was working on at the time). So, I haven't cooked for a good twenty years now. The one or two times I have cooked, I still can, but automatically knowing what to do takes awhile to get get back.
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Ah yes the Shakey's Fries. I am still IN Indiana, DRRODZINSKI with no Shakey's to be found that I know of. Yes, you could watch them cook, and yes you saw silent movies on the wall - usually the same one two or three times if you were there long enough. I think they also served beer. And then there was the piano. Yes, it was a fun place.
DRKERRY just yesterday at a thrift shop, I found the perfect Art Deco style picture frame for the lovely photo of Allison Hayes you sent me many months ago. I hadn't found one in all that time.....but it is now ensconced and looking lovely!
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Wind and storms headed our way as well, MBARNUM.....so I think I shall watch some DVD's as well.
Now I love DOUBLE IDEMNITY - but there is ONE scene that pivots on a physical probability that I can't get past....it just doesn't happen that way....and if anyone can remember what it is.....well....any guesses?
DR HISAKA you have a great start on your viewing. As DRMATTH (our HHW EW correspondent) said Broadway Melody of 1938 and 1940 are two different pictures. Both have their pleasures. Don't worry about not getting THE APPLE! GYPSY is still worth waiting or searching for.
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First, George, your roommate is a classic VCR ignoramous.
No, Rodzinski, my roomate is a doofus. A somewhat narrow-minded, overly formal, inexperienced-in-the-ways-of-(and-quite-afraid-of)-technology, too-frequently-toilet-plugging (TMI! TMI!) doofus. Otherwise he's a nice guy, but still.... ::)
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DR George, I'm sorry you missed this week's ENTERPRISE. It was an outstanding resolution to last week's cliffhanger, and had a little of everything: a good fight scene, some heartfelt emoting from Scott Bakula, some genuine tension with the trapped Tripp and Malcolm, and the death of a character which led to some hostile feelings.
Thanks for the info, Matt. Fortunately, I work with a woman who tapes "Enterprise." I'll be able to get a copy from her, so all is not lost...just inconvenienced. :-\
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Question for all DRs who did NOT grow up with Shakey's pizza:
Where did you go for pizza, instead?
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Also, as a point of comparison, Shakey's pizza has/had a somewhat doughy, not very thin (a la New York) but not thick crust. And definitely not a pan pizza (a la Chicago).
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Well, I'm going to leave now. I want to watch "Battlestar Galactica," as well as several unmarked tapes to find out what's on them. My housemate's friends will be coming over at some point and I want to be out of the way.
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One last thing: I had pie for brunch! It was quite good. Yesterday, I wrote that the whole pie that I bought from Shari's had six pieces, but I didn't really look very closely at the pie. It was actually cut into only five pieces. So now I only have three (but still rather large) pieces of my coconut cream pie left. Pie...it's good!
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I think I shall have another piece of apple pie.
I just noticed that my problem with DOUBLE INDEMNITY has been written about on at IMDB, so it is not without comment.
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Sorry for my absence this morning. Adelphia has been horrid lately and has been down for most of the morning. What is most annoying about it is they never ever just say they're having a problem. You are always put through their standard series of "tests" because instead of checking to see if it's them they just assume it's your computer. Last time they did this my wireless device got totally screwed up and I had to call Apple to have it reset and reconfigured. So, this morning it's been down, I was put through the series of tests, and all seems to be well now - but I still believe it was them. Thank goodness the wireless device didn't get screwed up this time.
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And to Adelphia I say PHLEGM!
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Michael Shayne, Billy Wilder had a very productive writing career, both in Germany and America, before he ever directed his first feature in the early forties, THE MAJOR & THE MINOR. I think Wilder himself always considered himself a writer first and has admitted that he took up directing as a defense to protect his writing. Needless to say, he was great at both.
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It's Super Bowl Sunday isn't it?
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I hope Rodzinski, got some sleep...
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I have never seen a Bogart movie.
I like pie.
The phone man is supposed to come tomorrow. I am at a sandwich shoppe eating a sandwich whilst perusing the posts. DR Sandra is drinking a cherry coke.
The end.
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What she said.
The end.
P.S. This Cherry Coke is very good.
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Question for all DRs who did NOT grow up with Shakey's pizza:
Where did you go for pizza, instead?
We were primarily a Pizza Hut family (we lived only a block away when I was but a wee sprig of a twig of a lad), but the best pizza in Ellensburg was at a family-owned place across the street from the university called Frazzinni's. They sold the place about 7 or 8 years ago and it's now called Grant's, but thankfully the pizza has not changed one bit.
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Okay.
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Oh yes, sleep. Charles Pogue, didn't mean to leave you hanging. I was up late watching movies, then I thought, hey I could be there at the moment the new notes come up! And that was worthwhile, but then I brought up Mojo Potatoes and all bets were off. Thoughts of Shakey's kept me awake. I made up for it by sleeping well into today.
It would be plegmatically cool if someone could fax me Mojo Potatoes.
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Oh, and how could I forget the old Pizza Mia. It was also across the street from the university, and was very much a student hangout (my parents tell tales of dime beer nights). Never did go in there, but I remember the pizza being pretty good, and the grinders being simply faboo. Sadly closed some 15 years ago...
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I fully intend to watch the Super Bowl this afternoon, but FOUR HOURS of pre-game show is thoroughly ridiculous! I mean, c'mon, there are only two teams to talk about, and there have only been these two teams to talk about for two weeks. Overkill in the extreme.
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JRand54- Where in the Hoosier State are you? I was born in the same place as Prof. Harold Hill.
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As those who've read the Kritzer books know, my first introduction to pizza was at Big Town Market here in LA. Maybe it's just my memory playing tricks on me, or maybe it's just because it was the first pizza I ever had, but I have not had many pizzas since that are better than those slices were.
We also had Piece o' Pizza, where they had great pizza and the best Italian salad dressing I've ever had. I think there still may be one Piece o' Pizza (Had a piece lately?) left - in Culver City.
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It's very grayish here in the City of Studio.
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I don't think NY has that many really good pizza places. There are lots of decent ones, but few that really knock one's socks off.
John's and Patsy's do the gourmet thing very well. A small chain called Two Boots has some really great pies named after characters in Tarantino films and such.
When in Northern California, I appreciate a chain called Round Table for their generosity.
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I really have got to get on a better sleep schedule. this whole 4 am to 12 pm thing just isn't natural. Or maybe it is for me, who knows.
I have a book I've been wanting to start and read, so my plan for today is to let the SB be background noise and read my book, glancing up when I want the score.
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It is also very grey in the Wood of Holly.
The first pizza parlor I remember as a kid and I think they may have been a small chain was Pasquales' (hope I spelled that right) Pizza.
My mother used to actually make pizza from scratch. A favourite kid memory was, after my parents had a party, going downstairs the next morning after and eating leftover cold pizza before anyone else was up.
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it is also gray and rainy around the Tacoma area. First time we've had such weather in awhile, which is very unusual.
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I must go out now and get some foodstuffs for later. I'll be back shortly.
PHLEGM!
So much talk of pizza - that may have to be today's food, although my memory of other Super Bowl Sundays is that pizza places are really busy.
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Abby's Pizza Parlor was our pizza place of choice. We would go almost every Friday evening, usually after my dad's baseball game. We would usually get your basic combination or the Hawaiian, and sometimes the smoked oyster.
It was also a place where they had a spot for the kids to sit and watch the guys make the pizza, and I always would plunk a nickel or dime in the jukebox and play and Olivia Newton John song...can't recall which one now.
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A quick check on the internet reveals several Pasquale's Pizzas still flourishing in Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati area.
There was a revew in the LA TIMES today about the re-release of Elvis' seminal first album and how experimental it was and how much today's rock record producers could learn from it. So I've been listening to ELVIS THE KING OF ROCK 'N' ROLL: THE COMPLETE FIFTIES MASTERS...which includes this album and it's easy to see why he was...and still is...The King...Michael Jackson, pi-tuui...
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Good morning folks!
Sorry I was E & T yesterday. Busy day/evening.
I’m sorry to say that I did NOT have pie yesterday. But if I had, I might not be able to fit in my new (not but brag but I am) size 8 (you are not seeing things) jeans. I can hardly believe it myself.
I really enjoyed driving Bonnie all around yesterday. How nice it is to have a smooth riding, quiet vehicle. I am learning not to stomp on the gas pedal so I am back to my normal speeds. It seems like I’m crawling. Some old habits die hard. I’m not used to having AC and am still putting the window down instead of using it. I guess when summer comes I’ll start.
I filled the gas tank the other week and reset the trip odometer to see what kind of gas mileage I’m getting. I’ve already gone over thirty miles and the gas needle hasn’t moved. I learned that my trip to the bus stop is exactly .4 miles from the driveway to where I park so my round trip is .8 miles a day.
Did I tell you all about the extra remotes I bought for Bonnie off of E-bay? I got two of them for under twenty-five dollars. I had to call the guy to ask how to reset them but he was very nice about it and they work GREAT! Who knew that just turning the key on and off eight times fast would reset the remotes?
Now Mom has a remote and I have a spare as a “just in case”. I know Mom would never drive the SUV or the Van but I think it makes her feel good to have her own set of keys.
I meant to say the other night that I’ve been reading the AARP magazine since my Mom started getting it years ago. I always enjoy it. When I turn fifty, I will join so I can get it as well.
I looked on Amazon for the boxed Errol Flynn set but I didn’t see it. That’s ok. I’ll wait for it.
I bought The Karate Kid collection yesterday. We watched the first movie last night. It seemed different to me. I would have sworn that I saw some other version of the ending. It seemed there were some missing scenes. Does anyone else think that?
I gave up on BattleStar Galactica . Just can’t get into it. Of course, I’m tired on Friday night so trying to stay up until eleven is really hard. Hate to say it but the same for Enterprise. I just never “got it”.
BK, if you want a good chicken recipe, allow me to give you one. It’s cooking in my house as I type this and I promise you that it is very good.
Roast Chicken n’ Vegetables
6 small new red potatoes, halved
1 (12 ounce) package (2 cups) fresh baby carrots, cut in half lengthwise—I cheat on this and just put in a package of those little carrots.
2 medium onions, quartered
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon dried dill weed
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 ½ to 3 ½ pound chicken, cut into 8 pieces
Heat oven to 425 degrees. In roasting pan or 10 inch ovenproof skillet place potatoes, carrots, and onions. In 1 quart sauce pan melt butter; stir in all remaining ingredients except chicken. Brush about 2 tablespoons butter mixture over vegetables. Place chicken, skin side up, in pan on top of and around begetables. Brush chicken with remaining butter mixture. Bake for 45 to 50 mixtures or until chicken is fork tender and golden brown.
I don’t do it exactly the way this says. I put it all in a slow cooker and I add mushrooms. I put it on about 2 o’clock on about 300 degrees and it’s ready by 5. It is very, very, very (3 verys) good. :)
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OH! Page FOUR!!!
In honor of the my Filipino heritage, I shall do the Tinikling - the dance that takes three people to do! Two people to hold the bamboo sticks, and one person to do the actual dance - although sometimes it's done in couples. Watch your toes!
Once again...
Laters...
I remember doing that when I was in school. Not that I was very good at it. I got my ankle cracked a couple of times. :( :)
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God, I wish I was in London right now. Derek Jacobi is getting terrific reviews (as is the play in general) for his chilliong performance in Schiller's DON CARLOS. They are calling the play a masterpiece. The play also stars Richard Coyle who played geeky Jeff in the original British COUPLING. I saw Jacobi in as Prospero in THE TEMPEST two years ago. It was not the best Tempest I ever saw, but it was easily the best Prospero I ever saw. A great Prospero, I think.
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Speaking of Olivia Newton John, "Grease" was on this morning on the HBO. That is a movie I have a hard time separating on a critical and emotional level. It was one of the first movies I was taken to as a kid that Walt Disney wasn't involved with. It was life-altering experience. I fell totally in love with Olivia and for the life of me could not understand why she sold herself out there at the end to look so ghastly.
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What she said.
The end.
P.S. This Cherry Coke is very good.
When I was a little girl, I didn't know how to sign off of a letter by saying, "sincerely yours" or "bye for now" so I would put "THE END".
At least you knew when I was finished.
THE END
Danise
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The post I posted about pizza didn't post. (Got all that?) I don't remember what all I said, but it was very witty, whatever it was.
Any way, it had something to do with Stefano's (Two guys from Italy) Pizza on Hollywood Boulevard.
I got a refill on this Cherry Coke. It is still quite yummy.
We will soon be going to the church Super Bowl party. We have one of these every year, but never seem to turn on the TV and watch the game.
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Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com? I went to the market, which was a madhouse, so I didn't get much of anything. All the fast food joints are jammed.
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Well, ain't nobody here but us chickens, BK...Guess everybody else is superbowling.
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Can you believe it? Quite unseemly, if you ask me. I'm going to eat my lunch now - an Entenmann's Chocolate donut covered with Swiss Vanilla Almond ice cream. A fine lunch, if you ask me. Of course, what do you get when you eat ice cream for lunch?
PHLEGM!
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Enoy the nap that will come after your usual but tasty lunch...you're heading for a major sugar coma...
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Is tinkikling close to what they do in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG in the song "Me Old Bamboo"?
I am from and still reside in Mooresville Indiana, DR RODSINSKI....which is about 15 miles southwest of Indy!
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I am sick sick sick. Have slept most of the days away.
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I fully intend to watch the Super Bowl this afternoon, but FOUR HOURS of pre-game show is thoroughly ridiculous! I mean, c'mon, there are only two teams to talk about, and there have only been these two teams to talk about for two weeks. Overkill in the extreme.
Clearly, you never watch any of the news stations (like Fox or MSNBC or CNN). They are like this day after day, and they don't even bother with talking about sports!
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It is also very grey in the Wood of Holly.
It's a giant conspiracy, where the weather is rigged to be beautiful on New Years Day (in time for the Rose Bowl and Parade), then grim on Super Bowl Sunday to drive all the people who moved to SoCal because of the weather they saw on the TV set back inside to watch the commercials. (Which, by the way, explains why the Super Bowl commericials cost millions just to buy the air time!!!)
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Tonight, real guy food. Venison chops, roasted beets, and jalapeno hushpuppies.
Counts as guy food in my house.
;D
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Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com?
We really can't have that many people watching this thing called the Super Bowl, can we? Can we?
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I cried my way through THE RETURN OF THE KING once again. Just a beautiful film though I could do with a little less battle footage. Just not a war buff. Very necessary to the story and lots of thrilling moments during the battle scenes, but they do go on.
But such beautiful humanity as part of the story, and that's why I love it so much. Naturally, the extended edition looked fabulous and sounded even more so - there aren't many scenes that aren't filled with rumbling low bass.
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Sorry to read you're under the weather, DR Michael Shayne. Hope you feel better presently.
BTW, I really did love the extended edition of ROTK as opposed to the theatrical version. The added scenes added much appreciated information and made for a much richer experience.
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Super Bowl? No way!
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Ohmagawd, it's the Halftime Show at the Superbowl!
IS SIR PAUL GONNA FLASH A TITTIE????!!!!
8)
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Welcome bdapp!
Bruce only you would eat whip cream on custard pie. :P It just shouldn’t be done.
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Loved Amber's. At the corner of Woodman and Ventura. Wonderful. And caused lots of PHLEGM.
Broasted chicken-right? That was around the corner from our apartment.
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Is tinkikling close to what they do in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG in the song "Me Old Bamboo"?
Have you listened to HALF A SIXPENCE lately? ? ? A certain song in CCBB bears a startling resemblance to one in SIXPENCE. . . . :o
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Hisaka SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS is an all time favorite movie of mine. I hope you enjoy it.
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DR Jane - just for you (well, actually for all the dog-lovers at HHW):
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TD, your pup (whose name I can't remember) is so adorable!
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DR Pogue - avert your eyes! ;)
The following is for those of us with no interest in the Super Bowl, but a confirmed yen for BEEFCAKE:
(http://zombie.nvnsvch.org/pics/beefcake.jpg)
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DR MBarnum, Miss Dixie Bell thinks that you're just the cat's meow, too.
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I just got off of the phone with one of my previous interviewees Carolyn Kearney. She told me that she did a commentary for her episode of Twilight Zone for an upcoming DVD release. There were about 10 vintage TZ performers who were gathered together to do commentary for their particular episodes, including another of my interviewees William Reynolds.
I am presuming that these commentaries are not on the most recent boxed set...or are they? Carolyn thought that this new set was to be released in another month or so. Has anyone any info??? I am most curious!
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Thank you. It looks like that cutie is enjoying her den.
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Danise-congrats on the size 8 jeans. :)
Michael Shayne-feel better soon vibes.
Jennifer how are you?
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I am quite logey all of a sudden. All of a sudden I am quite logey. Quite logey am I, and all of a sudden, too.
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We are on the phone with Bryan. I can type while he and Keith discuss Keith’s new computer game-this could go on for another hour.
We were telling Bryan the news in today’s paper of a finalist on the Bachelorette who is from our neighboring town , and MBarnum’s home town, of Medford. Bryan asked “what’s Bachelorette?”. ;D In all fairness he does not have a TV. After we explained the concept of the show he asked who would watch that. Hope I didn't insult anyone. :-\
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I am quite logey all of a sudden. All of a sudden I am quite logey. Quite logey am I, and all of a sudden, too.
Is that why you didn't answer my question? ;D
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Dearest Jane, you should know by now that I will put whipped cream on anything sweet. I just love me my whipped cream. In this particular instance, however, I plead innocent - it was suggested by our somnambulistic waitress.
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LOL-I know that. I meant Amber's-place of the best broasted chicken-yes?
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Oh, yes, both Pogue and I posted that yesterday - Amber's was THE broasted chicken.
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The woman who owned the store was very nice. We became regulars, as often as we could afford to go, and often picked up the chicken for our dog that had a sensitive stomach.
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Yes, we ate there quite a bit, too. I think one of my ex-wife's nieces worked there.
My other regular hangout in that nabe was Barone's.
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I am feeling quite logey, and, might I just add, I have PHLEGM!
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Speaking of PHLEGM, I've just noticed that in a mere seventy postings I shall be achieving a new plateau, and what a plateau it is.
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Jane, not only was Amber's the best broasted chicken...But the corner of Woodman and Ventura, used to be a favourite with me. Catty-corner to Amber's was Scene of the Crime bookstore that I used to frequent and a little further down the street on the north side of Ventura before you got to Woodman was Dangerous Visions Bookstore, another hangout of mine. And on the southwest corner of Ventura was an Orange Julius. Food and Books. Sort of one-stop-shopping for me. I could pick up some reading material, slake my thirst, and then get supper to take home. Alas, all are gone now except for the Orange Juliius (At least I think it's still there). I hate change.
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Barone's-was that pizza?
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Pogue, I’m racking my brain to remember these other places. I should at least recall an Orange Julius so close to me. But then the only distinctive, and the best, one was in Westwood Village behind Stan’s donuts.
Ambers had not been there all that long before we moved to No. Hollywood and we didn’t return often to Ambers. How many years was it there?
Most of my walks were to the park with our dog but I often walked along there. Keith and I would walk to Ralph’s to shop. On the way we would browse the stores.
I’m waiting for Keith to stop playing his game and will see what he can remember.
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I loved both Scene of the Crime and Dangerous Visions. Too bad they couldn't have weathered the storm, for they'd be doing well now if they had.
My daughter and I used to frequent that Orange Julius quite often.
Barone's is an Eyetalian restaurant (there used to be one in Burbank, too) - it's still quite popular with the lunch crowd. They're known for their square pizza, which is quite yummilicious, and they have the best scampi in town.
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Jane, I'm racking my brain too, but I can't find any room for the eight ball.
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Has Ann caught up?
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I'm watching Gunga Din.
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Is this a mini-frenzy?
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Jane, there was also an Amber's in North Hollywood. I don't know when they finally died out. It was after The Lovely wife had made her way out here in '85, because we would frequent it for a few years after that.
Gunga Din: "Kill for the love of killing, Kill for the love of Kali! Kill! Kill! Kill!" "Alright, you're all under arrest." "Hey, save some for the elephant." "Oh no, sahib, very little go a very long way." "A fork! What do you think I want to break out of...a bloomin' pudding?" "If you don't stop talking about gold, I'll tear the back off you with a shovel." "You can't stop an expedition, I'm a expedition, see!" "You both displease me greatly and I ignore the both of you." "The Colonel's got to know!" "Good work, bugler!"
One of my favourite movies!
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Keith remembers Scene of the Crime. We did eat at Barone’s occasionally because it was convenient.
Keith worked at the Studio City Theater which is now gone. Is it now a book store? We lived on Ventura Cyn Place, one or two blocks from Woodman, off of Ventura. Can you tell me the name of the park we walked to? We, or I, took our dog there almost every evening after I got home from work. It was fun and we met a nice group of people, along with their dogs. Through the group is how we found the little rental house we move to in No. Hollywood.
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Okay, with guilt I confess to having been roped into "Super" viewing. But it was with people who could care less about the game. Unlike many, I hate the ads even more than the game, so it was mostly not an excellent experience. The game was dull, the commercials entirely bereft of humor. The sexual content was non-existent due to last year, so almost every ad was populated by a talking animal.
But the positives: A great 7-layer dip prepared by The Lady. And the Discovery Animal Channel was showing something called the Puppy Bowl. Literally non-stop footage of puppies in a little makeshift football stadium. Just playing and being puppies. It was programming with far more cojones than anything Fox was offering.
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I don’t remember going to Amber’s in No. Hollywood but it is possible. In '74 we moved to Reseda, into our first home of our own. By the end of '76 we were vegetarians.
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Rodzinski the puppy bowl sounds so cute.
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Can it be? Does Amber's still exist? Out of curiosity, I did a search. There is an Amber's Chicken and Donuts listed on Burbank Ave, either in Encino or Van Nuys. Somehow, I vaguely remember donuts also being on the bill of fare or is this my imagination? I'll call the number and find out.
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Just got off the phone. The Amber's Chicken is the apparently the same one or a branch of the same one. The lady said they had been there for twenty some years. So it's either a branch that has always existed or it's where they went after they left Woodman and Ventura. The lady seemed bus and had an accent so it was rather unclear.
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We'll have to try it out BK and see if our memories of its deliciousness are accurate. I don't think I ever tried their donuts.
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I can't help you with your TWILIGHT ZONE question, DR MBarnum. I bought the episodes of TWILIGHT ZONE that I wanted to own on those individual DVD releases (3 or 4 episodes per disc) and have no intention of re-buying those. Same with STAR TREK. I bought the original releases (all in used bins) and will not spring for the new boxed sets even though they would take up far less shelf space.
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I've picked out my DVD for tomorrow if I can get around to watching it: COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA. haven't seen it in a long time and will look forward to experiencing it again.
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I did get my friend's new HDTV re-calibrated for him early this afternoon, and as a reward, his wife gave me an entire cooked ham! Really! I couldn't have been more amazed.
BTW, it was delicious. And no, I didn't eat the whole thing. But I'll be snacking on it over the next couple of days.
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According to the map, Amber's is at the intersection of Balboa and Burbank. Right by some golf course.
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Amber's - I may scope it out - do a drive by. Where exactly is it - on Ventura?
The Studio is indeed a bookstore - Bookstar.
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I look forward to hearing more about Amber's. Sad to leave these fond memories but I must go-'night.
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We were posting at the same time. I'll do a drive by tomorrow and see if it resembles what we remember.
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I shall be in the Jacuzzi if anyone needs me - another six degrees and it shall be ready for my aching bones.
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And what is the big park I would have walked to?
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The Puppy Bowl is still on for those who are interested. It is actually on the Animal Planet channel.
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Jane, on BBC 7, they have been playing a dramatization of DAUGHTER OF TIME in their "Listen Again" section...unfortunately, we've missed some of the episodes, you can listen to the last seven days of it however: www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday
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It would be great if you were to find at least some similar essence of the Amber's you remember. Mainly, tasty chicken. How nice it is to have something you were sure you'd never have again.
I shall know this in March, when I go to LA on a biz trip and walk into a Shakey's.
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Well, I tuned in to the Super Bowl in time for the halftime show. Is it just me, or is Paul McCartney starting to look freakishly like Dame Maggie Smith?
Fell asleep during the second half, woke up in time to catch the last few minutes. Made some penne pasta with sauce for dinner. Taking a cue from a recipe I found, I added a bit of sour cream to the regular sauce. It's surprisingly good....makes it a bit creamy.
Now watching American Dad...so far, it's ok
My apologies to anyone who read this before I changed it! I had no intention of damning Maggei Smith
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The Puppy Bowl is still on for those who are interested. It is actually on the Animal Planet channel.
I tuned it in, and Buster immediately focused on the barking, looking at the screen trying to figure out what was going on.
Now he and his sis, Bonnie, are wrassling.
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Occasionally, after one of the puppies has apparently done his business on the field, a referee appears and calls a penalty, then cleans up the poop. Really weird television.
Not just you, Ann. Paul looks bad.
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The only park I know of around those parts was Hazeltine Park north of Magnolia. Was it that far?
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Made it ma! Top of the world!
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Boy, that Super Bowl sure was exciting. Especially that one part when that one player did that thing with the ball. (Can you tell I didn't watch the game?) We were too busy playing cards and eating Carvel's ice cream cake. Yum!!
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That was a great part of the game, Sandra. Very eventful and skillful.
Time for ol' Rodzinski to hit the road to dreamland.
Steve Cochran is good in White Heat.
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"Puppy fowl, fifty yard-line!" Scoop!
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Did the Oriloes win today in the Superbowl, or was it the Red Sox?
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My goodness, we need some action, life, ha cha cha. We need some mambo Italiano!
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Kerry, I think it was Tiger Woods.
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Sandra, you may be right. I watched the Queer Eye Marathon, so I'll rely on your sports expertise.
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Sandra, you may be right. I watched the Queer Eye Marathon, so I'll rely on your sports expertise.
Uh oh.
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PHLEGM!
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I watched, and not guiltily received pleasure from, EUROTRIP. It's a cute teen comedy with a heart of gold, and gags that are actually funny. Not a great award-worthy flick, but, a fun way to avoid the Super Bowl. I was going to watch THE BOURNE IDENTITY, still, I did get to see the unbilled Matt Damon in EUROTRIP. . .not to mention Lucy Lawless and Joanna Lumley.
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My mom was watching the commercials. She says she liked the one about the parachuter.
How about a food report? We had all manner of food at the party. Assorted fruits, vegetables, and dips, ice cream cake, pizza, party mixes, chocolate-covered pretzels, and lots more that I can't remember. And there was some Jello, but no one was touching it.
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Hello gang!
I just got back from a retreat and am rested, rejuvenated, and much more appreciative of all the wonderful opportunities and amazing people in my life. (Forgive me if I'm overly touchy feely or emotional.) I am just extremely happy right now. I just wanted to check in since I've been so busy with school and Godspell (Coming up in a week and a half.) and all my various and sundry other responsibilities. I will share a picture of this lovely waterfall we went to that was about a five minute walk from the retreat center in a bit. It was really quite a wonderful weekend. i really, really needed to get away because I have been really stressed these past few weeks.
I am trying to finagle(sp?) my way to New York for Penny O's show, but I just found out today that y grandma is not doing so well. With my uncle facing liver failure and her ill health (She has a mild form of leukemia and just found out three of her vertebrae are fractured from osteoporosis along with many other medical troubles.) I may have to postpone my trip and spend my time and money to go visit them in Minnesota since waiting until summer vacation may be too late. Hopefully everything will work out though and I'll still get to make it to New York.
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Well, what good is Jell-o if you don't get to touch it?!?!?!
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I also need to ask a favor. A friend has asked me to get a small group together (4 to 8 people) to sing an satb choral piece in memory of the victims of cancer at the local Relay for Life in April. I am having a difficult time thinking of a piece that would be appropriate. Would any of you have any ideas or be able to point me in the right direction? Many thanks for any help!
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an satb
Ahhh you've got to love when you think phonetically! ;D
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Good Evening!
Back home in Richmond... This was a loooong day. I've just finished reading the posts, but I'm a bit too tired for some late-night denizening tonight...
DR Ann - There is nothing wrong with sleeping from 4:00am to 12 noon. ;)
DR Joey - Glad to hear you had a wonderful retreat. We used to have them in high school - I went a Catholic high school - and we used to go to this beautiful farm about an hour outside of DC. Sorry to hear about your grandparents' health, but your priorities are well and properly placed. Family first. :)
OK... Time for me to hit hay - especially since I think it's already been hitting me...
Goodnight.
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DRJoey hope your grandmother and uncle get better. Good vibes from me!
Hmmmmmmm....I am sure there are more musically inclined HHW'ers - but I will just throw out "To Where You Are" by Richard Marx and Linda Thompson that Josh Groban sang on his first CD.
Hmmmmmmmm......MBARNUM maybe they are releasing the TZ DVD's in waves and preparing them that way.
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Hmmmmm TWILIGHT ZONE Season Two the Definitive Collection is being released on March 29 - so maybe it is included in those. You might check an episode guide for the titles of Carolyn and William's episodes.
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I'm logey and thinking about popcorn.
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I'm trying to watch a Seijun Suzuki film, but I'm having trouble paying attention - no fault of the film. Perhaps I'll channel surf.
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I have school tomorrow, so I'd better go to sleep now so I don't sleep through History class tomorrow. I might miss whatever it is that makes this teacher so exciting.
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I meant to say the other night that I’ve been reading the AARP magazine since my Mom started getting it years ago. I always enjoy it. When I turn fifty, I will join so I can get it as well.
Danise, I'm only 38 but I've been getting join-up letters for a couple of years now! Even though they are sending me stuff, I don't think that they'd let me join, yet. ::)
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I watched, and not guiltily received pleasure from, EUROTRIP. It's a cute teen comedy with a heart of gold, and gags that are actually funny. Not a great award-worthy flick, but, a fun way to avoid the Super Bowl. I was going to watch THE BOURNE IDENTITY, still, I did get to see the unbilled Matt Damon in EUROTRIP. . .not to mention Lucy Lawless and Joanna Lumley.
I rented "Eurotrip" and enjoyed it, too. I didn't recognize Lucy Lawless, though. When I saw her, I knew she looked familiar, but I couldn't think of who she was. For the longest time the only person that I could think of who it might have been was Maria Shriver! And I thought, "could that possibly be Mrs. Arnold playing a Madam in a teen flick??" I actually had to watch the credits to find out!
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Well, I spent the entire day in bed...and I wasn't sick. My housemate had friends over and I just didn't want to be around people that I don't know watching some stupid game that I'm not interested in. So, I got 10 video tapes that were strewn about my VCRs (shows that I had taped, but hadn't watched yet) and watched seven of those tapes. I didn't watch every single moment on every tape, I just went through them all to see what I did want to watch and what I could tape over. I only have three tapes left. Those shouldn't take too long.
The weird thing is that I've had almost nothing to eat all day and I wasn't hungry (even before I ate dinner). I had pie for brunch, then two Snickers Marathon bars (sort of in between a regular Snickers candy bar and a power bar-type bar), and then about an hour ago I went to the store to get ingredients for Jane's peanut butter haystacks for a bake sale at work, and I drove through Jack in the Box and got two of their Southwest Chicken Pitas. I love these. I just wish that they were cheaper. $3.49 each is just too much for what you get. But that's all that I've had all day! Weird, huh?
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I can't concentrate on any more movies. I channel surfed. Funny how there isn't one watchable program in over 300 channels.
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Oh, and I went to have popcorn and it turns out that I bought Healthy Choice with BUTTER. Blechhh. I could smell that phony baloney butter the minute I opened the box and it almost made me vomit on the ground. I had soup instead.
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I forgot - this is The Time of the Wussburger.
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Had a swell time at the Superbowl party tonight. I liked a few of the commercials and the food was good. Oh yeah, there was a game of some kind.
Sure hope the phone repairman comes tomorrow morning and the repair is quick and free. Miracles are very slow, although appreciated.
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I don't know why, but this morning, I had this aural craving (if that makes sense) to listen to the soundtrack to "Xanadu" (which I have always loved), so I made MP3 files of the songs and put them on my MP3 player/watch. Since I was watching videos in bed all day, I didn't listen to it until just now. I love this recording. Olivia Newton-John sounds wonderful. And I love the ELO songs. Just had to share. ;D
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I haven't watched the movie in years, so my opinion of that does not affect my affection for the score. ;)
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Sad to be all alone in the world.
PHLEGM!
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Less than fifty posts until I reach a rather LARGE plateau.
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Has Ann caught up yet? Apparently not.
Welcome seven GUESTS. At least our GUESTS aren't WUSSBURGERS. New notes in six count them six minutes.
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Very well then.
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I shall post the new notes.
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But not before one final word: PHLEGM!