Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 17, 2019, 12:42:51 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes slept in, and now it is time for you to post until the sleeping in cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: USUFRUCT!
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The very next show after Stop the World is another Brit show, Beyond the Fringe. I always thought I saw that before Stop the World.
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And I cannot tell you all the musicals I missed seeing, basically because I didn't ever go downtown - Milk and Honey is about to play the Biltmore with all its Broadway cast, How to Succeed is coming shortly...
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And Yum Yum Tree, which I continue to see every now and then, is in its 97th week.
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August 21, The Caretakers opens - one of the theaters it plays is the Village in Westwood. I'd already seen it at a sneak preview a month before at the Bruin across the street. In the opening scene, Polly Bergen is walking down Westwood Blvd. and stops at the Bruin, goes in and goes berserk in the theater. Interesting sitting there watching a scene that was shot right there. But it plays across the street at the Village - go know.
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First after bk
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Of course I should be sleeping
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I have to wake up in 2 1/2 hours
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I have to wake up in 2 1/2 hours
Yikes! That's not sleep, that's a nap! 8)
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November 4 - The Time of the Barracudas opens at the Huntington Hartford, starring Laurence Harvey and Elaine Stritch - I love it, really love it. After its run, it is scheduled for Broadway - it closes here and that is the last anyone hears of it, as the playwright, so unhappy, refuses to ever let it be performed again.
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After over two years, Yum Yum Tree is in its final weeks - the film version with Jack Lemmon has just opened - and it is TERRIBLE. Completely unfunny, unlike the play I've seen many times. And I begin to think maybe Jack Lemmon is not as funny as I've thought - but everything prior to this has been brilliant - but from here on in I'm thinking he's just not as good as he was.
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And Charley's Aunt is at the Coronet Theater starring Steve Franken. I go - something I've never forgotten - curtain is held for twenty minutes because Mr. Franken is late - shooting a TV show, but will be there any minute. The show finally goes on and I adore it and think it's quite hilarious. But a few nights later I learn what real hilarity is: Tom Jones opens at the Beverly. So crowded that for the first and last time I'm forced to sit in the balcony. But I return many times and howl with laughter and drag all my high school friends to see it.
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After last night's show, a few of us went to a local restaurant called Octapas Cafe (https://octapascafe.com). I had the Cubano sandwich, which was pretty good except that I don't care for shredded meats. :P But I ate it. It was pressed like a pannini sandwich, so it wasn't very loose, but it wasn't too bad. Afterward, I came home and a friend texted me, and we got into a conversation that took longer than I expected.
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A few days after Time of the Barracudas opens, Virginia Woolf comes to the Biltmore - I'm already obsessed with it because of the LP, so I go and see the matinee cast, who are brilliant, as is the play and the production.
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And just in the nick of time, the Cinerama Dome is ready for the premiere of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I go during its third week, after a cataclysmic event is about to shake the country.
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Sundays and Cybele, which has moved around the city, comes to the Lido with The L-Shaped Room - of course I see it.
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A few days after Time of the Barracudas opens, Virginia Woolf comes to the Biltmore - I'm already obsessed with it because of the LP, so I go and see the matinee cast, who are brilliant, as is the play and the production.
A scene about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is featured prominently in Bunbury. ;)
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The morning edition of the Times, November 22, front page story - "Crowds hail Kennedy in Texas visit." The evening edition headline tells a quite different story, as you know. A quite different story. Many plays cancel performances that night.
No one can move or believe it. I write about this in Kritzer Time. I knew nothing of politics or politicians - I knew he was the president but that was about it. So, while no one can move or anything else, I go see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
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And Yum Yum Tree, in it's "last weeks" is suddenly sticking around because the movie was a flop.
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It's really interesting reading about all your movie memories, BK. I just don't have that kind of memory, at all.
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And now, I hate to do it, but I must get some sleep. I have to be at the theater in about 10 1/2 hours. After today's matinee,
I'm going to my parents' for our weekly family dinner. Then, I'll come back home for the evening.
Good night, BK, and have a good day, all!
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I turn sixteen and soon thereafter see a sneak preview of Frank Perry's Ladybug, Ladybug - I love it and go back several times when it opens a week later for what I thought was a very short run, but in reality three weeks.
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To close out the year we get The Cardinal at the Egyptian and the marvelous Charade at the Chinese and, on Christmas Day, my favorite of them all - Love With the Proper Stranger.
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And the number of ads for nudie cutie movies has become huge.
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A Thousand Clowns with Dane Clark comes to the Hartford, with original B'way star Barry Gordon, too. For some stupid reason I don't go. Understudy to Barry Gordon? Barry Pearl.
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Dr. Strangelove opens on February 19th. I'm there that evening to see it and I think it's automatically one of the greatest pictures I've ever seen, with some of the biggest laughs I've ever heard. I return about twenty times during its run.
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And something called High and Low has opened at the Beverly Canon, where I saw Sundays and Cybele. But I've never seen a Japanese film and I don't go.
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End of May, From Russia With Love opens. I don't see it, but will during the summer - many, many times.
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Remember I said Oscar Brown at the Music Box in the earlier 60s was too early for me to have seen him. Well, June 1964 he's back - and I go three times and meet him and he is so kind and wonderfully supportive - it's in Kritzer Time but it's something I've never forgotten.
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I see From Russia With Love because I am working part time at the Del Mar Theater on Pico, a real crap movie theater. I see it many times whilst ushering. The following week I see The Pink Panther many times, and the week after it's Viva Las Vegas - and then I quit.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, all.
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Tired this morning, but in a much better way than yesterday. It was so great falling asleep last night.
Feline contingent is fed and on the recliner with me.
COFFEE!
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A Thousand Clowns with Dane Clark comes to the Hartford, with original B'way star Barry Gordon, too. For some stupid reason I don't go. Understudy to Barry Gordon? Barry Pearl.
I love A THOUSAND CLOWNS...even the disjointed movie.
Back in the mid-1960s, I directed a production in the Redondo Beach/Torrance area. In fact, at that community theater's annual dinner, several of my actors won awards for their performances.
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Loving BK’s continued L.A. Times-assisted romp through a movies and plays paradise.
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So what does today hold for the likes of me?
Dusting and reshelving some books. (Who do I think I am all of a sudden? DR Elmore?)
Attending a Mahler Fifth — the execution of which might well be execrable, but I will nevertheless have a good time hearing the live performance and visiting with a few musician friends.
Cooking the veggies and warming the corned beef I cooked all afternoon and evening yesterday.
Eating same.
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Something I now wish I’d planned: some sort of big Irish-ish breakfast.
Which would probably be along the lines of a vixfamily style breakfast feast. Vixmom, don’t you make bangers and mash? Boy, would that hit the damned spot right about now.
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We watched SALLY (1929), with the legendary Marilyn Miller, last night .
I'd never seen her in anything before and, although she was certainly likable, I don't understand what the big deal was about her.
Her singing and dancing were okay, but nothing to get overly excited about.
The direction of the film was static, so perhaps what she did came across better on the stage than on film.
Also, it was originally a color movie, but except for one short sequence, the film is now in B&W. (The rest of the color negative is lost.)
Any thoughts?
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Good morning, all!
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I slept through the alarm again, so I think it's time for a new clock. I woke at 7:15 to Thatch's constant badgering about breakfast, fed them, reset the alarm for 8:30 to see if I would hear it, and went back to bed. Annabelle created a problem that forced me to get up at 8:20, so I have noi answers. As I was puttering about, I did hear the alarm ring at 8:30, but that was not what I had intended.
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Before I get back to work on the choral piece, I need to do some serious tidying up.
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Today is not only St Patrick's Day; it's also St Gertrude's day! Annabelle and Thatch are going over to Holy Trinity to light a candle.
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Here’s a Sunday question for the class:
What type of alarm clock or other device do you use?
Mine is an older, probably 1980s-vintage clock radio, a type I’ve always been comfortable with except for one feature, and that’s the fact that the time setting buttons are completely unguarded; i.e., you (or, let’s say, a cat) can accidentally change the current time setting at any time. If the design of these had included something else you had to hold down to change the time, like when you set the alarm, it would be perfect.
Most days I don’t have to set any alarm. (The cats come with an automatic person getter upper that is pretty much undefeatable.) But when I do, it’s the clock radio set to NPR, backed up by the iPhone set to five minutes later.
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St. Gertrude!
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DR George, that was a nice review! Is Ethan Bujeaud Pug's son?
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It's this one:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_el_space_saver_fmam_electronic_digital_7_4624a.html
I didn't have this myself in the '80s. I probably had some newer-fangled thing then, don't remember now, but I do know that in the 1990s I tried two different modernistic gray Sony models, BOTH of which managed to break or fail somehow, and I gave up on them. At some point I found this one at a tag or estate sale and snatched it up for a dollar. That was probably 15-20 years ago, and it still serves me perfectly well.
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I slept through the alarm again, so I think it's time for a new clock. I woke at 7:15 to Thatch's constant badgering about breakfast, fed them, reset the alarm for 8:30 to see if I would hear it, and went back to bed. Annabelle created a problem that forced me to get up at 8:20, so I have noi answers. As I was puttering about, I did hear the alarm ring at 8:30, but that was not what I had intended.
Try setting the alarm on your phone clock for 5 minutes after your regular clock.
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I have a clock I got from Radio Shack a few years ago. I can see the time in the dark without putting my glasses on. Keith has the Bose radio/CD clock.
Neither of us set an alarm on these anymore. We ask Alexa to set an alarm. If we need a backup for an early alarm we use one or both of our cellphones.
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Today is not only St Patrick's Day; it's also St Gertrude's day! Annabelle and Thatch are going over to Holy Trinity to light a candle.
😊
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I can see this time display in the dark and without my glasses on if I squint just the right way.
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LOL as long as you can see it.
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DR TCB I hope you feel better today.
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Ladies and germs, a special announcement:
The work on the bookshelves has been postponed until tomorrow. Much activity going on here today, and I can get it all torn apart and reconstructed when I’m home alone.
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Enjoy your day.
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LOL!
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I just applied for adoption of the beautiful Mia and then sent the agency a message that she deserved better than me; I was too old, and she needed an active loving family. It breaks my heart, but it was the right thing to do.
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Something I now wish I’d planned: some sort of big Irish-ish breakfast.
Which would probably be along the lines of a vixfamily style breakfast feast. Vixmom, don’t you make bangers and mash? Boy, would that hit the damned spot right about now.
Something I now wish I’d planned: some sort of big Irish-ish breakfast.
Which would probably be along the lines of a vixfamily style breakfast feast. Vixmom, don’t you make bangers and mash? Boy, would that hit the damned spot right about now.
Not mashed because Vixdad doesn't care for it so it's bangers and oven roasted new potatoes.
I forgot to go to Trader Joe's to buy the Irish bangers they only carry this time of the year. I wonder if they'll have any left today
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Nice clock.
I have a small electronic clock with BIG numbers that I can see without my glasses....but I now have my phone nearby so I can see it..... I don't have any place to go, so I don't have to set an alarm.
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Here’s a Sunday question for the class:
What type of alarm clock or other device do you use?
Mine is an older, probably 1980s-vintage clock radio, a type I’ve always been comfortable with except for one feature, and that’s the fact that the time setting buttons are completely unguarded; i.e., you (or, let’s say, a cat) can accidentally change the current time setting at any time. If the design of these had included something else you had to hold down to change the time, like when you set the alarm, it would be perfect.
Most days I don’t have to set any alarm. (The cats come with an automatic person getter upper that is pretty much undefeatable.) But when I do, it’s the clock radio set to NPR, backed up by the iPhone set to five minutes later.
I use my cell phone these days
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I can see this time display in the dark and without my glasses on if I squint just the right way.
I can see the time on my cell phone in the dark without my glasses if I hold it three inches from my face
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DR JEANNE my cousin uses the Zilis Ultra Cell Full Spectrum Hemp Oil.....but it isn't topical, you drink it. But the company may have other products....for pain, etc.
Here's the website, they do have a topical ointment.
https://zilis.com/the-products/
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DR DRUXY I saw the end of SALLY and thought pretty much the same thing you did.
Her toe dancing was bad and her turns were lopsided....maybe onstage she was much better...... The static direction didn't help any....but after all it was 1929!
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DR VIXMOM what was that tv show you were talking about the other day? With the prosthetic appendage?
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DR VIXMOM what was that tv show you were talking about the other day? With the prosthetic appendage?
American Gods.. the Jin had bruised knees
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I woke up at 7 am, conducted my morning abulations and headed to church
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As usual, I was the first to arrive, started the coffee pots, set the altar for communion and was pleased to receive volunteers to handle serving at coffeehour
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Served as a communion assistant and reset the altar fir the next service
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LOL I was looking for something to watch last night.....I watched part of an episode of AG, but didn't see that particular moment. I shall try a different episode.
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But first I think I will make some chili.
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Good morning.
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Liver!
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Yesterday before I took the girls to the concert, we watched a fairly new version of The Miracle Worker on Youtube.
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Then I dropped the girls off downtown, and they saw a performance of Star Wars with the symphony orchestra playing the music.
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Chili is done.....
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The cow was loose in Noblesville yesterday.
https://fox59.com/2019/03/17/moo-ve-over-cow-on-the-run-in-noblesville-yesterday/
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Good morning/afternoon!
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DR Jane--Celine looked great the other night.
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DR FJL--No, Celine didn't mention the size of the venue.
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So last night we saw Cher. She was terrific! I think I enjoyed the show even better than her last show, which I saw just about two years ago. She's one-of-a-kind.
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Good morning.
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I think I am better today. I no longer have the chills. Yesterday I couldn't stop shaking.
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Feel better vibes for poor TCB
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Occasionally one or the other of you u mentions having unauthorized film of a live Broadway performance.
Would anyone know where one might find such a thing specifically the NY Cast of Lazarus? I know it was filmed and the film was shown last year in Brooklyn, one night only, but the promised blu ray has not materialized....
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Feel better vibes for poor TCB
Thank you.
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I have an old clock radio (from my employment days), but I have only used the alarm twice in the past seven years. It doesn't tell time very well. I keep saying I am going to buy an atomic clock, but I never do.
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I just applied for adoption of the beautiful Mia and then sent the agency a message that she deserved better than me; I was too old, and she needed an active loving family. It breaks my heart, but it was the right thing to do.
It was and I wish it wasn't.
DR elmore I know you want to adopt a dog, and it would be wonderful. Please don't forget about the vet bills. What if the cost of a dog kept you from being able to afford necessary treatment for Annabelle & Thatch.
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When we couldn't afford the pet bills we basically went without food in order to pay them. I remember baking bread and taking it for lunch at work.
We also had family near by to feed us occasionally.
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I could not easily do that today.
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I can see this time display in the dark and without my glasses on if I squint just the right way.
I can see the time on my cell phone in the dark without my glasses if I hold it three inches from my face
;D Plus you have to pick it up to do that. I like rolling over in bed and easily looking at the clock.
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DR Laura's quote ""I saw you put that turkey in the oven. I know there's a liver for me here somewhere."
-- Rex the Cat, under my feet in the kitchen"
:D :)
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Vibes for TCB.
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The cow was loose in Noblesville yesterday.
https://fox59.com/2019/03/17/moo-ve-over-cow-on-the-run-in-noblesville-yesterday/
Good for the cow :)
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DR Jane--Celine looked great the other night.
Thank you. She has always been thin so I don't know what the big deal is.
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I think I am better today. I no longer have the chills. Yesterday I couldn't stop shaking.
I am glad you are better. Stay that way!
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I just ordered a new clock with large-size time and current date. It says it is perfect for dementia patients, so it should be good for the rest of my life.
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Continue to feel better vibes for DR TCB!
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Vibes for TCB.
Thanks Kevin. How much longer are you in Vegas?
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I think I am better today. I no longer have the chills. Yesterday I couldn't stop shaking.
I am glad you are better. Stay that way!
Thanks
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Continue to feel better vibes for DR TCB!
Thank you. I can't help wondering if it was a nervous reaction to buying that condo?
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Wait, you purchased a condo!?!?
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Continue to feel better vibes for DR TCB!
Thank you. I can't help wondering if it was a nervous reaction to buying that condo?
WHAT?? CONGRATS, TOM!! :D
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How can you drop that major tidbit of info and just leave?? We know we all want details!
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Today is not only St Patrick's Day; it's also St Gertrude's day! Annabelle and Thatch are going over to Holy Trinity to light a candle.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5709.0;attach=8968)
I didn't know that...not that I know much of anything about saints. ::)
;)
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Here’s a Sunday question for the class:
What type of alarm clock or other device do you use?
Mine is an older, probably 1980s-vintage clock radio, a type I’ve always been comfortable with except for one feature, and that’s the fact that the time setting buttons are completely unguarded; i.e., you (or, let’s say, a cat) can accidentally change the current time setting at any time. If the design of these had included something else you had to hold down to change the time, like when you set the alarm, it would be perfect.
Most days I don’t have to set any alarm. (The cats come with an automatic person getter upper that is pretty much undefeatable.) But when I do, it’s the clock radio set to NPR, backed up by the iPhone set to five minutes later.
I use my old flip cell phone as my alarm clock. I can set three different alarms at three different times with three different alarm sounds...even my own music choices that I add to the memory card.
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Wait, you purchased a condo!?!?
Continue to feel better vibes for DR TCB!
Thank you. I can't help wondering if it was a nervous reaction to buying that condo?
WHAT?? CONGRATS, TOM!! :D
How can you drop that major tidbit of info and just leave?? We know we all want details!
No, no no. I was planning on buying the condo yesterday if I really liked it. I haven't seen it except in pictures.
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I also have another alarm clock on one side of my bed that I never use as an alarm, but it has a two-inch display that I can easily see the time without my glasses. I also have a non-alarm clock that also has a two-inch display that I can easily see the time without my glasses on the other side of my bed so that I don't have to roll over to see the time, no matter which side I'm facing. ;)
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Wait, you purchased a condo!?!?
Continue to feel better vibes for DR TCB!
Thank you. I can't help wondering if it was a nervous reaction to buying that condo?
WHAT?? CONGRATS, TOM!! :D
How can you drop that major tidbit of info and just leave?? We know we all want details!
No, no no. I was planning on buying the condo yesterday if I really liked it. I haven't seen it except in pictures.
Ohhh...well, that's not what it seemed like. I hope you like it! Where is it?
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DR George, that was a nice review! Is Ethan Bujeaud Pug's son?
Yes, he is. The first time Theater Artists Olympia did Cannibal: The Musical in 2006 (Bunbury is at Olympia Little Theatre), Ethan was in that and he was around 7 years old. He's now 19.
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(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5709.0;attach=8969)
:))
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Feel better vibes for poor TCB
~~~Ditto!!~~~
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Wait, you purchased a condo!?!?
Continue to feel better vibes for DR TCB!
Thank you. I can't help wondering if it was a nervous reaction to buying that condo?
WHAT?? CONGRATS, TOM!! :D
How can you drop that major tidbit of info and just leave?? We know we all want details!
No, no no. I was planning on buying the condo yesterday if I really liked it. I haven't seen it except in pictures.
Ohhh...well, that's not what it seemed like. I hope you like it! Where is it?
South Hill, well almost Graham.
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I have no idea where that is...but if you like it (and can afford it), that's all that matters. :)
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And now, I need to take a shower, get dressed and get my butt (and the rest of me) to the theater.
Be back later!
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George, are you already at the theater?
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I have no idea where that is...but if you like it (and can afford it), that's all that matters. :)
South Hill is Puyallup.
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George, are you already at the theater?
You answered that question.
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DR DRUXY I saw the end of SALLY and thought pretty much the same thing you did.
Her toe dancing was bad and her turns were lopsided....maybe onstage she was much better...... The static direction didn't help any....but after all it was 1929!
I'll third that review. But I did like the music.
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let's move on ...
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Five!
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One year ago today, my beloved friend, Jim, died of a massive heart attack. We had talked on the phone on Tuesday night for over an hour, and when we hung up, he promised to call me Sunday night. Of course, he never called. It was over a month before his niece emailed me that Jim had died. She found my email address when she went to Phoenix to settle his affairs.
His niece,Kelly, sent me this photo today of Jim and Michel Legrand at her house a couple of years ago.
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Both of them are gone now.
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I now have to deal with Annabelle and Thatch both playing on my worktable while I'm trying to write. I've accomplished very little today.
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Good afternoon.
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DR Elmore, I know you want to save all the animals. But I think that your studio apartment with two cats is a full house already.
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DR Elmore, I know you want to save all the animals. But I think that your studio apartment with two cats is a full house already.
I know. There still might be a third cat. I tried to get a Siamese a month ago.
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DR Laura, how's Leonard?
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I was just thinking of Leonard as well.
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Continued feeling better vibes for DR TCB.
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How can you drop that major tidbit of info and just leave?? We know we all want details!
[/quoI just ordered a new clock with large-size time and current date. It says it is perfect for dementia patients, so it should be good for the rest of my life.
;D
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I did that laughing face correctly so I can't get it out of the quote box.
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How can you drop that major tidbit of info and just leave?? We know we all want details!
I know-lol
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I was confused as I thought DR TCB planned to view it today.
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Sunday condo viewing vibes for DR TCB. I look forward to news this afternoon.
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I also have another alarm clock on one side of my bed that I never use as an alarm, but it has a two-inch display that I can easily see the time without my glasses. I also have a non-alarm clock that also has a two-inch display that I can easily see the time without my glasses on the other side of my bed so that I don't have to roll over to see the time, no matter which side I'm facing. ;)
Smart placing of your clocks.
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TCB, that was a wonderful photo that Jim's niece sent you.
I hope you're feeling better.
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DR Elmore, I know you want to save all the animals. But I think that your studio apartment with two cats is a full house already.
I completely agree plus you would be lucky to establish harmony between 3 pets. Don't forget how difficult it was when you got Thatch.
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George, are you already at the theater?
I am now. We had some technical problems with the sound/images again and had to hold the house for about 20 minutes. :o
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep. I was up for an hour or so around eight-thirty, and didn't fall asleep until almost five.
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DR TCB it is a nice photo you received today, and thoughtful on this first anniversary :(
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Fortunately, it got fixed and the show has been flawless. None of the audience seemed to have complained. Also fortunately, it's general admission/festival seating, so people can easily sit wherever they want.
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One thing I've learned from this wacky newspaper journey - once the Stadium was gone, I only went to the Picfair a handful of times - saw Pocketful of Miracles there, One, Two, Three there, and A Hard Day's Night there, and that was it. I went to the Lido pretty regularly until we moved to Beverlywood, and then it was very sporadic. Once we moved, I pretty much only went to first class theaters. I can't tell you the number of films where I think "that's not where I saw it" only to realized I'd seen a sneak preview at another theater - Dirty Dozen was that way, so was The Prize, Molly Brown, Toys in the Attic, Adrian Messenger, Experiment in Terror, etc.
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Leonard is fat.
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Dear reader ChasSmith wrote a lovey Amazon review of the new book - he got the Kindle edition. Here's what he wrote.
5.0 out of 5 stars A magical mystery tour through Hollywood!
March 16, 2019
Format: Hardcover
Bruce Kimmel and Adriana Hofstetter have done it again!
Hollywood's Magic Castle must be the most amazing venue. Throughout my reading of this delightful murder mystery, I regretted not having sought admittance (it's a VERY private club) during the years I lived in and around Hollywood. But I wouldn't have appreciated it then like I would now.
Kimmel provides some interesting details about the general ambiance and the day-to-day workings of the place, which only makes you want more. And like all of the Adriana books, it's populated with the usual delightful characters and authentic Hollywood detail.
A book's success can sometimes be measured in how effectively its author gets the subject matter under the reader's skin. As this story unfolded, I found myself planning on seeking out more info on the Magic Castle itself, and especially on the various categories of magic performance -- something I've always enjoyed, but always in the most casual way, never giving a second thought to it.
Murder at the Magic Castle is a sight for sore eyes for readers who haven't devoured an Adriana Hofstetter mystery in a while. If you've never read one yourself, what are you waiting for? You can start with any of them. Start with this one!
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I'm glad you understand, Elmore. Also, dogs are a lot more work than cats.
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One year ago today, my beloved friend, Jim, died of a massive heart attack. We had talked on the phone on Tuesday night for over an hour, and when we hung up, he promised to call me Sunday night. Of course, he never called. It was over a month before his niece emailed me that Jim had died. She found my email address when she went to Phoenix to settle his affairs.
His niece,Kelly, sent me this photo today of Jim and Michel Legrand at her house a couple of years ago.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5709.0;attach=8971)
Nice picture. :)
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Ideally, I would have a similar-aged kitty here for Leonard to play with so he would leave Rex alone. But three cats is too many for my house again.
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Back to watching Riverdale. I really am having fun with it.
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Leonard is fat.
Are you spoiling him?
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I don't feel like doing much today.
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Six!
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Ideally, I would have a similar-aged kitty here for Leonard to play with so he would leave Rex alone. But three cats is too many for my house again.
I have Neve only. I don't think that she would like another cat in the house. The next time, I think I'll get a couple at the same time.
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And now, we're at the last scene. We had a good show with a good audience.
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I'm glad you understand, Elmore. Also, dogs are a lot more work than cats.
The gods are cruel. Little 33 lb Scooter, whom I had thought about adopting from the New York ACC has been put on their kill list for Tuesday afternoon. I may have to adopt him to save his life.
What I hope is that someone will rescue him tomorrow, but if he's not rescued before noon on Tuesday, I will apply for him, just to save him.
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After the show, I'm off to my parents' house.
Be back later!
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Ideally, I would have a similar-aged kitty here for Leonard to play with so he would leave Rex alone. But three cats is too many for my house again.
I'm really happy that, with all the tsuris I adopted, Thatch. He and annabelle are great together.
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Nice photo from DR TCB.
Great book review!
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In the complete entirety of my whole long, long life I have never attended a sneak preview of a movie.
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Had Taco Bell for lunch.
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I learned the truth at seventeen: My movie tastes have completely changed after I graduate high school. I'm doing High Spirits, the final show at Bluth Brothers (and listed in the Times), but I'm no longer running to see the big 70mm movies. I don't go to Cleopatra, 55 Days at Peking, or The Agony and the Ecstasy. Instead I'm all over What's New, Pussycat, The Collector, and small films. In September I start LACC, but sill manage to go to San Bernardino to see Tammy Grimes in Molly Brown in the round. Virginia Woolf comes back to the old Ritz Theater, now the Lindy Opera House, starring Vicky Cummings and Kendall Clark - Mr. Clark was the matinee George when I first saw the show at the Biltmore, which, BTW, has closed and is about to be torn down. Virginia Woolf also plays a few small theaters. And Yum Yum Tree, which closed at the Ivar after over two and a half years, suddenly returns to the Legrand, but not the same production so I don't see it there. But in October it reopens at the Coronet, with Del Close, James Best, and Brigit Hanley - of course I go, but it no longer seems quite as funny as before. And The Loved One and Repulsion are about to open and I go to both and love both.
Oh, and an off-B'way musical comes to the Las Palmas and I go and love that - The Amorous Flea starring Lew Parker and a young actor who I'll later become friends with - Philip Proctor.
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On 12/8 I turn eighteen. And two days later I have a new obsession: A Patch of Blue. I buy the soundtrack after seeing it and play it every night at the apartment I'm in, which is horrible. Disgustingly horrible. I'll soon be out of there. My total time there is probably four weeks but a long four weeks.
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I'm cast in Peter Pan at Melodyland as an Indian and other bits. Jane Powell is to play Peter but won't rehearse until just a few days before the 12/19 opening. I survive one rehearsal and it's painfully obvious I will not be able to get there as whoever's car I borrowed to get there for the one rehearsal will not be obliging me again. It's sad, but there's nothing to do about it.
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More and more tentpole films are opening on Friday - it's becoming - a trend. And the Encore on Melrose has become what in essence would later be called a revival house.
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Jane Powell IS Peter Pan.
Great tagline that would have been.
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Jrand, thank you for the CBD information. Their sleep product looks interesting, as well as the topical.
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I hope TCB is feeling much better today.
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DR Elmore, have you talked to Annabelle and Thatch about getting a dog? I fear that Thatch would be quite frightened and Annabelle most indignant.
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Leonard is fat.
Oh no!
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New Year's Eve - I'm at some party in Beverly Hills. I have no way back to my apartment, which is in Silver Lake somewhere, I think. Nor do I want to go back. I leave the party around two and walk around Beverly Hills for hours - this is a Saturday. When stores open I go in and look around and kill time until two when I go see The Slender Thread at the Stanley Warner Beverly Hills. The credits come on then the first scene and I immediately fall asleep for the duration of the film. I go home to the Beverlywood house and sleep in my own bed that night.
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Here’s a Sunday question for the class:
What type of alarm clock or other device do you use?
Mine is an older, probably 1980s-vintage clock radio, a type I’ve always been comfortable with except for one feature, and that’s the fact that the time setting buttons are completely unguarded; i.e., you (or, let’s say, a cat) can accidentally change the current time setting at any time. If the design of these had included something else you had to hold down to change the time, like when you set the alarm, it would be perfect.
Most days I don’t have to set any alarm. (The cats come with an automatic person getter upper that is pretty much undefeatable.) But when I do, it’s the clock radio set to NPR, backed up by the iPhone set to five minutes later.
for decades I had an AM/FM clock radio. These days I have a little battery-operated Seiko alarm clock. I like it because it's easy to read in the dark and it won't fail if the power's out. I seldom use the alarm, but there is the occasional early doctor or dentist appointment. (Such indignity!)
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I'm glad you understand, Elmore. Also, dogs are a lot more work than cats.
And more likely to cause you to trip and fall.
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Ideally, I would have a similar-aged kitty here for Leonard to play with so he would leave Rex alone. But three cats is too many for my house again.
I have Neve only. I don't think that she would like another cat in the house. The next time, I think I'll get a couple at the same time.
An excellent idea.
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If I were to adopt a cat again I would look for an already attached pair.
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My eyes really don't want to deal with cats again :(
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In the complete entirety of my whole long, long life I have never attended a sneak preview of a movie.
I used to usher for them at the Bruin Theater. They could be fun.
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A very nice review from DR ChasSmith.
We have been to the Magic Castle, once in the evening with friends and once on a Sunday afternoon with the boys. They were very different experiences.
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I don't feel like doing much today.
Me either.
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Here’s a Sunday question for the class:
What type of alarm clock or other device do you use?
Mine is an older, probably 1980s-vintage clock radio, a type I’ve always been comfortable with except for one feature, and that’s the fact that the time setting buttons are completely unguarded; i.e., you (or, let’s say, a cat) can accidentally change the current time setting at any time. If the design of these had included something else you had to hold down to change the time, like when you set the alarm, it would be perfect.
Most days I don’t have to set any alarm. (The cats come with an automatic person getter upper that is pretty much undefeatable.) But when I do, it’s the clock radio set to NPR, backed up by the iPhone set to five minutes later.
for decades I had an AM/FM clock radio. These days I have a little battery-operated Seiko alarm clock. I like it because it's easy to read in the dark and it won't fail if the power's out. I seldom use the alarm, but there is the occasional early doctor or dentist appointment. (Such indignity!)
I do hate those early morning appointments. Having one car between us I often try to get them so I can return early.
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It is 67 degrees here and sunny, a lovely day for walks :)
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A post. Just because.
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Seven!
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You posted that, Laura, just to show off that photo.
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Two episodes of Riverdale left.
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Yup!
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Molly Ringwald has shown up in the last couple of episodes. She's still a very good actress, but I wonder if she's had botox or something. Her face looks odd.
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I also think you'd have trouble in the house, Elmore, if you introduce a dog. Thatch would be terrified.
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TCB, Jane and George: My friend Pam is having a birthday next week. She and her husband are traveling to the northwest and Vancouver. I thought it might be nice to get her a book from a writer from the region. Any suggestions of someone other than Ken Kesey?
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The book doesn't have to be about the area or even set in the area.
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I'm glad you understand, Elmore. Also, dogs are a lot more work than cats.
The gods are cruel. Little 33 lb Scooter, whom I had thought about adopting from the New York ACC has been put on their kill list for Tuesday afternoon. I may have to adopt him to save his life.
What I hope is that someone will rescue him tomorrow, but if he's not rescued before noon on Tuesday, I will apply for him, just to save him.
Elmore,
Please save Scooter.
But, with all due respect, please don't post about these poor animals that are being murdered.
There is nothing that any of us can really do about it, and hearing about these upcoming murders just makes people feel like shit!
Thank you.
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Listening to music and relaxing.
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My friend Deb has taken it as her mission to make me into a Beatles fan. I don't dislike their music, I just never got into it. So, she gave me 13 of their albums on CD as a belated Christmas present. I'm listening now to the Beatles' Second Album, which has some fun stuff on it, including Money and Please, Mr. Postman, in both mono and stereo. I admit I'm enjoying it.
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And with that, I'm off to bed. Good night, all.
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Two films I was absolutely sure I saw at the Village in Westwood, The High and the Mighty and The Tender Trap - unless I saw them as previews there, which could certainly be as my parents took me to sneak previews as far back as 1954, when I saw Target Earth as a preview, then I in fact saw both films at the Picwood, which seems really odd to me, but...
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A post. Just because.
Because your grandson is just so darn cute. I love the hat 😊
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Yup!
LOL and I am glad you did.
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TCB, Jane and George: My friend Pam is having a birthday next week. She and her husband are traveling to the northwest and Vancouver. I thought it might be nice to get her a book from a writer from the region. Any suggestions of someone other than Ken Kesey?
Do you mean the other Vancouver?
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Jamie Ford who wrote HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, which I highly reccomend, grew up in Ashland and Seattle.
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Currently he lives in Montana.
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When I purchased the book I lucked out and got the last book he had signed for the Ashland book store.
I also enjoyed his other two books.
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My friend Deb has taken it as her mission to make me into a Beatles fan. I don't dislike their music, I just never got into it. So, she gave me 13 of their albums on CD as a belated Christmas present. I'm listening now to the Beatles' Second Album, which has some fun stuff on it, including Money and Please, Mr. Postman, in both mono and stereo. I admit I'm enjoying it.
I still am not into their music.
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In the complete entirety of my whole long, long life I have never attended a sneak preview of a movie.
Just last month, I saw a sneak preview of Alita: Battle Angel. I saw it just a few days before it officially opened.
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DR George might be familiar with Jim Lynch who lives in Olympia. I have read a couple of his books.
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DR George might be familiar with Jim Lynch who lives in Olympia. I have read a couple of his books.
Yes, I know who he is. A few years ago, my library chose one of his books as our "Timberland Reads Together" title.
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I didn't read it, though. ::)
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DR George might be familiar with Jim Lynch who lives in Olympia. I have read a couple of his books.
Yes, I know who he is. A few years ago, my library chose one of his books as our "Timberland Reads Together" title.
I looked it up. The book was THE HIGHEST TIDE which I discussed with my Ashland book group.
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My friend Deb has taken it as her mission to make me into a Beatles fan. I don't dislike their music, I just never got into it. So, she gave me 13 of their albums on CD as a belated Christmas present. I'm listening now to the Beatles' Second Album, which has some fun stuff on it, including Money and Please, Mr. Postman, in both mono and stereo. I admit I'm enjoying it.
My friend and neighbor Christian Carvajal has published several books: Lightfall (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982485522/), C Is for Collection (https://www.amazon.com/dp/198694767X/), and Rereading the Bible: Agnostic Insights into Genesis, the Gospels, and Revelation (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083UI45W/). He also has written Mr. Klein's Wild Ride (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692759026/) under the pseudonym of Lynn Savage.
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Have you read any of the books? They look interesting but not really my cup of tea.
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Speaking of reading.....
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'night
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Have you read any of the books? They look interesting but not really my cup of tea.
Umm...actually, I haven't read any of them.
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::)
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Good evening.