Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 16, 2022, 12:25:32 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of Finishing the Book 22, and now it is time for you to post until the 22 cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SANGUINE!
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Congrats, again, on finishing your Book #22!!
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This is cute...A Cat and a Box: If I Fits, I Sits! (https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/cs-cats-in-boxes/)! ;D
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I took a hot shower and figured out a much better last three pages, so I just wrote them while it was fresh in my mind, and just before doing that, I revised the eight pages before it, because I got a really good idea for it. So, I think all that really helped, and now tomorrow I won't have to do those pages, other than maybe smooth them out.
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Good morning, friends.
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CONGRATULATIONS, bk, on finishing the book! Quite an accomplishment.
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Good morning, all!
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Last night was one of the most hellish nights I've ever had. I turned off the lightds at 9:15 and fell right to sleep. Two hours later, I awoke with awful pains in my right leg. I finally took an opiate Tramodol, which dd nothing to alleviate the situation. The next six hours seemed like sixty. I tossed, turned, dozed on occasion, and the pains never stopped.
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I have some necessary housecleaning to accomplish today, and then, as I will tomorrow, I plan to do little as possible.
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I first saw JK Simmons in 1990 in the Houston Grand Opera production of Carousel, still the absolutely best production of Carousel I've seen since the 1966 Lincoln Center production with John Raitt. I next saw him in the wonderful Evans-Holzman musical Birds of Paradise. I would occasionally see him on the Upper West Side, but we never met. I was really happy for him when his career took off.
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I am so thankful that Birds of Paradise was recorded.
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I am so thankful that Birds of Paradise was recorded.
Me, too. I saw the show at least six times in its brief run, and taped four or five complete performances in case it did not get a professional recording.
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On Friday night, my friend Martin Yates conducted the City of Birmingham Orchestra in an all-Sondheim concert. I had three pieces on the program.
https://cbso.co.uk/event/sondheim-broadway-baby-1
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Hello to one and all! There's a new Broadway Radio Show posted on the website...this edition is a look back at the Ella Fitzgerald Song Books which are filled with wonderful Show tunes...enjoy!
http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
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Good morning, all.
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Congratulations on finishing the book, BK.
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Playing bells this morning.
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Elmore, they prescribed Tramadol this week after the tooth extraction. Thankfully I never had to take any.
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It's a brutally ugly day here in Johnston SC.
We haven't had any snow, but I can hear the freezing rain as it hits against the window.
There isn't any accumulation. It's just at 33 degrees with a wind chill of 21 degrees.
Advisories beg us all to stay in today if at all possible.
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Good morning.
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Happy Sunday, everyone.
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Good morning.
Good day.
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Tramodol isn't really an opioid; it's a synthetic. At least that's my understanding. I don't find it does a thing by itself, so I take Advil with it. Then it helps.
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Good morning, Ron.
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Today a marathon has my neighborhood closed off. I usually get so annoyed that I find some project that will keep me busy all day so I don't think about it. One year I made my first croquembouche. That took all day.
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Now I'm so used to being home, it doesn't mean a thing.
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However, we had 25,000 cases of covid reported yesterday. I don't see how packing a lot of people together can possibly be a good thing.
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One thing I do worry about, though: what if there is a medical emergency? It would take so long for emergency services to get through.
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That's about a week's worth of posts for me!
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Tramodol isn't really an opioid; it's a synthetic. At least that's my understanding. I don't find it does a thing by itself, so I take Advil with it. Then it helps.
So, that’s why they told me to take both. Thanks, Laura.
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Two!
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Good morning, all.
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The book is finished! Yay!!
So these should be in our mailboxes, when? Would you say by Friday?
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I was just watching J.K. Simmons yesterday in the movie The Accountant. He's just simply great.
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I am both relieved and disappointed: We have rescheduled our Sunday brunch until next Sunday.
It simply isn't worth the possible danger of driving to brunch on roads that are not being treated for ice. We don't get sufficient wintry precipitation to merit road salt or whatever they use nowadays. Here, we just wait for the ice to melt.
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Once again, I find myself solo on this here site with no one, not even a lurking guest, to address.
Ah, me.
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Sharing this for the winter ahead:
(http://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/RonPulliam/.highres/HoneyCure.jpg)
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The last time I went to brunch was on my birthday in 2015!! I was taken to Brenda's French Soul Food, a wonderful little place that was very popular. This is what I had: Eggs Benedict with Fried Chicken and a bowl of Grits.
(http://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/RonPulliam/.highres/Eggs%20Benedict%20at%20Brendas.jpg)
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I think J.K. Simmons first made an impression on me in The Ref, though I knew his name a voice from Guys and Dolls and Birds of Paradise.
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Congrats to MR BK on finishing the hat.....I mean.....book.
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I am flattered to be included in DR CHAS SMITH's dream - but the rumors of my shortness have been greatly exaggerated.
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It is 19 degrees now and temps are expected to reach 34 degrees later today.
Which is fine with me.
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Beautiful food, Ron. It’s making me hungry.
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Just watched the Signature tribute to Sondheim.
I've now had my six-month quota of out-of-tune singing and straining for notes, thank you very much.
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Not to mention a few lyric flubs.
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Congrats, again, on finishing your Book #22!!
Ditto!
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DR John your cake looks yummy.
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It's a brutally ugly day here in Johnston SC.
We haven't had any snow, but I can hear the freezing rain as it hits against the window.
There isn't any accumulation. It's just at 33 degrees with a wind chill of 21 degrees.
Advisories beg us all to stay in today if at all possible.
Today Now I'm so used to being home, it doesn't mean a thing.
Sad, I am sure you miss the days it was annoying.
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Watching Reich and Sondheim from Lincoln Center. Not as fond of Reich's music as I am of Sondheim's, but the talk is great. So is Kate Baldwin.
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However, we had 25,000 cases of covid reported yesterday. I don't see how packing a lot of people together can possibly be a good thing.
I would think not.
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I am both relieved and disappointed: We have rescheduled our Sunday brunch until next Sunday.
It simply isn't worth the possible danger of driving to brunch on roads that are not being treated for ice. We don't get sufficient wintry precipitation to merit road salt or whatever they use nowadays. Here, we just wait for the ice to melt.
I watched for this news before asking. I know you were looking forward to it. May everyone stay healthy throughout the week.
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Sharing this for the winter ahead:
(http://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/RonPulliam/.highres/HoneyCure.jpg)
Hmmm, I should have put cinnamon in my cereal. Honey makes my throat itch.
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It's a beautiful day here. I took a long walk, then I moseyed over to the church where the marathon people were packing up their stuff.
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This surprised me, because I know we did not grant permission for them to set up on our property. I texted the steward chair, and she said we did not.
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Sunday afternoon greetings! Another quiet day here. We might get grazed by the big winter storm, but it’s not anything we’re worried about.
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So, though they didn't have permission, did they move, Laura?
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So, is this the version of Anything Goes that's going to be in theaters in March?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GDqyAIFRE
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This surprised me, because I know we did not grant permission for them to set up on our property. I texted the steward chair, and she said we did not.
Sigh. I think you should send the marathon people a bill.
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So, though they didn't have permission, did they move, Laura?
I walked over after the marathon had passed through. They were packing up.
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I think we should put up no trespassing signs next year.
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep.
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I think we should put up no trespassing signs next year.
That might be a good idea. I wonder if it will work. You might try complaining the the marathon organizers this year.
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And when you miscast, this is what you get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmbC5L5wWo
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And when you miscast, this is what you get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmbC5L5wWo
What the F?!
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Wow.... that's.... ....something.
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It's not Marion, though.
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Wow.... that's.... ....something.
Yes, it is...but I ain't saying what I think it is. No sir.
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Had a nice Zoom chat this afternoon with some like-minded film music fans.
And then, a surprise phone call just pleased me to no end as an old friend caught me up on her life over the past four months.
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The day remains, uniformly, gray, dismal and coldish. Temp is 36 degrees. Low is expected to be 30 degrees and all of whatever is left on the roads, water-wise, will freeze over for a fun MLK Jr. holiday.
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I has stocked my larder with multiple cans of Mrs. Fearnow's Brunswick Stew.
I am a HUGE brunswick stew fan, going back to my childhood. A local community used to have a vat of stew cooking in the town square in the summertime, and my folks would buy a quart and we'd consume it for supper. I loved it then, and I love it now. I have made it for myself on many occasions, but Mrs. Fearnow's brand is really quite good enough for the likes of moi!
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Good afternoon!
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It's not Marion, though.
It's barely Amaryllis.
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Congrats on finishing the book, BK!
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And when you miscast, this is what you get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmbC5L5wWo
Yawn.
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I watched all of that Anything Goes. I am not a Sutton Foster fan, though I don't dislike. Her doesn't do much for me. I will give her credit for a great version of Blow, Gabriel, Blow, but I think that's more for Kathleen Marshall's staging and Foster's legs, which are shown off to their best advantage. But I shouldn't watch a musical written for Ethel Merman and wonder why Robert Lindsey as Moonface Mullins is the best thing in the show.
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And when you miscast, this is what you get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmbC5L5wWo
I. Just. Can’t.
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Finished futzing and finessing. I was very happy with all the revisions I'd done on the ending before bed last night, just smoothed it out a bit. Then I did the other stuff - just a lot of smoothing out, a few additions, a few subtractions. Then I made the PDF and sent it to Muse Margaret.
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To celebrate, I ordered from Stanley's - the grilled chicken pasta.
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Oh my DR ELMORE - Broadway came back....for THIS?
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I just watched some of that Signature thing. Someone had the GALL to take a directed and conceived by credit. The artistic director of the theater, who should not be the artistic director of a bus. I saw no direction and someone would have to tell me what he conceived - certainly it wasn't a structured evening with a point. Some of us who do this sort of thing take it very seriously so seeing something this amateur is appalling. Why does every musical theater male and female of today sing through their nose? Horrible.
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As to Sutton Foster - I'd really have to see the approach to the character that would justify the caterwauling at the end.
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Ah DR ELMORE my favorite director's girlfriend cast in the lead version of Im Salzkammergut from The White Horse Inn seems to have been pulled from YouTube.
The only clips of the number are from EVERYONE else in the production singing the song.
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But I will say that if anyone has not seen The White Horse Inn - DR ELMORE sent me a DVD many many moons ago.....go immediately to Amazon and order a copy.
Hmmmm it doesn't seem to be available on AMAZON and it is very expensive on EBAY.....perhaps eventually it will come back around.
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I broke something porcelain yesterday....so I am gluing it back together today....carefully.....
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I hope it works.
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Yesterday the kids luggage, including Bryan's snowboard, didn't arrive. They were told it was on the next plane and would be delivered to them. So far, no luggage and no clothes to play in the snow.
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They have been told their luggage will be at the airport tonight for them to pick up. A bit too late to use on the slopes but hopefully not lost.
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What a lazy day. Just what I needed.
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Let's move on ...
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Four!
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Hello, 1 guest!
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Liza Minnelli was on CBS Sunday Morning. It was an interesting interview, but she seems overly reliant on Michael Feinstein in the way that she was with her husbands.
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Feinstein has a new album coming out called Gershwin Country, in which he duets with Dolly, Alison Krauss and a bunch of other country stars, not to mention Liza. All Gershwin songs. I haven't heard any of it, but I can't help but think I'd rather hear more of Sutton Foster.
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Just watched the Signature tribute to Sondheim.
I've now had my six-month quota of out-of-tune singing and straining for notes, thank you very much.
Not to mention a few lyric flubs.
Ditto. ::)
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And when you miscast, this is what you get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmbC5L5wWo
:o
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I watched all of that Anything Goes. I am not a Sutton Foster fan, though I don't dislike. Her doesn't do much for me. I will give her credit for a great version of Blow, Gabriel, Blow, but I think that's more for Kathleen Marshall's staging and Foster's legs, which are shown off to their best advantage. But I shouldn't watch a musical written for Ethel Merman and wonder why Robert Lindsey as Moonface Mullins is the best thing in the show.
Is it just me, or is the woman playing Hope literally a child compared to everyone else?? :-\
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Feel better vibes for DR Elmore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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We are expecting a big snow storm tomorrow. So schools are closed. And it was the first day back at actual school since December.
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It's been a weird day.
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Not bad. Just kind of blah.
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But I will enjoy the extra day (holiday) tomorrow.
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Good night, friends.
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Hello, everyone.
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Congrats to BK!
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I've been trying to watch BEING THE RICARDOS. I fell asleep. What a bad film! And it's a shame because there's a story in there. Neither of the leads looks, sounds, or moves like their characters. I can't believe that other actors couldn't have done a better job. I'm not sure I'll even finish it.
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Hello, Singdaw. Enjoy your holiday tomorrow.
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We are expecting a big snow storm tomorrow. So schools are closed. And it was the first day back at actual school since December.
Stay warm.
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Pain begone vibes to Elmore and anyone else needing them.
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TTFN.
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'night
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Muse Margaret called and she loved the rest of the book. She only had one tiny thing, which involved the deletion of a half a line, and then she wanted to know what kind of car someone was driving - detail, always - so I'm thinking about that and will add when I find something that feels right. But she was just so effusive about it it did my soul good.
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New Zealanders have a VERY weird accent.
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I watched a movie from New Zealand about a real-life murder.
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Tonight, I thought I would make Disney + earn the extra dollars I have been paying for it. I truly don't remember why I subscribed, but I have enjoyed watching older Disney films from time to time.
Tonight, I embarked upon something I've never watched (not even after I bought the series in a Disney tin box way back when those were the thing): "The Adventures of Spin and Marty".
It's innocent is what it is. Wholesome and then some. And totally 50s TV! And Diseny, of course.
In a way, it's painful to watch, but I just cannot help myself. I will see it through.
Oddly, the main theme reminds me -- not in a note-for-note way, but in an orchestrational, structured way -- of Victor Young's main theme for the movie "Shane". Don't ask me why, but I hear "Shane" playing in my head every time that theme plays at the start of an episode.
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I watched all of that Anything Goes. I am not a Sutton Foster fan, though I don't dislike. Her doesn't do much for me. I will give her credit for a great version of Blow, Gabriel, Blow, but I think that's more for Kathleen Marshall's staging and Foster's legs, which are shown off to their best advantage. But I shouldn't watch a musical written for Ethel Merman and wonder why Robert Lindsey as Moonface Mullins is the best thing in the show.
Is it just me, or is the woman playing Hope literally a child compared to everyone else?? :-\
Yes. But that worked in her favor on Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye.
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People have been wondering on FB whether local schools will be closed tomorrow because of the potential for ice hazards. The answer is YES, schools WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW because it's a federal holiday. MLK Jr. Day, to be precise.
I mean, honestly, the kids already know that. Why would their parents be asking if there might be a different reason for it?
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Muse Margaret called and she loved the rest of the book. She only had one tiny thing, which involved the deletion of a half a line, and then she wanted to know what kind of car someone was driving - detail, always - so I'm thinking about that and will add when I find something that feels right. But she was just so effusive about it it did my soul good.
That’s nice to read.
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Happily, the holiday routine will be fiercely observed/protected here in my house.
Only UPS deliveries will be accepted. And, believe it or not, I have had two notifications for UPS deliveries tomorrow.
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor MLK Jr. day, will keep UPS from its rounds, apparently.
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That's all I have to say about that.
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Been binge-watching All Creatures Great and Small. Up to episode five.
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Speaking of five!
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Hi, Ron.
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Off to bed. Good night, all.
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Tonight I watched a film called LUSITANIA. I only recognized one or two of the actors. I enjoyed it, for the most part.
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Muse Margaret called and she loved the rest of the book. She only had one tiny thing, which involved the deletion of a half a line, and then she wanted to know what kind of car someone was driving - detail, always - so I'm thinking about that and will add when I find something that feels right. But she was just so effusive about it it did my soul good.
More great book news!
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People have been wondering on FB whether local schools will be closed tomorrow because of the potential for ice hazards. The answer is YES, schools WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW because it's a federal holiday. MLK Jr. Day, to be precise.
I mean, honestly, the kids already know that. Why would their parents be asking if there might be a different reason for it?
Umm...because they're idiots not paying attention?? ::)
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Twenty-eight years ago, I spent a lot of time trying to reach my mother to tell her that my sister and I were coming up on Monday to celebrate my new job with the state.
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Finally, in the evening, I gave up the phone calls, and I went to Tacoma for some karaoke with my friends.
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When I returned home about midnight, I saw that my answering machine was flashing that I had a message.
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Now, since I expected my mom to have returned my calls, I can’t explain why seeing that flashing light turned all the blood in my veins to ice.
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The message was from the emergency operator asking me to call the King County medical examinater in Seattle, any time night or day.
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The message was from the emergency operator asking me to call the King County medical examinater in Seattle, any time night or day.
:-\
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Ten minutes later, I was being told that my mother had been killed in an auto accident when the car she was in had been struck by one of two cars that was racing thru the streets of Auburn.
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Ten minutes later, I was being told that my mother had been killed in an auto accident when the car she was in had been struck by one of two cars that was racing thru the streets of Auburn.
:'(
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The other person Ian the car was her good friend, who lived across the street from her. She had also been killed.
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And that began the worst year of ny life!
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And that began the worst year of ny life!
I can't even imagine what that must've been like for you.
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{{{HUGS}}}
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Well, I just got an e-mail from the stage manager that Theater Artists Olympia's remounting of The HEAD! That Wouldn't DIE!! is planning to open on Friday, April 1st and run for 3 weekends, closing April 17th!
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{{{HUGS}}}
Thank you, George. That was a long time ago, but sometime the wound seems very fresh, especially on MLK’s Birthday weekend.
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Well, I just got an e-mail from the stage manager that Theater Artists Olympia's remounting of The HEAD! That Wouldn't DIE!! is planning to open on Friday, April 1st and run for 3 weekends, closing April 17th!
Cool! Congratulations!
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And then I got another e-mail from the director saying that the plan is to possibly play four weekends!
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HOWEVER...I've also been cast in Evergreen Playhouse's production of Mamma Mia! which starts rehearsals on March 28, 2022, with performance dates of May 6-22, 2022.
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Fortunately, I'm (only) running sound for HEAD!, and shouldn't need to be at rehearsals until the final tech week, and performances which are on weekends.
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Mamma Mia! won't have rehearsals on weekends, so tech week would be the only real conflicts/overlap...hopefully.
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Well, I just got an e-mail from the stage manager that Theater Artists Olympia's remounting of The HEAD! That Wouldn't DIE!! is planning to open on Friday, April 1st and run for 3 weekends, closing April 17th!
Cool! Congratulations!
Thanks!
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This last weekend, Lakewood Playhouse decided to postpone THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE until next fall.
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Unless things have changed (and I haven't heard that it has), it's playing at the Broadway Olympia Productions space at the Capital Mall, which is completely handicapped accessible. :)
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Fortunately, I'm (only) running sound for HEAD!, and shouldn't need to be at rehearsals until the final tech week, and performances which are on weekends.
Great! It must be nice to be “in demand.”
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Unless things have changed (and I haven't heard that it has), it's playing at the Broadway Olympia Productions space at the Capital Mall, which is completely handicapped accessible. :)
We will see if I can drive by then.
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S I X !
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Fortunately, I'm (only) running sound for HEAD!, and shouldn't need to be at rehearsals until the final tech week, and performances which are on weekends.
Great! It must be nice to be “in demand.”
It is! Just as long as they don't overlap any more than they already do!
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Love to TCB
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L.A. Now and Then opens on April 1.
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L.A. Now and Then opens on April 1.
Cool!