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Archives => Archive 4 => Topic started by: bk on November 17, 2005, 12:31:01 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were overloaded with interesting factoids, and now it is time for you to post until the overloaded cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: WALLA!
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I wish to note that the new discussion topic is not locked. So, if it's locked in the morning, it ain't my doing.
I wish to note that no one is in the jernt but me, so it wouldn't matter if it was locked or not.
I wish to note I am toddling off to bed.
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Walla Walla, Washington!
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Walla Walla Sweet Onions...mmmm, good! ;D
Topic of the Day: I have never "ever gone completely on overload..." or anything near it. For the most part, I'm a pretty even tempered kinda guy. I've gotten upset over things, but never blown up or been completely overwhelmed...so far. ;) You never know what can happen in the future.
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I wish to note that in less than six hundred posts, we shall achieve our new plateau.
And now - Dino at the piano.
WALLA, baby, WALLA!
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I'm here, but I'm still compiling songs for tomorrow's (later today's) lunch at work. Right now, I've got Cleo Laine's "Jazz" CD. Cleo Laine can do no wrong! (in my humble opinion) :D
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From yesterday I wrote and Ron Pulliam answered
Quote from: Michael S on Yesterday at 10:36:06pm
and now the Sound of Music.
I have a 2 questions
On the trailer for the rerelease was the voice over Malachi Throne?
On the comparisons section
There is text information explaining the process of the restoration. It would have been nice if it was a little more informative like the documentary Warner Bros. provides when they restore their library of classics.
The 2005 restoration vs 2005 video version. IMHO the video transfer looks better. The sky looks bluer than the film restoration. Shouldn't they be the same? WHy the difference?
Confused, I am, over this.
What are the distinctions between "restoration" and "video version" as stated above?
What "video transfer" are you talking about? The current DVD release? A previous one?
So now I will clarify
The show a scene from the film and do a same time comparrision. The scene is split down the middle with the older version on the left and the newest version on the right.
One of the comparrision should the 2005 FILM restoration on the left and on the right was the 2005 Final Digital VIDEO restoration. I thought the video transfer looked better. This is evident to me in church bells riging after the wedding and the climb every mountain finale clips. The sky looks bluer than the film restoration's. Also the grass looks greener in the climb every moutain finale Shouldn't they be the same? Why the difference? Anyone else see the difference.
The other side by comparisons include
1993 film transfer vs 2005 Film Restoration
The difference is noticable in the interior of the abby where you can see the detail of the bricks is notceable.
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Morning Larry.
Bye Larry.
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Good morning, all! Dear Friend BK, I send you good vibes to combat the overload!
I think my greatest moment of overload was in 1994, after my Mother's death, and I couldn't finish the Sally Mayes' charts in time for the session, meaning the booking of an extra Saturday morning session for the brass and reeds. My memory is that we buried my Mother on Thursday, and we started the recording the next week. I remember scoring the "Fireworks" number in my parents' house before coming back to NYC, and Sally was angry because I didn't have time to score "When the Weather's Better." However, Patrick Brady did a great job with it. I also remember scoring the three Christmas on Broadway numbers for Lanny in the cafeteria of my Mother's hospital two weeks earlier and Fed Exing them to New York. Between her death, the two recordings, maintaining a semblance of a Drama Book Shop employee, and traveling back and forth to Ohio, I was a mess.
You were fantastic about it, although I'm sure that privately you were looking through the yellow pages for a hit man.
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Morning Larry.
Bye Larry.
Howdy, Ben!
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Jason, I think I will skip Giant this evening. I'm not overloaded but I do have things here at work that need to be finished before the big vacation and I think I need to relax at home for the evening instead of laughing at a woman in a green tinted wig.
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This post was rescued by doing it in Wordpad. I clicked Post, it took forever and then came up "Cannot Find Server". Well, here it is again, folks. My tale(s) of woe.
I had two episodes of overload, one not so serious and the other a wake up call.
In college I pulled an all nighter to try and finish a lighting project. I was not and am not technically savvy and all the shop classes in the theatre department were difficult. Lighting was a reall bear. Between all my other classes and trying to design a lighting project for Virginia Woolf I overextended myself and almost passed out one morning in class. Not so bad, I'm here to tell the story.
10 years ago, in January of 1995, I was promoted to a management position at my current place of employ, The Foundation Center. I had risen through the ranks fairly quickly and my boss at the time thought it would be a good fit. It was one of the absolute worst times of my entire life. I hated it almost from the beginning and instead of asking for help I tried to struggle through on my own. I was working seven days a week including full days on Saturday and Sunday. No one knew I was coming in but all that work wasn't helping. I just kept falling farther and farther behind to the point that in May of 1995 I woke up one day and knew that if I went into the office something very unpleasant would happen. I packed a bag and went to LaGuardia airport. I was going to go back to Minnesota because my sister's wedding was in a month anyway and that seemed a good plan. I got to the ticket counter and the clerk said a one-way ticket to Minneapolis would be approximately $800. I remember distinctly saying to myself (and out loud) "I may be falling apart but I'm not crazy" I walked away from the counter and decided, since US Air was just a terminal away and they had an hourly shuttle to DC that I would go there and decompress. I went to DC and took the subway into the city getting off at DuPont Circle. I went to a bookstore and looked at guide books and found a couple of guest house addresses. I walked to the first one, they had a room and I signed in. I called my boss and left a slightly hysterical phone message, I called one of my sisters in Minneapolis and I called a friend in DC. She still remembers my phone message. I said, "Hi, Kren, I'm in DC. I think I quit my job" I cried, a lot, slept for the first time in weeks and woke up actually feeling like I could survive. I was hungry for the first time in weeks. I ate (something I had not been doing) and then played tourist. I went to the National Zoo and saw the Pandas. I went to the Folger. I wandered all over and realized I had made the right decision. I stayed in DC for two days of complete relaxation. I came back to the city and almost everyone at the office was very supportive and understanding. There was one person who initially was supportive but as time moved on she became difficult and unpleasant. My initial plan was to come back in a much diminished position (my boss asked me to stay the summer) and help clean up the mess. I agreed but as weeks turned into months and other opportunities came along I decided that it wasn't such a bad place after all (I also met Anthony during this time and thought maybe a move back to Minnesota wasn't the best idea), as long as I wasn't doing what I had been doing. The administration wanted me to stay and we worked out a position and here I am, 10 years later still at the same place but in a different position. It's something I'm completely comfortable doing and I can continue for a long time. If I had stayed in the original position, I don't know what would have happened other than I would have had an even worse breakdown, I imagine.
End of story. And now I must get back to work (again).
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There's a bit of confusion as to what day this is.
According to my calendar, today (the 17th of November) is the Great American Smoke-Out.
However, the same calendar posts tomorrow (the 18th of November) as National Great American Smoke-Out Day.
In any case, I strongly suggest climbing on the shoulders of your favorite smoker-you-wish-wouldn't, and singing a chorus of "On Top Of Old Smokey" in honor of this day, and as a fab way of dropping a hint.
Let us hope that some day soon, the only smokers we will know will be the devices used for flavoring meats.
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Thursday greetings from wintery SW Ohio! It's very cold and I drove to work this morning in snow flurries.
TOD - Overload usually takes a physical toll on me. Sometimes I get an awful rash on my hands, sometimes bronchitis or pneumonia. The one time I've had elevated blood pressure, my doctor asked what was going on in my life. I said, "Well, I'm recovering from oral surgery, my Mom is across the street having oral surgery, my husband is retiring and having shoulder surgery this week, and I have new job responsibilities." He told me to come back in a month or so, at which time my BP had returned to normal.
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Overload? I dont have time for overload, I have a full time job, complete with 60 mile round trip commute, a house, a husband who needs to get to the cardiologist, and a child who needs to get to music lessons, and choir rehearsal and Confirmation Class and Girl Scouts and dancing school, and Youth Group and play rehearsal and the Santa Lucia rehearsal and friends' houses, and the library for research and the craft store for some school project and there's the PTA meeting and the Youth Group Parents Meeting and the Luther League Quake trip meeting and then we have to plan the Sunday School lesson to teach Sunday morning and the Girl Scouts nuts are in so let's go pick those up and you sold how many cases?! Wrll Iguess that's good you were the high seller for the troop . Okay now lets divide those up and call everyone who bought and deliver those and get the money in by when? WHEN?! Ok, well we're just going to have to get that done by tonight because Saturday we'll be in the City for the Girl Scouts trip and the meeting to make the costumes for the Town Christmas Tree Lighting parade is Tuesday, we need a red sweatshirt and red turtleneck and black sweatpants witha white stripe down the side? I think a trip to Walmart will take care of all of that ,okay oh and th Thanksgiving basket to donate for the church is due so lets get that stuff bought and put together. Oh and Ryan's birthday party is Sunday we have to get a present and a card. Do we have any clean socks to wear? Well I don't care if they match exactly, your father is shellacing a shelf in the basement so I can't run the dryer or we'll all blow up or something from the fumes or at the very least all the clothes will smell like shellac so wear what's in your drawer... No, I don't care what color socks you wear who 's looking at your socks anyway? Okay I'll drive you to school. I need gas.Who ate all the bread? No, of course I cbought it to eat but you have to tell me when you eat it all so I can buy more. Who put the empty milk container back in the refrigerator? Does nobody in this house know how to unload the dishwasher besides me?
Overload? Sorry, no time for it.
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I'm up, I'm up. I was planning to get up at seven, but the phone rang at six - Tower Records in NY - I've been trying to get paid on CDs they've sold over the last three months. Apparently, this fellow was in the dark about that (I'd been told calls had been made). So, as soon as he gets his Last Starfighter order, then he'll start dealing with the payment. Apparently, the normal way they do it is that the consignee has to come into the store in person. I told him that wouldn't be happening and that we were never told that. He'll deal with it (as he put it, we're the show music buyer's "guys"), but it's complicated. Hopefully, all this will get sorted out in the next few weeks, because they have over 250 CDs, and I'd have to imagine that at least fifty of them have sold, a not insignificant amount.
The thing about overload is that you either deal with it, or go to the hospital, having had a breakdown. I deal with it, although as the overload gets larger, I get more unpleasant when things aren't done the way I need them to be done. Last night, for example, I was REALLY unpleasant, but I would have been very SWEET had the things been done.
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It's EARLY!
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Can one of our New Yorkers get me the address (with zip) of Tower Lincoln Center? It will save me scads of time going through invoices. Thanks.
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Never mind, I found it in an e-mail.
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And ALWAYS save long posts! In Word or WordPad, but the easiest way is just to highlight your post, click "apple C" for mac users, or Ctrl C for other users. That puts it in cut and paste - if the post doesn't go through, you just click "apple V" or ctrl V and voila, you've got the post back.
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BK, congrats on getting the play cast. I know who Matthew Ashford is. My gosh he has been on and off Days of Our Lives forever. I used to watch it when I was a teenager and he was on!
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All that work for nuttin' ;D
Tower Records
1961 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
(212) 799-2500
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~DON"T LET THEM DRIVE YOU CRAZY VIBES~~~~~ [/move] FOR BK
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:o DR vixmom - You need to join Jane and me at Flanigan's Inn for that retreat we were talking about yesterday!
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Congratulations on the cast for the play! I don't know these guys! But I have heard of them both! And of course, Miss Tammy Minoff.
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DR Ben - My DH Richard and I both walked away from management positions that other people thought were "good fits." Neither of us has ever regretted doing so.
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I am not too sure about the "restoration" comparison, etc, on THE SOUND OF MUSIC, but I finally asked someone about a similar question after watching the JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH dvd.
I was told - if it is true - that in a video restoration, the film itself is not touched - it is transferred to video form which is then tweaked. A film restoration is, of course, a tweaking using actual film elements.
I think.....
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Just been on overload a couple of times, and certainly nothing as dramatic as DR BEN's story. Whew!
Just doing a heavy work schedule, traveling for a workshop, and directing a play all at the same time.
The only way I can do it, is by blocking my time - and concentrating on ONLY what is happening in that block of time. When I am directing, I don't think about my job, when I am traveling I don't think about my play (unless I have down time) - usually works for me.
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Yes, Ginny, I don't regret leaving the position at all. The money I would be getting now would not make up for it in the least because I see the person who was eventually hire to replace me and what she has to do just confirms my belief that I would have self-destructed had I hung on as manager.
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Oh, heck. Let us keep moving. Onward and upward to page 2 (almost)
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Mr. Mahler says Welcome!
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I shall now be on my way to breakfast with Mr. David Wechter. After that, I shall do my shipping, and after that, I shall return.
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DR Ben: Thank God - I was gonna back out of "Giant," too. Phew! I just don't think I could sit through four hours of movie tonight. I've just been exhausted (for some reason) this week and need a night to rest before my very full weekend.
"What's happening this weekend," you ask? I'll tell you. Friday night: THE WOMAN IN WHITE. Saturday (my birthday): SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE and THE COLOR PURPLE. Sunday: SOUVENIR. Monday: SEASCAPE. Oy!
TOD: I think I've been on overload a couple of times. Well, as overloaded as one can get in your mid- to late-20's. When I was dealing with that horrible mouse infestation last winter and working 75-90 hours a week on what turned out to be about 1 1/2 hours of sleep a night...I'd say I was on overload. I felt like a zombie, just kinda walking through the day but not remember much of any of it. I was becoming forgetful and impatient and irritable - well, OK...I'm always impatient and irritable...I live in New York! - and I just wasn't having a very good time at all. I never saw my friends, I went a year without seeing my family and I hated my job(s) and living situation. Wait...has any of that changed? Yes, it has...I get to see my friends more often than I used to and I've already seen my family twice this year. I guess things are slowly looking up!
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Good morning!
Yesterday we had a totally overcast but very warm day (highs in the mid-70s).
Today, we have cloudless deep blue sky and COLD temperatures (it's 46 right now).
I prefer this kind of cold - not bone chillling but rather bracing.
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Yes, Ginny, I don't regret leaving the position at all. The money I would be getting now would not make up for it in the least because I see the person who was eventually hire to replace me and what she has to do just confirms my belief that I would have self-destructed had I hung on as manager.
As a contented peon, I often refer problem patrons to our managers, saying to myself, "That's what they get paid the big bucks for!"
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When I was working a full-time job (teaching), reviewing films part time, and doing a play at night, I'm sure there were many times when I was on overload and close to burn-out.
But I'm into my fifth year of retirement, and all that is a distant memory now. Life is very leisurely, and this is how I prefer it.
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I think GIANT is a wonderful film, too, but after a long day at work, it's not really the kind of movie I'd want to sit through in the evening.
Better it for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
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DR Jason - What a lovely birthday weekend you have lined up! It's a good thing you got all your laundry done last weekend ;)
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I suspect I will get no DVDs watched today since I have three hours of television shows on the DVR to catch up with.
First up will be VERONICA MARS followed most likely by LAW & ORDER. SUPERNATURAL might be saved for the weekend.
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DR Jason, I'm hoping your OPRAH DVD comes today. I'm really more anxious to get your reactions to the two extra snippets I put on the end of the DVD.
Consider them an early birthday present.
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And Vixmom, your DVD should arrive today, too, if it hasn't already. Geez, I mailed those things first class so they should be there!
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DR Jason - What a lovely birthday weekend you have lined up! It's a good thing you got all your laundry done last weekend ;)
Yes, indeed! We will want to read your opinions on these new shows.
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DR Ginny: It will be quite the weekend. I'm looking forward to it, though these theatre-filled weekends can be quite exhausting. Who knew you could get tired out just from sitting in a theatre??
And come hell or high water - though they're forecasting light snow!! - I'm going to the Bronx Zoo next Thursday. :)
DR MattH: I'm very much looking forward to it. Thank you again!!!
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MattH: I've already seen SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE and THE COLOR PURPLE (twice), but WOMAN IN WHITE will be new to me and SOUVENIR will be slightly different than what I saw when it was off-Broadway, so that should be fun. And Ms. Judy Kaye is reliably wonderful. I'm a little unsure about Edward Albee's SEASCAPE. I don't know the play at all, but the cast is great (Frances Sternhagen & Frederick Weller), so that'll be fun, too. And Monday night is the official opening - my first Broadway opening night!
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My thoughts on last night's LOST.
SPOILER SPACE.
I did sort of enjoy learning more about these new characters. And it was nice to get to know Ana a bit more (so we don't completely hate her for the killing).
But I thought most of the scenes were way too disjointed. Normally you don't really notice when scenes change. But the way they were showing one abrupt scene here (and then going to a new day) started to drive me crazy.
I did love the day 45-47, quick flash sequences. Although I sort of wanted to see those scenes play back again in full time but through the others point of view (sort of like what they did with the bunker and jack/locke/kate earlier in the season).
I liked the end. And the preview for next week looks good.
It was also interesting to get to spend so much time with some of The Others (without necessarily knowing they were The Others). Made them seem sort of normal.
What was the name of the creepy guy who Jack and company ran into last year (who took claire's baby). That wasn't nathan, was it?
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DR Michael S: Thanks for the clarification. It is strange, indeed, that the 2005 film restoration is noticeably different from the digital transfer of same.
I've had so many different versions of SOM and all -- save the 5-Star DVD -- have had problems. Chief among all of them, for me, was the brown grass in the opening title song -- never in any of the 30 or so times I saw the film upon its first release (I was an usher at a local theater and had an usher's pass for all theaters) was there any brown grass on view.
When Fox did its 25th anniversary VHS release, many sins were corrected, but when they issued the laserdisc -- widescreen, mind you -- they never used the restored anniversary version...and the cropping was horrific.
I'm still not sure this latest release has any possible advantage over the 5-star DVD issued a few years ago.
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I'm back at work.
Oy!
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Oh and re: LOST, I don't think they could have had more episodes of just the new castaways without annoying people. If there was a way that they could have shown their story WHILE showing Jack/Kate and the bunch we know, that would have been okay. But it would be too confusing. So I'm sure we will see more of themas we get their backstories. And I'm guessing both groups will merge, so we will see a lot of the new people.
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We are having a virtual heat wave here in Oakland this week.
Temps are in the 70s all around the Bay.
Skies are stunningly blue.
Folks are running around in shorts and sandals.
I know this is typical for Southern California, but it's just absurd here in the land of fog and chill winds.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to work up any "Seasonal" fervor.
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My thoughts on last night's LOST.
SPOILER SPACE.
What was the name of the creepy guy who Jack and company ran into last year (who took claire's baby). That wasn't nathan, was it?
SPOILER RESPONSE!
No, Nathan is the guy we saw get killed in the camp of the Tail Survivors...killed by Goodwin, one of "them."
The guy who took Claire (who was pregnant) was killed by Charlie. The French woman later took Claire's baby, but the baby was recovered, also by Charlie.
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to work up any "Seasonal" fervor.
I know what you mean, Ron. The temperatures were in the high 60's/low 70's yesterday afternoon (I think Newark hit 74 degrees), which is completely off for this time of year in NYC. Of course, today we're down to more typical temperatures (low 40's with supposed wind chill of 25-30 degrees). We were wearing short sleeves yesterday and winter coats and scarves this morning. That ain't right!!
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The most "overload" I've ever experienced, as I recall, was while serving on USS Kitty Hawk in the Gulf. We (the carrier) were the launch platform for all the air strikes against Iraq in 1992 after Hussein had repeatedly violated the no-fly zone.
For two solid weeks, the ship was a home for more than 20 international journalists on a daily basis. By home, I mean they lived on board. My boss and I (Public Affairs Officer and PA Assistant, resp.) were responsible for getting them around the ship, setting up their interviews, getting their film/tapes off the ship quickly, and keeping them berthed (i.e, with a place to sleep), in clean clothes (having their laundry done) and well fed (ensuring they made all the meals). They set up satellite dishes on either side of the ship to transmit video and audio and were quite an attraction for the crew.
I averaged 4 hours of sleep a night (if that) for the duration of their visit. While we averaged 20 people staying overnight, we had daytrippers, too, and sometimes had as many as 40 media on board at any given time during the day. They, then, had to be booked to fly off at various points.
In addition to that, I was still responsible to ensure our dailly newspaper got published and that our television schedule stayed on track.
I've never been more tired -- or satisfied with the end results -- in my life.
I've had other "overloads" that were more mental than anything else. And always because of dimwits I had to work with or around.
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I know what you mean, Ron. The temperatures were in the high 60's/low 70's yesterday afternoon (I think Newark hit 74 degrees), which is completely off for this time of year in NYC. Of course, today we're down to more typical temperatures (low 40's with supposed wind chill of 25-30 degrees). We were wearing short sleeves yesterday and winter coats and scarves this morning. That ain't right!!
Fings sure ain't wot they used to be!
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If I had sent anyone a CD-R or DVD-R in the past week, I am certain it would be arriving today.
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I must clean up now for my lunch appointment.
WBBL.
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Golly! My work day is just starting and you east coasters are off to lunch!
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Oddly enough, there are only two people in my office right now, and neither of us is feeling very chipper.
I can account for two others, one of whom is at home nursing a bad back and the other is at a construction site.
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I just ordered IN OLD CHICAGO and NIGHTMARE ALLEY and JEANMAIRE DANCES ROLAND PETIT with my second and last deepdiscountdvd 20% discount code!
I watched LOST as well - lots of stuff going on. I liked it! But I did miss the regulars characters!
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Heat wave here....up to 21 degrees.
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And your official page turner for Page 3 is
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Me...and Mahler!
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You...and a corpse?
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TOD: well the last time I was overloaded was when I was doing a show here and some hotshot director from L.A. came up and requested ( ;)) a bunch of additions/deletions in charts with less than 48 hours until opening. And then my floor got scratched. ;D
Walla: We drove through Walla2 ;D on our Yellowstone journey this past summer. When we did I told the kids that it was a rule that you had to say every word twice when you spoke. That has since become a running joke in our family.
I have been deluged with hits/responses to my Farmer article since My Lobotomy ran last night on NPR. A free-lance writer who does a lot of stuff for the Chicago Sun-Times wants to interview me for a (hopefully) nationally syndicated article. We shall see......
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Yes, I often think about that East Coast-West Coast difference when I'm on-line in the late afternoon and you're still at work.
Or when I've finished my evening's TV watching and yours is just starting.
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Several friends and I have batted around the idea of going to one of the midnight HARRY POTTER shows tonight, but they have to work tomorrow, and I'd just as soon avoid what will be undoubtedly crushing crowds of people and wait a few days to see it.
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I've done that midnight show thing twice: JURASSIC PARK and BATMAN AND ROBIN. Of course, with JP we were all juiced by that amazing feat of movie magic. With B&R, well, let's just say I liked it better than those I was with (though I'll admit much of it was very lame).
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Is this really news department: the new Harry Potter film made the front page of The Oregonian today. Oy. The reviewer said it's easily the best film of the bunch.
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I see the next wave of Shirley Temple movies comes out next week: BRIGHT EYES (which was previously released), REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, and BABY TAKE A BOW.
Also, the 1933 KING KONG is being released in multiple editions and the new version of WAR OF THE WORLDS debuts next week, too.
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Is this really news department: the new Harry Potter film made the front page of The Oregonian today. Oy. The reviewer said it's easily the best film of the bunch.
Our reviewer really liked it but felt PRISONER OF AZKABAN was superior.
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I don't think I have ever been overloaded.
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I see the next wave of Shirley Temple movies comes out next week: BRIGHT EYES (which was previously released), REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, and BABY TAKE A BOW.
Also, the 1933 KING KONG is being released in multiple editions.
Plus season 1 of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and an Italian spy film starring Lex Barker, CODE 7 VICTIM 5...my credit card will be overloaded, even if I am not! LOL!
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:o DR vixmom - You need to join Jane and me at Flanigan's Inn for that retreat we were talking about yesterday!
I have three hours free in May 2007 ;D
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What was the name of the creepy guy who Jack and company ran into last year (who took claire's baby). That wasn't nathan, was it?
SPOILER RESPONSE!
No, Nathan is the guy we saw get killed in the camp of the Tail Survivors...killed by Goodwin, one of "them."
The guy who took Claire (who was pregnant) was killed by Charlie. The French woman later took Claire's baby, but the baby was recovered, also by Charlie.
Ethan was the guy that Charlie killed. Ethan and Nathan...hmm. Co-inkydink? ;)
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I have three hours free in May 2007 ;D
Yeah, yeah....
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I'm now off to work. Have a good day, all! ;D
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Yeah, yeah....
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I don't think I have ever been overloaded.
OY!
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Dear Jason it sounds like you are having a wonderful birthday weekend! I am very interested ti hear your thoughts on Woman in White, my folks have expressed an interest in seeing it but I have hesitated buying them the tickets as Tomovoz wasn't too thrilled with it... as I recall he walked out on it!
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Dang it All JMK! I usually listen to NPR on my comute home and last night the traffic was so lousy I was flipping through all the local stations trying to get traffic updates,,,it seemed all the major roads were having accidents all over them and I missed the story!
I wonder if they posted it on the staion website.... hmmm let me go have a looksee.
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BK, what has happened with the stage discipline of college students. In college was where we learned discipline and responsibility to the show and to other cast members. If you were cast, you didn't jeopardize losing your part by sloughing off rehearsals. You knew the rehearsal schedule and you showed up on time and ready to work.
I've watched rehearsals in college theatre that now more resemble some community theatre rehearsals where people laugh and titter and discipline is lax and several will show up late, etc. I can't believe it!
OVERLOAD...I usually get overload during a script deadline time. Lots of late nights, diet coke, and usually having to pull some scene that's been difficult out of my ass. Oddly enough, it is usually a very good scene and does exactly what it is supposed to do thematically and structurally.
My body manages to always pulls through stressful situations...and then knowing when we're over the hump, it'll break down with a cold or something.
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LOST DISCUSSION.
SPOILER RESPONSE!
No, Nathan is the guy we saw get killed in the camp of the Tail Survivors...killed by Goodwin, one of "them."
The guy who took Claire (who was pregnant) was killed by Charlie. The French woman later took Claire's baby, but the baby was recovered, also by Charlie.
Yeah I know the guy killed last night was Nathan. My question was, what was the guy who took Claire's baby's name. I thought the name was something like nathan.
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LOST DISCUSSION.Yeah I know the guy killed last night was Nathan. My question was, what was the guy who took Claire's baby's name. I thought the name was something like nathan.
I repeat, no guy ever took Claire's baby. CLAIRE, herself, was the abductee, and as George has clarified, the guy was named Ethan. Initially, Ethan took both Charlie and Claire, but Charlie was left for dead, hanging from a tree. They found him in time and he recovered. Claire later escaped and told everyone that Ethan had taken her because he wanted her (unborn) baby. They set a trap, hoping to capture Ethan and learn more about what was going on. Charlie, however, took a gun and shot Ethan, killing him.
The only person who took Claire's (born) baby was the French woman, but she was out of her head and Charlie retrieved the baby.
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LOST SPOILERS.
Ethan was the guy that Charlie killed. Ethan and Nathan...hmm. Co-inkydink? ;)
THANK YOU. I could not remember the name. I wonder if they were brothers. They looked a bit similar.
Okay here is another question. Charlie found out that Ethan was not on the plane with them. Ana suspected that Nathan was also not on the plane. But I think we were supposed to believe at the end that Nathan really was on the plane (and the guy who killed him was not on the plane). Is that right?
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I repeat, no guy ever took Claire's baby. CLAIRE, herself, was the abductee.
Sorry i meant wanted Claire's baby (not took).
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I'm happy to report that The Last Starfighter CD has received its first review, and it's a corker.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/nov1705.html
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LOST SPOILERS.THANK YOU. I could not remember the name. I wonder if they were brothers. They looked a bit similar.
Okay here is another question. Charlie found out that Ethan was not on the plane with them. Ana suspected that Nathan was also not on the plane. But I think we were supposed to believe at the end that Nathan really was on the plane (and the guy who killed him was not on the plane). Is that right?
That's right. Nathan WAS on the plane, apparently. He was not one of "the others."
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Gee, that's great news about the review for "The Last Starfighter."
I am ever-hopeful my order will arrive one of these days.
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Re discipline: There is little, in any field, I find. I was saying exactly what Pogue said - when I went to LACC I would have been thrown out of the show and possibly the department if I behaved like some of these folks are (just two or three - two of whom are alums). In those days, they would not put up with it. Now, they're more lenient because they size of the class has dwindled down so much they can't afford to lose students. Kids have jobs (there was no way we could have a job in the old days - the job was the department, and you lived and ate however you lived and ate - LACC didn't have tuition, so as long as you could pay your rent and eat, that was that), and they regularly use that to get out of rehearsals. I've been rather strong about it, and I think they sense that because I'm not a teacher, that I will brook no unprofessional behavior - some kid said to me last night, "Well, you know, I have to arrange my work schedule - got to pay bills, you know" and I said, "Great - just show up at my rehearsals or, if work is what you have to do, go to work, but you won't be in this show. Your decision completely." I believe he'll be showing up at rehearsals. But it was the attitude, which was like here's what I'm doing deal with it. Not on your tintype, baby. YOU deal with it.
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Your order should have been there already - priority and all. It was sent to a different address than all your other packages, because that's what was on the paypal order sheet. I have a delivery confirmation slip, too, so we can find out if it was indeed delivered to the address on the sheet. I can't remember exactly when I shipped your package, but I'm sure it was in Monday's batch, having gotten the order the previous Thursday or Friday.
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500 or so posts to go until we achieve our new plateau.
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I wasn't sure if "corker" was good or bad! :)
Thanks DRs George and RonP.
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I feel like half the day is gone, and yet it is only just after ten. That is what happens when you get up at six.
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My poor baby niece! We went over to my sister's last night to try to take a surprise Christmas photo (we want to put the baby's picture on stamps). We tried on sunday, but she cried.
So yesterday we made my sis go upstairs and spent 30 minutes trying to get this baby to smile with her christmas bib and hat on. But she wouldn't. :(
Well finally we had another photo shoot on her changing table (with me standing on stepladder over her). I realized the hat was making her cry. So i just sort of arranged it on her head (without it actually being on). Now i have to choose from the 40 pics i took!
Btw, is it very hard to take pics of a baby since they move every other second!
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TOD:
I tend to get overloaded every Christmas season. Cleaning my house from top to bottom and then decorating it, putting up my two trees, decorating the House of Mom and putting up her tree, shopping for gifts, writing out cards, baking cookies, attending school concerts, my great-niece's birthday party, my own birthday party, attending various holiday parties, wrapping gifts--Oy to the World! By December 26 I'm a worn out rag. But it's Christmas and I love it.
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I'm happy to report that The Last Starfighter CD has received its first review, and it's a corker.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/nov1705.html
WONDERFUL!!!!
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Walla, walla, walla--oomph!
Tell me more, tell me more!
Did you get very far?
Tell me more, tell me more!
Like does he have a car?
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TOD:
I tend to get overloaded every Christmas season. Cleaning my house from top to bottom and then decorating it, putting up my two trees, decorating the House of Mom and putting up her tree, shopping for gifts, writing out cards, baking cookies, attending school concerts, my great-niece's birthday party, my own birthday party, attending various holiday parties, wrapping gifts--Oy to the World! By December 26 I'm a worn out rag. But it's Christmas and I love it.
That sounds like FUN!
Truth to tell, I try to get as much done as early as I can. Cards and special gifts for the ladies in my family go out the weekend after Thanksgiving. Each year, I send the ladies a special "seasonal" jewelry item, usually a pin. A couple of years, I sent special Christmas ornaments, but the feedback I got was minimal. So....
I don't decorate at home, but I put up a tree in the office, along with some lights.
My biggest ordeal is making travel plans, and then actually doing the travelling.
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Oh, poor Giuseppe!
He hit-a the walla!
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Sometimes, it's cathartic to walla in self-pity.
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Great review!
My turn to paint....walla ceiling?
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"Corker" good.
"Lemon" bad.
"Da Bomb" good!
"Da Pits" bad!
"Aces" good!
"Bogus" bad!
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I don't get it either. You know when you audition what the schedule will be, you know it will take time - if you can't make the time, don't audition.
SINCE WHEN did it become the norm for the director to work around the schedules of cast member, or musicians, or tech people? The world is crazy!
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I think it's time for some us to realize we are still living in the 20th Century, theatre-wise. Sad, but true.
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TOD: The most overloaded I've been recently was when one of Sandra's friends was in crisis and we tried to be a support system for her. It was very draining.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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That is my feeling - don't audition if you don't have the time - OR, let us know up front if there are problems, then we can make the decision to use or not use you.
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That is my feeling - don't audition if you don't have the time - OR, let us know up front if there are problems, then we can make the decision to use or not use you.
Very few people have such phenomonal talent, that a WHOLE show can be planned around them. ;D Much rarer than some audititioners think. ;D
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According to my Futurama calendar, today is the birthday for both Rock Hudson (1925) and RuPaul (1960). Just had to share. ;)
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I have just splurged. Yes, you heard it here first. I just bought a 32" HDTV LCD widescreen unit. With a nice giftcard the Tigard Pops gave me, plus various Fred Meyer coupanage, I got a $1200 unit for less than $800, so I'm not feeling too capitalistic. ;D Could someone in the know about these things (MattH? TD?) email me because I have a plethora (ooh, a Howard Cossell reference) of probably stupid questions about it.
jmkauffman@aol.com
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I have just splurged. Yes, you heard it here first. I just bought a 32" HDTV LCD widescreen unit. With a nice giftcard the Tigard Pops gave me, plus various Fred Meyer coupanage, I got a $1200 unit for less than $800, so I'm not feeling too capitalistic. ;D Could someone in the know about these things (MattH? TD?) email me because I have a plethora (ooh, a Howard Cossell reference) of probably stupid questions about it.
jmkauffman@aol.com
Very nice too!!! Congratulations on your new purchase!!
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Very nice too!!! Congratulations on your new purchase!!
I may or may not survive DS Betsy's return from work today. ;D Although I did warn her I was probably going to get one.
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Congratulations...and good luck!! ;)
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Re people auditioning - Sometimes people just audition for everything in sight, just so they can say they were offered it if that happens. Not fair to the people involved with the show, of course, but lots of people we know love to say they were offered something but turned it down. Human nature, I guess.
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So glad that Starfighter review seemed to acknowledge BK's contributions to the industry in general.
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My worst experience with overload was in law school, when we had back-to-back exams. My first (and last, thank goodness) experience with taking caffeine pills to stay awake all night studying. Did well on both exams, which remain on my transcript forever for what that's worth, so I guess it was the "correct" thing to do, but I felt wired and out of control for days afterwards because of the caffeine.
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One month from today we will be in Dublin!!!
One week from yesterday is my last day at the office and I know, judging from past years that I won't be posting as much. I'll be on Long Island for the Thanksgiving holiday and then I'll be at the Equity office volunteering for the Stephen J. Falat Holiday Gift Basket Project and then we will be in Dublin. Once there I may not be able to post at all. We won't have a computer in the room and while there are assuredly Internet cafes in Dublin, I don't know if we will be able to post much so I need to make up for it over the next few days.
Oy, the catching up I will have to do!
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I just remembered a moment of overload! It was finals week of my junior year of college - fall semester. I had my piano class final on my last day of school before I was to go home for Christmas break, and this final was VERY important. For my degree, I had to pass four semesters of class piano to move on to my required two semesters of private lessons, but here's the thing - I'm a terrible pianist. Within that week I had closed a show, taken five written exams, prepared a 6-song vocal jury (in four languages) and was dealing with a dog in our house that pooped all over the kitchen floor. When I got into the piano final, I froze. I couldn't play any of the prepared stuff properly - not even scales - but when it came to the sight-reading I did just fine. The only people in the room were my teacher and the head of the Keyboard department, and when Dr. Scott asked me if I had practiced and why was I able to sight-read better than play my prepared stuff, I broke down right then and there, crying and saying "I don't know" over and over again. And we're not just talking about babbling and a couple of tears. We're talking hunched over the keyboard with heaving shrugs kind of sobbing. The head of the Keyboard dept. looked at me with the most incredulous look in her eyes - she wasn't sure what was going on, and neither was I. My teacher - a very stern man who rarely showed any kind of affection for any of his students - patted me on the hand and said, "Well, I don't know why you're going on like this - you passed the exam" and then asked me to leave the room. Ms. Taylor, who'd never seen such a display in a piano jury, walked me out to her office (because I think she thought I was suicidal at that point) and gave me some pictures from the show I had just done the previous weekend. After I calmed down, she gave me a hug and sent me home. I got home and just laid on the bed and bawled until I felt better, packed up my stuff and went home for Christmas.
I've never been so embarrassed in my life.
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Life is funny like that.
Things set us off, and there's no "why"...
There is only "because"....
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There's a bit of confusion as to what day this is.
According to my calendar, today (the 17th of November) is the Great American Smoke-Out.
However, the same calendar posts tomorrow (the 18th of November) as National Great American Smoke-Out Day.
In any case, I strongly suggest climbing on the shoulders of your favorite smoker-you-wish-wouldn't, and singing a chorus of "On Top Of Old Smokey" in honor of this day, and as a fab way of dropping a hint.
Let us hope that some day soon, the only smokers we will know will be the devices used for flavoring meats.
Well, I've gone 23 days without so much as a puff....
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I may or may not survive DS Betsy's return from work today. ;D Although I did warn her I was probably going to get one.
Wait a minute she wasn't along for the purchase? ::) You brave, brave, foolhardy man!
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Many, many, many congrats to DR Cillaliz!! I'm very excited for and proud of you! BRAVA!!!
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I was never a great pianist, but I'm a fabulous page turner... :D
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Well, I've gone 23 days without so much as a puff....
Congratulations!! I am very proud of you!!!
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I was never a great pianist, but I'm a fabulous page turner... :D
I'm not even a good page turner, always turning too fast or too slow
I am however a WONDERFUL and enthusastic audience
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Watched two enjoyable shows this afternoon after I returned home from lunch.
First up was VERONICA MARS and it's getting more and more complicated in sorting out exactly who all the people are that Veronica is quietly investigating in her attempt to discover the perpetrator of the bus calamity.
The weekly cases she's involved in are always quirky and fun, but the bigger picture of the season-long mystery sometimes puts my brain into overload with all these people.
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Thanks Jason and Vixmom. It has been easier than I thought it would be. The really weird part is that I dream I'm smoking almost every night
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Congratulations to DR JMK on his high definition purchase. I am thrilled to pieces for him!
;D
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Better go. I've got work to do. Plus, our temps keep calling in sick or not showing up....what's with that? You get a temp job and then just don't go? No phone call nada. What's with these people. Don't say yes if you aren't going to show up!!!
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Then I watched LAW & ORDER recorded last night.
My, what a great group of stage actors appearing on the show last night including Terry Mann and Stephen Lang. Love both of them. Interesting case, too.
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Who here uses a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse?
I have a question: how long do batteries typically last in the keyboard and mouse? A month? Longer?
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Thanks Jason and Vixmom. It has been easier than I thought it would be. The really weird part is that I dream I'm smoking almost every night
The part that most impressed me is your ability to go to a party and especially to have a drink of wine without depseratley wanting a cigarette, that was the hardest thing for me
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Then I watched LAW & ORDER recorded last night.
My, what a great group of stage actors appearing on the show last night including Terry Mann and Stephen Lang. Love both of them. Interesting case, too.
I love Terence Mann. I keep hoping that we are somehow related to him, but I haven't found a link yet!
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So glad that Starfighter review seemed to acknowledge BK's contributions to the industry in general.
Yes, that is nice! So...how does one submit a recording for a Grammy? :D
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Well, I've gone 23 days without so much as a puff....
Way to go, DR Cillaliz!
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I shall now be on my way to the LACC production meeting, and then rehearsal. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.
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Who here uses a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse?
I have a question: how long do batteries typically last in the keyboard and mouse? A month? Longer?
I have a wireless mouse (not keyboard) and I use two double-A batteries. I've had it a little less than a year and I've only had to change the batteries once...and not too long ago. It was a Logitec brand. Hope that helps.
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Just stopped in for a moment before leaving work. I'll be going to my book group tonight to discuss The Tipping Point, which I found quite tedious.
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I have a wireless mouse (not keyboard) and I use two double-A batteries. I've had it a little less than a year and I've only had to change the batteries once...and not too long ago. It was a Logitec brand. Hope that helps.
Thanks, that's just the kind of information I was looking for. A friend went looking at these today, and there was a Logitech model that I liked (keyboard and mouse) which was $50 off, and I immediately put on my CHristmas list. But if the batteries were going to be flaking out after a week or two, I was going to have to invest in more rechargeable batteries.
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BK, congrats on your corker review!
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Congratulations to bk, FJL, and Skip on the great review!
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I love Terence Mann. I keep hoping that we are somehow related to him, but I haven't found a link yet!
Well, there is always The Brotherhood of Mann...
...a benevolent fellowship...of Mann
...oh aren't you proud to be...
...in the fraternity...
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Wait a minute she wasn't along for the purchase? ::) You brave, brave, foolhardy man!
Nay! Nay!
Television buying is MAN'S WORK!
:D
The manly man always buys his TV alone, or in the company of other manly men!
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George - Unfortunately, my Grammy is no longer with us, but I'm sure if my Grammy were still around, she would have loved that review.
(That is a joke, slightly morbid and also stolen from a joke BK once made on All That Chat, but still a joke. :) )
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I've done that midnight show thing twice: JURASSIC PARK and BATMAN AND ROBIN. Of course, with JP we were all juiced by that amazing feat of movie magic. With B&R, well, let's just say I liked it better than those I was with (though I'll admit much of it was very lame).
Ah, the fond memories. A friend and I went to the midnight opening of Star Wars (the original) at Grauman's Chinese, back when it still was Grauman's. Standing in line for what seemed like forever, finally getting in, and then the previews of all the other films were shown.
And then they stopped, and in the dark the side curtains (aka "legs") could be heard moving back, and when the film began everyone realized that the screen was indeed wider and taller and then the spaceships started flying in from the top of the screen...
I think everyone in the theater gasped when that happened.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
When I walked to work today, I saw a couple of turkey buzzards.
Not worth taking a picture, trust me.
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Ah, the fond memories. A friend and I went to the midnight opening of Star Wars (the original) at Grauman's Chinese, back when it still was Grauman's. Standing in line for what seemed like forever, finally getting in, and then the previews of all the other films were shown.
And then they stopped, and in the dark the side curtains (aka "legs") could be heard moving back, and when the film began everyone realized that the screen was indeed wider and taller and then the spaceships started flying in from the top of the screen...
I think everyone in the theater gasped when that happened.
Yep! I saw it months later in Washington DC...still playing first-run on a 70 mm screen.
It took my breath away...and then some. So few people now can appreciate how stunning and groundbreaking this film was cinematically -- aural and visual splendors the likes of which only our imaginations could have previously envisioned.
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When I walked to work today, I saw a couple of turkey buzzards.
Not worth taking a picture, trust me.
You may consider yourself fortunate.
I see turkey butts every day...on the street and, on occasion, one will stroll into the office.
I pray for rain!
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The part that most impressed me is your ability to go to a party and especially to have a drink of wine without depseratley wanting a cigarette, that was the hardest thing for me
I never said I didn't want one, just that I didn't have one ;D
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Congrats FJL and BK on the review! That's great
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You may consider yourself fortunate.
I see turkey butts every day...on the street and, on occasion, one will stroll into the office.
I pray for rain!
Thanks, DR Ron! This gave me my heartiest laugh of the day!
:D
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Nay! Nay!
Television buying is MAN'S WORK!
:D
The manly man always buys his TV alone, or in the company of other manly men!
And you came by this information...how, exactly?
::)
My Mom always helped Dad build his TV sets! She kind of had to, since he always appropriated the dining room table as the HeathKit construction area, and it was the easiest way for her to get the table back quickly.
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I'm heading downstairs now to clean the bedroom areas and then into the den for some TV entertainment.
WBBL.
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Other than hectic, busy lunches during a work shift (which were handled in the usual way: just keep moving like a shark) the one time which springs to mind as to being completely and totally overloaded was quite some time ago.
I had just finished up playing Nugget in a four week run of EQUUS, when I began my next project. The theater company which produced EQUUS, Laurel Highlands Regional (with whom I had a three year working relationship) accepted my proposal to stage Harvey Fierstien's SAFE SEX with my fellow actors Denise Pullen and Mark Calla. Our intent was to each direct one of the one-acts and give the box office take to the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. The theater agreed to a 70/30 split of the profits and we were set to go for two weekends in August.
At the time, I was working at Carnegie-Mellon, as was Denise, and my job involved walking around the campus as supervisor of dining services' Mobile Carts Units. I was in before seven and out just after four, Monday through Friday AND I had just begun a live-in relationship with someone I had met on the closing night of EQUUS. For safety's sake, I'll call him Greg - the name which I used for his character in my play THE END OF THE WORLD ON NEW YEARS' EVE. Greg was a skilled carpenter and worked on several films (THE DARK HALF, CREEPSHOW) which were filmed in Pittsburgh; he asked to be a part of SAFE SEX as designer and construction foreman.
As part of his plan, discussed with the theater, Greg also took it upon himself to redesign the theater's auditorium - a converted church sanctuary - by building seating platforms, creating a more indoor amphitheater feel to the place, with three moveable levels of seating platforms, reconstructing the sound/light/stage mangement booth, as well.
So in those fateful days in the 80s, I roamed the campus, went home to dinner, then off to rehearsals. After rehearsal (I was directing "Manny & Jake") I'd arm myself with a powertool and go to the theater's basement and help on the construction of sets and platforms. On weekends, it was more building and getting the pieces into the theater proper, as it was when I wasn't rehearsing my two actors.
At the end of the day, a quick stop at a bikers' bar for a brew was in order.
Don't even go there! I didn't survive through the drinking, but, from an offshoot of that drinking: POOL. I learned to play a nice relaxing game of pool. I didn't know that pool could be such a savior. Thinking, skillful and sometimes arguementative, the game captured me and let me take the worries of the day out on the cue stick and the balls. Pool also brought my first soulmate to me, for when I declared that I was tired of going to str8 bars to play and that I knew of other bars in the city with pool tables, our little troupe trooped over to The Norreh. A private club -open all night. Those pool sessions led to a couple of singing gigs at benefit performances. It was during one of those gigs that I finally noticed The Norreh's bartender, John, who had certainly been noticing Greg and I. Not only was John an incredible person and a great bartender - he was a mean pool player, too.
So now, whenever I know that I'm about to be inundated, I find the nearest pool table, grab a partner and have a nice relaxing time.
There's so much more to this tale, but, the important parts concerning the TOPIC OF THE DAY have nearly all been told.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
DR Laura! How far do those hawks travel? I was greeted by a hawk when I woke up this morning, sitting in the tree outside our kitchen window.
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And you came by this information...how, exactly?
::)
My Mom always helped Dad build his TV sets! She kind of had to, since he always appropriated the dining room table as the HeathKit construction area, and it was the easiest way for her to get the table back quickly.
I came by this information through association with OTHER manly men.
Dude! Take a chill pill. The comment was tongue-in-cheek. :-*
And it had nothing to do with "building" anything.
::)
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I have a wireless mouse (not keyboard) and I use two double-A batteries. I've had it a little less than a year and I've only had to change the batteries once...and not too long ago. It was a Logitec brand. Hope that helps.
Ditto.
Another option is the rechargeable batteries, you know, the kind you can get for your digital camera, walkman, etc. . .
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It's almost time to go home.
I come by this information from 1) knowing how to read a clock, and 2) knowing that the end of the day is at a specific time.
Just in case...
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I came by this information through association with OTHER manly men.
Dude! Take a chill pill. The comment was tongue-in-cheek. :-*
I thought it was obvious that my comment was tongue-in-cheek, without smilies or underlining.
And it had nothing to do with "building" anything.
Of course, true manly men are good at building things other than their credit records. (And true manly men's wives know how to cope with their manly men.)
(Almost forgot the smilie: :-*)
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I am a spy!
A grocery store from a rival chain has just opened across the highway from where I work. I couldn't resist, and dragged der Brucer with me to see what they had.
I'll admit, they have the snazziest store in Rehoboth. Lots of mirrors (no smoke, however, in honor of the Great American Smoke-Out and, well, there's no smoking in stores or restaurants in Delaware in any case), to make the displays look even larger.
And they have a great produce department.
And they're offering loads of discounts...for the first sixty days they'll be in business.
But I have to question the wisdom of opening this week, one week before Thanksgiving. Sure, they'll get the crowds, or at least some of them, but the staff seems horribly undertrained. For example, we bought some items (they had a great price on steaks), including Brussels sprouts. The checker didn't know what they were. (No, I didn't tell her what the PLU code was, that would have been too rude.) And she was having problems with knowing how the register worked, which isn't a good thing, particularly in the express lane.
There's also a serious problem with their parking lot. Parking lots in Delaware are a joke anyways, but this lot has no exit! OK, exageration, but there's a clearly marked entrance to the lot on the highway, but no exit on the highway at all. Instead, there is a poorly marked exit on one of the side streets.
The store itself is fine. But whoever planned that parking lot got paid plenty for nothing.
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I thought it was obvious that my comment was tongue-in-cheek, without smilies or underlining.Of course, true manly men are good at building things other than their credit records. (And true manly men's wives know how to cope with their manly men.)
(Almost forgot the smilie: :-*)
I don't know...maybe it's just me, but the use of
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isn't tongue-in-cheek or humor. It screams out, "Oh! Brother!" to me.
It lives or dies by its placement. And following that sentence --- "And you came by this....how, exactly?" --- came off as you being contemptuous of my statement.
I can't help it. That's the way I read it.
But I accept your word that it wasn't your intent.
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Tonight at 7 we have an HOA meeting.
Dang! It's a week early, but Thanksgiving will do that to schedules.
I wanna go. I don't wanna go.
I wanna go. I don't wanna go.
No matter what, I'm outta there before 8 p.m.
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Jose, I could go for some vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. Instead I’m munching on my new addiction, Island Princess toffee coated macadamia nuts covered in milk chocolate & topped with powdered sugar.
TCB we are going on Holland America and will be traveling with friends. Thirty days is a long time. Where did you go?
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Is this really news department: the new Harry Potter film made the front page of The Oregonian today. Oy. The reviewer said it's easily the best film of the bunch.
It should be since the book was better than the previous ones.
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Jennifer I like the Spoiler space.
Ben, your boss was a gem.
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Vixmom, thanks for reminding me why I don’t always miss the days when the children were little. I didn’t have a job outside the home. I did have a husband who was rarely home and often out of the country. I remember days when both children needed to be someplace at the same time and their mother to be with them.
See you in May, 2007. ;D
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TCB we are going on Holland America and will be traveling with friends. Thirty days is a long time. Where did you go?
Holland American ships are wonderful. Great service. The 30 day cruise I took back in 2002, was the maiden voyage of the Star Princess. It was built in Italy, and we were told that it was too large to sail through the Panama Canal, so it was sent through the Suez Canal instead. We picked up the ship in Singapore and traveled to Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, two cities in Japan, then across the Pacific to Hawaii, and finally on to Los Angeles. I didn't even realize it at the time, but I had broken my back prior to leaving on the trip.
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Good Evening!
We ran the first act today! -Well, almost all of the first act - we need to finish up choreographing "Who's Got The Pain?" But we ran the act, and it went pretty well for a first time. And by the beginning of next week, we should have the second act sketched in.
Tomorrow will be a choreography clean-up day. All dancing, all the time.
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Jason I’m sorry your family couldn’t visit you during your difficult year. I know how that feels and so we do our best to visit our children. It was difficult going so long without seeing Craig, but Romania is very far. I just read your second meltdown, maybe crying was better than loosing it some other way.
Ron, interesting overload story.
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Bruce, FJL and Skip- I agree with the great review.
JMK turn on the discovery channel and Betsey will love the new HDTV.
Cillaliz, congratulations!!!
TCB the trip sounds fantastic, one I would like to do. Did your back ruin it for you, or should I ask if the trip is why your back never healed?
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Thanks Jane. This Great smokeout is driving me crazy. Nothing is worse than every channel showing people smoking. LOL, I wonder if they realize that!
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Guess Who!
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LOL-They should show people who are dying, or very ill, from smoking.
'night
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As for the Topic of the Day...
Well, tech weeks are supposed to be "overloaded", so... I've been through plenty of those. I'd have to say the hardest ones were when I was working on shows for my alma mater. Since we were working around a college student's typical schedule, we never really started rehearsals until 7:00 or 7:30, which meant that tech week rehearsals would routinely go into the wee hours of the morning.
There was a time when I was in college - I forget which year right now - where I was going through one of those periods where "everything" just seemed to be closing in on me. Classes, financial issues, family issues, personal issues... the whole shebang. *Of course, in retrospect, a lot of "it" was just in my head, but at the time...) Well... I just decided to take a break from my life at that point, and I headed down to Charlottesville to visit a friend of mine. I basically went into hiding for a few days. I hung out with my friend and her friends, and basically did not give a thought to anything else going on in my life at that point and time. Yes, the time away did end up complicating some of the other "issues", but being able to come back and face things with a clear mind and a rested body (ah, sleep!) made things a bit easier to deal with.
There were other times when I would "escape", but it was after that particular episode when I started to make concerted efforts to not take things too seriously... all the time.
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Bruce, FJL and Skip- I agree with the great review.
JMK turn on the discovery channel and Betsey will love the new HDTV.
Cillaliz, congratulations!!!
TCB the trip sounds fantastic, one I would like to do. Did your back ruin it for you, or should I ask if the trip is why your back never healed?
Actually, I always have so much pain in my back, that I never noticed the difference on the trip. Of course, when you spend most of the day lounging by the pool, you don't have much cause to notice that your back is hurting. Within six weeks of returning from the cruise, my back had gotten so bad, that I couldn't even lie still long enough for them to do x-rays. I had to have two surgeries, and was off work for three months without pay. That is the part I have never recoved from -- the debt.
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DR Jason - I remember having two similar breakdowns when I was in college. And they both happened to happen in the middle of flute lessons I was accompanying. Both sobbing fits were the result of not letting myself cry when I needed to cry - I just kept all of it in. So... In the middle of playing a Bach sonata, the waterworks just turned on. Thankfully, the flute teacher was sort of a friend, and she was very understanding. Needless to say, I was very embarrassed. Both times.
Thankfully, most of the times I cried in my piano studio was not during a lesson.
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*Nowadays, if I know I'm in need of a good cry, I will watch one of the following movies: "Cinema Paradiso", "The Joy Luck Club", or "The Color Purple".
:'(
:)
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DR td - Feel free to e-mail me the details you left out of your story.
;D
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RE: Terrance Mann - I've actually hung out with him a few times at various theatre conferences. A very nice guy, very "cas" - as in casual. And I have to say that he cleans up very nicely.
;)
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DR Cillaliz - Here's to the next 23... and 2300 hundred smoke-free days! Congrats!
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DR Cillaliz - Here's to the next 23... and 2300 hundred smoke-free days! Congrats!
Thanks Jose, I actually got upset about something tonight and went out for a drink....but I did not smoke. That's a real test for me.
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I really want some ice cream, chocolate, cake, candy and/or cookies right now...
Must resist! Must resist!
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After talking to DR JMK about his new TV set in e-mail, I decided I might do well to tweek the settings on my set just a bit. I've been feeling lately that the color had not quite been up to snuff on some DVDs (like the 1945 STATE FAIR), and after I did some calibrating, the DVD did looks much better, more lifelike and the color did have more punch than I had originally thought. (HDTV pictures have always looked deeply saturated and pristine.)
I put in the James Bond DVD GOLDENEYE and watched some of it too to watch something a bit more modern and look at how I liked the color in it. Just fine.
Then, the acid test: THE INCREDIBLES which features really intense and deeply saturated color. Astounding looking, so now I am very well pleased.
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Wow, almost an hour without a post? Or am I reading the time wrong?
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Spoo, I posted that last post too soon, but it gets me closer to post #700.
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Page 7 Ricardo and Mertz Dance!!!
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The 700 Club, here I come.
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ALIAS, well, what can I say? I found it not very exciting, all with a "seen it before and already done it" feel about it. Sad.
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Hmm...I hit 666 on page 6 and now maybe I'll hit 700 on page 7 (diffreent days, of course).
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I could be Agent 0-0-700.
Silly, but it's a post.
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Now I'm only 7 away from 700.
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The Magnificent 700.
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CSI had a very involving conclusion to the two part case begun last week. Very touching ending, and the investigation gave almost everyone a moment or two in the spotlight. I'm loving George Eads' new mustache.
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My next fairy tale - Snow White and The Seven Hundred
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700, Girls, 700
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Seven-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-seven-hundred minutes (a sort RENT reference)
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WITHOUT A TRACE veered away from its usual procedural tact and presented a case from the parents of a victim's point of view. It was gripping from beginning to end, by far the best episode of this series thus far this season.
Laurie Metcalf and Matt Craven played the parents of the missing fifteen year old and both did acting worthy of guest actor Emmy nominations. They did exceptional jobs, and given that the focus was on them and not on the FBI agents this week, their guest appearances were a lot longer than the average guest star on a series. This should give them something of an advantage when Emmy time rolls around next season.
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I didn't want ice cream until DR Jose mentioned it! Now I want some too! Darn it!
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Lord, I'm 700 miles away from home (a folk song quasi-reference)
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700 bottles of beer on the wall, 700 bottles of beer (a traveling-with-family reference)
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Then, I watched WILL & GRACE recorded tonight on the DVR. The first part of the episode had some good laughs as Will and Jack took an interest in some gay penguins at the zoo while Karen and Grace attended the life celebration of the late wife of the always funny Beverley Leslie (Leslie Jordan). Of course, Bevereley's social consultant Benjie was on hand to help his employer through his "grief."
Sad to say, the second half of the episode was not funny and once again suggested that there may be more than friendship in the cards for Will and Jack as the series winds down.
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End of an almost-frenzy.
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I still have a DVR full of "stuff" to watch over the weekend which is going to be made tougher because I'm going to a play tomorrow night. More about that tomorrow.
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I did not watch Alias yet. But did watch Survivor and The Apprentice.
Minor vague spoilers.
The preview for next week's Survivor looks interesting. Can't believe they left one person out of the loop!
And on Apprentice I was so happy to see that person go!
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Back from another jam-packed day. Rehearsal was really fun - more about that later. I must now go sit on my couch like so much fish.
I take no credit for The Last Starfighter, other than having the good taste to know it was really a good show - all credit goes to the authors, FJL and his ever-lovin' Skip.
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I recorded a bunch of stuff too. Including The OC, Alias, and Everwood.
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I wasn't tempted to have ice cream today. Friday is my ice cream day, and that's tomorrow!
I did sneak a few potato chips during ALIAS tonight. If the show had been more gripping, I wouldn't have gotten up from the chair to fetch a snack.
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I think i will go to bed now since it's VERY late.
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I am also heading for bed as it's after midnight here.
Good night, everyone!
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DR td - Feel free to e-mail me the details you left out of your story.
;D
DR Jose - I wrote an entire play with the details which were left out!
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The HOA meeting was a tad on the pissy side thanks to two homeowners.
They presented problems, the board agreed to look into them, and the homeowners DEMANDED IMMEDIATE ACTION.
A lesson in diplomacy and what it means to be a "volunteer" board member ensued.
Much crow was swallowed.
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SPOILER
Re: "Survivor: Guatemala"
I was happy with tonight's eviction. I'm glad Gary was spared again, and as much "potential" as I feel Jamie has, he was clearly psychotic in his approach to the game.
Good riddance. And it's his own fault.
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I've had a spectacularly lazy evening. My roommates were both gone - to where, I have no idea or interest - so I piled up on the sofa in the living room for the first time in WEEKS and watched three - count 'em, THREE - Hitchcock movies: "Family Plot," "Psycho" and "The Birds." Good times.
DR Jose: I must see "The Joy Luck Club." In fact, I'm going to add it to my NetFlix queue right this very minute.
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DR Jose: I must see "The Joy Luck Club." In fact, I'm going to add it to my NetFlix queue right this very minute.
Well... At least you still have those travel packs of Kleenex to absorb the tears.
;)
The movie has a long(er) running time than "normal", but it's well worth the time investment. There are lots of stories and characters to keep track of, but the movie is plotted in such a way that makes it easy to keep track of people, places and time periods (lots of flashbacks). *And after seeing it the first time, an SNL skit I had seen years ago (when the movie originally came out) finally made sense to me. ;)
I can't wait to hear what you think of it!
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Today's visitor.
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Same bird.
Sulpher Crested Cockatoo - frequent visitors and usually quite patient.
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And, yes, I'm still up... I'm watching the latenight rebroadcast of "Oprah" (which is when I usually end up watching "Oprah"). Today's topic is When Did You Know You Were Gay?/When Did You Come Out?/How Did You Tell Your Parents?/How Did Your Parents React?/etc., etc., etc...
And on Monday's "Oprah".. It's her "Favorite Things" show. Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture!
;D
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"Jerry Springer - The Opera" was broadcast here the other night. We may watch it this weekend.
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DR Jane - The other night I came home to find one of those big bags of Mauna Loa Toffee Coated Macadamia Nuts Covered in Milk Chocolate (Ghirardelli no less!)... I tried my best to resist, but resistance was indeed futile. Alas, there was also a one pound bag of plain macadamias on the counter too...
...And now I'm on Day 11 of being Sugar* and White Flour** Free***... Seven pounds dropped so far!
:)
*I'm not cutting out sugars totally - I'm not doing a quasi-Atkins thing. I'm cutting out "overt" sugar right now - candies, cakes, cookies, ice cream, pastries, etc. In other words, mainly white sugar. "Covert" sugars are still in - fruits, vegetables, yogurt, soy milk, etc.
**No bread, cookies, cakes, pastries, etc.
***Well, I'd say about 96.5% Sugar and White Flour Free. I did indulge with those Chocolate Covered Macadamia Nuts, and a Walker's Shortbread Cookie (or two), but that's been about it. -Oh, and a bagel this past Monday in NYC. But that's been about it. I even passed on the free pizza lunch that was provided by the theatre today.
...It's all about looking good and looking better on April 13!
;)
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Good Morning, Tom and Colin and Magnus and Fosca and Cockatoos Too!
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Or should that have been "Good Afternoon"?
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OK... "Oprah" is over... And I have to be up in five hours...
Goodnight.
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Good Evening DR Jose - from us all!