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Title: WHAT'S MY SEGUE?
Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 12:06:43 AM: Well, you've read the notes, you've segued from one paragraph to another, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're trying to segue to coming home, but they don't know what a segue is - they think it's a dance.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 12:08:25 AM: And the word of the day is: ATELIER!
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 12:16:29 AM: And what a word it is! ;)
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 12:17:47 AM: I must be going to bed now because I'm going to see "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" at 9:15 in the morning! Why does my niece (it was her decision) have to see a movie at the first showing...especially when it's so darned early? That's what I want to know. Anyway, I'm going. But before I do...

¡¡¡ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR GINNY !!!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 02:52:15 AM: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR GINNY
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 02:54:48 AM: I'll need to go into the studio and do some creative research to cope with the word of the day!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 02:57:01 AM: I shall avoid the TOTD. Not a good place to go.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 05:30:39 AM: Good morning, all! Today I have another trip to Toyland, then a trip to Brokeback Mountain. After that, it's anyone's guess. I realized my Father's birthday is in 3 days, so I have to send him a card and shop for his Christmas gift.

I plan on keeping the one I can't forget in my private atelier. It's no one's business until my private diaries are published. Or one of my friends spills the beans.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 05:36:12 AM: Happy Birthday DR Ginny!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 11, 2005, 05:40:45 AM: Happy Happy Birthday, DR Ginny!! I wish you cake and ice cream today. And I wish you'd post photos of said cake and ice cream today.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 11, 2005, 05:41:41 AM: A busy day lined up today. We are doing something new this year, so we must be sure of success, else we have to listen to "I told you so" for the next year.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 05:42:54 AM: Hey for those who watch SURVIVOR, don't forget tonight is the 3 hour season finale.

I'm curious who you guys want to win? (especially DR MBarnum who always comes up with some sappy person :) ). Hey, hopefully you do not want Lydia!

Me in order: Steph, Danni, Rafe, Lydia.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 05:44:55 AM: For those who watch AMAZING RACE:

Apparently the 2nd and 3rd place finishers will have a mini-race to win a car. It will air on cbs.com tues night.

http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9478
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 05:48:10 AM: Here is the cast for Dancing With The Stars 2:
TIA CARRERE
GISELLE FERNANDEZ
GEORGE HAMILTON
STACY KEIBLER
DREW LACHEY
KENNY MAYNE
TATUM O'NEAL
JERRY RICE
LISA RINNA
ROMEO

http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9477
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 06:05:15 AM: [size=20]Happy Birthday Ginny!!![/size]
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 06:06:21 AM: Tatum O'Neal?

And whoever put George Hamilton into a dancing competition should be tanned.

::)
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 06:07:22 AM: Dear BK: If you had to choose, would you choose A) Telier, or B) Penn?
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Post by: Ben on December 11, 2005, 06:22:09 AM: Happy Birthday Ginny!!!
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Post by: TPunk on December 11, 2005, 06:28:14 AM: Happy Birthday wishes to DR Ginny!!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 07:34:01 AM: Happy Birthday DR GINNY!!

Enjoy the LOTR exhibit! Wonderful to see you and your family....and DH RICHARD's new beard! Perfect for the season!

And thank you for the delicious homemade dessert! Yum!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 07:35:10 AM: Getting ready to leave for work. My sister Molly is driving.

It is as difficult to buy a tire in Indiana on Sunday as it is to buy beer. It just ain't happening! So I am driving on that THING that they give you....it's a toy tire.

And tomorrow I will travel back to BIG O ... that's twice in less than a week!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 07:37:13 AM: Yes, I thought the KING KONG remake was going to be wonderful....they certainly promoted it as something exciting and talked about the HUGE model they built. I think I was used for one shot and all it did was raise its arm....the rest of it....a man in a monkey suit. Toho Style, but without the Toho humor.

Deadly!

Lucie Arnaz was probably looking for you, MR BK.

And after all you have $10.46 that you didn't have yesterday!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 07:41:55 AM: Good morning!

Beautiful morning here with cloudless blue skies but very cold temperatures. For the last time in the week's forecast, we're supposed to get to the low 50s today, but it's mid-30s right now. Brrrr.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 07:44:05 AM: Loathed every second of the KING KONG remake back in the day. For a long time, it was always the movie I said was my all-time worst movie ever made. Probably replaced by by 1492 or INCHON, but it was truly awful.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 07:44:37 AM: Happy Birthday, DR Ginny!!!!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 07:47:45 AM: The one I'll always remember I believe I've talked about here before: my first boy friend Clay whom I met when I was a freshman in college and he was a sophomore. Our first encounter was a total shock to me since I was tutoring him in Spanish (he was a football jock not adept with foreign language) and didn't imagine in my wildest dreams that something other than schoolwork was about to happen.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 07:49:30 AM: One thing I discovered on my DVR that I had forgotten I had recorded was THE PRINCESS DIARIES II. Never having seen it, I believe I'll be spending the afternoon with Misses Andrews and Hathaway.

Ann Hathaway is in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, too.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 07:50:50 AM: Read on the internet this morning that BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has won Best Picture of 2005 from the L.A. Film Critics Circle. Director Ang Lee won Best Director.

Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for CAPOTE with Heath Ledger from BROKEBACK coming in second in the voting.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:17:29 AM: Off to get laundry started and some other things attended to around the house.

WBBL.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 08:58:42 AM: Ginny posted:
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In that photo, JRand had just asked if anyone else wanted to hold a goddess and DH Richard said, "I'm already holding mine!" ***Blush***

No wonder you are glowing :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINNY![/size] I'm sure you will have a wonderful day with your family.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 09:01:00 AM: Jennifer stay home and rest, don't mess with a sore throat. If you like black licorice, it might help soothe your throat. It worked for me with my cold and mild sore throat. I like Panda natural licorice.

Jose, good work vibes.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 09:34:27 AM: DR Jane, I've been resting and just doing crafts all morning. The thing is my throat doesn't hurt during the day. It didn't hurt yesterday during they day and doesn't hurt now.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 09:36:51 AM: DR MattH, I love the Princess Diaries movies. I'll be curious to see if you like #2. I would think there would be way too much teen girly stuff for most men. But I love it!

Btw, just watched Veronica Mars. Weird how they only announced which ending won at the end of the show.

Also, do you feel like you need a PhD just to follow some of the happenings. There are so many confusing twists and turns, that I find myself having to think things through just to keep everything straight.

And I love the big shocking twists at the end of each episode.
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 10:32:53 AM: Happy birthday, Ginny!
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 10:33:22 AM: Where the heck IS everybody???
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 10:42:46 AM: Everyone else?
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 10:54:29 AM: I'm up, I'm up. Lovely long sleep, but my throat is so trashed from coughing yesterday I can barely produce any sound out of it. I'll have some nice hot emergenC and C if that helps. In the meantime, where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think it was a Sunday or something.

I see I've finally come up with a topic that no one wants to touch with a ten foot Pole or even a five foot Czech. Feel free to make your own topics.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 11:20:44 AM: Quote from: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 09:34:27 AM
DR Jane, I've been resting and just doing crafts all morning. The thing is my throat doesn't hurt during the day. It didn't hurt yesterday during they day and doesn't hurt now.

Then I will give you the same advice I gave Bruce, sleep propped up on pillows. It might help your throat as well as a cough. It just keeps everything from draining to undesirable places.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 11:27:00 AM: I found an interesting recipe at http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001620homemade_ginger_ale.php . Has anyone ever made ginger ale?
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 11:35:15 AM: Just me and Jane in the jernt. You'd think it was a Sunday or something, what with 38 posts at 11:30. We're celebratin' a birthday here - most unseemly.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 12:28:07 PM: Oh, okay - no posts in over an hour, I'm the only one in the jernt and forty posts at 12:30. That's worse than phlegm.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and do a monologue.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 11, 2005, 12:50:30 PM: Quote from: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 05:42:54 AM
Hey for those who watch SURVIVOR, don't forget tonight is the 3 hour season finale.

I'm curious who you guys want to win? (especially DR MBarnum who always comes up with some sappy person :) ). Hey, hopefully you do not want Lydia!

I want Rafe to win. Next up would by Lydia.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 11, 2005, 12:58:25 PM: Hey, Happy, Happy Birthday DR Ginny!!!!

I am glad that you and JRand55 had an opportunity to meet! Both of you are swell DRs in my book!

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Post by: Ginny on December 11, 2005, 01:09:03 PM: Sunday greetings and thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes. We were at the Indiana State Museum at 11am for our timed entry into the Lord of the Rings exhibit, which was quite interesting even to me - not so much of a LOTR fan. We spent a couple of hours in the exhibit, had lunch in the museum cafe, and shopped in the gift shops there and at the Eiteljorg Museum next door. The museums are a nice walk away from our hotel along the canal - it's pretty cold, but very refreshing. We're relaxing in our room now, having hot chocolate, before proceeding out later for the steak dinner I've requested.
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Post by: Ginny on December 11, 2005, 01:11:05 PM: ...and we must be back from dinner by 8pm EST to see the West Wing wedding!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 01:17:28 PM: Had a nice afternoon thus far with two movies. First up was THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2, and, yes, I was definitely not the target audience for this movie. I'm sure preteen girls loved it, and for the young at heart (DR Jennifer, that's you), it could also be fun. Even I found parts of it fun and even sweetly, innocently romantic.

I wanted to see it, of course, because there was much publicity at the time of its release about Julie Andrews doing a small amount of singing in the film. She starts talking the song, and I sort of despaired that she'd be able to find any kind of pitch, but lo and behold, she did sing. Very low and very soft, but she stayed on pitch, and it gave me a warm feeling to hear Julie once again in song. No, the soaring soprano is a thing of the past, but we have her films and recordings for the Julie of old, but we also know now that in small doses, she can take to song just fine.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 01:19:54 PM: I next pulled up off the DVR the brilliant 1940 fantasy THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD. I have resisted watching this movie again for the last thirty years or so because every copy of it I've ever seen was a dark, murky public domain disaster.

I don't know which print TCM got its hands on, but it is astonishingly bright, clear, sharp, GORGEOUS. What a joy to see this wonderful movie looking so new and wonderful again!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 01:23:07 PM: Since I'm not watching SURVIVOR, and I don't watch EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION (expanded to two hours tonight so there wouldn't need to be a DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES rerun), I will be watching some DVDs until 10 when a new CROSSING JORDAN comes on tonight.

Haven't picked out which movie it will be yet.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 02:12:31 PM: We're not a talky bunch today, I guess. Quite a long spell since I last posted.

I'm headed down now to do some chores and then to watch more films.

WBBL.
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Post by: vixmom on December 11, 2005, 02:28:47 PM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Birthday to you[/move]

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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Birthday dear Ginny[/move]

[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Birthday to YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU![/move]

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Post by: vixmom on December 11, 2005, 02:29:53 PM: Gosh! 5:18 PM EST and I start post 49? Dear me, that machine of BK's is gonna geta workout today!!
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Post by: vixmom on December 11, 2005, 02:33:14 PM: My exciting day so far

Church, Sunday School, Grocery Shopping, lunch making, kitchen cleaning, laundry, more Christmas card writing, delivering the Vixter to her "last ditch rehearsal', discvoering a rear flat tire, getting the Vixdad to pump up said tire, making tea for Vixdad, more laundry, catching up with this here site and now I am off to see the Vixter's Youth Group's Christmas play and concert....

Laters!!!
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 02:38:50 PM: Ann is singing in a concert, and I'm watching football. A good Sunday for everybody around here. :D
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 02:40:13 PM: It is most unseemly for a Monday - where indeed is everyone today? I logged on at about 5.00am local time and then three hours later to see only a couple more posts and now post 50 has just been reached.. Trouble will not only be in River City.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 02:55:59 PM: I'm back from the movies and I've just emailed my semi-complete draft of the BABES IN TOYLAND Editorial commentary to everyone on the project for their feedback. I still the critical commentary on each musical number to write, but I've finished an Intro, History, Commentary on Score and Libretto, Listing of all sources used, Editorial Method, and Acknowledgements. I'm hoping my colleagues will tell me where it's vague, redundant, poorly spelled and poorly worded.

As for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, I have nothing to say beyond how emotionally wrenching it is by its very understatement and beauty. I can't think of any symbol for innocence, hope, and love more potent than Brokeback Mountain since Kane's Rosebud. It's quite a haunting film.

DRTPunk, I wish I'd invited you to come with us.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 03:12:26 PM: Oy and vey. Where in tarnation IS everyone? We most certainly will achieve a new all-time low today unless we get some major frenzies goin' on.

I suppose I shall have to see Brokeback Mountain - if I enjoy it it will be the first Ang Lee film I like.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 03:13:53 PM: I'm trying to watch a DVD entitled Teorema, a film of Pasolini. I'm fifteen minutes in and I have thus far hated every single second of what's on view. I keep trying to watch Pasolini films, trying to understand why they're critically accepted, but I have yet to see one that I don't find amateurish and awful.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 03:44:03 PM: re: Survivor

Quote from: MBarnum on December 11, 2005, 12:50:30 PM
I want Rafe to win. Next up would by Lydia.

Oh DR MBarnum you always crack me up!

I thought you would have liked Danni actually since she has played so honestly.

I am a bit surprised that your fav is Rafe, since he has acted sweet, yet backstabbed all his alliance. I find him very odd. Because he acts so completely nice. Yet he has almost singlehandedly screwed everyone who was supposed to trust him (cindy, judd, jamie...).

And I will freak if Lydia wins. She has done nothing thus far!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 11, 2005, 03:44:50 PM: DR Jane, I've either been sleeping with four pillows. Or else I've just propped my pillows up against my pouffy bed chair.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 04:13:24 PM: My easy excuse for not posting is that I've been at work.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 04:14:34 PM: After work, der B and I went out and did some shopping. He needed a new wheel for the chair here at the computer. It has been a bit tipsy without it.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 04:17:05 PM: Right now, der B is watching The Third Man on one of the cable stations. The story is interesting, but the music has me in a zither.

;D
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 04:19:38 PM: Quote from: bk on December 11, 2005, 03:12:26 PM

I suppose I shall have to see Brokeback Mountain - if I enjoy it it will be the first Ang Lee film I like.

If you didn't like THE WEDDING BANQUET or SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, I can't imagine you'd like this one either.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 04:28:45 PM: OK, news flash. One hundred and thirty-one years ago today, in 1874, James Lewis Kraft was born. He started his career in life, as a wholesale cheese distributor and processor, honestly enough. However, in 1916 he patented a pasteurized process cheese, which was low-cost (read: cheap) and wouldn't spoil. People weren't interested at first, but during WWI the U. S. Army bought more than six million tins of the stuff. (Think of it as Army food.) Later, during the Great Depression, it's low-cost (read: cheapness) made the stuff popular with the general public at last.

So now you know who is to blame for all the lousy cheese that's flooded today's market. Easy-Mac, anyone? :P
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 04:34:15 PM: Time to get dinner made. The last of the T-Bones that my out-of-stepdaughter rejected, with a Mex twist (dusted with chili powder). Refried beans with chiles, some corn laced with red pepper, and some freshly fried corn tortilla strips and guacamole.

Too bad we're out of tequila, but that's life here in Delaware.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:35:19 PM: Cheez-Whiz Biz.

I like Cheez-Whiz on Spam on White Bread. Yum Yum.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:36:53 PM: DR MATTH - I watched the beginnng of FOUR FEATHERS on TCM last night, and the color on this print or DVD or whatever they use to broadcast now...was very bright and clear. That's one of my favorite novels....and I even like the newest version...I don't LOVE it, but I like it.

Of course it's no BEAU GESTE!!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:37:29 PM: Interesting TAR fact, DR JENNIFER. If I can't have a million dollars, I guess a car would be nice!
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:41:07 PM: Yes, MR BK, this is a sore subject.

Like DR ELMORE, I am saving my one I can't forget for my memoirs.

Since MR BK didn't get to go see GNOK GNIK last night - and so many of us are looking forward to it.....WHAT SCENE ARE YOU MOST ANTICIPATING IN THE NEW VERSION OF THIS (true NOT instant) CLASSIC MOVIE?

I am of course salivating to see the NEW GNOK climb the Empire State Building!!! On the BIG screeen, with some great music climbing with him!!!

Bring it on!!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 04:45:35 PM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]! ! ! ! ! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR GINNY ! ! ! ! ![/move]
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 04:48:05 PM: I have soooo much to catch up here, it's not funny (unless, of course, you find such things funny.)
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:51:05 PM: DR GINNY glad that you and DHRICHARD and DRROB enjoyed the Museums. The canal walk is fun and of course more comfortable in the spring and fall, but you don't have to worry about cars and busses when you walk down there. You were very near my former office in the Government Center!

Enjoy the Indiana Steak Dinner. It will be served with ketchup, even if you don't ask for it.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:51:56 PM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 04:48:05 PM
I have soooo much to catch up here, it's not funny (unless, of course, you find such things funny.)

You just KNOW we do! ;D
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 04:53:19 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 01:17:28 PM
Had a nice afternoon thus far with two movies. First up was THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2, and, yes, I was definitely not the target audience for this movie. I'm sure preteen girls loved it, and for the young at heart (DR Jennifer, that's you), it could also be fun. Even I found parts of it fun and even sweetly, innocently romantic.

I wanted to see it, of course, because there was much publicity at the time of its release about Julie Andrews doing a small amount of singing in the film.

At the time she kept saying she didn’t really sing.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 04:53:25 PM: GNIK GNOK 2005!!! ;D
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Post by: TPunk on December 11, 2005, 04:57:38 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 02:55:59 PM

As for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, I have nothing to say beyond how emotionally wrenching it is by its very understatement and beauty. I can't think of any symbol for innocence, hope, and love more potent than Brokeback Mountain since Kane's Rosebud. It's quite a haunting film.

DRTPunk, I wish I'd invited you to come with us.

I debated coming to meet you but I am so stopped up I don't think I would have been good company, and I definitely wouldn't want to get you sick.

Please tell Rodzinski that he should see the movie!!!
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Post by: TPunk on December 11, 2005, 04:59:59 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 04:17:05 PM
Right now, der B is watching The Third Man on one of the cable stations. The story is interesting, but the music has me in a zither.

;D

We were watching that yesterday!
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 05:03:22 PM: Quote from: bk on December 11, 2005, 11:35:15 AM
Just me and Jane in the jernt. You'd think it was a Sunday or something, what with 38 posts at 11:30. We're celebratin' a birthday here - most unseemly.

And then I left to go see Syriana.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 05:09:46 PM: Jennifer, I hope your throat doesn’t hurt tonight.
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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:13:38 PM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/DofB5/Gifs/bdayparty.gif)
DR Ginny!!!!!!!

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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:18:22 PM: For those of you who thought you saw me one the board today and then I winked out before posting. You were correct.

I was in the middle of writting a post and something unseemly happened to the cable modem!

I guess someone hit a pole because it came back on a few hours later.

I'm sitting here now with Bear snoring in the background. And I do mean SNORING!! I wish I could rig this so you could hear him. ;D

Vibes to TPunk and Jennifer to feel much better very soon.
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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:21:29 PM: We're down to a chilly 53 degrees F after a high of only 59. Do ya think it's Chrismas time or something?
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 05:24:53 PM: Sounds like TPunk and I are singing the same malady.

The music for the new Kong, at least on CD, is just like every other film score of the last decade - not a theme in sight, droning, thumping, New Agey, choir for no reason - you know, James Newton Howard. I, for one, would love to hear what Howard Shore was doing before they canned him.
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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:30:24 PM: The thing that I get a kick out of with the original King Kong is that back when it was first released, people were fainting in their seats.

I haven't heard of single movie in recent years that had that kind of effect on anyone.
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Post by: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 05:41:03 PM: Quote from: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:30:24 PM
The thing that I get a kick out of with the original King Kong is that back when it was first released, people were fainting in their seats.

I haven't heard of single movie in recent years that had that kind of effect on anyone.

I fainted from the shock of how inept and horrible VAN HELSING was! It scared the hell out of me.
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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:44:41 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 05:41:03 PM
I fainted from the shock of how inept and horrible VAN HELSING was! It scared the hell out of me.

That was one of the few DVD's I bought without seeing the movie before hand. Uggggh....... I will never make that mistake again.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 05:50:12 PM: Seems many Christian groups don’t like the expression “Happy Holidays” and want “Merry Christmas” back.

The 150,000-member American Family Association called for a boycott of Target (and other large chains), accusing the chain of banning the phrase "Merry Christmas" from its stores - a charge that Target denies.

And Bush who is usually bashed for not separating his religion from his politics has been bashed for his “Holiday” vs “Christmas” greeting. ::)
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Post by: Ginny on December 11, 2005, 05:52:33 PM: Back from my birthday dinner at a local Outback Steakhouse. Had my usual 7-oz filet, a baked potato, and an excellent chopped bleu cheese salad. We stopped at a grocery, bought a Bill Knapp's Celebration Cake and 2 pints of Haagen-Dasz (vanilla and dulce de leche).

It was delightful to come back to even more birthday wishes - thanks, all you lovely people!
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Post by: Ginny on December 11, 2005, 05:58:20 PM: Anybody want to join us for ice cream and cake?
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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:59:02 PM: I'm glad you had such a wonderful day, DR Ginny.

I can't believe that so many people have their panties in a wad about something as simple as " Merry Christmas". Bah. Humbug.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:00:47 PM: Ice cream and cake - that's the ticket. I wonder what I shall be having for dinner. I'm being taken to a restaurant that I'm not familiar with, therefore I'm in the dark as to what they serve and whether it will be pleasing to the tastebuds.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 06:00:59 PM: So far this is the best tribute to Richard Pryor I have read: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/13384812.htm

The night Keith and I graduated from high school, in 1967, Richard Pryor entertained at our grad night party. At the time I had no idea who he was, just that he was hysterical.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:01:32 PM: Now, how quickly can we get to page five?
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:02:22 PM: Since there's only three people in the jernt, I'm thinkin' not too quickly. Oh, there will be a bitch-slapping to remember, that much I can tell you - especially on a birthday day.
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Post by: Danise on December 11, 2005, 06:03:11 PM: Quote from: Ginny on December 11, 2005, 05:58:20 PM
Anybody want to join us for ice cream and cake?

Ice cream AND cake!

I'm heading out to the airport now! Yum!
(Well, at least in my dreams).

It's that time--I have to go get my bath to get ready to go to school err work. It feels like it sometimes. I rode the bus to school and now I catch one to work. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Have a lovely warm evening evening everyone! :-*
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 06:03:22 PM: Ginny dessert sounds yummy. Is that Bill Knapp’s chocolate cake? Occasionally we ate at a Bill Knapp’s when we lived in Michigan.
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Post by: Jane on December 11, 2005, 06:07:25 PM: Ginny in honor of your birthday I ate leftover birthday cake. I really didn’t feel like eating ice cream cake when my cold was at its worst.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:22:28 PM: Soup? I'll give you soup!

I, too, ate leftover cake - quite yummilicious.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:22:45 PM: Quick, how fast can we get to page five?
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:23:59 PM: I'm watching the TV movie entitled 21 Hours to Munich, the 1976 version of the Olympic events that form the plot of Munich. It's quite TV movie-ish, but compelling nonetheless.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:24:26 PM: And now - Dino at the piano.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:24:52 PM: And do you realize that Dino has never once posted - we've made him into a legend and that's the thanks we get.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:25:26 PM: I shall now be on my way to a birthday dinner at a restaurant I'm not familiar with - pray for Rosemary's Baby.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:26:24 PM: Oh, and keep the home fries burning until my returning, those of you who are sitting there like so much fish.

We did set one sort of record today - one response to a topic of the day. Tomorrow's topic will be much more popular with the populace.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 06:27:07 PM: Quote from: Danise on December 11, 2005, 05:59:02 PM
I'm glad you had such a wonderful day, DR Ginny.

I can't believe that so many people have their panties in a wad about something as simple as " Merry Christmas". Bah. Humbug.
Panties? These are people who wear scratchy long johns in August.

And that's the women!
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 06:29:21 PM: Quote from: bk on December 11, 2005, 06:24:52 PM
And do you realize that Dino has never once posted - we've made him into a legend and that's the thanks we get.
Maybe he only knows how to use one kind of keyboard.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 06:31:18 PM: I really don't like to talk about Jason. So much for the TOD.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 11, 2005, 06:38:24 PM: I am not sure if I even understand the TOD today? That has kept me from answering.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 06:45:01 PM: Popular With the Populace.

That is the name of my new musical.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 06:46:18 PM: I hope my title is prescient.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 06:47:36 PM: I think I will watch EL CID.
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Post by: Jrand73 on December 11, 2005, 06:48:35 PM: Keep moving toward Page Five.

I am sure DR JOSE will be around soon to let us know how the TWO shows today went.

Whew! That's a REAL doubleheader!
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 06:58:44 PM: This morning, I saw "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." We got to the theater at about 8:55 a.m. and the movie itself started at about 9:30. It was very, very good. The CGI effects, the acting...even from the voice actors...were all great. The story was boiled down to a simple story and was very effective. I can't wait to see if the rest of the books are filmed! ;D
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 07:13:01 PM: I'd be watching something but der B has been hogging the TV ever since we got home. I won't be able to watch anything I want to watch until he gets tired of hogging the TV and goes to bed.

Phooey.

I might as well go to bed and read.

>:(

(Yes, this does happen.)
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 07:15:26 PM: I may title my next novel The Bitches are Barking.

Obviously about dogs.

At least it's alliterative.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 07:17:23 PM: I should explain.

Der B loves crime dramas. I find them redundant, for the most part, and exploitative of the worst of the human conditition.

For this reason, I call them his "happy shows."

Bleh, and double bleh.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 07:18:26 PM: I'm salivating for all the details about BK's dinner tonight.

Yes, that's the right verb.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 11, 2005, 07:19:11 PM: End of personal frenzy. Must go read.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:30:01 PM: Well, as Jennifer Holliday was wont to sing:

"And atelier, I'm not going..."
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:31:19 PM: Been busy as a Christmas bee here, but let me see if I can do my part to push us over to page five.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:31:55 PM: OOOOOPH! That should do it!
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:32:14 PM: TOD:
Why, TPunk of course!
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:33:23 PM: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR GINNY!!!!!!!!!

My wish for you is 10 years of Michigan victories over the Buckeyes!
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:33:58 PM: DR George, you never posted the image of your card like you said you would.
Harumph!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:34:28 PM: Page Five Dance of the Snowflakes:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/pds_nut_4_snowflakes_in_snow_500.jpg)
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:34:55 PM: Page 5, no problem!
Let's see if we can't get this towards 6 right quick.
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:36:31 PM: Speaking of victories the Indianapolis Colts did polish off the Jaguars of Jacksonville this day to go 13-0. Something done only 2 or 3 times before in history.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:43:19 PM: The Eagles went down against the Giants tonight just as most Eagle fans thought they would. But at least it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as it might have been.
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 07:43:59 PM: I'm looking forward to watching the Colts/Seahawks game on Christmas Eve. Hopefully a Super Bowl preview! (I expect my Seahawks could well lose both of those games, but I'd be thrilled just to see them get a shot at the second one!)
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:44:47 PM: I am in a terrible trend of buying movies and not watching them. I'll watch something if it comes on on cable, but I am not popping DVDs in, and I even have some VHS movies that I've been sitting on for a long time now.

So what did I get yesterday? A DVD set called "Classic Troublemakers" that has four Lum & Abner movies on it, 5 East Side Kids movies and a bunch of Our Gang. I bought it mainly for the Lum & Abner. I think I've seen all these East Side Kids films, but I'll enjoy the OUR GANGs.

This can now sit beside my unopened 50 movie musicals set, and of course a small pile of movies MBarnum sent me.

I go in phases though, where, when I have the spare time, I am more likely to listen to records than watch movies, and vice versa.
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:46:52 PM: Colts/Seahawks, indeed. The 'Hawks looked dominant today. Could definitely be a trap game for the Colts. I'd rather they lose in Seattle and lose their perfect season than lose the Super Bowl though.
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 07:47:04 PM: TOD:
Why, TPunk of course!
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 07:48:35 PM: Wait... that doesn't seem quite right... I mean... ummm... Ann, that's right, that's her name, Ann!

See what happens when you leave town for the day, Ann? :D
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:49:21 PM: PBS today was showing (as a pledge-drive deal of course), the best of the ANDY WILLIAMS Christmas shows.

With commentary by Donny Osmond, Andy Williams, and Andy Williams' son. I could have used less commentary and more uninterupted clips, but that just ain't the way its done anymore.
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Post by: Jed on December 11, 2005, 07:50:31 PM: I, of course, would rather the Seahawks wait to ruin the Colts' perfect season until the Super Bowl, but I'd settle for just winning one lousy playoff game for once! I've been picking Indy to make it to the big game for the past four seasons... looks like they're finally gonna make me right.
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:50:48 PM: Quote from: Jed on December 11, 2005, 07:48:35 PM
Wait... that doesn't seem quite right... I mean... ummm... Ann, that's right, that's her name, Ann!

See what happens when you leave town for the day, Ann? :D

:) You forgot to remember.
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 07:51:32 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:33:58 PM
DR George, you never posted the image of your card like you said you would.
Harumph!

Actually, what I wrote was:
Quote
"...I'll send them out and after the holiday, I'll post what it is for the rest of you."

So, since I still have your address (your "new" work address), Rodzinski, I was planning on sending you one...unless you don't want me to send it there.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:54:52 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 07:44:47 PM
I am in a terrible trend of buying movies and not watching them. I'll watch something if it comes on on cable, but I am not popping DVDs in, and I even have some VHS movies that I've been sitting on for a long time now.

Welcome to the club, DR Rodz!

I had been getting in the habit of buying a new release each week of movies that I didn't get the chance to see in the theatre. But for one reason or another they began to pile up unwatched. I've been trying to resist lately and just buy classics or what I deem as "must-haves" (like THE INCREDIBLES.)

What I really need to do is join Netflix.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 11, 2005, 07:58:14 PM: I just ordered a number of CDs from www.CDBABY.COM (http://www.CDBABY.COM). This place has the most eclectic selection of indie CDS you ever saw and THE best customer service on the planet! And it is Portland, Oregon based.

Rodzinski, I think you might like their selection.

They have all genres...lots of Broadway stuff even.

I am now intrigued with two Surf bands...SURF LORDS and THE TARANTULAS...both play really cool instrumental 60s-like surf music.

I may have to buy more!
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 07:58:43 PM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 07:54:52 PM
Welcome to the club, DR Rodz!

I had been getting in the habit of buying a new release each week of movies that I didn't get the chance to see in the theatre. But for one reason or another they began to pile up unwatched. I've been trying to resist lately and just buy classics or what I deem as "must-haves" (like THE INCREDIBLES.)

What I really need to do is join Netflix.

I joined Netflix last year and I've found so many movies that aren't available anywhere else and some that I've never even heard of! I recommend it...and I don't work for them. ;)
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 08:04:11 PM: I am indeed pleased that in a few hours time I shall not need to post a plethora of self-indulgent posts to get us over the line and protect the sundried from being bitchslapped.

Thank you all and one.
Back in a few hours!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 11, 2005, 08:05:33 PM: Quote from: Ginny on December 11, 2005, 05:52:33 PM
We stopped at a grocery, bought a Bill Knapp's Celebration Cake and 2 pints of Haagen-Dasz (vanilla and dulce de leche).

Did you get a picture of the cake and ice cream??????
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 11, 2005, 08:07:04 PM: Well, back from a LONG and very BUSY day. We had a great time with the live nativity, even though there had been NO publicity and only a few folks wandered over to see what was going on.

If I had a camera I could post a picture.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:13:51 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on December 11, 2005, 04:19:38 PM
If you didn't like THE WEDDING BANQUET or SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, I can't imagine you'd like this one either.

And I loved both of those films very much. Also thought THE ICE STORM was a very interesting film.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:18:38 PM: Quote from: Jane on December 11, 2005, 04:53:19 PM
At the time she kept saying she didn’t really sing.

Yes, I remember that she said that, too, but I suspect it was so folks wouldn't get their hopes up that she had regained her singing voice to THE SOUND OF MUSIC dimensions.

When she began the song in the film, it was just talking in cadence, a la Rex Harrison, but after a line or two of that, she did begin singing and she sang pretty much the rest of the number.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on December 11, 2005, 08:18:43 PM: Dan (the Man)'s Do's and Don'ts for Future Christmas Recordings:

#1: Do keep it upbeat, people! No one wants to hear you sing "Frosty the Snowman" like you've just broke up with your boyfriend.

#2: Don't include "Twas The Night Before Christmas". It's not a song. I'll read the book.

#3: If your name is Roberta Flack, don't sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

#4: It is more than likely that the new Christmas love song you wrote will NOT become a new classic.

#5: Resist the urge to do a duet with Bing Crosby, Dean Martin or Rosemary Clooney. They're dead.

#6: Listen to Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Songs for inspiration (even though he ignored #2.)

#7: Scrap your plans for another A Charlie Brown Christmas tribute recording. It's been done one time too many.

#8: Be reverent and be whimsical. The Roches do a good job at this on their We Three Kings recording.

#9: "My Favorite Things" is a lovely song but it's not about Christmas.

#10: Fourteen songs are plenty enough on a Christmas CD.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:23:35 PM: First I finished THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD. There were a couple of speckles on the print and a quick little scratch. I noticed a couple of places where it was obvious the three Technicolor strips were misregistering, but it only lasted very, very briefly each time, nothing like extended moments in THE PRIVATES LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:35:00 PM: Next, in an effort to get most of the DVR watched and cleared, I watched POLYESTER. Not one of John Waters' more inspired efforts, this social satire just wasn't very funny. The Odorama numbers which were superimposed on the film in the theater were not on the print that the IFC showed, so one had to guess the smells as Divine started sniffing around.

Tab Hunter did look good, but he was affecting some kind of weird hick accent that made him sound as amateurish as many of the rest of the cast.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:38:39 PM: And then CROSSING JORDAN tonight had a couple of fairly typical cases one of which I enjoyed and one of which I didn't.

The love lives of the major players are still being puttered around with. On most procedurals, if they do delve into the romantic lives of the players, you can usually count of love affairs not lasting more than four or five episodes. Looks like some of the romances are at the breaking point in this show.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:41:12 PM: So, tomorrow, I hope to get a DVD or two watched. Most of the shows tomorrow night are in reruns. CBS is even bringing back a couple of BECKER reruns to spice up their line-up!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 08:46:17 PM: Love the list DR DtM.

I would add if your name is Streisand or Diamond releasing Christmas albums is only about $$$$$. It is unseemly!!
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Post by: Jason on December 11, 2005, 08:47:08 PM: DR Ginny: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! George and Gracie wish you a happy birthday, too...
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Post by: Jason on December 11, 2005, 08:48:02 PM: Sasha wishes you a very happy birthday, as well...
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Post by: Matt H. on December 11, 2005, 08:50:05 PM: Well, that's it for me. I'm heading downstairs now for bed.

Good night, everyone.
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Post by: Jason on December 11, 2005, 08:51:04 PM: You can probably guess where I spent my day... The weather was a little chilly, but not so cold that one couldn't stand to be out in it. And the indoor exhibits were, of course, nice and warm.

Anywho, I'm tired and I need to get to bed.

TOD: There's one that I can't forget. Enough said, I think.
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 08:51:47 PM: Oops! :o (that's "spoo" spelled backwards.) That was supposed to be a private message...if anyone saw my post.
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Post by: FJL on December 11, 2005, 08:59:50 PM: Happy happy birthday to Ginny. Sorry if I missed the day in terms of Eastern time, but perhaps it's still your birthday where you are.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:01:40 PM: Happy Birthday DR Ginny!!!!

Sounds like you had a wonderful day. You certainly deserve it.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:04:16 PM: It's been a very busy day, I'm just getting to the computer. I started with sleeping in and then catching the 1:00pm showing of Syriana. Then home to start working on some Christmas presents. I found a tape I made when I was a child of my Grandfather speaking and singing in Dutch. He died about 1974 I think, anyway I made copies for family members.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:04:54 PM: Then there were the weekend chores, etc. Just busy busy busy. But I'm here now
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:07:03 PM: DR Jane, What did you think of Syriana?
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Post by: FJL on December 11, 2005, 09:07:14 PM: The one you can't forget? Does it include people you literally just can't forget because you see them all the time? One person I dated in my twenties has gone on to be something of a local TV personality, so it's not like I think of it with any regret, it's just that when someone's always popping up on TV, you just can't forget that person simply because that person is always there.

If you mean people you can't forget because you still have romantic feelings for them , then there's no one besides my current DP in that catgeory.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:07:35 PM: Well, ok, I was here now I'm leaving. Still some things to do and I need some sleep tonight.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 09:12:50 PM: Back from belated birthday dinner. I don't even remember the name of the restaurant, but I believe it's the same location as the late lamented Maison Gerard, near Universal Studios. The salad was very good. I ordered cabonara, as is my wont, but while the noodles, cream and butter were fine, the pancetta was all fat and barely cooked and it skeeved me. Dessert was a vanilla custard with chocolate and caramel sauces, and it was quite good.
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:14:03 PM: Hmm, the one you can't forget. Well, no one in the romantic longing one who got away type way. And lately it seems the people I wonder what ever happened to seem to show up in my life again. It happened with 3 different people in the past year. Pretty cool actually.
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:14:55 PM: FJL-
Inquiring minds want to know!
Sam Champion?
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:15:32 PM: Sorry your dinner didn't turn out as well as you hoped. I've never heard of cabonara, what's in it?
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:17:11 PM: George-
Harumph retracted. I misread your post, and when I read this:

"Okay, I'll wait until the new notes are up and today is locked."

I thought you were waiting till then to post an image. Now I have some mail to look forward to!!
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:17:26 PM: Well, I'm still not smoking but I'm gaining weight and it's driving me crazy.....of course the holidays aren't exactly the best time to diet, so I just thought I'd let it be known I'm not happy I had to bring up the fat clothes today
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Post by: Cillaliz on December 11, 2005, 09:18:17 PM: Ok, now I really need to go. Til tomorrow
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:19:40 PM: Good Evening!

WHEW!!!!

:)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:20:36 PM: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINNY![/i][/b]
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:23:08 PM: Let me say it again - WHEW!

;)

The first weekend of Damn Yankees went very well. The show is really coming together nicely, and the audience response has been wonderful. -And we were actually sold out for today's matinee, and all but the Family Boxes were sold for the evening show.

We still have a day call on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, but, hopefully, those will not be too involved. Just going over a few minor places.

And now...
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:23:46 PM: Dan, I object (fervently but gently), to Rule #2

I enjoy Johnny Cole with the Robert Evans Chorus and Orchestra's version of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," which is on an LP I've had since childhood.

The song is based on a poem, rather than a book, and if you are objecting to people putting music to poems, why many a great and romantic song would be lost!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:25:51 PM: Once I got home, I started preparing the mail I need to send out tomorrow. I wanted to get it all done tonight so that I can just drop it off at the post office tomorrow morning on my way down to Richmond. -And save me some time in the morning too for a few extra winks - which I'm sure I'll be taking advantage of.

Momentarily, I will be folding the laundry that I washed and dried two days ago... Finally! And I also have some picking up and straightening up to do before heading to bed.

And, then, well... Bed. Sleep. Rest.

:)
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:26:38 PM: Hey Jose-
Up until like 9pm est, we were still on page 3, so we've really kicked it into high gear here.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:30:53 PM: I do have to admit that I have yet to read today's Notes and Posts... Mea culpa... But I hope to catch up on those sometime this week. I'd say tomorrow, but I will most likely be errant and truant for most of tomorrow since I will be trekking down to Richmond for the day. I need to dig some stuff out of my storage unit - as well as checking into arrangements into getting all that stuff moved up and out come the New Year(!). I also plan to take care of some Christmas shopping while I'm down there, and I'm catching up with various and sundried people throughout the day. Should be a fun day.

I do plan to head back tomorrow night around 9:00, so I may do some late-night catching up once I return to Fairfax. And then it's rehearsal at 11:30 on Tuesday. *And it's photo call too! They usually let staff bring their own cameras too, so I'll try my best to snap a few pics of the cast.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:31:42 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:26:38 PM
Hey Jose-
Up until like 9pm est, we were still on page 3, so we've really kicked it into high gear here.

Thanks for the info, DR Rodzinski.

-Hope you're feeling better.
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:32:17 PM: The movie DRAW! with Kirk Douglas was on Fox Movie channel this evening, and I saw just enough of it to wonder if it was shot for $5 in the same number of days, so cheap did it appear. But I forgot that Fox sometimes tosses in old TV movies into the mix. Not enough feature films in the Fox film library?
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:32:53 PM: Right back at ya with thanks, Jose.
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 09:34:30 PM: And one for Mahler! ;D
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 11, 2005, 09:35:29 PM: Well, time for me to get my act together so that I head on road tomorrow morning...

VIBES to those who need them.

OH! And Arena Stage is auctioning (via e-Bay) off some interesting Damn Yankees "items" as part of their fundraising efforts. www.arenastage.org

Well...

Goodnight.
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Post by: Rodzinski on December 11, 2005, 09:36:53 PM: FOX MOVIE CLASSICS
I enjoy that channel, but lately I am fearing for its future. Someone is beginning to tinker with what has been a pretty solid outlet for uninterrupted and well-chosen movies. On Friday nights now, they show one movie three times in a row. Who needs that?

The Fox logo is now appearing more often during movies, something they almost never did before.

Small signs, yes. But the road to AMC and TNT, once good movie outlets turned into some boorish soul's marketing nightmare, is a short one.
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 09:51:16 PM: Boy, I never would have thought we'd end up with this many postings from the way the day went. Who knew?

Cabonara is very simple really - spaghetti noodles (or fettucine or whatever), butter, cream, onions, parmesan cheese, and pancetta (hopefully cooked and with NO FATTY BITS). When done correctly, absolutely fantabulous.
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 09:58:37 PM: Okay, Topic of the Day: Mike Fern...and Pat Hogan...and Jim Peck...and someone current. ;)
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 10:06:47 PM: Okay, that's four, but that's they way it goes. ;D
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 11, 2005, 10:25:27 PM: Coincidence!
I've just transfered to disc from vinyl, Frank Gallop's "The Son Of Irving". "B" side of the disc is ..
"The One I'll Never Forget".
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Post by: FJL on December 11, 2005, 10:43:21 PM: George - But...but...the people you listed are all... MEN!

:)
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Post by: FJL on December 11, 2005, 10:51:14 PM: Rodzinski - No, it's not anyone that famous, certainly not a celebrity like that, just someone who's on a local program fairly regularly and I always seem to see him and hear his name.

(Again, I emphasize no regrets about it not having gone on any longer than it did. It's just, well, odd to see someone you knew that way long ago on TV all the time.)

But I'm not mentioning the name because I'm not sure the person is "out" to the general public.
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Post by: George on December 11, 2005, 11:01:52 PM: Quote from: FJL on December 11, 2005, 10:43:21 PM
George - But...but...the people you listed are all... MEN!

:)

Ummm, Fred, there's something that I need to tell you... ;)
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Post by: bk on December 11, 2005, 11:25:44 PM: Soup? I'll give you soup!