Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 4 => Topic started by: bk on December 13, 2005, 12:23:34 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've been spieled, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're purchasing Kritzerland CDs and copies of Rewind right now, then they'll be on their way.
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And the word of the day is: PETULANT!
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Good morning, all! It's nearly 8:00 am and I'm amazed to see myself so far up at the beginning of the posts! I have a brief post office trip this morning. the conclusion of the Act One critical notes on Toyland, a bit of shopping before my music librarian's monthly dinner tonight.
TOD: most memorable Christmas gift? A Siamese kitten around 1962. She lived for around 16 years and I was quite fnd of her.
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One of my favorite songs is "Downtown" sung by Petulant Clark.
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Good morning, Larry. We are up and about getting ready to visit the Irish Tourist Office in New York. We are then off to Amex to exchange some money and then off to volunteer land again.
Errant and Truant I may be, but I still love youse guys!
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I never received a Christmas gift. So I cannot answer the TOD.
And BTW got the computer working again (I hope)
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The PETULANT me peed on my rug.
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Awww...DR Michael S, PM me your address and I'll send you a Christmas gift.
My best Christmas gift ever was the Mickey Mouse phone my parents gave me when I was in high school. It's not only that it was an expensive item (and phones were expensive to buy back then!), but that it was an acknowledgement and appreciation of my silly side from my parents. It really meant a lot to me. And I still have it and it still works!
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Today is Cliche Day.
(Or is that something you've heard before?)
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Today we also celebrate St. Jose, the patron of harvests.
I always knew there was someone to blame for that.
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I didn't write the following. It's something that der B sent me, but I'm not exactly clear where he got it.
The "winter program" at Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wis., changed the lyrics of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" to the more inclusive "Cold in the Night." ("Cold in the night, no one in sight, winter winds whirl and bite.") After this success, the program's next step will obviously be:
(a) Changing "O Holy Night" to "Uh-oh! Wholly night!" a song about a lunar eclipse.
(b) Singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania."
(c) A song celebrating the comeback of the American auto industry, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Ford."
(d) A ditty about hoping for snow at the Panama Canal, "I'm dreaming of a white isthmus."
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More from the same source.
Some schools have ruled that red and green cookies cannot be brought into class in December because the color combination strongly suggests the divisive sectarian feast day of Christmas. Therefore:
(a) Red cookies may be brought to school. Green ones too. But, please, not on the same day.
(b) A fruit bowl containing just pears and cherries is a serious constitutional matter and should be reported immediately to the ACLU, care of the Christmas erasure desk.
(c) In December, the San Francisco 49ers may not be shown playing the New York Jets, except on black-and-white TV sets.
(d) All traffic lights must be turned off until Jan. 1.
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Multiple choice questions were always my favorite when I was in school. Sometimes the teacher would add a choice that had some real humor, just to throw people off (or let him/her know how far we were in the test, by the timing of the laughter).
The three wise men in the Nativity scene are objectionable because:
(a) They fail the multicultural test. Though one is black, neither of the other two is a disabled lesbian, wiccan or vegan.
(b) "Wise Men" should be "Persons of Wisdom."
(c) Describing the first people to come to see Jesus as "wise" implies that idiots can't become Christians, which experience tells us is just not so.
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I also love cross-reverences.
Christians believe Jesus came down to Earth and made himself human in order to encourage:
(a) Consumer confidence
(b) Season's greetings
(c) A festive period between bowl games
(d) His birth scene to be surrounded by plastic reindeer, elves and court-pleasing woodland creatures
(e) Frenzied end-of-year gift giving
(f) Religious songs that are easily converted into weather songs in Wisconsin
(g) The ACLU Christmas-erasure desk
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All right, one more:
Before backing down and permitting a full Nativity scene, a public library in Memphis agreed to allow the scene, but only if the baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and the wise men were removed. This left a shepherd boy and some farm animals. Next year the library will accept a Nativity scene only if it consists of:
(a) A shepherd boy and some chickens
(b) A shepherd boy and some ferrets
(c) A shepherd boy explaining that the head librarian in Memphis thinks with a brain that may or may not be the result of Intelligent Design.
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Hey people do not forget tonight is the 2 hour finale of THE AMAZING RACE.
Who I want to win: The Linz Family.
Who I do NOT want to win: The Weavers!
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Hey people do not forget tonight is the 2 hour finale of THE AMAZING RACE.
Who I want to win: The Linz Family.
Who I do NOT want to win: The Weavers!
Ditto.
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Bransons or LInzs for me!
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Good morning!
Another beautifully bright, clear, cold day here. I plan to bundle up this afternoon and go for a walk just to breathe the bracing cool air.
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN led the Golden Globe nominations with 7 nominations. THE PRODUCERS got four nods including Best Picture, Best Actor (Nathan Lane), Supporting Actor (Will Ferrell), and Best Song.
Steven Spielberg got a Best Director nomination for MUNICH, but the film was not nominated for Best Drama nor did Eric Bana get a Best Actor nomination.
George Clooney got three personal nominations: Best Director for GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, Best Supporting Actor for SYRIANA, and Best Screenplay.
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I think I mentioned this before, but the Christmas present I most remember was a Robby the Robot mechanical man that talked and moved with a hand crank. I LOVED that gift, and I remember having to go to some Christmas gathering the year I got it and not wanting to go because I wanted to stay home and play with Robby.
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I'd like the finish out the GOOD TIMES disc I started yesterday and then move on to THE DARK CORNER and THE GLENN MILLER STORY.
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BONES and HOUSE both have new episodes tonight as well, so I'll have a full day of movie and TV watching.
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Glenn Erickson usually reviews DVDs, but occasionally he'll review a current in-theater film, and he's given his seal of approval to the new KING KONG. He picks a few nits here and there but basically raves about it.
I respect his opinion more than most critics out there right now, so that might persuade me to catch it down the line. I won't be there tonight at any midnight showings, however.
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A couple of Christmas presents stand out for me: one (whose actual name I forget) by Kenner where you could build your own skyscrapers. The kit included girders that snapped together, then building facades you clipped onto the girders. Then circa 1965 or 1966 I got the coolest James Bond remote control racetrack set, complete with "tire slicing" hubcaps and an "oil slick" where the cars skidded going up a hill.
I'm sure that if the Weavers win, they will immediately say it was G-d's will, which of course makes sense. As I was telling Betsy last week, I'm sure the Lord on High has set the Weavers' win as His number one priority because really everything else in creation is going so swimmingly right now. ;)
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Glenn Erickson
One of the many names Frances Farmer's first husband used professionally. :)
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If anyone feels like sending me low cholesterol vibes, that would be great. About three years ago we discovered in a routine blood test that my cholesterol and triglyceride levels were at the "you should have been dead by now" stage. But the good news is I brought them down dramatically through completely natural means (my brother-in-law was a VP at both Glaxo and Pfizer and told me to avoid the prescription cholesterol drugs if I could, since I'm still relatively young and they have long-term side effects). But the bad news is I probably got a little lax and stopped taking some of the natural supplements and also occasionally started having "real" cheese again, and last week discovered my cholesterol was way up again. The weird thing is my triglycerides were lower than they've ever been, which indicates that I'm at least not intaking much fat (I have enough already, LOL). So I'm back on the plant sterol/red yeast rice regimen and have sworn off any "real" dairy for at least a few months.
Wasn't that an extremely fascinating health report? Yes, I knew you'd think so. ::)
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DR JMK I had the same Kenner set! Loved building TALL buildings with it. ;D
http://cgi.ebay.com/TWO-1958-Kenner-Girder-Panel-SETS_W0QQitemZ6022073792QQcategoryZ19015QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.com/TWO-1958-Kenner-Girder-Panel-SETS_W0QQitemZ6022073792QQcategoryZ19015QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Great post yesterday DR ELMORE about your evening with the Chorus. Sounds like quite an evening. :D
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Kenner Girder & Panel and low cholesteral vibes for DR JMK!
Use Metrecal like Frances used to do during Lent - remember Jim Gerrard said she used give up liquor for Lent and always was much more pleasant to be around and dropped several pounds!
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My most memorable Christmas gift was my first Typewriter!!! I immediately roughed out a family newspaper and then spend a few days typing it up....three colums, illustrated with a cut out photo....and all the news that fits, we print!
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Plumber is here, plumbing. I'm here, being his drowsy chaperone.
Glenn Erickson (DVD Savant) has been far too wacky lately to take seriously. He recently argued the subtext and brilliance of The Son of Kong in a way that would make you think he was talking about Citizen Kane.
Now, might I ask where in tarnation IS everyone. Tis the season to be jolly, not errant and truant.
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I do hope your cholesterol levels stay at safe levels, DR JMK.
And those still dealing with colds, coughs, and flu, best wishes for a speedy recovery as well.
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Off to start prepping lunch.
WBBL.
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Just took a peep at the Golden Globe nominations - they are the usual - whichever and whoever has courted them is up. How else do you account for the fact that The History of Violence is up for Best Drama, yet its director is not up for Best Director. How else do you account for Spielberg being up for best director but his film, Munich, not being up for best drama? Woody, as I completely expected, is up for everything because for the first time in his career he is courting the press like crazy.
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On another note (C#), the movie people have once again taken over my street - I'm sure it's the same yokel up the street renting his house out to whomever he can. They are, as you would imagine, loud, and annoying.
On another note (Db), there is some truck directly in front of my house, hammering nails into the electrical post out front - some "communications" company from Upland - I wonder what that's about?
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JMK, you might also try snacking on almonds. My doctor recommended that I eat them to bring my cholesterol down....and by golly my cholesterol went down!
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I wish I could rent my house for a moving picture production.
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My DVD of THE FIVE PENNIES arrived today!
Along with another package containing my $4 used VHS version of THE NUN'S STORY.
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TAR - I hope the Bransons win!!!
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Just my luck I would rent my house to the company making ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN and I would lose my roof!
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DR RLP - how was the partay?
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My neighbor borrowed my cat and I learned that you never get back the petulant.
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Has there been a Kritzerland sales spike as yet?
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My neighbor borrowed my cat and I learned that you never get back the petulant.
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Thus far the Kritzerland sales spike is one order. Better than none, baby.
And where are FJL, and Ben, and Vixmom, and Ginny, and Cillaliz, and WFO, and WEL, and and and...
Hammering men are gone, and more interestingly, film people are gone. They must have had a very short shoot and started at seven or something.
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Which is odd because they had the No Parking signs from six am to ten pm. Maybe they're coming back, but it doesn't look like it.
Plumber is under the house, doing something or other. He's actually more of a handyman than a plumber, so he'll also be looking at the chimney in the den. The Chimney In The Den - that's the title of my next novel.
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No nominations for Rent, but a few for The Producers.
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But the foreign press people LOVE Mel Brooks.
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And just what ARE Michael Shayne's computer problems, and if he posted earlier why isn't he posting now?
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Low cholesterol vibes for DR JMK! ~~~~~~~~~~
Btw, TAR is coming to Montreal tonight. Yeah!
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I feel like I've been up for a 'coon's age, and yet it is only nine-thirty.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, but that's another story.
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Here is the link for the nominations. Just click on the right (nominations) button:
http://www.thegoldenglobes.com/
I have not seen any of the nominated movies.
But I was interested to see what was nominated for tv.
For best drama: commander in chief, grey's anatomy, lost, prison break, and rome.
Ah and all 4 DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES women were nominated this year!
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DR RLP - how was the partay?
It was yummily yummilicious. Tons of great food and good cheer. I was almost instantly filled up despite the fact that I'd not had any of the "room full" of desserts. I had a small sliver of my cheesecake and pie and they were "very good things."
When I went to claim my dishes/serving pieces, my foods were mostly gone. A few servings of one of the souffles were left, along with a quarter of the cheesecake and one whole coconut pie. As I said, there was a room full of desserts.
I claimed my pie and have put it in my freezer.
I've also cleared my calendar of the "want-to-do" things except one. I am going to see "Brokeback Mountain" at noon pst today.
I feel better than I did yesterday, and I'm more relaxed.
It's amazing how stress can creep up on you when you aren't even aware it's happening.
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Overheard at the vet's: "Who was that petulant the milk bone to?"
:P
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I am hoping there is a Mooresville matinee of GNIK GNOK tomorrow!!
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Plumber has left the premises, but will be back around six to repair the broken drain - apparently I don't need to be here for that, which is good, since I won't.
He checked the chimney and says nothing seems to be wrong with it, so I may try lighting another log today to see what happens. Maybe I didn't have the flue open all the way when I attempted it last year.
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I'm still coughing like crazy, and there is still all this guck breaking up and I'm SICK OF IT!
Other than that, I feel hunky dory and also dory hunky. The skies are bluer than blue and I am not.
We have now had two Kritzerland orders, which is better than 0 baby. No Rewind orders, not even from those hainsies/kimlets who, for all these years, have professed to want a book with this subject matter, and yet haven't wanted to read the book - I find that a fascinating conundrum.
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Toy-wise, I'd have to say that I really cleaned up the one year when I got the GI Joe Mercury Spacecraft Capsule
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/1234capfull.jpg)
the Remco LOST IN SPACE Robot
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/2184_5803_10.jpg)
and all three Kenner Zeroid Robots.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/zeroids.jpg)
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Good morning, fellow Dear Readers.
TOD: I got a Say-It Play-It tape recorder that I so wanted. One year I got BOTH Skipper AND Scooter -- some relation to Barbie.
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Tuesday greetings!
TOD - The Christmas right after my 12th birthday, my parents gave me a set of World Book encyclopedias, which I used throughout junior high, high school, college, graduate school, and adulthood until, in 1994, we traded my set in on a new set when Rob was in elementary school. It resides on a shelf adjacent to our family dining table and has answered many mealtime questions.
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DR DtM - I would say that was a Trifecta year for you!!!
DR GINNY - we also grew up with the World Book which I thought had great pictures. We had the Encyclopoedia Britannica as well which I loved for all of it's great HISTORICAL data. And of course Lucille Ball hawked the EB in different magazines!
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Kind of strange that Zach Braff grabbed a Golden Globe nom even though SCRUBS has yet to air this season.
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We had the World Book encyclopedia, too. I loved the year books. We had a set that pretty much covered the 60s.
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One of my most memorable Christmas gifts was a giant Prehistoric playset....lots of dinosaurs, cave men, plastic plants and caves/mountainsides! This would have been around 1972 or so.
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And the word of the day is: PETULANT!
I watched "I'm know Where I'm Going" last night (after seeing it mentioned here!). The film one one of the first for for Miss Petulant Clark
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I love Lucy Queen of the Gypsies Page Four Dance! 8)
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And I wrote that before reading DR Elmore's post! Spooky!
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So how was David Wayne in the flick, DR TOMovOZ?
Cool dinosaur set, DR MBARNUM!!
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As a child my Christmas gifts were usually a few new clothes for the coming school year (Which started on the first Tuesday in February) and a book by Enid Blyton of one of the Bobbsy Twins volumes. I thought I was the luckiest kid. I'm glad I grew up in those pre TV days where children were seen as such a "market" and gifts had to be bigger and better!
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MR BK did you mention the blurb for NEW GUY IN TOWN at Amazon.com by Andy Propst of XM Satellite Radio?
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Did he play a dead sailor?
BTW - it was filmed in Scotland not on The Isle Of Man.
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Is the Isle of Man anything like the Isle of Lucy? (a KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE reference)
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Sorry for not being on much lately, my Internet Explorer via Verizon DSL has been giving me terrible trouble for the past couple of days.
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The benefit that Skip did the other night went really well. Ed Harris and Amy Madigan did a phenomenal job with a one-act musical that Skip wrote with Eduardo Machado about James Barrie and his wife reuniting after twenty years. It was of course a thrill meeting the stars, as well as Josie de Guzman who also performed on the program. And Toby and Dylan got to meet them as well, since the restaurant where the after-dinner took place was right across the street from our building.
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I will bet that Toby and Dylan were a hit at the party!!
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Well, Toby and Dylan weren't actually allowed inside the restaurant :) , but the stars came out of the restaurant for a while to meet them.
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New York Times review of GNIK GNOK.... You can read for the next fe hours without signing up. ;D
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/movies/13kong.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/movies/13kong.html?hp)
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Is the Isle of Man anything like the Isle of Lucy? (a KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE reference)
Exactly like it, I bet! 8)
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I must go pick up at least one package - The Five Pennies has arrived.
The Golden Globes are a joke - they frequently nominate films that they couldn't possibly have seen - last year in particular, some movie was nominated that wasn't finished until just before its Christmas release. Yet, they nominated it anyway.
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My usual response to the Golden Globes is, "Hmmm, I wonder what brand of crack they were smoking this year."
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Catching up...
Those of you who took the Old Folks quiz Vixmom posted yesterday, it was the MILLS BROTHERS who had the hit with "Cab Driver" and not the Ink Spots.
Adjust your scores accordingly.
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My brother had that Girder and Panel set. He could make building so tall that he could build them around me, which he did once. I was standing inside a five-foot Sears Tower.
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Add me to the voices crying out agains Tom Ewell. May he rest in peace, but I do not know how that guy got some of the choice parts he played.
He made up for his lack of acting skill by having no charisma.
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Cholesterol-reduction vibes to JMK.
I remember TV commercials for margarine or something where Buddy Hackett was dressed in a shirt that said "Cholesterol." And he walked around muttering, "Nobody likes me."
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Catching up...
Those of you who took the Old Folks quiz Vixmom posted yesterday, it was the MILLS BROTHERS who had the hit with "Cab Driver" and not the Ink Spots.
Adjust your scores accordingly.
Well.....if that is the case, I am embarrassed and old enough to say I made a perfect score on DR VIXMOM's quiz from yesterday.
Can you say, wheelchair? Or at least AARP?
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Add me to the voices crying out agains Tom Ewell. May he rest in peace, but I do not know how that guy got some of the choice parts he played.
He made up for his lack of acting skill by having no charisma.
Ewell had a TV show that lasted a season that I remember....I didn't even think he was funny when I was ten years old. He lived with his wife, his mother (Mabel Albertson, I think) and his three daughters and was the sad sack woebegone husband, father, son beset by all of these females.
It was painful.
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[sob] My copy of THE FIVE PENNIES has not arrived nor have I even gotten a shipping notice. I bought a bunch of Christmas presents on the same order and perhaps some had to be back ordered. At any rate, no FIVE PENNIES yet.
I guess I could listen to the soundtrack CD.
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Kind of strange that Zach Braff grabbed a Golden Globe nom even though SCRUBS has yet to air this season.
Not strange at all. The Globes eligibility year is January-December, and SCRUBS aired from January through its last rerun this summer.
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What I did get in the mail was THE SPY WHO LOVED ME to replace the older copy which would no longer play in any of my DVD players.
Naturally, I put it in to make sure it would play, and watched the whole thing. Looked good. I remember thinking before (when the old DVD did work) that the repurposed surround sound was very anemic, but this special edition sounded better to me, and the bass was definitely more than I remember hearing before.
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Next, I put in THE DARK CORNER and watched the first 70 minutes of it. This Fox DVD looked great with just a couple of speckles and just a trace of dirt to mar what otherwise was a gorgeous black and white noir image.
One of my favorites, and what a cast! Lucy, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Clifton Webb. They are great!
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Yes, I noticed that the four leading ladies of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES were nominated this year, but Nicolette Sheridan, who got a supporting nomination last year, was not nominated this year.
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Page 4 "Puttin' on the Ritz" Lucy Dance!!!
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Someone forwarded me a link where a guy who once sat in on drums with my band actually writes about me and my band on a music website. So that's kinda neat.
http://www.bigtakeover.com/reviews/yacht-rock-httpwwwchannel101com
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DR GINNY - we also grew up with the World Book which I thought had great pictures. We had the Encyclopoedia Britannica as well which I loved for all of it's great HISTORICAL data. And of course Lucille Ball hawked the EB in different magazines!
And, in one of my misguided work-from-home experiments during DS Rob's childhood, I hawked World Book. What I learned was that I'm not cut out for a career in sales.
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Enjoyed the article DR Rodzinski! I imagine some of your stories were quite inventive! LOL!
And I am still awaiting the reunion tour of your group (or at least a recording of you singing a Toto song)
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A Toto song! Would that be something by Bach?
(I know).
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Headed down a bit earlier than usual to get the living room cleaned and then to settle in with some more DVDs before BONES and HOUSE come on tonight.
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I guess liking Toto Recordings, America's "Tin Man" and Elton's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" says something about having the tastes of a regular friend of Dorothy. Wicked. I also like The Seekers singing "Emerald City" (Beethoven was kind enough to supply the music for that one)
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HaHa. Well, we never added Toto to the repertoire. Mostly, we stick to some of the less commonly heard (as in, not played to death) of the 70s.
I do a mean "Have You Never Been Mellow" by your country-woman ONJ, Tomovoz. There was a Little River Band song in the mix for awhile.
MBarnum, we've been rehearsing, so we're bound to play again sometime before 2007.
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Low of 17 degrees tonight.
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If anyone feels like sending me low cholesterol vibes, that would be great. About three years ago we discovered in a routine blood test that my cholesterol and triglyceride levels were at the "you should have been dead by now" stage. But the good news is I brought them down dramatically through completely natural means (my brother-in-law was a VP at both Glaxo and Pfizer and told me to avoid the prescription cholesterol drugs if I could, since I'm still relatively young and they have long-term side effects). But the bad news is I probably got a little lax and stopped taking some of the natural supplements and also occasionally started having "real" cheese again, and last week discovered my cholesterol was way up again. The weird thing is my triglycerides were lower than they've ever been, which indicates that I'm at least not intaking much fat (I have enough already, LOL). So I'm back on the plant sterol/red yeast rice regimen and have sworn off any "real" dairy for at least a few months.
Wasn't that an extremely fascinating health report? Yes, I knew you'd think so. ::)
Vixdad was able to dramatically reduce his count by taking fish oil caplets. He takes a few every day I don"t know the details but I'll try and get them for you.
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TOD, Bryan who arrived on the 23rd. We went home together on Christmas morning.
We gave my cousin a Robby the Robot. Before my mother wrapped him we had a grand time playing with him. I remember him well and yet my cousin has no recollection of him.
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TOD, Bryan who arrived on the 23rd. We went home together on Christmas morning.
Jane - how sweet :)
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JMK good low cholesterol vibes.
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Bonanza day for DVDs - got The Five Pennies (which I'm watching), and also five Dietrich films from Universal France - four of them directed by von Sternberg - Devil Is A Woman, Morocco, Dishonored, and Blonde Venus (my fave). Also, Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair. What is annoying about amazon France is that they didn't have Shanghai Express, so I have to order that elsewhere - most annoying.
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Also picked up March of the Penguins, which I'm looking forward to, and Volume 3 of the Harold Lloyd collection - now I have to find volumes one and two equally cheap.
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Someone forwarded me a link where a guy who once sat in on drums with my band actually writes about me and my band on a music website. So that's kinda neat.
http://www.bigtakeover.com/reviews/yacht-rock-httpwwwchannel101com
;D
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I am having a busy busy day at the office.. as proof I note that it is 5:45 and I am still here and not done working yet and I have had no time,until now to take a look in to this here site
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Caught up with last night's posts...
PennyO ... when you organize getting BK to come out to Hawaii for a couple of weeks to run "What If', be reminded that I am fairly sure he will require my services as his assistant , please make sure my salary and transporatation costs from the Island of Long are included in your budget!
;D ;D ;D
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Well Rodzinski, if I ever remember to copy that CD of Liz Damon's Orient Express then you can add 1900 YESTERDAYS to the bands list!
And if I happen to make it to NJ next summer for the big ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE cast reunion then maybe I will pop on down to your side of town and see you guys play...you should have had plenty of time to practice by then.
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TOD:
My younger brother, Vixuncle, (also Vixgodfather) was born on Christmas Day 1960
and on Christmas 1972 I got a stereo, a Beatle Album (Yesterday & Today) and a cassette tape recorder!!!!!
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Ginny, sweet, memorable and very strange. I was wakened in the morning by a woman vacuuming next to my bed. When I looked up, with I’m sure a rather dazed expression, she wished me a Merry Christmas. I was in shock to discover it was Christmas morning.
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Alright its nearly 6 PM... I gotta get outta here!!!
I also have a business Christamas partay tonight run by a bank we close loans for... I am not even interested there's so much I have to do at home....but there are times you have to go and smile and be partayish.....
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Rodzinski... you must announce when the band is ready to play again so we can all gather and applaud!!
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~~~Health Vibes~~~~~~
to all that need 'em
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Oh and BK
This may be the cause of your chimney issues::
The Chimney Song
there's something stuck up in the chimney
and i don't know what it is
but it's been there all night long.
well i waited up for santa all xmas night
but he never came and it don't seem right.
and there's something in the chimney
and it doesn't make a sound
but i wish you merry xmas.
there's something stuck up in the chimney
and i don't know what it is
but it's been there all week long.
well the dog keeps barking up the chimney flue
and we don't know what we're gonna do.
cos there's something in the chimney
and it doesn't move around
and it's been a week since xmas.
there's something stuck up in the chimney
and i don't know what it is
but it's been there all month long.
well it's jammed up tight above the fireplace
now the house smells funny such a big disgrace.
that there's something in the chimney
and it doesn't talk at all
and it's been there since last xmas.
there's something stuck up in the chimney
and i don't know what it is
but it's been there all year long.
i'll been waiting up for santa like i did last year
but my brother says he's already here...
and he's stuck up in the chimney
and he doesn't say a word
and he'll be there every xmas.
and we'll have him every xmas.
i
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and with that disgraceful post I leave you all...
LATERS!!
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Good Afternoon!
Whew!
-Seems like I've been saying that a lot lately. ;)
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Yesterday turned out to be quite a nice all around. I let myself sleep in a little bit, then got up and out of bed and had my breakfast. Did some cleaning. Just took my time. I didn't end up leaving for Richmond until around 12:30, but I was glad I got all the stuff I got done done in the morning before I left. -Alas, I spent a bit of time taking care of some bills...UGH!! -But at least one of those "bills" now makes me an official member of Local 802 (New Yrk City) of the American Federation of Musicians!
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The drive down to Richmond was uneventful, and my time in Richmond was quite eventful. Well, at least I ended up spending a good chunk of money. ;) I made my usual rounds up and down Carytown, and ended up finding some Opening Night gifts, Christmas cards, Christmas gifts, and even a little something for myself - a reproduction of a French liqueur ad. -And I even had a discount coupon for it!
OH! And I even found my "tacky" ornament for this year - an angel nightlight that has a "lava" body with glitter in it. Quite stunning!
After decreasing the amount of money in my bank account, I headed over to hang out with my friend, Mike, for a while. -And his two cats. Mike even cooked dinner - double-cut pork chops, pan-roasted potatoes, and roasted peppers and zucchini. Quite yummy. It was nice to get to spend time with him. One of his best friends died unexpectedly last week, and it was just nice to be there to keep him company. -Mike works overnight shifts usually, so his circle of friends isn't usually available when he's free.
...And the drive back up to Fairfax was nice and easy too. -And I managed to pull some stuff from my storage unit too. Of course, two things I meant to pull, I forgot to pull, so... next time.... Ah, well...
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Blonde's Year in Review:
January - Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight.
February - Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels....."duh".....bottles won't fit in typewriter!!!
March - Got excited.....finished jigsaw puzzle in 6 months.....box said "2-4 years!"
April - Trapped on escalator for hours.....power went out!!!
May - Tried to make Kool-Aid.....8 cups of water won't fit into those little packets!!!
June - Tried to go water skiing.....couldn't find a lake with a slope.
July - Lost breast stroke swimming competition.....learned later, other swimmers cheated, they used their arms!!!
August - Got locked out of car in rain storm.....car swamped, because top was down.
September - The capital of California is "C".....isn't it???
October - Hate M &M's.....they are so hard to peel.
November - Baked turkey for 6 1/2 days.....instructions said 1 hour per kilo, and I weigh..... none of your business.
December - Couldn't call 911....."duh".....there's no "eleven" button on the phone!!!
What a year!!
Have a wonderful day!
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DR Tomovoz - ;D
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Topic of Yesterday....
The aforementioned duet from Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers". *I remember in college, the two "leading" vocal majors combined forces for their graduation recital. And they ended with the duet. There was not a dry eye in the house after they finished.
Those three art song duets by Gabriel Faure - the titles escape me. *On the recording of the Complete Songs by Gerard Souzay and Elly Ameling, Ms. Ameling does the women's duets with herself. :)
"I Know Him So Well" - Chess
"What Would I Do?"- Falsettos
"Lily's Eyes" - The Secret Garden
"It's Never That Easy/I've Been Here Before" - Closer Than Ever
"What Could Be Better Than That", "Two People in Love", "With You"... - Well, heck, any of the duets from Baby.
etc., etc., etc...
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Topic of Today...
I think it was our second Christmas together when Steve gave me a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer, Cobalt Blue. He had hinted heavily that he was gonna get me one - since he was afraid I was going to buy one for myself - but it was still a wonderful surprise to find that under the tree that year.
Otherwise, my MOST favorite Christmas Gift - well, actually, Christmas Eve Gift - was/is my niece, Alexandra. :)
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DR JMK - Low Cholesterol Vibes To You!
*Fish oil, flax seeds, flax seed oil, almonds, etc...
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DR PennyO - So, if you move to Hawaii, who gets the cabin in Washington State?
;)
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DR Jason - Glad to know you liked "The Joy Luck Club". Was it the bawl-fest I had built it up to be?
;)
...And do you think it could work as a musical?
;D
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Off for a couple of hours of Information Waitressing. Maybe I'll have the opportunity to use World Book!
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DR Jennifer - Sometimes post-nasal drip just has to drip. Yes, it's ugly, but it's just your sinus passage emptying themselves out. And depending what is actually causing your post-nasal drip, some medications may actually end up making it worse - depending whether it's caused by an allergy, cold, virus, etc. Otherwise...
Feel Better Vibes To You!
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Well, time to get ready for tonight's show... -Let's hope tomorrow will be the last Day Rehearsal before we open on Thursday.
Laters...
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I'm more than half-way through Five Pennies. Very sharp transfer, and the color is lovely save for the too-pasty beige skin tones, which aren't Technicolorish enough. A minor annoyance, however. since this film has always looked like poop on video.
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No posts in close to an hour, and yet at least five people have been sitting there like so much fish.
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I'm writing a book!
TOPIC OF THE DAY: My two most memorable Christmas gifts were trips:
The first was in December of 1995 when I went with a local community theater group on a trip to NEW YORK! I saw five shows in seven days (Sunset Blvd. with Betty Buckley, Victor/Victoria with Julie, Robeson with Avery Brooks, Beauty and the Beast and Swinging On a Star). I was in the audience for "Regis and [then] Kathy Lee" (Kathy Lee was on vacation, so it was Regis and his wife Joy). I also went to the Stonewall (it was closed, of course, but I got a picture of the front) and sang at Eighty-Eight's Piano bar (I guess that's now closed, too). When I was there, I was served by and got an autograph from Terry White!
I also (sadly) went to Colony Records before I got to Footlight. I paid too much for everything, but I got the London cast recordings of Children of Eden (before anyone else here had ever heard of it) and 1776!
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My other most memorable Christmas gift/trip was in December 2001, a trip to London! My niece and sister and I went (the prices were very low) specifically so that my niece could see her very favorite singing group STEPS in concert. They're a British group whose gimmick is to have simple choreography so that all of their fans can dance along with them...and they did! They never really made it big in the US, but my niece got their CDs from England and fell in love with them. We saw them twice in two days (in the same venue).
We also went to Kew Gardens and walked around London quite a bit. We took a couple of walking tours and both times our tour guide was this guy named Tom who was very nice. We went to the Tower of London and on our own, we walked along Fleet Street to where Sweeney Todd's tonsorial parlour was supposed to be! We also stayed in a hotel a block from South Lambeth (almost a Me and My Girl reference!). We went into this church that had a section the back where most people can't go. It held a big book with names of all the Americans who died in England during World War II. Because we were Americans, one of the nuns let us go back and see it. It was quite impressive and very moving.
We saw the first two acts of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Brendan Fraser (very nice to look at ;)), Frances O'Connor and Ned Beatty as Big Daddy. I can't remember why we had to leave, but we did. On other nights, we saw Starlight Express (which was going to close in January 2002) and Kiss Me, Kate with the WSMA (that's the "World's Sexiest Man Alive" in HHW lingo ;D) Brent Barrett, Marin Mazzie, Michael Berresse and Nancy Anderson. I got pictures and autographs (but not of Brent...he hadn't left the theater by the time I had to leave. Dammit :'( ).
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When my credit cards are paid off (in just a few months!!), I really want to go back to both places...just by myself! I should be able to save up some money fairly quickly with what I was paying on my cards. I don't know if I actually will be able to save up some money quickly ;), but that's the plan.
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Evening all! It's been COLD here in the land of sunshine but we're making it.
I have that Vontage phone service and tried to call home like I always do at lunch time. I kept being sent to voice mail.
I worried that something was wrong. When I finely got home, it turned out that Mom had blown the breakers and since she can't see very well, she managed to turn most everything in the house off. That included the phone and most important, the HEAT!
Funny that tonight of all nights my boss and I were going to go to the beauty salon to get our hair cut. I didn't feel like going and with no way to get in touch with Mom, I told her (my boss) that I just wanted to go home tonight. I'm so glad I did!!
Mom is fine, BTW. She just wrapped herself in a blanket until I got home.
I have decided that I have GOT to get my Mom a cell phone. I've just finished a web search and have decided that a Fire Fly (a kids phone) will be perfect for her. No numbers, just two buttons that I can program with my work and cell phone numbers.
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Favorite Christmas gift. Gee, I had so many. I'll be the first to admit that I was a spoiled little brat when I was growing up. Many of the toys you guys have already named I had.
I think my Johnny and Jane West doll collection with all of the horses and such were one of my favorites.
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...Woody, as I completely expected, is up for everything because for the first time in his career he is courting the press like crazy.
Disclaimer: I have never courted the press, like crazy or otherwise.
::)
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Danise I'm sure you were spoiled without being a brat.
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Danise is there nothing like the Firefly in an adult sized phone?
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Danise I'm sure you were spoiled without being a brat.
Thanks Jane but I wouldn't be to sure of that! :D
VixMom, when/if you post anything about that fish oil, I would love to hear about it. That's one of the meds I'm on (well sort of--I haven't taken any of my meds for over a week).
I'm bad, I know. I ran out and just haven't bother filling any of them. The thyroid, the BP or the cholesterol.
Good cholesterol vibes to JMK!
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Danise is there nothing like the Firefly in an adult sized phone?
If there is, I couldn't find it.
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Firefly - one of my favorite Cy Coleman songs:
I call her firefly,
'Cause oh my, she radiates moonglow
Wants none of that noon glow
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
SIR THOMAS OF OZ!!!
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I shall now be on my way to rehearsal. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.
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Dansie call and get those prescriptions filled NOW!
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Thank you DR TCB. Indeed it has been December 14th for over 13 hours here.
The astute readers will have noticed the change in my profile comment to mark the occasion.
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For those who like to know.
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TCB you beat me to it. ;D
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMOVOZ!!
HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!
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The cake was for last Sunday's "family" celebration.
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Thank you DR Jane.
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Tomovoz what flavour is your cake?
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You are very welcome DRTomovoz.
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Happy Birthday to the Calendar Man!!!
I'm here at HHW but I should be at my banking site making sure all the finances are in order before we leave on Friday. This place is more enjoyable.
We will most likely finish the bag packing tomorrow and we will have the rest of Wednesday, all of Thursday and lots of Friday to relax and get ready for the trip, at which point I will post my "Get out of bitch-slapping free" card since while there will probably be Internet cafes throughout Dublin we won't be at them enough to post with any frequency. If I get lucky and find some time (between seeing the Book of Kells and touching the Crusader's Hand at St. Michan's) I will post. We won't be able to show you anything until we return. Ant has a digital camera but without access to a computer there will be little way to show you what fun we will be having.
We are meeting a friend from Belfast on Monday the 19th. She's driving down and said if there was any place we wanted to see outside of Dublin she could drive us there. We will have to pour over the tour books and see if there is something close by.
I still have to read yesterday's posts. I read the notes but not the posts so I shall go and catch up.
Later.
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Thank you DR Ben.
Vanilla it was Jane! Very much a layered sponge and cream construction!
The Bears on the corners were eaten by my niece's daughter Juliette as a reward for helping me blow out the candles.
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My nephew's gift is to take me swimming with Dolphins in mid January - I guess they are used to being with whales.
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LOL Tomovoz. I would love to swim with the Dolphins. What a fantastic gift. Where will you do that?
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Somewhere in Queenland. My nephew and his partner have just bought a home there.(Well just across the border in New South Wales) I am going to visit them in mid January.
I have mixed feelings about such activities as Swimming with Dolphins!! I appreciate the gift but believe it is NOT what the Dolphins would wish to do.
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Thank you DR/Friend Elmore.
Now away for more shopping !! (but not for me).
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Tomovoz I understand the mixed feeling. I want full details when you go and how you feel about it after swimming with them.
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Before retiring a few years ago a very close friend worked at a company. Just now I discovered the owner of the company was a classmate of ours. You would think that sometime during those years one of us would have made the connection. ;D
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'night
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMOVOZ!!!!!
Swimming with the dolphins sounds like a wonderful adventure
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TAR is over here. I'll be curious to see the reactions tomorrow
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I'll join in on the congratulations as well:
Happy Birthday to DR Tomovoz!!
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Enjoyed the last twenty minutes of THE DARK CORNER. Transfer continued to look just beautiful and my admiration for the film continues unabated.
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Happy Birthday Tomovoz!!!!!!!
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Watched two more GOOD TIMES episodes waiting until the network TV shows I wanted to watch came on.
One of the things I find really enjoyable about this show is the boisterous audience reaction. The audiences for this show REALLY got into the story and these characters. I think the studio audience for the years the show ran was probably the most invested audience in the history of TV.
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BONES had a beautifully told and wonderfully involving Christmas-themed episode, the best holiday episode of any series that I currently watch.
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HOUSE featured the Emmy winning Cynthia Nixon as a doctor with a most unusual problem. Certainly made for a very different hour of medical TV.
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And for the first time ever tonight, I watched BOSTON LEGAL. SVU was a rerun, so I thought I'd give the show a try.
Outrageous fun. The two cases were each interesting. There was a tremendous amount of humor connnected with both of these serious cases, something I wasn't expecting but I'm assuming is par for the course with this show.
I may have to continue to check this show out.
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Tomovoz I understand the mixed feeling. I want full details when you go and how you feel about it after swimming with them.
Details from the Dolphins may be of more interest.
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I now have THE GLENN MILLER STORY on tap to watch tomorrow when I finish the GOOD TIMES disc 1 in the player.
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Thank you DRs George, JMK, Jennifer, Cillaliz and Matt.
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Yap TAR Is over. Don't forget after the show is over on the West Coast we can go to cbs.com and see who wins the car (2nd and 3rd place).
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Happiest of birthdays, DR Tomovoz! Thank you for sharing your beautiful cake with us.
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I'm heading down now to go to bed.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the day.
Good night!
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Happy Birthday Tomovoz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Master of the pop charts of many nations, you have been very generous in sharing music with me in the past year, and I hope to pay you back this year.
Enjoy your day!
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Enjoy the rest of your birthday, Tom!
I'll spend the rest of the day periodically humming Bobby Sherman's "Julie, do you love me?" in your honor, but then, thanks to you, I've been humming it all the time for weeks now anyway.
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The very happiest of birthdays to our Tomovoz!
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Cool beans, Rodzinski's at post #2,000.
And he did it without making a big deal about it. Wow!
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And for the first time ever tonight, I watched BOSTON LEGAL. SVU was a rerun, so I thought I'd give the show a try.
Outrageous fun. The two cases were each interesting. There was a tremendous amount of humor connnected with both of these serious cases, something I wasn't expecting but I'm assuming is par for the course with this show.
I may have to continue to check this show out.
I know I find it to be probably the most consistently funny show on these days. Always good for a few out loud moments.
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Thank you DRs Ginny, Rodzinski, FJL and Jed.
I get to have two days thanks to the time difference.
Fortunately it only adds one year though.
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Good Evening!
Unless something totally goes wrong tomorrow night, it looks like tomorrow will be our last day rehearsal before opening on Thursday. -We've never had day rehearsal on Opening Day/Night - it's sort of the director's "gift" to the cast, but ya' never know. In other words, a very good show tonight.
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Dolphins are very social animals - I'm sure they will certainly enjoy getting to know DR TomovOz as much as we have!
Happy birthday, Tom!!!
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Tomorrow is our company Christmakkuh do. We're doing our Secret Santa reveals and such, though I don't think we're really doing Secret Santa the way I remember it. I've always done it where you give little gifts throughout the week leading up to the reveal so the recipient has a chance to guess who their Santa is. We're just giving a $15 gift tomorrow and calling it a day. Oh, well...
The affair begins at 4:00 at at a bar around the corner from the office. Since we're closing early for the party, they're making us go into the office early. Merry frickin' Christmas to them, too...
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Apparently our holiday bonuses will be distributed tomorrow at the party, too. Our CEO mandated "a party or a bonus - one or the other," so the VP and CFO took it upon themselves to foot the bill for the party themselves and still give us a bonus. I hate to sound greedy or ungrateful, but I sure do hope that bonus is a doozy 'cause I can't afford Christmas gifts for my family right now...
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One WUSSBURGER WITH CHEESE coming right up!
;)
Goodnight.
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Back from rehearsal, but must eat a sandwich. The plumber is still here - it turned into a major deal - rotted pipe and a couple of other things, but they'll finish tonight and that will be swell.
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Well, no posts in ninety minutes. I guess I shouldn't have slaved over the hot notes since no one is here to read them.
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The WUSSBURGERING around here has reached epic proportions.
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And what of the WUSSBURGERING? We shall laugh and laugh and just when we think we cannot laugh anymore, we shall laugh again in the face of such WUSSBURGERING.
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I just don't even feel like starting a new discussion topic, frankly or even georgely.
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I'll just sit here and talk to myself until the cows come home.
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And why? Because we don't need no stinking WUSSBURGERS, and I am NOT a WUSSBURGER!
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I'm here...but I'm baking cookies! At work tomorrow, we're having a holiday potluck and gift exchange. I'm bringing chocolate chip cookies and little smokies (not mixed together). AND I still have to do some laundry. That's why I'm not posting.
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George has showed up and is just sitting there like so much fish. And George, when may we expect The Yiddish Sondheim? Steve is waiting patiently.
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Oh, well, let's have 200 and be done with it.