Haines His Way

And one for Mah Jong

Well, Fred, since you've been so generous to me, I can go in and delete my post and re-add it. That would put you at the top of the page  

Sorry if this is a duplicate post, but I don't remember anyone linking the latest review of Brain at Talkin' Broadway:

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/

 

I actually now use "spoo" in real life, and people get a kick out of it.  But are they laughing at me or with me?

DR Jennifer - You make me quite nervous re: disconnecting your smoke detector.  Too many stories on the television news in the past two weeks in the NY area about home fire fatalities – the worst of which could have been prevented if the detector had had a battery installed.  Please be careful!  We want you around.

I know it sounds iffy. But what other choice do i have?  If the alarm goes off (for the house alarm) then you have to put in a new battery which is really expensive.  Plus they call you and think you are nuts.

I only turn it off for a few minutes. Usually the smoke is nothing (like when i'm grilling on the stovetop). This is the first time that i've created real smoke in the oven.

Even if i turn on the fan, the tiny amount of smoke from grilling on the stovetop is enough to set it off!

I used to be guilty of this, too.  And then forgetting to reconnect them.  But then I found those new smoke detectors that are made to be placed in a kitchen where there might be some occasional light smoke.  They still go off once in a while, but nearly as much as they old ones did.

I need that!  But right now what i have is attached to the house alarm.

But there is no chance to forget to reattach it since it is taken down and left right where i can see it.

We could make our own cuisine and call it "Sploop" Of course we might need to pay a licensing fee to DR Sandra.

To witness a truly jaw-dropping version of the classic number from Gypsy click here:

Rose's Turn

It's a bit hard to hear and the camera is far enough away that you can't see faces. IMHO (in my humble opinion), it is one of the worst staged Rose's Turn I have ever seen!!!

The comments underneath the posting are interesting also. I don't know if the first post is actually from Andrea McArdle or someone connected with the show but it sounds (to me) sincere.

Oy!  GYPSY by way of CHICAGO with a detour through FOLLIES.  All that's missing is some bottle dancers.

But I have to say the worst of it is in that delivery of the final line.  Totally nullifies the end of the play.

Hey, I think I've got the hang of it now...

for cat lovers

Cheers-

LUNCH!

A plate of milk for Ms. Kitt?  

Laters, indeed!

Der Brucer has hopped in the shower (this being a family site, I'll not post pictures), so we'll be off to Dover in a few minutes.  And we'll be listening to Van Dyke Parks on our way up and back.

Isn't that exciting?

(But I really do love the Doctor Who soundtrack.  Full orchestra on some of the tracks, care of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, some haunting solo vocals by Melanie Pappenheim, some full choral work on a few tracks, even a couple of rock songs featuring Neil Hannon, all care of Murray Gold, the composer.  Except for the original theme, of course, which is Ron Grainer's, arranged by Murray Gold.  Oodles of fun.  And pictures.  But no pictures of an Ood.  I guess they couldn't fit everything in.)

With your patient tutelage!  

DR Ginny – It was always my impression that most reference librarians had advanced degrees in another field, and then went back to get an MS in Library Science.  Do you know if that is generally true?  If so, it’s a crime that they’re not paid more.

Actually, DR singdaw, there are many ways to become a librarian.  My route was one of the most unusual, in that I decided in high school (after having my A-Ha moment at the NYPL Lincoln Center location) to enter the profession.  I went to school for 5 years, earning a liberal arts BA and an MLS by the age of 22.  Most people who earn the MLS do sometime after their Bachelor's and, in some cases, after a subject Master's.  Some MLS's go back later and get a subject Master's, especially college and university librarians and law and medical librarians.  Of course, there are some employers who call any warm body working in the building a librarian, so that makes it difficult for those of us who are educated to achieve any credibility.

When I was in school, the library didn’t have the funds to convert or cross-index their collection, so half the stacks/card catalogues were in Dewey, and half in LoC.  A sorry state of affairs.  Perhaps this has since been rectified.  Or perhaps everything is digitized now.

That sounds like the library system at The University of Michigan, where I went to school.  They'd recataloged the entire collection from Dewey to LC, except Literature, so we had a huge area (floors?) of 800's.  For a while, there was a lot of grant money for retrospective conversions, so many of those situations have been eliminated.

I just used the word spoo! in an e-mail to two of my co-workers...they said I was weird.

And what did they say after they read your email?  

To witness a truly jaw-dropping version of the classic number from Gypsy click here...

Oh, my...