Haines His Way

A holy life?

A chitty chitty bang bang of a life!

 Waiter Make it another old-fashioned, please

 Make it another, double, ...

 And STOP calling me Merman!

 And one for Merman!

Ah, SoHo...

A couple more pairs of jeans from Uniqlo - which I had tailored (for free) again.  A cute little top for a friend's baby who turns ONE tomorrow from Lucky (Jeans) Boy.

But the big discovery of the day actually came courtesy of DR Jason:

Kee's Chocolates

It's a small store front in SoHo with an open kitchen of sort next door where they make the truffles.  And that's basically all they sell.  We sampled a few: Coconut, Blood Orange and Earl Grey - and we both had extremely satisfied smiles on our faces as we consumed them, as we enjoyed them.  They had just brought the Earl Grey ones into the shop while we were there, and I could definitely tell it was a "fresh" chocolate.


Hmm... According to their website, they also make macaroons...  Which I did not see while were there... Hmm... Guess I'll have to head back there sometime.

It looks like The Enabler is now the one being enabled.
-You have done well, Grasshopper.

Good Evening!

Back from a day spent walking, shopping and eating.  In other words, a day just like any other day.

Annette says:

"Hey, Mr Piano Man!"

but... who cares, really?!?

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After walking around SoHo for a while, we headed up to 34th Street to see "The Nanny Diaries".  A good movie, not a great movie.  I'm not sure the framing device served the movie all that well, but it was a good set-up.  And, boy, is that Chris Evans easy on the eyes.  

Oh, this is so fattening!

Mais, non!

Anything that wonderfully delicious actually ends up being negatively caloric.

DR Edisaurus, have you seen this new very positive review for S&V?  

No! Thank you for pointing me to that. Like JMK's review, it's a beautifully written, thoughtful review by someone familiar with the case. Nice!

Thanks, Sing!

Peter Miller (of S&V fame) has some unkind words for capitalists keeping public works hostage for profit!

I wouldn't call The Carol Burnett show a "publlic work"! The writers, actors, musicians, all deserve to get paid, unless the rights to their performances were buy-outs.

I think Peter and others, including myself, are frustrated by the exhorbitant amount stock footage houses are now charging for footage that they most likely spent nothing on---newsreels, etc. where no one knows anything about who shot the footage and there is no profit for the person who did the work, only for the person who happened to get ahold of a copy. This is why, unfortunately, PBS relies more and more on cheesy re-enactments than on actual archival footage.

The price of the footage is why a landmark documentary like "Eyes on the Prize" was out of circulation for so long, and why Peter and I will probably never make a dime of profit from our film. But, that's not why we made it...only someone deluded goes into making a documentary for the money!

I figured out an ALT+ key combination that produces cute little eighth notes on my screen, but they don't seem to translate to the messages here at HHW.  

Glad you had a fun day today, DR Jose.  You've worked very hard lately and deserve some fun!  Do you have to work on your birthday?

Good Grief - he's from Georgia!

And THE BRAIN's Joe Jackson is from Atlanta!

Congrats on finding a Fred!!