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« Reply #60 on: December 01, 2006, 12:00:21 PM »



What will today be like, I wonder?


What will your future be? ;)
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« Reply #61 on: December 01, 2006, 12:01:12 PM »

Thanks for the Annette interview, DR FRANCOIS!

Il n'y a pas de quoi!
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« Reply #62 on: December 01, 2006, 12:08:05 PM »

CALLING DR. BRENNAN!

1,600-Year-Old Roman Coffin Found in London



Graham Carlow, Reuters
A headless skeleton lies in a Roman limestone tomb discovered below the grounds of St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in London.

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LONDON (Dec. 1) - Archaeologists discovered a rare Roman limestone sarcophagus containing a headless skeleton at the site of a historic London church, authorities said Friday.
The find dates to about 410 A.D. and lay 10 feet below the grounds of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields church near central London's busy Trafalgar Square, outside the boundaries researchers had established for London's Roman city walls.
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The sarcophagus was made from a single piece of limestone from Oxfordshire or Northamptonshire, about 60 miles northwest of London, researchers said. The skeleton, headless and missing fingers, is a 5-foot-6-inch male who died in his 40s. Researchers speculated that Victorian workmen building a sewer stumbled upon the sarcophagus and took the head.

Somebody check Pogue's baggage!

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« Reply #63 on: December 01, 2006, 12:25:52 PM »


I believe DR TCB will get a kick out of this item!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/461/3544/1600/blog%20114th.jpg
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« Reply #64 on: December 01, 2006, 12:42:00 PM »

There are not enough hours in the day.  I've addressed about forty-five packages, shipped a few things that needed shipping, and now must get ready to be on my way to LACC.  Only about 160 packages to go!
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« Reply #65 on: December 01, 2006, 12:58:14 PM »

Hello all.  It's a beautiful day today, but I fear I am catching a cold.  Yesterday about halfway through the seminar a man sat next to me who was coughing, hacking and blowing his nose the whole time.  So, I'm beginning to feel the effects. I have taken my vitamin C and hopefully will fight it off.   Things are quiet at the office, so it's a nice day to be here
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« Reply #66 on: December 01, 2006, 01:01:52 PM »

BK - I was about to respond to that fellow on that other board's West Coast board, but thought better of it.  New World Stages is a theater that has had a large number of relatively low-budget musicals, and for some reason (despite the fact that it's had some solidly-attended-or-gone-on-to-have-a-real-life shows like Altar Boyz, Musical of Musicals, Drumstruck, and now Evil Dead) has an unfair reputation for being a revolving door.  But in reality, their hit-to-non-hit ratio is actually as good or better than off-Bway in general.  

Or maybe that guy was just observing that your show is in the Evil Dead genre.  I know that when Starfighter was first announced, we were lumped in people's minds with Evil Dead as well.  Given what's happened with Evil Dead, that might not be a bad thing overall.
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« Reply #67 on: December 01, 2006, 01:06:02 PM »

Don't have much to say today.  I must remember to stop at Petco on the way home....after making the cats breakfast today, we are OUT of cat food and bonita flakes...I don't think I'll be allowed in the house without replenishing the supply
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« Reply #68 on: December 01, 2006, 01:14:15 PM »

I shall now be on my way to LACC, after which, I shall return.
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« Reply #69 on: December 01, 2006, 01:18:16 PM »

TOD: The Las Vegas Plaids sang to me today -- that's because I was too lazy to change the CD from last week.
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« Reply #70 on: December 01, 2006, 01:19:49 PM »

Don't have much to say today.  I must remember to stop at Petco on the way home....after making the cats breakfast today, we are OUT of cat food and bonita flakes...I don't think I'll be allowed in the house without replenishing the supply

Poor little kitties!

What are bonita flakes?
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« Reply #71 on: December 01, 2006, 01:21:07 PM »

Bakc from a scrumptious lunch.

I had the pasta special -- chicken breast medallions, broccoli, mushrooms and fresh mozzarella with a tomato/basil/garlic olive oil served on linguini.

Oof!  I've got lots of yummy in my tummy!


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« Reply #72 on: December 01, 2006, 01:21:31 PM »

And the mozzarella will bind...
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« Reply #73 on: December 01, 2006, 01:23:42 PM »

The weekend LOOMS....and I've all sorts of ideas about what I'm gonna do with it.

The likelihood of 10% of it being realized is only marginal.
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« Reply #74 on: December 01, 2006, 01:24:31 PM »

I was pleased that the grocery store was less crowded today than usually on Friday. Don't know why.

The clouds cleared away, and we have as beautiful a spring day as one could hope for - especially north of the equator in December!
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« Reply #75 on: December 01, 2006, 01:28:34 PM »

I spent a large portion of the afternoon reliving my childhood watching SUPERMAN episodes. Among my favorites were "The Last Knight" about a secret society who celebrate knighthood, "The Magic Secret" about a criminal scientist who has figured out a way to draw kryptonite from the air, and "The Mysterious Cube" featuring a cube made of a substance even Superman can't break through or see through.
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« Reply #76 on: December 01, 2006, 01:29:57 PM »

Unfortunately, it also included one of the all-time worst episodes - "The Atomic Captive" which features probably the worst performances in the history of the show. None of the guest cast can really act at all, and their inability to deliver even simple lines is PAINFUL.
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« Reply #77 on: December 01, 2006, 01:32:18 PM »

Next, I watched another CSI: MIAMI episode from the fourth season. This one dealt with a woman found dead at the scene of a traffic accident only to be found to have been killed in the car after the accident. Three suspects don't make for much mystery as the guilty party is pretty obvious.

However, the on-going "mole in the lab" scenario which ran the gamut of the season is also present, and the clues are so obvious in retrospect. At the time, I still had no idea who the mole was.
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« Reply #78 on: December 01, 2006, 01:33:36 PM »

I ended the afternoon watching the roadshow version of SOUTH PACIFIC with Richard Barrios' commentary turned on. So far, he hasn't offered much information that wasn't already common knowledge, but thirty minutes in, he's only now beginning to comment on Josh Logan's leaden direction.
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« Reply #79 on: December 01, 2006, 01:34:15 PM »

DR TOMOVOZ,
I rented HUSTLE from Netflix just recently and LOVED it. Very smart, I thought, very fun. I love a good con. Great writing, fine acting. I'm now watching MI-5, the previous series from the same production company. Not usually my sort of thing, but it's also quite impressive. You might want to give it a try, too.

What are your other favorites? (I know you like Poliakoff.)

Love MI-5  (Spooks in the UK and here) and have seen all the series I think. (they are making another)  wonderfully written and such tension.  

The only TV we are watching is the UK "Teachers" - which has really fallen apart for it's 4th series. (2004)
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Partner Colin and I loved "Six Feet Under" and "Carnivale".
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« Reply #80 on: December 01, 2006, 01:37:43 PM »

The clouds cleared away, and we have as beautiful a spring day as one could hope for - especially north of the equator in December!

Not everywhere:

•   AP/The Pantagraph
Dec. 1: A resident checks on his vehicles after large tree branches fell on them from the weight of snow and ice in Towanda, Illinois

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« Reply #81 on: December 01, 2006, 01:41:31 PM »

This is Kansas - where is the winter wheat?



Hope Toto has a jacket!

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« Reply #82 on: December 01, 2006, 01:43:53 PM »

I was pleased that the grocery store was less crowded today than usually on Friday. Don't know why.

Well, I -- for one -- am pleased that you were pleased.
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« Reply #83 on: December 01, 2006, 01:44:38 PM »

Brrr. It was so cold this morning that I had to put on a sweater! I love the desert this time of year.
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« Reply #84 on: December 01, 2006, 01:44:40 PM »

This is Kansas - where is the winter wheat?



Hope Toto has a jacket!

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The guy in this photo seems to have something frozen to his butt.
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« Reply #85 on: December 01, 2006, 01:46:47 PM »

, and their inability to deliver even simple lines is PAINFUL.


And now you know my grief with one of the brothers on "Supernatural."






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« Reply #86 on: December 01, 2006, 01:48:29 PM »

It's a miserably glorious day here today.

I say "miserably" because I'm INSIDE and I'm relatively certain I'm in the grips of something that will keep me inside for the next few days.

Damn these viruses.  Damn them all to HELL!
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« Reply #87 on: December 01, 2006, 01:50:06 PM »

1,600-Year-Old Roman Coffin Found in London


This person obviously missed the seminar "How to Keep Your Head While Others Around You Are Losing Theirs".
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« Reply #88 on: December 01, 2006, 01:50:42 PM »

DR TOMOVOZ,
I rented HUSTLE from Netflix just recently and LOVED it. Very smart, I thought, very fun. I love a good con. Great writing, fine acting. I'm now watching MI-5, the previous series from the same production company. Not usually my sort of thing, but it's also quite impressive. You might want to give it a try, too.

What are your other favorites? (I know you like Poliakoff.)

Three other favourites (old BBC programmes) are "Lost Empires" (John Castle), "Cambridge Spies" and "Bird Of Prey" (Richard Griffiths).
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« Reply #89 on: December 01, 2006, 01:50:48 PM »

Yes, I guess I am feeling just a tad cantankerous.
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