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THE PROCRASTINATING ME
« on: January 11, 2007, 12:38:10 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you read them and didn't procrastinate, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they've been procrastinating for the last five years - sort of the Jason Robert Brown of cows.
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2007, 12:39:53 AM »

And the word of the day is: FATIDIC!
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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2007, 12:41:24 AM »

It's THE NIGHT OF THE WUSSBURGERS!  That sounds like a Bert I. Gordon film, doesn't it?
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2007, 12:41:54 AM »

No one to verbally spar with.
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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2007, 12:42:07 AM »

Just me and me alone.
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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2007, 12:42:43 AM »

Actually, this is an example of a fine feat of prestidigitation - everyone around these here parts has disappeared.
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« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2007, 01:02:24 AM »

Well, perhaps I'll perform another feat of prestidigitation and make myself go from the laptop to my bed.  Say abra-cadabra!
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2007, 01:03:28 AM »

Hmmm - didn't quite work yet.

Welcome five GUESTS!  Why don't one of you say abra-cadabra and appear and make a fershluganah post?
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2007, 01:04:09 AM »

Well, let's see if we can perform the amazing laptop to bed trick and make it work:  ABRA-CADABRA!
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2007, 04:26:41 AM »

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Dou Henning....Merlin and The Magic Show (although another actor played the part) On Broadway. David Copperfield on TV
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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2007, 04:40:11 AM »

Working today....taking the Cruiser in for repairs....  Not my favorite day of the week.

Cold today, but not too bad.  No snow predicted.
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« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2007, 04:41:53 AM »

The Amazing Jonathan is a magician/comedian who is pretty funny.

Also some guy named Kobe - I also saw him once on television, but he did some great illusions.

Of course the first magician I saw was Mark Wilson and the lovely Nani Darnell.
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« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2007, 04:50:24 AM »

SNOWBOUND IN TACOMA!
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That's the name of my next novel, or maybe it should be a musical.  I can see the reviews now:

"Chilling".......The New York Times.  "I couldn't catch the drift".... New York Post
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2007, 04:53:54 AM »

THIS SITE informs me:
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As of 1/11/2007 7:45:56 AM EST
You are 68 years old.
You are 821 months old.
You are 3,570 weeks old.
You are 24,993 days old.
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You are 2,159,423,156 seconds old.

In 1938 the US population was approximately 122,775,046 people, 41.2 persons per square mile.
In 1938 in the US there were approximately 1,126,856 marriages (9.2%) and 195,961 divorces (1.6%)
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In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
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In 1938 the population of Australia was approximately 6,935,909.
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In 2006 the US population was approximately 281,421,906 people, 79.6 persons per square mile.
In 2006 in the US there were approximately 2,181,000 marriages (7.4%) and — divorces (3.7%)
In 2006 in the US there were approximately 2,423,000 deaths (8.3 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

Isn't that jist too special!

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« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2007, 04:56:01 AM »

SNOWBOUND IN TACOMA!
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That's the name of my next novel, or maybe it should be a musical.  I can see the reviews now:

"Chilling".......The New York Times.  "I couldn't catch the drift".... New York Post


SHOCKING WINTER BONDAGE - The Advocate

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« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2007, 04:57:37 AM »

Why they make fun of Polish engineers:



Sopat, Poland

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« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2007, 04:59:04 AM »

Dali gives Humpty a home:



Torre Galatea -  Figueras, Spain

Read about it HERE

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« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2007, 05:11:31 AM »

Off to work.
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« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2007, 05:16:10 AM »

And from Francois-land:


Ideal Palace of Ferdinand Cheval
The idea for the Palace came to French postman Ferdinand Cheval in a dream, and he spent 33 years building it and ultimately was buried inside. It has been a monument at Hauterives, France since 1969.

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« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2007, 05:19:14 AM »

SHOCKING WINTER BONDAGE - The Advocate

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« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2007, 05:29:35 AM »

My favorite magician is Ben Mack. He is also a champion poker player and a fire-eater. In fact, he wrote the book on fire-eating! Fire Eating: A Manual of Instruction.

When we put a contract on our house, there were already 2 contracts ahead of us with different contingencies. There were also quite a few others in line after us. (The house had been on the market for 1 day!)

I really bonded with Ben. We had the same political leanings and he also was a huge Bill Hicks fan. He does a fundraiser every year for the Bill Hicks foundation--I think it raises money for endangered species---called a "rant-off" where people can get up and rant about whatever and other people pay to watch and to rant!). I had some very rare Bill Hicks stuff that he was able to donate to the archives/Bill's family. (BK might enjoy the rant-off!)

It took us over a week before we could figure out if we could swing it financially. These other potential buyers were pestering the realtor to show it to them, but Ben said he didn't want to show it to anyone else while we were still deciding!

We finally put a contract on it and left to take my mom and friends on a 2 week tour of Ireland. While we were gone, several other people tried to talk Ben into weaseling out of his contract with us...that they would pay him a considerable amount more. He didn't even consider their offers. He is a real mensch and my favorite magician.

During the closing, we had down time while the realtor (who turned out to be a local actor I knew from projects I worked on) was on the phone or tending to his baby daughter, so Ben entertained us with some pretty amazing card tricks. And as he is such an expert poker player (wrote a book about that, too!) we did wonder if he used any of his techinques on us when we negotiated the price.

An actor real estate agent seeling a house for a magician...I'm glad they were honest!
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« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2007, 05:32:26 AM »

I have always been fascinated by Harry Houdini---I've read several books about him and seen a few good and not-so-good movies. I would have loved to have seen his act in person.

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« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2007, 05:34:03 AM »

Funnily, Ben's Fire Eating book survived our fire. It is charred, but I keep it around and tell people that I mis-read one of the instructions.
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« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2007, 05:40:12 AM »



The documentary LIVES FOR SALE seems to be conflating voluntary, howbeit illegal, immigration of labor with the forced enslavement of humans sold for profit.

A fundamental distinction needs to be made based on whether or not the person, once here, is free to return.

The vast majority of the voluntrary illegal immigrants enter accross our southern border, the vast majority of slaves enter through our ports or, in the case of domestic help, arrive, legally, by air.

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« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2007, 05:44:18 AM »

Funnily, Ben's Fire Eating book survived our fire.

The one, in Salem, from which you escaped ? 8)

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« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2007, 05:45:47 AM »

Woody Waiting in the Wings - my next novel!

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« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2007, 06:17:46 AM »

Back in the Seventies, I went to see Hallelujah Hollywood (or whatever it was called) at the original MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  Part of that show was this fantastic pair of magicians named Siegfried and Roy.  They weren't headliners yet, but their act was the most incredible magic act I had ever seen.

I also enjoy David Copperfield, but I haven't seen him perform in a number of years.
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« Reply #27 on: January 11, 2007, 06:20:29 AM »

I have been awake for two hours now, and the only vehicles I have seen going by outside my apartment are buses.  There hasn't been a single car, yet.
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« Reply #28 on: January 11, 2007, 06:26:31 AM »

Interesting!  I just went to S & R's offical web site, and I could not find any reference in their biography to them ever having appeared at the MGM Grand when they came to Vegas.  However, I know I am correct, because I remember the big moment of their act, at the time, was making the MGM lion (that had opened the show with a big roar) disappear.
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« Reply #29 on: January 11, 2007, 06:28:03 AM »

Gee, it is like pulling teeth around here.  No one to post, but me.
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