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SIMPLY AGOG
« on: October 30, 2007, 12:33:41 AM »
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were simply agog, and now it is time for you to post until the simply agog cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 12:34:27 AM »
And the word of the day is: JENTACULAR!
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« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2007, 01:26:27 AM »
Page 1?  Is this a slow news days at HHW or what?  ;)
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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2007, 01:32:42 AM »
Topic of the Day:  Fredric Brown (who's birthday was just yesterday...even though he died in 1973) wrote some wonderful fiction and science fiction, and although I can't specifically remember any, I would assume that he had written some speculative fiction, as well. :)

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« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2007, 01:44:18 AM »
I also love the recording (music written by Alan Menken, lyrics by David Spencer) to Weird Romance:  Two One-Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction. :)
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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2007, 01:47:24 AM »
And on that note (F-natural), good night, Singdaw!
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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2007, 01:47:42 AM »
My favorite speculative fiction:  my resume.
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« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2007, 01:48:10 AM »
Good night, dear DR George!  :)
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« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2007, 01:49:18 AM »
Isn't tonight traditionally "devil's night" or mischief night?
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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2007, 01:49:56 AM »
Wonderfully cute photo, DR Jose!
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« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2007, 01:51:32 AM »
Oh!  I almost forgot!  Last night, we got music for Nite of the Living Dead! The Musical!  Josh, the composer/ lyricist/ bookwriter/ music director FINALLY e-mailed pdf files of music for some of the songs!!  And what is written is a little different than what we've actually been singing. ::) NOW we'll finally be able to learn the songs correctly and consistently. ;D
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« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2007, 04:28:24 AM »
Thank you Bruce. The CD was in my In Box when I arrived at the office this morning. I shall play it as I work.
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« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2007, 04:44:11 AM »
Morning, Tom
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2007, 04:55:17 AM »
Good morning, all! I went to bed, opened a new book DESIGN FLAWS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION and laughed through the first five chapters.  It's very funny, very New Yawk, and I think I will like this book quite a lot.  Beginning it and sending off to Portland the finished David Burnham chart seem to be the only two things I feel went well yesterday.

I did indeed have weird dreams. Julie Andrews was in one of them nd I was high in a balcony watching her sing at some benefit, then I dreamed that I was working as a bagger in a supermarket and talking to Robert Kimball about a benefit to do the show and record JUBILEE when the Fat Conductor of Limited Talent and Limitless Ego showed up wearing a beard and raving about doing something with, probably butchering, Richard Rodgers' music.

Today: barber at 9:30, then Toyland, the NYPL, and perhaps I'll start the chart for Ashley Brown today.  

Speculative fiction? TIME AND AGAIN by Jack Finney.
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« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2007, 05:08:59 AM »
Good morning!

I don't think I really understand the topic du jour... or it is to early in the morning to speulcate on the topic.








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« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2007, 05:27:04 AM »
Good morning, DR Ben!
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« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2007, 05:30:49 AM »
Quote from: TCB on October 30, 2007, 05:08:59 AM
Good morning!

I don't think I really understand the topic du jour... or it is to early in the morning to speulcate on the topic.

Nor I. I don't want to speculate ( ;)) on the topic but what does it mean?
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« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2007, 05:51:39 AM »
Good morning.  To kick off with the foot report:  The meds seem to be doing their work, and I'm wandering about, still carefully, but not particularly painfully - not even a temptation to reach for the cane, so that's good.
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« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2007, 05:53:41 AM »
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« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2007, 05:55:04 AM »
I took the TOD to mean fiction - in whatever genre - that asks the question "What If?" and then attempts to answer it.
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« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2007, 05:55:30 AM »
Glad to hear the good foot news, DR FJL!  :)
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« Reply #21 on: October 30, 2007, 06:09:46 AM »
Thanks, singdaw.
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« Reply #22 on: October 30, 2007, 06:10:52 AM »
DR FJL - if you see Milla in the hospital or speak with her, will you please tell her that I'm thinking of her and wishing her a speedy recovery?  She doesn't know me, but she did give me a big hug on the steps of St. Clement's!
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« Reply #23 on: October 30, 2007, 06:18:25 AM »
Quote from: bk on October 30, 2007, 12:34:27 AM
And the word of the day is: JENTACULAR!

And The Song Of The Day Is: COOKING BREAKFAST FOR THE ONE I LOVE

(with a bow to Fanny Brice)
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« Reply #24 on: October 30, 2007, 06:23:52 AM »
Tuesday morning greetings!  Here I am at work with my angel costume on - almost everyone in the department dressed up, except for the ones I could have predicted would not.

TOD - in the post-apocalyptic vein:

Malevil, by Robert Merle
A Gift Upon the Shore, by M. K. Wren

Science fiction:  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
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« Reply #25 on: October 30, 2007, 07:15:55 AM »
Quote from: ArnoldMBrockman on October 30, 2007, 06:18:25 AM
And The Song Of The Day Is: COOKING BREAKFAST FOR THE ONE I LOVE

(with a bow to Fanny Brice)

I just love this song, and one of these days, I'm going to see the movie where she sang it.
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« Reply #26 on: October 30, 2007, 07:17:08 AM »
TOD: I like short stories, so:

Lewis Padgett (a.k.a. Kuttner and Moore)'s  Gallagher stories
Frederic Brown: The Star Mouse
E.M. Forster: The Celestial Omnibus
Most Harlan Ellison

And if Lewis Carroll counts, well...Through The Looking Glass would be my #1 fave.
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« Reply #27 on: October 30, 2007, 07:17:12 AM »
Good morning!

Chilly morning, and warming up only to 66 today. I haven't turned my heat on yet as the days warm up just enough to make the house tolerable if I'm dressed in sweats. Anyway, looks like fall is here to stay for awhile, and I love it.
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« Reply #28 on: October 30, 2007, 07:18:20 AM »
There was a book I read hurriedly when I was a teenager called IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR. I remember being rather appalled by it then, but it's been so long, my memories are rather vague.
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« Reply #29 on: October 30, 2007, 07:21:05 AM »
Thank you, DR td, for your astute comments on THE SHINING. I'm looking forward to revisiting it this afternoon after many years away from it.

I had not read King's book when I saw the movie so I didn't share the outrage of others who felt the master's work had been violated. For me, the movie worked its spell pretty thoroughly, and even when parts of it baffled me, I still had a visceral response to the horrors both real and imagined in it.
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