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A 110-YEAR-OLD TIBETAN MONK
« on: March 16, 2008, 12:10:24 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were 110 years old, and now it is time for you to post until the 110-year-old cows come home - they're in the shade right now.
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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 12:11:26 AM »

And the word of the day is: CIRCUMBENDIBUS!
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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2008, 12:44:55 AM »

... the notes were 110 years old...

Which is why they have yesterday's date?

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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2008, 12:53:05 AM »

Yesterday, Ginny wrote:
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OK, I'm dressed for bookselling in my "So Many Books, So Little Time" sweatshirt

And then Jane wrote:
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I used to have that sweatshirt.  Mine was in bright colors with a crazy, in a fun way, looking woman amongst a pile of books. :)

Several years ago, my sister and I got our parents sweatshirts for...some occasion, I don't remember which. ::) Anyway, we got our dad that same sweatshirt, "So Many Books, So Little Time" because he absolutely loves books.  We got our mom a sweatshirt that said, "I Yell Because I Care!" ;D

It was a very appropriate sweatshirt for her, also. ;)
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2008, 12:59:31 AM »

Yesterday, TCB wrote:
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Brett, I would love to know how you lost that weight. Many years ago, I lost 155 lbs. It was called a divorce.

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Heh.

I began walking. I started with a mile a day. Then that turned into two miles. Then three. These days, I usually walk between three and six miles a day. That, along with eliminating sugary sodas and some other dietary changes, helped enormously. The big "secret" for me was learning how to enjoy the walking and making it a regular part of my day. You hear a lot about making "lifetime changes." That was what I did. What I do is listen to Audiobooks on my iPod. In the last six months alone, I have "read" numerous books. Before that, I had actually read only a few books in the past 10 years. So I have become healthier AND well read!

Well, now that the weather's getting better, I should start walking to work, again.  I moved to my condo with the specific idea that I could walk to work (I now live about a mile away from my work) and I did walk...but not for long. :-\ Anyway, if I started tomorrow, I could only walk on days that I don't have a show, which are Mondays and Tuesdays, but when the show's over on April 5th, I can start walking most days (weather permitting). :D
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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2008, 01:20:29 AM »

And a Very Happy Birthday to JB, who is (if I remember correctly...IIRC in Internet lingo) BK's very own darling daughter!! ;D
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« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2008, 02:22:43 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2008, 02:23:44 AM »

DR DakotaCelt, glad you have returned home safely and that you had a good time on vacation.
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« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2008, 02:25:15 AM »

I shall be E&T most of today with musical events, but shall pop in briefly tonight once I return home.

Smooches, kids!   :)
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« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2008, 04:50:30 AM »

Sunday morning greetings!  I'm up early to get ready for our day in Cincinnati.

Nice to see DR DakotaCelt back from vacation - SW Utah is beautiful, isn't it?
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« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2008, 05:23:29 AM »

Continuous good-news vibes for BK!
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« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2008, 05:29:13 AM »

Good morning, all! I have a lot of writing for Toyland today, so that's my principal occupation.  I'm laundering all of the bedding today and I have to leave for the corner laundromat, which is rather expensive, but it's the only place i can wash pllows and comforters.

Last night I finished COLD COMFORT FARM, in its 3-part BBC adaptation from 1970 or so.  I still prefer the John Schlesinger flm from the 1990s.  I also  watched the first act of the Gran Teatre del Liceu production of Massenet's wonderful opera MANON with Natalie Dessay: good cast, great costumes, and some of the most awful. lighting I've ever seen.

Whatever happened to opera direction? The director David McVicar keeps the piece moving with some wonderful staging - his coach arrival was wonderful - and some very stupid ideas, like putting the ensemble in a bleacher-like stadium watching the action when they're not singing onstage.  I hate this contemporary custom of staging the Overture.  In this production the dancers shouted and stomped through the Prelude to little or no effect, in my book, except to confuse the issue of why and where they were. I think it's all part of the MTV dumbing down of music: if it's not being sung or danced to, why bother to listen?

And so, to the laundry.

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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2008, 06:16:08 AM »

DR DAKOTA CELT has returned from vacation!

How I discovered my shocking story is that someone I was talking to told me and ended it with, I thought you knew that.
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2008, 06:18:00 AM »

DR MATTH - I was beginning to wonder as THE ROBE went along, if maybe I had somehow ordered an earlier DVD transfer of the movie since it looked so bad.....but no.

DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS is in one of those cardboard slide cases that Fox has been using for their musicals and other "classics" so maybe THE ROBE is being worked on.  I would have thought it would have been top priority.  I guess they just used the transfer they had for the last video release, which was a big deal, and which I bought....oh well.
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« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2008, 06:19:01 AM »

Rehearsal vibes for MR BK.

Travel and performance viewing vibes for DR GINNY and DH RICHARD.

Thanks for the Color Purple report DR LAURA.....yes sound systems can be hell on the audience.  Maybe it was somebody's first day on the sound board.
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« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2008, 06:21:21 AM »

I am agog and aghast at even the THOUGHT of MASK as a musical.  Why would anyone think this would be a good idea?  How would you begin to tell this story in song?  How can the lead actor sing with something on his face like.....well....like a mask?

I am completely demoralized at this kind of thinking...I must ponder it....think about it and nothing else....I can't.....oh wait a second....what is this container of cole slaw doing here?  Hmmmmmmm....must have forgotten to put it in the bag.  Oh well.....MASK the musical....I just can't get over it.............
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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2008, 06:25:16 AM »

Good Morning. I am leaving here just as it starts to get cold.  It's only in the 40s right now. Anyway, I'm praying that the snow doesn't hit Denver until much later tonight.  I leave Tucson a little before noon, but my flight doesn't leave Denver until 5:19 PM.  I looked for an earlier flight to try to fly standby, but there isn't one, at least as far as I can tell, so I'll just hope for the best.  
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« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2008, 06:26:04 AM »

On the plus side, there is free high speed wireless in the airport in Denver, so I can get online and catch up with everything while I'm at the airport.
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« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2008, 06:26:26 AM »

Time for breakfast - I'll see you in Denver
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« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2008, 06:36:05 AM »

No snow for DR CILLA LIZ as she gets out of Tucson - sounds like a Randolph Scott western, don't it?
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« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2008, 06:39:08 AM »

I certainly liked it much more when there was a news ban on Paris Hilton and nobody reported on her.....she seems to be creeping back.....
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« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2008, 07:05:20 AM »

I am agog and aghast at even the THOUGHT of MASK as a musical.  Why would anyone think this would be a good idea?  How would you begin to tell this story in song?  How can the lead actor sing with something on his face like.....well....like a mask?...
The Phantom of the Opera comes to mind.

Although my guess is the music for Mask won't be anything like POTO.

Great.  Now I've got this image of Michael Crawford, while steering a boat across the stage, surrounded by candles and dry ice fog, suddenly stopping everything to take a pose and shout "Ssssmokin'!"

 ::)
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« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2008, 07:12:06 AM »

I am agog and aghast at even the THOUGHT of MASK as a musical.  Why would anyone think this would be a good idea?  How would you begin to tell this story in song?  How can the lead actor sing with something on his face like.....well....like a mask?

I can't imagine...
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« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2008, 07:12:41 AM »

Me and SWW...two great minds with but a single thought....
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« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2008, 07:14:03 AM »

I woke up waaaay too early, did some stuff, went back to sleep, and my alarm went off during the wrong part of a sleep cycle. Oy.

I was having a  bad dream. It had to do with losing the Goldstein children and my car. It doesn't sound like much, but it was all very frantic.
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« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2008, 07:14:46 AM »

Oh...I was thinking that you were talking about the movie with Cher.

Since there was so much CGI in the Jim Carrey movie, I have to wonder...

I did like the big "Cuban Pete" musical number.
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« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2008, 07:20:50 AM »

I was thinking the Cher film, too.
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« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2008, 07:24:00 AM »

Today we have a picnic planned after church to celebrate the wonderful weather before it starts to get hot.

Rain is forecast.
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« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2008, 07:25:22 AM »

We are talking about the Cher movie, not the Jim Carey semi-animated film.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=21072


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« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2008, 07:26:54 AM »

Good morning!

The rain has passed now (we got almost an inch yesterday), and the next three days promise to be gorgeous. This morning certainly is: not a cloud in the sky, and the air is SO fresh.
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