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Re:MY FUNNY VALENTINE
« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2004, 09:58:10 AM »

DR Noel - What a yom kipper?
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« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2004, 09:59:48 AM »

Was Riot on Sunset Strip with Mimsy?  If so, I liked that one.

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« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2004, 10:04:10 AM »

Another video based on a Ray Bradbury story that we had to watch in high school (which I also enjoyed) was "All Summer In a Day."

"Captures the story about a group of children who live on a planet where the sun shines only once every nine years [it rains all the time and none of the kids have ever seen the sun]. Jealousy leads one of the children to deprive another of seeing the sun when it appears [the girl gets locked in a closet or something like that]. By the time the other children learn of the incident, it is too late; the rain has begun to fall again."  And they won't get to see it again until they're in their late teens!  How sad. :'(
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« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2004, 10:07:28 AM »

DR George I remember that show....oh my, I think Bradbury writes yearning so well.  Especially his boys in DANDELION WINE.....  I think they may even be the same characters as the boys in SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...I can't remember and I don't have the books handy.

I guess I was disappointed with the tv MARTIAN CHRONICLES, because my imagination was so vivid when I read it, and it seemed so set-bound to me....I wanted to really feel as if I were on MARS!!!!!!
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« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2004, 10:07:55 AM »

Sorry about your DSL problems, MR BK....but I think if anybody comes out tomorrow - it should be Clay Aiken.
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« Reply #35 on: February 14, 2004, 10:50:11 AM »

DR Noel - What a yom kipper?

I think it's a typo; it should be "yum kipper". It's what an appreciative Englishman says to his breakfast fare.

der Brucer (of "Yum Scrapple" fame)
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« Reply #36 on: February 14, 2004, 11:24:04 AM »

I had no idea (until yesterday's posts) that there was an alternate version of Bernadette's Sondheim, Etc without the wonderful "Making Love Alone."  As a couple others have said, I guess it pays to have bought it within days of its release! :D

Author-wise, I'm more of a Vonnegut guy.
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« Reply #37 on: February 14, 2004, 11:24:23 AM »

I think it's a typo; it should be "yum kipper". It's what an appreciative Englishman says to his breakfast fare.

der Brucer (of "Yum Scrapple" fame)

Yes, and I always felt that the line in "The Rothschilds" that went "I would skip my morning kippers" should really have been "I would skip my morning Kippurs."  It really made much more sense.   :P

Also, wasn't "The Illustrated Man" Bradbury?  That's kind of a freaky movie.
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« Reply #38 on: February 14, 2004, 11:27:48 AM »

I think it's a typo; it should be "yum kipper". It's what an appreciative Englishman says to his breakfast fare.
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« Reply #39 on: February 14, 2004, 11:32:08 AM »

That's right, der Brucer....yum
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« Reply #40 on: February 14, 2004, 11:38:51 AM »

Happy Valentine’s Day!  :)

ladodgerjon your son is darling.

Kerry it really is a battle for me to eat less sugar.  I try not to keep much in the house, just enough to satisfy my cravings.  I use to carry sliced carrots around and munch on those when I wanted to buy junk food.  I will buy only one or two pieces of candy instead of a box.  I will order a dessert out, have a couple of bites and stop.  I am really big on trashing junk food when I’m on a binge & can’t stop eating.  I also find if I have sugar, especially chocolate, anytime past the afternoon I don’t sleep.  So reducing the times of day I eat sugar has helped to reduce the amount I eat.  I eat only a fraction of what I use to eat and am pretty pleased with myself.  Keith on the other hand complains all the time I eat too much junk.

SWW your son-in-law smokes.  I hope not around the grandlads.  Could that be the true cause of their “allergies”?

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« Reply #41 on: February 14, 2004, 11:46:35 AM »

Love and Smooches to you all. I'm feeling giddy and wonderful today - I met my pianist yesterday, and he is superb!

What a coincidence, I met mine, too!  No, wait ......... you said pianist.
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« Reply #42 on: February 14, 2004, 11:46:40 AM »

Ahh, I am happy now.  Just heard the maintenance guy talking to my manager outside my door, saying that our apartment complex should have hot water again as soon as the newly-repaired water heater heats what's in the reservoir.  We've been without hot water since about 9am yesterday, and I want to take a fershluganah shower!!!  Soon... (oh, an A Little Night Music reference)
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« Reply #43 on: February 14, 2004, 11:56:19 AM »

Ray who?
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« Reply #44 on: February 14, 2004, 11:59:55 AM »

SWW your son-in-law smokes.  I hope not around the grandlads.  Could that be the true cause of their “allergies”?
I don't think so.  They've been exposed to his smoking enough that they've probably built up a resistance to the smoke.  (It's kind of like the advice that, if you're going to be in an area and know you're going to have pollen allergies, you should get some honey from that area to build up an immunity.  Apparently, it works!)

More likely, since it's the younger grandlad that had the problems and he went down into the basement, which is damp, he got exposed to some mold or something and was reacting to that.  And their mother loves to panic over everything.
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« Reply #45 on: February 14, 2004, 12:00:05 PM »


The local public radio station is currently their self-produced show, "The Sound of Swing".  This week's theme is very neat.  They're playing Gershwin songs back to back.  Well, first they're playing a classic and/or original vocal version of song, then following it with one - or two - swing/jazz/big band versions of the same song.  I didn't know Kate Smith could swing!  ;)


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« Reply #46 on: February 14, 2004, 12:03:34 PM »

I had no idea (until yesterday's posts) that there was an alternate version of Bernadette's Sondheim, Etc without the wonderful "Making Love Alone."  As a couple others have said, I guess it pays to have bought it within days of its release! :D
All right, here's something someone might want to check (and I would, but don't have the CD with me right now).

As I recall, the CD was at least partly done as a fundraiser for various AIDS charities, as was the concert.

Is the current CD release, sans "MLA", still a fundraiser, or has that been eliminated as well?
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« Reply #47 on: February 14, 2004, 12:04:42 PM »

For Valentine's Day - which Hollywood couple shared this first kiss as man and wife?   8)

Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors?
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« Reply #48 on: February 14, 2004, 12:08:04 PM »

Matt H how do you feel?  Did you enjoy your evening out?

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Td- Rock Hudson, Bernadette Peters, & Darren McGavin.  

Penny-great news!

DerBrucer thank you for posting the fun interview.  He is such a warm, delightful man.

Bruce did you say hello to Ray Bradbury?  Was Susan, his daughter, there by any chance?  Do you remember her?

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« Reply #49 on: February 14, 2004, 12:18:58 PM »

Yes, SWoody, the original CD was partly a GMHC fundraiser.  Dunno about the newer release, as I've never seen it.
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« Reply #50 on: February 14, 2004, 12:19:00 PM »

Sitting here wondering what to get my guy for the big V-day.  We're going to a nice dinner, he hinted about bringing me a special dessert (he being the pastry chef and all) I'm thinking a lovely card and some Romantic type CD....
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« Reply #51 on: February 14, 2004, 12:29:52 PM »

I don't think so.  They've been exposed to his smoking enough that they've probably built up a resistance to the smoke.  (It's kind of like the advice that, if you're going to be in an area and know you're going to have pollen allergies, you should get some honey from that area to build up an immunity.  Apparently, it works!)

More likely, since it's the younger grandlad that had the problems and he went down into the basement, which is damp, he got exposed to some mold or something and was reacting to that.  And their mother loves to panic over everything.

Well, my guess is that the grandlads' exposure to cigarette smoke has made their bodily systems - especially their sinuses and lungs, unfortunately - more susceptible to other environmental allergens and "stuff in the air".

From my own personal experience, I know that when I come home from a cast party or bar or some other place where people have been smoking A LOT, it can sometimes take me a few days to get back to normal.  My sensitivity to dust and molds becomes more acute - as opposed to just more cute. ;)  Just too much "particular detritus" in my system.  I have to flush it out of my system.
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« Reply #52 on: February 14, 2004, 12:35:06 PM »

Sitting here wondering what to get my guy for the big V-day.  We're going to a nice dinner, he hinted about bringing me a special dessert (he being the pastry chef and all) I'm thinking a lovely card and some Romantic type CD....

How about a strategically placed big, red bow?!?!?

 :-X

-Remember, no groaning allowed here at HHW...  But eye-rolling may be allowed.  ::)  -Especially since there is a smiley icon for it!

We all look forward to your V-Day report.. tomorrow morning!... Or afternoon if you are so inclined!

-Must be the sugar withdrawal... Or not...
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« Reply #53 on: February 14, 2004, 12:35:38 PM »

My mother-in-law, whom has never smoked, has emphysema from living with smokers all her life.  My mother was a smoker & I’m allergic to it.
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« Reply #54 on: February 14, 2004, 12:40:14 PM »

We watched "Mona Lisa Smile" on DVD last night. (Yes S Woody it has just been released at the movies here).
We were wondering if the depicted 1950s elitist type "finishing school" society still exists in the USA. We still have some Seconday Schools in Australia (Up to Snr High!) that would be considered elitist in terms of entry requirements $$$$$$, but have never had a similar strata of education at higher levels.
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« Reply #55 on: February 14, 2004, 12:40:49 PM »

DR PennyO - I keep meaning to ask... And maybe you mentioned it earlier, but I somehow missed it...

Are you doing a residency at Bristol Riverside?  Or did they just offer you two weeks in an Elysian setting complete with gym?  -I wish I could make it up to see you show, but, hopefully, I'll make it to one of them sometime sooner or later.

And who is your pianist?  What is his name?  Just curious.  -Thanks.
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« Reply #56 on: February 14, 2004, 12:44:36 PM »

Echo and I are off to the nursing home.  Sadly it has been awhile since I have been able to go.  
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« Reply #57 on: February 14, 2004, 12:46:22 PM »

DR Jose... thanks for the suggestion :-P  I'll post the report sometime after this eve.  I think I've settled on a journal or some sort or a CD.  I'm doing "Joseph" now and he has no clue about the show (that's a good thing) so I thought about a Joseph CD, although that's not very  romantic!
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« Reply #58 on: February 14, 2004, 12:49:16 PM »

DR William F. Orr, my lovely wife says the same thing to me about the FRUIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL when I start getting obsessive.  I use Harriet Craig references on her.

The book discussion late last night sent me into my library to pet my books...yes, you heard me right, to "pet" my books...to hold, open, fondle them, gaze lovingly on their dust jackets or caress their pages, to climb the library ladders (two, count 'em, two) like Romeo to get lost in their scent and delicately finger their spines.   (Hold!  Enough!  It's beginning to sound like a very kinky porno site.  "Guys who do books.")

Anyway, I made a couple of delightful discoveries.  One, I have a small autographed short story in a decorative pamphlet form by Ray Bradbury called The Dragon which I had completely forgotten I had.

The other, I happened to open a book called THE SNAKE & THE SWORD by P.C. Wren (author of BEAU GESTE), with the idle thought: wouldn't it be nice to find one of those forgotten treasures inside it...and low and behold, there was a lovely old stiff cardboard bookmark inside it, with a Christmas Greeting and a Dickensianish character on it...I suspect Mr. Fezziwig from Christmas Carol or Mr. Pickwick...that looks like it might be hand-painted.  There is a little poem: "When you leave your book/Tuck me in the  place/Next time you need only look/ For my jolly face."  It looks like it comes from the era of the book, late twenties/early thirties, and will go nicely with my book-mark collection.

By the by, BK, the obscure swashbuckler that our friendly bookdealer, Mr. Len Unger, was offering for $225 at the book fair last weekend...I went online and found it...in almost as good a condition, with dj...for only forty bucks.  It should be winging its way to me from the wilds of Canada.  Damned President's Day that will delay the mail one day.

BK, you are not the only one underwhelmed with Mr. Bradbury's skill as a playwright.  A fellow noted author equal to Mr. Bradbury's reputation, a mutual friend of his and mine, told me one time..."I've got to go see this bad play of Ray's tonight.  God knows, I love the guy, but he's not a playwright."
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« Reply #59 on: February 14, 2004, 12:52:59 PM »

I should have waited to put Echo’s pet volunteer bandana until I was ready to walk out the door.  She is so excited she is bouncing all around-such a smart cutie.  This dog can even tell the difference between my daily jeans and my hiking jeans.  Sometimes I have trouble telling the difference without looking closely at them.
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