Topic: THE MEAT AND POTATOES NOTES (Read 49069 times)

bk · « **Reply #180 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:09:56 PM »

Jane, no the Beverly Hills Hamlet has been gone for years, one of the first to go. Can't remember what's there now, but I think it's still a restaurant of some sort.

bk · « **Reply #181 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:10:37 PM »

At long last, page seven. Which is not an even number even though even is seven with an "s" stuck on.

vixmom · « **Reply #182 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:14:05 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on September 16, 2008, 07:19:36 AM

Tuesday morning greetings! I am at work today, where there IS power, but left my family at home, where there is NOT. Yesterday was my regular day off for the week, so at least I could be with them and help with some clean-up.

It has been a most interesting 48 hours and appears that the interesting-ness will continue for a few days. Cincinnati and Dayton are in better shape than Butler (where we live) and Warren Counties, the two between those bigger cities.

We do, fortunately, have hot water and a TV and radio that we can run on batteries. Also, our land line phone is working, as are all the cell phones (which we can charge in the cars).

We lost a lot of limbs from the old trees around our house, but there was no damage to the house. Richard, Rob, and Mary Linda did a great job getting most of the debris cleaned up in time to be picked up by the trash crew today. I helped as I could and kept folks fed from our rapidly-thawing freezer. We ate up the ice cream Sunday night and the steaks last night (cooked on the outdoor grill). What we'll eat tonight is anyone's guess.

Thanks to DR Elmore for keeping you all informed and to everyone for vibes.

How wonderful to see DR Ginny here! I am glad that you got off relatively "lightly" as far a sstorm damage... I hope that your power is back on when you get home!

bk · « **Reply #183 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:14:34 PM »

Back from a work session. I'm working with a musical director that's new to me, but it's good because he's doing the Kevin and Sean show in October. He's a very nice guy and very open to comments and suggestions. I had the singer sing through her song list. Some things became apparent to me right away and I was able to give some focus to what she was trying to do - it had no focus at all, basically. I came up with a "theme" and through-line for the show, and that's the hardest part. I suggested cutting one song entirely, and replacing it with one of my faves, Secret Love - everyone liked that idea. I had some perfunctory comments about a couple of arrangements, and then I told the singer to go home with these notes and start creating the linking patter between songs, now that she knows where we're going. I'm going to futz with the song order so that it makes more sense with this new direction. I must say, I do like doing these things - unfortunately, I cannot spend too much time with this one because the singer has very little dough and I agreed to do it for a small amount of money but said that that would only buy so much of my time.

bk · « **Reply #184 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:15:02 PM »

During the run, it was totally cloudy and very cool - now it feels like it's eighty degrees. Go know.

Jane · « **Reply #185 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:17:20 PM »

Quote from: bk on September 16, 2008, 04:09:56 PM

Jane, no the Beverly Hills Hamlet has been gone for years, one of the first to go. Can't remember what's there now, but I think it's still a restaurant of some sort.

That's what I thought, yet in my mind I only see the Hamlet.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #186 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:48:45 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 16, 2008, 01:42:14 AM

Fortunately, network standards won out and this was not included in Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin.

After all, one "costume malfunction" per decade is quite enough.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #187 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:51:23 PM »

Quote from: Ben on September 16, 2008, 04:54:50 AM

I may also go to the Half-Price booth on Saturday and get a ticket to Equus.

Because you want to see the costumes for the horses, right?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #188 on:** September 16, 2008, 04:59:04 PM »

I don't do smarmy.

No...don't ask me!

JMK · « **Reply #189 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:12:03 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on September 16, 2008, 04:59:04 PM

I don't do smarmy.

No...don't ask me!

Replace that first m with an n and that last m with a k, though, and I think we have a winner!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #190 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:12:33 PM »

Virus computer goes back in tomorrow.....so don't be alarmed....I may have a laptop to stay in touch....time will tell...

bk · « **Reply #191 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:35:23 PM »

What is a virus computer?

bk · « **Reply #192 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:35:59 PM »

I've been watching a DVD that arrived this afternoon - very interesting stuff, which I'll have lots more to say about in Ye Olde Notes.

bk · « **Reply #193 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:36:12 PM »

We're STILL on page seven?

bk · « **Reply #194 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:36:24 PM »

We can't be on page eight?

bk · « **Reply #195 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:37:01 PM »

That would be too difficult? I guess so - it would mean that the errant and truant would have to get off their collective ASSES and post.

td · « **Reply #196 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:37:05 PM »

BK - will the artist be singing the verse to "Secret Love?"

bk · « **Reply #197 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:37:14 PM »

And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

bk · « **Reply #198 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:37:35 PM »

Quote from: td on September 16, 2008, 05:37:05 PM

BK - will the artist be singing the verse to "Secret Love?"

Could be.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #199 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:37:35 PM »

Quote from: bk on September 16, 2008, 11:33:48 AM

I think there are two left - Sherman Oaks and Sunset Blvd. (maybe the one in Brentwood is still there - not sure).

A quick Google shows that there are currently seven Hamburger Hamlet restaurants, although they are now known as Hamlet, Hamburger having been dropped (and the five second rule applies).

In SoCal, they are the Hamlet Pasadena (on Lake - been there, done that), Hamlet Sherman Oaks, Hamlet West L.A., and Hamlet on Sunset (also been there, done that - Log Cabin held a couple of dinner meetings there, quite a while back).

Then there are also the Eate Coast Hamlets: the Hamlet at the Rio (in Gaithersberg) and the Hamlet Bethesda, both in Maryland, and the Hamlet Crystal City, in Arlington, Virginia.

Alas, poor Yorick, while we knew them well (or medium-rare, my doneness of choice), the rest have gone to dust.

td · « **Reply #200 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:37:53 PM »

I want to go and watch the special features on GIGI and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and then one of the movies itself.

td · « **Reply #201 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:38:33 PM »

But, if I can help to post our way to page eight, which incidentally is a real number, then I'll say a few random things.

td · « **Reply #202 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:38:51 PM »

Will we ever see page eight?

bk · « **Reply #203 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:40:39 PM »

They dropped the Hamburger? How unseemly. Trying to be trendy, but then the hamburger comes back in favor and then where are they?

The Hamlet hasn't been the Hamburger Hamlet that we all knew and loved since long before the name change. I sort of gave up on it when they removed my favorite meal - fried catfish and clams, then removed the fried clams. Then they had a pasta I enjoyed and they got rid of that, too. And the gloriously glorious lobster bisque became so runny and filled with other specious fishies, that I just don't go there very often. They do have a salad I'm fond of, but it's probably gone, too.

bk · « **Reply #204 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:41:04 PM »

Oh, and they got rid of the popcorn shrimp, too. Stupid people.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #205 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:42:06 PM »

Quote from: Jane on September 16, 2008, 01:01:37 PM

...Is Beverly Hills gone? What is there now?

According to Wikipedia, Beverly Hills is still an incorporated city.

bk · « **Reply #206 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:42:09 PM »

And where is the West LA Hamlet, pray tell, O expert One? The West LA Hamlet that WE all knew and went to, on Broxton, is a Jerry's Deli.

td · « **Reply #207 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:46:08 PM »

Did I mention that I like the way that Judy Kaye performs the verse to "Secret Love," as produced by our own esteemed BK?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #208 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:48:03 PM »

I know not of any other Hamburger Hamlets. The one that was in Long Beach was gone even before we left. (It became some sort of Texas-style steak joint, as I recall.)

Another recollection: a lot of the HHs were bought out by some chicken chain, something with a wierd name, but I cannot remember the name right now.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #209 on:** September 16, 2008, 05:52:26 PM »

Quote from: bk on September 16, 2008, 05:42:09 PM

And where is the West LA Hamlet, pray tell, O expert One? The West LA Hamlet that WE all knew and went to, on Broxton, is a Jerry's Deli.

I was about to tell you to click on the words "Hamlet restaurants" in my earlier post, because they would take you to the map of the current Hamlet locations, but when I checked the link myself it, uh, didn't work.

It works now, however.

But if you don't have that kind of energy, the West LA location is on Sepulveda.

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