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[singdaw]

[JMK]

June is bustin' out all over.  June better get a new dress.  --Dean Martin

[Ron Pulliam]

Quick, someone, restrain me...

Ooh!

Mother, may I?

[Ron Pulliam]

Where the heck did I put those rolls of duct tape?

[Ron Pulliam]

Or, "Duck Tape", as it is also known.

[Ron Pulliam]

I see one guest is online with us.

Should we play a round of "Guess the Guest?"

[Ron Pulliam]

Teddy, is that you?

[singdaw]

Should we play a round of "Guess the Guest?"

Or, if you're Martha:   "Get the Guest"!   

[singdaw]

Methinks there are giddy Friday vibes in the air around these parts.

[DERBRUCER]

I burned the midnight oil ghost writing  "The Fight for Gay Marriage - a National Game Plan" for a national B of D meeting. My main bullets are "Perspective, Focus, Planning & Coordination". There will be no marches on places of worship, no pay-back phony anthrax letters, no stopping of traffic.

I'll rest a day and then tackle the less challenging  "Solving the Palestine Question" and a "Resolution To the Kashmir Problem".

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Methinks there are giddy Friday vibes in the air around these parts.

Has Friday been in the egg nog again?

der Brucer

[singdaw]

a national B of D meeting

I didn't even know there were that many Bruces from Dunwoodie!

[DERBRUCER]

a national B of D meeting

I didn't even know there were that many Bruces from Dunwoodie!

No, Bruces of Destruction...(Robert The, Lee. etc.)

der Brucer

[George]

Sad that Footlight Records is now also closing its online operation.

That is sad news.

[George]

So I have to share this.  When I'm not hanging out here, I'm usually hanging out on a mommy website, posting in their forums.  The forum format they use allowed for "signatures" at the bottom of each post.  Most moms have a picture signature with pictures of their child in it.  There are some on the site who are very into "digital scrapbooking" as it's called, and they will make a signature collage for you if you send them pictures.  I have a copy of PhotoShop, so I've been playing around with making my own.  I just finished Toby's holiday collage, and I've been working on it for two days.  I'm very proud of it, and I have to share

So cute!  Great job, Ann.

[George]

Speaking of belly buttons, or lack of them...

Any word, DR dB, on the return of Kyle XY?

I like this show too, but I've heard/read nothing about it.

[elmore3003]

a national B of D meeting

I didn't even know there were that many Bruces from Dunwoodie!

No, Bruces of Destruction...(Robert The, Lee. etc.)

der Brucer

Wasn't there a drag queen Eva Destruction?

[Matt H.]

The rain held off long enough for me to get into and out of the store without being washed away. Didn't even need the umbrella I took with me. But less than 5 minutes after I got in the car, it was raining hard. Lucky for a change!

[Matt H.]

I watched THE OFFICE while I ate lunch. Excellent episode with something interesting with Oscar for a change.  Oscar and Andy made a funny duo.

[Matt H.]

And then I watched 30 ROCK. Jennifer Aniston made a fun wacky guest for the show, and it was a nice work-in for the NIGHT COURT guest stars, too.

[Jane]

OMG!


Y'all won't believe it, but it's twoo! It's twoo!


I was sitting here minding my own business (mostly) when our director's secretary came down and said, "I'm bearing a gift for you!" 

Puzzled, I said, "Oh, wow!  Is it a work project?"

She laughed and said, "No." And she held up a bag and handed it to me.


Inside -- NO LIE -- was a RUM CAKE!  From the lady who retired a little over a year ago.  Debbie, the secretary, is the lady's best friend.  Shirley, the lady (and she'd deck me for calling her that), baked two cakes (that, or her sister, "Sister" Elaine, did)...one to donate to our Silent Auction  and one for me!!!!   

I'm just bustin' my buttons!   

I bet you are just bustin' my buttons!

You said twoo more than once.  Do I detect a double meaning there & you plan on winning the second one at the silent auction?

[Matt H.]

Then, I got down to work with CHUNGKING EXPRESS. I found it a mixed bag. It's two stories about lovelorn cops trying to make new connections after relationship breakups, but the first one was basically uninteresting to me. The second was quirkier and more entertaining. This director is sometimes called the Chinese Godard, but I didn't see it apart from lots of jump cuts and eccentric characters on the edge of the law.

[Matt H.]

Then, I listened to about half of the audio commentary (all I had time for) by Tony Rayns. It's always odd to hear someone rhapsodize about a movie you've just watched and felt less warm toward. Still, it's an interesting listen, and I'll finish it when I go back down.

There are only a couple of bonus features on the disc, so they shouldn't take very long to get through tonight.

[td]

I've been waiting for some Ebay vendors to start offering THE SINGING NUN culled from that Holiday Collection Vol. 1 package which is just a rerelease of the original three films with THE SINGING NUN as a bonus. This morning several were offering it, and I bought one.

No, it's not a good film, but I saw it at Radio City Music Hall all those years ago and really liked the Americanized adaptations of the music. It's the best singing Debbie Reynolds ever did in a movie, I think, and that piano theme that Chad Everett "plays" is simply lovely. (Wore out my soundtrack LP just on that cut alone.)

We are in complete and total agreement on THE SINGING NUN, DR MATT, right down to the worn-out lp.

[FJL]

There actually was a movie called Deliver Us From Eva.

[td]

I am not firing on all cylinders.

What would it take to fire you up and plug you in?

Now you're straying into "td" territory! 

Nothing wrong with being led astray the "td" way. 

[Jane]

Back from the long jog in the new shoes.  I'm going to give these new shoes another few days and if my feet, legs, and lower back don't get used to them, I'm going back to the old shoes.  I know it's probably just the different style, but I'm so sore on my lower legs (never happened with the other shoes) that if that doesn't abate, they're not worth it, despite more spring in my step. 

Do you pronate? Do you supinate? Did you actually get measured for these new shoes?  -When you lose weight, your shoe size can change too.  -And since you've been jogging regularly, you may need wider shoes now too.  Are you doing some light stretching before and after you jog?  Etc., etc., etc...

Another option may be that your "other shoes" may not have had the arch support the new ones do.  That, in turn, means that the new shoes will be forcing you to use muscles "differently" from the way you were using them in the long jog.

By stretching, and sticking to the new shoes, you may find a greater overall benefit...but the "hurting" must abate within a reasonable period of "breaking-in" time.  Give yourself a minimum of a week in the new shoes.  If your legs still hurt -- or worsen -- then go back to the older shoes.

Or try alternating with your old shoes while you muscles adjust.  On the days you job in the old pair, wear the new pair the rest of the time to help gently break them in.  Of course you could have truly purchased the wrong shoes.  I always wear a new pair of shoes around the house for several days, until I'm sure they are ok to wear outside.  That way I can return them.

[Jane]

DR Ann, I thought that was your Christmas card   It could be.

[Matt H.]

I must hop off-line now and do some writing. Then back down to finish up the CHUNGKING EXPRESS disc, see if I can fit in DIE ANOTHER DAY and then finish out the evening with GHOST WHISPERER.

WBBL.

[bk]

Back from the long jog in the new shoes.  I'm going to give these new shoes another few days and if my feet, legs, and lower back don't get used to them, I'm going back to the old shoes.  I know it's probably just the different style, but I'm so sore on my lower legs (never happened with the other shoes) that if that doesn't abate, they're not worth it, despite more spring in my step. 

Do you pronate? Do you supinate? Did you actually get measured for these new shoes?  -When you lose weight, your shoe size can change too.  -And since you've been jogging regularly, you may need wider shoes now too.  Are you doing some light stretching before and after you jog?  Etc., etc., etc...

Another option may be that your "other shoes" may not have had the arch support the new ones do.  That, in turn, means that the new shoes will be forcing you to use muscles "differently" from the way you were using them in the long jog.

By stretching, and sticking to the new shoes, you may find a greater overall benefit...but the "hurting" must abate within a reasonable period of "breaking-in" time.  Give yourself a minimum of a week in the new shoes.  If your legs still hurt -- or worsen -- then go back to the older shoes.

I agree with this post, and shall.