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Re: WHAT TAKES MY FANCY
« Reply #120 on: November 25, 2008, 09:32:39 AM »

Long before I knew the 19th would be my last day to work, I signed up to take care of one of our book display units for the month of December.  Today, I'm creating a display titled "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," which will include books from both the fiction and nonfiction sections of the library.

Back to cutting out graphics!
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« Reply #121 on: November 25, 2008, 10:03:17 AM »

I got a lot of laughs.

Intentionally?       ;)

Yes, afterwards it was intentional.
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Re: WHAT TAKES MY FANCY
« Reply #122 on: November 25, 2008, 10:04:51 AM »

Long before I knew the 19th would be my last day to work, I signed up to take care of one of our book display units for the month of December.  Today, I'm creating a display titled "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," which will include books from both the fiction and nonfiction sections of the library.

Back to cutting out graphics!

Blow the budget on your display, DR Ginny.  Go out with a bang!
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Re: WHAT TAKES MY FANCY
« Reply #123 on: November 25, 2008, 10:06:11 AM »

Long before I knew the 19th would be my last day to work, I signed up to take care of one of our book display units for the month of December.  Today, I'm creating a display titled "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," which will include books from both the fiction and nonfiction sections of the library.

Back to cutting out graphics!

Blow the budget on your display, DR Ginny.  Go out with a bang!

Starbucks for everybody!!!
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Re: WHAT TAKES MY FANCY
« Reply #124 on: November 25, 2008, 10:18:09 AM »

Gerald Schoenfeld

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« Reply #125 on: November 25, 2008, 10:30:25 AM »

So sorry to hear of your car troubles, DR George.  Hope that the fix is not expensive!!

Thanks...me, too!  Actually, this morning, I drove my sister's car to the Jack in the Box and before I called the tow truck, I had to try starting my car.  It started up instantly without any problem!  I let it run for a minute then turned it off.  I turned the key again and it started up again!  And a third time, it started with no trouble!  Whew!  Anyway, there I was at JITB with TWO cars.  What to do?  I left my sister's car at JITB and drove my car to the local automotive place to where I was going to have it towed and they're going to look at the battery, starter and alternator to make sure nothing's really wrong.  My co-worker and friend Kathy will drive me to JITB at lunch and she'll follow me to my sister's house where I will leave my sister's car, then Kathy will drive me back to work.  The auto place will pick me up when my car is ready. :D
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« Reply #126 on: November 25, 2008, 10:42:08 AM »

Imagine by Fredric Brown

Imagine ghosts, gods and devils.

Imagine hells and heavens, cities floating in the sky and cities sunken in the sea.

Unicorns and centaurs. Witches, warlocks, jinns and banshees.

Angels and harpies. Charms and incantations. Elementals, familiars, demons.

Easy to imagine, all of those things: mankind has been imagining them for thousands of years.

Imagine spaceships and the future.

Easy to imagine: the future is really coming and there'll be spaceships in it.

Is there then anything that's hard to imagine?

Of course there is.

Imagine a piece of matter and yourself inside it, yourself aware, thinking and therefore knowing you exist, able to move that piece of matter that you are in, to make it sleep or wake, make love or walk uphill.

Imagine a universe - infinite or not, as you wish to picture it - with a billion, billion, billion suns in it.

Imagine a blob of mud whirling madly around one of those suns.

Imagine yourself standing on that blob of mud, whirling with it, whirling through time and space to an unknown destination.

Imagine!
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« Reply #127 on: November 25, 2008, 10:45:17 AM »

Paul Revere's Ride

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

<SNIP>

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

That's not how I learned it...

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
Down the bannister and through the floor
A hundred yard dash to the bathroom door!


;)

"Through" the floor??  That's exactly how I learned it, but that part never made sense.
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Re: WHAT TAKES MY FANCY
« Reply #128 on: November 25, 2008, 10:59:44 AM »

I bought the April Love/Tammy and the Bachelor soundtracks CD.

I wish Fox would give us April Love/Bernardine/Mardi Gras triple feature DVD!
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« Reply #129 on: November 25, 2008, 11:00:58 AM »

I was a fan of the poetry of Richard Brautigan, my favorites, of which, I cannot quote here, this being a family site and all...
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« Reply #130 on: November 25, 2008, 11:13:31 AM »

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! #2

The automotive place called...it's the battery AND the alternator. :'( They said the battery looks original (10 1/2 years old!) and the alternator has been working overtime to keep everything going, but no more.  It'll be about $500.  But that's cheaper than a new car.  My sister said that she will help.  That'll be my Christmas present. :)

To paraphrase Blanche DuBois, "I have always depended on the kindness of family."
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« Reply #131 on: November 25, 2008, 11:19:52 AM »

Just checking in.  Now off to a reading at the York Theater, written by a dear BMI Workshop friend.
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« Reply #132 on: November 25, 2008, 11:25:40 AM »

Sorry, DR George.  Your car must have known it was payday.    :(
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« Reply #133 on: November 25, 2008, 11:26:07 AM »

Interesting theatre doings tonight for DRs Ben and FJL!
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« Reply #134 on: November 25, 2008, 11:28:54 AM »

Has anyone gone to see Wiseguys/Gold/Bounce/RoadShow/I Don't Know But Alaska yet?
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« Reply #135 on: November 25, 2008, 11:51:12 AM »

Gerald Schoenfeld

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Sorry to read this.  On one of our trips to NYC, while I was in meetings at the Foundation Center, DH Richard took a guided tour of Times Square.  Mr. Schoenfeld introduced himself to the group and walked along with them for a while.
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Re: WHAT TAKES MY FANCY
« Reply #136 on: November 25, 2008, 12:17:46 PM »

my car has been inspected - - for $200.00!  New brakes and rotators. . .yeesh!
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« Reply #137 on: November 25, 2008, 12:39:37 PM »

I am afraid to think about my car now.
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« Reply #138 on: November 25, 2008, 12:40:02 PM »

Too bad about the synchronization on this clip......song is still funny.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYoRaxgOE0

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« Reply #139 on: November 25, 2008, 12:43:10 PM »

Boy them dames shore got dressed up to sang that little song!
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« Reply #140 on: November 25, 2008, 12:59:03 PM »

Time for Judge Judy.
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« Reply #141 on: November 25, 2008, 01:01:40 PM »

Boy them dames shore got dressed up to sang that little song!

Are they suppose to be teen agers?
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« Reply #142 on: November 25, 2008, 01:10:45 PM »

I skimmed through yesterday's AS THE WORLD TURNS as well as today's episode. Luke, Noah, and Brian were in today's show, lots of covert comments with nothing much advancing the plot. Dull.
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« Reply #143 on: November 25, 2008, 01:13:54 PM »

MAGIC SHOW II ?

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Jackman: Houdini on Broadway

Harry Houdini—magician, spy, object of fascination—is coming to Broadway.
Last night at 20th Century Fox’s swellicious premiere of “Australia” at the Plaza Hotel, the talk was of the movie’s Hugh Jackman starring in the Broadway musical of Houdini’s life.

Danny Elfman, once the leader of pop group Oingo Boingo and now often a composer of movie scores, is writing the music. Kurt Andersen, a former magazine editor and current radio host here in New York, is said to be working on the script although no one’s seen anything yet.

The main thing is that Hugh is already working on magic routines. The show, when it materializes, would include Jackman replicating big Houdini tricks on stage. Hugh has already played a magician in the movie, “The Prestige,” so he’s up for it. Magician extraordinaire Ricky Jay is said to be giving him advice. At some point the producers may reach out to David Blaine and to Cirque du Soleil for help

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« Reply #144 on: November 25, 2008, 01:15:53 PM »

I spent most of the afternoon with EUROPA. Very stylized look at Germany right after the war focusing on a protagonist with the will power and spine of a jellyfish. I go SO irritated with the film long before it was over. I hate to see characters with so little backbone pushed and shoved into doing stupid things as if they had no minds of their own.

And I never did figure out the director's use of color inserts among a mostly black and white film. Except for a few moments of bloodletting or a red handled emergency brake which plays an important part in the film a couple of times, the color inserts seemed weird and unnecessary. Maybe the 1 1/2 discs' worth of bonus features will illuminate some of my confusion.
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« Reply #145 on: November 25, 2008, 01:17:34 PM »

The audio commentary on the film is in Danish, and I listened (and read) about thirty minutes of it before turning it off. I'll continue with it and the other bonuses tonight.
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« Reply #146 on: November 25, 2008, 01:39:41 PM »

Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
Thanksgiving

Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice,
An' eatin' an' laughin' with folks of your choice;
An' kissin' the girls an' declarin' that they
Are growin' more beautiful day after day;
Chattin' an' braggin' a bit with the men,
Buildin' the old family circle again;
Livin' the wholesome an' old-fashioned cheer,
Just for awhile at the end of the year.

Greetings fly fast as we crowd through the door
And under the old roof we gather once more
Just as we did when the youngsters were small;
Mother's a little bit grayer, that's all.
Father's a little bit older, but still
Ready to romp an' to laugh with a will.
Here we are back at the table again
Tellin' our stories as women an' men.

Bowed are our heads for a moment in prayer;
Oh, but we're grateful an' glad to be there.
Home from the east land an' home from the west,
Home with the folks that are dearest an' best.
Out of the sham of the cities afar
We've come for a time to be just what we are.
Here we can talk of ourselves an' be frank,
Forgettin' position an' station an' rank.

Give me the end of the year an' its fun
When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
See the old table with all of its chairs
An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.


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« Reply #147 on: November 25, 2008, 01:40:17 PM »

Sorry, DR George.  Your car must have known it was payday.    :(

Thanks.  And payday is early...small consolation, though.
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« Reply #148 on: November 25, 2008, 01:41:17 PM »

my car has been inspected - - for $200.00!  New brakes and rotators. . .yeesh!

Don't you hate it when that happens??
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« Reply #149 on: November 25, 2008, 01:41:48 PM »

I'm hopping off-line now for a bit to do some writing. Then I'll be headed back down for more viewing.

WBBL.
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