Topic: THE DELUGE (Read 44911 times)

bk · « **Reply #90 on:** January 21, 2010, 11:49:03 AM »

Finished smoothing out yesterday's writing - and it took a while to do, realized I'd gotten a timeline wrong from much earlier in the book and made notes about how to move the three or four paragraphs to make it right (that's the best thing about this book - it's modular - and you just cut and paste things where you need them if you've screwed something up, timeline-wise). Then I wrote one new page and shall now do a few more. Someone asked me to meet them at Hugo's, but they can't go until this afternoon - and I don't know that I want to wait that long, but it's raining and the streets will be a mess, so maybe I'll just do all my writing now, and then go over there around two-thirty or three.

JMK · « **Reply #91 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:00:14 PM »

Quote from: Laura on January 21, 2010, 11:27:38 AM

I am not quite sure what one does with quinoa after cooking it. Do you add it to other dishes, like soup?

I've never had it in soup, though I think you certainly could do that, say in place of barley, etc. It's just another rice/grain substitute, basically. Betsy usually makes it and then we put various "toppings on it." She has one recipe that I think has garbanzo beans and a few other items in a sort of sweet and sour sauce that we put on it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #92 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:02:15 PM »

Quote from: Laura on January 21, 2010, 11:06:42 AM

I didn't recognize Lucy Lawless.

LOL!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #93 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:02:58 PM »

Quote from: Laura on January 21, 2010, 11:14:31 AM

Does anyone here ever cook quinoa?

I don't even know what it is.

Laura · « **Reply #94 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:04:23 PM »

It's something only vegetarians can love, I think.

I am sure someone will correct me on that.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #95 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:13:20 PM »

Quote from: Laura on January 21, 2010, 12:04:23 PM

It's something only vegetarians can love, I think.

I am sure someone will correct me on that.

A lot of vegetarian food seems to be exactly that!

Laura · « **Reply #96 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:19:55 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 21, 2010, 12:13:20 PM

Quote from: Laura on January 21, 2010, 12:04:23 PM
It's something only vegetarians can love, I think.

I am sure someone will correct me on that.

A lot of vegetarian food seems to be exactly that!

Like tofu.

Ben · « **Reply #97 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:21:50 PM »

We will be seeing The Letter (starring Miss Betty Davis) this evening. It's playing at Chelsea Cinemas as part of Thursday night Chelsea Classics. I have never seen The Letter but I do love a good Miss Davis woman's picture so I'm looking forward to it.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #98 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:21:54 PM »

I do not know what DR LAURA is talking about.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #99 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:22:05 PM »

Showing vibes for DR JMK et al.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #100 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:22:31 PM »

I have just found out that we can choose our own music.....so there is really only one choice for me in competition.

DISCO

PennyO · « **Reply #101 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:33:38 PM »

Hiya, gang.

What's the word on Der Brucer's ticker???

Historic period to hang around and write about: American Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, Franklin. Then, of course, whisk me away before the ensuing horrible years of war. Would also like to pal around with Mozart - I like singing his music, and hear he was a jolly, optimistic fellow.

Oh - saw Waiting for Godot the other night at A Noise Within. Here's my review:

www.culturespotla.com

Druxy · « **Reply #102 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:36:29 PM »

Universal (via Amazon) is making a bunch of their catalog titles available, including some old Paramounts, as "burn" discs.

Among the more interesting titles, at least for me, are THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER, RESSURECTION, RUGGLES OF RED GAP, THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH, SPAWN OF THE NORTH, TELL THEM WILLIE BOY WAS HERE, etc.

Laura · « **Reply #103 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:37:20 PM »

Hi Penny.

Triple by-pass.

PennyO · « **Reply #104 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:39:43 PM »

Sheesh, this rainy weather kinda robs me of intention... still, maybe i can haul my ol' bones off to the gym. I'll stop by and see my cousin Tina (you remember Tina, from last year...<sigh>) on my way to give this evening's piano lessons. Have I told you about that??? This guy, who lives near Rikki, hired me to come to his major estate - yes, there are swans on his pond, and a herd of alpacas in the 'yard' and the house looks like an English castle - and give him and his little daughter piano lessons after dinner once a week. Quite lucrative - but, I tell ya, I EARN it!!!!

PennyO · « **Reply #105 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:40:25 PM »

Hey, Laura - thanks for the update... howz he doing? Anyone talk to Woody??

PennyO · « **Reply #106 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:41:51 PM »

Oy, it's already nearly 1 pm... gotta get my caboose in gear if I'm gonna get to the gym... laters, skaters.

Laura · « **Reply #107 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:42:51 PM »

He's doing well. He is very cranky and in pain, but that's normal.

Laura · « **Reply #108 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:54:57 PM »

The winds are picking up.

Matt H. · « **Reply #109 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:08:17 PM »

Quote from: Julie on January 21, 2010, 08:00:47 AM

Quote from: Matt H. on January 21, 2010, 07:47:47 AM
I'm running very behind this morning for some reason. Anyway, I must head down and get cleaned up for lunch out with friends today. Our last for a week.

Quote from: Matt H. on January 21, 2010, 07:47:59 AM
Oh, rats!

WBBL.

I hope that's not the lunch offering, DR Matt!!

No, it wasn't. Lunch was very delicious.

Matt H. · « **Reply #110 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:10:44 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 21, 2010, 10:48:17 AM

Anybody watching SPARTACUS this week?

Mikey?

I certainly know it'll be in my DVR queue.

Matt H. · « **Reply #111 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:13:12 PM »

Quote from: Ben on January 21, 2010, 12:21:50 PM

We will be seeing The Letter (starring Miss Betty Davis) this evening. It's playing at Chelsea Cinemas as part of Thursday night Chelsea Classics. I have never seen The Letter but I do love a good Miss Davis woman's picture so I'm looking forward to it.

One of her best pictures and one of her best performances, but it's very different from her usual tearjerkers of the period like DARK VICTORY and ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO.

Matt H. · « **Reply #112 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:13:57 PM »

It is miserably cold and rainy here. I can't seem to get warm. I had a fleece throw over me while I worked on my movie project this afternoon, and I was still not really warm.

Matt H. · « **Reply #113 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:15:01 PM »

Before I left for lunch, I watched last night's MODERN FAMILY, and it was hysterical from beginning to end. Each one of the three families' stories just had me howling. I LOVE these characters.

Matt H. · « **Reply #114 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:16:09 PM »

When I got in from lunch I watched GERMANY YEAR ZERO. A horrifying picture of Berlin after the war, depressingly sad throughout - ugly, and unforgettable.

Matt H. · « **Reply #115 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:18:09 PM »

There was a huge number of bonus features relegated to this disc because the film is only 73 minutes long. The documentary I just finished on Rossellini was 65 minutes long. I watched several other somewhat shorter pieces, but there are still two pieces left which I'll get to when I head back downstairs.

Matt H. · « **Reply #116 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:18:40 PM »

I also hope I can get to UGLY BETTY and possibly CHUCK before tonight's primetime TV begins.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #117 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:39:46 PM »

Remember that project from last September with the conductor I thought wasn't very good? I just resigned.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #118 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:44:25 PM »

I don't know if this has been mentioned here or not, but I read this on another messageboard:

"Universal has announced a new Universal Vault Series of DVD-on-Demand titles that you can now purchase via Amazon.com, much like Warner's Archive program. The first batch of titles available includes Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995), A Good Man in Africa (1994), A Bronx Tale (1993), Pure Luck (1991), Shout (1991), Stick (1985), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), Resurrection (1980), Blue Collar (1978), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), Shoot Out (1971), Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1970), Gambit (1966), The Brass Bottle (1964), Kitten with a Whip (1964), The Chalk Garden (1964), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962), The Perfect Furlough (1958), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Dragnet (1954), House of Seven Gables (1940), Spawn of the North (1938), Death Takes a Holiday (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1933). "

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #119 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:45:23 PM »

Onward and Upward, DR elmore.

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