Topic: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Read 11383 times)

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #30 on:** May 12, 2010, 06:34:58 AM »

Last evening, DR td said:

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I do hope you're following this up with Anansi Boys. . .

Tell me, have you read Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN series?
Have you read Good Omens?
Do you read Terry Pratchett as well?

I also really liked Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. . .

I will most probably read ANANSI BOYS in the next month or so. I don't want to rush into it so soon after AMERICAN GODS.

Even though I first became aware of Neil Gaiman with his BLACK ORCHARD mini-series, I didn't become a real fan until SANDMAN. I lived for that book every month during the initial run. And during the past few years I loved being able to relive it through the beautiful ABSOLUTE SANDMAN anthologies.

I read GOOD OMENS, but I found it a bit too twee. I might revisit it sometime, though. (Consequently, I never picked up any other Terry Pratchett book.

And I absolutely loved THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, though I completely missed the Kipling connection. I might reread that one, too, now that I understand it's literary ancestry...

Laura · « **Reply #31 on:** May 12, 2010, 06:36:20 AM »

Happy Happy Birthday to Sam!

Laura · « **Reply #32 on:** May 12, 2010, 06:37:24 AM »

Luckily I was already awake, but I'm sure the neighbors were jarred awake by the big metal dumpster beings dropped off across the street at The Rental House Undergoing Restoration. Before 6 a.m.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #33 on:** May 12, 2010, 06:43:27 AM »

Page Two Delirium Dance:

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #34 on:** May 12, 2010, 06:47:33 AM »

Quote from: bk on May 12, 2010, 12:07:32 AM

And the word of the day is: RAX!

Brek, ek, awek, awex, rax!
Brek, ek, awek, awex, rax!
Brek, ek, awek, awek, awek, awek, arax!

Matthew · « **Reply #35 on:** May 12, 2010, 06:54:59 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Sam!

Matt H. · « **Reply #36 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:06:28 AM »

Good Morning!

Warmer this morning but still very pleasant and the walk went well. It was very cloudy during the walk, but the clouds appear to be leaving us and there is a good deal of sun.

Matt H. · « **Reply #37 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:07:29 AM »

Glad to hear that the Blu-ray of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN was good. Maybe *I'LL* get the review copy one of these days. Oh, well.

Matt H. · « **Reply #38 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:08:11 AM »

As for myself, I'll be working on the Blu-ray of HIGH ANXIETY this afternoon and HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1 tonight which will leave ROBIN HOOD MEN IN TIGHTS for tomorrow.

I have to say that when I was watching/reviewing these discs for THE MEL BROOKS COLLECTION last December, I was really starting to tire of his shtick by the time I got to HIGH ANXIETY (of course, I had already seen all of these films in the theater). After several months away from them, maybe I'll be in a more receptive mood for them now.

Matt H. · « **Reply #39 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:10:33 AM »

Today I'll start watching last night's LOST when I go down. I'll probably watch the whole thing before I start to think about what's for lunch.

Matt H. · « **Reply #40 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:11:02 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Sam!!!

Jennifer · « **Reply #41 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:19:36 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Sam!

Jennifer · « **Reply #42 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:22:18 AM »

I wonder who shall get voted off of IDOL tonight. Hopefully either mike or casey (my least favorites).

Alas i will not get to watch the season finale of AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, since the station that shows it here is not available in Quebec. But they have a sister station that replays it on saturdays. So hopefully i will try not to find out who wins.

Jennifer · « **Reply #43 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:23:02 AM »

I really liked the duets last night on IDOL, especially the one with lee and crystal.

JMK · « **Reply #44 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:28:29 AM »

Re: last night's LOST.

Doesn't your family seem positively functional now?

JMK · « **Reply #45 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:28:59 AM »

And if anyone claims that's a spoiler, I will personally bitch slap them to the island and back.

JMK · « **Reply #46 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:30:12 AM »

Well, folks, we are down to the wire: tomorrow is the official moving day. I am shlepping all the stuff that's on other stuff today--tops of desks, file cabinets, little stuff in the kitchen, etc. Then the movers arrive tomorrow morning and the die is cast. I may be without internets for a day or two--they claim my new Fiber Optic modem is plug and play, but a wag at Blu-ray.com told me that usually means plug and pray.

Matt H. · « **Reply #47 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:30:31 AM »

Well, I'll head down now and SEE what you're talking about DR JMK. Will also watch other recorded programming.

WBBL.

JMK · « **Reply #48 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:32:07 AM »

Today's words of wisdom from DS Gabe: I've been listening to Incognito again, which features a lot of (quite fine) scat singing. Gabe came in and said, "Have you noticed how these songs are mostly drunken slurs punctuated by occasional words in actual English?"

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** May 12, 2010, 07:42:45 AM »

Time to depart. I did some vacuuming and dusting, and I will gather my things and head downtown.

JMK · « **Reply #50 on:** May 12, 2010, 08:46:19 AM »

Today's incredibly hilarious, unintentionally ironic quote from DW Wife Betsy: we're at the point (as mentioned above) where I'm moving mostly knick-knacks. I asked Betsy to make me a list of places that needed moving (this after by her own admission she's done next to nothing to help with this move). Her response: "Oh, you don't need me to tell you what to do." Even she couldn't help but burst out laughing after she said it.

bk · « **Reply #51 on:** May 12, 2010, 08:53:46 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - after being told three previous times that they were going to put some sort of stuff (slurry seal?) on our street and then not doing it, they finally did it this morning.

MBarnum · « **Reply #52 on:** May 12, 2010, 08:54:17 AM »

Good luck with moving, DR JMK. I hate moving.

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** May 12, 2010, 08:54:30 AM »

So, no parking until after six tonight. For only the second time, I left the new car out overnight (the last time I did so was the last time they told us this would happen and then didn't).

MBarnum · « **Reply #54 on:** May 12, 2010, 09:00:56 AM »

DR Sam, have a most wonderful birthday!!!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #55 on:** May 12, 2010, 09:06:10 AM »

Quote from: JMK on May 12, 2010, 07:28:59 AM

And if anyone claims that's a spoiler, I will personally bitch slap them to the island and back.

Just TRY!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** May 12, 2010, 09:09:04 AM »

Happy Birthday, ~~Good Neighbor~~ DR Sam!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #57 on:** May 12, 2010, 09:26:43 AM »

Greetings from Toyland. I shall have my lunch and wait for Skip.

bk · « **Reply #58 on:** May 12, 2010, 09:29:18 AM »

Did I do the Writer's Block signing at the Drama Bookshop? Can't remember. I'd like to book a signing for the new tome at the same place (unless there's a better sort of place to do it). Someone here helped me book it the last time - do we remember who?

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #59 on:** May 12, 2010, 09:44:01 AM »

Question for BK: When a movie company blocks off a street like that for filming, can they prevent someone from sitting out on their lawn in a beach chair and umbrella or from standing up and dancing around? How much jurisdiction do these people have over the folk who live on the street?

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