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[John G.]

Ok, furnace man (aka Edith's husband) has serviced the furnace for the fall and has raised the height of the intake and exhaust outside so the snow won't get in it again.  Time to pay him and go to work

That's a nice thing to have fixed.

[Jane]

From Bruce:

I tried to watch this piece of dreck called The Last Airbender by M. Night whatever his name is - this guy has lost his marbles, whatever marbles he had.  And worse, it is the softest blu-ray transfer I've ever seen - I don't know if it gets better after the first twenty minutes, but those minutes verge on being completely out of focus.

LOL-Yesterday I added it to our NetFlix queue.  You who watch the worst movies all the way through turned this off, we are in trouble.    At least we won't be getting it in blu-ray.

[Jane]

DR JANE - the advice given was, since you are partners in show business - don't let your wives become friends and start socializing together - then you can never get away from each other - and when the inevitable friction starts, it will affect the working relationship.....or something close to that....

From Stan Laurel to Lou Costello to Jerry Lewis to The Sherman Bros.

I'm not sure Jerry listened to the advice either.

[Jane]

BK,

I am not a big fan of FANTASIA either.

I think it was a glorious experiment in animation for its time, but I've never found it to be that entertaining.

Ditto.

[Jane]

Spats is running all over the place. I guess it's safe to say he is feeling better.

[Elan]

Afternoon, all!

TOD:

On ye olde iPod: "Man & His Social Institutions" - 1958 lecture series by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
On the DVD drive: Glee

[Jane]

Add me to the list of non-"Fantasia" fans. When I was a kid and they would trot out the Disney classics every few years to play on the big screen, that movie was used as a supposed introduction for many to the world of classical music. In my mind, it turned off many a kid to the beauties of the music. 

I already appreciated classical music and enjoyed the music.  The dance of the hippos was fun, but Mickey Mouse-boring.

[Elan]

A few comments on some of the discussion threads here:

* I love a lot of Fantasia, although what they did to Rite of Spring is simply horrible. The Gershwin sequence in Fantasia 2000 is great, and the visual gag with the rabbits in Pomp and Circumstance had me in stitches when I first saw it.

* Crash has some beautiful cinematography, but its entire premise was succintly and more entertainingly summed up in a single song from Avenue Q ("Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," but you of course knew that already).

[JoseSPiano]

From Bruce:

I tried to watch this piece of dreck called The Last Airbender by M. Night whatever his name is - this guy has lost his marbles, whatever marbles he had.  And worse, it is the softest blu-ray transfer I've ever seen - I don't know if it gets better after the first twenty minutes, but those minutes verge on being completely out of focus.

LOL-Yesterday I added it to our NetFlix queue.  You who watch the worst movies all the way through turned this off, we are in trouble.    At least we won't be getting it in blu-ray.

I wonder if the lack of focus in "The Last Airbender" BD has to do with the fact that it was presented in 3-D. -Maybe they just ported that print over to the BD... without the glasses.

[JMK]

Afternoon, all!

TOD:

On ye olde iPod: "Man & His Social Institutions" - 1958 lecture series by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik

Elan, livin' large for Channukah. 

[Jane]

Hello WindsongRobbie.  It is nice to see you.

[Jane]

A must watched video of a penguin in Japan who walks into town everyday.
http://www.flixxy.com/pet-penguin-goes-shopping.htm

[bk]

I'm up - finally got nine hours of blessed sleep and boy are my arms tired. 

[bk]

Druxy, While The City Sleeps came out in the UK (region 2) about a month ago.

[bk]

JMK, there are people who like Lost Horizon, The Musical as a film - not many - but it definitely has its fans - it's when someone is obsessive about such a film that I find it weird.

[JMK]

JMK, there are people who like Lost Horizon, The Musical as a film - not many - but it definitely has its fans - it's when someone is obsessive about such a film that I find it weird.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not oblivious to its obvious faults, I just like it in spite of them. 

[JoseSPiano]

OK...

So...

Apparently there's this Norwegian television program called, "Gylne Tider" ("Golden Times"). From what I can gather, they feature TV and Pop Music stars and near-stars from years past.

Here's a PROMO.

And here's a version of "Let It Be".

And "We Are The World". *There are a bunch of "Dynasty" alumni in this one.

It's kind of like a very trippy trip down Pop Culture memory lane.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Jane and edisaurus - Remember that video of cats playing patty-cake you posted a few weeks ago? Well..

To find out what they were saying, CLICK HERE

[JoseSPiano]

And as the third night of Hannukah approaches...

"Candlelight" - by The Maccabeats

[JoseSPiano]

Um... Yes.. I'm just waiting for my laundry to dry...

[Ginny]

We are home between our trip to Hamilton and our Friday evening activities here in Middletown.  The lecture we attended was a Miami history professor talking about the British monarchy and he was quite interesting.  Afterwards we went to the new location of Half Price Books and to lunch at Culver's, where I was very good and only ate a lean roast beef sandwich.  I'd have loved a caramel cashew sundae, but tonight's Amahl is a "dessert theater" so I'll wait and find something good there.

[Ben]

Our load in for the first day of volunteering has finished. We had a great group of people. They fed us lunch (pasta salad, green salad and sandwiches, sodas and cookies). We were done early so I decided to do the laundry so I can sleep in (ha, ha, ha) tomorrow. Perhaps I'll sleep until 6am but at least I won't have to get dressed and go down three flights of stairs to the laundromat. I can stay inside and wait for the radiator repair man to come at 9:30am. I will have eaten my oatmeal and drunk my coffee by then. After the radiator repair man leaves I will make a meat loaf for dinner.

Sunday I plan on doing nothing. Anthony will be going out around 1:30 for a friend's fundraising event but I won't be going with him.

I have to go back to the laundromat in a half hour to pick up the dry laundry. I will decide there whether I will fold it or just stuff it back in the bag and bring it to the apartment and fold it here. I'm pretty tired now and standing for another 15 minutes at a pink plastic table with hot laundry isn't high on my list of fun things to do right now.

[elmore3003]

There's still a lot of banging and crashing going on above me. When the fat hell is this Oaf going to abandon the premises forever?

[JoseSPiano]

There's still a lot of banging and crashing going on above me. When the fat hell is this Oaf going to abandon the premises forever?

Could it be your landlord doing some final cleaning up and checking to see how much of The Oaf's security deposit to give back?

[elmore3003]

There's still a lot of banging and crashing going on above me. When the fat hell is this Oaf going to abandon the premises forever?

Could it be your landlord doing some final cleaning up and checking to see how much of The Oaf's security deposit to give back?

I don't know. He was still here yesterday afternoon!

[Jane]

DR Jane and edisaurus - Remember that video of cats playing patty-cake you posted a few weeks ago? Well..

To find out what they were saying, CLICK HERE

Clever & while funny in its own right it takes away from how funny the cats are doing that in slow motion.

[Ginny]

DR Elmore - I sure will say HI to Lyn and Bill!

[Jane]

And as the third night of Hannukah approaches...

"Candlelight" - by The Maccabeats

Thanks

[elmore3003]

There's still a lot of banging and crashing going on above me. When the fat hell is this Oaf going to abandon the premises forever?

Could it be your landlord doing some final cleaning up and checking to see how much of The Oaf's security deposit to give back?

I don't know. He was still here yesterday afternoon!

Big Relief! It was the super and his son getting ready to paint the apartment. He's gone! William Ayers is out of the building!

[JoseSPiano]

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