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[John G.]

Page six.

[TCB]

DR TCB better on a beautiful woman than an ugly one    I find writing exceptionally distracting.

I suppose.

If you're focusing on the writing, you'd better have your eyes checked. 

You focus on the people you want to look at, and I will focus on the ones that I want to look at.

[vixmom]

Back to Work Vibes for John G

DO NOT OVER DO!!!!

[TCB]

Well this is strange.  A friend of mine just emailed me with the news that my MTV episode is now available on the internet.  The site is callled tvduck.com.  I went there, and I found the series, it listed my episode, and it asked if I wanted to view it or download it.  I tired both ways, and I still couldn't watch it.  Weird!

[TCB]

The company that owns Coinstar and Redbox has a new company coming out soon.  It is a machine that will distribute gourmet cups of coffee for $1.00.

[Matthew]

I've started watching the 1970's PBS series "Upstairs/Downstairs"  While it's no "Downton Abbey", it's quite good.  And there are many season.  But will it hold me until Fall?  LOL

If you've never seen the "DOWNTOWN ABBY / UPTOWN ANN LANDERS" theme song on YouTube, that could fill 80 seconds of the void .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7n2P2CIFBM

Nice work DR FJL

[Matthew]

Good morning, DR's.  I'm having an eBay issue regarding payment.  I recently won an auction for something that I'm very excited about.  When I actually pay for it, I'll share it with you.  Anyway... this has to do with shipping costs.  There was a shipping cost calculated in the total of the auction, which is fine.  However, the seller is saying it's going to cost more for shipping because they'd like to send it FedEx, which I have no problem with.  I asked him to go in and change the shipping criteria on the item because I can't change the shipping cost when using PayPal when eBay seems to have calculated it themselves, or he used the shipping calculator, or whatever.

Well, this seller is not very bright, they seem very defensive and they don't seems to want to work on this from their end.  We messaged back and forth yesterday and got no where.  I asked if he would send me his email address and I'd be happy to send the amount directly to him, that didn't happen.  Then I asked if he would just send me an invoice, but that hasn't happened either. 

This item is a find and I'm very excited (not to mention a HUGE steal!)  The seller has a 100% feedback rating which leads me to believe this hasn't happened to them before.  My first thought is to go ahead and send the payment with the amount that eBay says is correct and deal with the $20 extra dollars later.  I'd hate to lose the item because of the seller not cooperating.  Never once did I say I wouldn't pay what they asked for. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Could you just send two payments thru Paypal.  one for the item with the correct shipping costs; and the second one as just a send money transaction to his account?

That's what I ended up doing.  And to keep up to speed here, I've heard nothing of either transaction.

[JMK]

Betsy and I managed to get our tax prep done in about an hour.  I don't know why I have such trepidation every year, it never turns out to be as bad as I think it will.  Years ago we created spreadsheets to track everything month by month, with a yearly summary (I'm pretty sure I forwarded the templates to some DRs at one point), and it makes collating info rather easy.

[KevinH]

I read the part one of a book called "Benjamin Kritzer" on the plane today.  I'm enjoying it very much!  And now I know where "what is it, fish?" comes from !

[KevinH]

I see that DR Michael S asked about Rachel York's story about Liza.  Well, it involves a scene in Victor/Victoria when Liza substituted the word "hooker" for "hoofer."

[Jane]

The company that owns Coinstar and Redbox has a new company coming out soon.  It is a machine that will distribute gourmet cups of coffee for $1.00.

I had to look up Coinstar.

[Jane]

And now I know where "what is it, fish?" comes from !

[Cillaliz]

I have liked all of the Presidents in my lifetime except ONE.

Historically I like the Founding Fathers......and that's about it.....maybe Lincoln.....

LOL, I read that as  "I have seen al the Presidents in my lifetime"  I was thinking,...he isn't THAT old

[Cillaliz]

I bought a new C flute today.  I kept my old one, I've had it 35 years, it's older than 4/7 of our flute section

[elmore3003]

I have liked all of the Presidents in my lifetime except ONE.

Historically I like the Founding Fathers......and that's about it.....maybe Lincoln.....

LOL, I read that as  "I have seen al the Presidents in my lifetime"  I was thinking,...he isn't THAT old

Only DR TCB can say that. He voted for Alexander Hamilton.

[TCB]

I have liked all of the Presidents in my lifetime except ONE.

Historically I like the Founding Fathers......and that's about it.....maybe Lincoln.....

LOL, I read that as  "I have seen al the Presidents in my lifetime"  I was thinking,...he isn't THAT old

Only DR TCB can say that. He voted for Alexander Hamilton.

True, but I had to give up on Lincoln, because he was on the rebound after elmore dumped him for some actor named Booth.

[bk]

KevinH - yay.  And part two is - the actual story.

[JMK]

I have liked all of the Presidents in my lifetime except ONE.

Historically I like the Founding Fathers......and that's about it.....maybe Lincoln.....

LOL, I read that as  "I have seen al the Presidents in my lifetime"  I was thinking,...he isn't THAT old

Only DR TCB can say that. He voted for Alexander Hamilton.

True, but I had to give up on Lincoln, because he was on the rebound after elmore dumped him for some actor named Booth.

Wow. . .Shirley was a lot older than I imagined. 

[John G.]

I bought a new C flute today.  I kept my old one, I've had it 35 years, it's older than 4/7 of our flute section

Congrats. Hope you have plenty of fun with it.

[elmore3003]

I have liked all of the Presidents in my lifetime except ONE.

Historically I like the Founding Fathers......and that's about it.....maybe Lincoln.....

LOL, I read that as  "I have seen al the Presidents in my lifetime"  I was thinking,...he isn't THAT old

Only DR TCB can say that. He voted for Alexander Hamilton.

True, but I had to give up on Lincoln, because he was on the rebound after elmore dumped him for some actor named Booth.

That would be incestuous. Lincoln's a relative. I have heard that the person Booth was aiming for was actually you as "Our American Cousin." I hear you're the first actor snce Montfleury to provoke assassination attempts.

[JMK]

The boys are giving Grandma and Grandpa lessons on Facebook.  Hilarity is ensuing.

[TCB]

I have liked all of the Presidents in my lifetime except ONE.

Historically I like the Founding Fathers......and that's about it.....maybe Lincoln.....

LOL, I read that as  "I have seen al the Presidents in my lifetime"  I was thinking,...he isn't THAT old

Only DR TCB can say that. He voted for Alexander Hamilton.

True, but I had to give up on Lincoln, because he was on the rebound after elmore dumped him for some actor named Booth.

That would be incestuous. Lincoln's a relative. I have heard that the person Booth was aiming for was actually you as "Our American Cousin." I hear you're the first actor snce Montfleury to provoke assassination attempts.

Actually, it is funny that you should say that.  At my friend, Sharry's, 50 years in theater Celebration / Roast, a couple of years ago; I announced that Sharry's performance as Our American Cousin was what set John Wilkes Booth off on his murderous rage.

[TCB]

G'night!

[Jane]

'night

[John G.]

Watching the NYCO production of "A Little Night Music" tonight. Ages ago, I saw George Lee Andrews play El Gallo in a dinner theater production of "The Fantastiks." He's was great in that, very virile, as I recall. And he's wonderful as Frederick, sheepish and caught between reality and is blind love for his young bride. I don't care too much for the production, the black, white and blue and a little too stark. I miss Desiree's red dress.

[John G.]

And, yes, it's keeping me from getting my work done tonight.

[elmore3003]

Watching the NYCO production of "A Little Night Music" tonight. Ages ago, I saw George Lee Andrews play El Gallo in a dinner theater production of "The Fantastiks." He's was great in that, very virile, as I recall. And he's wonderful as Frederick, sheepish and caught between reality and is blind love for his young bride. I don't care too much for the production, the black, white and blue and a little too stark. I miss Desiree's red dress.

I love George Lee Andrews! He's such a nice man. That City Opera production wasn't great: the director's second rate.

Ididn't forget tonight and so I'mwatching SMASH. I have no idea what I missed from last week except Ivy's getting nvolved with the director. I have never seen the American Idol lady in anything else, including American Idol, and I think she's rather good in this.

[elmore3003]

George is good as Egerman because he was in the original, played Egerman in the first national tour, and he worked with Hal Prince, whose direction of the original was quite wonderful.

[John G.]

George is good as Egerman because he was in the original, played Egerman in the first national tour, and he worked with Hal Prince, whose direction of the original was quite wonderful.

He was Frid the butler and the understudy in the original, right? I had forgotten that.

[John G.]

Earlier today, I had on a DVD from George of "The Best of Broadway" with Len Cariou and Glynis Johns recreating their roles for a brief scene. Seeing them after listening to that album so many thousands of times and seeing the movie and other productions was touching.