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« Reply #90 on: March 18, 2013, 02:32:46 PM »

Oh, I forgot to tell you:

Proceeds from the book sale = $10, 867.05!

Even after expenses, that will mean a lot of scholarships!
Spectacular.

Thanks, DR John G!
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« Reply #91 on: March 18, 2013, 02:32:55 PM »

Amoeba is the BEST place to browse for CDs! I spend an awful lot of money at the one in Hollywood, whenever I am visiting.

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« Reply #92 on: March 18, 2013, 02:33:22 PM »

Of course, I spend an awful lot of money browsing for CDs on Amazon.com, as well.
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« Reply #93 on: March 18, 2013, 02:37:25 PM »

RIP Bobbie Smith, lead singer of THE SPINNERS  :'(


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

Love so many of their songs.


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« Reply #94 on: March 18, 2013, 02:41:30 PM »

I'd heard a lot about Amoeba and when I finally got into the Hollywood store last fall, it turned out to be all that and more.  You can't do the whole store in one visit or you'll be seeing double.

Did I buy anything?  No, because I was traveling as light as possible.  Next time, though...
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« Reply #95 on: March 18, 2013, 02:56:29 PM »

Contractor two has come and gone.  And I must stop and just relax now because I haven't stopped since I got up at nine.  I spent an hour trying to get the printer configured with the laptop - that's finally done.
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« Reply #96 on: March 18, 2013, 03:13:58 PM »

RIP Bobbie Smith, lead singer of THE SPINNERS  :'(


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

Love so many of their songs.




Thanks for the link.

I wonder if I noticed back then how good looking he was.
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« Reply #97 on: March 18, 2013, 03:17:02 PM »

Thanks for the alert, Jane

You are welcome.  What do you feed your boys?
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« Reply #98 on: March 18, 2013, 03:20:33 PM »

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/03-2013/once-announces-new-casting_64621.html

My friend Ben Hope is taking over Steve Kazee's role on ONCE. I have to go back to see it.
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« Reply #99 on: March 18, 2013, 03:21:40 PM »

Good evening.

BK: I'm afraid it's going to be a cool visit, weatherwise.  We actually had a little snow this morning.  It's going to be in the mid-fifties tomorrow but back down to around 50 Wednesday and in the 40's later in the week.
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« Reply #100 on: March 18, 2013, 03:22:08 PM »

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/03-2013/once-announces-new-casting_64621.html

My friend Ben Hope is taking over Steve Kazee's role on ONCE. I have to go back to see it.



At first I thought I read "My friend Bob Hope."
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« Reply #101 on: March 18, 2013, 03:35:30 PM »

Sister of Spanish beauty Kay Serrah.
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« Reply #102 on: March 18, 2013, 03:40:39 PM »

I've been to the market, and the weather is not at all pleasant. I don't know if the snow will stick but it's making for slippery mobility.

I'm going to have some dinner, then watch tv and read the new Jane Austen biography.
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« Reply #103 on: March 18, 2013, 03:52:52 PM »

I've been to the market, and the weather is not at all pleasant. I don't know if the snow will stick but it's making for slippery mobility.

I'm going to have some dinner, then watch tv and read the new Jane Austen biography.

DR elmore have you read LADY SUSAN?
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« Reply #104 on: March 18, 2013, 04:11:00 PM »

Thanks, DRs Jane and Cillaliz - wish you both could have been here!

I miss browsing for books.  It would have been fun.

I went to Amoeba Records last night in SF, found some cool stuff, but I, too, miss browsing through CD's, records, etc... the art is lost :(
I do, too. I really miss record stores. The used CD/DVD stores here are OK, but not great.
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« Reply #105 on: March 18, 2013, 04:13:25 PM »

I've been to the market, and the weather is not at all pleasant. I don't know if the snow will stick but it's making for slippery mobility.

I'm going to have some dinner, then watch tv and read the new Jane Austen biography.

DR elmore have you read LADY SUSAN?

No. I haven't read much of the Austen juvenilia. I have it here somewhere. I believe that her cousin (?)Eliza who was the widow of a French nobleman and who later married one of Jane's brothers, was the model for Lady Susan.
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« Reply #106 on: March 18, 2013, 04:25:50 PM »

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/03-2013/once-announces-new-casting_64621.html

My friend Ben Hope is taking over Steve Kazee's role on ONCE. I have to go back to see it.

At least you like the show :)
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« Reply #107 on: March 18, 2013, 04:34:38 PM »

I've been to the market, and the weather is not at all pleasant. I don't know if the snow will stick but it's making for slippery mobility.

I'm going to have some dinner, then watch tv and read the new Jane Austen biography.

DR elmore have you read LADY SUSAN?

No.



Look at the first pages.  It is very different from anything else she wrote, which might be why it wasn't published until after her death yet it was written when she was 19.
http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Susan-Jane-Austen/dp/0486444074
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« Reply #108 on: March 18, 2013, 04:36:56 PM »

I revised my earlier comment about he novel.
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« Reply #109 on: March 18, 2013, 04:45:51 PM »

I've been to the market, and the weather is not at all pleasant. I don't know if the snow will stick but it's making for slippery mobility.

I'm going to have some dinner, then watch tv and read the new Jane Austen biography.

DR elmore have you read LADY SUSAN?

No. I haven't read much of the Austen juvenilia. I have it here somewhere. I believe that her cousin (?)Eliza who was the widow of a French nobleman and who later married one of Jane's brothers, was the model for Lady Susan.

If so Jane did not like her sister in-law at all.
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« Reply #110 on: March 18, 2013, 04:49:16 PM »

It may also explain why Jane didn't revisit this novel and improve the writing.
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« Reply #111 on: March 18, 2013, 04:51:54 PM »

Bruce,
Strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones for a safe, secure, and on-time flight and good weather both going and then coming home!!!!

COMPUTER VIBES and MOST EXCELLENT TRAVEL VIBES for BK!

~~~DITTO!!~~~
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« Reply #112 on: March 18, 2013, 04:53:28 PM »

The more I read the more engrossed I became in the story.  Jane obviously didn't know how to wrap up the story, not so much the telling of it but the style of her writing.
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« Reply #113 on: March 18, 2013, 04:54:18 PM »

Her cousin Eliza married a French nobleman who was beheaded during the Revolution, and Eliza barely escaped France with her life. My memory is that she and Jane were close before her marriage but that Jane disapproved of her putting moves on Jane's brother, who was younger than Eliza. This is all residual memory from the Tomalin biography pf Austen that I read over 15 years ago.

I have the 6-volume Oxford edition of Austen. LADY SUSAN is in it, along with the unfinished THE WATSONS and SANDITON and her juvenilia, like her History of England.
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« Reply #114 on: March 18, 2013, 05:02:07 PM »

DR elmore, thanks for the interesting background on this.  I'm glad her cousin wasn't as horrible as Lady Susan was.  Please let me know what/if your new biography you are reading has anything to say about Eliza & Jane.
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« Reply #115 on: March 18, 2013, 05:02:14 PM »

Thanks, DRs Jane and Cillaliz - wish you both could have been here!

I miss browsing for books.  It would have been fun.

I went to Amoeba Records last night in SF, found some cool stuff, but I, too, miss browsing through CD's, records, etc... the art is lost :(
I do, too. I really miss record stores. The used CD/DVD stores here are OK, but not great.

Are you speaking of just San Antonio?  Isn't Austin supposed to have some great stores?
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« Reply #116 on: March 18, 2013, 05:13:54 PM »

I'm okay with the cold, just need it to be nice and rain and snow-less the day I arrive and the day I leave.
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« Reply #117 on: March 18, 2013, 05:14:56 PM »

BK, don't read this post.

Actually, it doesn't even apply to the DC area.

SNOWING!
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« Reply #118 on: March 18, 2013, 05:26:38 PM »

I'm okay with the cold, just need it to be nice and rain and snow-less the day I arrive and the day I leave.

Craig lives just over the border from DC and his weather is looking clear through the weekend, for now anyway.

GOOD WEATHER VIBES!!!
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« Reply #119 on: March 18, 2013, 05:27:40 PM »

I'm okay with the cold, just need it to be nice and rain and snow-less the day I arrive and the day I leave.

Craig lives just over the border from DC and his weather is looking clear through the weekend, for now anyway.

GOOD WEATHER VIBES!!!

Yes, I think it's all fine down there for the week.  What's weird is that they were expecting some of this tonight.  Or so I was told by someone there.  But it all stayed to the north.
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