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[Jrand74]

Hmmmm....DRSWW didn't she write the cookbook?

[S. Woody White]

SWW, sorry, to me he is now Fletcher, Fletch for short.
Is it possible you have allergies and not a cold?  If you haven’t done so since his arrival, I suggest you give Fletcher a bath.  

The sore throat etc. started after the younger grandlad sneezed on me.  And allergies don't give me a sore throat.  I can blame Fletcher for trash being picked out of the trash basket, but not for the cold.

Giving Fletcher a bath is going to be VERY interesting.  I've never tried giving a bath to a seventy-five pound puppy before.    Perhaps a shower would be easier.

[Jrand74]

I can't dance at work...but Page Four.  Hurray!

[S. Woody White]

Noel: Didn't Jeff Blumenkranz write "I Won't Mind"? It is one of the loveliest contemporary songs I know (and one of many highlights of Audra McDonald's "How Glory Goes").

(Quickly grabbing the How Glory Goes disc)

It turns out you're both right.  Jeff Blumenkrantz wrote the music, Annie Kessler and Libby Saines wrote the lyrics.

[Jennifer]

Referring to receiving my postcard from DR Jose, I had written, " wonder if mine arrived by your US destinations?"

I meant: I wonder if mine arrvied BEFORE your US destinations.  

Sorry I didn't spell check.

And DR Emily I am also curious to see which sitcom you will choose.  Although I don't even think there would be any Canadian sitcoms to choose from.  We have a few Canadian tv shows.  But not many.  And I can't think of any I watch besides Canadian Idol.

[Jrand74]

High School Confidential, available on DVD for less than $8 at deepdiscountdvd.com.  Why Mamie's head band cost more than that!

I can hardly wait for the companion piece - College Confidential - with Steve Allen as a professor who shows nudie movies to students....but not on purpose, and who asks his students to participate in a "sex survey" that includes the infamous "virgin question"....which Mamie's father refuses to let her answer in court, under oath!!

[S. Woody White]

Hmmmm....DRSWW didn't she write the cookbook?

No, that's FANNY Farmer.  Totally different, especially since the rewrite that's out there these days is by Marian Cunningham (the cooking authority, not the Happy Days character).

[S. Woody White]

It it warm?
Is it soft against your face?
Do you feel a kind a' grace inside the breeze?
Will there be trees?

Is there light?
Does it hover on the ground?
Does it shine from all around,
Or jes' from you?

Is it endless and empty,
An' you wander on your own?
Slowly forgit about
The folks that you have known?

Or does risin' bread fill up the air
From open kitchens everywhere?
Familiar faces far as you can see,
Like a family?

Do we live?
Is lit like a little town?
Do we get to look back down at who we love?
Are we above?

Are we everywhere?
Are we anywhere at all?
Do we hear a trumpet call us
An' we're by your side?

Will I want, will I wish
For all the things I should have done,
Longin' to finish
What I only jes' begun?

Or has a shinin' truth been waiting there
For all the questions everywhere?
In a world o' wondering, suddenly you know;
And you will always know...

Will my mama be there waitin' for me,
Smilin' like the way she does
An' holding out her ams,
An' she calls my name?
She will hold me just the same...

Only heaven knows how Glory goes,
What each of us was meant to be.
In the starlight, that is what we are.
I can see so far...

Adam Guettel, 1996

[Jrand74]

Madge Blake (who played Larry Mondello's mother on LEAVE IT TO BEAVER) the older television actress worked with her husband on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb...she had top secret clearance till her passing....

[Emily]

Hmmm...

Jane and Jennifer I have no idea what sit-com I'll take.  I need to ask the prof. whether it has to be one currently on the air cuz I think it would be interesting to do the project as a historical one.  Imagine the Brady Bunch.

As for Canadian sit-coms... I can't really name any off the top of my head.  Canadian-made tv generally has strayed from the sit-com genre and when we do comedy, we normally do either stand-up based shows, satire or (more commonly) quirky hour-long dramedys.

[Jane]

I feel so much better now that I have showered and washed my hair.  I also used soothing oatmeal shower oil on a rash I have developed.

A week ago I began an antibiotic which really upset my stomach.  Yesterday, just as my stomach was adjusting I noticed the beginnings of a rash.  Called the doctor who ordered something new.  When I picked it up the pharmacist said it would likely upset my stomach more than the first one, plus I had to begin over again with a ten day supply.  I said NO WAY!  So I’m still on the first one and the rash is spreading.  Stupid me thought I would be done with these Friday afternoon, I just re-counted the pills and it isn’t until Saturday afternoon.   I hope I make it.

Don’t send me vibes, with cortisone ointment and Benadryl at night I’m determined to make it.  It is Keith we should be concerned about-‘cause I’m getting a bit grumpy.

[Jane]

Emily, I meant when you do decide please let us know.

SWW a Dalmatian isn't so big and they don't have much hair.  I'm sure two big men shouldn't have any trouble giving Fletcher a bath.  I just did Echo all by myself and I assure you she doesn't like to hold still for me.  I just have the soapy buckets and towels and everything ready before hand, along with treats to give her.  When it gets cold we will have to give her a shower, then I absolutely need Keith's assistance.  Feel better soon.

[bk]

I accessed the notes archive just yesterday.  How are you doing it?  It has to be done from the notes page, not from here.  

Here is my single most hated lyric ever:

If I were a carpenter
And you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway
Would you have my baby

That is just nausea-inducing.

[Ron Pulliam]

I stumbled across something very interesting on the internet (how I got there I won't say).

Did you know that a Hungarian has invented light-conducting concrete?  It's called LiTraCon....and it conducts light so that if someone stands behind it, you see their silhouette.

I think it's AMAZING!

If you'd like to read about it, go here:

http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/

[Jrand74]

OMG....that IS amazing....do you suppose Hedy Lamarr invented it?

ANYWAY off to early rehearsal with the new and improved Axel....

Later....much later.....

[Matt H.]

Don't have a single thing to talk about, but I wanted to check in with my usual afternoon post. Nope, still no YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER. Someday . . . . maybe.

[Jane]

I accessed the notes archive just yesterday.  How are you doing it?  It has to be done from the notes page, not from here.  

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because at some point soon I must go to Bally’s, work out a bit, and then shave and shower.


Unseemly Button


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 Search BK's Notes Archive:

From the above and this is what I get:

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[Matt H.]

Is anyone here a fan of the (relatively) new TV show RESCUE ME on FX? I'm going to watch my first two episodes tonight. I've heard and read such marvelous things about this show, so I'm looking forward to experiencing it for the first time tonight.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

Several by Sheldon Harnick would be at the top of my list, especially the title song from She Loves Me. I also very much like "One Room" from The Rothschilds.

[Panni]

Have been out most of the morning and part of the afternoon. Just caught up with all the posts. I love the TOD. It's fun reading lyrics I haven't seen before and revisiting old favorites.
Have to eat some lunch, then one more errand and I can post until the cows come knocking -- unless I go to a movie. In which case I'll have to take the cows with me. I wonder if heifers pay full price?

[Panni]

Hey, all you Canadians with short memories... I worked on three sitcoms - one of which ran 5 years, another 7 years and the third only 2, but still. And that was just me. There were others, too.

[Panni]

...I co-created the one which ran 7 years. Keanu Reeves got his start in that one. That's where he learned to be such a cutup.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

DR Panni,

I missed out on King of Kensington when it first aired. Now I'm watching the reruns and enjoying them tremendously. They're warm and funny. Originally I tuned in because K of K followed Mary Tyler Moore. MTM isn't on any more (at least not at the time when I cut vegetables, fold laundry, etc.), but now I watch K of K for its own sake (an Apple Tree reference).

What were the other sitcoms?

[Panni]

We used to have great guest stars in the first one I worked on as head writer. Andrea Martin, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Mike Myers (as a kid), Eugene Levy...etc.
...No Canadian sitcoms, eh?

[Tomovoz]

Happy birthday RLP.
(Who shares a birthday with one time Melbournian Keanu Reeves)

[François de Paris]

Intertwine these poignant lyrics by Mr. Oscar Hammerstein II with the haunting music of Mr. Jerome Kern and you have what may be the finest love song ever written:

Time and again I’ve longed for adventure,
Something to make my heart beat the faster.
What did I long for? I never really knew.
Finding your love I’ve found my adventure,
Touching your hand, my heart beats the faster,
All that I want in all of this world is you.

You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long.
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
You are the angel glow that lights a star,
The dearest things I know are what you are.
Some day my happy arms will hold you,
And some day I’ll know that moment divine,
When all the things you are, are mine!

I second jay's choice!
I love that song, words and music!

I'm also very fond of

Once I hated this city.
Now it can't get me down.
Slushy, humid and gritty,
What a pretty town!

What, thought I, could be duller,
More depressing, less gay?
Now my favorite color is gray!

A wall of rain as it turns to sleet,
The lack of sun on a one-way street;
I love the grime all the time,
And what more do I need?

My window pane has a lovely view:
An inch of sky and a fly or two.
Why, I can see half a tree,
And what more do I need

... mainly sung by Dawn Upshaw!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY "Master" of Miss Vickie!
JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE!

[Panni]

DR Panni,

I missed out on King of Kensington when it first aired. Now I'm watching the reruns and enjoying them tremendously. They're warm and funny. Originally I tuned in because K of K followed Mary Tyler Moore. MTM isn't on any more (at least not at the time when I cut vegetables, fold laundry, etc.), but now I watch K of K for its own sake (an Apple Tree reference).

What were the other sitcoms?

Thanks, Dan. That's so nice to hear. The one I co-created with the late Jack Humphrey and the not late Joe Partington was called HANGIN' IN.
The other one, which was great fun because we had musical numbers every week, was FLAPPERS. It took place in a 1920's club in Montreal and had a cast of wonderful French-Canadian and English-Canadian actors.

[François de Paris]

Keanu who??

[Dan-in-Toronto]

Where in tarnation is Johnny Mercer?

Put me down for "I Had Myself A True Love" and "I Wonder What Became Of Me" - both from St. Louis Woman.

[bk]

Oh, you're not trying to find past notes, you're trying to actually search something in the old notes.  There is some glitch there and I'm not sure why it's never been fixed.  It may have something to do with when we switched servers or software - I'll ask.