Topic: SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Read 6561 times)

Jane · « **Reply #120 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:38:00 PM »

We rented "The Amazing Spider-Man-2" to watch tonight. I don't recall watching the 1st one. I only remember the movies with Tobey Maguire.

singdaw · « **Reply #121 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:38:15 PM »

DR Dan M - you are most welcome, and it is great to see you here.

May things continue to get better for you from here on in!

singdaw · « **Reply #122 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:39:07 PM »

bk, your venture for next summer sounds fantastic, and all best wishes for a valuable and successful experience for all involved.

singdaw · « **Reply #123 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:41:37 PM »

Dearest DR TCB -

Hope that you have had a wonderful celebration today. This cake is to celebrate your birthday, and bk's show next summer, all in one:

Jeanne · « **Reply #124 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:44:54 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on August 23, 2014, 04:06:29 PM

Of course it's a crap shoot how long these pillows will last, DR Jeanne, but other kinds of pillows don't last all that long for me anyway and we're talking five bucks per gel-foam-whatever pillow, which is unheard of. And since Costco is on the way to my rehearsal, I believe I just might stop in tomorrow morning for another set.

Oh, I think it's a real bargain. It's much harder to shop for pillows than for shoes. At least you can usually try on shoes for a 30-second test in the store, but how do you test-drive a pillow short of sleeping on it? It's a crap shoot. That said, I've been able to find uses for the pillows I've purchased that turned out to be disappointing. Your kitties may enjoy your new pillows even if you don't. When I sold my house several years ago the real estate agent asked me if I'd donate an eggcrate pad I no longer needed to the animal shelter for the arthritic dogs. (I did so.) Lots of uses.

Jeanne · « **Reply #125 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:47:40 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 23, 2014, 05:41:37 PM

Dearest DR TCB -

Hope that you have had a wonderful celebration today. This cake is to celebrate your birthday, and bk's show next summer, all in one:

So appropriate!

Jane · « **Reply #126 on:** August 23, 2014, 05:49:31 PM »

Thanks for the reminder about blankets for the shelter. I will be cleaning out closets soon and will probably have extra towels and blankets to donate there instead of to Goodwill.

Ginny · « **Reply #127 on:** August 23, 2014, 06:04:48 PM »

Quote from: Jeanne on August 23, 2014, 05:36:56 PM

DR Ginny, I'm glad you were able to switch to a blood thinner that doesn't require monitoring. Much easier! And the removal of dietary restrictions is just icing on the cake, so to speak. (Heart-healthy cake, of course!)

I do my best, DR Jeanne!

Ginny · « **Reply #128 on:** August 23, 2014, 06:06:37 PM »

Richard, Mary Linda, and I went out to dinner and to do some errands while Rob works 4-midnight. How nice to come back here and find that DR Dan M has returned!

Ginny · « **Reply #129 on:** August 23, 2014, 06:08:08 PM »

Quote from: Jane on August 23, 2014, 05:49:31 PM

Thanks for the reminder about blankets for the shelter. I will be cleaning out closets soon and will probably have extra towels and blankets to donate there instead of to Goodwill.

I sent my sister home to Michigan with 2 large trash bags of bed linens for the ladies of her church. They make them into bedrolls for the homeless.

Jane · « **Reply #130 on:** August 23, 2014, 06:12:12 PM »

Clever ladies.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #131 on:** August 23, 2014, 06:35:32 PM »

I've been watching The Golden Ring about the events in August 1964 and John Culshaw's epic recording. I'd never seen it before, and i really loved it. Fischer-Dieskau is so damned young, already a bit pretentious, and I hear he got worse as he aged. Birgit Nillsn is fantastic, and I loved it when they brought the horse into the studio. Culshawwrte a book about the recording and I'd like to read it. The orchestra is amazing, and there's Willy Boskovsky, who conducted so many operetta recordings and Strauss waltzes, as concert master! I think there's a bok about the recording as well by Culshaw and I'd like to read it.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #132 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:16:56 PM »

What's this? DR Elmore hadn't seen The Golden Ring??

ChasSmith · « **Reply #133 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:18:59 PM »

Well, I'm not one to talk. I've had the Culshaw book for years, and haven't read it.

Since it's been several years since I watched the documentary, I'll do that soon, then dig the book out and get going. These are incredible documents of mid-century recording splendor.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #134 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:20:12 PM »

In other news, guess what I just watched!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #135 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:20:24 PM »

Really! Go on, take a guess!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #136 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:21:00 PM »

I am yelling into the abyss, it seems.

No one here.

Okay, I'll tell you.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #137 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:21:24 PM »

Ready?

Are you all ready?

(Wow, not even any guests.)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #138 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:22:09 PM »

Here it is:

Damn Yankees!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #139 on:** August 23, 2014, 07:31:38 PM »

As soon as it started up, I realized it had been more years than I'd thought since seeing it last. But I liked it, for the most part.

The scoring seemed very faithful to what I remembered of the Broadway score, but I'll have to take a look at it in the cold light of day.

The presence of Gwen Verdon is a gift. Even if she was, of course, more a stage actress than a film one. I found myself "translating" it from film to stage as it proceeded. And I've always enjoyed Ray Walston. I guess I like him in this because I've known no one else in the role. (I didn't see Jerry Lewis do it, and the only other stage productions I'd ever seen were amateur ones.) He's a bit weak in the "Good Old Days" number, but the rest seemed okay.

singdaw · « **Reply #140 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:23:24 PM »

I have the re-issue of Solti's Ring, which contains both The Golden Ring documentary and the Culshaw book, amongst other eye-popping extras. Great stuff!

singdaw · « **Reply #141 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:23:50 PM »

It's been eons since I've watched Damn Yankees.

John G. · « **Reply #142 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:30:46 PM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on August 23, 2014, 04:01:33 PM

DR DAN M!!! Hurray!

Exactly. Welcome back.

singdaw · « **Reply #143 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:33:44 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on August 23, 2014, 02:42:29 PM

For awhile I had been telling myself that I really didn't belong here with everyone.

That's just crazy talk.

John G. · « **Reply #144 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:34:24 PM »

Starting to watch Last Vegas. Don't know if I'll make it all the way through. So many cliches in the first 10 minutes. But Joanna Gleason is in the supporting cast, so that's a plus.

singdaw · « **Reply #145 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:35:36 PM »

Quote from: John G. on August 23, 2014, 08:34:24 PM

Joanna Gleason

Love her!

singdaw · « **Reply #146 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:37:00 PM »

We passed a street stand selling roasted corn ears earlier this evening. We stopped and bought a half dozen, and the corn has been cut off the cobbs. It will make a most tasty corn salad tomorrow.

singdaw · « **Reply #147 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:39:55 PM »

I use a bundt pan for this. The ear fits nicely into the middle hole, and the pan collects the cut corn nicely and without fuss.

singdaw · « **Reply #148 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:40:22 PM »

No muss, no fuss.

singdaw · « **Reply #149 on:** August 23, 2014, 08:40:36 PM »

No fuss, no muss.

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