Topic: IT'S REALLY A DAMN NASTY STOMACH BUG IS WHAT IT REALLY IS (Read 3731 times)

Druxy · « **Reply #30 on:** May 24, 2015, 07:28:28 AM »

Rain and more rain in the Austin area...and it's expected to continue through the week.

The bad news is there is plenty of flooding.

The good news is that the drought may be over.

And, in the midst of all this, I have a cold.

Jane · « **Reply #31 on:** May 24, 2015, 07:31:55 AM »

Thanks DR Singdaw and DR Jrand.

Jane · « **Reply #32 on:** May 24, 2015, 07:32:58 AM »

Feel better Druxy.

Jane · « **Reply #33 on:** May 24, 2015, 07:33:23 AM »

Bruce I hope you are much better today.

Kerry · « **Reply #34 on:** May 24, 2015, 07:40:51 AM »

Happy Birthday to Dear, Dear DR Jeanne!!!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #35 on:** May 24, 2015, 08:02:56 AM »

DR TCB - I like to watch 3 COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN.....but Maggie McNamara is so annoying and her character is so selfish, it's hard for me to stay with it. She gets Jean Peters FIRED from her job and then never mentions it again.... To think that a character like Louis Jourdan's would even be interested in her is a stretch of the imagination.....

But then....she plays the SAME person in all of her movies.....

FJL · « **Reply #36 on:** May 24, 2015, 08:10:54 AM »

Obituary for Nobel prize winner John Nash Jr.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/science/john-f-nash-jr-mathematician-whose-life-story-inspired-a-beautiful-mind-dies-at-86.html

John G. · « **Reply #37 on:** May 24, 2015, 08:48:11 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on May 24, 2015, 05:53:51 AM

Quote from: singdaw on May 24, 2015, 05:04:39 AM
DR elmore3003 - apparently the "complete" Golden Apple recording is now shipping. It will be interesting to hear your impressions.

I've heard a bootleg from the first weekend's performance: some changed lyrics and vocal lines, some strange and, too often hard-driven tempi, characterless voices on the character roles, authorized and unauthorized cuts, the substitution of a revised number frm the 1970s for the 1954 original. and an insensitive conductor. The orchestra sounded pretty good, though. I'd say it's a good college try.

Now, I may change my opinion of some things when I hear the final recording, which was assembled from four performance tapes, but I followed the bootleg with the score and there's a lot that distressed me, especially given that the production was aware there was an interest in a recording early in the game.

When Old Mother Hare, who should sound like Katisha, doesn't and sounds like a fairly young lady with makeup and a light voice, something's wrong.

My copy arrived yesterday. I'm listening to it now.

I wish that they could have taken people into a studio for some of the songs because the sound on the gorgeous "Goona Goona Lagoona" is lousy, and the singer, well, she ain't Bibi Osterwald.

Don't care for the singer who does "Lazy Afternoon" either. It's as if she doesn't understand the song. It's a song of seduction. It's not a power ballad.

That said, I like other parts of it and it's great to hear stuff that wasn't on the original cast recording.

John G. · « **Reply #38 on:** May 24, 2015, 08:50:12 AM »

Just made a Berry Blue Cheese Spread for a party later. Way easy and really good. Dried blueberries, blue cheese and cream cheese, garlic, scallions and toasted pecans. That's it.

Jane · « **Reply #39 on:** May 24, 2015, 09:41:52 AM »

For the birthday girl,

Jennifer · « **Reply #40 on:** May 24, 2015, 10:09:03 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Jeanne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #41 on:** May 24, 2015, 11:39:06 AM »

I listened today to the new Intrada 2-CD set of "Return to Oz"while i worked on libretto questions about Gentlemen, Be Seated!

I've got a bit more to do, then I will watch a DVD of something.

Ginny · « **Reply #42 on:** May 24, 2015, 11:40:15 AM »

Sunday afternoon greetings!

Quote from: Jrand64 on May 24, 2015, 06:47:30 AM

Today is the day of the Used to Be Big Race!
...

We had to be in Lima this morning, so we experienced the pre-race festivities and the first half like in the old days - on AM radio. We're home now watching on TV and I'm amazed so many empty seats.

Ginny · « **Reply #43 on:** May 24, 2015, 11:41:23 AM »

Happiest of birthdays to DR Jeanne!

Dan M · « **Reply #44 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:08:43 PM »

Happy Happy Birthday to DR Jeanne

Jrand73 · « **Reply #45 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:08:47 PM »

DR GINNY I may have you understudy DR VIXMOM as Miss Fern.

John G. · « **Reply #46 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:19:01 PM »

Anne Meara has died. Sadly, she's identified as Ben Stiller's mother instead of for being a great comedian.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/05/24/actress-anne-meara-mom-of-ben-stiller-dies-85/27888225/

Ginny · « **Reply #47 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:22:56 PM »

Quote from: Jrand64 on May 24, 2015, 01:08:47 PM

DR GINNY I may have you understudy DR VIXMOM as Miss Fern.

Her conflicts are my conflicts...

FJL · « **Reply #48 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:30:34 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on May 24, 2015, 01:22:56 PM

Quote from: Jrand64 on May 24, 2015, 01:08:47 PM
DR GINNY I may have you understudy DR VIXMOM as Miss Fern.

Her conflicts are my conflicts...

Jrand, if you need people who can do rehearsals and not performances, I could name a few who neevr missed a rehearsal, but...

Ginny · « **Reply #49 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:42:25 PM »

RIP, Anne Meara...

Dan M · « **Reply #50 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:44:48 PM »

Quote from: John G. on May 24, 2015, 01:19:01 PM

Anne Meara has died. Sadly, she's identified as Ben Stiller's mother instead of for being a great comedian.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/05/24/actress-anne-meara-mom-of-ben-stiller-dies-85/27888225/

What a dishonor to her career. He's not my cup of tea and in some ways has eclipsed both his parents, Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, but she was pretty important with her husband in the 1960s and 70s. Unfortunately, many of whatever this new generation is called have no interest in history that is beyond 5 years, and recognize Ben Stiller as a name.

Dan M · « **Reply #51 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:50:15 PM »

Here's a Stiller and Meara commercial from the 1980s:

https://youtu.be/emGbzUbpiA8

In the tristate NY area TV and radio, Stiller and Meara were on many commercials and radio spots. They were the everyperson or every couple. Besides being funny, their popularity was that they didn't seem glamorous and out-of-reach. Many people felt they could identify with them.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #52 on:** May 24, 2015, 01:51:45 PM »

Quote from: FJL on May 24, 2015, 01:30:34 PM

Quote from: Ginny on May 24, 2015, 01:22:56 PM
Quote from: Jrand64 on May 24, 2015, 01:08:47 PM
DR GINNY I may have you understudy DR VIXMOM as Miss Fern.

Her conflicts are my conflicts...

Jrand, if you need people who can do rehearsals and not performances, I could name a few who neevr missed a rehearsal, but...

Now we're getting someplace. If you can get one of those people who are great at making rehearsals, and someone else who can only do the performances... well, there you are.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #53 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:00:06 PM »

LOL DR GINNY and DR FJL.

singdaw · « **Reply #54 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:14:37 PM »

Page TWO? This will never DO!

singdaw · « **Reply #55 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:17:23 PM »

In the very annoying department: realized at the concert hall last night that I had left my cellphone in the Uber driver's car. Fortunately we had another smartphone among us to order the ride home. AND there was a text from our original Uber driver: he had my smartphone! So far so good. I had a conversation with him wherein he was alarmingly vague about when and how I might get it back. And now: no phone, and no response to my texts about connecting so that I can get it back.

bk · « **Reply #56 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:18:17 PM »

I'm up, I'm up. Couldn't get to sleep until after four and then slept straight through to twelve-thirty, then just stayed in bed till two.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:19:25 PM »

I can't tell yet if I'm feeling better - I think so. I think what my tummy is probably feeling is actual hunger, since the only food I've had in a while was yesterday's poached eggs, toast and a bit of rice and then Saltines.

bk · « **Reply #58 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:20:53 PM »

It was suggested to me by a neighbor who's had the same thing that IF I'm still queasy today that I do the BRAT diet - bananas, rice, applesauce and toast. The thought of that, however, already makes me want to vomit on the ground. What I'd really like to have is a meatless Cobb salad, but don't know if that's good or bad for me.

Jeanne · « **Reply #59 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:37:49 PM »

Hello, everyone.

This is my third attempt today to get here--my phone keeps ringing. But I'm glad it does.

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