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[Matt H.]

What about that great ALIAS shock pulled in the last scene last night! That certainly came out of nowhere.


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I saw Joel Grey's name in the credits when the show started, but then I promptly forgot about him until he appeared at the end of the show. Quite a surprise, and a great, great piece of casting. Wonder if he and Ron Rifkin spend off camera moments telling each other CABARET stories from their respective productions?  

[Ron Pulliam]

According to TIVO the first episode of REVELATIONS is on CNBC tonight and on the SciFi channel Friday night.

I think we will watch it tonight.

I'm glad I didn't post any spoilers about last night's premiere episode, then!

[Joey]

W-a-a-a-ay before Joey was born.  Do I owe him a dollar now?

If this keeps up I'll be rich!!! Well richer than I am now at least.   Truth be told, I love hearing stories about how things were "Before Joey was born." I remember one story my grandma told me about having their beans cooked in the heater on the coal shovel during the Depression. They told the same story to my dad but forgot to include the fact that they were in the can which sat on the shovel. He spent years thinking they poured the beans onto the coal shovel to cook them.

[George]

Well, I've only read up to Post #64, but I'll have to catch up later.  I'm leaving work now because I'm heading to Seattle to see Patti LuPone Live in Concert!!  I'm meeting my ex-boyfriend (we're still good friends .  The one time that I went to New York (in 1995), Patti was performing in concert and had extended to New Year's Eve.  A bunch of us had tickets to see her, but then the extention got cancelled. I was very sad.  So now, I finally get to see her!!  I'll report when I get back late tonight.

[Jrand74]

Tell Patti we said HI DRGEORGE!

[Jrand74]

I always thought the Olivetti was the best looking portable typewriter!

[Jrand74]

No cell phone for me, so far.

[Jrand74]

Beans cooked on a shovel.  That was even before I WAS BORN!

[Sandra]

The rhetoric of environmental information campaigns: Discuss.

[Ron Pulliam]

Beans cooked on a shovel.  That was even before I WAS BORN!

Don't we all know it!!!

I've shovelled beans before...after a big old pressure cooker exploded...beans everywhere...lots of beans...on the ceiling, on the walls....it was awesome.

[MBarnum]

OH, yes, I cannot drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time...so I rarely (I wish I could say "never have")answer or make calls while driving....a few close calls convinced me that I was simply not flexible enough to do both (and it was worse when I drove a stick shift)....heck, I can barely drive when I am chatting with a passenger in the car (...thinking about how many exits I have missed over the years!).

[MBarnum]

I have shamed myself so much from admitting to driving with whilst talking on a cell phone that no one wants to even post!

[MBarnum]

Come on guys....if it makes a difference I did use my turn signal while chatting/driving!

Of course I wasn't turning or anything, at the time.

[JMK]

The rhetoric of environmental information campaigns: Discuss.

You need to talk to DS Betsy, the green power maven of the northwest.  Her radio spots for alternative energy are all over the radio on the west coast, plus she was Program Manager and Media Director for For the Sake of the Salmon, one of the most innovative environmental organizations in our country (the only one, in fact, that had every western and northwestern state's governments, timber interests and Native American tribes working out solutions together).  Right now she's doing a huge contract for the Energy Trust, something about biofuel.  I believe right now she's exploring the wonderful world of methane.  

[JMK]

Re:  H replacing I at the beginning of words in songs.  It's funny because I noticed that very thing a few weeks ago on American Idol.  One of the black women (Nadia maybe?  Sorry, I only watch sporadically) was singing and every single world starting with "I" had an "H" before it.  It started driving me crazy.

Another pop music mispronunciation that offends me is the morphing of a final t and initial y (for instance, "don't you") in a "j" or "ch" sound--"Don chew" or "Don jew".  Drives me a little batty.  A very short drive to be sure.  

[TCB]

In college I got it modified for typing Esperanto and French, just took it into a shop and they ordered the accent keys and "deadened" them, so you could type the accent and then the letter.  I believe one of my keys had a symbol I wanted to save, on upper case (for those of you who are too young to remember manual typewriters, as this was BEFORE JOEY WAS BORN, the physical key had both u.c. and l.c. symbols on it)--so they guy actually sawed the keys in two and welded the upper of one onto the lower of the other.  

I have never used Esperanto, but then, I have never been to Esperant.

[TCB]

I find these people who must be on their cell ALL the time (you know the types - walking down the street with their earphone in, just chattering away, not caring who hears their most intimate secrets.  It used to be that when you saw someone muttering to themselves as they walked down the street, you assumed they were insane.  Now the oddity is not seeing someone muttering to whomever they're muttering to on their cells.  

I got rid of my cell phone about two years ago, but I kept my earphone set.  Now I use it in the car whenever I want to rehearse my dialogue or my songs.........................

 (or when I want to talk to myself)

[Tomovoz]

It's already April 15th here in the Land of OZ - last night was a night to remember.

[elmore3003]

And yet, sadly, still no ads for

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]albino hermaphrodites!!!![/move]

Well, there's a great albino pinhead narrator in the fantastic book GEEK LOVE, but I'm not certain about albino hermaphrodites.  Isn't there one in Fellini's SATYRICON? There certainly is not one in Petronius' comic novel, as I recall.

Well, I'm back from seeing my beloved goddaughter play Gymnasia in FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at the Horace Mann School.
I was prepared for the worst, and I had a wonderful time:  the script is impossible to destroy it's so funny, and the kids were having a great time.  I especially liked the Hero and Philia (both goofy and funny), the Senex, Hysterium, and Eronius, the old man running around the hills of Rome.  The score was too low for the Pseudolus and too high for Miles and Domina.  Still, the courtesans and Proteans were having great fun, as were I and Miss Charlotte's father.

[TCB]

You need to talk to DS Betsy, the green power maven of the northwest.  Her radio spots for alternative energy are all over the radio on the west coast, plus she was Program Manager and Media Director for For the Sake of the Salmon, one of the most innovative environmental organizations in our country (the only one, in fact, that had every western and northwestern state's governments, timber interests and Native American tribes working out solutions together).  Right now she's doing a huge contract for the Energy Trust, something about biofuel.  I believe right now she's exploring the wonderful world of methane.  

I dare you to stand directly behind a cow and
discuss the wonderful world of methane.

[Charles Pogue]

Rodzinski, the way the Reds are playing (dipping to .500, 4-4, after a quick three-zero win record), your Pirates may well win their division.  These days the Reds usually break my heart and deny me any hope well before the All-Star break, at which point I don't read the sports page until February and Spring trainig.  But I've always like the Pirates... I remember going to see the Reds and Pirates in a double-header at Crosley field and Dick Stuart hit 4 home-runs for the Pirates that day.  I couldn't tell you who won the games.

MBarnum, it's people like you what make it difficult for the rest of us.  I curse cell phone drivers frequently.  They are particularly terrible at turns and red lights.

[Charles Pogue]

Anyone else having a tough time connecting to WMKV today...or is it just me?

[elmore3003]

My tonsil's are still where they ought to be.

DRMichaelBarnum, I shudder to think where that might be!

[JMK]

Well, there's a great albino pinhead narrator in the fantastic book GEEK LOVE

Elmore, it is so weird that you should mention that book.  It was written by Portland author Katherine Dunn.  Katherine's boyfriend was a reporter for either the Oregonian or Willamette Week (can't remember right now) and they used to be regulars at 13 Coins where I was the house pianist for several years.  They used to sit in a back booth and work on their tomes, supping and sipping and requesting the occasional tune.

[JMK]

I dare you to stand directly behind a cow and
discuss the wonderful world of methane.

That is exactly the sort of biofuel that Betsy is helping to market.  Not exactly the Penn & Teller show BK worked on, but very close.  

[elmore3003]

William F. Orr, I've been holding out against buying a cell phone for as long as I can.  I do not share the rest of the world's obsession with wanting to be connected and at everyone's disposal 24/7.  You see people talking their lives away and not living them...utterly unaware of the everyday wonders going on around them.  

I think they have also helped to increase the world's level of rudeness, self-absorption, and its short attention span.  I think they are just as intrusive as cigarette-smoking and should be banned everywhere cigarettes are banned and maybe even in more places.  I don't think one should be allowed to use them in cars, in restaurants, and, it goes without saying, theatres.

You hear people in stores yammering to their friends on them and you just want to shout at them, "Pipe down!  Your sad, little, mediocre life is just not that interesting to share with the rest of the world!  You're boring us!  Shut up!"  I'm surprised they're not boring themselves...to have lives so empty they have to make themselves available to any interruption and to answer any little ring.

Admittedly, there are times like last night when one might have proved useful...or when you have a flat tire 200 hundred miles outside of Tucumcari in the middle of the New Mexico desert.  But that's about the only time I'd use one.

The Lovely Wife got one...but she only uses it to call out on, I don't even have the number.  Of course, she's already using it to call me from the market down the street on her way home from work.  If it gets to the point, she calls me to tell me she's just pulled into the garage, then I may throw it through a window.

To answer your question about people's shock, yes.  A few weeks ago, I was pulling onto a studio lot and they didn't have a drive-on for me.  They told me to pull over to a designated spot and call the production office I was going to for one.  I pulled over and noticed the lot public phone was out of order.  When I mentioned this to the guard, he said "Well, you've got a cell, don't you?"  "No."  They had to call from the guard kiosk.

DR Pogue, I agree 100%!  I loathe and abominate the damned things.  If I were in an area requiring lots of driving, I'd have one in my car for safety, but the overuse of them for piddly reason and the encouragement of the advertisements that they are a necessary form of frivolity drive me up the damned wall.

I've wanted to ask customers at Barnes & Noble "Do you want my help or do you want to chat in front of me?" many times.  I've heard morons tell a store full of strangers their entire weekend plans ("We're not home, come rob us"), I've listened to half of a loud conversation on trains and planes, I got into a fight at RENT with the obnoxious young ladies in front of me who couldn't turn off or put down their cell phones, and I wish brain cancer on all of them.

[elmore3003]

OH, yes, I cannot drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time...so I rarely (I wish I could say "never have")answer or make calls while driving....a few close calls convinced me that I was simply not flexible enough to do both (and it was worse when I drove a stick shift)....heck, I can barely drive when I am chatting with a passenger in the car (...thinking about how many exits I have missed over the years!).

How are you at chewing gum and walking?

[Ron Pulliam]

I have never used Esperanto, but then, I have never been to Esperant.

Well...I guess that also means you aren't an Esperantite!  Or should that be Esperantito?

Do they have Fritos in Esperant, do you think?

If so, do they know the "Frito Esperandido"?

[Tomovoz]

[quote author=elmore3003  I got into a fight at RENT with the obnoxious young ladies in front of me who couldn't turn off or put down their cell phones, and I wish brain cancer on all of them.

So I should not have kept my cell phone "there" DR Elmore.  lol.  Hopefully that is too obscure for most DRs.

[elmore3003]

Elmore, it is so weird that you should mention that book.  It was written by Portland author Katherine Dunn.  Katherine's boyfriend was a reporter for either the Oregonian or Willamette Week (can't remember right now) and they used to be regulars at 13 Coins where I was the house pianist for several years.  They used to sit in a back booth and work on their tomes, supping and sipping and requesting the occasional tune.

GEEK LOVE is a fantastic and moving novel, which I recommend to one and all: Outrageous, funny, and ultimately quite tragic.  I think its influence is manifest in both the musical SIDESHOW and the HBO series CARNIVALE.