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[John G.]

Send that pie over here. Right now, damn it. Damn it to HELL.

I know. I have wait until tomorrow to taste it.

[John G.]

Four!

[John G.]

Marsha Hunt has died st 104. There was a great documentary about her a few years ago. She had been blacklisted.

[John G.]

I got some sleep. Bad dreams but I feel somewhat better.

[ChasSmith]

With the entire rest of the day being MINE, all MINE, I walked out on the deck with the last remaining fistful of ground beef in the fridge, to grill a hamburger. I'd been out and about earlier, but I had no idea what a heavenly day it really was. We are in that time of year that, if it were like this all year, we'd be in heaven. Because there would be so damned little to have to deal with. And right there was my answer to the TOD. The temperature was around 85, but it felt like, I dunno, 80? And very very low humidity. Right now there's perfect equilibrium between indoors and outdoors. Bloody PERFECT. It doesn't get better than this.

So please excuse the messy deck and the second grill that doesn't work and the cleanup that's waiting to be done all around the place. I was out there in my shorts and bare feet and could literally have sat down and fallen asleep right there. It's a rare day. And, as such, heaven.

[Jane]

Did you bake the pie?

Yes. It’s for Bible study tomorrow.

I am sure they will enjoy it.

[Jane]

Send that pie over here. Right now, damn it. Damn it to HELL.

I know. I have wait until tomorrow to taste it.

[Jane]

DR Chas, your deck and view are lovely.

[Jane]

I have a three, or four, way video chat about to start.

[elmore3003]

DR ChasSmith, that deck looks like some place I would like to set my butt, pencil sharpener, pencils, and rulers, and write some music.

[elmore3003]

This day has worn me down. I plan to sleep in, work on my scores, and do little more than that as possible.

[John G.]

Great deck, ChasSmith.

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

[Jeanne]

I think these last 10 days have caught up with me, as I feel simply wiped out -- too little sleep, not enough to eat, and too much stress.

[Jeanne]

We had light rain overnight, but not the heavy rain or flooding that was forecast. Every bit helps. And the temps are about 10 degrees lower. And THAT helps.


DR Laura, did you get any rain?

[Jeanne]

I got this email from France, Europe, abourt my overture sketch:
I love the overture. I knew with your theatrical flair you would bring something to this music that others simply cannot!!

I was very very pleased!

What a lovely compliment! It doesn't get any better than that.

[Jeanne]

   I'd never really thought about things that way.

(cat vs inkjet printer)

[Jeanne]

Had a lousy night of sleep. My kidneys kept getting me up every few hours. There was also a bout of sleeplessness during which I finished off Woody Allen’s latest book, Zero Gravity.

Did you like the book?

[George]

I got this email from France, Europe, abourt my overture sketch:
I love the overture. I knew with your theatrical flair you would bring something to this music that others simply cannot!!

I was very very pleased!

That's great, Larry!

[George]

DR George, sincere good wishes for your mother's heath!

Thanks, Larry!  I'm over there now and we're all playing cards.

[Jeanne]

If I had a deck like Chas' I'd spend a LOT of time on it.

[Jeanne]

TOD:

Good, reliable news regarding the upcoming election.

A technological breakthrough which significantly benefits the planet.

There are other things on my wish list, too, but those are the main ones.

[Jeanne]

TTFN.

[George]

Finding this on Facebook this morning made me love the old broad even more!
4 Facts about Queen Elizabeth II and the Jews
      1. Her Mother-in-Law Saved Jews During the Holocaust
When World War II broke out, Prince Philip volunteered for the British navy, and battled Nazis with distinction. Remaining in Athens, Princess Alice invited the Cohens, a Greek Jewish family with whom she and her husband had been friends, to hide in her house.

Princess Alice was brought in for questioning but refused to divulge the fact that she was sheltering Jews in her home. She returned to London in 1967 and died there in 1969. She requested that her remains be interred in Jerusalem, and in 1988 they were buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. She was declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial. Prince Philip traveled to Jerusalem for the ceremony, where he planted a tree in his mother’s memory.

      2. Queen Elizabeth II Hired Jewish Mohel to Circumcise Prince Charles
Queen Elizabeth II hired an Orthodox Jewish mohel to circumcise her son Prince Charles. Rabbi Jacob Snowman (1871-1959) was a London mohel of great renown.

      3. British Jews pray for the Queen every Shabbat
It’s a Jewish custom around the world to recite a prayer on Shabbat for their government leaders. In Britain, this means praying for the welfare of Queen Elizabeth II and her family. British Jews ask God to “preserve the Queen in life, guard her and deliver her from all sorrow.” The prayer goes on to ask that the Divine “put a spirit of wisdom into her heart and into the hearts of all her counsellors” too.

      4. She Departed from Royal Protocol to Listen to Holocaust Survivors
On January 27, 2005, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Queen Elizabeth hosted a group of Holocaust survivors in St. James’s Palace in the center of London.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was present and later recounted: “When the time came for her to leave, she stayed. And stayed. One of her attendants said that he had never known her to linger so long after her scheduled departure. She gave each survivor - it was a large group - her focused, unhurried attention. She stood with each until they had finished telling their personal story."

Wow.  That's amazing!

[George]

[George]

TOD:

My idea of heaven would be if the Former Turd and his supporters went away and were never heard from again.

SUPER DITTO!!

[John G.]

Had a lousy night of sleep. My kidneys kept getting me up every few hours. There was also a bout of sleeplessness during which I finished off Woody Allen’s latest book, Zero Gravity.

Did you like the book?

Not really. Too much of it seemed tired or recycled. But I didn’t hate it.

[John G.]

More vibes for George’s mom.

[bk]

Got back at eleven-thirty, many telephonic conversations, doing a few things, and then watching the no-budget film The Devil's Hand, which ChasSmith pointed out many moons ago has a shot of my Picfair Theater at the end. The film came out in 1961 but because I identified what was playing the Picfair - I Want to Live -  I can date the week the film was shot at that location - January 28, 1959 is when that opened there. Interestingly, I saw it the week before at the Stadium on a double bill with The Big Country. Second feature at the Picfair was a Bardot film I never heard of, The Light Across the Street from 1956.

[bk]

In The Devil's Hand, they exit a building with a sign that says Belmont Hospital and the address 5907. As they walk to a car, that's when you're looking east toward Fairfax and see the Picfair. The "Belmont Hospital" was, in fact, Carthay Studios, where they shot the film's interiors. I was fascinated by Carthay Studios growing up and always wanted to go in there but never did - until the 1970s when I shot some commercial there. In the car, we're looking across Pico to the south and you can see a motel at 5917 - that building is still there, just not a motel anymore. However, the entire block that had Carthay Studios has been razed - one entire block - the studio itself was only on the corner.