Topic: LIKE SANDS THROUGH AN HOURGLASS, THESE ARE THE DAYS OF MY LIFE (Read 5961 times)

John G. · « **Reply #120 on:** December 19, 2023, 04:45:28 PM »

Five!

John G. · « **Reply #121 on:** December 19, 2023, 04:45:57 PM »

My first amaryllis is starting to bloom.

Jane · « **Reply #122 on:** December 19, 2023, 04:48:19 PM »

Last night we went to dinner at a local pub, our first time eating there, with two other couples.

After dinner we moved to the back room to attend an even/town hall meeting with our local congresswoman.

This is the woman who barely beat the nazi running against her in the last election. Once again he is running against her. It is scary.

Freddie · « **Reply #123 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:03:26 PM »

Quote from: John G. on December 19, 2023, 04:43:01 PM

Because they keep dropping their needles.

LOL!!!

John G. · « **Reply #124 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:12:12 PM »

Colorado is keeping Trump from appearing on the ballot. Yay!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #125 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:20:00 PM »

May I help you, please?

Jeanne · « **Reply #126 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:30:30 PM »

Hello, everyone.

Jeanne · « **Reply #127 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:33:44 PM »

I spent the afternoon doing more tossing — my own stuff. How does it pile up so quickly? It always takes longer to go through than I anticipate, too. I’m only half-way through what I thought I could get through today. Sigh.

Jeanne · « **Reply #128 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:34:09 PM »

Continued recovery vibes to Singdaw.

Jeanne · « **Reply #129 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:34:25 PM »

Stay well vibes to everyone.

Jeanne · « **Reply #130 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:36:51 PM »

Quote from: John G. on December 19, 2023, 05:12:12 PM

Colorado is keeping Trump from appearing on the ballot. Yay!

Yes, a very interesting development. So many unprecedented legal issues. Lots of work for the attorneys. And lots of sitting on the edge of our seats for many of us.

Jeanne · « **Reply #131 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:37:35 PM »

I have no news.

TTFN.

John G. · « **Reply #132 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:47:36 PM »

Watching Downhill, a silent Hitchcock film that’s an extra on the Criterion release of The Lodger. Both star Ivor Novello.

John G. · « **Reply #133 on:** December 19, 2023, 05:49:40 PM »

A prostitute lures a pair of young college boys to her lair and plays the song “ I Want Some Money” on her Victrola.

bk · « **Reply #134 on:** December 19, 2023, 06:29:47 PM »

Slept for two hours. Dog's had second meal. I'll know once she's gone if this is allergies (remember, this has been going on for nine days now) or Covid. I'm just really tried of feeling like this.

Jane · « **Reply #135 on:** December 19, 2023, 06:32:29 PM »

Quote from: Jeanne on December 19, 2023, 05:36:51 PM

Quote from: John G. on December 19, 2023, 05:12:12 PM
Colorado is keeping Trump from appearing on the ballot. Yay!

Yes, a very interesting development. So many unprecedented legal issues. Lots of work for the attorneys. And lots of sitting on the edge of our seats for many of us.

While I think this is great I do wonder how it can be legal. I'll have to read more about it.

Jane · « **Reply #136 on:** December 19, 2023, 06:46:01 PM »

'night

DR Iris · « **Reply #137 on:** December 19, 2023, 06:58:38 PM »

Trying to catch up.

DR Iris · « **Reply #138 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:00:41 PM »

Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled that Trump is not allowed to be on their primary Presidential ballot because he participated in an insurrection. This is based on The 14th Amendment:

Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights

Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

DR Iris · « **Reply #139 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:01:21 PM »

However, Trump will take the case to SCOTUS, so the Supreme Court will decide.

DR Iris · « **Reply #140 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:02:07 PM »

The only soap opera that I ever watched was Santa Barbara.

I found it delightfully quirky and witty.

DR Iris · « **Reply #141 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:02:40 PM »

And I must confess to having had a mad crush on Lane Davies.

DR Iris · « **Reply #142 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:04:47 PM »

His passion is actually Shakespeare.

I was fortunate to see him as Hamlet and as Macbeth in Los Angeles. He was fantastic.

DR Iris · « **Reply #143 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:06:28 PM »

He’s still performing Shakespeare. Here’s a review from this summer in Thousand Oaks.

“Lane Davies is Lear. As he gives in to his frailties we see the strength leaving him, the bones becoming brittle and his mind diminishes. It’s a wonderfully wrought performance. Proud and pompous at first, then confused and heartbroken. As he tries to reason his way through his daughters’ betrayal, resisting at first the obvious rebukes, he must face it all in the end. The final insult breaks him, body and spirit and he wanders sadly, bewildered by his rapid fall…it’s both terrifying and wonderful to watch and Lane Davies gives a spectacular performance as this sad and bedraggled king.”

DR Iris · « **Reply #144 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:07:29 PM »

Sending good health and holiday cheer vibes to all!

❤️

John G. · « **Reply #145 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:15:19 PM »

Reading different parts of Hitchcock/Truffaut. In the last chapter, Truffaut writes that Hitchcock dropped the Bernard Hermann score for Torn Curtain because the studios wanted it discarded. “We must bear in mind here that in 1966, in Hollywood and elsewhere, it was the practice of the film industry to favor scores that would sell as popular records—the kind of film music that could be danced to in discotheques. In this sort of game, Hermann, a disciple of Wagner and Stravinsky, was bound to be a loser.”

John G. · « **Reply #146 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:15:38 PM »

Great to see you, Iris.

John G. · « **Reply #147 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:17:00 PM »

Downhill was early Hitchcock. Interesting but a bit of a bore.

John G. · « **Reply #148 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:18:10 PM »

Now listening to Hitchcock and Peter Bogdanovich talk about the early pictures.

John G. · « **Reply #149 on:** December 19, 2023, 07:18:24 PM »

Let’s move on …

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