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« Reply #180 on: October 31, 2005, 06:09:59 PM »

And one for Mahler's Ghost! ;)
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« Reply #181 on: October 31, 2005, 06:10:27 PM »

DR Sandra is telling the story of Poe's black cat. They read it in class today in honor of Halloween. Wow, no one can tell an uplifting story quite like Edgar Allen Poe.
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« Reply #182 on: October 31, 2005, 06:13:25 PM »

Kiddies have arrived - I had ten in the first group alone.  Kiddies are very bold these days - one candy is not enough - they come right out and ask if they can have two.
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« Reply #183 on: October 31, 2005, 06:19:04 PM »

Gosh!  If it weren't for this forum, I wouldn't have a clue it was Halloween!

Nothing out of the ordinary here.  
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« Reply #184 on: October 31, 2005, 06:19:11 PM »

Congrats on getting some Trick or Treaters!!!
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« Reply #185 on: October 31, 2005, 06:20:23 PM »

I watched "Hidalgo" this afternoon.

I very much enjoyed it.  It's not a mental challenge, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's well-cast, gorgeously photographed, beautifully scored and has enough derring-do and adventure, PLUS A STORY, to make it worthy of the time I spent watching it.
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« Reply #186 on: October 31, 2005, 06:21:30 PM »

On a lighter note, I went to Costco today at lunch.  I got some goodies for the costume contest break and Bette Midler's brand new dual disc CD/DVD, "Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook.  I really like this recording, but as mentioned many times in the amazon.com reviews, it's too short.  It's only 33 minutes!  Bette's tribute CD to Rosemary Clooney was just as short.  Why?  There are so many more songs that could have been added.  I won't be able watch the DVD side until I get home.  It has "Never Before Seen Peggy Lee Home Movie Footage" and "Archival TV and Film Appearances of Peggy Lee."  That sounds like fun! ;D
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« Reply #187 on: October 31, 2005, 06:22:16 PM »

Where has vixmom been all day?  
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« Reply #188 on: October 31, 2005, 06:22:26 PM »

Where is Jose?
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« Reply #189 on: October 31, 2005, 06:22:28 PM »

BK, be on the lookout for Stan Chandler and his lovely wife and baby.
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« Reply #190 on: October 31, 2005, 06:22:55 PM »

Where is TPunk, Rodzinski???

And are you feeling much better today??
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« Reply #191 on: October 31, 2005, 06:23:57 PM »

Hey, Michael Shayne!

Welcome back to the fold.

Is everything restored?  Was loss of power the only damage you suffered?
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« Reply #192 on: October 31, 2005, 06:26:17 PM »

Jane must really have been busy today.  Has anyone heard from her?
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« Reply #193 on: October 31, 2005, 06:26:59 PM »

Oh dear. One of the Pixie Stix broke open when DR Sandra gave out candy. The Pixie Dust got on a vampire. So if you see a flying vampire, you'll know why. SCARY!!
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« Reply #194 on: October 31, 2005, 06:27:10 PM »

Have I asked too many questions?
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« Reply #195 on: October 31, 2005, 06:27:26 PM »

I'm sure Jane is busy with Halloween duties.
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« Reply #196 on: October 31, 2005, 06:29:25 PM »

Rodzinski presents...
HHW TRUE TALES OF TERROR

The following is 100% true.
Maple Lane, Crown Point, Indiana, USA. 1977 or so.
My gradeschool was located at the end of Maple Lane, just beyond a cemetary.
GREENWOOD CEMETARY.
To walk home from school, you walked through a park that went around the cemetary. Students were forbidden from cutting through the cemetary.
As a first grader, that was good enough for me. But one day, I noticed that some older kids were cutting inside the fence, horsing around. An older troublemaker named Keith and a couple other boys...
I continued on my way home.
One of my sisters arrives home after me, gets my dad and soon they are headed out the door back towards school.
"Where are they going, mom?"
I misheard her at first. I thought she said, "They're going to see the lake in the cemetary."
I hopped on my bike and rode back up Maple Lane...
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« Reply #197 on: October 31, 2005, 06:47:49 PM »

Part 2. Still 100% factual.

What Mom had said, as it turned out (in her rather matter of fact way) was, "They're going to see the LEG in the cemetary."
I realized this as I rounded the end of Maple Lane and cut through to where about 15 people were standing, including three of my sisters and my dad. They were quietly staring in at something that was on the grass. A human leg, cut off at high thigh level.
Seems the kid Keith had found a plastic garbage bag in the graveyard and dumped it out, and the leg was what was inside.
We stared at it for a few minutes. I remember my sister Polly saying, "It must be a lady's leg because it's shaved."
A single police car showed up, the cops wrapped the leg in a blanket and took it away in their trunk.
There was no story about it in the news, nothing in the paper.
What my dad heard through the grapevine was that it was a leg amputated from someone who had a plot at the cemetary. But the caretakers obviously didn't go ahead and bury the leg or whatever they were supposed to do.
One odd thing about it is that there was no sense of, "Gee the kids saw a leg. Should they get counseling?" Or anything like that. And none of us kids were particularly freaked out. We went home, ate dinner, talked about it at school the next day.
Then years later, my sisters and I got to talking about it, and it was like, "Did that really happen??? A freakin' leg just sitting out in the sun down the street???"
And then we knew, maybe for the first time, that it had happened.
The leg was real.
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« Reply #198 on: October 31, 2005, 06:52:49 PM »

Here's my question. If you were going to have your leg amputated, why would you bother shaving it?
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« Reply #199 on: October 31, 2005, 06:57:49 PM »

Benjamin Kritzer won an award for his performance in The Zoo Story.  Coincidentally, so did I.  Now, which one of us can remember The Story of Jerry and the Dog?

Another reason why I'm a BK fan!
Did you know, I don't think I've told this before, that I played Jerry TWICE for two different directors, in my sophomore year of college?  

One production was staged outdoors in Schenley Park, the other was staged in The Pit,  a former bar (Bimbo's), acquired by the university and converted into a theater.  

Later still, Pittsburgh's City Theater acquired the space for its professional productions, BUT I appeared in the very first show there under the auspices of City Theater - a show written by Coni Congoli Koepfinger, being given its WORLD PREMIERE.  It has since gone on to multiple productions, TRAIL PROOF has been produced all across the U.S.; still, I was the first Krylo Kontessa, an artist who never stops painting - or talking for that matter!
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« Reply #200 on: October 31, 2005, 07:01:24 PM »

Here's my question. If you were going to have your leg amputated, why would you bother shaving it?

Maybe she didn't know that it was going to be removed. :o
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« Reply #201 on: October 31, 2005, 07:03:12 PM »

No sign of Stan Chandler and frau and child.

So many kids!!!  And they keep coming, usually in groups of four to twelve.  Best costume, a girl dressed as Mary Poppins - gorgeous clothes, wig, and makeup.
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« Reply #202 on: October 31, 2005, 07:03:51 PM »

Best Male Costume - Three boys dressed as The Blues Brothers - they took their candy in a briefcase.
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« Reply #203 on: October 31, 2005, 07:04:28 PM »

Now we're talking about shaving legs?  THAT'S scary.
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« Reply #204 on: October 31, 2005, 07:06:21 PM »

Welcome seven GUESTS!  Are any of you SCARY?  I'll bet some of you are.

I've changed costumes from The Old Jew to Dino at the piano.
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« Reply #205 on: October 31, 2005, 07:06:41 PM »

I've never shaved my legs...not even when I performed in drag! ;)
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« Reply #206 on: October 31, 2005, 07:21:08 PM »

Kiddies are still arriving.  Thankfully, I still have plenty o' candy left.
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« Reply #207 on: October 31, 2005, 07:21:40 PM »

I'm playing Hugo Friedhofer's SCARY music to Paul Bartel's film Private Parts.
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« Reply #208 on: October 31, 2005, 07:25:08 PM »

Er...I thought this was supposed to be a costume party...
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« Reply #209 on: October 31, 2005, 07:26:36 PM »

Well I have 2 more days of notes to catch up.

Yes I am back and I have survived. I got my electricity back some time today. There are still places around me that do not have electricity. Traffic is bad because there are no street lights. Literally. They were blown off their lines. Many many trees down. Most of them ficus trees. I think they should get rid of all the ficus trees. They are not native to Florida and they do not have deep roots which is why they are easily blown over. I went to work since last Wednesday as they had electricity. I needed to do something during the day. I was going stir crazy. I managed to find a BEST BUY opened and bought a portable dvd player and was able to watch movies for a few hours and then went to bed usually around 9:00.

Tonight I was doing laundry as I had more than a weeek to catch up on.

I tried to get on line at work but there was some kind of filter that did not allow me to read beyond the first part of BK's notes.

Thanks to all that were concerned. Next time I am going to do what I did last year. I escaped to LA and Palm Springs for the duration.
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