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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had balls, and now it is time for you to post until the crystal cows come home. They're currently gazing into their balls and frankly are fascinated by doing so.
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And the word of the day is: MANSUETUDE!
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I'm finding it more than a little nauseating that no one has been in the jernt for over two hours.
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And a very happy haineshisway.com birthday to Laura II, who I have a vague memory of from days of old.
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Nobody here but us chickens.
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BK:
If you do not title your next novel "This Large Piece of Rancid Cheese," then you simply must call it, "Jack Soo Wandered In."
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I watched last night's 2-hour episode of "America's Got Talent." It's always interesting that they show so many people/performers who really shouldn't be on the show. Some of the performers were very good, but not all. And the audience for a so-called "talent" show, is very much like a typical Jerry Springer audience (he is the host). I'm glad that I can record the show and fast-forward through all the crap that isn't a performance.
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People! How unique!
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Welcome fourteen GUESTS.
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Well, no one can say we didn't get to page one.
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I must to bed now, but before I leave may I just say one word - LIMBO!
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Make that fifteen GUESTS.
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I rather like This Large Rancid Piece of Cheese! :)
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Good morning, all! Another day with the NYPL and Toyland. This afternoon I turn over the Daniel Rodriguez medley to the conductor, so I've got about 20 bars to finish scoring before then.
I'm not at all upset about the break-in at my dad's house. I wish the damned thieves had torched it when they left; then we could have collected the insurance on the place. The house has been sitting empty for 27 months, and everything remotely wanted was removed 27-12 months ago. Theproblem has been getting the remainder of thecrap in it taken away, and last year, when my dad's estate had the money to hire a crew to do it, the Macbeths refused to be helpful, and I couldn't dump everything on Randy. On my trips back last year, I couldn't get any support to handle a crew or the cleaning out of the house, so I stopped caring. In November, when I paid the estate taxes, I told my brothers that, so far as I was concerned, the property was now our concern and no longer the estate's.
The burglars were clearly scoping out the situation and aware that no one was regularly showing up at ther property. I'm only glad that Randy wasn't on the property when they were robbing the place.
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Good Morning to Myself.
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And the word of the day is: MANSUETUDE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: MR. CELLOPHANE
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Good morning!
Thanks to DR CP for sharing that lovely Cyd story.....she was still quite glamorous in her interviews and remembrances that show up on TCM from time to time, although she seemed to have a problem with one of her eyes.
I too am surprised to learn that she was only 5'6".
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MR BK - were any of the SEE-lebrities or Executives involved with THE OSCAR in attendance at the premiere?
When I watched it this time, I noticed a man introducing himself at the party as "Pereira, I'm in art direction...." - must have been Hal from Paramount.
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Tonight SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (2 hours)!
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Good morning, fellow Dear Readers. That is all.
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Cellophane is such an interesting word.
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I wonder if Frankie Faine had brother named....Cello?
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Last night was Canadian Idol's Toronto week. Where 200 went down to 22.
One interesting thing to note is that of the top 24 (they changed it last minute) we got to know everybody save one or maybe two people. And i'm hoping that when i see those people i will remember them from previous shows (they did not show them last night).
I feel bad cause the one girl i do not remember seeing is from montreal.
Another interesting point is that there are 14 guys and 10 girls. They always do it evenly (like AMERICAN IDOL). But the guys were so much more talented.
And they wanted to make it very emotional at the end. Because the last two people in the room were the guy and girl who were cut last before the show (last year).
They didn't really show them at all auditioning this season. Just reminded us of their stories from last year (i would have rather they showed us what they'd done this year).
But like other shows (i'm thinking so you think you can dance), when they bring back someone who just about made it, they don't bring them all the way to the end to reject them again.
It looks like it will be very interesting.
For the first time there are 2 brothers in the top 24. I knew these guys would make it from their auditions. One brother especially is amazing.
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I liked a lot of "America's Got Talent" last night. However, the cut-aways to Jerry Springer during the opera singer's performance was completely inexplicable. Did we NEED Springer telling us the obvious...that the audience was standing? And a few moments later...that the judges were standing? I totally don't get the editing. It was as if he wished to rob all the emotional power out of that last auditioner.
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We are having a cool morning, but the day is supposed to get toasty.
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I slept very well until about 5 a.m. Shortly thereafter I was aware that my left arm and the left side of my face were throbbing. I was, apparently, the feast for some mosquito and I have about five bites, including one on the side of my left eye socket (giving the eye a swollen appearance).
It's hideous, I tell you...HIDEOUS!
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I'm totally jazzed about a UPS delivery I am expecting today. In that delivery "should be" the Carmen Miranda box.
Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yippee!
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I rather like This Large Rancid Piece of Cheese! :)
Well then, break out the crackers!
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Gosh, there were four other folks logged on when I started. And now they are all gone.
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I know I haven't yet brushed my teeth, but this is ridiculous.
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Time to get ready for work, I guess. I'm gonna be a lot earlier today than usual thanks to that darned skeeter.
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Hi, Jo!
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In anticipation:
Hi, Ben!
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Good morning!
Cool morning, and I am loving it. I have the house opened up and cooling down. Haven't gotten to do this in weeks, but having the A/C off, even for a morning, is nice.
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For all those dipping into their DVD collections for great Cyd Charisse moments, I cannot recommend highly enough her number from "The Desert Song" in "Deep in My Heart". It's Charisse at her most sensuous and beautiful.
And if you have "The Harvey Girls", watch for the young, fresh Charisse dancing in several numbers.
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I'm on about an hour earlier than usual. I've been invited over to my friend Hal's house to swim in his pool, so I'll be there later this morning into early afternoon. Haven't been this season, so I'm looking forward to it.
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For all those dipping into their DVD collections for great Cyd Charisse moments, I cannot recommend highly enough her number from "The Desert Song" in "Deep in My Heart". It's Charisse at her most sensuous and beautiful.
And if you have "The Harvey Girls", watch for the young, fresh Charisse dancing in several numbers.
Dancing with the wonderful James Mitchell. Very sensual.
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I stayed home yesterday.
My sinuses were giving me fits for some reason.
At any rate, I was sufficiently recovered by late afternoon, at which time I baked a cake.
It was a yellow cake and I smothered it in Classic Chocolate icing.
Yum-yum eat-em-up eat-em-up!
:D
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Yesterday the first Deep Discount box came, and I was HORRIFIED that Warners used full-sized Amray cases for the Bette Davis films. That box is ridiculously large. I know they were selling those films separately, but why or why couldn't they have used slim cases?
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All right. I'm really off now. Will check back in after I arrive at the office.
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The box sets are starting to stack up, review-wise. Yesterday I got THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, Season 2 - Volume 1. That and MAD MEN don't come out until July 1, so I'm putting them off until I finish with THE FURIES. Hopefully, I'll get started on it today after I return from the pool.
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Nothing on TV for me tonight, so whatever I'm reviewing, I'll continue to review. Of course, I'll be finishing LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME as I cook and eat lunch when I return from my pool outing.
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And it looks like I may have a lot of stuff to get done over the next few days... We shall see... :)
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And the word of the day is: MANSUETUDE!
DR singdaw - That is what they call it.
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I liked a lot of "America's Got Talent" last night. However, the cut-aways to Jerry Springer during the opera singer's performance was completely inexplicable. Did we NEED Springer telling us the obvious...that the audience was standing? And a few moments later...that the judges were standing? I totally don't get the editing. It was as if he wished to rob all the emotional power out of that last auditioner.
DR Ron Pulliam - Well, from what I've seen on YouTube, it just looks like they're following the same format and style as the original UK series. However, once they reach the later rounds, then the commentary seems to stop. ???
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I slept very well until about 5 a.m. Shortly thereafter I was aware that my left arm and the left side of my face were throbbing. I was, apparently, the feast for some mosquito and I have about five bites, including one on the side of my left eye socket (giving the eye a swollen appearance).
It's hideous, I tell you...HIDEOUS!
OUCH!!!
~~~~~LOW-ITCH VIBES TO DR RON PULLIAM~~~~~
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Here's a link to a video from American Movie Classics on Science fictions movies into stage musicals.
BTW, bk, the reporter (Kevin Maher) is a big big fan of yours; when he saw you were involved with the recording, he told us: "I grew up watching "Spaceship" (aka "The Creatute Wasn't Nice") over and over. " But he didn't include any genre spoofs in general, in the report, which is very short. STARFIGHTER has only 15 seconds of a 3-minute-or-so or so report.
Warning: There's a brief car commercial before the video report. After clicking on the link, you have to click on Gollum if you want to see the video.
Most coverage time-wise is about LORD OF THE RINGS, but LAST STARFIGHTER had 15 seconds of pics and commentary at 1 minute, 44 seconds in.
http://www.amctv.com/videos/
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Vibes to dear Ron P
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Yes, sorry to read about DR Ron Pulliam sinuses and mosquito woes. Funny, I can't remember any mosquito bites last summer, but I've awakened two mornings this month with three or four bites on the back of each leg. Very annoying.
Sounds like the bites on your face are much more irritating and bothersome.
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It's so cool this morning that I didn't even go up to my office. I'm on-line from my kitchen laptop sitting next to an open door with the most wonderful breeze being pulled through the kitchen by the attic fan.
Would that all summer mornings could be this p[leasant.
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OK. I'm going to hop off the internet now and get a few things done around here before heading off to the pool.
WBBL.
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Wednesday morning greetings! Even though I didn't have to take a pill at midnight, I was still up late last night waiting for and then visiting with Rob and Mary Linda upon their return from Michigan. They brought freshly-picked strawberries from her parents' small farm - YUM!
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I am in the office.
I have a cheesy omelet (not rancid, though) and some extra crispy bacon for brekkies.
I was expecting a "What happened to your eye?" query from the lady at the shop where I bought my breakfast.
Instead, I was treated to a glimpse at her unmade-up face.
She was "in the process" of doing her makeup, but had not gotten to her eyes or eyebrows.
Suddenly, I don't feel hideous at all.
:)
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I am in the office.
I have a cheesy omelet (not rancid, though) and some extra crispy bacon for brekkies.
I was expecting a "What happened to your eye?" query from the lady at the shop where I bought my breakfast.
Instead, I was treated to a glimpse at her unmade-up face.
She was "in the process" of doing her makeup, but had not gotten to her eyes or eyebrows.
Suddenly, I don't feel hideous at all.
:)
Then did you ask her to finish up your make-up while she was at it?
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I rather like This Large Rancid Piece of Cheese! :)
If so, then you'll adore The Angry Red Planet. If ever any movie ever made could be a large rancid piece of cheese, this one qualifies, along with its star Gerald Mohr!
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Then did you ask her to finish up your make-up while she was at it?
No. I was "in the moment" of not feeling hideous.
Also, the only "makeup" I use is soap, water and a little moisturizer.
What do you use?
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Re: "The Oscar" -- one thing about this film that isn't gosh-awful is Percy Faith's rather wonderful score.
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No. I was "in the moment" of not feeling hideous.
Also, the only "makeup" I use is soap, water and a little moisturizer.
What do you use?
I don't have to use any makeup right now. ;)
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And wouldn't you know it, I cannot find the lyrics to "Glass Mountain," that wonderful song from "The Oscar" (not "Maybe September", the tune they "call" "The Song from 'The Oscar'") but that lovely theme used throughout the film and only the album is sung by a chorus.
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Gawrsh!
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Today is shaping up to become a red-letter day.
Whether that's good or bad is still up-in-the-air.
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I have a doctor's appointment (quarterly) at the VA this afternoon. As I am classified 10% disabled, I must make the best of these appointments.
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Oh, dear. I just thought of the best <snark> ever. But I just can't. I really can't. :)
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It would be too Unseemly.
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:)
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Oh, dear. I just thought of the best <snark> ever. But I just can't. I really can't. :)
Great minds.... ;D
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I'm up, I'm up. A little earlier than necessary, but who's counting. Who is always counting, especially in the morning. Have you ever tried sleeping when who is sitting there like so much fish going 4.5, 6, 7, 12 13, 14, 22, 23, 23 (I hate when who repeats numbers).
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I guess we now have confirmation that RLP doesn't read my posts. :)
I have the original sheet music, signed by Percy, of both Maybe September and Glass Mountain. One of my proudest moments as a musician was being able to perform Maybe September for Ray Evans many years ago. He told me Percy would have loved my piano playing, which really touched me very deeply. He had tears in his eyes when he came up to me, and I am insisting to this day they were tears of joy. ;)
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Great minds.... ;D
Or......
Please do go ahead and make my day!
;)
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BTW, The Oscar, as all of Percy's Columbia oeuvre, is out on CD and still in print at Oldies/Collectables.
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I guess we now have confirmation that RLP doesn't read my posts. :)
I haven't "caught up" by a long shot, no.
"Glass Mountain"? Pretty Please!
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The Dramatists Guild has issued a statement on the exclusion of certain Tony awards from the telecast:
http://www.dramatistsguild.org/about_statements_tonys.aspx
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I feel like issuing a statement.
I'm dashed if I can think of anything specific I'd want to say just now, but a statement seems like just the ticket.
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Oh, dear. I just thought of the best <snark> ever. But I just can't. I really can't. :)
Just because I might be able to find you in 16 days -- at least, in terms of geographical juxtapositioning, I'd be able to hunt you down -- don't let that stop you!
:)
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Quickly, you movie trivia hounds! What movie comedy of the 60s was "this" the tagline for:
"Wake up! Break the rules! Rock the boat! Make love! Fall over laughing!!!"
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I seem to be doing a solo act here.
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It's unusual for so many Hainsies and Kimlets to be so quiet at this time of day.
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Hmmm...looking back at some of posts from Sunday, i guess I was somehow signed in on HHW during part of the Tony telecast, even though I was hard at work elsewhere at the computer. I did come to HHW for the after-party, though.
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My UPS deliveries arrived yesterday, surprisingly.
I have my "Carmen Miranda" box set, the second (and last) season of "Jericho" and the DVD (plus bonus CD soundtrack) of "Fanny".
Life is balanced.
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Hmmm...looking back at some of posts from Sunday, i guess I was somehow signed in on HHW during part of the Tony telecast, even though I was hard at work elsewhere at the computer.
How can you tell this from looking at Sunday's posts?
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I have nothing to say, seeing how this is day three on the couch.
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How can you tell this from looking at Sunday's posts?
From bk's diatribes, no doubt. :)
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{{{{DearReaderLaura DR}}}}
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While out and about doing lunch errands, I popped bk's album "Broadway Bound" into the olde CD player. I hadn't listened to it in ages.
What a great album! What sparkling orchestrations! :D
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Thanks, Singdaw.
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Quickly, you movie trivia hounds! What movie comedy of the 60s was "this" the tagline for:
"Wake up! Break the rules! Rock the boat! Make love! Fall over laughing!!!"
Well, I didn't know. But Google is my friend. And of course, now that I know, it makes perfect sense. 8) Why couldn't I think of that? :P
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Of course, the title "My Days on the Couch" could have several different interpretations... ;)
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I have nothing to say, seeing how this is day three on the couch.
Three on the Couch is a good title.
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By changing ONE (count it, ONE) letter in the title of this motion picture, it could be something wholly different:
"To Fill A Mockingbird" -- adventures in Chinese cooking!
Anyone else?
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Jrand, to be a tad indelicate, I think the problem with Cyd's eye might have had to do with some bad plastic surgery. Her eyes were perfectly fine when I knew her.
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I have to make shepherd's pie for dinner tonight. My sister is tricky (even though it's one of my niece's favorites). While we were on the phone yesterday my sister asked my niece what she wanted me to make her for supper tonight. And my niece said "shepherd's pie". Well i only found out after i said yes, that my sister had told her to say that! :)
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I have to make shepherd's pie for dinner tonight. My sister is tricky (even though it's one of my niece's favorites). While we were on the phone yesterday my sister asked my niece what she wanted me to make her for supper tonight. And my niece said "shepherd's pie". Well i only found out after i said yes, that my sister had told her to say that! :)
But...are you in a sufficiently rural area that acquiring a shepherd is easily managed?
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Three on the Couch is a good title.
Would that qualify for a group rate?
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I have nothing to say, seeing how this is day three on the couch.
Welcome to my world, DR Laura! I hope the couch time is just what your ankle needs for a full and speedy recovery.
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Would that qualify for a group rate?
It is, at the least, a group "date".
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Just try and see it
[I see it....]
[I see it....]
And you will soon si-si, Senior! Why invite regret when you can get the kind of date you'll never ever forget!
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I think I must be catching whatever it is that afflicts singdaw!
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:'(
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Oh, well, I'm sure it will pass in time.
Or with some sort of laxative.
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Has anyone heard the exact date the next edition of "Big Brother" will start?
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Anyone else?
Boogie Nights becomes Doogie Nights, a documentary about how Neil Patrick Harris overcame sleep apnea.
and
Guys and Dolls becomes Guys and Dolts, a study of contemporary corporate America.
and
The Postman becomes The Postmac, a story of life after Steve Jobs.
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Aspersions are being cast. Oh yes, aspersions are being cast. :)
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Has anyone heard the exact date the next edition of "Big Brother" will start?
I have not. It ususally starts around July 4th or so, doesn't it? I hope so 'cause I need my fix, and also to get the bad taste from the last season out of my mouth.
And since I didn't end up continuing with THE MOLE (it just wasn't as interesting as I had remembered it to be), I need something to watch.
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Ron P - What singdaw said. BK said something about me sitting there like so much fish.
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Aspersions are being cast. Oh yes, aspersions are being cast. :)
OH, I hope they cast either Tom Wopat or Brian D'arcy James. If they do I will surely go to see it!
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Is anyone looking into their crystal balls? Has anyone been to a fortune teller? If so, how was the experience?
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Good Afternoon!
Well... After the phone call I just had, it looks like I will have to make a few more phone calls, as well as make some changes to my plans over the next few days... :)
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Well... One phone call down...
DR FJL - Thanks, as always, for keeping me in mind.
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Does that mean you won't be traveling to Virginia?
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Hmm... I wonder if it would be possible to have some sort of mini-HHW gathering sometime over the next two weeks down in Florida?
:)
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Do they need someone to take your berth on the Disney cruise? ;)
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Does that mean you won't be traveling to Virginia?
Yes. However...
Part of my reason for heading down was to see my parents before they fly off to London. They'll be spending a few days there before sailing out of Dover on a 12-day Scandinavian Cruise. Well, it turns out my Mom never really gave me the right date for their departure. Well, she gave me the date they were sailing, but not the date they were flying. As I found out yesterday, they're flying out this afternoon. So...
I was also hoping to spend some time with my brother, Mike, and his family, but I guess that will have to wait until I get back from Ft. Lauderdale.
:)
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Do they need someone to take your berth on the Disney cruise? ;)
No. I can still do that one too!
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Aspersions are being cast. Oh yes, aspersions are being cast. :)
...and spells. Oh yes, spells are being cast!
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Well, congratulations on your gig, DR JoseSPiano, whatever it may be! :)
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Ron P - What singdaw said. BK said something about me sitting there like so much fish.
Oh, he thought you were carping, eh?
;D
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As for the next edition of "Big Brother" - According to the commercial I just saw: July 13.
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Well, congratulations on your gig, DR JoseSPiano, whatever it may be! :)
Thanks!
Well, it turns out that a cruise line (not Disney) needs someone to come down for two weeks to MD and rehearse their new cast. I leave Saturday afternoon.
So, the plan right now, is to (continue to) take it easy today, and then start getting things in order and ready tomorrow.
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Or whomever it may be... ;)
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Oh. Never mind! ;D
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Someone once noted that a Southerner can get away with the most awful
kind of insult just as long as it's prefaced with the words "Bless her
heart" or "Bless his heart." As in, "Bless his heart, if they put his
brain on the head of a pin, it'd roll around like a BB on a six-lane
highway."
Or, "Bless her heart, she's so bucktoothed, she could eat an apple
through a picket fence."
There are also the sneakier ones that I remember from tongue-clucking
types of my childhood: "You know, it's amazing that even though she
had that baby seven months after they got married, bless her heart, it
weighed 10 pounds!"
As long as the heart is sufficiently blessed, the insult can't be all
that bad, at least that's what my Great-aunt Tiny (bless her heart,
she was anything but) used to say. I was thinking about this the other
day when a friend was telling me about her new Northern friend who was
upset because her toddler is just beginning to talk and he has a
Southern accent. My friend, who is very kind and, bless her heart,
cannot do a thing about those thighs of hers, so don't even start, was
justifiably miffed about this.
After all, this woman had CHOSEN to move South a couple of years ago.
"Can you believe it?" she said to my friend. "A child of mine is going
to be taaaallllkkin' a-liiiike thiiiissss." I can think of far worse
fates than speaking Southern for this adorable little boy, who, bless
his heart, must surely be the East Coast king of mucus. I wish I'd
been there. I would have said that she shouldn't fret, because there is
nothing so sweet or pleasing on the ear as a soft Southern drawl.
Of course, maybe we shouldn't be surprised at her "carryings on."
After all, when you come from a part of the world where "family
silver" refers to the large medallion around Uncle Vinnie's neck, you
just have to, as Aunt Tiny would say, "consider the source." Now don't
get me wrong. Some of my dearest friends are from the North, bless
their hearts.
I welcome their perspective, their friendships, and their recipes for
authentic Northern Italian food. I've even gotten past their endless
complaints that you can't find good bread down here.
The ones who really gore my ox are the native Southerners who have
begun to act almost embarrassed about their speech. It's as if they
want to bury it in the "Hee Haw" cornfield. We've already lost too
much. I was raised to "swanee," not swear, but you hardly ever hear
anyone say that anymore. I swanee you don't. And I've caught myself
thinking twice before saying something is "right much," "right close"
or "right good" because non-natives think this is right funny indeed.
I have a friend from Bawston who thinks it's hilarious when I say I've
got to "carry" my daughter to the doctor or "cut off" the light. And don't
get me started on "I'm fixin' to..."
That's OK. It's when you have to explain things to people who were
born here that I get mad as a mule eating bumblebees. Not long ago, I
found myself trying to explain to a native Southerner what I meant by
being "in the short rows." I'm used to explaining that expression (it
means you've worked a right smart but you're almost done) to newcomers
to the land of buttermilk and cold collard sandwiches (better than you
think), but to have to explain it to a Southerner was just plain
weird. The most grating example is found in restaurants and stores
where nice, Magnolia-mouthed clerks now say "you guys" instead of
"y'all," as their mamas raised them up to say in polite society. I'd sooner wear white
shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead
of Duke's than utter the words, "you guys." Not long ago I went to
lunch with four women friends and the waiter, a nice Southern boy,
you-guys-ed all of us within an inch of our lives. "You guys ready to
order? What can I get for you guys? Would you guys like to keep you
guys' forks.
Lord, have mercy. It's a little comforting that, at the very same time
some natives are so eager to blend in, they've taken to making
microwave grits (an abomination), the rest of the world is catching on
that it's cool to be Clampett. How else do you explain NASCAR tracks
and Krispy Kreme doughnut franchises springing up like yard onions all
over the country?
To those of you who're still a little embarrassed by your
Southernness, take two tent revivals and a dose of redeye gravy and
call me in the morning.
Bless your heart!
(My personal favorite was uttered by my aunt who said, "Bless her
heart, she can't help being ugly, but she could've stayed home.)
--author unknown
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That's my story of the day, and I'm stickin' to it (bless my heart!).
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I see "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!"
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Your "Story of the Day" is a litbit cute, DR Ron Pulliam! :)
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Pshaw!
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I can see why you're sticking to it.
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Aside from the flypaper, I mean.
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Oh... I will just be rehearsing the new show for the cruise ship. Alas, I will not be sailing on the cruise ship. At least not yet. ;) But I will get to be down in Ft. Lauderdale for two weeks! :)
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Hello, Sailor! ;)
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Hello, Sailor! ;)
He'll have to drive up to Mayport FL for that...if it's the U.S. Navy type of sailor you mean.
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Thanks!
Well, it turns out that a cruise line (not Disney) needs someone to come down for two weeks to MD and rehearse their new cast. I leave Saturday afternoon.
So, the plan right now, is to (continue to) take it easy today, and then start getting things in order and ready tomorrow.
Can you tell us what the "score" is?
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Oh, I think DR JoseSPiano knows the score, all right!! ;D
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Can you tell us what the "score" is?
There are two revues. One is theatrical music, the other one is pop/rock.
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I don't have to use any makeup right now. ;)
The paper bag works just fine! DR Jose, it seems eons since I saw you.
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And for those who were watching, the "Top Chef Chicago" reunion show is on tonight. -It will be interesting to see this reunion since it took place after the announcement of the winner.
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-And did anyone else catching the season premiere of "Flipping Out" on Bravo last night?
;)
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The paper bag works just fine! DR Jose, it seems eons since I saw you.
Hmm.. It does. But it's only been about a week and a half since we saw "Sex & The City", right? Well, hopefully, we can get together before I head down to Florida.
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Hmm... It looks like we got a new gardener.
Too bad it's not that hot today. ;)
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Well... I need to head out for a bit to run some errands...
Laters...
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Hmm... It looks like we got a new gardener.
Jesse Metcalfe?
(http://www.breakitdownblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/jesse_metcalfe.jpg)
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In breaking news: Scrunchies are hip again.
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-And did anyone else catching the season premiere of "Flipping Out" on Bravo last night?
;)
I did! I think Jeff Lewis is crazy, but Courtney makes him look sane.
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Have shipped out a couple of packages.
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LONG LIVE SCRUNCHIES!!! :D
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/Leannarchy/Sales/100_0573.jpg)
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I remember a couple of years ago a then friend of mine making fun of the Talkin' Broadway LA theater critic for wearing scrunchies. Since the then friend of mine has to be the most hip, the most happening, my guess is she'll be the first to be wearing them this year.
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HIP and HAPPENING. Isn't that what the H's stand for in HHW?
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I say, let us ALL wear scrunchies in solidarity! :)
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But since I don't have hair long enough to pull it off, I'll have to disport my scrunchy elsewhere. 8)
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Scrunchy is as scrunchy does.
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Hip Happening Whatever
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Truly Scrunchy,
My name is Truly Scrunchy-
Scrunchy as a hairball
Wet with dew!
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I say, let us ALL wear scrunchies in solidarity! :)
Well, DR Jane's neighbor could use some scrunchies - but not for foot wear:
ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368283,00.html)
OREGON WOMAN PLANS TO PARADE TOPLESS ON JULY 4
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
ASHLAND, Ore. —
A woman seen frequently in Ashland riding topless on her bicycle says she plans to be in Ashland's Fourth of July parade free and independent of all clothing but a hemp G-string. The Chamber of Commerce says that's contrary to the rules for the family celebration. She says she'll sue if she can't parade as she wishes.
Jen Moss has been known as "The Naked Lady" since she moved to Ashland in May from Ojai, Calif., drawn by the town's nudity laws. They specify only that people must cover their genitalia in a city park or the downtown commercial district, which means Moss need not cover her breasts.
Keith has all the fun!
der Brucer
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I gotta tell you.
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Waiting for a telephonic call, then will do some more errands, then will have my two o'clock lunch meeting at In and Out - I shall have one or two cheeseburgers and animal fries.
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Welcome fourteen GUESTS.
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I am gazing into my crystal ball, and also playing Elmer Bernstein's very nice score to The Midas Run.
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Make that sixteen GUESTS.
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Make that seventeen GUESTS.
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-And did anyone else catching the season premiere of "Flipping Out" on Bravo last night?
;)
I did.... that dude is crazy and takes everyone with him along that road.
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But since I don't have hair long enough to pull it off, I'll have to disport my scrunchy elsewhere. 8)
I was thinking the same thing (about me, of course) maybe we could stretch them out and use them as a headband
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(http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2008/06/16/filmlength_3.jpg)
The average running time of each decade's top 50 movies.
SOURCE (http://www.infinitypoint0.com/60/imdb-film-length-project/)
der Brucer
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The closings have begun.
Cry-Baby will close June 22 according to Playbill.com
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I have been lying on the couch with my foot elevated while listening to cds.
May I say that Captain Hook is despicable: leaving that damp and rich cake for Peter and the boys.
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LONG LIVE SCRUNCHIES!!! :D
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/Leannarchy/Sales/100_0573.jpg)
Could you explain to us, flingshawl, just how and where you wear yours.
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I say, let us ALL wear scrunchies in solidarity! :)
Let's not and say we did!
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Back from lunch. Chicken Caesar Salad. A cup of chicken rice soup. Iced tea.
It all hit the spot.
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I ain't got no chocolate pie.
But at home there sits a chocolate cake with which I'll make sport later this e'en.
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It's nice to see that DearReaderLaura is amusing herself with the classics!
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Good Afternoon!
Well... I happened to make it back to the apartment before the rain started up. Whew! -Especially since I did not bring my umbrella with me. -Which is probably why it started raining in the first place. ;)
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I ain't got no chocolate pie.
But at home there sits a chocolate cake with which I'll make sport later this e'en.
Is "e'en" a Southern term?
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Thank you, DR Elmore3003! That has helped immensely. The swelling has gone down near my left eye and I no longer look or feel hideous! (All such things being subjective, of course).
(David....Jose....have either of you been bitch-slapped from here to hell and back? Don't GO there!)
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;D
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And speaking of things Southern...
Biscuit Bakers’ Treasured Mill Moves North
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/dining/18flour.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin)
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DR Ron Pulliam - The imagination is truly a wondrous thing.
;D
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Jesse Metcalfe?
Alas, no, our new gardener is not Jesse Metcalfe. Do you happen to know if he's currently looking for work?
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Is "e'en" a Southern term?
It's not specifically Southern....but it's poetic and literary and ALL educated Southerners should know it and use it! :D
e'en 1 (n)
n.
Evening.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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I did! I think Jeff Lewis is crazy, but Courtney makes him look sane.
Yeah... That Courtney is something else. I'm wondering if she read the release in regards to just how much she would be on TV - and how they would edit her remarks and appearances. -Strangely enough, I believe I know who her husband is - the actually owner of the property - and I find it kind of surprising that so much has not happened in regards to the renovation. We shall see.
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The pool was very relaxing this morning. It is a heated pool, and today the heater needed to be turned on since it was only 78 when we were there, and the water in the pool was 84. Got just enough sun to be starting a nice base. As busy as I am now, I doubt I'll get to the pool as much as I did a few summers ago when I was going two or three times a week and got very brown.
I mean, I went from having no discs to review to FOUR discs to review in one 24-hour period. Today is the main came the horror film THE RUINS from Paramount.
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In the main? I meant "in the mail," of course.
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DR RonPulliam - So, if a round of croquet were to end in a tie sometime after dusk, would that mean that the game ended "e'en" in the "e'en"?
;)
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When I got in from the pool, I cooked and ate lunch while watching more of LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME. I didn't quite finish. The "At Sundown" number is just about ready to start, but hadn't yet when I turned off that player.
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I did.... that dude is crazy and takes everyone with him along that road.
-And I'm betting that the new assistant is probably looking for a TV show or his own and/or a date with Jeff. ;)
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The closings have begun.
Cry-Baby will close June 22 according to Playbill.com
Yep.
And from some of the texts I received while I was out running errands, there will more than likely be a few more closing announcements by the end of the week, if not the end of the day.
:-\
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STOP, Ron Pulliam!!!
That chocolate cake might be a trick!!!! Is it damp and rich???
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DR RonPulliam - So, if a round of croquet were to end in a tie sometime after dusk, would that mean that the game ended "e'en" in the "e'en"?
;)
I don't know about in your neck of the woods....but in my neck of the woods there's no such thing as a "tie" in croquet. Dusk be hanged, we'd be in "sudden death" until I won! ;D
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STOP, Ron Pulliam!!!
That chocolate cake might be a trick!!!! Is it damp and rich???
It's moist and chocolatey rich. Should I toss it out?
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You need a mother to take care of you. Or a Wendy.
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Ft Lauderdale is where the boys are.
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Then I put in THE FURIES. I had never seen it before, so it was an eye-opening and very enjoyable film. Walter Huston's last movie, and he has a very memorable part in it. Can't believe he didn't merit an Oscar nomination for it. He's fabulous. Stanwyck is as good as can be, but I think she's probably 10 years too old for the role. Wendell Corey seems a pretty dull man to be the love of her life. Too bad it couldn't have been Jeff Chandler or Jack Palance or someone with a little fire. Judith Anderson also had a very memorable supporting part. Beulah Bondi had a couple of nifty scenes, too.
Really enjoyed the story and the black and white transfer is just superb. Audio had a little hiss but otherwise a strong mono track.
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...And since I do happen to have a bag of White Lily Flour in my cupboard, I'm really tempted to make the biscuit recipe that accompanies the aforementioned article.
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/18/dining/18flour-600.jpg)
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(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-06/39868982.jpg)
"Matter Contemplates Spirit,” by Stephen Kaltenbach, is a work of clay, glaze and resin. It is among sculptures displayed at the 217-acre Di Rosa Preserve in Napa, which features more than 2,000 indoor and outdoor works.
(Jenn Garbee)
der Brucer
PS - I still think aliens did it!
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THE FURIES came with a paperback book of the original novel as part of the set (that's in addition to the usual Criterion booklet insert).
I'll get to the commentary and the other supplements (don't look to be a gargantuan number of them) this evening. Luckily, there is nothing on TV tonight for me to be distracted.
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I did have time to skim through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. Yes, the boys were on, but for all that got settled, they might as well not have been. Marking time (though seemingly the Ameera storyline was wrapped up).
They were not in tomorrow's previews.
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Hmmm.... So, on the day that some NYC restaurants started serving tomatoes again, six new cases of tainted-tomato-salmonella have been reported in the area. Not coincidental, just bad timing. :-\
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And since I actually have made these "Touch of Grace Biscuits" before... And since it happens to be quite a "easy" biscuit recipe - no rolling out and cutting invloved... And since I know all of us DRs like recipes, well...
Touch of Grace Biscuits
Adapted from “CookWise” by Shirley O. Corriher (Morrow)
Time: 40 minutes
Nonstick cooking spray
2 cups self-rising flour, preferably a low-protein Southern flour like White Lily
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
2/3 cup heavy cream
1 cup buttermilk, or as needed
1 cup bleached all-purpose flour, preferably low-protein flour like White Lily, or as needed
2 tablespoons butter, melted.
1. Heat oven to 425 degrees, and arrange a shelf slightly below center of oven. Spray a 9-inch cake pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the self-rising flour, sugar and salt. Work shortening in with your fingers until there are no large lumps. Gently stir in the cream, then enough buttermilk so that dough resembles wet cottage cheese. (If you are not using low-protein Southern flour, this may take considerably more than 1 cup buttermilk.)
2. Spread one cup all-purpose flour (not self-rising) across a plate or pie pan. Using a medium (about 2 inches, No. 30) ice cream scoop or spoon, place three scoops of dough well apart in flour. Sprinkle flour over each. Flour your hands. Turn the dough in flour to coat, shaping a ball and shaking off excess flour as you work. Place each ball in prepared pan; biscuits should be touching one another. Continue shaping until all dough is used.
3. Bake until lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Brushed with melted butter. Invert onto a plate, then back onto another. With a knife or spatula, cut quickly between biscuits to make them easy to remove. Serve immediately.
Yield: 12 to 14 biscuits.
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Thanks for re-printing the recipe, DR JoseSPiano! :) :)
Does that make us all honorary Southerners?
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Thanks for re-printing the recipe, DR JoseSPiano! :) :)
Does that make us all honorary Southerners?
No no! We have an initiation for that.
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The pool was very relaxing this morning. It is a heated pool, and today the heater needed to be turned on since it was only 78 when we were there, and the water in the pool was 84. Got just enough sun to be starting a nice base. As busy as I am now, I doubt I'll get to the pool as much as I did a few summers ago when I was going two or three times a week and got very brown.
I mean, I went from having no discs to review to FOUR discs to review in one 24-hour period. Today is the main came the horror film THE RUINS from Paramount.
I am curious about THE RUINS; I wanted to see it and never got to it. I loved the book, but it's quite gory.
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I am curious about THE RUINS; I wanted to see it and never got to it. I loved the book, but it's quite gory.
I'm really rather dreading watching it. I'm not a big horror/gore fan. Something like CLOVERFIELD is fine with more suspense and minimal gore, but THE RUINS is something I'm a bit apprehensive about watching.
And it's the UNRATED version too so they can increase the gore and language quotas. Argh!
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Got to write for a bit now.
WBBL.
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I'm really rather dreading watching it. I'm not a big horror/gore fan. Something like CLOVERFIELD is fine with more suspense and minimal gore, but THE RUINS is something I'm a bit apprehensive about watching.
And it's the UNRATED version too so they can increase the gore and language quotas. Argh!
Invite a friend to watch it with you. I can't watch horror films alone and I love them.
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Invite a friend to watch it with you. I can't watch horror films alone and I love them.
You must have a gaggle of folk over for screenings of THE OSCAR. ;D
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;D
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My one year supply of Duke's mayonanaise was delivered today.
I haven't opened it yet.
Does anyone want me to reproduce the recipe off the back of the container for Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles?
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My one year supply of Duke's mayonanaise was delivered today.
I haven't opened it yet.
Does anyone want me to reproduce the recipe off the back of the container for Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles?
Well, once you open that first jar, you may find you have less than one year's supply. ;)
*And those Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles are YUMMY!
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I know I am hopelessly behind the times, but I just last night started watching HAIRSPRAY. I would say that had it not had the stunt-casting of Travolta, it would be an out and out classic. The musical sequences are staged exceedingly well, IMHO, probably some of the best musical stagings I've seen in musicals (not that there have been that many to choose from) over the past decade.
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re: BIG BROTHER
A friend mentioned the same july 13th date DR Jose mentioned.
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Candace McMenamin’s Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles
Winner of the Duke’s 2007 Recipe Contest
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 10-12 minutes
Yields 4 dozen cookies
Ľ cup butter, melted
1 18 oz. box chocolate cake mix
2 cups quick oats
˝ cup Duke’s Mayonnaise
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients except the peanut butter chips. Mix well. Fold in the peanut butter chips. Drop from a teaspoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool on the cookie sheet for one minute, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. Store tightly covered.
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And since it doesn't appear that DR singdaw listed the recipe earlier, well...
Duke's Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup Duke's Mayonnaise
1 (18 ounce) box chocolate cake mix
2 eggs
2 cups quick oats
1 cup peanut butter chips
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, combine all ingredients, except peanut butter chips, and mix well. Fold in peanut butter chips. Drop from a teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet for one minute and transfer to wire rack to finish cooling. Store tightly covered.
4 dozen cookies
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JINX - ???
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Oh, and this has been posted here before, but here's (http://www.hometownfavorites.com/) where to find some of those regional foodstuffs that you can't find elsewhere.
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;D
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Well, how about this one then:
Duke's Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Cake:
6 Tbsp. cocoa
3 cups all purpose flour
1 Tbsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups Duke's Mayonnaise
1 1/2 tsp. Sauer's Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 cups cold water
Chocolate Icing
1 cup butter. softened
1 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
5-6 cups confectioners' sugar
6 or more tablespoons milk
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans.
Sift cocoa, flour, baking soda, salt and sugar into a medium bowl, mix well. Combine mayonnaise, vanilla and water in an electric mixer at low speed. Once smooth, slowly add in dry mixture until just incorporated (do not over beat). Pour batter into cake pans and bake for 30 minutes or until done. Cool on wire racks and frost with your favorite chocolate frosting.
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NOW DR Ron Pulliam's got himself a chocolate cake!!! ;)
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In the e'en.
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OH, I hope they cast either Tom Wopat or Brian D'arcy James. If they do I will surely go to see it!
I'll be seeing Brian D'Arcy James on Thursday, August 14, 2008 in SHREK: The Musical (http://www.5thavenue.org/show/shrekthemusical0809/)!! Are you going?
;)
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I'll be seeing Brian D'Arcy James
Will you be seeing him in all the old familiar places?
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Anyone remember these?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vxse85rXL._SS500_.jpg)
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Invite a friend to watch it with you. I can't watch horror films alone and I love them.
I know, poor Elmore got scared of ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE.
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My one year supply of Duke's mayonanaise was delivered today.
I haven't opened it yet.
Does anyone want me to reproduce the recipe off the back of the container for Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles?
Just make a couple of batches and send them out to us!
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NOW DR Ron Pulliam's got himself a chocolate cake!!! ;)
In which he can gambol with glee!
der Brucer
Runner-up - "In which he can friskly frolic".
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I know, poor Elmore got scared of ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE.
Well, were you there to hold his hand?
der Brucer
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I know, poor Elmore got scared of ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE.
Did he find it as frightening as "MAME"?
der Brucer
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I'll be seeing Brian D'Arcy James on Thursday, August 14, 2008 in SHREK: The Musical (http://www.5thavenue.org/show/shrekthemusical0809/)!! Are you going?
;)
He is in Washington??? So close, yet so far away! But then Shrek isn't exactly the show I would want to see him in...although I wonder if it will be in Portland?
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Will you be seeing him in all the old familiar places?
It's at the same theater where I saw him in Follies in 1995 with Judy Kaye, Walter Charles, Constance Towers and Maxine Andrews...among many others. :D
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He is in Washington??? So close, yet so far away! But then Shrek isn't exactly the show I would want to see him in...although I wonder if it will be in Portland?
Not anytime soon. This is the world premiere pre-Broadway run. As soon as it's done here, it's heading to NYC! And I'm seeing it the VERY FIRST NIGHT!!
I wonder what will be cut after that first performance?? ;)
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Anyone remember these?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vxse85rXL._SS500_.jpg)
Leave it to you to have a fixation on "Wacky Packages" ;)
der Brucer
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106 degrees here in the City of Studio.
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Had a very long and pleasant lunch meeting. I must say, they In and Out people left the onions of my cheeseburger (yes, I asked for them) and the burgers are just a big load of nothing without the onion. I also had animal fries.
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I gotta tell you. The air conditioning breaker keeps tripping - I've called the Handy Man because someone has to figure out the problem. When the AC guy came back last week he went through a whole cock and bull story about we had it set too low, how the unit has this mercury bubble that has to stay constant, so he set the machine the way he said it would never have a problem. And I've changed nothing since, but today the breaker has tripped six times already - not so good in 106 degree heat.
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I gotta tell you. The air conditioning breaker keeps tripping - I've called the Handy Man because someone has to figure out the problem. When the AC guy came back last week he went through a whole cock and bull story about we had it set too low, how the unit has this mercury bubble that has to stay constant, so he set the machine the way he said it would never have a problem. And I've changed nothing since, but today the breaker has tripped six times already - not so good in 106 degree heat.
Well, it's currently 67 degrees here in NYC. -A little rainy right now, but still just 67 degrees. :)
*Maybe you should call your landlord. He looks good when he's sweaty (and when he's not sweaty).
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I know, poor Elmore got scared of ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE.
It's a very frightening film, as are its fans.
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OUCH!!!
~~~~~LOW-ITCH VIBES TO DR RON PULLIAM~~~~~
I thought Jose wrote LOVE ITCH VIBES, but that is a different kind of bug.
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I don't have to use any makeup right now. ;)
Staying in your room?
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Boogie Nights becomes Doogie Nights, a documentary about how Neil Patrick Harris overcame sleep apnea.
and
Guys and Dolls becomes Guys and Dolts, a study of contemporary corporate America.
Or GAYS AND DOLLS, the queer sequal to VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Oh wait, that was BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
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Is anyone looking into their crystal balls? Has anyone been to a fortune teller? If so, how was the experience?
I HAVE! Ah, been to a fortune teller.
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OH, I hope they cast either Tom Wopat or Brian D'arcy James. If they do I will surely go to see it!
Then, MBarnum, are you coming up to Seattle to see SHREK, THE MUSICAL?
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(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-06/39868982.jpg)
"Matter Contemplates Spirit,” by Stephen Kaltenbach, is a work of clay, glaze and resin. It is among sculptures displayed at the 217-acre Di Rosa Preserve in Napa, which features more than 2,000 indoor and outdoor works.
(Jenn Garbee)
der Brucer
PS - I still think aliens did it!
I think it looks like Homer Simpson.
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My one year supply of Duke's mayonanaise was delivered today.
I haven't opened it yet.
Does anyone want me to reproduce the recipe off the back of the container for Chocolate Peanut Oatmeal Jumbles?
No, but could you bake some and send me a care package?
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In breaking news: Scrunchies are hip again.
Oh good. Since I never stopped wearing them I'll be back in style :)
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Thank you, DR Elmore3003! That has helped immensely. The swelling has gone down near my left eye and I no longer look or feel hideous! (All such things being subjective, of course).
(David....Jose....have either of you been bitch-slapped from here to hell and back? Don't GO there!)
Good news. Something got my right eyelid three days ago and it is just now looking almost normal.
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Well, DR Jane's neighbor could use some scrunchies - but not for foot wear:
ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368283,00.html)Keith has all the fun!
The ex-police chief got that nudity law passed ::) Yet recently the city placed a ban on statues and figures on sidewalks in front of businesses, including the most photographed spot in town. The bear sitting on the bench in front of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is now in the window behind bars. I don't have a photo of the bear, however here is one of a lion that has been sitting on the sidewalk for years.
(http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/0618/images/frontpage_lg.jpg)
These cute statues & stuffed animals around town may be replaced by planters with flowers. I've seen the standing planters and they are not very attractive & are lacking in charm & character.
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Oh, and this has been posted here before, but here's (http://www.hometownfavorites.com/) where to find some of those regional foodstuffs that you can't find elsewhere.
I love that Hard To Find Grocer. I could go broke in that place.
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I found the bear on YouTube! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BuFC0haV9ok)
It gets a bit silly and long but you can see how ridiculous it is the bear is no longer permitted to sit on the bench. Tourists seemed to love having their photo taken with the bear.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR LAURA II, whom I remember well & the reason our first Laura is now Dear Reader Laura. :)
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DR JOSE, SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES!
'night
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Not anytime soon. This is the world premiere pre-Broadway run. As soon as it's done here, it's heading to NYC! And I'm seeing it the VERY FIRST NIGHT!!
I wonder what will be cut after that first performance?? ;)
Oh, probably about six songs and an hour's worth of jokes that didn't land.
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DR JOSE, SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES!
'night
Thanks. -Although, I don't travel until Saturday evening. :)
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DS Rob and his girlfriend did some errands for me here in town and then took my car, loaded with furniture they brought back from Michigan, to Cincinnati. After they got everything unloaded, they came back here for the wonderful spaghetti dinner that Richard cooked for us. While Richard and Rob cleaned and installed our whole-house fan, Mary Linda and I watched the first half of Funny Girl. They wanted to get back to UC tonight, so we'll have to see the second half, including the Swan Lake parody, another time.
For the past several days, the weather has been cool enough here to have the windows open and that fan makes it very pleasant throughout the house. It could stay like this all summer, as far as I'm concerned.
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Watched a few more Mannix episodes - interesting thing: Beginning with episode thirteen, no more original scores - all tracked music from the previous episodes.
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I watched all of the bonus features on THE FURIES. Actually, there was not all that much. An ancient interview with Walter Huston (Herbert Hoover was still President), an interview with Anthony Mann's daughter, and an interview with Mann done on the set of A DANDY IN ASPIC which he never finished (completed by Laurence Harvey). Some stills and the trailer.
And, of course, the audio commentary which was very learned but dry and a bit of a struggle to listen to since the speaker's voice was rather halting.
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I finished LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME. Always wonderful to watch that movie. It may be Doris' best performance.
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Next, I have a hankering to return to Hogwarts, so I put in the Blu-ray of HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. Wonderfully entertaining revisiting the movie. Spotless picture and uncompressed 5.1 sound that rocked the house on many occasions.
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I ended my evening watching Monday night's episode of THE MOLE. Naturally I was disappointed to see the evicted party leave as this person seemed to be settling finally into the game. Ah, well. I do have my new suspicion about the identity of the Mole, and this person was no eliminated tonight either.
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Back from dinner at Bart and Marian's here in the building. They are great cooks!!!! I didn't even notice the cooked carrots in the bolognese (sp?) sauce
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Back from dinner at Bart and Marian's here in the building. They are great cooks!!!! I didn't even notice the cooked carrots in the bolognese (sp?) sauce
You're not supposed to. ;)
*But carrots help supply some texture and sweetness to the finished sauce.
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I have a crystal ball.
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Well, I have a lot of stuff to take care of tomorrow, and I'm hoping to get an early start on all of it, so I shall have to head to the land of the Wussburgers now...
Goodnight.
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*Oh, and the "Top Chef" reunion show was pretty good tonight.
*And "SYTYCD" - I felt it was an off night for the choreographers, and, subsequently the dancers. Tomorrow night will be interesting.
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Hmmmm I am using the NEW FireFox Browser 3.0 and there are some annoying improvements.
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SYTYCD? Is that tired old show still on?
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I took my mom to Walmart. That is all.
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Time for bed.
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I'm heading for bed, too.
Good night.
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I took my mom to Walmart. That is all.
I just came home from a meeting. My foot hurts. That is all.
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Well, it took me a couple hours, but I installed all 5 shades tonight. And just as I finished and was thinking that I wish I had time to paint the walls now, the painter who didn't show up last summer called me! He said he's hit a lull and doesn't have anything to do right now. He wondered if he could do the outside work we talked about last year. I told him yes and that I want an estimate of the inside work - living room, dining room and hallway up the stairs. If it isn't too crazy, I'm going for it. Then I can really get this place the way I want it.
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They look very nice, Cillaliz. And I like the wood window frames.
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The shades are pretty cool. Bali double cell cellulose. They have a really high energy efficiency rating and are supposed to be very inslating. Exactly what I need in the living room.
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They look very nice, Cillaliz. And I like the wood window frames.
Thanks. I was going to wait until I had the walls painted, but Penneys had a 60 percent off plus 15 percent off of that and I got another 10 percent off for opening a charge account. I couldn't beat that price so I bought them.
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Vibes to DR Laura, DR Ron, DR Ginny and anyone else who needs them.
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Tomorrow morning I have a meeting with a local group that is being formed to prepare in case there is an immigration raid here in the future. It should be interesting. I have a million things to catch up on during the day and then I do a short presentation as part of the City of Sioux City's immigration forum. I haven't gotten that prepared yet, but it's only 20 minutes of a very general overview. I can whip that up in no time.
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I sure hope that Xanadu is still running through July as we have tickets for it at that time! Oh, and hi everyone!
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I had to laugh when the painter called. Apparently I told him some story about how snow was coming in the cracks between the windows that he didn't fill in. LOL, that's just so far from being true. I told him I was just probably trying to make him feel bad for blowing me off. He said he got over it. I think he'll work out fine.
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Hi Julie, time for me to get some sleep... Have a great evening
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Well, it looks like most everyone is off to bed and I should be too. Will try to check in tomorrow as well. Last day at work tomorrow, I'm kind of sad. I'm just working a half day. Lots of great people to say goodbye too. (: Have a great day everyone tomorrow! :)
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OHHH I just discovered that The Steppenwolf Theater Company is doing a new Tracy Letts play, SUPERIOR DONUTS when I'm in Chicago in August. I'm thinking I'll try to see it. It would mean a seminar in the morning, a baseball game with Justice Alito in the afternoon and a play at night, but it would be really fun to see them in their home theater.
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Finished viewing for the evening.
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Listening to Elmer Bernstein's Bernard Herrmann album, which is better than I remembered - prior to that I was listening to Salonnen's Herrmann album, which is worse than I remember - very heavy and muddy-sounding.
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And now I am sitting here like so much fish.
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Gees, maybe I'll skip the baseball game. I could hang out in Chicago all afternoon then see the play. Hmmm something to check on tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, I better get some sleep.
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BK, when will your new book be available? I'm looking forward to reading it
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I'm thinking end of August probably.
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August - it's no longer just a month. it's an award-winning play!!! - That's my new ad campaign suggestion for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, if anyone's looking for one.