Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 22, 2016, 12:44:02 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had all the trimmings, and now it is time for you to post until the trim cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: DEGUSTATION!
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230 posts - pretty damn good. People come, people go, like Grand Hotel, but we sure have wonderful people remain and occasionally we get us a posting frenzy going on.
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Be well George.
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I have to figure out when we can get up to the Tacoma area to see a couple of plays, especially if Jimmy Stuart and cute Zuzu are selling all the tickets to one of the shows.
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Yesterday's T.O.D.
I am going to my friends, Sharry and Micheal, house for Thanksgiving. And, since three of us have shows opening on Friday, we are excused from having to bring anything towards the meal. I think there will be ten for dinner.
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Good morning to all
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Good morning, all!
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I slept well for the first time is ages. I do believe the therapy is working. I have my usual pains and mobility limitations, but I think the stretching and exercises have loosened some of the kinks affecting the nerves in my leg. I think this can only improve.
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I need to do laundry. The question is, today or tomorrow? I have to tidy the place this morning. I have a meeting with the Moonshine & Mistletoe music director about score changes, and I have to do some rewriting of a n ensemble section that's too busy for the number of singers involved.
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I also want to peel and cook a bunch of sweet potatoes today.
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I had a strange dream that I was asked to perform in a benefit for theatre students. Elaine Stritch, Ruthie Henshaw, and Annalene Beechey were on the bill as well as others. I had three songs - it was my dream, after all! - about aging and changing. One was about a leaf, one about changing rooms, and the last about changing houses, and I could not remember the lyrics. I remember saying something like, Stritch hasn't forgotten a lyric in 60 years and I can't remember any of these songs. At the last minute, I decided to perform them with the music. As we all walked onstage, I woke up.
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TOD:
Very few movies surprise me any longer, but I did see a thriller about 2 years ago that kept me guessing from start to finish.
For the life of me, I can't recall the title.
I guess age is catching up to me. Yesterday, I was in a doctor's office, filling out the intake form and I couldn't think of the word "cataract". It took me 10 minutes to come up with the word, and I'd just had that surgery 6-7 weeks ago.
:-[ :(
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It's Tuesday, and I need to be at work an hour early for an important meeting.. My bogy doesn't feel like going along with this.
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Good morning, all.
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Feel better vibes for George, Ron and all else in need.
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Starting Hillbilly Elegy this morning.
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Good morning, all.
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The Munch Daphnis et Chloe is usually considered "the" classic of all Daphnis interpretations and recordings.
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My dream, involving some musical and the dissemination and transposition and highlighting of certain parts thereof, is completely indescribable.
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Got a very busy day ahead of me.
Some housecleaning, some advance T-Day prep (such as making the cranberry sauce, cooking the sage sausage for the stuffing), some this, some that.
I hope the this or that will include some work on music, as I need to exorcise the indescribable dream.
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Gotta love a memoir with a sentence that begins, "When Papaw burst into flames ..."
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This morning, Joshie sent me this link. His work sounds great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPdfosMrqc&app=desktop
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I haven't seen or read a "thriller" in ages. As far as books go, my favorite current mystery writer is Carl Hiaasen because he's an outrageous writer with a wicked sense of humor.
No one beats Dashiell Hammett.
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Tuesday morning greetings! I attended an excruciating AAUW board meeting last night, drank wine when I got home, and crashed early. Today = grocery shopping.
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Thank you to DRs Jeanne and TCB for the nice comments last night about the photo I posted yesterday.
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TOD:
Very few movies surprise me any longer, but I did see a thriller about 2 years ago that kept me guessing from start to finish.
For the life of me, I can't recall the title.
I guess age is catching up to me. Yesterday, I was in a doctor's office, filling out the intake form and I couldn't think of the word "cataract". It took me 10 minutes to come up with the word, and I'd just had that surgery 6-7 weeks ago.
:-[ :(
Scary, isn'the it.
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This morning, Joshie sent me this link. His work sounds great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPdfosMrqc&app=desktop
Beautiful!
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Starting Hillbilly Elegy this morning.
I asked Richard's brother Sunday if he'd read the book. When I mentioned the author's last name and the street where he'd lived, David said, "I used to race go-karts with Jimmy Vance who lived on McKinley Street." That's the Uncle Jimmy you'll read about in the book.
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Starting Hillbilly Elegy this morning.
I asked Richard's brother Sunday if he'd read the book. When I mentioned the author's last name and the street where he'd lived, David said, "I used to race go-karts with Jimmy Vance who lived on McKinley Street." That's the Uncle Jimmy you'll read about in the book.
Didn't Richard live on McKinley Street when we were in junior high school?
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Starting Hillbilly Elegy this morning.
I asked Richard's brother Sunday if he'd read the book. When I mentioned the author's last name and the street where he'd lived, David said, "I used to race go-karts with Jimmy Vance who lived on McKinley Street." That's the Uncle Jimmy you'll read about in the book.
Didn't Richard live on McKinley Street when we were in junior high school?
Shafor Street.
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53 years ago today.
I was a sophomore in high school
It was 5th period (Band) when the announcement came to suspend classes until the bell rang and then to report to 6th period classes (French) which would also be suspended, class-wise.
We were all in shock.
Sometimes, I still feel the shock of it.
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My last work day of the week.
Am looking forward to the next five days.
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TOD:
I'm drawing a complete blank in this regard.
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34th after BK!
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I should be used to it by now, but every now and then, I get these emails that start with "WTF" and still get startled before I realize they're from the Williamstown Theatre Festival mailing list. :)
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230 posts - pretty damn good. People come, people go, like Grand Hotel, but we sure have wonderful people remain and occasionally we get us a posting frenzy going on.
But do they move chairs?
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Thank you for that link, DR Elmore! Wonderful!
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This morning, Joshie sent me this link. His work sounds great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGPdfosMrqc&app=desktop
It was sooooooo good. I'm going to try and get back
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Oh - and good morning
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Last day of school for the week. I have one class, but I'm so ready to be done.
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TOD - <sigh> books.... who has time?? :-(
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53 years ago today.
I was a sophomore in high school
It was 5th period (Band) when the announcement came to suspend classes until the bell rang and then to report to 6th period classes (French) which would also be suspended, class-wise.
We were all in shock.
Sometimes, I still feel the shock of it.
I was in ninth grade, school had just gotten out, we were gathering at the front entrance where the school buses picked us up, and the word was suddenly going around that the president had been shot. We thought it was a joke. What I don't remember is when the word that it wasn't a joke went around. Did teachers come out and tell us? The bus driver? If not, I certainly got the confirmation at home some twenty minutes later. The TV was on for the next four days.
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Cranberry sauce -- made and in the fridge.
Sausage -- cooked and crumbled and in the fridge.
Bread -- cubed and drying.
You know what? I deserve a little break, then I'll move on to -- who knows what.
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Could one of you fine cooks here please tell me...?
What's the best (i.e., most flavorful) way to use the fresh herbs that go into stuffing? I bought fresh ones of everything. Do you keep them whole and healthy till time to cut them up and put them in, or do you do that earlier and let them become dried?
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Costco run made. I have enough real feta to see me through.
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Could one of you fine cooks here please tell me...?
What's the best (i.e., most flavorful) way to use the fresh herbs that go into stuffing? I bought fresh ones of everything. Do you keep them whole and healthy till time to cut them up and put them in, or do you do that earlier and let them become dried?
Sorry, DR ChasSmith, I can't help you. The base for my stuffing comes in a bag from Pepperidge Farm, already herbed and spiced. If I need herbs, they come in a jar from Spice Islands.
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And just because.
Kahlua Oreo Milkshakes
4 cups chocolate ice cream
5 Oreos
1/3 cup Kahlua
1/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream
Place all in a blender and process until smooth. Garnish with crumbled Oreos.
In the Griffin household, this is a single serving.
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53 years ago today.
I was a sophomore in high school
It was 5th period (Band) when the announcement came to suspend classes until the bell rang and then to report to 6th period classes (French) which would also be suspended, class-wise.
We were all in shock.
Sometimes, I still feel the shock of it.
I was in ninth grade, school had just gotten out, we were gathering at the front entrance where the school buses picked us up, and the word was suddenly going around that the president had been shot. We thought it was a joke. What I don't remember is when the word that it wasn't a joke went around. Did teachers come out and tell us? The bus driver? If not, I certainly got the confirmation at home some twenty minutes later. The TV was on for the next four days.
I was in 8th grade and remember seeing teachers in tears. My parents had been running errands and picked me up from school. We watched TV for the next 4 days, except for going to church on Sunday morning for my niece Laura's baptism. We were sitting around the dining room table having a celebratory lunch with the TV on (not typical during meals). My dad shouted, "He's been shot!" and we all turned to see Oswald go down.
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TOD:
How far back is modern? Mulholland Dr.? Marathon Man? No Country for Old Men?
The Lives of Others, Children of Men, Michael Clayton, Eastern Promises and A Brief History of Violence are on my list
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TOD - not my genre. I did like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo more than I expected, but not enough to read the sequel and its sequel.
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And just because.
Kahlua Oreo Milkshakes
4 cups chocolate ice cream
5 Oreos
1/3 cup Kahlua
1/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream
Place all in a blender and process until smooth. Garnish with crumbled Oreos.
In the Griffin household, this is a single serving.
Now that's what i call a recipe!
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Could one of you fine cooks here please tell me...?
What's the best (i.e., most flavorful) way to use the fresh herbs that go into stuffing? I bought fresh ones of everything. Do you keep them whole and healthy till time to cut them up and put them in, or do you do that earlier and let them become dried?
Sorry, DR ChasSmith, I can't help you. The base for my stuffing comes in a bag from Pepperidge Farm, already herbed and spiced. If I need herbs, they come in a jar from Spice Islands.
Ha! Same here, story of my life, up till these past couple of years when I've tried to "branch out" a bit. :)
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And just because.
Kahlua Oreo Milkshakes
4 cups chocolate ice cream
5 Oreos
1/3 cup Kahlua
1/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream
Place all in a blender and process until smooth. Garnish with crumbled Oreos.
In the Griffin household, this is a single serving.
Of course it's a single serving. You'll just have to make one for each of us at the Great HHW Holiday Bash.
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Damn it all, I do have to go out again. DR John G. reminds me I have to go to Costco for the cat litter. And then Petco for the cat food. And then Shop Rite one more time for three or four more little things. Damn it to hell.
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Have to make sure I do that run before late afternoon so I'll at least get into the parking lots.
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DR CHAS SMITH if you have a Chewys.com in your area.....you can get your pet supplies for reasonable prices and they are delivered for free.
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Nice link DR ELMORE!
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Uncle Jimmy was a good guy :)
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Continued Major Miracle Vibes for MR BK.
I remember in the movie ABOUT LAST NIGHT....based on some play.....Rob Lowe picked up a record and said: "Who does this belong to?"
And then he mangled the name Shostakovich in the funniest way.....something like
Sho-Stack-O-Vitch......
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I got a new car battery at WalMart today.....they said 30 minutes.....but it was 90 minutes....the wait was not helped by having the tv turned to LET'S MAKE A DEAL.
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If anyone eats Sabra hummus check their recall list. I will be returning our two containers though what I have eaten did not make me ill.
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I got a new car battery at WalMart today.....they said 30 minutes.....but it was 90 minutes....the wait was not helped by having the tv turned to LET'S MAKE A DEAL.
I get very frustrated when that happens.
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Page Three
Shostakovich Dance.
(http://beautifulrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Dmitri-Shostakovich-2.jpg)
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I read MANHUNT - The Search for Lincoln's Killer......which I liked. I guess I didn't realize that Booth wasn't found for quite a few days.....
Nobody beats Hitchcock for thrillers......but I have to say my favorites are:
THE PARALLAX VIEW
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE - original
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53 years ago today.
I was a sophomore in high school
It was 5th period (Band) when the announcement came to suspend classes until the bell rang and then to report to 6th period classes (French) which would also be suspended, class-wise.
We were all in shock.
Sometimes, I still feel the shock of it.
I was in ninth grade, school had just gotten out, we were gathering at the front entrance where the school buses picked us up, and the word was suddenly going around that the president had been shot. We thought it was a joke. What I don't remember is when the word that it wasn't a joke went around. Did teachers come out and tell us? The bus driver? If not, I certainly got the confirmation at home some twenty minutes later. The TV was on for the next four days.
I was just leaving the employment office in Hollywood, getting into my car to head out into the SF Valley to start a new job at Fedco as a management trainee when a woman across the street said to me "The President's been shot".
Most of that day, I wandered over to the TV department to watch the news.
The job lasted that one day, which was fine with me.
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Uncle Jimmy was a good guy :)
Yes, he was, DR Jane. I asked David if he remembered his parents (J. D. grandparents) as the raging drunks portrayed in the book. He didn't, but the Palmer family moved from that neighborhood when David was in junior high, probably shortly after J. D.'s mother was born.
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Be well George.
Thanks, Jane! And Tom (from last night)!
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I slept well for the first time is ages. I do believe the therapy is working. I have my usual pains and mobility limitations, but I think the stretching and exercises have loosened some of the kinks affecting the nerves in my leg. I think this can only improve.
That's great, Larry!
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Feel better vibes for George, Ron and all else in need.
Thanks, John!
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~~~Feel Better Vibes for Everyone Else, Too!!~~~
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Here is the Sabra voluntary recall list. (http://sabra.com/recall?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=sabra+recall&utm_campaign=q4-sabra-recall-brand_q4-sabra-recall-brand&utm_content=q4-sabra-recall-brand?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=sabra+hummus+recall+2016&utm_campaign=q4-sabra-recall-brand_q4-sabra-recall-brand&utm_content=q4-sabra-recall-brand&gclid=CjwKEAiA9s_BBRCL3ZKWsfblgS8SJACbST7DuE875ZFF2WmnWiiJhnoVcUXuIwcMeS2HoOTT0pswohoCS1vw_wcB&dclid=CKXN_76BvdACFQ-RfgodnQsGhg)
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TOD:
I'm drawing a complete blank in this regard.
Ditto. I don't think I've ever read an actual "thriller." I've read several mysteries, but not thrillers.
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Uncle Jimmy was a good guy :)
Yes, he was, DR Jane. I asked David if he remembered his parents (J. D. grandparents) as the raging drunks portrayed in the book. He didn't, but the Palmer family moved from that neighborhood when David was in junior high, probably shortly after J. D.'s mother was born.
It is called "secrecy". I know all about that.
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I should be used to it by now, but every now and then, I get these emails that start with "WTF" and still get startled before I realize they're from the Williamstown Theatre Festival mailing list. :)
:))
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Costco run made. I have enough real feta to see me through.
I went to Costco yesterday and bought a cheesecake for my family's Thanksgiving get-together. :)
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I went to my sister's last night after rehearsal, and she gave me some all-natural fruit preserves that she bought at a local store as toppings for the cheesecake. :D
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53 years ago today.
I was a sophomore in high school
It was 5th period (Band) when the announcement came to suspend classes until the bell rang and then to report to 6th period classes (French) which would also be suspended, class-wise.
We were all in shock.
Sometimes, I still feel the shock of it.
I was in ninth grade, school had just gotten out, we were gathering at the front entrance where the school buses picked us up, and the word was suddenly going around that the president had been shot. We thought it was a joke. What I don't remember is when the word that it wasn't a joke went around. Did teachers come out and tell us? The bus driver? If not, I certainly got the confirmation at home some twenty minutes later. The TV was on for the next four days.
I was in 8th grade and remember seeing teachers in tears. My parents had been running errands and picked me up from school. We watched TV for the next 4 days, except for going to church on Sunday morning for my niece Laura's baptism. We were sitting around the dining room table having a celebratory lunch with the TV on (not typical during meals). My dad shouted, "He's been shot!" and we all turned to see Oswald go down.
I wasn't born yet, but here's Sondheim and Weidman's take: Something Just Broke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yH98Ulbc4).
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I read MANHUNT - The Search for Lincoln's Killer......which I liked. I guess I didn't realize that Booth wasn't found for quite a few days.....
Nobody beats Hitchcock for thrillers......but I have to say my favorites are:
THE PARALLAX VIEW
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE - original
I have seen (and LOVE) "The Manchurian Candidate" (of course, the original version, NOT the remake).
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep. Alarm didn't go off.
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I wrote about this date in 1963 in Kritzer Time.
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Could one of you fine cooks here please tell me...?
What's the best (i.e., most flavorful) way to use the fresh herbs that go into stuffing? I bought fresh ones of everything. Do you keep them whole and healthy till time to cut them up and put them in, or do you do that earlier and let them become dried?
If it's fresh, add a lot. If it's dried, add very little.
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I'm up from a nap. I need another nap.
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Trader Joe's was busy but there was no line at the register.
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Good afternoon.
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I made some lemon curd, cornbread for the stuffing, and have some yogurt underway.
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Lunch: Sweet and sour chicken with chicken-fried rice.
Three egg rolls.
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In today's mail:
"It's Always Fair Weather" Blu ray.
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Did I mention I plan on making a humongous pot of beef vegetable soup this weekend? I may start tomorrow or wait until Friday.
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And one more for the fun of it!
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Page 4
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Hooray - Page 4!!!
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Kroger was amazingly civilized today. Maybe I picked a good time to go...
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I made it into and out of all the parking lots just fine.
In one more hour, it will again be madness.
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Back from some chicken tenders and no fries or breads. Packages still to be delivered so I'm home until they are.
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Today is a "Hooked on Classics" kind of day!
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I'm fascinated that Ravel wrote no symphonies, nor did Debussy.
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I'm fascinated I tell you.
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That one guy wrote a couple of good concertos, at least.
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I got to know Pelleas et Melisande fairly well when we did it in school; otherwise, I'd probably have a hard time getting into it now. Well, maybe not, but it's quite ethereal and dreamlike, and could seem like not a lot is going on.
I wish to HELL he'd completed The Fall of the House of Usher.
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I'm fascinated that Ravel wrote no symphonies, nor did Debussy.
They were miniaturists as writers, like Edvard Grieg, probably happy to write smaller pieces. Bizet wrote a symphony as a student but seemed happier writing theatre music.
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Milhaud, too?
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Poulenc? Now there's someone I haven't heard in a long time. Never really learned much, either. Played piano in his Le Bal Masque once.
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Love what I've heard of his operas. Got to get into them better.
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I got to know Pelleas et Melisande fairly well when we did it in school; otherwise, I'd probably have a hard time getting into it now. Well, maybe not, but it's quite ethereal and dreamlike, and could seem like not a lot is going on.
I wish to HELL he'd completed The Fall of the House of Usher.
Pelleas and Melisande is gorgeous to listen to but an utter bore in performance. I've dozed through a UC Conservatory of Music production around 1971 and the last Met production. Like Wagner, I'd rather listen than watch. On the other hand I love watching Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu, but cannot sit and listen to them!
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Love what I've heard of his operas. Got to get into them better.
I love Poulenc's "Gloria," but I hated the opera La Voix Humain, thought The Carmelites was boring at Juilliard, and loved the comic Les Mamelles de Tiresias when the Met did it with Ravel's glorious L'Enfant et les sortileges.
Some of poulenc's songs are great and I like his ballet Les Biches.
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DR Elmore, I'm afraid it's going to be impossible for me to come down on Thursday. There's just no way I'm getting away from here this time. Too much going on, too many obligations.
(I make that sound like a negative. It's not. But it would have been relaxing and fun to spend a Thanksgiving in the city away from it all. I did that a few times in the past, and always enjoyed it.)
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However...
Oh joy! Oh Rapture! Film Society Lincoln Center now has showtimes listed for Best Worst Thing... for throughout next week.
I might be able to make FRIDAY my day in the city and see it that afternoon.
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Ravel is my fave of these - I like some Debussy, but not all - in fact my favorite thing he did was his orchestrations of Satie's two Gymnopedis. Ravel can do no wrong, really. I like Faure, too. Milhaud is something special and I've got a complete set of the symphonies on its way. Today I should get another set of Sibelius and one that I hope I like best. I hate the Amazon delivery service at least the guy who services this area - even though he knows it's a UPS Store he likes to come very late in the afternoon at the end of his day, which I've complained about - he ought to come there first and deliver whatever he's got to those multiple boxes. It's inane but who knows if they ever even pass on that info.
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Have extras of Amahl and the Night Visitors - $4 and the orchestral stuff of Ravel with Andre Cluytens conducting - two CDs (import) and has all the great pieces and is a bit hard to find - $10
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Listening to Leinsdorf to La Mer, which I think I surprisingly prefer to Ormandy.
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Packages arrived and I picked them up and am uploading Sibelius symphonies as I type this - also two more Milhaud symphonies, and the Bernstein The Planets, which is the last of The Planets I'm getting.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone? Shouldn't we be on page fifty already?
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Page four? Really?
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Much as I'd love to actually listen to my new Sibelius set, the gardeners have arrived and are making so much noise you can't hear anything, let alone Sibelius.
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They finally shut up so I've begun symphony number one.
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I just finished my meeting with our Mistletoe and Moonshine MD to fo through our last round of fixes. If this recording is going to happen in January, I'd like to get moving on it.
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Well, so far in symphony one, I'd say it doesn't reach the height of Ormandy in terms of the Columbia sound, it's much better than Maazel in both performance AND sound. The conductor of this complete set is Paavo Berglund, who has a good grasp of the Sibelius sound. Hoping the rest is as good.
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Good evening!
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One more!
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Page 5!
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I've never bought an SACD before, but I have a couple on their way - from the RCA Living Stereo era - those albums were recorded on three-track tape then mixed down to stereo for their album releases. On SACD you get all three channels - I'm interested to see how that sounds because while these things may have been recorded on three-track they were never really meant to be heard that way.
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Page five? Really?
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Thanks to DRs TCB and vixmom for the birthday wishes yesterday!
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Shouldn't we be on page fifty already?
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Two motion pictures arrived today - don't know if I'll have time for both but I know which will be first.
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Just finishing up symphony one and am happy with it - I'll keep the Ormandy, too, but this is beautifully played - the sound isn't completely to my liking but these are from the 1970s and this type of concert hall sound was becoming the thing - unlike the Columbia, which was much more present, but this isn't too bad in that regard and the music's the thing.
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What am I, doing a solo show here?
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I am my own frenzy.
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How many here have actually heard a Sibelius symphony?
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How many here have actually heard a Sibelius symphony?
Not I.
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Thanks for the link for Sabra Hummus, DR Jane. When I got home there was a voicemail from my local supermarket (Giant) listing all of the different sizes and varieties of Sabra that were being recalled. I listened to them all, waiting for the bottom line--do I return it for a refund? Only problem--there wasn't enough room left on the voicemail for the whole message.
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Ravel is my fave of these - I like some Debussy, but not all - in fact my favorite thing he did was his orchestrations of Satie's two Gymnopedis. Ravel can do no wrong, really. I like Faure, too. Milhaud is something special and I've got a complete set of the symphonies on its way. Today I should get another set of Sibelius and one that I hope I like best. I hate the Amazon delivery service at least the guy who services this area - even though he knows it's a UPS Store he likes to come very late in the afternoon at the end of his day, which I've complained about - he ought to come there first and deliver whatever he's got to those multiple boxes. It's inane but who knows if they ever even pass on that info.
When I was a ups driver the route was set by the center management team,to the most efficient route and the truck (package car in ups speak ) was loaded accordingly. The drivers cannot choose which deliveries to make first
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I am Glad to hear that Elmore is sleeping through the night
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Well the chair was scheduled for delivery today
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I checked with my mom and she was all ready for delivery
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I checked with the store and they were all set for delivery
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They showed up exactly when they said they would
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With the wrong color chair
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Instead of burgundy the salesperson keyed in the code for "stone". Which is beige
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So I spent 28 minutes of A very busy work day talking to the store and getting the chair reordered
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After spending 15 minutes on the phone with the delivery guy who had a limited English vocabulary with my mom shouting various suggestions in thebackground
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I finally got him to understand that we were refusing delivery and he had to bring the chair back from whence it came
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So now the chair will be delivered on Drcember 6th
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So while I held a vague hope that I would spend Thamksgiving basking in the glow of a happy mother with her longed for chair (albeit without arm covers) well...
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It's gonna be a looooooong dinner
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It's gonna be a looooooong dinner
No good deed goes unpunished!
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Hello, everyone.
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I went to my favorite food store today and was surprised that they weren't particularly busy. I mentioned this to the cashier, who said that many of their customers left town early.
I drove home listening (again) to the Sherman Bros.
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It's gonna be a looooooong dinner
The NY Times had a couple articles about how to avoid contentious conversations at the holiday dinner table. they even had a list of topics to discuss instead. I find this both humorous and a real sign of the times. (Well, the Times, too.)
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They did not, however, mention Vixgram's chair.
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Richard and I went to a spaghetti dinner fundraiser tonight for the Art Central Foundation. It was nice to eat something besides turkey.
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Trader Joe's was busy but there was no line at the register.
That NEVER happens at my Trader Joe's. Ever. And there are four of them near me.
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Vibes to all.
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TTFN.
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I should be used to it by now, but every now and then, I get these emails that start with "WTF" and still get startled before I realize they're from the Williamstown Theatre Festival mailing list. :)
:))
LOL ;D Are they aware what it looks like?
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Thanks for the link for Sabra Hummus, DR Jane. When I got home there was a voicemail from my local supermarket (Giant) listing all of the different sizes and varieties of Sabra that were being recalled. I listened to them all, waiting for the bottom line--do I return it for a refund? Only problem--there wasn't enough room left on the voicemail for the whole message.
We had a call last night we thought was from Sabra. Maybe it was from Fred Meyer/Kroger. I decided not to try and return it at the market today. I checked it had all been pulled and there was a notice regarding the recall. At the bottom it said I could return them to the store. I am expecting not to need a receipt. The website also had something about how to get a refund.
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With the wrong color chair
I hate when that happens.
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It's gonna be a looooooong dinner
;D
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It's gonna be a looooooong dinner
The NY Times had a couple articles about how to avoid contentious conversations at the holiday dinner table. they even had a list of topics to discuss instead. I find this both humorous and a real sign of the times. (Well, the Times, too.)
Interesting.
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They did not, however, mention Vixgram's chair.
;D
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We recently saw THE ACCOUNTANT and I was continuously surprised.
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How many here have actually heard a Sibelius symphony?
Listened to No. 1 today. presented with the Karelia Suite and Lemminkained Suite. Lovely stuff.
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So while I held a vague hope that I would spend Thamksgiving basking in the glow of a happy mother with her longed for chair (albeit without arm covers) well...
I'm laughing harder at this story than the new Ghostbusters. 25 minutes into the movie and I've smiled twice. No laughs yet.
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This isn't UPS this is Amazon's own drivers.
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Listened to the second symphony - very good, but not Ormandy in terms of orchestral detail but very good nonetheless. After this there's no more Ormandy Sibelius from Columbia until the final symphony seven.
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Packaging is proofed but some major song info was left off so I've spent the last hour researching that and now have gotten that information to the designer - easy to fix.
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My cellphone battery is on its last legs and I can't get a new one until late January. Ugh.
Maybe I should give up the phone.
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My life was easier without it.
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I should be used to it by now, but every now and then, I get these emails that start with "WTF" and still get startled before I realize they're from the Williamstown Theatre Festival mailing list. :)
:))
LOL ;D Are they aware what it looks like?
I just remembered that when I was going to Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, the fire trucks all had BFD on the sides! ;)
(That would, of course, also happen with any other city that started with the letter B.)
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And on that note (B...naturally), I'm off to rehearsal. Tonight is our first full run-through. We'll all get to see how it all fits together. Pray for Rosemary's Baby!
Until later!
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I have never heard a Sibelius Symphony - unless one was ever used in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
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More TOD:
Purple Noon with Alain Delon - and the later American version of the same book The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Bride Wore Black
The Twisted Nerve
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Run thru vibes for DR GEORGE.....
Opening night vibes for DR TCB.....I think it's Friday....right?
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Good night, all.
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Run thru vibes for DR GEORGE.....
Opening night vibes for DR TCB.....I think it's Friday....right?
Thanks, Jrand!
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It's going well.
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I got through my scene and added a couple of bits that got laughs.
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I just hope I can remember them again. ;)
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And since we're so close...
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PAGE SEVEN PHYSICIAN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (https://www.artful.ly/store/events/10657) DANCE!
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(Shameful plug above.)
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So while I held a vague hope that I would spend Thamksgiving basking in the glow of a happy mother with her longed for chair (albeit without arm covers) well...
I'm laughing harder at this story than the new Ghostbusters. 25 minutes into the movie and I've smiled twice. No laughs yet.
Did you expect it to be funny?
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My cellphone battery is on its last legs and I can't get a new one until late January. Ugh.
Maybe I should give up the phone.
A new battery or a new phone?
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And on that note (B...naturally), I'm off to rehearsal. Tonight is our first full run-through. We'll all get to see how it all fits together. Pray for Rosemary's Baby!
Until later!
I hope it went well.
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I just hope I can remember them again. ;)
;D
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I gotta tell you.
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Finished with my viewing.
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Went to Gelson's and got some cucumber roll, a really teeny-tiny dab of mac-and-cheese and some of their freshly made ham (three ounces) - fairly low-cal.
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And listening to the Sibelius fifth, which I truly love. These performances are all nice but the sound is still not what I love. I also have the Bernstein and New York Phil remastered set on its way - I've heard that's very good and if it sounds as good as the Mahler set, that may be a keeper, although I played a bit of the Bernstein The Planets and I have to say it sounds pretty bad.
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Page seven? Really?
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The big tune in the third movement of the fifth is one of my favorite pieces of music ever.
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Um, we don't need no stinkin' breaks here - let's not have any lulls.
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Listening to the seventh and final Sibelius symphony - I've really enjoyed this set very much. The seventh, by the way, I would say inspired Mr. John Williams when writing the Fortress of Steel cue for Superman.
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And on that note (B...naturally), I'm off to rehearsal. Tonight is our first full run-through. We'll all get to see how it all fits together. Pray for Rosemary's Baby!
Until later!
I hope it went well.
It did, thanks!
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Evening
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You'll notice the "good" was missing from my previous post.
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Tonight was the final dress rehearsal, the last chance to really mess up; and mess up I did.
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So just as I make my final entrance, I notice that one of the reviewers is sitting in the front row! Damn!!
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At our dress rehearsal! WTF?
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So just as I make my final entrance, I notice that one of the reviewers is sitting in the front row! Damn!!
No!!
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So I proceed to go up completely on one of my lines.
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So I proceed to go up completely on one of my lines.
I hate it when that happens!
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It just keeps getting better.
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Not!
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I couldn't have given a worse performance tonight.
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Well, I suppose I could have given a worse performance, but not since I got sober.
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At least our director could have warned us that we had a critic in the house.
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I couldn't have given a worse performance tonight.
Don't feel too bad, Tom. When TAO did Cannibal: The Musical the second time, our then-president felt that we needed a review by our opening weekend, so a couple of reviewers came the week before we opened! We absolutely were not ready, but that's the performance that was reviewed...and we suffered all the more for it.
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Well, what're we waiting for?
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PAGE EIGHT DANCE!!
8!!
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I know they had three shows that needed to be reviewed, but what is wrong with Friday, Saturday, and Sunday instead?
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I couldn't have given a worse performance tonight.
Don't feel too bad, Tom. When TAO did Cannibal: The Musical the second time, our then-president felt that we needed a review by our opening weekend, so a couple of reviewers came the week before we opened! We absolutely were not ready, but that's the performance that was reviewed...and we suffered all the more for it.
Yes, I know the feeling.