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Title: GETTING THE LEAD OUT
Post by: bk on August 27, 2018, 12:02:13 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes got the lead out, and now it is time for you to post until the leaden cows come home.
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Post by: bk on August 27, 2018, 12:03:03 AM: And the word of the day is: ANDRAGOGY!
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 12:10:03 AM: First post after BK.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 12:15:11 AM: T.O.D.

The William Warfield / Leontyne Price version of PORGY AND BESS.

It made me fall in love with Miss Price at the age of thirteen.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 12:16:49 AM: I was thirteen, not Miss Price.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 12:27:12 AM: Quote from: bk on August 27, 2018, 12:03:03 AM
And the word of the day is: ANDRAGOGY!

Raggedy Ann ANDRAGOGY Andy.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 12:31:51 AM: Good night, George.
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Post by: bk on August 27, 2018, 12:43:30 AM: Kritzerland is proud to present three new releases – one world premiere soundtrack release, a new Ben Bagley reissue, and a historic archival release of an opera/musical theatre masterpiece:

BEN BAGLEY’S HAROLD ARLEN REVISITED

Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Ralph Blane, DeSylva, Henderson, and Brown, Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg, Ted Koehler, Bud McCreery, Johnny Mercer, and Jack Yellin

Ben Bagley’s Harold Arlen Revisited is another delightful entry in the Revisited series. Back when these Revisited LPs came out they were like an oasis in the desert. Even when they were issued on CD, these were still frequently the only recordings of certain songs.

Hyman Arluck aka Harold Arlen was one-of-a-kind, a completely unique composer whose musical language was melodic, trenchant, heartfelt, fun, bluesy – he really could do anything well, but when you hear an Arlen tune you know it’s an Arlen tune. The breadth of his catalog is simply amazing – “Blues in the Night,” “My Shining Hour,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home,” “Happiness is a Thing Called Joe,” “I’ve Got the World On a String,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” “One for My Baby (And One More for the Road),” “Right as the Rain,” “That Old Black Magic,” “The Man that Got Away,” Lydia, the Tattooed Lady,” “Let’s Fall in Love,” and on and on and on. He wrote for Broadway and films and wrote the score for one of the most beloved movies of all time, The Wizard of Oz and won an Oscar for “Over the Rainbow,” one of the most performed songs ever.

As with all of Bagley’s Revisited series, you won’t be hearing the hits, the classics – you’ll be hearing the more obscure Arlen, which is the fun of these albums. But though they may not be the hits, they’re still great – filled with Arlen’s glorious tunes and of course the lyrics are by some of the best. The usual assortment of Bagley’s regular performers are here, including Phyllis Diller, Estelle Parsons, David Burns, Nancy Andrews, Gloria DeHaven, Blossom Dearie and others. And you couldn’t really as for better than Ralph Burns and Dick Hyman for arrangers and musical direction.

As we’ve done with the other albums in this series, we have considerably spruced up the sound. For the CD release, Bagley went into the studio and recorded bonus material to fill out the CD length.

HAROLD ARLEN REVISITED is limited to 500 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the second week of September, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

PORGY AND BESS

Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward

Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 10, 1935, receiving decidedly mixed reviews and playing a disappointing 124 performances. Subsequent to its brief Broadway run, there was a short tour, then two years later a West Coast production with much of the same cast. There was a Broadway revival in 1942, drastically cut and played more in the style of musical theatre. That run lasted 286 performances. That same year, the European premiere took place at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

In 1952, there was another touring version, this one restoring many of the cuts done for the 1942 revival, putting the opera in two acts, and played more as an opera than musical theatre. In that tour was William Warfield as Porgy, Leontyne Price as Bess, and Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life, and once again the conductor is Alexander Smallens. A tour of Europe was financed by the US State Department, which was warmly received and which is what you’ll be hearing in this historic performance, originally broadcast on radio in Berlin live from the Titania Palast on September 21, 1952.

This CD is derived from a tape of the broadcast from Berlin. Our brilliant mastering and restoration engineer, Chris Malone, has done great work in cleaning it up and making it sound as good as it’s ever going to. The cast is superb, especially William Warfield and Leontyne Price, who is a glorious Bess. And Cab Calloway is sublime as Sportin’ Life – but the entire company is tops and the conducting of original conductor Alexander Smallens is great. It’s an exhilarating performance.

Porgy and Bess has had its share of troubles over the years, but it endures because it is clearly a masterpiece – and because of its timeless music, which is, all these decades later, still refreshing, vital, and as tuneful as an opera has ever been. We’re pleased to have this historic performance in better sound and we hope you will be, too.

PORGY AND BESS is limited to 500 copies only and the two-CD set is priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the second week of September, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere soundtrack release – two great scores on one CD:

RED

and

FAMILY

COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY SOREN HYLDGAARD

The world lost a wonderful person and hugely talented film composer on May 7, 2018. If it was not a name you knew, it was a name you should have known. But sometimes it’s just the luck of the draw. Some film composers do great work without ever getting to the next level, and some do lesser work while climbing straight up the ladder. There’s no predicting it – it’s got a lot to do with luck and timing and lots of other things that seem to be at the whim of the great out there.

He began scoring films and TV in 1990 and his talent was immediately evident to those who heard his scores back then. He had a great gift for melody and even more importantly the gift of understanding how music should function in film. His first American film was Red, starring Brian Cox, which opens this CD. Red was a fairly low-budget film, a revenge thriller, and a very good one. The Los Angeles Times called the film, “An elegant and deceptively straightforward dramatic thriller.” Hyldgaard’s score is extremely evocative, mournful and quite beautiful, filled with the colors of rural America, and never overplaying its hand or overstaying its welcome.

The second score is to the powerful 2001 Danish documentary, Family. The filmmakers could not have chosen a better composer for their film. Once again, Hyldgaard turns in a beautiful score, with gorgeous themes, underscoring all the emotions of the film exquisitely.

RED/FAMILY is limited to 500 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the second week of September, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

SPECIAL OFFER: PURCHASE RED AND GET SOREN HYLDGAARD’S BRILLIANT SCORE TO THE SPIDER FOR FREE. TWO FOR ONE.

ATTENTION INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTORS: WE ARE DOWN TO THE LAST FEW PEOPLE, SO FROM HERE ON IN IF YOU’D LIKE A CD YOU MUST OPT-IN BY SENDING AN E-MAIL TO KRITZERLAND@GMAIL.COM. PLEASE DO NOT SEND US AN E-MAIL IF YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR PERK LEVEL. IF YOU ARE UNSURE, THEN ASK BEFORE OPTING IN, PLEASE.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 12:48:10 AM: CDs have been ordered!
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 12:51:51 AM: I've never seen a live production of Porgy and Bess, but I've seen clips of the original movie, and a couple of productions on PBS. I have the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong recording, the Ray Charles & Cleo Laine recording, and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera recording.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 01:19:35 AM: Time for bed. 8)

Have a good day, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 27, 2018, 04:22:03 AM: Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 27, 2018, 04:26:56 AM: Annabelle has decided that sleeping with Thatch and me beats the cat tree or her latest perch near the ceiling. There's plenty of room for all of us, but it's hell when they decide to wrestle and play before settling down.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 27, 2018, 04:28:06 AM: Another City Center day. I think I'll be home tomorrow while Joshie finishes up some more scores for me.
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Post by: Michael on August 27, 2018, 04:37:52 AM: good morning to all
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Post by: Druxy on August 27, 2018, 05:20:47 AM: T.O.D.

The only PORGY AND BESS I've ever seen is the Otto Preminger movie, which is no longer available...unless you have a bootleg copy.

:)
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 05:38:57 AM: Because of finances....I have only ordered ONE CD out of this announcement....HAROLD ARLEN! I look forward to it!
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 05:39:27 AM: Thanks DR LAURA and DR GINNY for the birthday wishes yesterday...I think I got everybody!
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 05:39:40 AM: DR JOHN looks nice as a knight.....
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Post by: KevinH on August 27, 2018, 05:39:53 AM: Good morning!
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 05:40:53 AM: DR TCB it must be the hair - I think I am wearing George Burns' old hair from THE SUNSHINE BOYS.....

I only know PORGY AND BESS from the film and the soundtrack....I saw part of a version of it on PBS I think....maybe Audra MacDonald was in it....but that's all I know....
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 05:42:27 AM: I enjoyed reading about DR GEORGE and his family meeting their new relatives....

DR DRUXY as DR GEORGE said...PURGE was a couple of movies, maybe based on a book - I hate dystopian crap - and it is irresponsible and puts ideas in the heads of unstable folks....
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 27, 2018, 06:21:50 AM: Good morning, all.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 27, 2018, 06:23:44 AM: I’m on the train for NYC, on something of a fool’s errand which I will post about when I can actually type.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 27, 2018, 06:25:14 AM: Very excited about the Porgy and Bess release. A wonderful surprise.

BK, I’ll be ordering this evening when back home.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:28:12 AM: Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:29:13 AM: Thank you, George and JRand. And, Fred, I’ll have to ponder the sagacity of your wardrobe advice.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:31:27 AM: George, it sounds like your family visit yesterday will be a little like mine this December. My German is not as good as it should be, but after a couple of drinks I don’t care and I start nodding in agreement to most anything.

Have y’all tried using an app like iTranslate, which translates immediately?
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:32:03 AM: The app isn’t free and I haven’t used it yet but I plan on getting it this winter.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:37:09 AM: TOD:

I have never seen Porgy and Bess, except for a brief part of Trevor Nunn’s TV version and the lip-syncing was so bad that I couldn’t watch it.

I love the Ella and Louie version for what it is: Ella and Louie. The Houston Opera recording is mighty fine. Lena Horne and Harry Belefonte make for an interesting pair. I just bought the Mel Tomme version and like the singing but not the intrusive narration. And what’s there of the original cast is thrilling in its way.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:37:55 AM: Looking forward to the William Warfield-Leontyne Price version.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:38:03 AM: Two!
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:38:45 AM: The less said of the Audra MacDonald-Norm Lewis version the better.
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Post by: FJL on August 27, 2018, 07:42:29 AM: Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:38:45 AM
The less said of the Audra MacDonald-Norm Lewis version the better.

Even more enticing to hear your thoughts about it. :)
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:53:05 AM: George I am vert6pleased the family gathering went well.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:54:39 AM: John you look great as a knight.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:58:13 AM: Thank goodness this cast comes off. I had my arm checked today and needed blisters on my elbow treated. P,ease, vibes the blisters are gone before I return home as they will delay my surgery.
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Post by: FJL on August 27, 2018, 08:05:18 AM: Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:54:39 AM
John you look great as a knight.

Glad other people are thinking this. I wrote my initial sartorial thoughts last night, then hurried to erase them out of fear that I might get hit with a MeToo-type harassment suit.

I have to remind myself that comments that may have been OK, even charming, thirty years ago need to be censored these days. :).
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Post by: FJL on August 27, 2018, 08:08:48 AM: Political thoughts on John McCain:

So much glossing over (as it MUST be right now) that McCain made a pretty huge lasting crass running mate decision that he's respectfully said he's regretted in hindsight. Yet that can't change the lasting impact of that VP candidate decision and that it had quite a role as it seems too have guided us towards where we are now. Or that he was pleased to use her in his 2010 re-election bid, though he had sort of parted ways with her after the 2008 election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/politics/27mccain.html

So yes, everybody should pay tribute, show honor, to his real war heroism and salute a sincere political life dedicated to HIS true conservative beliefs, though he was flexible now and then.

But maybe, can we wait a few months before re-naming buildings and the like, as our very esteemed New York Democratic Senator is proposing.
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 08:24:30 AM: Blister be Gone vibes for DR JANE.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 08:30:38 AM: Thank you.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:55:37 AM: Vibes for Jane.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:59:00 AM: Quote from: FJL on August 27, 2018, 08:08:48 AM
Political thoughts on John McCain:

So much glossing over (as it MUST be right now) that McCain made a pretty huge lasting crass running mate decision that he's respectfully said he's regretted in hindsight. Yet that can't change the lasting impact of that VP candidate decision and that it had quite a role as it seems too have guided us towards where we are now. Or that he was pleased to use her in his 2010 re-election bid, though he had sort of parted ways with her after the 2008 election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/politics/27mccain.html

So yes, everybody should pay tribute, show honor, to his real war heroism and salute a sincere political life dedicated to HIS true conservative beliefs, though he was flexible now and then.

But maybe, can we wait a few months before re-naming buildings and the like, as our very esteemed New York Democratic Senator is proposing.

I think that’s why the postal service used to wait 10 years before putting a person (not a head of state) on a stamp after their death. I don’t know if they do that anymore, now that stamp collecting (philately) has become worthless.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 09:04:42 AM: Quote from: FJL on August 27, 2018, 07:42:29 AM
Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:38:45 AM
The less said of the Audra MacDonald-Norm Lewis version the better.

Even more enticing to hear your thoughts about it. :)

I have liked Lewis since the original Side Show, But Porgy wasn’t in his vocal range.

Audra’s take on the part was depressing, though her singing was OK. It was too mannered, surprisingly not as moving as she has been in other roles.

The rewrite of the libretto was seemingly created by the goat whose part was cut.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 09:22:43 AM: Quote from: FJL on August 27, 2018, 08:05:18 AM
Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:54:39 AM
John you look great as a knight.

Glad other people are thinking this. I wrote my initial sartorial thoughts last night, then hurried to erase them out of fear that I might get hit with a MeToo-type harassment suit.

I have to remind myself that comments that may have been OK, even charming, thirty years ago need to be censored these days. :).

Ha! E-harassment. It’s a whole new field. Would that be #E-MeToo?
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 09:25:12 AM: I’ve been listening to Decline and Fall the last two days. What unalloyed joy.
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Post by: Ginny on August 27, 2018, 10:09:30 AM: Monday afternoon greetings! We're in the slow lane today, staying inside to avoid oppressive heat and humidity outside.
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Post by: Laura on August 27, 2018, 10:27:44 AM: Good morning.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 27, 2018, 10:44:09 AM: The Honeymoon Ballet is proofread and I am home. Annabelle and Thatch are happy to see me and even happier that I brought deli turkey with me/
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 10:45:06 AM: Hi.
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Post by: bk on August 27, 2018, 10:47:54 AM: I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep and have been working ever since, printing orders, doing the big week two push for Indiegogo.
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Post by: FJL on August 27, 2018, 10:55:45 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on August 27, 2018, 10:44:09 AM
The Honeymoon is proofread and I am home. Annabelle and Thatch are happy to see me and even happier that I brought deli turkey with me/

Yes, but did they sing hello, deli?
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Post by: FJL on August 27, 2018, 11:02:06 AM: Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:59:00 AM

I think that’s why the postal service used to wait 10 years before putting a person (not a head of state) on a stamp after their death. I don’t know if they do that anymore, now that stamp collecting (philately) has become worthless.

They were still issuing stamps in 2012. This celebrated the new Piaf stamp, and I clearly had free creative time while waiting to get tax work. :)

"Le Stamp En Rose-uh"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:32:22 AM: Quote from: Jrand68 on August 27, 2018, 05:42:27 AM
I enjoyed reading about DR GEORGE and his family meeting their new relatives....

Thanks, Jrand! I hope that there'll be more to write about. :D
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:35:36 AM: Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:31:27 AM
George, it sounds like your family visit yesterday will be a little like mine this December. My German is not as good as it should be, but after a couple of drinks I don’t care and I start nodding in agreement to most anything.

Have y’all tried using an app like iTranslate, which translates immediately?

We tried something like that a couple of years ago when my mom's younger (before Michael came along) brother and his wife visited, but using it wasn't very efficient. Both Michael and Suzie speak English, so it works out well enough.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:36:19 AM: Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:53:05 AM
George I am vert6pleased the family gathering went well.

Thanks, Jane! I'm vert6pleased that you're vert6pleased. ;)
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:36:51 AM: :))
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:37:45 AM: Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:58:13 AM
Thank goodness this cast comes off. I had my arm checked today and needed blisters on my elbow treated. P,ease, vibes the blisters are gone before I return home as they will delay my surgery.

~~~Blisters-Be-Gone Vibes for Jane's Elbow!!~~~
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 12:06:36 PM: Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:36:19 AM
Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:53:05 AM
George I am vert6pleased the family gathering went well.

Thanks, Jane! I'm vert6pleased that you're vert6pleased. ;)

:D

It is very difficult to type left handed on my tablet and my hand covers the keys so I can't see what I am doing.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 12:07:14 PM: Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:37:45 AM
Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:58:13 AM
Thank goodness this cast comes off. I had my arm checked today and needed blisters on my elbow treated. P,ease, vibes the blisters are gone before I return home as they will delay my surgery.

~~~Blisters-Be-Gone Vibes for Jane's Elbow!!~~~

Thank you.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 12:08:06 PM: Last night I gave up using my tablet in bed except for reading a book.
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Post by: Ginny on August 27, 2018, 01:13:52 PM: Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 12:06:36 PM
Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:36:19 AM
Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:53:05 AM
George I am vert6pleased the family gathering went well.

Thanks, Jane! I'm vert6pleased that you're vert6pleased. ;)

:D

It is very difficult to type left handed on my tablet and my hand covers the keys so I can't see what I am doing.

DR Jane, is this the elbow below the shoulder you injured a while ago?
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Post by: Jrand74 on August 27, 2018, 02:00:23 PM: On my way to the BAREFOOT ACT ONE READ THRU.
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Post by: bk on August 27, 2018, 02:09:23 PM: 74%! Someone took one of the film scripts - The King and I. If Ghost and Mrs. Muir goes, I'll see about putting up another couple.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 02:50:12 PM: Quote from: bk on August 27, 2018, 02:09:23 PM
74%! Someone took one of the film scripts - The King and I. If Ghost and Mrs. Muir goes, I'll see about putting up another couple.

Congrats, BK!
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:28:28 PM: Hello, everyone.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:28:48 PM: Continued medical vibes for Jane.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:29:22 PM: George, I'm glad the meeting with your "new" relatives went well. It was interesting to read about.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:29:59 PM: Enjoyed DR John G's knightly photo.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:32:45 PM: Quote from: FJL on August 27, 2018, 11:02:06 AM
Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:59:00 AM

I think that’s why the postal service used to wait 10 years before putting a person (not a head of state) on a stamp after their death. I don’t know if they do that anymore, now that stamp collecting (philately) has become worthless.

They were still issuing stamps in 2012. This celebrated the new Piaf stamp, and I clearly had free creative time while waiting to get tax work. :)

"Le Stamp En Rose-uh"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw

Very clever.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:35:30 PM: I saw the Porgy and Bess movie at the Palms Theater when I was maybe ten years old. I LOVED it. I still love the score and am looking forward to the new KL release.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:40:45 PM: For all you A PLACE TO CALL HOME fans, season 6 will debut August 31 on Acorn TV. Just the first two episodes, then I imagine one or two episodes each week. I'll try to wait a few weeks. Knowing how addictive the show is I don't want to have to wait a full week to see what happens next! Torture!
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:42:17 PM: PBS has a new mystery series, FRANKIE DRAKE. Is anyone here watching it? I plan to give it a try tonight.
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Post by: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:43:28 PM: Vibes to all.

TTFN.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 05:00:43 PM: Quote from: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:29:22 PM
George, I'm glad the meeting with your "new" relatives went well. It was interesting to read about.

Thanks, Jeanne!
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 05:23:10 PM: Quote from: Ginny on August 27, 2018, 01:13:52 PM
Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 12:06:36 PM
Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:36:19 AM
Quote from: Jane on August 27, 2018, 07:53:05 AM
George I am vert6pleased the family gathering went well.

Thanks, Jane! I'm vert6pleased that you're vert6pleased. ;)

:D

It is very difficult to type left handed on my tablet and my hand covers the keys so I can't see what I am doing.

DR Jane, is this the elbow below the shoulder you injured a while ago?

Yes, lucky me. I am doing stretches as much as possible to keep my shoulder lose and prevent a frozen shoulder.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 05:23:50 PM: Quote from: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:28:48 PM
Continued medical vibes for Jane.

Thank you.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 05:26:42 PM: It is really itching right now. I hope I can sleep.
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Post by: Jane on August 27, 2018, 05:26:59 PM: 'night
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:17:45 PM: Quote from: Jeanne on August 27, 2018, 04:40:45 PM
For all you A PLACE TO CALL HOME fans, season 6 will debut August 31 on Acorn TV. Just the first two episodes, then I imagine one or two episodes each week. I'll try to wait a few weeks. Knowing how addictive the show is I don't want to have to wait a full week to see what happens next! Torture!

Indeed. Considering they tried to cancel it at least once, I'm glad it's made it to season six.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:19:19 PM: It's so hot out there. Still.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:19:35 PM: Today more than my plants were fading. i was out there fading in the heat, too.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:21:17 PM: The water main across the street from me broke this morning. I noticed it as I was leaving for work. A backhoe was backing into the street.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:21:31 PM: The water had escaped out of the neighborhood.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:27:39 PM: When I got home, it seemed to have been repaired.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:27:55 PM: But the water was still in the street.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:45:13 PM: Watching Steve Gutenberg's film of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. Thirty or so years ago, I remember a friend staging this at a community theater, and I really enjoyed that production. The film, not so much. The comedy is played so straight that the fight scenes have become ugly rather than funny. And the premise of a burglar somehow doesn't translate as comedy either.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 06:57:31 PM: Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:21:17 PM
The water main across the street from me broke this morning. I noticed it as I was leaving for work. A backhoe was backing into the street.
Quote from: John G. on August 27, 2018, 06:21:31 PM
The water had escaped out of the neighborhood.

Oh, my goodness!! :o
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 07:22:07 PM: Well, I just got a call from my niece, asking if I could come over and order something for them with my Amazon Prime, so I'm going.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 07:22:15 PM: But before I go...
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 07:22:22 PM: PAGE FOUR DANCE!!
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 07:22:29 PM: Until later!
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:52:39 PM: It's been a good day for wonderful words.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:53:11 PM: In one sentence in the Hawthorne novel I'm reading, The Blithedale Romance, he used "thitherward" and "festoons."
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:54:18 PM: Then in the memoir I'm reading tonight, A Place Called Sweet Apple, the writer used both "refulgent" (which reminded me of another favorite, "effulgent") and "haberdashery."
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:55:01 PM: They just play across the tongue.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:56:13 PM: I'm listening to Heitor Villa-Lobos. The Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7. Lovely, lively stuff.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:57:06 PM: I'm thinking of bed.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:57:16 PM: It's late and all.
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:57:31 PM: Gratuitous post No. 99!
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Post by: John G. on August 27, 2018, 08:57:40 PM: And good night, all.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 10:25:44 PM: Gratuitous Post #101!
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 10:48:10 PM: 74%!
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:12:10 PM: Yesterday, my uncle and his family were talking about wanting to go to Seattle and to Mount St. Helens.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:12:13 PM: Good evening.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:12:35 PM: Not both on the same day, of course.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:12:41 PM: Hi, George.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:12:48 PM: Hi, Tom.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:13:02 PM: Page 4? Really?
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:13:42 PM: We actually had blue skies today!
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:14:46 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:13:42 PM
We actually had blue skies today!

I know! It was really nice!
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:15:14 PM: And provided the wind direction doesn’t change tonight, we will have blue skies again tomorrow.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:15:20 PM: Tomorrow, after they get back from whichever place they go to, we're going to my parents' for tacos.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:15:51 PM: And temperatures in the 80’s.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:16:35 PM: I don't know what time they'll get back, so dinner might be early or late.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:17:14 PM: Did they go to the casino for prime rib tonight?
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:18:00 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:17:14 PM
Did they go to the casino for prime rib tonight?

Yes...that was the plan.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:18:14 PM: I can’t eat prime rib.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:18:38 PM: It is just too rich for me.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:19:27 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:18:38 PM
It is just too rich for me.

I just don't care for it.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:19:34 PM: And I am too poor to eat rich food. :D
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:20:05 PM: Page 5
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:28:15 PM: Nick is really restless tonight.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:29:57 PM: He comes to bed for twenty minutes, then he gets up and goes back to the living room for a while.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:30:38 PM: And then he starts the whole process over again.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:34:56 PM: Tomorrow, I am going to the Red Wind.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:35:19 PM: But not for prime rib.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:35:43 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:29:57 PM
He comes to bed for twenty minutes, then he gets up and goes back to the living room for a while.

Neve just has been lying here on my bed.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:35:55 PM: I am going to have the buffet.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:36:43 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:35:55 PM
I am going to have the buffet.

Ahh.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:37:16 PM: Sounds good.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:37:33 PM: Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:35:43 PM
Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:29:57 PM
He comes to bed for twenty minutes, then he gets up and goes back to the living room for a while.

Neve just has been lying here on my bed.

Then it must just be Nick.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:38:18 PM: Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:37:16 PM
Sounds good.

I hope it is.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:53:29 PM: My phone's weather app said that it got up to 83°F today, here in Tumwater.
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Post by: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:53:36 PM: I received a very nice package in the mail today from the niece of my dear friend, Jim, who passed away in March.
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Post by: George on August 27, 2018, 11:59:33 PM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:53:36 PM
I received a very nice package in the mail today from the niece of my dear friend, Jim, who passed away in March.

That's so sweet.
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Post by: TCB on August 28, 2018, 12:01:03 AM: Quote from: George on August 27, 2018, 11:53:29 PM
My phone's weather app said that it got up to 83°F today, here in Tumwater.

Wow, that’s wonderful. I don’t think we got above 75 degrees in Tacoma.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2018, 12:11:12 AM: It's supposed to get up to 82° tomorrow.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2018, 12:11:51 AM: Well, today (Tuesday), since it's actually a new day, already. ;)
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Post by: TCB on August 28, 2018, 12:13:35 AM: Quote from: George on August 28, 2018, 12:11:51 AM
Well, today (Tuesday), since it's actually a new day, already. ;)

No, actually time stands still until BK moves the day.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2018, 12:18:42 AM: Quote from: TCB on August 28, 2018, 12:13:35 AM
Quote from: George on August 28, 2018, 12:11:51 AM
Well, today (Tuesday), since it's actually a new day, already. ;)

No, actually time stands still until BK moves the day.

True, very true. ;D
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Post by: TCB on August 28, 2018, 12:26:59 AM: Well, I must say good night, old bean!
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Post by: George on August 28, 2018, 12:30:32 AM: Good night, Tom.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2018, 01:07:47 AM: Well, I need to go to bed now. I don't know exactly when my uncle and his family will be back from wherever they're going today (Tuesday), so I should get to work a little earlier than I normally do.

Good night and have a good day, all!
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2018, 02:13:40 AM: Quote from: TCB on August 27, 2018, 11:19:34 PM
And I am too poor to eat rich food. :D

;;D
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2018, 02:16:02 AM: We're is autocorrect when you need it.. It did not change lose to loose for me. I do no want to lose my shoulder. I want to keep it loose 😊