Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 21, 2021, 12:10:34 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes featured both swans and lakes and a constipated Mark Wahlberg, and now it is time for you to post until the constipated cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PLENIPOTENT!
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George, I know tonight was not the Tony’s. First of all, it is not Sunday. But more importantly, it was a joke, because we were on page 8.
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George, I know tonight was not the Tony’s. First of all, it is not Sunday. But more importantly, it was a joke, because we were on page 8.
Obviously, I don't always read things as "jokes" online without a winking emoji: ;)
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But, I really was wondering anyway, so I went ahead and looked it up. Now, at least, I know. :)
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Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, friends.
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And the word of the day is: PLENIPOTENT!
I looked up the definition. After the definition, it said, "Sometimes used as a postpositive."
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Well, I'll post positive posts, if that's what it takes.
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Good morning, all!
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I slept rather poorly, and I had one strange dream of working at some summer theatre camp. I remember next to nothing aboput it.
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It's going to be another very warm day.
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DR slingshot, your friend's cat Charlie looks much like my little boy Thatch.
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All this talk of swans reminds me of that famous anecdote about Moravian tenor Leo Slezak:
He was a convivial person, and there are many anecdotes revealing his amiable sense of humor. The best-known example is as follows. During a performance of Wagner's Lohengrin, a stage hand pulled the swan off the stage too early, before the tenor had had a chance to hop aboard. Seeing his feathered transportation disappear into the wings, Slezak ad-libbed to the audience: "Wann fährt der nächste Schwan?" ("When does the next swan leave?")
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DR slingshot, your friend's cat Charlie looks much like my little boy Thatch.
He does, indeed!
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"Don't worry if you're making waves just by being yourself. The Moon does it all the time."
Scott Stabile
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BK, I have a plethora of Sleeping Beauty DVDs and CDs, Of the CDs, I like the complete ones by Previn, Bonynge, and Dorati, who conducted it for years with the Ballets Russes. I think it's my favorite Tchaikovsky composition, and my complaint with every staged production I've seen is that they all have to make cuts in the score; otherwise, the ballet with intermissions would last close to four hours, and they all make different cuts.
When the Royal Ballet, formerly Sadlers Wells Ballet, reopened after the war, the chose ballet was The Sleeping Beauty, with glorious designs by Oliver Messel. The production was a hit as well in the company's first trip to the US. NBC, I believe, broadcast a performance starring the reigning Royal Ballet superstar Margot Fonteyn, which I saw around 1953. The kinescope has been released on DVD.
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When the sets got too old, the Royal Ballet created a new production designed by the designer of Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. I really detest her designs, and this is my least favorite DVD.
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Good morning, all.
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Around 2000, to celebrate the post-WW2 production, the Messel designs were redone, and there are two DVDs, both from the dread Opus Arte company. The first DVD starred Alina Cojacaru, and the second stars my current favorite Royal Ballet dancer, Maianela Nuñez. They are both quite lovely, but you may want to see what Opus Arte "auteur" is controlling the video.
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The Russians, too, love The Sleeping Beauty, and go all out for the spectacle. Both the Bolshoi and Kirov go all out with it. I saw the Kirov around 2000 perform at the Metropolitan Opera House their recreation of the original St Petersburg production, and it was truly wonderful, with a huge cast of adults and children, and it may have been the fullest production of the score that I've seen, To my knowledge, it has never been committed to video.
The Dutch National Ballet, created by Sir Peter Wright, is also very nicely done, and I recommend it as well.
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Bad night of sleep. Hope I stay awake today.
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Good morning!
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I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep, I guess.
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elmore, I saw Osipova rather than Nunez, but the same exact production with the same exact MacGibbon at the helm.
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Good morning, all.
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I am watching a corned beef.
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Yes, that’s what I said. I am watching a corned beef.
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You see, I am making corned beef hash tomorrow morning. I’m cooking the meat today, and will make the potatoes with all the trimmings in the morn’.
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Anyway, after much juggling of the flames, I finally got the meat stabilized at the desired simmer. I might have to watch it a little less for a while.
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Last night I watched the first half of Samuel Fuller’s House of Bamboo, and I am a little embarrassed to say that, though I thought I’d seen it, I most emphatically had not. It’s wonderful, but I started it late and I knew I wouldn’t be able to stay sufficiently awake for the whole thing. I’ll finish it tonight.
CDs: Various and sundry Schmidt and Jones recordings.
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That simmer is perfect. I can sit my ass down for a while.
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I'd set my alarm for eight-thirty, but it's a good thing I woke up earlier because it wouldn't have gone off - it went back to the home screen and if it does that then the alarm doesn't work. I think this iPad is from 2009 - it's amazing it works at all.
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DR elmore3003 - thanks for all the information on Sleeping Beauty.
I checked out that Fonteyn kinescope. Alas, it is only 1 hour, 9 minutes long.
Do any audio recordings capture the full score without cuts?
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One of the reasons I woke up early was because the callback last night started to worry me and here's why: I had an actress reading for what on paper is a seventy-year-old black lady - actress reading being white and in her late forties. She was a little confused and so I joked with her, said I'd been brought in because Doug felt I was the only one who could help the writer (I didn't want to even do this), and we both felt that this friend character might just work better as contrast and dynamic if it was white. I also wrote the playwright and told him if a great black lady showed up then that would be fine, too. I also joked that there's nothing like a white writer trying to write black. It was all banter and me trying to get the actress comfortable. But then a remark was dropped that all the people who were at the callbacks could hear everything. It bothered me a little because I don't think anyone should hear anything that another director is doing with his actors, but I forgot about it until this morning, when I realized they were recording it, too, and were going to send it to folks who weren't there, like the author.
So, I wrote Doug and the producer this morning asking them to NOT send this to anyone, especially the author, because without understanding what was going on and the context, it would sound awful. I told Doug he could send to Hartley and she could edit it out. This is why I hate this world we live in, because joking isn't allowed and humor isn't allowed and context isn't allowed. So, I have no idea what will be what with this, although each and every comment made can be given context and explained that it was joking. So, I'm concerned, but in the end if I don't direct this ten-minute play it's not gonna bother me.
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You could always say you were using the postpositive.
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I thought DR KEVINH won the locked out stories until I read DR VIXMOM's......
I remember when we received an on the spot dispatch about those happenings and it's even more remarkable reading about it again.
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I have turned on the cooling device.
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Some photos were taken last night - although I don't know when they will be made available..... The photographer showed me one of me in my full King Louis drag....and it was.....what it was.....
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2009!
(BK’s iPad)
Mine is 2014. It works fine but is definitely slowing down. Still fine for reading and doing a little posting, but:
I’m looking to replace or supplement it with the 12.9” iPad Pro sometime soon, for the primary purpose of joining the 21st century and reading/playing music from it. On my last gig I was the only one of four playing from paper, and the iPad is the way to go. Depending on the circumstances, of course.
It won’t be the newest model, but an Apple Certified Refurbished one from a generation or two ago. I love the quality and the savings, and for these purposes, the latest and greatest would be a waste of money and resources.
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DR John I thought you had recommended FEATHERHOOD, however, when I did a search nothing came up.
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I gotta tell you.
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I really hope I'm overthinking this and that the merde doesn't hit the proverbial fan. This I don't need.
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DR elmore3003 - thanks for all the information on Sleeping Beauty.
I checked out that Fonteyn kinescope. Alas, it is only 1 hour, 9 minutes long.
Do any audio recordings capture the full score without cuts?
I guess NBC figured at that time that more than an hour of ballet and men in tights was too much for any good white American citizen to suffer through!
There are many recordings, but these are my three favorites. I recommend the Bonynge and Previn sets of all three Tchaikovsky ballets because, while the original LP releases were complete, the single CD releases cut numbers to fit the ballet onto two CDs.
Dorati recorded the first complete Sleeping Beauty Ballet for Mercury Records around 1956 with the Minneapolis Symphony. It's fantastic, as his first Mercury recording of The Nutcracker, but neither has had a decent CD release. His last complete recording for Phillips is wonderful, but the budget release on 2 CDs cuts numbers.
I do not like the current crop of Sleeping Beauty recordings with Gergiev or Jarvi: both are too fast and hard pressed. There was also a wonderful recording on budget label Naxos that was surprisingly good!
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Here is the Naxos recording.
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Vibes for MR BK.
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Relax, have a pickle.
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I think some time before the turn of the century, I saw a version of said ballet on PBS called Swamp Lake. It was performed in fishing boots, if I recall correctly.
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Are those Dorati recordings the ones from the Mercury mono years, and are the stereo ones likewise complete? I’m thinking out loud here, I really need to research this.
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Thanks much, DR elmore3003! I appreciate the time and care you put into these informative postings.
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DR John I thought you had recommended FEATHERHOOD, however, when I did a search nothing came up.
I thought I had mentioned it, too.
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Thank you for suggesting it.
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I was quite sure DR John G. had mentioned FEATHERHOOD, because that was where I'd first heard about it. But darned if I can find the post now. 'Tis a mystery.
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Hope things work out for bk with the thingie.
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Purposely ambiguous.
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Post deleted.
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;D
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Salivating over the newly-announced John Eliot Gardner 104-CD box set. But it's over $200. So not in the cards at the moment.
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Vibes for MR BK.
~~~Ditto!!~~~
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I don't know what we will watch tonight.
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Last night we watched Minari.
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Are those Dorati recordings the ones from the Mercury mono years, and are the stereo ones likewise complete? I’m thinking out loud here, I really need to research this.
In the mid-1950s Dorati recorded for Mercury complete recordings of the three Tchaikovsky ballets in beautiful packaging. Curiously, the Swan Lake, which did get a 2-CD release, was the heavily cut and rearranged version made after Tchaikovsky's death that has become the standard ballet these days.
Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty were recorded absolutely complete. Neither one of these two has got a decent CD release from Mercury
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:)
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Would someone deliver ice cream to my house? Please?
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Are those Dorati recordings the ones from the Mercury mono years, and are the stereo ones likewise complete? I’m thinking out loud here, I really need to research this.
In the mid-1950s Dorati recorded for Mercury complete recordings of the three Tchaikovsky ballets in beautiful packaging. Curiously, the Swan Lake, which did get a 2-CD release, was the heavily cut and rearranged version made after Tchaikovsky's death that has become the standard ballet these days.
Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty were recorded absolutely complete. Neither one of these two has got a decent CD release from Mercury
Okay, I know the ones you mean, in the big albums. I had all three, in beautiful condition, and gave them away about ten years ago in a Big Purge.
Oh well. Since I can still play those black things, I'll keep my eye open for them again. Maybe there's a worthwhile digitizing project in my future.
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The Dorati Nutcracker is in great stereo. But right this minute I'm listening to Rodzinski's early stereo recording of same on Westminster and it's fantastic.
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Had a bacon and cheddar omelet.
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Worrying was for naught - they forgot to record it :) But I'm so irritated with myself that I even worried about it - I'm so tired of the woke and the cancel culture that has sucked any humor from the world. Well, sorry, without humor what is life? So, in my opinion, these woke warriors who can't abide any joking or humor can, like the new Kevin show coming on AMC, go eff themselves.
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I has spoken.
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Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to see Rear Window at the Bedford Playhouse which I haven't been able to post about in nearly a year and a half. I don't believe it's in 4K, but it's on one of their smaller screens anyway, they'll do a perfect job of presenting it, and I haven't seen it in a theater since a disastrous showing at a Fathom event at an AMC several years ago when they didn't know how to show it un-stretched. Absolutely ghastly. So this will be most gratifying and enjoyable.
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I've probably said this before, but I'm a fan of Apple Certified Refurbished products, and I'm about to own my third one.
It just happens that they restocked the 12.9" iPads in their listings today, the very ones I mentioned this morning, and my finger was ready on the trigger because they go fast when they're listed. Mine will be here next Wednesday.
It was high time, because this is what The Fantasticks will be played from. There is no way to make that a page-turning-friendly piece, so my Bluetooth pedal will be taking care of that chore.
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I am now $709 (plus tax and extras) the poorer.
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The Dorati Nutcracker is in great stereo. But right this minute I'm listening to Rodzinski's early stereo recording of same on Westminster and it's fantastic.
The stereo Dorati Nutcracker is not the original recording with the Minneapolis Symphony. It's with the London Symphony, but to confuse the buyer, Mercury used the artwork from the original recording.
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Sneaky!
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I just knew there was a conspiracy!
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I've probably said this before, but I'm a fan of Apple Certified Refurbished products, and I'm about to own my third one.
It just happens that they restocked the 12.9" iPads in their listings today, the very ones I mentioned this morning, and my finger was ready on the trigger because they go fast when they're listed. Mine will be here next Wednesday.
It was high time, because this is what The Fantasticks will be played from. There is no way to make that a page-turning-friendly piece, so my Bluetooth pedal will be taking care of that chore.
Congrats on your purchase.
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Sounds like a good deal, DR ChasSmith.
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Forget what I was ushering for tonight. It’s a children’s production of Swan Lake. It’s about a swan …
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Haircut is done, and now I'll be meeting Robert Yacko for a light meal.
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Hello, everyone.
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Today was Needle Day (acupuncture), then the bank, then I picked up some lunch.
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I've probably said this before, but I'm a fan of Apple Certified Refurbished products, and I'm about to own my third one.
It just happens that they restocked the 12.9" iPads in their listings today, the very ones I mentioned this morning, and my finger was ready on the trigger because they go fast when they're listed. Mine will be here next Wednesday.
It was high time, because this is what The Fantasticks will be played from. There is no way to make that a page-turning-friendly piece, so my Bluetooth pedal will be taking care of that chore.
Although I've been buying my cars used for many years now, I've been leery of used electronics. I don't really know why. It's good to hear you've had good experiences with them. I'll consider them.
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I took this last week as a semi staycation. There was no place I wanted to go, but I needed a break. I indulged in many of my favorite foods, spent less time keeping up with the news (too negative!), and spent more time doing what I like to do and less doing what I think I should do.
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Sounds like a good deal, DR ChasSmith.
Agreed!
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Well, it's now time for me to leave work, so I shall.
Be back later.
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Yesterday I resumed a Big Cull, sorting through some books for donation candidates. Sometimes I start a new book, only to find I'm not in the mood for it, then put it aside, intending to return -- then don't. I now have a whole pile of those. There were also a couple books I've been wanting to read, but couldn't find. I knew they were here! I found them. Of course, when you do this you also find a lot of dust -- ugh! And a few surprises: What's that doing here? It's much more orderly now -- and cleaner. But that was just one corner. There's a lot more to go through.
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TTFN.
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DR Jeanne -
To answer your question from yesterday: Yes, on AcornTV.
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We all know that domestic cats love boxes. But did you know that BIG cats love boxes, too? ;D
(22) BIG CATS like boxes too! - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY)
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Moving on.
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FOUR!!!!
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I took this last week as a semi staycation. There was no place I wanted to go, but I needed a break. I indulged in many of my favorite foods, spent less time keeping up with the news (too negative!), and spent more time doing what I like to do and less doing what I think I should do.
That sounds like a good staycation.
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I had a nice meaty ham bone in the fridge
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So I made idea soup
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I did not make idea soup.
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I have no idea what idea soup would be
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Stoooooooopid autocorrect
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What I did make was pea soup
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The immersion blender came out to play
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It was a beautiful day today
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Back from a lovely early dinner at Vitello's - small Caesar and salmon - very good.
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I did not make idea soup.
;D
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What I did make was pea soup
I can see how autocorrect changed pea to idea ::)
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I must say this Rodzinski stereo Nutcracker is a wonderful performance, but the honor for best must go to Antal Dorati, his stereo version, recorded on 35mm magnetic film with such clarity and beauty, and mastered for CD from that original source. It's really the benchmark for me, much as I enjoyed Previn and Rodzinski.
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We went to Beaches for dinner. After years of saying I would try their pizza I finally did. It was very good.
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When we first moved to Washington we stayed in a residence inn type of place. While it had a refrigerator the stove was rather useless and there wasn't an oven. We usually ate lunch, vs dinner, at a restaurant. Beaches was always for lunch and we had the same waitress every time.
Today was the last day for that waitress to work. She is going to another restaurant. Unfortunately her shift there will end at 2:00 which is a bit too early for us since we rarely eat lunch out anymore. We will miss her.
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So many changes, basically due to covid.
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So tired! Good night, friends.
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'night
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So, the children’s ballet of Swan Lake was very much like Nutcracker with children in every available spot. The music had been cut to about 80 minutes. The prince and Odile were good. The kids were cute. But …
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But they had a professional photographer whose camera sounded like someone typing on an old Selectric typewriter. I was half the theater away and those acoustics made everything miserable. One of the service managers told her, and she ignored him.
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I’m now sitting outside a Puerto Rican food truck waiting for a plate of mofongo with fried pork on the side.
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The salsa music is good.
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Today was Needle Day (acupuncture), then the bank, then I picked up some lunch.
Bet your needles were better than mine yesterday.
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Finished with my viewing - half of one thing, half of another.
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Half-and-half.
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Two separate halves do not a whole make.
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Or even a hole make.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Listening to music.
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Five!
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Hello, 0 guests!
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Watching the last Brokenwood Mystery.
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Well, the last of season six.
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Good night, all.
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Listening to a couple of piano concertos by Pfitzner and Walter Braunfels - both great. I'd heard the Pfitzner and loved it, but not the Braunfels - what a wonderful composer he was.
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We all know that domestic cats love boxes. But did you know that BIG cats love boxes, too? ;D
(22) BIG CATS like boxes too! - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY)
That was great!
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I'm home.
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We played two games of Phase 10 and Dee (not my sister, DeeDee) won both games.
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I was in second place for the second game, but I didn't get the cards I needed. :(
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Oh, well.
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There will always be another game!
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I am listening to the new COMPANY.
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It is the London Cast Recording from 2018.
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I guess the leads are the same when it opens here.
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So, the children’s ballet of Swan Lake was very much like Nutcracker with children in every available spot. The music had been cut to about 80 minutes. The prince and Odile were good. The kids were cute. But …
Nice.
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At least, Rosalie and Patti.
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But they had a professional photographer whose camera sounded like someone typing on an old Selectric typewriter. I was half the theater away and those acoustics made everything miserable. One of the service managers told her, and she ignored him.
That's too bad. :-\
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I guess the leads are the same when it opens here.
I'd read that Patti will be the only transfer.
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Hi, Tom.
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Shouldn’t Sorry, Grateful be sung with the wives, instead of Bobbi and the husbands?