Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 25, 2021, 12:03:25 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you know about the check disc, and now it is time for you to post until the Czech cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PALAVER!
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Topic of the Day: my favorite pizza is a Dirty Dave's (https://www.dirtydavespizza.com/) pizza of my own concoction: pepperoni, pineapple, cashews and extra cheese on a thin crust. The best!
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Growing up, we would usually get sausage-and-pepperoni or a Hawaiian pizza (Canadian bacon and pineapple). But one of my suitemates during my first year at Western Washington University (1986-1987) said that his favorite was pepperoni and pineapple, and that sounded real good to me. I was able to try it and I've loved it ever since. The first time I went to Dirty Dave's in Lacey, I saw that they had cashews, which I also love, and the combination of the three toppings instantly became my all-time favorite! :D
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And it still is!
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Robert Yacko read Some Days Are Murder in one sitting - he couldn't put it down, he said, and he loved it. Then he left this lovely review at Amazon:
A delicious, old fashioned romp of a murder mystery, at the center of which is an unlikely, even reluctant Private Investigator, a charming opera-loving curmudgeon who plays verbal badminton with his sass-back secretary, a woman who, he reminds himself, smells like a tuna sandwich. Painted with meticulous genuine detail, and underscored by its own classical soundtrack, Some Days Are Murder is laced with the ever-changing visceral aromas of a Hollywood past, complete with Tail O’ the Pup hot dogs, Black Jack Gum and Suzy Q fries. The story is fast-paced and addictive, peppered with crackling dialogue and humorous banter worthy of your favorite Black & White shamus films. I found myself, like the worn, bloodhound hero detective himself, hooked on that unstoppable scent in my nose, and I could not put this book down until the final curtain, as it were. So pour yourself a cold beverage, make your favorite classic sandwich, and dive in. Bon Appetit'!
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That's great, BK!
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I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, friends.
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I think I would like to eat at Dirty Dave's pizza.
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Pie-crust decorating as art:
https://mymodernmet.com/pies-crust-designs-karin-pfeiff-boschek/?fbclid=IwAR0wM_N6v66qP3o0MHvjtBzDC4uOfaoa3-eOHTlBO2hsDATeCDtHUWFXJgw
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Good morning, all!
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I got very little sleep last night, most likely because of my anxiety over this morning's Access-A-Ride trip. Annabelle left her bookcase aerie to sleep on my pillow with me, and Thatch and Stella did their usual visits, lying down with me for a bit and then running off to create fresh hell for Daddy.
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Last night we watched the 1933 horror comedy, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, which has been beautifully restored for Blu-Ray. I may be getting some of the facts wrong, but my memory is that it was long considered a lost film, according to Carlos Clarens' wonderful 1967 book, An illustrated history of the horror films. I had seen the 1950s remake House of Wax several times on TV and in one of those 1950s-60s Halloween horror-sci fi film matinees my brother Macbeth and I used to attend with hundreds of school friends on the Saturday before Halloween.
Then in the late 1960s-early 70s a print of the film was found (in Europe, as I recall), and it was finally broadcast on PBS. I saw its first showing with a lot of press at the time in winter, 1971 or early 1972. I hadn't seen it since until last night. It's in color, a fact I did not know when I first saw it, and it's quite a different kettle of fish compared to The House of Wax. It reminded me a lot of The Cat and the Canary and The Bat, two Broadway plays with a mix of comedy and thriller. There's also a bit of Warner Brothers tough cops and gangsters and maybe a bit of borrowing from The Front Page and its hardboiled reporters. I loved Glenda Farrell as the fast-talking comedy reporter chasing down the story of bodies stolen from the morgue. Fay Wray, as her roommate, gets star billing with Lionel Atwill, but her role is smaller than Farrell's.
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As to the remake, The House of Wax, it's much more of a horror film, and set in the 1890s, as I recall, where The Mystery of the Wax Museum is contemporary, set in 1933 New York, and I think its cast is better. Some of the sets - the city morgue, the museum's workroom - are really stunning.
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Good morning, all.
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DR Elmore, I got that restored Mystery of the Wax Museum Blu-ray and am looking forward to watching it one of these evenings. I've owned that in every format, but I only ever really watched it on TCM, I think, several years ago. Of course I want to see the restored two-strip Technicolor, but you sure make the whole design and 'vibe' sound appealing.
Do you also have the just-restored Doctor X with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray? I don't yet. It will be on my next order.
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BK: That one-second delay on the audio happens occasionally on my Oppo which is the older BDP-93. Someone posted about this several years ago, most likely on HTF, and the theory was that it's an HDMI protocol or handshake issue.
Usually I experience it on a CD, when I've just loaded the disc and the first track starts to play and the first second or half-second of audio is cut off. I know now to hit the "back" chapter button and it plays normally thereafter. I think it's happened a couple of times on Blu-ray at the start of a film logo, too, but in my experience it's more often on CD.
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DR Elmore, I got that restored Mystery of the Wax Museum Blu-ray and am looking forward to watching it one of these evenings. I've owned that in every format, but I only ever really watched it on TCM, I think, several years ago. Of course I want to see the restored two-strip Technicolor, but you sure make the whole design and 'vibe' sound appealing.
Do you also have the just-restored Doctor X with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray? I don't yet. It will be on my next order.
No Doctor X!
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Thanks to recalcitrant bodily functions and a rush to get ready to leave, I have rescheduled everything for this Thursday at a later time, 11:15, which gives me 30 more minutes before Access-A-Ride picks me up.
Calling Access-A-Ride to cancel today's trips led to the discovery that the young lady who registered me with them has given them my wrong birth date. So I need to call them back and correct that. I also need to learn if "exact change" includes dollar bills. I do not relish carrying $5.50 for transport in coins.
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I like both Wax Museum and Doctor X......pretty grisly stuff....and the color is interesting....and of course Glenda Farrell!
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Nice review from DR YACKO.
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DR ELMORE the music I used is only credited as being from Best of Broadway Volume 3 - Orchard Enterprises - Stars On Broadway Orchestra......there seems to be no other info on the WWW.
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Good morning!
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From DR TCB:
Why didn’t you ask him to either put on his mask, or change machines?
He didn't break any rules, unless he hadn't been vaccinated.
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DR ELMORE the music I used is only credited as being from Best of Broadway Volume 3 - Orchard Enterprises - Stars On Broadway Orchestra......there seems to be no other info on the WWW.
Bummer. If I were the arranger, I would not be happy.
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Two handsome males.
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LOL!
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This evening I'm meeting my director friend for what used to be our monthly (more or less) dinner meeting, for the first time since March 12, 2020.
This is my first such local outing (I ate at a few places on my trip to Ohio, and lived to tell about it!), and I do look forward to it, certainly with a bit of nervous anticipation, but the feeling is 99% positive.
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Have a good time.
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Robert Yacko read Some Days Are Murder in one sitting - he couldn't put it down, he said, and he loved it. Then he left this lovely review at
Another wonderful review that captures the essence of the book.
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Pie-crust decorating as art:
https://mymodernmet.com/pies-crust-designs-karin-pfeiff-boschek/?fbclid=IwAR0wM_N6v66qP3o0MHvjtBzDC4uOfaoa3-eOHTlBO2hsDATeCDtHUWFXJgw
Amazing!
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Two handsome males.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6509.0;attach=12129)
That's great! ;D
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This evening I'm meeting my director friend for what used to be our monthly (more or less) dinner meeting, for the first time since March 12, 2020.
This is my first such local outing (I ate at a few places on my trip to Ohio, and lived to tell about it!), and I do look forward to it, certainly with a bit of nervous anticipation, but the feeling is 99% positive.
Enjoy!
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I think we all need one of these for our next HHW convention!
https://www.fantastiy.com/products/broadway-shows-hawaiian-shirt?fbclid=IwAR1uZ0dP4cslpxz1ZLwtE9xiCmY7S07dJgaLoFyvgrKvA0BPOKRGNXoK9Zw
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:)
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Good afternoon, all.
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Work is crazy. Have barely had a free second.
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No biopsy results for two more weeks.
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I think we all need one of these for our next HHW convention!
https://www.fantastiy.com/products/broadway-shows-hawaiian-shirt?fbclid=IwAR1uZ0dP4cslpxz1ZLwtE9xiCmY7S07dJgaLoFyvgrKvA0BPOKRGNXoK9Zw
Cool!
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Today is my sister Brigitte’s birthday. She’s 74.
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Today is my sister Brigitte’s birthday. She’s 74.
Happy Birthday to your sister!
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No biopsy results for two more weeks.
That is a long time to have to wait. Is this typical? Do you have a "my chart" account? We usually get test results online before we hear from our doctors.
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Today is my sister Brigitte’s birthday. She’s 74.
Happy 74th birthday to Brigitte.
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Happy Birthday to the DS of DR John G.!!
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Seen backstage at the Putnam County Playhouse?
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I'm up, I'm up - ten hours of sleep. Don't know why.
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Since getting up, I've been dealing with a Kritzerland CD release that we'll announce in a week or so, so that's taken a bunch of time. I got a response to my Blu-ray notes - apparently the sound on all the videos conforms to new specs put out by the major companies - I don't know why they'd want the sound lower these days - seems very peculiar to me, but they have to go by those specs - I need to find a Blu of recent vintage to see how accurate they are. So, the only thing we can do is bring down the volume of the menu music, which we will.
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No biopsy results for two more weeks.
That is a long time to have to wait. Is this typical? Do you have a "my chart" account? We usually get test results online before we hear from our doctors.
They sent the samples off for more tests.
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Since getting up, I've been dealing with a Kritzerland CD release that we'll announce in a week or so, so that's taken a bunch of time. I got a response to my Blu-ray notes - apparently the sound on all the videos conforms to new specs put out by the major companies - I don't know why they'd want the sound lower these days - seems very peculiar to me, but they have to go by those specs - I need to find a Blu of recent vintage to see how accurate they are. So, the only thing we can do is bring down the volume of the menu music, which we will.
That's too bad. :-\
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My mother turned 85 yesterday, but wasn't home until today from a recent trip. I was glad to hear that the edible fruit arrangement arrived.
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Thinking of you, DR John G., as you wait. The worst part.
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:)
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Oy! This page two is interminable.
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My mother turned 85 yesterday, but wasn't home until today from a recent trip. I was glad to hear that the edible fruit arrangement arrived.
Happy Belated Birthday to your mother, Singdaw!
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:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6509.0;attach=12135)
I love it! :D
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No biopsy results for two more weeks.
That is a long time to have to wait. Is this typical? Do you have a "my chart" account? We usually get test results online before we hear from our doctors.
They sent the samples off for more tests.
(https://radnorite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/vibes.jpg)
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My mother turned 85 yesterday, but wasn't home until today from a recent trip. I was glad to hear that the edible fruit arrangement arrived.
That sounds good. Happy belated 85th to your mother.
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Finished with the commentaries and text check and all is well there, so they're going to do a volume check with some recently released Blu-rays. But I did a little test - when you're in the main menu and hearing the louder music that's there and then go directly to the film, of course it's jarring. So, what I did was go to the film and hit pause immediately, did other things for ten minutes, and then listened to it and it wasn't so bad because your ear wasn't coming from something that was much, much louder. So, we'll see what their tests say, but if they lower the menu volume to match the video volume, I think we'll be all right.
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I picked up packages. The Factor meals still haven't arrived (they have until ten, which is weird), so I made the other half of the pizza thing, this time letting it cook twenty minutes longer, and that was MUCH better. I don't love the crust, but it certainly gives you the "feeling" of eating pizza.
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Sorta.
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I have been putting info together for an appointment on Thursday. I need to print it out except the printer needs ink ::)
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Happy birthday to Singdaw’s mom!
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Went to dance class. Shook a few more steps loose from the mental cobwebs.
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Now listening to Elaine Stritch read another Parker short story. Not rushing this. Savoring each nasty little bit
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Went to dance class. Shook a few more steps loose from the mental cobwebs.
It must have felt good.
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I am enjoying working out at the gym. I didn't think I would like switching to this gym. To my delight I find I am much happier with it.
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Thanks for the birthday wishes for mom!
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Keith did something to the printer which improved the ink. To my relief I have printed out my papers.
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That is great, DR Jane.
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:)
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Good night, friends.
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That is great, DR Jane.
Thanks.
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The replacement cartridge won't arrive until Thursday afternoon, after my appointment.
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'night
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Time for me to leave work.
Be back later.
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Hello
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Happy Birthday to Singdaws mom
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Happy Birthday to johns sister
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Vibes and prayers for John, may your biopsies all return benign
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Vibes for Elmore
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Saw the dentist tonight
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He is happy with the way my mouth is healing.
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He’ll send me fir a jaw bone density test in July and if all is well I will have my new implants by midAugust
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Finished watching Merrily We Go to Hell, which was an interesting artifact of pre-Code movie making. And Sylvia Sydney is wonderful throughout. I can only take so much of Frederic March. His drunk act was better in A Star in Born. But Cary Grant was interesting in a tiny role.
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Now watching the extras, including a documentary on the director, Dorothy Arzner that's half German, half English.
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Happy Birthday to the sister of DR JOHN G and to the mother of DR singdaw.
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Interesting about the DVD/CD sound, etc. It's weird how that stuff works.....
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Factor meals finally arrived and I tried the chili with cheese and sour cream - it was pretty good. I was concerned about the high carb count considering these are all supposedly Keto friendly, but I wasn't looking at the right thing - what I missed is the net carb count and on most of these it's ten carbs, which is perfectly fine. Calorie-wise, even with that Keto pizza thing, I'm right around 1000, so I could do a snack later if I'm feeling like a snack.
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Vibes for DR JOHN G and his bye-opsee.
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Right now, I'm listening to a lovely Anna Moffo sings arias album in Living Stereo - I really like her and this is a nice album in excellent sound.
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I think I'm watched out for tonight, so I think I'll just listen to music.
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I am having a very good time at rehearsal and talking to everyone and doing a SHOW again.
Tonight was a sort of family night and about thirty folks were in attendance. They seemed to enjoy the show very much.
I received applause on my egress.
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We didn't get the thunderstorm that was promised for today.
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The cast of Pillow Talk was having a read thru. It has some good folks in it, and some other folks.
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Maybe tomorrow.
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Right now, I'm listening to a lovely Anna Moffo sings arias album in Living Stereo - I really like her and this is a nice album in excellent sound.
Her voice was always appealing.
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My phone is taking forever to charge tonight.
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By forever, I mean two hours.
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Gratuitous post No. 99!
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Hello, everyone.
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Thanks to TCB for last night's birthday wishes.
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I tried my Dollar Tree Magic Eraser on my (leather) sneakers. It did help. Between that and what I did the other day, ie, cleaning the midsole, they look better. I'l have to keep the Magic Eraser in mind for oddball cleaning jobs.
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My ophthalmologist's office called today. I was wondering why I hadn't heard from them. I booked my next eye procedure. This is the one where everyone calls the problem by a different name, but they're all referring to the same thing. A part of me wants to get it over with and another part is very nervous indeed. I really wish they'd give patients more information. Each person seems to only know one small piece of the puzzle. I feel that these things are less intimidating when you have a better idea of what's going on.
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I am having a very good time at rehearsal and talking to everyone and doing a SHOW again.
Tonight was a sort of family night and about thirty folks were in attendance. They seemed to enjoy the show very much.
I received applause on my egress.
I can tell you're having fun.
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Good night.
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Good night, all.
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Listening to Gounod's Messe Sollennelle de Sainte Ceclile (A Whole Messe Cecile) - it's very good in great Deutsche Grammophon sound.
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Right after I got home, I got texts from four different friends who all wanted to chat!
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Have you ever tried to text/chat with four different people, all in the same phone app?? :o
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It's not very easy, at all!
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But I managed. ;D
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AND I managed to NOT accidentally send a wrong message to someone!
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Not that anything would've been terribly embarrassing, but still, you want to make sure that each conversation is coherent and makes sense.
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And now, for something completely different...John Fugelsang tweeted today:
This is probably not the best time to tell you this, but Justin Henry, the kid from "Kramer vs Kramer," turns 50 today.
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:D
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Just had to share.
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He is happy with the way my mouth is healing.
Great news, Vixmom!
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He’ll send me fir a jaw bone density test in July and if all is well I will have my new implants by midAugust
~~~Density and Implant Vibes of All Kinds!!~~~
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And now, since we're so close...
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5!!!!!
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My mother turned 85 yesterday, but wasn't home until today from a recent trip. I was glad to hear that the edible fruit arrangement arrived.
Happy Belated Birthday to your mother, Singdaw!
Ditto!
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From DR TCB:
Why didn’t you ask him to either put on his mask, or change machines?
He didn't break any rules, unless he hadn't been vaccinated.
I didn’t say you should order him to move, I just said you could ask him.
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Happy Birthday to johns sister
Ditto!
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Hi, Tom.
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We didn't get the thunderstorm that was promised for today.
My apologies.
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My ophthalmologist's office called today. I was wondering why I hadn't heard from them. I booked my next eye procedure. This is the one where everyone calls the problem by a different name, but they're all referring to the same thing. A part of me wants to get it over with and another part is very nervous indeed. I really wish they'd give patients more information. Each person seems to only know one small piece of the puzzle. I feel that these things are less intimidating when you have a better idea of what's going on.
What is going on?
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Oh, dear.
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Dear oh.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Is everyone in tarnation?
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Most annoying.
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I'm a mere twenty-one posts from a new milestone.
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Why did two people suddenly just up and disappear?
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Just like that.
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Disappeared.
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Gone with the Wind.
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Took a hike.
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I don't get it and get it I don't.
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I'm a mere twenty-one posts from a new milestone.
PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!