Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 10, 2021, 12:07:46 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were controversial, and now it is time for you to post until the controversial cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ANALOGOUS!
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So, my sister recently ordered a new rowing machine for herself, and it's supposed to be delivered sometime today between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. She "needs" me to help her and her boyfriend bring it upstairs into her bedroom. After that, I'll go to my friend Margo's because she has an air conditioner unit that she got from her oldest daughter (before she moved to NYC) and "needs" me to help her clean it. Hopefully, that won't be too difficult. ::)
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But first, bedtime.
Have a good day, all!
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The movie “Friends”, soundtrack by Elton John/Bernie Taupin. Set in France , about an orphaned French girl who lives pwith her sister and sisters husband, a rich English boy summering in France. They’re young maybe 13 or 14.
The boy steals his dads car and they accidentally drive it into a lake
Scared of facing the consequences they run away to the deserted country cottage where girl used to live with her dad
They fall in love etc etc
To the best of my knowledge it was never released on video
I assume it never epsilon be because if the etc etc
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I wonder whether the Romeo & Juliet released in the mid 70’s , with age appropriate leads be made today.
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Goodnight
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Good morning, all!
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BK, Barber's Antony & Cleopatra was broadcast from Chicago Lyric Opera on PBS, and it's on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwie7uLZ184
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DR vixmom, there is no answering machine in your assemblyman's office or is he not returning your phone calls? He must have an address. Drive to his office and firebomb it.
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Good morning, friends.
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I'm glad there is not a HHW jail, like there is on FB. :)
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Interesting to hear the mask rules in the US. Here they are supposed to be having a vaccine passport. And you may have to prove that you are double vaccinated to do things like bars/gym/restaurants if the situation gets worse in the Fall.
If you go into a restaurant and only some servers have masks can you ask to be served in their section? I would definitely not be comfortable with a server not wearing a mask.
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Good morning, all.
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Learned a new phrase this morning: geriatric millennial. Refers to those born in the early 1980s. They’re so old.
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Interesting to hear the mask rules in the US. Here they are supposed to be having a vaccine passport. And you may have to prove that you are double vaccinated to do things like bars/gym/restaurants if the situation gets worse in the Fall.
If you go into a restaurant and only some servers have masks can you ask to be served in their section? I would definitely not be comfortable with a server not wearing a mask.
And too many insane governors here won’t allow that.
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TOD 1:
Films
Last Temptation of Christ. It was almost not made several times because funding fell through. I doubt it would be made at all these days. Apparently we’re not supposed to relate to Christ’s life and temptations unless it’s in a Mel Gibson movie.
Godard’s Hail, Mary. I saw it. Don’t remember a thing except Catholics protested.
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Terence McNally’s Corpus Christi. See above comment. Never saw it or read it.
Jesus Christ Superstar. The show has been restaged so many times with Christ rising from the dead at the end (the same with Godspell) that it doesn’t seem like the same show that premiered in the early 70s.
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I’m sure I will remember a few more when my brain wakes up.
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We have the possibility of another with the new lesbian nun flick, Benedetta.
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TOD 2:
Salo:120 Days of Sodom. A parable about the Nazis is the most disgusting movie I’ve ever seen. I understand the protests. I understand the pain Pasolini wants to present. I never want to sit through it again.
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I need to get up.
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Poor Benedetta will be facing a vendetta?
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When do you hit the road, DR John G.?
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From TCB:
What good would it do to ask? If people don’t care enough to get vaccinated, they certainly will have no problem lying about it.
No point in asking, unless people need to show their vaccination card. Which is really what I had originally expected.
Now Florida says cruise ships can't require vaccinations to cruise >:(
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DR Vixmom is there a photo of you and Andy?
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To the mother of DR Vixmon,
(https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.296212937.7947/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u3.jpg)
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Interesting to hear the mask rules in the US. Here they are supposed to be having a vaccine passport. And you may have to prove that you are double vaccinated to do things like bars/gym/restaurants if the situation gets worse in the Fall.
If you go into a restaurant and only some servers have masks can you ask to be served in their section? I would definitely not be comfortable with a server not wearing a mask.
Makes sense vs trusting non vaccinated people to keep masks on.
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Good morning, all.
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I haven't watched Pretty Baby since it was first released, but I do have the DVD here, and it is immediately going to the top of the watch pile along with Atlantic City and Georgy Girl. I was going to watch both of those this evening, but I think the two Louis Malles would make an dynamite atmospheric whopper of a double feature, and I might just do that. In fact, I will do that.
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I love the controversial stuff. I was at The Last Temptation of Christ probably a week or so into its run at the Plitt Century City, and I well remember the lines around the building. I thought the film was lovely, and I have the Criterion release here but I have completely failed to watch it. So I've only seen that the one time. That will be rectified soon.
I gave Salo its one obligatory viewing on the Criterion laserdisc back in the day, and even though that pretty well put me off ever seeing it again, I did go ahead and buy the Blu-ray... so go figure.
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One of my favorites of all is Ken Russell's The Devils. I saw it in its first run in Hollywood, and for some reason, I want to say it was at the Vogue. I have to look that up on a future trip down the rabbit hole. But I then saw it another couple of times over the next few years. I'm not sure about those venues either, but I know one of them was the Nuart.
The insane thing about this movie is that I (all of us, actually, in those days) took it for granted, as far as having access to theatrical showings of it. It never had a really wide release, but it was available, even if in a somewhat trimmed form. It wasn't until a few decades later that one day I realized I hadn't seen or heard of it in all that time, and that it had basically been withheld from circulation. There was only a bootleg DVD available from the UK (a TV capture) which I happily snatched up. Finally, several years after that, BFI was permitted to issue it in a proper DVD release (but not on Blu-ray!), and of course I have that. I also saw it theatrically at Lincoln Center around 2010 when they hosted a Ken Russell festival, which was attended by both Russell and its star Vanessa Redgrave -- truly an unforgettable evening.
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I'm up, I'm up - six hours of sleep.
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Already showered and all ready to go.
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I've been working on my A&T material while I listened to John McGlinn's Kiss Me, Kate, which is one of my favorite recordings. Even the cut numbers are fantastic. Is there any song sadder than "We Shall Never Be Younger?"
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I love that recording.
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Amd then the bad news. The second half of 2021 property taxes are due by July 24, so I need to pull $840 out of my ass by then. I'm ready to say, let the damned bank take the land and get it out of my hair. WTF?
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One of my favorites of all is Ken Russell's The Devils. I saw it in its first run in Hollywood, and for some reason, I want to say it was at the Vogue. I have to look that up on a future trip down the rabbit hole. But I then saw it another couple of times over the next few years. I'm not sure about those venues either, but I know one of them was the Nuart.
The insane thing about this movie is that I (all of us, actually, in those days) took it for granted, as far as having access to theatrical showings of it. It never had a really wide release, but it was available, even if in a somewhat trimmed form. It wasn't until a few decades later that one day I realized I hadn't seen or heard of it in all that time, and that it had basically been withheld from circulation. There was only a bootleg DVD available from the UK (a TV capture) which I happily snatched up. Finally, several years after that, BFI was permitted to issue it in a proper DVD release (but not on Blu-ray!), and of course I have that. I also saw it theatrically at Lincoln Center around 2010 when they hosted a Ken Russell festival, which was attended by both Russell and its star Vanessa Redgrave -- truly an unforgettable evening.
I love this film. I wish Warner Brothers would release the complete film.
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Like a complete idiot I failed to ask Redgrave to sign it, but this is Mr. Russell's mark.
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One of my favorites of all is Ken Russell's The Devils. I saw it in its first run in Hollywood, and for some reason, I want to say it was at the Vogue. I have to look that up on a future trip down the rabbit hole. But I then saw it another couple of times over the next few years. I'm not sure about those venues either, but I know one of them was the Nuart.
The insane thing about this movie is that I (all of us, actually, in those days) took it for granted, as far as having access to theatrical showings of it. It never had a really wide release, but it was available, even if in a somewhat trimmed form. It wasn't until a few decades later that one day I realized I hadn't seen or heard of it in all that time, and that it had basically been withheld from circulation. There was only a bootleg DVD available from the UK (a TV capture) which I happily snatched up. Finally, several years after that, BFI was permitted to issue it in a proper DVD release (but not on Blu-ray!), and of course I have that. I also saw it theatrically at Lincoln Center around 2010 when they hosted a Ken Russell festival, which was attended by both Russell and its star Vanessa Redgrave -- truly an unforgettable evening.
I love this film. I wish Warner Brothers would release the complete film.
You and many, many others!
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When do you hit the road, DR John G.?
I leave Monday morning. I have a lot to do before then. So, of course, I'm going out tonight.
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Like a complete idiot I failed to ask Redgrave to sign it, but this is Mr. Russell's mark.
Nice.
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I'll probably be thinking of other favorite controversial subjects all day.
Something else that just came to mind are the famous "Censored 11" cartoons, or whatever the number was. I have them in probably their most presentable versions on someone's home-grown DVD. Haven't watched those in years.
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I've been working on my A&T material while I listened to John McGlinn's Kiss Me, Kate, which is one of my favorite recordings. Even the cut numbers are fantastic. Is there any song sadder than "We Shall Never Be Younger?"
Father Time goes gaily tripping along ...
We shall never be younger
Soon the springs will tire of singing their song
It doesn't necessarily belong in Kiss Me, Kate. But it should never have been a "trunk" song.
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I love the controversial stuff. I was at The Last Temptation of Christ probably a week or so into its run at the Plitt Century City, and I well remember the lines around the building. I thought the film was lovely, and I have the Criterion release here but I have completely failed to watch it. So I've only seen that the one time. That will be rectified soon.
I gave Salo its one obligatory viewing on the Criterion laserdisc back in the day, and even though that pretty well put me off ever seeing it again, I did go ahead and buy the Blu-ray... so go figure.
I found Last Temptation a rewarding experience on DVD. But I will never buy Salo. I'd like to forget some of those images, especially the deranged can-can at the end.
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I love the films of John Waters, even if there are moments in the earlier ones that require a strong stomach. But I spent a few happy evenings seeing those at the Nuart back in the day.
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The house across the street is getting a new roof. And they are working hard and fast before the day's rain begins.
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The banging and hammering, however, are not rhythmic.
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I love the films of John Waters, even if there are moments in the earlier ones that require a strong stomach. But I spent a few happy evenings seeing those at the Nuart back in the day.
I was quite disgusted at Pink Flamingos and Multiple Maniacs. But I love Female Trouble (how un-PC the line is, "Yes, you are retarded, young lady! Now get back in your attic!" And how Tennessee Williams.)
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When do you hit the road, DR John G.?
I leave Monday morning. I have a lot to do before then. So, of course, I'm going out tonight.
LOL
SAFE AND EASY TRAVELS!
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I've been working on my A&T material while I listened to John McGlinn's Kiss Me, Kate, which is one of my favorite recordings. Even the cut numbers are fantastic. Is there any song sadder than "We Shall Never Be Younger?"
Father Time goes gaily tripping along ...
We shall never be younger
Soon the springs will tire of singing their song
It doesn't necessarily belong in Kiss Me, Kate. But it should never have been a "trunk" song.
Patricia Morrison claimed it was cut because every time it was sung everyone in the rehearsal wept.
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I love the films of John Waters, even if there are moments in the earlier ones that require a strong stomach. But I spent a few happy evenings seeing those at the Nuart back in the day.
There used to be a revival house at West 95th and Broadway. Every time they showed a Pasolini or John Waters movie in the 1980s, I would call in sick at the Drama Book Shop, sleep late, and go to the movies.
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I love the films of John Waters, even if there are moments in the earlier ones that require a strong stomach. But I spent a few happy evenings seeing those at the Nuart back in the day.
I was quite disgusted at Pink Flamingos and Multiple Maniacs. But I love Female Trouble (how un-PC the line is, "Yes, you are retarded, young lady! Now get back in your attic!" And how Tennessee Williams.)
I loved all the Waters movies. Who wants to die for their art?
The film I never want to see again is Caligula.
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Was Valley of the Dolls controversial in its day?
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DR vixmom, there is no answering machine in your assemblyman's office or is he not returning your phone calls? He must have an address. Drive to his office and firebomb it.
Line was busy signal all day on Friday
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Learned a new phrase this morning: geriatric millennia. Refers to those born in the early 1980s. They’re so old.
:D
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DR Vixmom is there a photo of you and Andy?
I don’t remember. I know I had a picture of him at one time I have no idea if I still have it in a box somewhere
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To the mother of DR Vixmon,
(https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.296212937.7947/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u3.jpg)
Thank you
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Happy birthday to Vixmom's mom.
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Read a Georges Simenon novel earlier this week called A Man's Head. Turns out I have a film version from 1933 in a Criterion Eclipse collection. The film has the French title, La Tete d'un Homme, and it's fun. Not terribly faithful, but fun. And the actor playing Maigret is wonderful. His name is Henry Baur, and he played Jean Valjean in the film of Les Miserables I watched recently.
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Let's move on ...
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Three!
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I'm all walked out. Did 50 minutes on the treadmill this morning, and another 58 outside in the real outdoors.
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The real outdoors doesn't have an adjustable incline button.
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But it's certainly more fun.
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I've been doing Noom for about 10 weeks. I'm down 45 pounds.
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It's a dent, at any rate.
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The last 2 days, my BP has been so low that I'm going to need to communicate with my doctor about adjusting my meds, which is a good thing. He's already reduced my diabetic medication, and it's still at record lows, for me.
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DR vixmom, there is no answering machine in your assemblyman's office or is he not returning your phone calls? He must have an address. Drive to his office and firebomb it.
Line was busy signal all day on Friday
Is it worth driving to his office?
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I've been doing Noom for about 10 weeks. I'm down 45 pounds.
Yay!
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The last 2 days, my BP has been so low that I'm going to need to communicate with my doctor about adjusting my meds, which is a good thing. He's already reduced my diabetic medication, and it's still at record lows, for me.
That’s scary. How low?
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I've been doing Noom for about 10 weeks. I'm down 45 pounds.
Congrats, Singdaw!
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I've been doing Noom for about 10 weeks. I'm down 45 pounds.
Wow! Fantastic.
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I believe I'm doing Noom but without doing Room, if you get my meaning.
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Back from putting gas in the motor car, picking up the rest of my dry cleaning, doing a workshop, picking up packages.
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The workshop was really fun - about eight or nine people in attendance.
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Listening to Ned Rorem's opera of Miss Julie - some very appealing music. Went to play The Saint of Bleeker Street, which was one of those CD-R things from Arkiv - and it won't play in the CD drive - it certainly did before. I tried it in my standalone player and it worked there.
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DR vixmom, there is no answering machine in your assemblyman's office or is he not returning your phone calls? He must have an address. Drive to his office and firebomb it.
Line was busy signal all day on Friday
>:(
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I'm all walked out. Did 50 minutes on the treadmill this morning, and another 58 outside in the real outdoors.
This is wonderful.
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The real outdoors doesn't have an adjustable incline button.
Until we moved here I was used to hills to walk. It took a pandemic for us to find hills to walk here.
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I've been doing Noom for about 10 weeks. I'm down 45 pounds.
CONGRATULATIONS!
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The last 2 days, my BP has been so low that I'm going to need to communicate with my doctor about adjusting my meds, which is a good thing. He's already reduced my diabetic medication, and it's still at record lows, for me.
Wow!
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The last 2 days, my BP has been so low that I'm going to need to communicate with my doctor about adjusting my meds, which is a good thing. He's already reduced my diabetic medication, and it's still at record lows, for me.
That’s scary. How low?
I wonder if it is lower than mine.
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I'm STILL at my sister's! The rowing machine was supposed to be delivered between 10 and 2, and it's about 4:20 and it's not here yet. :P
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I could be doing other things!
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Do you have a new ETA?
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Shortly I shall sup and then see playlets.
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I'm REALLY hungry.
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Many choices to have.
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I put on my usual black pants just now and they really are much easier to get into now, so that means the calorie-counting is working fine.
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That’s scary. How low?
This morning, it was 99/63. That seems low to me.
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I put on my usual black pants just now and they really are much easier to get into
Fantastic!
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Fuzzy dance.
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Was it Fuzzy? Or Fizzy? Or Furry?
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It is WAY past my bedtime.
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Good night, friends.
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Do you have a new ETA?
It arrived about 10 minutes after your post, Jane. :)
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We had to unpack the thing...it was freakin' heavy!
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We added the legs that weren't already attached, and then carried the incomplete unit upstairs. It took all four of us to get it upstairs! :o
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Then, we attached the monitor and plugged in the cables, and Larry set up the subscription for my sister.
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Gratuitous Post #100!
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And now it's all working.
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What my sister got was the Hydrow (https://hydrow.com/). It is strongly suggested to sign up for the $38/month service (hence the necessity for the monitor) which I guess shows you river videos so you feel like you're rowing down real rivers.
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I'm sure that there's a lot more to the service, but I didn't look into it, at all. I hope she likes it!
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Since I had no idea how long it would all take to assemble and move the device, Margo said that it was okay if we rescheduled the cleaning of her AC unit.
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I knew that I wouldn't be able to take on another long and complicated project, and I am totally beat, so I'm glad she didn't mind rescheduling. :)
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Now, I'm heading home to crash!
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Pretty Baby, a cheeseburger and hot dog on the grill, then Atlantic City = a superb evening.
Two incredible movies. I'm nearly speechless.
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Page 4? Really?
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Glad ChasSmith loved the movies.
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Tonight was spectacularly fun. We had the BEST time at Barone's - Peyton and I had the scampi, which was great, we both had a little dinner salad to start, we each had one piece of garlic bread, and her mom had spaghetti and meatballs.
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We all gabbed and Peyton was in rare form, happy, and looking healthy. We're gonna start doing regular dinners, maybe once every two or three weeks as soon as they return from their vacation.
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Then we saw the playlets, and I'm happy to say our little playlet killed - the laughs were HUGE and the song was the best it's ever been, and the little tag joke I added just before opening got the biggest laugh it's ever gotten. And they filmed it tonight, so that's good.
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Now I'm home, listening to music.
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And I don't care who knows it.
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We need us some late night denizens.
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Why I oughta...
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I listened to half of Ned Rorem's Miss Julie opera - it has its moments, just not enough of them and I grew weary of it and shut it off. Now playing, the music of Joaquin Rodrigo, a wonderful composer. These are lesser known pieces.
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I should do a Frank Loesser rarities album and call it Loesser Known Pieces.
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What am I, doing a monologue?
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It's just me and my shadow.
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Page five, at long last.
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Then we saw the playlets, and I'm happy to say our little playlet killed - the laughs were HUGE and the song was the best it's ever been, and the little tag joke I added just before opening got the biggest laugh it's ever gotten. And they filmed it tonight, so that's good.
That's great, BK! Congrats!
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TOD 1:
Films
Last Temptation of Christ. It was almost not made several times because funding fell through. I doubt it would be made at all these days. Apparently we’re not supposed to relate to Christ’s life and temptations unless it’s in a Mel Gibson movie.
Godard’s Hail, Mary. I saw it. Don’t remember a thing except Catholics protested.
Stage
Terence McNally’s Corpus Christi. See above comment. Never saw it or read it.
Jesus Christ Superstar. The show has been restaged so many times with Christ rising from the dead at the end (the same with Godspell) that it doesn’t seem like the same show that premiered in the early 70s.
I have never seen a production of JCS that included the resurrection.
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I find it fascinating that I write about Miss Brooke Shields in the notes and suddenly on Facebook articles about Brooke Shields have suddenly showed up. Well, not so much fascinating as creepy and scary.
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What am I, doing a monologue?
Yes!
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Another pretty day on South Hill.
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I just wish I felt better.
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Oh, I’m not sick, or anything like that.
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Just very tired.
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I feel like I do when I have had MSG.
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Perhaps the sausage I had in my omelette yesterday had it as an ingredient.
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Jimmy Dean’s bulk sausage was almost lethal to me, when I used to buy it.
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Hello, BK.
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I guess George already crashed.
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I feel like I am about to crash.
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I didn’t even go and get the mail.
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Nor did I go to the store to buy coffee for tomorrow.
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I guess George already crashed.
I'm uncrashed. :)
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Hi, Tom.
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I guess George already crashed.
I'm uncrashed. :)
That sounds painful.
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Hello, George.
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I guess George already crashed.
I'm uncrashed. :)
That sounds painful.
Fortunately, it's not.
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I gotta tell you.
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Notes are written and written are notes.