Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on August 28, 2022, 12:08:35 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes got the ball rolling, and now it is time for you to post until the ball-rolling cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SENSIBILITY!
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Good morning, friends.
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I have nothing but this post to contribute at this time.
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Good morning, all!
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The alarm rang at six. To the cats' dismay, I finally dragged myself out of bed at 6:55. They've had their breakfast so they are speaking to me once again.
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Thatch is napping in the cat tree, Stella's lounging on the floor, and Annabelle is dozing in her empty carton of cat food on my computer table.
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DR George, if it was a going-away party last night, where;s the actor going away to?
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There's no word from Ohio, as if I expected any, and I plan to do as very little possible today. I have to look over my overture, now that the sketch is finished, and I have to write another orchestra piece for these December concerts.
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DR Jeanne, most of my memorabilia worth anything was put away at Miami University Library when the cats came to be my family. The only valuable - if it is -- thing in the apartment besiudes my talent is a framed Gershwin drawing given to me by Ira's widow Leonora as an opening night gift for the California Music Theatre production of Strike Up the Band, around 1988.
I don't know what it's worth. The drawing - a self portrait, I think - is unsigned and George's signature from a canceled check is framed with it. Leonora did this quite frequently.
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Wordle 435 4/6
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I must get to church
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Good morning, all.
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I must get to church
On time?
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Lounging on the heating pad.
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Fourteen years ago today I discovered I was diabetic after a summer of nausea, stomach issues, general feeling of malaise, and a constant need to pee. The absdolutely inept doctor assigned to me by my HMO once again completely missed the boat: he spent the summer sending me off for x-rasys and tests. On Aug, 27, I was at a birthday party with friends and, after I described my symptoms, one of the guests said "You're diabetic!" My memory is that former DRs Ben and JoseSpiano were there.
The next morning I made an appointment with my doctor, and I saw him around 2:00. After I told him my thoughts on the issue of diabetes, he checked my blood for the first time ever. He looked at the meter reading for a long, long time. Then he said, you need to go to a hospital for insulin immediately.
I came home, sent a group email to a lot of friends and family - I thought I might be dying - and took a No. 7 or 11 bus to St. Lukes at 114th Street. I was in the ER until midnight on two bags of insulin The doctors there tried to call my asshole MD, who never answered the phone. Former DR Jose showed up around 5:00 with his new Smart Phone and stayed with me until my release.
About a year later, I got a phone call from my HMO asking for my thoughts on their service. I told them the doctor assigned to me was an inept incompetent fool waiting out retirtement who had misdiagnosed me at least three times between 1998 and 2008, all resulting is serious health issues, three surgeries, and two visits between Aug. 28 and LAbor Day to the ER.
About a month later, the doctor retired ad I was assigned a very good doctor.
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Good morning, all.
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Scary story, Elmore. Glad you finally got a good doctor. Makes all the difference in the world.
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That’s a hell of a story, DR Elmore. Talk about yer close calls. Or near misses. What is up with DOCTORS, of all people, who don’t want to do their job??
It reminds me of Elaine Stritch’s experience in discovering she was diabetic, related in her show which I saw at the Public on Thanksgiving Eve 2001.
(I always remember the date because afterward it was the night of my one experience having a deer cross my path on the interstate on our way home. The deer met its maker upon impact which is a good thing, we were shaken but fine, and the car was repaired. End of digression.)
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The Lelouch film sounds good, potentially, but I’m sorry to hear BK’s report on the failings of the location shooting. That's always a disappointment, even when the location is a place I don’t know.
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Kitty cleanup and breakfast are over. I used up the last four eggs in the apartment, so tomorrow and Tuesday I will have an apple dumpling for breakfast. Wednesday, thank God, my puny pension payment will land in my account. And, perhaps by then, the effing property situation will be settled.
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Good morning!
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Wordle: 5/6
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I loved the Appalachian pictures. They speak to me because of my mother's West Virginia roots, and my enchantment on our occasional visits to my great grandmother's house in Morgantown in the late 1950s. The topography there is fascinating to me to this day, and hers was one of those houses I'd give anything to enter and walk through again. (It's still there, I think it's just been enlarged a bit.) I still marvel at how those two family territories of ours then -- central Ohio and northern West Virginia -- can still be seen by me as adjoining worlds that were so distinct from each other.
I didn't experience the lack of electricity or modern plumbing, but relatives who are still with us indeed did, and their collections of family photos are evoked by DR Elmore's. I grew to appreciate this family history all the more as the years have passed, and it was a part of my instant liking for Moonshine & Mistletoe.
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Happy Sunday to one and all! There's a new Broadway Radio Show up for your listening pleasure. This time it's Putting It Together: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as we listen to the score of this classic Broadway musical put together using 5 different cast recordings. ENJOY!!!
http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
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DR George, if it was a going-away party last night, where;s the actor going away to?
He's moving to L.A. He's an actor/singer/music producer/etc., and wants to be where he can have more opportunities. He's originally from Olympia and had lived in NYC for about 13 years. He just came back to the area late last year (his family is still here), but he's going to be leaving soon (I don't know when, though).
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The show last night went quite well! My sister and her boyfriend were there and they really enjoyed it, along with everyone else there last night. After the show, we all went to our respective homes (well, that's what I did...we all didn't go out to eat as a group).
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Today, my mom and three of her friends are going to see the show. They know I'm not performing on stage, but they wanted to come anyway. And we added an extra performance tonight! Everyone said that they could do it, so we're adding an evening show. :D
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Closing vibes for DR GEORGE & Co.
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I loved your pictures DR ELMORE.....I have lots of pictures of my father's family standing, sitting, and being otherwise occupied in tobacco fields.
They are from Casey Co. Kentucky - in the western part of the state.
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Page Two Dance.
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Sunday vibes for MR BK & everyone.
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LOL DR JEANNE I live in a red state and I guess it will always be so....but I am sorry if I have given ANY impression that I offer any support to you know who OR anyone who supports his policies or his affect on our country - his followers are delusional.
I guess I may have seemed so because of my extreme dislike of Mrs. Clinton and her clueless and entitled attitude.....but I've hated her since 1992 when I first saw her on 60 Minutes.
I would like for both of them to disappear and quit contaminating the world with their presences.
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Today, my mom and three of her friends are going to see the show. They know I'm not performing on stage, but they wanted to come anyway. And we added an extra performance tonight! Everyone said that they could do it, so we're adding an evening show. :D
I hope you have a great closing and they havew a great time.
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Closing vibes for DR GEORGE & Co.
Thanks, Jrand!
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Today, my mom and three of her friends are going to see the show. They know I'm not performing on stage, but they wanted to come anyway. And we added an extra performance tonight! Everyone said that they could do it, so we're adding an evening show. :D
I hope you have a great closing and they havew a great time.
Thanks, Larry!
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DR John I hope the heating pad helped your back.
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DR George with all the driving you did yesterday I imagine you truly appreciated your new car.
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LOL DR JEANNE I live in a red state and I guess it will always be so....but I am sorry if I have given ANY impression that I offer any support to you know who OR anyone who supports his policies or his affect on our country - his followers are delusional.
I guess I may have seemed so because of my extreme dislike of Mrs. Clinton and her clueless and entitled attitude.....but I've hated her since 1992 when I first saw her on 60 Minutes.
I would like for both of them to disappear and quit contaminating the world with their presences.
I never had that impression though you live in a red state.
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I must get to church
On time?
Not quite Opening hymn was already on second verse when i popped in
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Found this video of Engineer Bill https://youtu.be/FI-KG175LEQ
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DR George with all the driving you did yesterday I imagine you truly appreciated your new car.
Definitely!
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Found this video of Engineer Bill https://youtu.be/FI-KG175LEQ
That was fun. He really was good. I usually left the show when the cartoons began.
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At first I thought the boy with all the freckles was Flip and had to rewind the potato chip commercial.
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DR George with all the driving you did yesterday I imagine you truly appreciated your new car.
Definitely!
:)
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DR John I hope the heating pad helped your back.
A little. Stretching it eventually on the dance floor helped more.
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Good. Vibes tomorrow is even better.
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Watching For All Mankind, a documentary about the first moon landing.
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I'm having an exciting day cleaning my bathroom.
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Don't mistake the windex for the hair spray.
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That would be my definition of exciting.
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For All Mankind is fascinating for what it inadvertently shows as well as the beauty of its tale. Only once, when the space ship has landed, do we see a woman. The rest of the time, we see only white men. This isn’t even the world of Hidden Figures.
It’s also easy to understand, in its way, the total disinterest that blacks had at the time, as seen in news clips in Summer of Soul. They were not included. Their faces were nowhere to be seen.
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And in the credits they reverse Bart Howard’s name and call him Howard Bart.
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For All Mankind is fascinating for what it inadvertently shows as well as the beauty of its tale. Only once, when the space ship has landed, do we see a woman. The rest of the time, we see only white men. This isn’t even the world of Hidden Figures.
It’s also easy to understand, in its way, the total disinterest that blacks had at the time, as seen in news clips in Summer of Soul. They were not included. Their faces were nowhere to be seen.
Yet it is called For ALL Mankind.
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of very good sleep.
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For All Mankind is fascinating for what it inadvertently shows as well as the beauty of its tale. Only once, when the space ship has landed, do we see a woman. The rest of the time, we see only white men. This isn’t even the world of Hidden Figures.
It’s also easy to understand, in its way, the total disinterest that blacks had at the time, as seen in news clips in Summer of Soul. They were not included. Their faces were nowhere to be seen.
Yet it is called For ALL Mankind.
You got it. Still, a great documentary.
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I got my Bluray player to play Drive My Car again. Maybe I can watch the rest.
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The scenes from Uncle Vanya are wonderful.
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Page two?
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There’s a remedy for that.
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Three!
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The lead character in the movie is 47. He contemplates that it’s 13 years until he turns 60. He doesn’t believe how long that is.
I was 47 last month. Or so it seems. Those 13 years go by in a blink of an eye.
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DR JANE Indiana is very red.....but that's okay.
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As thry say in The Wiz: Red is dead, y’all.
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JRand, did you have a good birthday?
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DR JANE Indiana is very red.....but that's okay.
That's good. Right now I am very glad Craig is teaching in a Blue state.
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Got some baked penne with sausage - inexpensive and from a place people like - Maggiano's - it's a higher-end chain but with more than reasonable prices. Maria's Kitchen's pappardelle with sausage is twenty-one bucks. The baked penne is fifteen.
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Should be here momentarily and momentarily it should be here, not necessarily in that order.
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Checked off a few more perks.
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My baked penne pasta arrived. Well, actually here's what arrived - penne pasta in marinara sauce - not baked, no sausage, no cheese, no breadstick. Immediate refund from DoorDash for twenty-two bucks, and then I ordered the pappardelle from Maria's. I left them a one-star review on DoorDash, but they're conveniently not listed on Yelp - in fact, after a lot of going in circles, one finds that they're a ghost kitchen in Chili's in Encino, which owns Maggiano's. So, I called Chili's, got a manager on the phone, and told her - she was very apologetic and would have done the refund herself, but she's going to have a little chat with the chef. It's not so hard to make the dish that's pictured on their menu and the fact is the menu is very limited - only about six dishes to choose from, so it's not like you can get confused by the only penne dish listed.
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Pappardelle just arrived.
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I hope you get some good food today, BK.
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Ditto!
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'night
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Another weekend comes to a close.
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Wishing you all good sleep vibes.
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I just loved her in Hello, Dolly!
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Good night, friends.
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Singdaw, how dare you leave on a bad pun like that.
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You didn’t take us to page four.
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You didn’t get us closer to page five.
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Not even a dream of page six.
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We’ll remember that.
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For a second or two.
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At the most.
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I’m babbling.
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But I’m babbling to the end of the page.
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Here it comes.
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Are you ready?
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Ready or not.
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Four!
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Got my DVD player to play another BluRay. This one is Satiyajit Ray’s Devi, or The Goddess. A young man comes home to find that his father has declared his daughter-in-law to be the reincarnation of the goddess Cali. And then a miracle occurs.
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That puts a damper on their sex life, as you can imagine.
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The lead actress, Sharmila Tagore, is so beautiful that it’s easy to mistake her for a goddess.
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This film is in Bengali.
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J.B. is not amused.
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Three hours of Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and more. Now Bengali.
He wants English spoken.
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He’s lived in a red state too long.
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I’m running out of steam.
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Gratuitous post 99!
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Hello, 5 guests!
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Way too light a posting day here at haineshisway.com
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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I just loved her in Hello, Dolly!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6972.0;attach=15252)
;D
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Well, The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong is no more.
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We had a great matinee performance.
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My mom and two of her friends were there and they all really had a good time.
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A third friend was supposed to be there too, but she never showed up. :-\
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I don't know what happened to her...hopefully, she just decided not to go.
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She's not getting a refund, though. ;)
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After the matinee, my mom, her two friends and I all went to The Olive Garden for an early dinner/late lunch.
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I had the Grilled Chicken Margherita.
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It was okay...not bad, but not great.
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It comes with parmesan garlic broccoli, but I don't like broccoli, so I gave it to my mom, who really likes broccoli.
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Page 4?
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Seriously?
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The big news is that earlier in the afternoon, I got a message from the woman who directed Mamma Mia! that I was in in Centralia, back in May.
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Where was everybody today?
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She's directing A Murder is Announced by Leslie Darbon, adapted from a story by Agatha Christie.
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This is really depressing.
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Where was everybody today?
I'm telling my story of today's antics. :D
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I watched an AMERICAN MASTERS on Sammy Davis Jr. tonight.
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I believe it was from the 90’s.
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It was very interesting. I learned a great deal I didn’t know before.
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So Emilie, the director, asked if I would be interested in being in A Murder is Announced at Evergreen Playhouse.
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I didn’t know that Sammy was in love with Kim Novak.
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I didn't do their auditions this year, but she said that she was still looking for the Inspector and was wondering if I had any interest.
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Apparently, Harry Cohn told Davis that he had 48 hours to marry a black woman or he would be a dead man. So he did.
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The rehearsals start on Tuesday and the show runs October 14-30.
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It's the male lead.
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I said that I would do it.
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What the HELL I was thinking?? :o
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She sent me a PDF of the script and it's a huge role!
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I've never had a role with that many lines...even including musicals with lyrics!
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Well, I'll either rise to the occasion or embarrass the hell out of myself...hopefully, the former.
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Anyway, I went through the PDF and electronically highlighted the lines.
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Also, when Sammy was doing GOLDEN BOY on Broadway he and the entire company were under threats from the KKK and received constant bomb threats. All because he kissed the white female lead on the lips. That had never been done on stage before in America.
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There was one page where the highlighting didn't actually line up with the text, so I'll take it to work where we have Adobe and I hope that I can fix the PDF so that that one page can be highlighted correctly.
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There was a great deal of things I had never heard about his life.
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Also, when Sammy was doing GOLDEN BOY on Broadway he and the entire company werew under threats from the KKKQ and received constant bomb threats. All because he kissed the female lead on the lips. That had never been done on stage before in America.
I didn't know about that...but it doesn't surprise me.
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On stage one night, when he was still appearing in an act with his father and his godfather, he started doing imitations of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. And his father and godfather told him if he ever did that again he was out of the act. Blacks were never allowed to do imitations of white men.
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Very interesting program.
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Anyway, the read-through is on Tuesday, blocking will be Wednesday and Thursday, and starting next week, rehearsals will be Monday through Thursday.
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On stage one night, when he was still appearing in an act with his father and his godfather, he started doing imitations of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. And his father and godfather told him if he ever did that again he was out of the act. Blacks were never allowed to do imitations of white men.
I'd never knew that!
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They have a Facebook group for the cast/crew of AMiA, and I got an invitation to join, which I did, and then I promptly (or at least fairly shortly after) got three, count 'em, THREE Facebook Friends requests...except none of the three have anything to do with the play!
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Two of them have quite a few mutual friends with me, but the other only has two, and I have no idea who ANY of them are.
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So, I don't reply.
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So Emilie, the director, asked if I would be interested in being in A Murder is Announced at Evergreen Playhouse.
Is that the theater in Centrailia?
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I don't delete them, either.
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I just leave them there and ignore them.
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So Emilie, the director, asked if I would be interested in being in A Murder is Announced at Evergreen Playhouse.
Is that the theater in Centrailia?
Yes, the Evergreen Playhouse. It's a nice little theater, and the drive isn't too bad...now especially since I FINALLY have my new car. ;D
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Oh, look! It's PAGE SIX!!
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I said that I would do it.
Congratulations.
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I said that I would do it.
Congratulations.
Thanks, Tom. Like I said...I hope I don't embarrass myself. ::)
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Two of them have quite a few mutual friends with me, but the other only has two, and I have no idea who ANY of them are.
It doesn’t matter now, George. You are a star now, and everything else is magic!
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Two of them have quite a few mutual friends with me, but the other only has two, and I have no idea who ANY of them are.
It doesn’t matter now, George. You are a star now, and everything else is magic!
I haven't done the show, yet!
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Two of them have quite a few mutual friends with me, but the other only has two, and I have no idea who ANY of them are.
It doesn’t matter now, George. You are a star now, and everything else is magic!
I haven't done the show, yet!
That doesn’t matter.
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I can now take another pain pill. Thank God, I am in terrible pain.
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Well, I think it should.
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I can now take another pain pill. Thank God, I am in terrible pain.
Oh, no. :(
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Tom, do the pills take long to start working?
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Is that the name of the Agatha Christie story?
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Tom, do the pills take long to start working?
About twenty minutes.
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Is that the name of the Agatha Christie story?
Yes. I found a link online of a PDF of the book (http://detective.gumer.info/anto/christie_19_2.pdf) that I could download, so I now have that, too.
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New notes are up.
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There ARE photographs.
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You'll see I'm right.
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When you're right, you're right.
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Is that the name of the Agatha Christie story?
Yes. I found a link online of a PDF of the book (http://detective.gumer.info/anto/christie_19_2.pdf) that I could download, so I now have that, too.
Do you know anyone else in the cast?