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Title: IT'S LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:05:21 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes lost their mind, and now it is time for you to post until the mindless cows come home.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:06:24 AM
And the word of the day is: SPLENDOR!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 01:17:27 AM
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 01:18:26 AM
I don't think that this has been mentioned yet, but:

Michael Madsen, actor of ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ fame, dead at 67 (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/entertainment/michael-madsen-death)

:(
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 01:56:19 AM
Guess I'll try for some sleep now.
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 03:08:28 AM
I don't think that this has been mentioned yet, but:

Michael Madsen, actor of ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ fame, dead at 67 (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/entertainment/michael-madsen-death)

:(


:( 67 is pretty young.
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 03:10:51 AM
singdaw, when you said last night you think soon you'll be retiring, did you mean stopping work?  Or just retiring for the evening?
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 04:45:06 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 04:46:06 AM
And belated happy 17th anniversary to our DR  singdaw!
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 04:48:14 AM
I cannot believe I slept 7 hours straight befoire a bathroom break at 4:00. After that, I could not get back to sleep. I finally nodded off around 5:45 and got up at 6:15.
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 04:53:32 AM
After I finished the third or fourth draft of Annabelle & Thatch, which 70+ literary agents (some kindly, some not so kindly) rejected, I began a sequel in 2021. Yesterday, I decided to take another pass at it. Since I'm not getting any work, I might as well employ myself constructively.
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 04:54:16 AM
DR Jeanne, I'm sorry the condo fell through, but I think you were smart to get out while you could.
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 04:56:49 AM
I got an email from Ann yesterday. She and Jen are in Boston with Ann's father, and it was from the local post office that she mailed the galley of A&T to Modern Cat magazine in Vancouver yesterday. The postal charges, with tracking info, came to $21.00, so when she and Jen are back, I owe her $16.00. We were sure $5.00 would cover it.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:07:40 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:08:08 AM
We had storms during the night. Woke me up.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:08:30 AM
Happy 4th, y’all.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:09:41 AM
There’s flooding in them there hills. Glad I am not traveling there.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:09:52 AM
Must stir.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:11:52 AM
Had weird dreams about helping out at a winery that was owned by a guitarist. Instead of having wine to pour, he wanted to hand out charts for his songs. But he couldn’t organize that. I was frustrated.
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Post by: Ginny on July 04, 2025, 06:36:51 AM
Independence Day greetings!  Quiet holiday weekend for us. 
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 07:42:28 AM
I hope DR CHAS SMITH's opening night wasn't stormed out!
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 07:43:26 AM
Happy 4th of July.....I hope we have another one to celebrate next year, but it's cloudy.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 08:06:08 AM
Good morning.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 08:06:20 AM
Happy Independence Day!
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 08:06:34 AM
And Happy Birthday, Leonard!
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 08:11:46 AM
Happy birthday, Leonard!
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:24:11 AM
Good morning, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:24:18 AM
And others.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:24:47 AM
Gift bags for the young kiddies at today's family gathering procured from the Getting Place and assembled.
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Post by: ChasSmith on July 04, 2025, 08:24:55 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:26:03 AM
  Or just retiring for the evening?

That one.


I can't retire at least until I qualify for Medicare, which is still quite a few years off.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:26:16 AM
PAGE TWO
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:29:08 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!!!!
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:29:27 AM
That is not actually Leonard.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:29:40 AM
It is Leonard's stunt double.
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Post by: ChasSmith on July 04, 2025, 08:32:30 AM
Thank y'all for the opening night wishes, but last night was the final dress rehearsal with the orchestra. The cast has their final one tonight with piano. The band gets the Fourth off. Due to the holiday, this one opens on Saturday. And even though today feels like a Saturday, that's tomorrow. When the sun'll be out.

The rainstorms came, big time. Another deluge. But they could see a clear ending to it, and the rehearsal went on. We had to start almost an hour late, but it worked out fine.

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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:38:04 AM
Are they takesies backsies on opening night vibes?
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:38:13 AM
Is that a thing?
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:38:24 AM
Glad it worked out, DR ChasSmith.
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Post by: ChasSmith on July 04, 2025, 08:38:41 AM
Storm broke the heat wave, like, immediately., and today so far feels like fall. Nice and sunny and dry, totally comfortable. I wish it could stay like this for the next two days, but that ain't happening. We'll have a very warm or very hot/humid opening weekend. Which is better for audience attendance and enjoyment, anyway.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:45:27 AM
Liz Callaway and son Nicholas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XzO-V2XJMs
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 08:52:25 AM
It was my first time buying fireworks. I wasn't sure I had gotten the right selections. But at the checkout, the cashier high-four'd me.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:26:13 AM
DR Rodzinski, great news that th ears survived the journey.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:28:02 AM
From DR Singdaw:

Quote
Thanks for all the wishes! We usually celebrate the date of our first ceremony, in 1990, which was not legal but which both sets of parents attended.

Which is why I was initially confused you were being wished a happy anniversary :)
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:29:39 AM
DR John, I have not read Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows.  I'm not really a fan of her writing.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:30:47 AM
And belated happy 17th anniversary to our DR  singdaw!

From me as well.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:30:51 AM
Welcome home to the DH of DR Singdaw.  Under ten minutes to the airport, nice.  We live close but not that close.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:31:20 AM
Close as long as traffic is flowing on the bridge between Washington and Oregon.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:32:33 AM
Thanks DR George.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:35:50 AM
I don't think that this has been mentioned yet, but:

Michael Madsen, actor of ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ fame, dead at 67 (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/entertainment/michael-madsen-death)

:(

While this is sad I must admit I don't really know who he is though I must have seen him in some of his films.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:36:55 AM
DR Rodzinski, great news that th ears survived the journey.

Still one leg left as we fly out of LAX here in an hour or so.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:37:18 AM
There’s flooding in them there hills. Glad I am not traveling there.

Oh no, and yes it is good you aren't traveling there.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:37:42 AM
Since the colors work, I am wearing my San Antonio Alamo t-shirt today.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:38:18 AM
It was my first time buying fireworks. I wasn't sure I had gotten the right selections. But at the checkout, the cashier high-four'd me.

Ha! I give that my remaining thumb up!
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:38:33 AM
I'm trying to show some spirit for our Independence Day.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:38:45 AM
My heart isn't in it.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:39:06 AM
Had weird dreams about helping out at a winery that was owned by a guitarist. Instead of having wine to pour, he wanted to hand out charts for his songs. But he couldn’t organize that. I was frustrated.

;D
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:39:27 AM
I hope DR CHAS SMITH's opening night wasn't stormed out!

Ditto!
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:40:08 AM
And Happy Birthday, Leonard!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:40:30 AM
Gift bags for the young kiddies at today's family gathering procured from the Getting Place and assembled.

Cute :)
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:41:16 AM
Thank y'all for the opening night wishes, but last night was the final dress rehearsal with the orchestra. The cast has their final one tonight with piano. The band gets the Fourth off. Due to the holiday, this one opens on Saturday. And even though today feels like a Saturday, that's tomorrow. When the sun'll be out.

The rainstorms came, big time. Another deluge. But they could see a clear ending to it, and the rehearsal went on. We had to start almost an hour late, but it worked out fine.



:)
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:41:59 AM
(https://static.platform.michaels.com/2c-prd/en_US/522624173180752.jpeg)
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:42:45 AM
Storm broke the heat wave, like, immediately., and today so far feels like fall. Nice and sunny and dry, totally comfortable.

Lovely.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:44:17 AM
Liz Callaway and son Nicholas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XzO-V2XJMs

Great-thanks.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:44:31 AM
It was my first time buying fireworks. I wasn't sure I had gotten the right selections. But at the checkout, the cashier high-four'd me.

;D
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:45:51 AM
DR Rodzinski, great news that th ears survived the journey.

Still one leg left as we fly out of LAX here in an hour or so.

VIBES HE SURVIVES THE SECOND FLIGHT!  Get him some See's lollypops to suck on.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 09:46:20 AM
It was my first time buying fireworks. I wasn't sure I had gotten the right selections. But at the checkout, the cashier high-four'd me.

Ha! I give that my remaining thumb up!

;D
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 09:47:55 AM
My heart isn't in it.

I feel you, as the kids say.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 09:48:08 AM
Or maybe they don't anymore.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 09:49:34 AM
My mother's phone and Internet are now restored. I wasn't able to accomplish it remotely, but after almost 2 hours on the phone with tech support, they were able to do it.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 09:50:23 AM
It's kind of incredible how much we have come to rely on consistent Internet service.
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Post by: ChasSmith on July 04, 2025, 10:20:08 AM
DR Rodzinski, great news that th ears survived the journey.

Still one leg left as we fly out of LAX here in an hour or so.

After those other posts about thumbs and fingers, this one got a li'l doubletake out of me.
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 10:42:42 AM
Liz Callaway and son Nicholas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XzO-V2XJMs

When I first met Liz in 1993 or so, Nicholas was in a stroller!
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 10:43:51 AM
DR Rodzinski, are you home or still on a plane?
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Post by: elmore3003 on July 04, 2025, 10:47:39 AM
Years ago, maybe 65 or so, my brother Macbeth and I were throwing firecrackers at each other and one of them blew up in my hand. I was lucky because it could have blown off a foinger or two. Besides throwing a fit and giving us hell, my mother told us, "It's better to be a hot firecracker than to light one."
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 10:56:18 AM
  After those other posts about thumbs and fingers, this one got a li'l doubletake out of me. 

 ;D
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 10:56:49 AM
You sure were lucky, DR elmore3003!
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 10:57:32 AM
Getting ready to go PIG OUT.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 10:57:51 AM
And watch the metal chicken shoot fireworks out of its ASS.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 10:58:22 AM
Fun times.
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 10:59:24 AM
My DH and his two brothers were all born on holidays. DH the day after Christmas, the middle brother on July 4th, and the youngest on Labor Day.
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 11:00:10 AM
LOLL DR singdaw and DR CHAS SMITH
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Post by: singdaw on July 04, 2025, 11:44:12 AM
 :(
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 11:45:00 AM
Good afternoon.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 11:47:33 AM
Family is coming over this afternoon. I have yeast, flour, mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and loads of parmesan. Sounds like pizza to me!
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 11:55:18 AM
Pizza!
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 12:00:23 PM
Since the colors work, I am wearing my San Antonio Alamo t-shirt today.

Maybe some of the non-bot Guests haven't heard this (and repeat clicks are of course welcome :) )

Hoping when opportunities come up for our Alamo musical,
somehow we'll be able to work out arrangements with former DR Julie Miller

"Remember the Alamo" and a few more songs by Skip from VIVA MAX!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnEz0SBblk

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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 12:01:36 PM
(https://static.platform.michaels.com/2c-prd/en_US/522624173180752.jpeg)


Really nice!!!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 12:04:49 PM
And Happy Birthday, Leonard!

A Very Happy Birthday to Leonard!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 12:07:15 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!!!!
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8013.0;attach=26699)

Very sweet cat picture, Singdaw.  My hand-me-down cat Ebonie was also solid black. :)
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 12:08:54 PM
It is Leonard's stunt double.

STUNT CO...better not quote that movie.  HHW is a family site, you know. ;)
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 12:09:15 PM
What a way to start Page Four! ;D
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 12:12:28 PM
TOD: In honor of today's title, I listened to "Losing My Mind."
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 12:13:14 PM
I hope if I ever have the opportunity to sing that song in a talent show, I'll sing it with as much passion as Dame Edna has.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 12:15:18 PM
Liz Callaway and son Nicholas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XzO-V2XJMs

So good!  And here they are singing "Move On":

https://youtu.be/zrGq9nHlcQQ
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:20:21 PM
I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:20:33 PM
Was up for fifteen minutes at six.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:21:02 PM
Some of the weirdest dreams ever - nothing in them made a lick of sense.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:22:59 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel - anyone have? And I haven't seen Kinnear in anything in years - even when he was on E I couldn't stand his smug "I'm so droll" shtick.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:23:18 PM
I don't hear any fireworks yet.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:24:13 PM
I don't feel like eating anything at this point. I could make Wacky Noodles or bean and cheese burritos - neither sound appetizing to me.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:24:50 PM
Happy anniversary to Singdaw.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:25:11 PM
Happy everything to everyone.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 12:25:34 PM
No e-mails of interest, just one update.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:05:44 PM
Or maybe they don't anymore.

LOL, I have no clue.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:06:17 PM
My mother's phone and Internet are now restored. I wasn't able to accomplish it remotely, but after almost 2 hours on the phone with tech support, they were able to do it.

Wonderful though you must be exhausted.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:06:27 PM
It's kind of incredible how much we have come to rely on consistent Internet service.

Yup.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:06:39 PM
DR Rodzinski, great news that th ears survived the journey.

Still one leg left as we fly out of LAX here in an hour or so.

After those other posts about thumbs and fingers, this one got a li'l doubletake out of me.

:))
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:07:40 PM
My DH and his two brothers were all born on holidays. DH the day after Christmas, the middle brother on July 4th, and the youngest on Labor Day.

I think Labor Day is a perfect day to give birth.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:07:57 PM
Family is coming over this afternoon. I have yeast, flour, mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and loads of parmesan. Sounds like pizza to me!

Yum.  Have fun.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 01:08:25 PM
Since the colors work, I am wearing my San Antonio Alamo t-shirt today.

Maybe some of the non-bot Guests haven't heard this (and repeat clicks are of course welcome :) )

Hoping when opportunities come up for our Alamo musical,
somehow we'll be able to work out arrangements with former DR Julie Miller

"Remember the Alamo" and a few more songs by Skip from VIVA MAX!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnEz0SBblk



I hope it all works out for you.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 01:12:48 PM
DR John, I have not read Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows.  I'm not really a fan of her writing.

I really like her.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 01:14:35 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel - anyone have? And I haven't seen Kinnear in anything in years - even when he was on E I couldn't stand his smug "I'm so droll" shtick.

Yes. He was on a soap and in a Transformers movie.
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 01:15:18 PM
Happy Birthday Leonard.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 01:16:52 PM
It’s still raining. I don’t think our block party is happening in 45 minutes.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 01:17:09 PM
Happy Birthday Leonard.

Happy, happy!
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 01:41:00 PM
I am just not in the mood to make anything here.
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 01:41:19 PM
My DH and his two brothers were all born on holidays. DH the day after Christmas, the middle brother on July 4th, and the youngest on Labor Day.

I think Labor Day is a perfect day to give birth.


:)

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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 01:42:09 PM
Since the colors work, I am wearing my San Antonio Alamo t-shirt today.

Maybe some of the non-bot Guests haven't heard this (and repeat clicks are of course welcome :) )

Hoping when opportunities come up for our Alamo musical,
somehow we'll be able to work out arrangements with former DR Julie Miller

"Remember the Alamo" and a few more songs by Skip from VIVA MAX!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnEz0SBblk



I hope it all works out for you.

Thanks, Jane!
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 02:32:42 PM
Page turn!
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 02:32:49 PM
Five!
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 02:33:02 PM
Up from a nap.
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Post by: Ginny on July 04, 2025, 02:38:50 PM
My DH and his two brothers were all born on holidays. DH the day after Christmas, the middle brother on July 4th, and the youngest on Labor Day.

I think Labor Day is a perfect day to give birth.

40 (yikes!) years ago when we were expecting Rob, I was more than a week past my due date when Labor Day rolled around on Sept. 2.  My actual LABOR day didn’t occur until the following Saturday, the 7th.
Title: Re: IT'S LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 02:43:46 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel

Yes, though I don't know if I could easily match his name to his face.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 02:44:47 PM
DR John, I have not read Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows.  I'm not really a fan of her writing.

I really like her.

Many do.  I've read three of her books, probably all for book discussions, and just wasn't interested in reading any more on my own.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 02:45:21 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel - anyone have? And I haven't seen Kinnear in anything in years - even when he was on E I couldn't stand his smug "I'm so droll" shtick.

Yes. He was on a soap and in a Transformers movie.

I don't watch soaps.  I do watch Transormers movies.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 02:45:36 PM
It’s still raining. I don’t think our block party is happening in 45 minutes.

Sorry.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 02:50:34 PM
I hated Connections today.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 03:01:02 PM
I'm reading about the flooding and the missing girls from Mystic Camp in Texas.  I hope they are all safe :(
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 03:27:09 PM
It’s a horror story unfolding here. Don’t know how many people have died. 20 girls are missing. Friends have lost vineyards. The cleanup will be massive.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 03:34:58 PM
A sad horror story indeed :(
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 03:36:59 PM
Keith got Wordle in three.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 04:02:55 PM
Yay, I think I am ok enough to eat popcorn tonight.  I've been slowly introducing fiber back into my diet.  I have to be careful not to aggravate my IBS and so far am succeeding :)
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Post by: KevinH on July 04, 2025, 04:03:22 PM
Good evening!
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Post by: KevinH on July 04, 2025, 04:03:29 PM
Wordle:  4/6
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Post by: KevinH on July 04, 2025, 04:03:43 PM
Keith got Wordle in three.



Congrats to Keith!
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 04:12:03 PM
What a sad story - and of course there is no FEMA to step in to help.
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 04:13:32 PM
I am watching DESIREE on FXM with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons - a coupling that works about as well as it did in GUYS & DOLLS.

Also on FXM - THE WAYWARD BUS starring Miss Jayne Mansfield is available.  I have not seen it in a long time, I may give it a go tonight or tomorrow.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 04:45:40 PM
Wordle:  4/6

Nice.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 04:46:19 PM
Keith got Wordle in three.

Congrats to Keith!

Thank you.
Title: Re: IT'S LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 04:47:08 PM
What a sad story - and of course there is no FEMA to step in to help.

:(
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:50:07 PM
It was my first time buying fireworks. I wasn't sure I had gotten the right selections. But at the checkout, the cashier high-four'd me.

:o

:))
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:52:28 PM
I don't think that this has been mentioned yet, but:

Michael Madsen, actor of ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ fame, dead at 67 (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/entertainment/michael-madsen-death)

:(

While this is sad I must admit I don't really know who he is though I must have seen him in some of his films.

I mostly know him from Reservoir Dogs (TAO did a stage adaptation a little more than 10 years ago), and that his sister is actress Virginia Madsen.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:54:07 PM
It was my first time buying fireworks. I wasn't sure I had gotten the right selections. But at the checkout, the cashier high-four'd me.

Ha! I give that my remaining thumb up!

;D
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:55:18 PM
My mother's phone and Internet are now restored. I wasn't able to accomplish it remotely, but after almost 2 hours on the phone with tech support, they were able to do it.

Very good news, Singdaw!
Title: Re: IT'S LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:56:07 PM
Years ago, maybe 65 or so, my brother Macbeth and I were throwing firecrackers at each other and one of them blew up in my hand. I was lucky because it could have blown off a foinger or two. Besides throwing a fit and giving us hell, my mother told us, "It's better to be a hot firecracker than to light one."

Oh, my!
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 04:57:48 PM
I went to overnight camps as a child and I find it hard to imagine camping out in the kind of rain those girls were in.  Of course in So. California I don't even remember it raining while I was a camp.  I'm sure it did but not enough for it to be memorable.

Reading more about it, I'm reading that cabins were washed away, so maybe they weren't camping out.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:58:11 PM
My DH and his two brothers were all born on holidays. DH the day after Christmas, the middle brother on July 4th, and the youngest on Labor Day.

I have one friend who was born the day before Christmas and her name is Holly Eve.  And another friend who was born on Christmas day and his name is Noel (like noël)! :D
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 04:59:14 PM
:(
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8013.0;attach=26700)

Pretty much. :-\
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:02:08 PM
My DH and his two brothers were all born on holidays. DH the day after Christmas, the middle brother on July 4th, and the youngest on Labor Day.

I have one friend who was born the day before Christmas and her name is Holly Eve.  And another friend who was born on Christmas day and his name is Noel (like noël)! :D

I know a couple of woman named Valerie who were born on Valentine's Day.
Title: Re: IT'S LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:09:08 PM
Since the colors work, I am wearing my San Antonio Alamo t-shirt today.

Maybe some of the non-bot Guests haven't heard this (and repeat clicks are of course welcome :) )

Hoping when opportunities come up for our Alamo musical,
somehow we'll be able to work out arrangements with former DR Julie Miller

"Remember the Alamo" and a few more songs by Skip from VIVA MAX!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnEz0SBblk


Very nice, Freddie!
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:09:29 PM
Earthquakes, tornadoes, lightening storms, ice storms, all situations I have dealth with.  My only experience with flash floods was the LA River, a place I would never be caught in during any kind of weather, and most of all when it was raining.  I have been reading about how fast and hard the rain came down causing the flash floods :(
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:09:50 PM
LA River  ;D

(https://nextcity.org/images/daily/_resized/LA_LosAngelesRiver.jpg)
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:10:00 PM
 
s i x ! ! ! ! ! !
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:10:52 PM
I hope if I ever have the opportunity to sing that song in a talent show, I'll sing it with as much passion as Dame Edna has.

I'd pay to see that, Laura!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:13:16 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel - anyone have? And I haven't seen Kinnear in anything in years - even when he was on E I couldn't stand his smug "I'm so droll" shtick.

Yes, Josh Duhamel was on a TV show called Las Vegas, interestingly set in a casino in...wait for it...Las Vegas. ;)
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:13:48 PM
It also co-stared James Caan.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:14:33 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel - anyone have? And I haven't seen Kinnear in anything in years - even when he was on E I couldn't stand his smug "I'm so droll" shtick.

Yes. He was on a soap and in a Transformers movie.

Those, too.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:16:57 PM
The lead actors in Off the Grid were Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. I've never heard of Josh Duhamel

Yes, though I don't know if I could easily match his name to his face.

This is what he looked like during is time on Las Vegas around 2003 or so:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ1ODkyMzYzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMDM2NjE3._V1_.jpg)
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:18:51 PM
And this is him just a couple of years ago:

(https://bookingagentinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Josh-Duhamel-scaled-1.jpg)

(Still pretty damned sexy, if you ask me! ;) )

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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:20:04 PM
I'm reading about the flooding and the missing girls from Mystic Camp in Texas.  I hope they are all safe :(
It’s a horror story unfolding here. Don’t know how many people have died. 20 girls are missing. Friends have lost vineyards. The cleanup will be massive.

Oh, my goodness! :(
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:20:30 PM
Keith got Wordle in three.

Congrats to Keith!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:20:55 PM
Yay, I think I am ok enough to eat popcorn tonight.  I've been slowly introducing fiber back into my diet.  I have to be careful not to aggravate my IBS and so far am succeeding :)

Whew!  Enjoy the popcorn, Jane!
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 05:21:11 PM

Very nice, Freddie!


Thanks for watching, George!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:21:12 PM
What a sad story - and of course there is no FEMA to step in to help.

>:(
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:22:32 PM
Keith got Wordle in three.

Congrats to Keith!

Thanks.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:22:58 PM
Yay, I think I am ok enough to eat popcorn tonight.  I've been slowly introducing fiber back into my diet.  I have to be careful not to aggravate my IBS and so far am succeeding :)

Whew!  Enjoy the popcorn, Jane!

I'm sure I will. 
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:23:28 PM
What a sad story - and of course there is no FEMA to step in to help.

>:(

The president will help his buddy, the governor.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 05:24:39 PM

Very nice, Freddie!


Thanks for watching, George!

You're very welcome, Freddie!
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 05:24:57 PM
There hasn't been any mention of camp counselors missing.  I don't understood why they wouldn't be with the girls since it happened during the night.
Title: Re: IT'S LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 05:59:51 PM
The waters rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. It rained that hard.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:01:04 PM
Watched a Stephen King horror movie called The Monkey. It was fun in its way. Gruesome, too.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:01:40 PM
I am now starting The Brutalist. It may take me a few days to get through.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:02:04 PM
Though it feels like it's still raining, the fireworks have started.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 06:05:55 PM
The waters rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. It rained that hard.

Incredible.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 06:06:18 PM
Though it feels like it's still raining, the fireworks have started.

Can you see them or only hear them?
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 06:31:17 PM
Though it feels like it's still raining, the fireworks have started.

Can you see them or only hear them?

hear them. It's too light to see anything.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 06:37:26 PM
Oh well.  I'm glad you aren't flooding there.
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Post by: Jane on July 04, 2025, 06:37:37 PM
I hear the corn popping :)
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 07:30:40 PM
DR Rodzinski, are you home or still on a plane?

Finally home. It is warmer here than LA which was quite chilly this morning.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 07:34:54 PM
Welcome home, Rodzinski!
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 07:35:04 PM
Seven!
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 07:35:09 PM
Welcome home DR RODZINSKI & Family.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 07:35:19 PM
Howdy, Rupert!
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 07:36:12 PM
The fireworks here were nice and there seemed to be three areas competing for attention.

Most of it was behind the trees....but I could see most of the three finales.

It is dying out now....but still straggling to an end.
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 04, 2025, 07:37:19 PM
This has been making the rounds and I'll just say DR LAURA this is probably what I looked like in every talent show I entered....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHs5D15uje8

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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 07:39:07 PM
Watched 1.5 films on the flight.

A documentary called Disco’s Revenge, which was a fair summation of the rise and fall of disco. Mostly through the eyes of Nile Rodgers of Chic and some NY club deejays. Plenty to quibble about in terms of what gets discussed and what is barely mentioned. But some nice old footage from early ‘70s disco parties. It made me sad at times.
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 07:42:26 PM
Welcome home to the Rodzinski family!



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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 07:44:28 PM
Then the Liza doc which still had an hour to go when we landed though I can’t imagine what was in that hour left to be discussed. Again, many pertinent interviews, and a few random young people who offer nothing. The real MVP, Michael Feinstein did the directors  a solid, as he provides the most coherent connective tissue between clips of modern Liza talking. I mean, they seem to have relatively full access to her but Mike numerous times is leaned on to say, “Liza would say…”  Lots of fun footage.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 07:46:04 PM
Thanks! Good to be back! Though I’d stay where I was if I could.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 07:46:50 PM
Not a bad idea for a song.
It’s great to be back but I’d have stayed where I was if I could…
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 07:47:26 PM
Not getting swept up in The Brutalist. It’s okay but it’s not doing it for me. I think it’s the drug use, which I just find alienating. It’s what kept me from loving The Goldfinch, for example.
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 07:48:57 PM
Liza Minnelli video of "Losing My Mind" - around 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruaZarDQfXE
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 07:54:22 PM
Same number done live with the Pet Shop Boys

Liza Minnelli & The Pet Shop Boys - Losing My Mind [Live] 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4021sEFJQKk
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 07:56:46 PM
Not a bad idea for a song.
It’s great to be back but I’d have stayed where I was if I could…

Terrific idea!
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 08:32:32 PM
I need a break from The Brutalist.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 08:32:50 PM
I have no desire to celebrate tonight.
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 08:33:05 PM
The death toll has hit 24.
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 08:33:18 PM
Just heard this song on TV

Lainey Wilson - Somewhere Over Laredo (Performance Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stc7K1_jH14

From wikipedia:
Wilson co-wrote "Somewhere Over Laredo" with Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, and Dallas Wilson. Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg also received writing credits as the song interpolates the melody of "Over the Rainbow" ...
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Post by: Freddie on July 04, 2025, 08:34:51 PM
The death toll has hit 24.


:(


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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 08:43:45 PM
Gratuitous Post #200!!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 08:44:18 PM
The waters rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. It rained that hard.

Oh, my!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 08:45:03 PM
I hear the corn popping :)

Nice.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 08:45:20 PM
DR Rodzinski, are you home or still on a plane?

Finally home. It is warmer here than LA which was quite chilly this morning.

Welcome home, Rodzinski!
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Post by: John G. on July 04, 2025, 08:52:33 PM
Good night, all.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:25:40 PM
This has been making the rounds and I'll just say DR LAURA this is probably what I looked like in every talent show I entered....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHs5D15uje8



This is why the internet was invented.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:25:53 PM
Well, and cats.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:26:29 PM
And the misheard lyrics of O Fortuna.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:28:49 PM
The family did come over, but my son brought a chuck roast and baby potatoes and corn on the cob. We put the chuck roast in the instant pot, so it was ready in a couple of hours.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:29:36 PM
Grandson had a great time whirling the shaved parmesan blend in the food processor to make it more like grated.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:30:47 PM
I gave him a can of shaving cream to finger paint with. He was doing fine with it, until Grandpa got involved. Those two boys got wild. It was all over the room.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:32:53 PM
We could see some fireworks coming from the direction of the church, so we went over there to be sure no one was in the parking lot setting them off. They were in the driveway between our property and the property next door. So we sat and enjoyed those. Then we drove up to a drug store by the country club and watched the expensive professional show.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:33:23 PM
And we made cookies.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:34:19 PM
Poor Leonard hid most of the afternoon and evening. Well, he was in the front bedroom on his cat tree, where he usually is anyway. Grandson tried so hard and so gently to get Leonard to come out.
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Post by: Laura on July 04, 2025, 09:35:05 PM
But he enjoyed his can of tuna when everyone was outside washing the car. And squirting everything outside with water.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:44:13 PM
Just been lazy. Am feeling a bit better today - a couple of milder coughing bouts.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:44:36 PM
Had something for food - what is the question.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:45:12 PM
Ah, grilled cheese and bacon sandwich.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:45:42 PM
Then later, a homemade bean and cheese burrito -- under 1000 calories.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:46:23 PM
Then I watched a movie I'd somehow never seen even though I was sure I had - The Terminal Man starring George Segal. Very interesting movie.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:46:41 PM
Drinking some juice.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:47:08 PM
The noise of the fireworks is very irritating.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:47:18 PM
Why I oughta...
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:47:40 PM
Too bad Rodzinski wasn't here longer or that I was feeling all better.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:48:01 PM
That's really about it.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:48:12 PM
Could go for another short movie.
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Post by: bk on July 04, 2025, 09:48:39 PM
Have one to watch - The Burglar, with Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:56:23 PM
I’m here now!
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:56:39 PM
Oh you meant THERE here!
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:57:22 PM
Yeah, I thought about it but between your goop and my son’s ear, it would not have been ideal.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:57:54 PM
We will be that way again ere long.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:58:50 PM
I did find a nice eatery at a boutique hotel nearish LAX.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 09:59:57 PM
I gave him a can of shaving cream to finger paint with. He was doing fine with it, until Grandpa got involved. Those two boys got wild. It was all over the room.

Tell me you have photos of that!
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 10:00:29 PM
The Terminal Man, yeah, that’s a downer of a movie.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 10:02:17 PM
Not to be confused with Rupert Holmes’ “Terminal.”
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 10:03:20 PM
From the LP Widescreen, whose reissue CD was reissued by dear BK himself.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 10:03:56 PM
And a copy of which I won in an HHW trivia contest many years ago.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 10:05:04 PM
To give you an idea of how long ago, some of the questions involved guessing tracks that would be on the forthcoming 2nd Guy Haines album.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 10:05:36 PM
We need a trivia night again!
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 11:42:52 PM
This has been making the rounds and I'll just say DR LAURA this is probably what I looked like in every talent show I entered....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHs5D15uje8


One of the suggested videos below this (for me) was a complete showing (ripped from a VHS taped copy) of Gypsy, starring the fabulous Karen Morrow!  And here's the link:

https://youtu.be/MSpRoy01GCs (https://youtu.be/MSpRoy01GCs)

:D
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:47:31 PM
Hiya, G!
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:47:55 PM
Hiya, page 9!
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:48:45 PM
Hiya, Chum!
The one Ritz Brothers movie I’ve not seen.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 11:49:44 PM
Same number done live with the Pet Shop Boys

Liza Minnelli & The Pet Shop Boys - Losing My Mind [Live] 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4021sEFJQKk

Very cool.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:51:28 PM
Hiya Chum! is now on YouTube. I can finally fill this empty space in my Ritz Brothers education.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:52:33 PM
I like when the Universal logo was a kind of glass globe with stars twinkling around it.  While the words rotate.
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 11:55:44 PM
We need a trivia night again!

I'd still never get them right. ::)
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Post by: George on July 04, 2025, 11:56:05 PM
Hiya, G!

Hello, R!
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:56:24 PM
Hiya Chum! is only one hour long. The Brutalist = roughly 4 Hiya Chums.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:58:12 PM
Jane Frazee of Buck Privates is the female lead. Should be good.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 04, 2025, 11:59:14 PM
Directed by the great Harold Young. Let’s see what else he did…
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 05, 2025, 12:05:35 AM
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 with Merle Oberon and Leslie Howard. 10 years later he’s directing Hiya Chum! What happened?
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Post by: George on July 05, 2025, 12:07:31 AM
Gratuitous Post #252!! ;D
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:10:44 AM
New notes are up.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:10:50 AM
Up are new notes.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:10:57 AM
I've seen them.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:11:03 AM
I've read them.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:11:13 AM
I wrote them.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:11:20 AM
Yes, I did.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:11:28 AM
Would I kid?
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:11:36 AM
I might bid.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:11:47 AM
Or watch El Cid.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 05, 2025, 12:12:01 AM
Fun fact: Harold Young directed Elizabeth Taylor’s very first film.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:12:11 AM
I did watch that awful Off the Grid.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:12:27 AM
I didn't flip my lid.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:12:44 AM
Or spend a quid.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:13:05 AM
Or have bits of tid.
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Post by: bk on July 05, 2025, 12:14:24 AM
Is it ego or id.