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Title: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 12:05:09 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were MAD, and now it is time for you to post until the MAD cows come home, hopefully without MAD cow disease.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 12:06:22 AM
And the word of the day is: PIQUANCY!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: elmore3003 on July 21, 2025, 04:01:53 AM
Good morning, all!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: elmore3003 on July 21, 2025, 04:02:37 AM
BK, I'm sorry to read about the health setback.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: elmore3003 on July 21, 2025, 04:05:06 AM
I'm very sleepy this morning and I would love an excuse to go back to bed. YHesterday, by the time I finished putting away the Amazon Fresh order, chasing Stella down, and carting the garbage to the basement, it was nearly 1:00, and I was in no mood to get back to the orchestration work, So, hopefully, I will finish that first cue today.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 04:55:15 AM
TOD:  My memory is that I was aware of off-Broadway's "The MAD Show" before ever having a copy of MAD Magazine, probably from numbers that were appearing on local TV shows, or when the actors in the show were interviewed.

Looking at the date for "The MAD Show" being 1966, that makes sense that I wouldn't have bought a copy of the magazine before I was six years old.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 04:56:05 AM
More and more health vibes for BK!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 05:00:53 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 05:02:45 AM
Monday.

And we get two (2) whole days of relief between these two heat and humidity hells.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 05:05:21 AM
Today I MUST bring the musical gear in and get it set back up. Then there are two errands to run, an ugly bill to pay, and I will finish scanning those slides.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 05:09:41 AM
Two insane crazy dreams through the night -- both on familiar themes, but always in new variations. It would take way too much effort (and ink) to find a way to describe either of them, so I'm afraid y'all will just have to go on being depraved on account of being deprived.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 05:28:20 AM
Notes distributed. Dispersed.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 05:33:08 AM
I had an older brother who loved MAD, and we had some great 1970s issues. I can recall the Grease movie parody, but we surely had some earlier ones.

We got the MAD board game when it came out, which was fun.

And several paperbacks like the advertising parody, MAD looks at MADison Ave. And Silly Answers to Stupid Questions by Al Jaffe.


Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 05:37:16 AM
Good morning, friends.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 05:37:24 AM
And others.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 05:37:36 AM
Things that go bump in the night.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Michael on July 21, 2025, 05:39:19 AM
Good morning to all
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 05:40:11 AM
I never collected MAD except for holding on to maybe half a dozen favorite issues for a while in the 1970s, mostly because of favorite movie parodies. I also had a few of the paperbacks, probably Don Martin compilations because I always loved his stuff.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 05:41:50 AM
~~~CONTINUED ULTRA-STRENGTH HEALTH VIBES~~~ for BK!!!!!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 05:43:25 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 05:45:19 AM
I never bought a magazine as a kid. But I loved every copy of MAD I got my hands on. The Sound of Money was my favorite parody and I still love these lyrics:

DOUGH means cash for all of us
HooRAY for musicals like this
ME a star so big that by
FAR it really couldn't miss
SO insipid is the plot
LA dee dah, although we know
TEdious it is a lot
It will bring us back much
DOUGH, dough, dough, dough

Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 05:45:48 AM
~~~CONTINUED ULTRA-STRENGTH HEALTH VIBES~~~ for BK!!!!!

A double dose!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 05:48:53 AM
I remember in school (before a math class) sitting around and several kids reading MAD's LEAST HORIZON out loud, with the immortal

The world is a rhomboid
Without a circumference
And nobody knows what this simile means.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Michael on July 21, 2025, 05:49:07 AM
My first Mad magazine was by accident. I was with my grandfather and we stopped at a magazine store  (Remember them?) That issue they were parodying the TV show Batman. Batman was on the cover and I was big fan of the show. I thought it was a Batman comic book.
Years later my cousin worked as one of the usual gang of idiots. He gifted me with the set of cd-Ron’s of every issue of Mad up to the time it was made. The was a lot of interactive features including the folding cover.
As a bonus they gave you a roll of Mad magazine toilet paper which I still have in the original packaging
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 05:49:26 AM
I never bought a magazine as a kid. But I loved every copy of MAD I got my hands on. The Sound of Money was my favorite parody and I still love these lyrics:

DOUGH means cash for all of us
HooRAY for musicals like this
ME a star so big that by
FAR it really couldn't miss
SO insipid is the plot
LA dee dah, although we know
TEdious it is a lot
It will bring us back much
DOUGH, dough, dough, dough



LOL!

Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 05:49:31 AM
Same. The few issues of MAD I read, I loved. But I never collected.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 05:51:51 AM
Good morning to all

Hi Michael!  Good to see you here.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 06:02:38 AM
When I did my "Book of More Money" parody, IIRC, I'd mentioned in the YouTube notes that the parody title was in tribute to "The Sound of Money."

Something at some point got somebody at the Scott Rudin office upset with me.  From the timing of when my online parodies started getting really targeted, I've wondered if the title "Book of More Money" was the one -  though the parody was actually celebrating how much money they were raking in.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: elmore3003 on July 21, 2025, 06:38:28 AM
Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 06:54:53 AM
Damn. Thinking about my day, I also have to schlep to Walmart to pick up a prescription, get the trash and recycling ready to take down to the road tonight (I skipped last week, so it has to be done today), and something else I remembered five minutes ago - whatever in the HELL it was. I'd best get moving on these things.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 06:56:19 AM
Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw

Thank you. I have a digital subscription to the Times but sometimes a few days go by when I don't keep up with at least the headlines (they are so wearying these days), and then I miss an occasional thing like this.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 06:58:37 AM
Oh. I know what it was. There's a reminder right there on my screen! I have to run a Time Machine backup. I don't do those automatically, just every few days when I feel like it's a good time. But I was lax for a while during the past few months, and I'm making an effort to get back into the habit like a good nun.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 07:06:12 AM
HA!  Thanks for the photo DR FREDDIE!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 07:06:35 AM
Things are moving along. More rain predicted for today....we shall see.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 07:08:01 AM
My uncle had a MAD magazine when he was a teenager.

It had one of the fold up back covers that was very funny.

I bought it sometimes when I liked the cover. The movie parodies were my favorite!

The only thing I hated Hated HATED was Spy vs. Spy which I thought was stupid.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 07:08:23 AM
HA!  Thanks for the photo DR FREDDIE!

Thank YOU!  I wouldn't have thought to ask about it if you hadn't mentioned it. 
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 07:16:00 AM
DR Jrand74, funny that you should mention Spy vs. Spy. I honestly don't remember if I liked it all that miuch, or just read it dutifully, but I will say that it's one of the most memorable things I (and I think many people) think of when MAD Magazine is mentioned.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: ChasSmith on July 21, 2025, 07:18:17 AM
I just read the Wiki page on Don Martin, about whom I really knew nothing.

He had a bit of a rocky life in a few respects, and I didn't know about the eventual falling out with MAD publisher William Gaines. I only vaguely remember CRACKED, but I don't think I ever looked at it enough to know that he had contributed to it for several years after leaving MAD.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 08:41:48 AM
The Selfish Shellfish would be a great title for a children's book.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 08:47:39 AM
Dave Berg’s The Lighter Side was always fun.

I remember one where a dad was proudly outside in the driveway showing his son, “See this house? This car? This property? Someday this will all be…”
(Arrives at mailbox full of bills)
“Mine!”
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 09:10:18 AM
A favorite MAD parody was their "On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever"

The cover is shown here
https://mikeshouseofwhacks.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-on-clear-day-you-can-see-funny-girl.html
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 09:28:04 AM
GET WELL VIBES FOR BRUCE!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 09:30:20 AM
I have never been able to get past that nightmare inducing face to have any desire to go near a MAD magazine.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 09:32:54 AM
I just read the Wiki page on Don Martin, about whom I really knew nothing.

He had a bit of a rocky life in a few respects, and I didn't know about the eventual falling out with MAD publisher William Gaines. I only vaguely remember CRACKED, but I don't think I ever looked at it enough to know that he had contributed to it for several years after leaving MAD.

Thanks for mentioning that wiki page.  Fascinating reading!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 09:56:27 AM
More and more health vibes for BK!

~~~DITTO!!~~~
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 09:56:35 AM
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Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 09:58:16 AM
I never bought a magazine as a kid. But I loved every copy of MAD I got my hands on. The Sound of Money was my favorite parody and I still love these lyrics:

DOUGH means cash for all of us
HooRAY for musicals like this
ME a star so big that by
FAR it really couldn't miss
SO insipid is the plot
LA dee dah, although we know
TEdious it is a lot
It will bring us back much
DOUGH, dough, dough, dough


Very funny! ;D
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 09:59:08 AM
My first Mad magazine was by accident. I was with my grandfather and we stopped at a magazine store  (Remember them?) That issue they were parodying the TV show Batman. Batman was on the cover and I was big fan of the show. I thought it was a Batman comic book.
Years later my cousin worked as one of the usual gang of idiots. He gifted me with the set of cd-Ron’s of every issue of Mad up to the time it was made. The was a lot of interactive features including the folding cover.
As a bonus they gave you a roll of Mad magazine toilet paper which I still have in the original packaging

That's very cool, Michael!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 09:59:31 AM
Same. The few issues of MAD I read, I loved. But I never collected.

Ditto and Ditto.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 10:01:10 AM
Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw)

Thanks for the link, Freddie Larry!

SPOO!!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: elmore3003 on July 21, 2025, 11:05:16 AM
Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw)

Thanks for the link, Freddie.

Freddie? Call me Ishmael.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: KevinH on July 21, 2025, 11:16:49 AM
Good afternoon!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: KevinH on July 21, 2025, 11:17:16 AM
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Me too, DR George!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: KevinH on July 21, 2025, 11:17:27 AM
Vibes for BK
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: KevinH on July 21, 2025, 11:18:09 AM
A favorite MAD parody was their "On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever"

The cover is shown here
https://mikeshouseofwhacks.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-on-clear-day-you-can-see-funny-girl.html




I remember that one well, DR Freddie!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 11:28:08 AM
A favorite MAD parody was their "On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever"

The cover is shown here
https://mikeshouseofwhacks.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-on-clear-day-you-can-see-funny-girl.html




I remember that one well, DR Freddie!

I had forgotten it, but it was a classic.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 11:29:07 AM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 12:02:05 PM
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Me too, DR George!

Good for both of you :)
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 12:03:14 PM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

This is sad. 
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 12:30:43 PM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

:( Terribly sad.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 12:32:57 PM
I'm up, I'm up -  eleven hours of sleep. Thank goodness. Was up a couple of times, but eleven hours is what I needed. Would love to do that tomorrow, too, but alas, she of the Evil Eye comes.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 12:46:10 PM
And I was thrilled to have slept 6.5 hours.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 12:47:16 PM
I'm up, I'm up -  eleven hours of sleep. Thank goodness. Was up a couple of times, but eleven hours is what I needed. Would love to do that tomorrow, too, but alas, she of the Evil Eye comes.

Eleven hours of sleep sounds great!

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Does anyone here know how to photograph the posting evidence?
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 12:54:55 PM
I bought a couple of issues of CRACKED.....but I was really more interested in Famous Monsters of Filmland and Castle of Frankenstein.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 01:29:17 PM
Here!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 01:41:45 PM
Thanks for preserving that, Rodzinski!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 01:42:40 PM
I loved all those magazines - Cracked, Help, and Panic. The latter only lasted twelve issues, I think - I have a bound set of them still.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 01:43:55 PM
I also have an original Cracked cover from 1972 by John Severin, their main cover artist - it's a wonderful painting of The Godfather cast with the Cracked person in there.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 01:44:11 PM
Back from a quick trip to the mail place.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 01:44:37 PM
I think I'm feeling better today - but my neck is sore on the left now and has been for a few days.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 01:44:51 PM
Thinking about food now.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 01:46:06 PM
Cracked seemed a pale MAD imitation to me, but probably because that’s the one I knew first. Cracked.com on the other hand was a very good, funny website for a couple years before their style of listicles got stolen by every other website, and their quality died out.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 02:14:28 PM
Food ordered. Now I can relax and rest.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 02:26:26 PM
Congratulations, Freddie.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 02:27:08 PM
I spent an hour in the garden. Got work done, but I am dripping wet.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 02:45:25 PM
I am listening to a lengthy BBC radio production of David Copperfield. I’ve read it twice, but I have forgotten so much of the first third that I am enjoying being refreshed, even the ugly parts.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Laura on July 21, 2025, 02:52:12 PM
Good afternoon.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Laura on July 21, 2025, 02:52:44 PM
It never did rain.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Laura on July 21, 2025, 02:52:58 PM
TOD: What's Mad Magazine?
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 02:56:41 PM
Congratulations, Freddie.

Thanks, John G!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 03:18:16 PM
Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw)

Thanks for the link, Freddie.

Freddie? Call me Ishmael.

I'm very sorry, Larry!  I was just not observant today!  I "fixed" my original post!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 03:18:34 PM
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Me too, DR George!

Very cool. :)
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 03:19:17 PM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

Oh, no!  I wonder what happened! :-\
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 03:20:00 PM
I'm up, I'm up -  eleven hours of sleep. Thank goodness. Was up a couple of times, but eleven hours is what I needed. Would love to do that tomorrow, too, but alas, she of the Evil Eye comes.

Eleven hours of sleep sounds great!

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Does anyone here know how to photograph the posting evidence?

Congrats, Freddie!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 03:26:04 PM
It never did rain.

Darn.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 03:26:18 PM
TOD: What's Mad Magazine?

;D
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 03:27:42 PM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

Oh, no!  I wonder what happened! :-\

He was swimming in Costa Rica and a strong current pulled him out to sea and he drowned :(
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 03:28:28 PM
Congratulations DR Freddie.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 03:29:48 PM

 
Does anyone here know how to photograph the posting evidence?

If you take a photo or snapshot with your phone you can always text it to someone to post.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 03:30:10 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.  I liked the word :)
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 03:39:09 PM
Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw)

Thanks for the link, Freddie.

Freddie? Call me Ishmael.

I'm very sorry, Larry!  I was just not observant today!  I "fixed" my original post!


Yikes, do I have to be called Ishmael now?

Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 03:39:43 PM
I'm up, I'm up -  eleven hours of sleep. Thank goodness. Was up a couple of times, but eleven hours is what I needed. Would love to do that tomorrow, too, but alas, she of the Evil Eye comes.

Eleven hours of sleep sounds great!

Post #11,000
 
Does anyone here know how to photograph the posting evidence?

Congrats, Freddie!

Thanks, George!
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Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 03:40:25 PM
Congratulations DR Freddie.


Thanks, Jane!



Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 03:52:52 PM
Congrats to DR FREDDIE on his millstone.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 03:53:41 PM
I am now writing the Children's Workshop story with all 39+ names.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:13:30 PM
I'm hitting a new large number today.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:13:36 PM
Food was okay.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:13:44 PM
Not great, just okay.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:15:03 PM
I feel pretty good and while voice is not at full strength, it's better than yesterday. The big thing today is gunk - again - gunk and more gunk. I just don't get the gunk.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:15:19 PM
Maybe AI wil help me understand it.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:16:05 PM
AI is invaluable - except when it gets things completely wrong and people post the wrong - THAT is the problem with Google and AI.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 04:21:13 PM
They now have these bot sites on Facebook - you've seen them - sites about LA or history or movies - they'll talk about a movie - it's all straight out of a google AI search. The other day there was a post from one of those bot sites about the swimmer. How good Frank and Eleanor Perry's script was. How great Frank Perry's direction was. How great Elmer Bernstein's score was. The only problems? Frank didn't write the screenplay, Eleanor did - solo. While Frank is the director of record, it's not exactly a secret that Sydney Pollack was brought in to completely reshoot the scene with Janice Rule - the original scene as directed by Perry featured not Miss Rule but Barbara Loden. Pollack also shot a couple of other brief things. The biggest oops? Elmer Bernstein's score, which  doesn't work at all in the film because - wait for it - he never wrote a score for the film - the score is by Marvin Hamlisch, his first score.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 04:33:28 PM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

Oh, no!  I wonder what happened! :-\

He was swimming in Costa Rica and a strong current pulled him out to sea and he drowned :(

That's terrible. :(
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Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 04:33:45 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.  I liked the word :)

Nice!
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Post by: George on July 21, 2025, 04:34:04 PM
Congratulations DR Freddie.


Thanks, George!

:))
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Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 04:55:39 PM
Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

Oh, no!  I wonder what happened! :-\

He was swimming in Costa Rica and a strong current pulled him out to sea and he drowned :(

That's terrible. :(

Yes :(
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jane on July 21, 2025, 04:55:51 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.  I liked the word :)

Nice!

Thanks.
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Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 05:01:20 PM
They now have these bot sites on Facebook - you've seen them - sites about LA or history or movies - they'll talk about a movie - it's all straight out of a google AI search. The other day there was a post from one of those bot sites about the swimmer. How good Frank and Eleanor Perry's script was. How great Frank Perry's direction was. How great Elmer Bernstein's score was. The only problems? Frank didn't write the screenplay, Eleanor did - solo. While Frank is the director of record, it's not exactly a secret that Sydney Pollack was brought in to completely reshoot the scene with Janice Rule - the original scene as directed by Perry featured not Miss Rule but Barbara Loden. Pollack also shot a couple of other brief things. The biggest oops? Elmer Bernstein's score, which  doesn't work at all in the film because - wait for it - he never wrote a score for the film - the score is by Marvin Hamlisch, his first score.


Yes, and someone pointed out recently they’ll say “Happy Birthday Janice Rule!” or whoever. And it’s not the person’s birthday at all.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 05:59:03 PM
Congrats to DR FREDDIE on his millstone.


Thanks, Jrand!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 06:02:32 PM
Congratulations DR Freddie.


Thanks, George!

:))

:) I went back and fixed it!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Freddie on July 21, 2025, 06:03:27 PM
Thanks, Jane, for the millstone congratulations!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:15:33 PM
Was just zoning out on the couch.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:15:48 PM
Now it's time to get off this damn page.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:16:00 PM
And achieve a new number.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:16:08 PM
Ready, set, go.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:16:37 PM
Got to do some fun sleuthing for ChasSmith.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:17:41 PM
Had to resend the book files this afternoon because I found out on Thursday they don't accept We Transfer anymore. So, my gal sent me a link to their own upload portal and I instantly sent them again. Unfortunately, she went home for the day.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:17:49 PM
She was out on Friday.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:17:56 PM
She was out today.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:19:42 PM
She has some health issues and I'm guessing she'll be out all week. So, she has the files but they never got to the guy who supervises them getting done. HE has a different link. He now has everything, but informed him strongly that I am not going to sit around for two weeks while everyone takes their sweet time, which is what's happened for the last two books. Prior to that, I was getting finished galleys and covers in two to three days.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:21:22 PM
I told him I cannot have stress about this at this point and at my age. Hopefully, he will get this done although he's not the one actually doing it - he just gets it to the design team, who's only job with my books is to insert the ISBN numbers on the already formatted copyright page, and then to assemble the dust jacket and the softcover spine and front and back cover. That's it.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:21:32 PM
Enter page five.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:21:44 PM
Now, get me off this damn page.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:22:06 PM
I hope someone will be around to capture the new number.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:22:16 PM
It's coming VERY soon now.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:22:33 PM
Nine more posts will do it, then I'll go watch a movie.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:22:51 PM
I REALLY don't want to get up at eight tomorrow, but it is what it is.
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Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:23:52 PM
And I'll get back at eleven-thirty, then have to set-up everything for the stumble-through, and shower and get myself ready by two - when the two people who missed rehearsal on Saturday are coming to run their numbers.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:25:06 PM
Then I can rest and relax after the stumble-through and I can certainly sleep in on Wednesday, but have to be up by eleven-thirty to shave and shower and get myself in the right place for the show.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:26:34 PM
I thought I had the rest of the week to myself, but noooo, my rescheduled ophthalmologist appointment is on Friday and once I'm back from that I know I'm expected to attend an opening night, although I may not.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:26:48 PM
Okay, we're close.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:26:57 PM
Within spitting distance.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:27:05 PM
Any moment now.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:27:20 PM
And - alert the media because...
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 07:27:37 PM
Drum roll - here it is!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: MichaelG on July 21, 2025, 07:34:51 PM
Congratulations on the new millstone, BK!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:35:10 PM
I spent an hour in the garden. Got work done, but I am dripping wet.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 07:35:18 PM
Congratulations, BK.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 07:36:00 PM
I did not realize that Donna McKechnie was on Dark Shadows.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 07:36:39 PM
I spent an hour in the garden. Got work done, but I am dripping wet.

Most excellent spelling
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:36:40 PM
Congratulations, DR Freddie, on your lofty new perch in the HHW firmament!!!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:37:13 PM
DR John G., I have been holding onto that one for a while, waiting for the perfect moment...
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: MichaelG on July 21, 2025, 07:37:21 PM
I read Mad magazine as a kid but I wasn't a huge fan, as can be told because I didn't save any of them.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:37:59 PM
Just learned that one of the people at the cookout on Saturday has been diagnosed with strep throat. I am crossing my fingers and everything else.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: MichaelG on July 21, 2025, 07:38:17 PM
You want Peanuts or Doonesbury books of a certain vintage, those I have.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:42:10 PM
Congratulations, BK, on your lofty new perch in the HHW firmament!!!
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:42:27 PM
 :)
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:43:06 PM
A lot.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 07:43:32 PM
Choices.
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Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 07:43:43 PM
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/519985412_122246138588220142_3404227176818973850_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=SdbzzCKS0NIQ7kNvwFNNSPq&_nc_oc=Adk1wu9QOt0yngC8sqTcCqKnuoBTUOSUmLpINDwcAFXocAu2uxClAc0YdsZ2DgoO3WFKPt_BEKt2QhSOPrzC0VHy&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=5_vXE51X-9CsQLglpYlGFA&oh=00_AfR-HbyKqA6fB0zIUn6i_OYIqvF2xBsCc1l2yQPk0mTL_A&oe=6884D4A9)
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 07:44:44 PM
VistaVision version of MR BK's millstone.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Jrand74 on July 21, 2025, 07:45:21 PM
DR JOHN G Donna M's story about her last day on Dark Shadows is most entertaining.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 08:04:35 PM
Good night, friends.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 08:04:42 PM
And others.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 08:08:04 PM
DR JOHN G Donna M's story about her last day on Dark Shadows is most entertaining.

And what story would that be?
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 08:22:28 PM
Starting a movie called One Life about a man who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis. Anthony Hopkins stars with Lena Olin, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai and Jonathan Pryce. Based on a true story.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 09:14:08 PM
Finished with my viewing - maybe the oddest one-hour TV show ever.
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Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 09:52:25 PM
One Life is a pretty wonderful tearjerker. The acting elevates it above a kind of made-for-TV feel.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:08:09 PM
Had some crackers. Haven't really eaten enough today, but it's too late to do anything about it, really.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:08:30 PM
Why are we on page six.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:08:35 PM
Barely.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:08:41 PM
Squarely.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:08:49 PM
Not fairly.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:09:11 PM
Rarely.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:09:32 PM
Come now, let us move along.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: John G. on July 21, 2025, 10:16:32 PM
Good night, all.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:38:02 PM
Good night and good luck.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:38:12 PM
Not necessarily in that order.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:38:22 PM
Guess I should write some damn notes.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:38:40 PM
And yet, I don't want to.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:38:52 PM
And yet, I must.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:39:05 PM
I have to be in bed by twelve-thirty at the latest.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:39:15 PM
I should shave tonight.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 21, 2025, 10:39:24 PM
We'll see how I feel.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:50:51 PM
I shall endeavor to get us off this page.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:51:04 PM
Endeavoring.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:51:19 PM
Endeavoring.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:51:59 PM
(Not to be confused with endive devouring).
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:53:08 PM
Devving, as the young folk say.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:53:46 PM
One more endeavorment.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:54:16 PM
The seventh son of the seventh page.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:58:46 PM
A nice interview with Dominic Guard who played the kid in The Go-Between (1971).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4SvzxfVVGfo&pp=ygUYR28tYmV0d2VlbiBkb21pbmljIGd1YXJk
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: Rodzinski on July 21, 2025, 11:59:24 PM
Seems like it was a happy experience for him.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:01:22 AM
New notes are written.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:01:30 AM
George ain't here.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:01:51 AM
Probably out having some shrimp bits on toast.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:02:05 AM
He must be SUPER busy every evening.
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Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:02:28 AM
I, myself, am here.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:02:36 AM
Where else would I be?
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:03:41 AM
New notes are up.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:03:48 AM
Up are new notes.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:03:54 AM
I've seen them.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:04:00 AM
I've read them.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: bk on July 22, 2025, 12:04:06 AM
I wrote them.
Title: Re: MAD
Post by: George on July 22, 2025, 12:04:47 AM
She has some health issues and I'm guessing she'll be out all week. So, she has the files but they never got to the guy who supervises them getting done. HE has a different link. He now has everything, but informed him strongly that I am not going to sit around for two weeks while everyone takes their sweet time, which is what's happened for the last two books. Prior to that, I was getting finished galleys and covers in two to three days.

Hope it all gets done VERY quickly!!