Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 23, 2025, 12:10:50 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had solid kishka, and now it is time for you to post until the solid cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ROBUST!
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Today, we have our first J&H performance of the second weekend (of three), AND it's a Pay-What-You-Can actors' benefit performance, so we'll get to split all the money at the end of the run!
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Good morning, all!
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Yesterday's laundry followed by the hour it took to make the bed and tote the old bedding to the clothes hamper really did me in. Too much kneeling, crawling around the floor, lifting and wrestling the mattress to put on the bottom fitted sheet, pushing the ed about, all of this have given mke a worn out, broken body. I can barely mve this morning. I hope I can spend the day doing very very little.
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DR Rodzinski, I hope things with Mrs R's employment are okay.
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The first movie I remember was Disney's Cnderella at Middletown's Paramount Theater in 1950. I remember seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in its 1952 re-release and Alice in Wonderland in 1951.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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My first recollection of seeing a movie was Snow White at a Los Angeles drive-in. Must have been the 1967 re-release (30th anniversary).
I spent all of the Wicked Queen's screentime hiding in the back seat.
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Notes decimated. Thrashed.
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Thank you all for the vibes. News was not good. Her whole section of the biz is being shuttered. We have luckily a few months to find some new paths. Living in this particular locale was a great idea at the time, but it has isolated us both from career opportunities. Stay tuned.
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I shoulda been smart and robbed the Louvre.
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TOD: The first movie I remember the experience of seeing was MARY POPPINS. But that opened in fall 1964, when I was already 4 years old - and I can't imagine I wasn't brought to a movie before then.
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Thank you all for the vibes. News was not good. Her whole section of the biz is being shuttered. We have luckily a few months to find some new paths. Living in this particular locale was a great idea at the time, but it has isolated us both from career opportunities. Stay tuned.
:( We're so sorry about your news.
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Good morning, all.
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That's awful, DR Rodzinski. I'm sorry.
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DR John G., have you ever had peanut pie?
https://12tomatoes.com/virginia-peanut-pie/?trk_msg=34KEQBGFG43KN31T0QL3OC8B3O&trk_contact=VQOCEIVNH63MCCJIOQA5RBI4N8&trk_module=new&trk_sid=NGFUCGQR6Q2NPT4UGKRE36BAAS&trk_link=G24KU56VN9P4B62JCE2UK99J2C&utm_source=12t&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Virginia+Peanut+Pie&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_content=featured-recipe
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It's supposed to taste like peanut brittle, I think.
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DR Rodzinksi, what lousy news. Hate that. I hope you find new directions soon.
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A propos of nothing, I hate the modern phrase, "Do me a solid."
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A drive-in Disney might’ve been my first movie too. A Bambi rerelease in 1975. But it may also have been a 1975 rerelease of What’s Up Doc?
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Feels like there must’ve been something sooner, maybe Herbie Rides Again in ‘74.
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I, too, name Snow White as being my first, even though I'd only have been three in 1952. Which doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Did people take their three-year-old to a movie at a nice downtown theeder in Columbus in 1952? For a Disney movie? Maybe?
The next Snow White re-release I see on IMDb, if correct, is 1958, and that doesn't ring true, either, because my movie memories from the 1958-1960 period in Columbus are not nearly so vague.
It's just that I've always carried this image of being with my mother in a dark theater and getting scared at the appropriate places, and I can't shake it. But there's literally no way to prove this one. If that wasn't my first, then MAYBE Oklahoma! in 1955, which seems a little late. Oh well.
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Bambi! Okay, wait a minute, let me check those releases.
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Hmm. That's not till 1957. Oh well, like I said before: oh well. La di da.
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A propos of nothing, I hate the modern phrase, "Do me a solid."
This is not well known, but the theme song for SOLID GOLD was originally written as "Solid Kishka," but "Solid Gold" scanned better.
"Solid Gold" theme sung by Marilyn McCoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LaYVkhsSLI
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Thursday morning greetings! There was frost on our neighbors’ rooftops this morning (and presumably on ours, too).
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DR Rodzinski, I’m so sorry to hear the news about your wife’s employment.
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TOD - my first movie theatre memory is “Carousel” when I was 5. My mother drove my 15-year-old sister and her friends, so I got to tag along. The actual movie experience is vague, but I have vivid memories of driving home in a carful of weeping teenage girls.
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I don’t think 3 is too young to have been at a movie and have memories of it. That’s quite possible.
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My most vivid early movie memory was my “aunt” Roberta had my sister Anne and me for a weekend and took us to a decrepit theater in Hammond, Indiana to see For the Love of Benji. At one point a criminal kicked Benji’s dog girlfriend and I was so upset. Not even sure we could stay to see the rest.
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Who here uses ClipGrab? I think BK mentions it sometimes.
I've downloaded any number of videos from YouTube using ClipGrab, and I went there just now to grab a couple of things. But suddenly today, "No downloadable video could be found" regardless of what I choose. I tried a few miscellaneous things that would never be a problem, and...same thing. I wonder if new blocking controls on YouTube itself have just been implemented.
AND - I'm getting ads there which I normally don't get when using this particular browser (Chrome). Gotta wonder what's up.
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Good morning, all.
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Vibes for the Rodz family.
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I don’t remember Mary Poppins or Sound of Music in the theater, though I remember parts of those movies. I remember a bit of a drive-in screening of Gidget Goes Hawaiian but falling asleep before The Ten Commandments, which was the second feature. I also remember a bit of seeing the original True Grit in the theater.
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My Facebook memories tell me I went to a movie theater 12 years ago to see a screening of Merrily We Roll Along. I guess that was Maria Friedman’s London version of the show.
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DR CHAS SMITH I just tried Clip Grab and it works fine. I use the FireFox browser....maybe you can try downloading the program again. They've had several updates this year.
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Bad news DR RODZINSKI.....but I am sure things will work out.
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Freeze Warning here. Maybe we have mowed our last lawn for the season.
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Our parents took my older brother and I to the Ritz Theatre in Mooresville to see Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein when I was about three.
It had to be a re-release in 1953.
We both laughed all through the movie. There may have been a Disney cartoon and a Little Rascals short.
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I haven't used Firefox in a long time. Last several years it's been Safari and Chrome, each for certain sites. Might be time to give it a try.
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Oh - BTW, DR Jrand75 --
I stayed awake for about half of Looking For Love, I was enjoying it, and that's the last thing I remember. But as soon as it started, I at least had the presence of mind to start the DVR recording it. I hope I got it, will check later. But definitely a movie to see. And what an iconic main title sequence!
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If ClipGrab is not working, the most common solutions are to update the application, check your internet connection, and ensure your system's permissions are correctly configured. If these steps fail, you may need to reinstall the program.
So sayeth the internet.
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Freddie thanks for reminding me Solid Gold had a theme.
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Freddie thanks for reminding me Solid Gold had a theme.
Naturally, when that now-convicted New Jersey Senator was found with all those gold bars in his house, I did a lyric to the tune of "Solid Gold." (Never recorded it. It seemed too nasty.)
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The first edit in the Looking for Love opening credits sequence happens at 1:53. Take that, Orson Welles!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Si0jswVJYNE&list=RDSi0jswVJYNE&start_radio=1&pp=ygUWTG9va2luZyBmb3IgbG92ZSAxOTY0IKAHAQ%3D%3D
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LOOKING FOR LOVE credits choreography to Robert Sidney. George Sidney directed the movie BYE BYE BIRDIE the year before.
Guess the LOOKING FOR LOVE title sequence was a tribute to Ann-Margret in the BIRDIE title song.
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Sorry to hear the news, DR Rodzinski. Best of luck in your paths forward.
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Forgot to say: I did have the latest update of ClipGrab, but I trashed it and downloaded again to see what would happen. Also restarted the Mac. No change yet.
It's not like I need anything today, anyway, so I'll try again tomorrow. I know sometimes just waiting till later can make a difference in such things.
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TOD: The first movie in a theater I can remember for sure is Mary Poppins, but there might well have been something earlier.
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It looks like both Equity and AFM now have tentative agreements with the Broadway League. Hopefully they're ratified and my trip to NYC next month won't be mostly wiped out by strikes.
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Freddie thanks for reminding me Solid Gold had a theme.
Naturally, when that now-convicted New Jersey Senator was found with all those gold bars in his house, I did a lyric to the tune of "Solid Gold." (Never recorded it. It seemed too nasty.)
Tune of Theme from "Solid Gold"
They found lots of cash there,
A sizable stash there.
But there's stranger truth to be told.
Along with the money,
What struck them as funny
Is one hundred grand of pure gold!
Solid gold,
And there's no way to explain it.
Solid gold,
How do people get this bold?
You can touch them and feel them,
But there's no way to conceal them.
If you are getting paid, don't take it in gold!
Solid gold!
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Congrats!
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Thank you all for the vibes. News was not good. Her whole section of the biz is being shuttered. We have luckily a few months to find some new paths. Living in this particular locale was a great idea at the time, but it has isolated us both from career opportunities. Stay tuned.
SENDING MORE EMPLOYMENT VIBES!
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My most vivid early movie memory was my “aunt” Roberta had my sister Anne and me for a weekend and took us to a decrepit theater in Hammond, Indiana to see For the Love of Benji. At one point a criminal kicked Benji’s dog girlfriend and I was so upset. Not even sure we could stay to see the rest.
I can understand how upsetting that was. It still would be today.
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I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.
Bye for now!
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Vibes for DR GINNY.
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Could be DR FREDDIE....Connie is really rocking out to that tune in a costume by Don Loper!
I hope you got it DR CHAS SMITH - the Danny Thomas sequence is also a lot of fun.
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Indeed DR RODZINSKI
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Page Three.
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I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.
Bye for now!
Vibes the appointment goes well!
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Who here uses ClipGrab? I think BK mentions it sometimes.
I've downloaded any number of videos from YouTube using ClipGrab, and I went there just now to grab a couple of things. But suddenly today, "No downloadable video could be found" regardless of what I choose. I tried a few miscellaneous things that would never be a problem, and...same thing. I wonder if new blocking controls on YouTube itself have just been implemented.
AND - I'm getting ads there which I normally don't get when using this particular browser (Chrome). Gotta wonder what's up.
I just tried to download a Sean McDermott song I orchestrated. No problems.
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I use Clipgrab and YouTube on Safari, DR ChasSmith.
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I use Clipgrab and YouTube on Safari, DR ChasSmith.
I'm glad to hear that. There's something wonky with my setup, then. And just today.
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Maybe the computer of DR CHAS SMITH is haunted.
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Well, it IS getting close to Halloween.
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I'm up, I'm up - a bit over eight hours of good sleep. Really had a runny nose last night and the shortness of breath - I took Ny-Quil for the second night. So far, today there's no runny nose and the shortness of breath, while still hovering, isn't as bad and hasn't led to coughing yet. Digits crossed that continues.
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So sorry to hear about the missus, Rodzinski. Hoping something better is in the ether.
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Clip Grab working fine via Safari here. They do occasionally update but that's an instant alert while it's happening.
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I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.
Bye for now!
Good vibes!
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Be well vibes for Bruce.
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Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes! They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.
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I'm up, I'm up - a bit over eight hours of good sleep. Really had a runny nose last night and the shortness of breath - I took Ny-Quil for the second night. So far, today there's no runny nose and the shortness of breath, while still hovering, isn't as bad and hasn't led to coughing yet. Digits crossed that continues.
Sending keep-feeling-good vibes!
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Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes! They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.
Yay!
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Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes! They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.
YAY!
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Good afternoon.
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Good news for Ginny! And I'm sorry about Mrs. Rodz's employment.
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I remembered something from a few years ago, and downloaded an app I'd used in the past but stopped for whatever reason. It just worked like a charm on five consecutive videos.
MacX YouTube Downloader
It takes a couple more keystrokes than ClipGrab, but it might also be a little more flexible, and it's a nice app.
Crisis averted, for now!
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How do you download a YouTube video to your computer?
Is this capability available on all YouTube videos?
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I think it's possible for the uploader to lock a video so it can't be downloaded, but most anything I want can be grabbed.
Edit: Certain commercial stuff is definitely locked by its corporate owners. But I'd guess most individual uploads can be copied.
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That is hilarious.
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This is not the setup to a joke, but a Bernese mountain dog just walked into the library.
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Now, no one is going to believe this. But I might as well be the crazy guy in the asylum, so here goes:
I went to clean up my desktop, and clicked on the ClipGrab icon - and something different happened. Now it told me there's an update. A tiny one, going from version 3.9.10 to 3.9.11, like, JUST NOW. Earlier, their site had said my 3.9.10 was the latest. So I said why not, and downloaded it. And guess what? It worked.
So this .11 version of ClipGrab is working for me. As is the other app.
I'M RICH!!!!! (For now.....)
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Were Goldie Hawn and Liza Minnelli once talked about for a movie of CHICAGO together?
GOLDIE AND LIZA 1980 ALL THAT JAZZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccia2_RGcUo&list=RDCcia2_RGcUo&start_radio=1
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Actually Goldie Hawn and Liza Minnelli in 1980, not AI
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It's like a cornucopia of apps!
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And then YouTube suggested for me:
Hey Look Me Over - Lucy, Dinah Shore, Valerie Harper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCP3eB9EKU&list=RDCcia2_RGcUo&index=3
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PAGE FOUR!
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And then for some reason, YouTube suggested:
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT? (NOT sung by Doris Day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HltRFan0_Xc&list=RDCcia2_RGcUo&index=5
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What might be next? The Ballad of Josie, maybe?
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I used to have an app that would take any song or audio you wanted from YouTube and convert it to an mp3 and throw it right into iTunes.
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Might’ve been pre-app. Might’ve been a website thing.
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Thanks all for the kind thoughts. Means a lot. I’ll keep you posted.
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This is not the setup to a joke, but a Bernese mountain dog just walked into the library.
Awww. :)
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This is not the setup to a joke, but a Bernese mountain dog just walked into the library.
LOL!
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Keith got Wordle in three.
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Great medical news from DR Ginny!
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The Cape May lighthouse:
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Beach dreams...
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That's my mother, left, 88, and her sister, 93, right.
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Beach dreams...
Nice :)
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That's my mother, left, 88, and her sister, 93, right.
It is wonderful they are both doing well and can walk along the beach.
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Beautiful.
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That's my mother, left, 88, and her sister, 93, right.
Wonderful photos, singdaw!
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Were Goldie Hawn and Liza Minnelli once talked about for a movie of CHICAGO together?
GOLDIE AND LIZA 1980 ALL THAT JAZZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccia2_RGcUo&list=RDCcia2_RGcUo&start_radio=1
Yes. For years.
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Great medical news from DR Ginny!
I’ll second that!
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The pattern seems to be - wake up - breathing is easier, no coughing, no runny nose. As the day goes on, things get worse, then better, then worse. It's crazy.
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Soup was good, egg salad sandwich, a little boring.
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Took two pills for sure - I think I took the prednisone but can't swear to it and won't take two in one day.
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Dozed off for an hour.
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BK - please.
FIGURE OUT A SYSTEM TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR MEDICATIONS. It's too important.
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Sign of the times?
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Yes.
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Sign of the times?
LOL and Yikes! :)
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singdaw, you are nearing a nice roundish Millstone!
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And we are nearing page 4!
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Or is it page 5?
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PAGE FIVE!
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Thanks, everyone! We celebrated at our community’s monthly wine dinner tonight.
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:)
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I think I saw that movie...
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Bears aren't the only ones who hibernate.
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Bears aren't the only ones who hibernate.
LOL!
But luckily, Amazon Fresh delivers through the winter.
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Back to Swanee River. The second half is as repulsive as the first.
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:)
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The New York Times review of RAGTIME LCT revival on Broadway is a Critic's Pick!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/theater/ragtime-review-henry-debessonet.html
"‘Ragtime’ Review: Checking the Status of Our American Dream
Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater."
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I think I saw that movie...
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Didn't that movie have the big song "No matter how you shake and dance..."
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BK - please.
FIGURE OUT A SYSTEM TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR MEDICATIONS. It's too important.
And figure out why you have a mental block about not doing this. It really isn't that difficult to do.
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Thanks, everyone! We celebrated at our community’s monthly wine dinner tonight.
Nice.
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Starting Haxen. The beginning has too much exposition for my current mood.
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Good evening.
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BK, you can ask the pharmacist for extra labeled bottles. You can then split up your morning, afternoon, and evening pills, if you take the same one more than once a day. After you take it, turn the bottle over.
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Or just get a few of those pill things we all use.
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I will return to Haxen in a day or two.
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I swapped it out for The Girl in the Cafe, a romantic drama with Kelly Macdonald and Bill Nighy. It’s sweet and old fashioned in good ways.
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What does personal space smell like?
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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Problems at the local Philharmonic. The Carmina Burana concert has been postponed. Another concert has been canceled.
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Listening to a dystopian novel called Brother Bronte.
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It’s set in a time after reading has been outlawed.
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It’s set in a Texas not far from San Antonio. The year is 2038.
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My home country, Bexar, is mentioned several times, and it’s mispronounced every time.
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The x in Bexar is silent. It’s “bear.” The narrator says “becks-ar.”
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Ugly on the ear.
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Page turn!
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Six!
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How does one say “Haxen” then?
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Got one of those weekly pill things, so from now on all pills go in there and that way my mind won't mess with me.
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Today, we have our first J&H performance of the second weekend (of three), AND it's a Pay-What-You-Can actors' benefit performance, so we'll get to split all the money at the end of the run!
Well, I don't know what the monetary take was, but we had a medium-ish sized, but very vocal audience.
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A young couple in the front were the most vocal, and I think that they didn't have the slightest idea of what the show was about.
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It seemed Luke everything was a surprise to them, and they reacted without filters.
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Which, in a way, is quite endearing, but it can also be quite distracting. ::)
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But, that's live theeder for ya! ;)
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Now, to ketchup on today's posts. :)
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The first movie I remember was Disney's Cnderella at Middletown's Paramount Theater in 1950. I remember seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in its 1952 re-release and Alice in Wonderland in 1951.
I have this vague memory of being in Germany (when I was between 4 and 7 years old) and seeing Somg of the South, but it might not be a real memory...but it might.
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Thank you all for the vibes. News was not good. Her whole section of the biz is being shuttered. We have luckily a few months to find some new paths. Living in this particular locale was a great idea at the time, but it has isolated us both from career opportunities. Stay tuned.
How rude! >:(
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~~~Quick and Successful Career Opportunities for Mrs. R.!!~~~
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DR John G., have you ever had peanut pie?
https://12tomatoes.com/virginia-peanut-pie/?trk_msg=34KEQBGFG43KN31T0QL3OC8B3O&trk_contact=VQOCEIVNH63MCCJIOQA5RBI4N8&trk_module=new&trk_sid=NGFUCGQR6Q2NPT4UGKRE36BAAS&trk_link=G24KU56VN9P4B62JCE2UK99J2C&utm_source=12t&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Virginia+Peanut+Pie&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_content=featured-recipe
Yummy!
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Well, this is an interesting perspective:
They’re cognitively impaired (https://youtube.com/shorts/-tWu6XdlKFc)
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Who here uses ClipGrab? I think BK mentions it sometimes.
I've downloaded any number of videos from YouTube using ClipGrab, and I went there just now to grab a couple of things. But suddenly today, "No downloadable video could be found" regardless of what I choose. I tried a few miscellaneous things that would never be a problem, and...same thing. I wonder if new blocking controls on YouTube itself have just been implemented.
AND - I'm getting ads there which I normally don't get when using this particular browser (Chrome). Gotta wonder what's up.
ChasSmith, I copy the YouTube URL and paste it into this website:
https://ytdown.io/en2/
It still works for me. Hopefully, you find something that works for you!
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Congrats!
Thanks, Jane!
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I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.
Bye for now!
Hope everything went well, Ginny! I haven't caught up yet, do I don't know if you've posted about it.
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:D
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8124.0;attach=27717)
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Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes! They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.
Hoo and Ray!!
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Now, no one is going to believe this. But I might as well be the crazy guy in the asylum, so here goes:
I went to clean up my desktop, and clicked on the ClipGrab icon - and something different happened. Now it told me there's an update. A tiny one, going from version 3.9.10 to 3.9.11, like, JUST NOW. Earlier, their site had said my 3.9.10 was the latest. So I said why not, and downloaded it. And guess what? It worked.
So this .11 version of ClipGrab is working for me. As is the other app.
I'M RICH!!!!! (For now.....)
That's great, ChasSmith!
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Were Goldie Hawn and Liza Minnelli once talked about for a movie of CHICAGO together?
GOLDIE AND LIZA 1980 ALL THAT JAZZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccia2_RGcUo&list=RDCcia2_RGcUo&start_radio=1
Very cool!
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And then YouTube suggested for me:
Hey Look Me Over - Lucy, Dinah Shore, Valerie Harper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCP3eB9EKU&list=RDCcia2_RGcUo&index=3
In middle school, I was in the boy's choir, and in either 7th or 8th grade, we sang "Hey Look Me Over" with arm-ography. :D
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I find it hard to believe we are still on this damn page.
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When we should at least be on the next damn page.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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And STILL we're on this damn page.
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It's inconceivable.
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Unbelievable.
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Not retrievable.
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It is achievable.
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And perceivable.
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Well, at least we got here.