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Title: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: bk on October 23, 2025, 12:10:50 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: bk on October 23, 2025, 12:12:16 AM
And the word of the day is: ROBUST!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: George on October 23, 2025, 12:20:19 AM
Wordle 1,587 3/6

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:D
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: George on October 23, 2025, 12:21:07 AM
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!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 04:49:17 AM
Good morning, all!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 04:53:28 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 04:54:27 AM
DR Rodzinski, I hope things with Mrs R's employment are okay.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 05:09:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:13:53 AM
Good morning, friends.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:14:01 AM
And others.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:16:50 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 05:22:18 AM
Notes decimated. Thrashed.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 05:30:26 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 05:31:14 AM
I shoulda been smart and robbed the Louvre.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 05:33:26 AM
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. 
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 05:34:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 05:37:38 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:37:48 AM
That's awful, DR Rodzinski. I'm sorry.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:38:16 AM
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
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:38:32 AM
It's supposed to taste like peanut brittle, I think.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 05:38:39 AM
DR Rodzinksi, what lousy news. Hate that. I hope you find new directions soon.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: singdaw on October 23, 2025, 05:39:23 AM
A propos of nothing, I hate the modern phrase, "Do me a solid."
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 05:40:53 AM
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?
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 05:50:19 AM
Feels like there must’ve been something sooner, maybe Herbie Rides Again in ‘74.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 05:50:51 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 05:51:26 AM
Bambi! Okay, wait a minute, let me check those releases.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 05:52:39 AM
Hmm. That's not till 1957. Oh well, like I said before:  oh well.  La di da.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 05:55:53 AM
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
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Ginny on October 23, 2025, 06:29:40 AM
Thursday morning greetings!  There was frost on our neighbors’ rooftops this morning (and presumably on ours, too).
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Ginny on October 23, 2025, 06:31:04 AM
DR Rodzinski, I’m so sorry to hear the news about your wife’s employment. 
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Ginny on October 23, 2025, 06:34:32 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 06:59:38 AM
I don’t think 3 is too young to have been at a movie and have memories of it. That’s quite possible.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 07:04:02 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 07:13:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: John G. on October 23, 2025, 07:24:33 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: John G. on October 23, 2025, 07:24:54 AM
Vibes for the Rodz family.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: John G. on October 23, 2025, 07:27:49 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: John G. on October 23, 2025, 07:39:39 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 07:46:44 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 07:47:12 AM
Bad news DR RODZINSKI.....but I am sure things will work out.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 07:47:32 AM
Freeze Warning here.  Maybe we have mowed our last lawn for the season.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 07:51:36 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 07:51:42 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 07:53:40 AM
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!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 08:04:30 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 08:07:47 AM
Freddie thanks for reminding me Solid Gold had a theme.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 08:12:10 AM
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.)
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Rodzinski on October 23, 2025, 08:14:49 AM
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
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 08:16:47 AM

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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: MichaelG on October 23, 2025, 08:16:55 AM
Sorry to hear the news, DR Rodzinski. Best of luck in your paths forward.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 08:20:31 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: MichaelG on October 23, 2025, 08:24:42 AM
TOD: The first movie in a theater I can remember for sure is Mary Poppins, but there might well have been something earlier.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: MichaelG on October 23, 2025, 08:30:44 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 08:38:01 AM
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!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jane on October 23, 2025, 09:04:42 AM
Wordle 1,587 3/6

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🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D

Congrats!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jane on October 23, 2025, 09:06:54 AM
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!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jane on October 23, 2025, 09:08:26 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Ginny on October 23, 2025, 09:19:15 AM
I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.

Bye for now!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 09:29:22 AM
Vibes for DR GINNY.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 09:30:46 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 09:31:00 AM
Indeed DR RODZINSKI
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 09:31:11 AM
Page Three.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 09:33:01 AM
I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.

Bye for now!


Vibes the appointment goes well!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 10:51:41 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 10:55:40 AM
I use Clipgrab and YouTube on Safari, DR ChasSmith.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: ChasSmith on October 23, 2025, 11:06:50 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jrand75 on October 23, 2025, 11:07:22 AM
Maybe the computer of DR CHAS SMITH is haunted.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 11:18:19 AM
Well, it IS getting close to Halloween.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: bk on October 23, 2025, 11:55:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: bk on October 23, 2025, 11:56:11 AM
So sorry to hear about the missus, Rodzinski. Hoping something better is in the ether.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: bk on October 23, 2025, 12:02:53 PM
Clip Grab working fine via Safari here. They do occasionally update but that's an instant alert while it's happening.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: elmore3003 on October 23, 2025, 12:27:25 PM
 :D
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jane on October 23, 2025, 12:51:45 PM
I’m off to a scheduled checkup with my radiation oncologist.

Bye for now!

Good vibes!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jane on October 23, 2025, 12:52:47 PM
Be well vibes for Bruce.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Ginny on October 23, 2025, 12:53:04 PM
Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes!  They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 12:54:23 PM
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!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Freddie on October 23, 2025, 12:55:03 PM
Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes!  They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.


Yay!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Jane on October 23, 2025, 01:09:02 PM
Thank you, all, for the good doctor vibes!  They worked and I don’t have to go back for a year.

YAY!
Title: Re: SOLID KISHKA
Post by: Laura on October 23, 2025, 01:39:25 PM
Good afternoon.