Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 25, 2025, 12:07:17 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were blocked, and now it is time for you to post until the blocked cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BESTOW!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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From yesterday:
Thanks, Jane, for my Wordle Congrats!
Congrats, BK, on the thing that arrived!
Congrats to Keith's and Kevin's Wordle scores!
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Yesterday was a day! First, I helped my sister and her daughter put up light on the front porch of their house. That took about three or so hours. I hope to take a picture when it's darker. They're simple, but look really nice. Then my sister and I went shopping at Costco. That took about an hour. It was kind of crowded, but we got through it.
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Then, in the evening, I went to my friend pug's house because Theater Artists Olympia will be doing a night of unusual holiday readings. Here's the artwork:
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And here's the description:
As early as the 1600s, there has been an English tradition of gathering together and telling scary stories during Yuletide. (The most famous of those being of course, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol). Inspiring the folk from Theater Artists Olympia to gather on a long winter's eve and share an assortment of tales in that tradition, come and spend some time with TAO and some of Olympia's finest actors for an untraditional tradition.
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We read through some suggested stories and agreed on about an hour's worth, but we still need another half hour to make a full evening (with an intermission). This will be happening on December 19th, so there's time for us to meet again and read through some more. :)
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Good morning.
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TOD: Cooking. I have no idea if anyone is coming, though.
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Good morning, all.
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I was up way too early, but ... I'm up.
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Survived the second night of "Sondheim" auditions. Details forthcoming. Stay tuned!
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Good morning, all!
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I did not sleep well; the room was too warm and I was too restless. The cats behaved. When the alarm rang, I literally dragged myself out of bed, thought, WTF? and went back for another hour.
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Yesterday, I had a good morning, a nice FaceTime visit with my friend in Ohio, and then the afternoon went to hell. Around 3:30 I was violently ill. This was followed by about ninety minutes of cleanup. I then spent a good hour trying to reschedule my two appointments to next week and cancel today's Access-a-Ride. The cats usually get their treat between 4:30-5:30. I think I gave it to them, especially to Thatch's dismay, around 6:30.
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I am really not happy with next week's appointments, so I may try another scheduling today.
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First thing on today's agenda: vacuum and mop the kitchen and bathroom floors.
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{{{DR elmore3003}}}
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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:)
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Well, that's one way of looking at it...
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Vibes for DR Elmore!
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We are supposed to get significant snowfall here tonight.
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We are supposed to get significant snowfall here tonight.
I DIDN'T READ THAT LA LA LA I NEVER EVEN SAW THAT POST
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Well, that's one way of looking at it...
Just fabulous!
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Congratulations, BK, on the play being BLOCKED.
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Have folks seen this? Home archival footage of NY theater through the decades is slowly being released:
https://www.institute-american-musical.org/
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(click on "Theater Films")
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PAGE TWO
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Okay, the auditions. The show is ASSASSINS.
Auditioners were told to bring sheet music and prepare 32 bars of a Sondheim piece of their choosing. In no particular order, here's what was set in front of me and how many times:
FORUM: That Dirty Old Man (2)
FORUM: I知 Calm (1)
INTO THE WOODS: Moments in the Woods (3)
INTO THE WOODS: No One Is Alone (1)
SWEENEY TODD: Johanna (2)
SWEENEY TODD: Not While I知 Around (1)
COMPANY: Sorry - Grateful (2)
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE: Anyone Can Whistle (1)
EVENING PRIMROSE: I Remember (1)
FOLLIES: Beautiful Girls (1)
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC: Send in the Clowns (3)
MERRILY: Not a Day Goes By (1)
MERRILY: Good Thing Going (1)
SUNDAY IN THE PARK: Everybody Loves Louis (1)
So I got off easy. The only songs from ASSASSINS were when they asked one actor to sightread a little bit of The Ballad of Booth, and when 4 actors specifically auditioning for Giteau had to demonstrate dance steps that had been posted. A couple of people did bring in other music, nothing notable. An okay turnout, not the turnout you'd really like to see. It will be very interesting to see this production which goes up in February.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is a really generous person, and will even give a nod to lesser-known writers, in much the same way that Stephen Sondheim did.
Even in responding to online comments in the Times! This happened ten years ago (Nov. 24 2015).
In my case, I've never met him, but Mr. Miranda saw some of my comments in parody lyric form in the Times reader comments section and encouragingly tweeted
"Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."
https://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/669222699361771520
One of my all-time favorite "reviews" - that tweet even wound up on my parents' fridge in Florida. My parents weren't all that familiar with Sondheim's work specifically, but they and their friends and neighbors in Florida knew who Mr. Miranda is, and this - along with several books I'd written of my lyrics - added validation with them, and their encouragement that came from that.
Writers need encouragement and Mr.Miranda went out of his way to do that. And in what might be called a meta moment, the New York Times itself even reprinted online Mr. Miranda's generous tweet about my New York Times comments -
towards the bottom of this article https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/index.html
Ten years later, I'm still looking for a breakthrough. But ten years ago, that generous tweet meant so much!
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Good morning, all.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is a really generous person, and will even give a nod to lesser-known writers, in much the same way that Stephen Sondheim did.
Even in responding to online comments in the Times! This happened ten years ago (Nov. 24 2015).
In my case, I've never met him, but Mr. Miranda saw some of my comments in parody lyric form in the Times reader comments section and encouragingly tweeted
"Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."
https://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/669222699361771520
One of my all-time favorite "reviews" - that tweet even wound up on my parents' fridge in Florida. My parents weren't all that familiar with Sondheim's work specifically, but they and their friends and neighbors in Florida knew who Mr. Miranda is, and this - along with several books I'd written of my lyrics - added validation with them, and their encouragement that came from that.
Writers need encouragement and Mr.Miranda went out of his way to do that. And in what might be called a meta moment, the New York Times itself even reprinted online Mr. Miranda's generous tweet about my New York Times comments -
towards the bottom of this article https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/index.html
Ten years later, I'm still looking for a breakthrough. But ten years ago, that generous tweet meant so much!
That was very nice.
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Slept nine hours. It was good.
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Hugs, Elmore.
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Thanks, John G!
And thank you for your support! It's been so greatly appreciated.
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DR Elmore - Can you please offer an opinion on the worthiness of any of these books?
West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration (Routledge Research in Music) by Paul Laird
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1032134275/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_8?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Facing the Music: a Broadway Memoir by David Loud
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682452131/?coliid=I3OKMM8U571MU1&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums by Thomas Z. Shepard
https://www.amazon.com/dp/149308125X/?coliid=I18Q2JIJPCSN7J&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
BK might have an opinion on that last one!
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Thank you, ChasSmith, for the audition roundup.
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Facebook is filled with too many videos of the shows that are going to on the Thanksgiving Day parade. Why bother to watch the real performances?
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First rant of the day ended.
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Well, that's one way of looking at it...
My pastor's 6-year-old son just LOVES numbers. He can do math amazingly well for a child. Sassy and I sang that line from RENT to him, so now he knows exactly how many minutes are in a year. And he tells people.
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Nice link DR singdaw.
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Great story DR FREDDIE.
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TOD:
Nothing!
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Congratulations, BK, on getting the play blocked.
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I知 going to Joy痴 house at noon for hot pot (huow guow in Mandarian). I知 due at a traditional Thanksgiving dinner later that afternoon.
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DR Elmore - Can you please offer an opinion on the worthiness of any of these books?
West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration (Routledge Research in Music) by Paul Laird
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1032134275/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_8?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Facing the Music: a Broadway Memoir by David Loud
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682452131/?coliid=I3OKMM8U571MU1&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums by Thomas Z. Shepard
https://www.amazon.com/dp/149308125X/?coliid=I18Q2JIJPCSN7J&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
BK might have an opinion on that last one!
I would love to read est Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration but I haven't been able to afford a copy.
I enjoyed David Loud's memoir, but I'm not a great fan. I thought his section on being part of the original cast of Merrily We Roll Along and the onstage pianist in Master Class were the best sections.
I like picking up Shepard's book and reading about his recordings I like.
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It took me about 30 minutes to finish kitty cleanup and about 45 minutes to mop the bathroom and the kitchen.
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Great story DR FREDDIE.
Thanks, Jrand!
And many thanks for your help, like the comments under the YouTubes!
I keep finding them as I look back, as far back as 14 or 15 years ago.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe six hours of sleep thanks to feet cramps.
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I was actually in bed by twelve-twenty but up an hour later, then up again an hour later. After that, I slept well.
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I have been duly fingerprinted.
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I知 now waiting at Costco for gas.
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Exciting, I know.
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Listening to the end of The Wilderness. Really good read.
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Thank you DR Kevin and you are welcome.
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DR Kevin, congrats on Wordle in three yesterday.
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Very good.
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I would probably sing Anyone Can Whistle for an audition.
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THREE!
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From yesterday:
Thanks, Jane, for my Wordle Congrats!
Congrats, BK, on the thing that arrived!
Congrats to Keith's and Kevin's Wordle scores!
You are welcome and thank you.
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Yesterday was a day! First, I helped my sister and her daughter put up light on the front porch of their house. That took about three or so hours. I hope to take a picture when it's darker. They're simple, but look really nice. Then my sister and I went shopping at Costco. That took about an hour. It was kind of crowded, but we got through it.
I look forward to seeing the photo.
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And here's the description:
As early as the 1600s, there has been an English tradition of gathering together and telling scary stories during Yuletide. (The most famous of those being of course, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol). Inspiring the folk from Theater Artists Olympia to gather on a long winter's eve and share an assortment of tales in that tradition, come and spend some time with TAO and some of Olympia's finest actors for an untraditional tradition.
It sounds like a nice evening of entertainment.
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We read through some suggested stories and agreed on about an hour's worth, but we still need another half hour to make a full evening (with an intermission). This will be happening on December 19th, so there's time for us to meet again and read through some more. :)
I believe you are enjoying this :)
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Well, that's one way of looking at it...
My pastor's 6-year-old son just LOVES numbers. He can do math amazingly well for a child. Sassy and I sang that line from RENT to him, so now he knows exactly how many minutes are in a year. And he tells people.
Cute :)
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I have been duly fingerprinted.
Excelent.
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Gas was $2.29 a gallon.
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Most lines are miles long.
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Since we only have one car now I am not the one who fills the tank. I suppose that is why I rarely pay attention to what we pay. I do know where the best prices for gas are and where it is the most expensive.
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Most lines are miles long.
Wow.
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We are staying home this Thanksgiving. I told Keith as a special treat I would bake my biscotti that he likes. We will probably do video chats with the kids.
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THREE!
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Beautiful!
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We now have four houses with the Christmas decorations up and additional 3 houses with trees in the front window. :D
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I would probably sing Anyone Can Whistle for an audition.
I once did, around 1978, for a dinner theatre production of 1776.
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Just voted in the BroadwayWorld LA awards. Lots of love for Drat! the Cat and a Kritzerland show.
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Just voted in the BroadwayWorld LA awards. Lots of love for Drat! the Cat and a Kritzerland show.
That sounds great!
Congratulations to BK and companies!
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THREE!
Beautiful!
Thank you.
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We now have four houses with the Christmas decorations up and additional 3 hours with trees in the front window.
Neighbors are decorating here. There is a contest for best decorations. We are not decorating.
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The neighbor who won last year has his place looking very pretty.
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Our next door neighbors have put up an ok Christmas tree with lights. Along with it is what they must consider a whimsical snowman. Keith thinks it is tacky and I think it is creepy ;D
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Just voted in the BroadwayWorld LA awards. Lots of love for Drat! the Cat and a Kritzerland show.
I guess I need to do this.
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A couple of my neighbors have had giant skeletons with Santa hats. Like 20 or 30 feet tall. For a couple of months now.
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Oh my, I feel for you.
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DR John G, your lovely Amazon review has just landed!
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Yes, please vote in the B'way World awards if you feel like it.
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Nice breakfast with Mr. Yacko.
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Back home and catching up on a few things.
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What up was doing on a few things is anyone's guess.
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I would probably sing Anyone Can Whistle for an audition.
I once did, around 1978, for a dinner theatre production of 1776.
Did you get the part?
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Speaking of Anyone Can Whsitle -
Does anyone here have any knowledge on this?
This is the whistling-for-a-cab moment from "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
https://youtu.be/VQpkCVeQVas
The way Audrey Hepburn says "It's easy" right after whistling loudly for the cab -
could that be where the lyric "Anyone can whistle, that's what they say - Easy" by Sondheim comes from.
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I would probably sing Anyone Can Whistle for an audition.
I once did, around 1978, for a dinner theatre production of 1776.
Did you get the part?
I did.
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Yes, please vote in the B'way World awards if you feel like it.
I receive emails from them and didn't notice anything about voting. I have it now. Usually you suggest what categories and voting options. How about some help here :)
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Speaking of Anyone Can Whsitle -
Does anyone here have any knowledge on this?
This is the whistling-for-a-cab moment from "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
https://youtu.be/VQpkCVeQVas
The way Audrey Hepburn says "It's easy" right after whistling loudly for the cab -
could that be where the lyric "Anyone can whistle, that's what they say - Easy" by Sondheim comes from.
I cannot whistle :(
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TOD: Usually we just host my sister on Thanksgiving, but this year two of our friends are joining us as well. So I'll be roasting a goose instead of a duck.
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We'll have dueling sweet potato recipes: my usual Moroccan-style sweet potatoes, and our friend's drunken sweet potatoes. I haven't had those yet but his description sounded really good. You can never have too many sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving, as long as they're good!
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The other friend is a much more experienced pie-maker than my wife, so she's gladly outsourced the pie making this year.
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The other side dishes will be the same: cranberry sauce with Pinot Noir, a green bean salad, and a regular salad.
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I'm doing an apple chestnut stuffing for the goose, using local chestnuts and a few local prunes too. Hope that comes out good!
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DR John G, your lovely Amazon review has just landed!
Glad you liked it.
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I made pumpkin empanadas today. I知 surprised at how much I like them. Pumpkin is not always my favorite flavor.
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I don稚 dislike it, but I can take it or leave it.
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We'll have dueling sweet potato recipes: my usual Moroccan-style sweet potatoes, and our friend's drunken sweet potatoes. I haven't had those yet but his description sounded really good. You can never have too many sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving, as long as they're good!
Those both sound very good, and certainly different enough to enjoy them both.
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The other friend is a much more experienced pie-maker than my wife, so she's gladly outsourced the pie making this year.
:)
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The other side dishes will be the same: cranberry sauce with Pinot Noir, a green bean salad, and a regular salad.
I like green bean salads, and regular salads.
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I have never been a fan of cranberry sauces, and I red wine give me headaches.
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I'm doing an apple chestnut stuffing for the goose, using local chestnuts and a few local prunes too. Hope that comes out good!
Fancy ;)
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I made pumpkin empanadas today. I知 surprised at how much I like them. Pumpkin is not always my favorite flavor.
Yum!
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I have never been a fan of cranberry sauces, and I red wine give me headaches.
The alcohol boils out, but that might not be what causes the headaches. It's a cranberry sauce for folks who don't like other cranberry sauces. The recipe is here, but I only use 1/3 of the sugar:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cranberry-sauce-with-pinot-noir-4383
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I'm doing an apple chestnut stuffing for the goose, using local chestnuts and a few local prunes too. Hope that comes out good!
Fancy ;)
Yeah, it will be some work, but hopefully worth it. It's my first time making that stuffing, and only my second time roasting a goose.
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My DIL won't find out her Thursday schedule until tomorrow night. Makes it kinda hard to plan.
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My DIL won't find out her Thursday schedule until tomorrow night. Makes it kinda hard to plan.
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I have never been a fan of cranberry sauces, and I red wine give me headaches.
The alcohol boils out, but that might not be what causes the headaches. It's a cranberry sauce for folks who don't like other cranberry sauces. The recipe is here, but I only use 1/3 of the sugar:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cranberry-sauce-with-pinot-noir-4383
You are right, if it boils out I doubt it would give me a headache. It won't help the fact that I have not found a cranberry sauce that I enjoy-lol.
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My DIL won't find out her Thursday schedule until tomorrow night. Makes it kinda hard to plan.
Sure does. Will Aunt Sassy join you even if they don't?
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Keith got Wordle in three.
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Skip just made the cranberry relish. It's delicious!
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Page 5 looks pretty close.
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Might as well get there.
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PAGE FIVE!
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Good evening!
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Nice, DR George!
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Great!
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I got Wordle in 4 also, DR George.
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I'm going to my friends Dennis and Carol's for Thanksgiving. I've known Dennis since 7th Grade.
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Thanks, DRs Jane and George, for the Wordle words!
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is a really generous person, and will even give a nod to lesser-known writers, in much the same way that Stephen Sondheim did.
Even in responding to online comments in the Times! This happened ten years ago (Nov. 24 2015).
In my case, I've never met him, but Mr. Miranda saw some of my comments in parody lyric form in the Times reader comments section and encouragingly tweeted
"Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."
https://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/669222699361771520
One of my all-time favorite "reviews" - that tweet even wound up on my parents' fridge in Florida. My parents weren't all that familiar with Sondheim's work specifically, but they and their friends and neighbors in Florida knew who Mr. Miranda is, and this - along with several books I'd written of my lyrics - added validation with them, and their encouragement that came from that.
Writers need encouragement and Mr.Miranda went out of his way to do that. And in what might be called a meta moment, the New York Times itself even reprinted online Mr. Miranda's generous tweet about my New York Times comments -
towards the bottom of this article https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/index.html
Ten years later, I'm still looking for a breakthrough. But ten years ago, that generous tweet meant so much!
That's great, DR Freddie!
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Speaking of Anyone Can Whsitle -
Does anyone here have any knowledge on this?
This is the whistling-for-a-cab moment from "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
https://youtu.be/VQpkCVeQVas
The way Audrey Hepburn says "It's easy" right after whistling loudly for the cab -
could that be where the lyric "Anyone can whistle, that's what they say - Easy" by Sondheim comes from.
I cannot whistle :(
Neither can I, DR Jane!
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Looks like it's Doris Day & Co. night on TCM tonight.
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That's great, DR Freddie!
Thanks, Kevin!
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Great!
Thank you.
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I got Wordle in 4 also, DR George.
Good for you.
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I'm going to my friends Dennis and Carol's for Thanksgiving. I've known Dennis since 7th Grade.
That's nice.
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Thanks, DRs Jane and George, for the Wordle words!
You are welcome.
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Speaking of Anyone Can Whsitle -
Does anyone here have any knowledge on this?
This is the whistling-for-a-cab moment from "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
https://youtu.be/VQpkCVeQVas
The way Audrey Hepburn says "It's easy" right after whistling loudly for the cab -
could that be where the lyric "Anyone can whistle, that's what they say - Easy" by Sondheim comes from.
I cannot whistle :(
Neither can I, DR Jane!
You have my sympathy.
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Watching an odd Clarence Brown movie called Of Human Hearts. Walter Huston is an unforgiving preacher whose son grows up to be James Stewart.
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DR John G, your lovely Amazon review has just landed!
Glad you liked it.
Really beautiful review!
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Facing the Music: a Broadway Memoir by David Loud
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682452131/?coliid=I3OKMM8U571MU1&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682452131/?coliid=I3OKMM8U571MU1&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums by Thomas Z. Shepard
https://www.amazon.com/dp/149308125X/?coliid=I18Q2JIJPCSN7J&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it (https://www.amazon.com/dp/149308125X/?coliid=I18Q2JIJPCSN7J&colid=1ODPI28W0DUNW&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
Mr, Shepard is a bit obnoxiously full of himself, but I enjoyed reading about all the recordings.
I liked David Loud's book, but I enjoy anything that draws back the curtain on the business of Broadway music.