Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 23, 2025, 12:15:43 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were surreal, and now it is time for you to post until the surreal cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: MOXIE!
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Wordle 1,648 4/6
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From yesterday:
Thanks, Jane and Kevin, for the Wordle compliments!
Congrats on your Wordle scores, Kevin and Vixmom and Keith and Laura!
And a Happy Birthday to William F. Orr!
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Happy birthday, William F. Orr!
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George, it was fun to hear about the sing-along you went to!
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And what a relief that nothing bad happened with that tilting tree! Hoping a good tree stand can be doubt.
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vixmom, how lovely to read about your day in Manhattan!
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And that it was posted vixmom-style, too, was delightful!
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TOD: One set I really enjoyed was not opulent at all, the set for the play SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, where (at least on Broadway at Lincoln Center) at the top of the show all the settings for the scenes within the play were suspended from the ceiling, and as the play progressed, the setting for that scene came down from the ceiling. The scenic design even got a Tony nomination without being opulent.
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Good morning, all!
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I was in bed by 7:45 last night, and the alarm rang at 5:00 this morning. I'm mentally and physically good for about four hours of work these days, and I'm mentally better in the morning, so my current work schedule is. hopefully 8:00am to 12:30pm. On Christmas day, I will work longer,mainly because I need to spend 3 hours or so sometime between the 26th and 28th doing much needed laundry.
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DR vixmom, your Sunday in Manhattan sounds wonderful. What was the event at Town Hall you attended?
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DR George, I think the sing-along Messiah sounds like such fun, but I have some logistic questions:
Is there an orchestra?
Are there soloists?
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BK, I love the painting! It reminded me of some of the prep artwork for Disney animated films from the 1940s and 50s.
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I must get on with my day.
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Good morning.
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Good morning, all.
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I've been awake since 5:00 am and finally got up at 6:30.
Coffee!!
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The sN*wF*ll has already begun, so there's a dusting on everything. We're to get one to two inches between now and early afternoon.
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Today I'm taking my DIL and Grandson shopping. Should be a madhouse.
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That is indeed a wonderful painting, and I hope BK is successful in finding out who the recipients were.
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Tomorrow's rain has been rescheduled to tonight, which is ok with me.
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Irving and Vanessa are perfect character names. What do you think? Play or musical? Oh, let's go all the way.
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Elmore we went to see a Prairie Home Companion Christmas
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That sounded like a perfect day, vixmom.
I wonder what went wrong. :D
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Elmore we went to see a Prairie Home Companion Christmas
I remember your mentioning that now! I'm so happy you had a good time
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Today is the fifth anniversary of Rebecca Luker's death. This is my favorite live recording of her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yd5ga0G6Fs&list=RD9yd5ga0G6Fs&start_radio=1
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Good morning, friends.
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I am not caught up yet.
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PAGE TWO
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But the dinner party was a great success.
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The only "mishap" was that afterward, I realized I forgot to put the cheese in when I was assembling the potato dish.
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But it still came out OK.
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But the dinner party was a great success.
Fabulous!
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Good morning, all.
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Happy Noche de los Rabanos! May all your radishes be bright!
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Vixmom, you do sound as if you had the perfect day yesterday. Thanks for sharing.
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The cheese stands alone.
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Great painting in the notes!
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Sign of the Pagan was of course the first film of Ms. Allison Hayes under her U-I contract.....although Francis Joins The Wacs made later was released first.
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I enjoyed reading about DR VIXMOM's day and DR GEORGE's day.
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Most excellent painting in the notes!
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DR William F. Orr,
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815AkVCDQ6L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)
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Very good.
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From yesterday:
Thanks, Jane and Kevin, for the Wordle compliments!
You are welcome.
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From yesterday:
Congrats on your Wordle scores, Kevin and Vixmom and Keith and Laura!
Thank you.
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Congratulations.
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DR Vixmom the holiday train sounds like great fun.
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In fact, your day in the city before the show sounds delightful.
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Vixmom, I have very happy for you and your much needed perfect day.
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Today I'm taking my DIL and Grandson shopping. Should be a madhouse.
I would not want to shop today. Good luck.
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Tomorrow's rain has been rescheduled to tonight, which is ok with me.
Definately. Enjoy clear weather while you shop.
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But the dinner party was a great success.
Excellent.
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The only "mishap" was that afterward, I realized I forgot to put the cheese in when I was assembling the potato dish.
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But it still came out OK.
I'm not surprised.
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Happy Noche de los Rabanos! May all your radishes be bright!
We were originally going to go to Oaxaca for Noche de los Rabanos. I wanted to go in December, plus we couldn't get a hotel room for Day of the Dead, and then the hotel wrote to say they had a couple of rooms available so we switched our plans.
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Happy Orr-Day!
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Known also as Christmas Eve Eve.
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TOD: For some reason I really loved the set for Proof. Was just a very realistic house. I could stare at it all day.
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Page Thrice.
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Congratulations, Rodzinski, on your marvelous millstone, passing post #14,000!
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I did it! I couldn’t do it without all of you fine people though.
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Don't forget to thank the little people, Billy Barty, Mickey Rooney
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Don't forget to thank the little people, Billy Barty, Mickey Rooney
Clark Griswold...
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I spent many years at Actors Theater of Louisville as both patron and usher. Their sets were a wonderful mix of realistic and representational. For Morning’s at Seven, the kitchens had running water, plus realistic trees. For The Play’s the Thing, it was art deco sleekness, a chaise longue bathed in warm light. A Christmas Carol changed every year, my favorite incorporating a giant book through which the characters came to life.
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I think the first set that really impressed me was Oliver Smith's set for Hello Dolly! The show was a wonderful musical, to begin with, but that set moved, danced, folded, unfolded; it was truly amazing.
Smith's work was always amazing: I saw the original productions of The Sound of Music, Camelot, and Hello, Dolly, all designed by Smith. The Sound of Music didn't impress me, Camelot was really gorgeous, but Hello Dolly was the first show I saw with a set that was more than painted drops.
Boris Aronson's sets for Follies were also amazing. If anyone ever needs a designer for this show, the first question for any designer in interview for the job should be how to get from a ruined theater to Loveland and back again.
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That last, pathetic revival of Follieswith Bernadette Peters had a set by a nincompoop.
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Known also as Christmas Eve Eve.
Also the day I finally gave birth to a baby boy after four and a half days of labor pains.
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OK, so they said much of that was false labor, sorry hard pains 20 minutes apart didn't feel false to me ;D
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I'm up, I'm up - ten hours of sleep.
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A lovely bouquet of flowers arrived from the Pogues.
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Ten hours, lovely.
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We have a high winds warning for tomorrow. I hope it doesn't happen.
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I agree about the sets for Hello, Dolly! Amazing. Others from that era that I really liked were Sean Kenney's Stop the World set - only because of its simplicity, no front curtain, and the way it functioned. Also, from 1965 and Mr. Oliver Smith, the set for Time of the Baraccudas, the out of town tryout here at the Huntington Hartford - absolutely brilliant and I don't know how they did it, really. Act one went from an apartment, to a graveyard funeral, to a two-floor Swiss chalet rigged with all kinds of special effects and breakaways. Genius.
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Other sets I loved: The Odd Couple - just a great old-fashioned unit set. Oh Dad, Poor Dad and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. And of course, Boris Aronson's amazing sets for Cabaret, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music.
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Tony Walton's perfect set for Grand Hotel.
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I was never impressed by the biggies like Les Miz or Sunset Blvd. - but Phantom was an amazing set.
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I think one of the failures, one of several, of Smile were the awful sets.
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Also, Tony Walton's Will Rogers Follies functioned perfectly for that show, but Tony was a genius in all things.
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TOD: I'll go with the set for Sunday in the Park with George. Though I just saw the Broadway production on TV, that's the first time I really remember a set from a show.
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Currently at Denver airport en route to Baltimore. They recently opened a branch of one of my favorite Boulder restaurants here and it was very good.
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Currently at Denver airport en route to Baltimore. They recently opened a branch of one of my favorite Boulder restaurants here and it was very good.
Safe and smooth travels, MichaelG!
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Travel vibes for DR MICHAELG
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Congrats to DR RODZINSKI on his millstone.
Ancient Chinese secret eh?