Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 18, 2026, 12:43:37 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were all fat, and now it is time for you to post until the all fat cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: INGENIOUS!
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Loved the cast picture, BK!
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Good morning, all
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Yes! The cast photo was fun.
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I spent the little time I ha, after sleeping so late, laying out the ballet sequence in which the tailors and the King haggle over the price. This morning, I will look over it, maybe revise a few things. I won't freeze it until it'a copied - Doug is an amazingly fast copyist - and he and I discuss it.
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Last night I watch a bootleg of the 1998 PBS broadcast of the New York City Opera's glorious production of Benjamin Britten's 1940 "operetta" Paul Bunyan. I believe I saw every performance in 1998. The PBS broadcast was - and still is - a dud, with the PBS director's "concvept" to shoot from front of stage to "let's include the backstage crew and not really shoot the opera." It was a horrid decision since the shots of a crew member in the flies raising a cluster of clouds or shots backstage of actors leaving the stage constantly vremoved the viewer from the opera and its magic, which was thrilling in Mark Lamos' production.
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Still, it was fun to see my Moonshine & Mistletoe colleague David Lutken twelve years before I met him as Narrator and my friend Jeffrey Lentz as Johnny Inkslinger. As to the opera, it's a score that gets under my skin, breaks my heart, and leaves me by the "Save animals and men" finish a weeping mess. Britten's score, which he disowned for years until Peter Pears convinced him to reconsider in the early 1970s, I hear bits of Peter Grimes and Albert Herring, but the great ensembles "Once in a blue moon" and "Great day of discovery" should have made the piece a success eighty years ago.
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Good morning, all.
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Lovely photo of the finale in the notes!
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Good morning, all.
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SN*W.
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For the second consecutive day.
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DR Elmore, I don't know Britten's Paul Bunyan at all, and I now deeply envy your history with the City Opera production.
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I'm relieved to hear the Second Performance Curse is now behind them, and I hope the improvements will be evident today.
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Such a terrific photo in the notes.
Performance and Talk Back vibes for MR BK.
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Very interesting link DR FREDDIE.
I guess just because I never heard it or saw it performed in the production of JOSEPH i saw doesn't mean it wasn't always there!
Remarkable. Now I shall have to get out my copy of the material and see if it's there.
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Great photo in the notes.
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It is very cold this morning. But the sun has got its hat on, as the song says, and is coming out to play.
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SNL last night was the WORST episode I have ever seen.
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Very interesting link DR FREDDIE.
I guess just because I never heard it or saw it performed in the production of JOSEPH i saw doesn't mean it wasn't always there!
Remarkable. Now I shall have to get out my copy of the material and see if it's there.
Which was the first production of JOSEPH that you saw?
My first was a production in 1976 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music which starred Cleavon Little - who was already pretty famous then - as the Narrator. (I don't know when the Narrator being female became the norm.)
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Very cold here.
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Lovely video of Laurie Beechman & Company.
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Thanks for reminding me, DR Jrand75. I want to go back and catch the pre-Christmas SNL with Ariana Grande and Cher.
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Performance and Talk Back vibes for MR BK.
Ditto!
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Happy Sunday! This week on the Broadway Radio Show, author and podcast host Kristin Stultz Pressley (aka Dr. Broadway) is back to share her 12 Favorite Show Tunes! You'll hear great songs from Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, and many more, plus updates on the Essential Musicals book series from Bloomsbury Publishing. Kristin is always a fun, entertaining guest!
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As to today's topic: Anything approaching an all-fat pastrami (or corned beef, or you name it) sandwich is extremely undesirable to me. That's putting it nicely. I see these posts where people are praising their deli sandwiches for the generous amount of fat in them, and the huge blobs of it are absolutely disgusting.
I know fat=flavor, but there's plenty in it inherently. When I cook a corned beef, I trim the living HELL out of it before slicing and serving, and it's always full-of-flavor delicious. In fact, I'll bet MY cut of a corned beef or pastrami would cost a bloody fortune in a deli.
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Notes corned. Beefed.
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Page 2.
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Bette Midler in a moment of divine madness.
https://youtu.be/rolxQPogXqU?si=Bjq6_YtTRCAPooqB
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Freddie, Kevin, & George, thank you for the compliments on my photo.
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DR Kevin, thanks for the congrats last night.
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Kevin, good for Wordle in four yesterday.
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George, thanks for the congrats to Keith last night.
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Good.
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Fun cast photo in the notes :)
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As to today's topic: Anything approaching an all-fat pastrami (or corned beef, or you name it) sandwich is extremely undesirable to me. That's putting it nicely. I see these posts where people are praising their deli sandwiches for the generous amount of fat in them, and the huge blobs of it are absolutely disgusting.
I know fat=flavor, but there's plenty in it inherently. When I cook a corned beef, I trim the living HELL out of it before slicing and serving, and it's always full-of-flavor delicious. In fact, I'll bet MY cut of a corned beef or pastrami would cost a bloody fortune in a deli.
I've never liked pastrami, however, it was always my understanding it was best lean.
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I like fatty brisket at a barbecue joint. But not all fat. I don't like too much fat on ham. Pastrami should be lean, but I'm not policing the meat I'm given. Just leave out the gristle, please.
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Finished Young Catherine. The last half hour was suspenseful. Out of three hours.
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The Haggle Polka got a new second half today, and I am much happier with it. I'll scan it and send it to Doug, who is getting on a plane today to come and visit me and spend several nights at City Ballet and several days taking care of personal ballet business.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven and a half hours of weird sleep.
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Already shaved and will shower in five minutes then be on my way to the theater.
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Last night I watch a bootleg of the 1998 PBS broadcast of the New York City Opera's glorious production of Benjamin Britten's 1940 "operetta" Paul Bunyan. I believe I saw every performance in 1998. The PBS broadcast was - and still is - a dud, with the PBS director's "concvept" to shoot from front of stage to "let's include the backstage crew and not really shoot the opera." It was a horrid decision since the shots of a crew member in the flies raising a cluster of clouds or shots backstage of actors leaving the stage constantly vremoved the viewer from the opera and its magic, which was thrilling in Mark Lamos' production.
I need to find my recording. It's in a box under my stairs, so it's close, just buried.
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Performance and Talk Back vibes for MR BK.
~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
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Very interesting link DR FREDDIE.
I guess just because I never heard it or saw it performed in the production of JOSEPH i saw doesn't mean it wasn't always there!
Remarkable. Now I shall have to get out my copy of the material and see if it's there.
Which was the first production of JOSEPH that you saw?
My first was a production in 1976 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music which starred Cleavon Little - who was already pretty famous then - as the Narrator. (I don't know when the Narrator being female became the norm.)
Maybe with the Broadway production and the fabulous Laurie Beechman? Just a guess.
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Episode 1 of the new season of "All Creatures Great and Small" was fabulous. A really emotional episode, in all good ways.
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The first production I saw was at the Edyvean Theatre in Indianapolis on the campus of the Christian Theological Seminary - it was a repertory company that did not just do religious shows but also included secular plays and musicals.
And I don't remember a finale....it was probably in 1987 or 1988.
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I have finished PILLION.
It is a very unusual movie about a guy who finds himself in an S/M gay relationship.
The actors are good and the story is like nothing I have ever seen. And one actor in a small role seemed familiar to me....but it wasn't until I read his name in the credits that I realized who it was.....Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters.
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It was after I saw J/TD at the Edyvean that I bought the OBC cassette.
Some folks had known the Broadway Joseph - Bill Hutton - because he had attended Indiana University.
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Some folks had known the Broadway Joseph - Bill Hutton - because he had attended Indiana University.
How interesting!
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Hello, everyone.
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I’m not caught up at all.
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Is anyone watching Bookish on PBS? I really like it. Mark Gatis, who wrote Sherlock and played Mycroft, wrote Bookish and plays the lead. I love the 1940s London streetscape and some unconventional lifestyles.
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Is anyone watching Happiness, also on PBS? I’ve only watched one episode and will withhold judgment for now.
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
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Very glad to hear that bk’s opening night went so well. Congrats, bk!
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Bette Midler in a moment of divine madness.
https://youtu.be/rolxQPogXqU?si=Bjq6_YtTRCAPooqB
I love Bette Midler! ;D
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I am still tossing. Finding things I didn’t know I had. Still NOT finding a couple things that are missing. I’m still in the “Eek!” phase of tossing.
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Hello, everyone.
Hi :)
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Hello, Jane and George.
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PAGE THREE BETTE MIDLER DANCE!!
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Hello, Jane and George.
Hello, Jeanne!
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Is anyone watching Bookish on PBS? I really like it. Mark Gatis, who wrote Sherlock and played Mycroft, wrote Bookish and plays the lead. I love the 1940s London streetscape and some unconventional lifestyles.
Not yet. I forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
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Freddie, Kevin, & George, thank you for the compliments on my photo.
You're welcome, Jane!
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
I'm sorry. I hope he is at least neat.
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George, thanks for the congrats to Keith last night.
Keith is welcome!
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Good.
Thanks, Jane!
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I am still tossing. Finding things I didn’t know I had. Still NOT finding a couple things that are missing. I’m still in the “Eek!” phase of tossing.
That sounds about right.
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Keith got Wordle in three.
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
WTH?? He's not going to be living there, so what's his problem?? >:(
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Congrats to Keith!
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I've been texting Bryan about Freyja's birthday gift. I narrowed it down to getting her stroller for her stuffed animals & toys. I sent him a text with a photo of one I was looking to compare the one she had seen and liked at the toy store. His reply...
"Freyja saw your text. She likes the ones at the store better"
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So much for surprising her :))
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
I'm sorry. I hope he is at least neat.
Yes, he is neat. And the guys working for him are doing a good job. He’s a good painter aside from ignoring my speculations.
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
WTH?? He's not going to be living there, so what's his problem?? >:(
He prefers to do things the way he’s used to. Most of us do, but I was very clear from the start that he had to use a special paint, due to my allergies.
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Is anyone watching Happiness, also on PBS? I’ve only watched one episode and will withhold judgment for now.
We watched it. Since it was six episodes 20 minutes each, we found it was easy to just watch in one sitting.
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How old is Freyja now, Jane?
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
Sounds like a terrible situation.
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I've been texting Bryan about Freyja's birthday gift. I narrowed it down to getting her stroller for her stuffed animals & toys. I sent him a text with a photo of one I was looking to compare the one she had seen and liked at the toy store. His reply...
"Freyja saw your text. She likes the ones at the store better"
Oy!
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Is anyone watching Happiness, also on PBS? I’ve only watched one episode and will withhold judgment for now.
We watched it. Since it was six episodes 20 minutes each, we found it was easy to just watch in one sitting.
Some fine voices. I’d never given much thought to musical theatre in New Zealand.
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
Sounds like a terrible situation.
Annoying, but we’ll see. I’d like to get to the point where
I can move in. I can take care of some things later.
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Vibes to all.
TTFN.
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
WTH?? He's not going to be living there, so what's his problem?? >:(
He prefers to do things the way he’s used to. Most of us do, but I was very clear from the start that he had to use a special paint, due to my allergies.
Oh, I know about paint issues. Many painters don't like using the special paints as they don't work as well. Fortunatelly I do well enough will regular Miller Paints.
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How old is Freyja now, Jane?
She will be six.
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I've been texting Bryan about Freyja's birthday gift. I narrowed it down to getting her stroller for her stuffed animals & toys. I sent him a text with a photo of one I was looking to compare the one she had seen and liked at the toy store. His reply...
"Freyja saw your text. She likes the ones at the store better"
Oy!
;D
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
Sounds like a terrible situation.
Annoying, but we’ll see. I’d like to get to the point where
I can move in. I can take care of some things later.
At least you can air it out before you move in.
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It’s like Mrs Rodz. I simply can’t surprise her with presents. She always finds out.
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I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Joseph.
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We’ve reached a new page called “four.”
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It’s like Mrs Rodz. I simply can’t surprise her with presents. She always finds out.
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I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Joseph.
I wanted to see it but never had the chance.
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Bill Hutton had nice hair, back in the day.
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Guess what? We have a "feels like" of -12. And it's snowing.
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But tomorrow is a holiday.
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So there's that.
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A solid business model.
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:)
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Too on the nose?
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Do you suppose he called himself T.S. Eliot so that no one would notice that T. Eliot spelled backward is "toilet"?
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Sorry about your situation, DR Jeanne. That must be really frustrating. How much trouble would it be to fire him and get someone else?
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Interesting about Washington National Opera. Ward's The Crucible!
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DR Jrand75 - have you considered getting wigs for the keets?
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Guess what? We have a "feels like" of -12. And it's snowing.
Oh boy!
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I read how protesters in Minneapolis are using the weather to hold their own against ICE who are slipping on the ice ;D
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It's still early, but I'm tired and am heading to bed.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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Good night, singdaw!
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Good evening!
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Thanks, DRs George and Jane!
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Good, DR George!
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My Wordle: Also 5/6
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Great!
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Back from a great matinee and fun talkback, and then a meal. Must do some writing.
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I simply must.
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Or things will be a bust.
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In writing we trust.
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Upper crust.
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It's only just.
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With a little lust.
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Non-plussed.
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No rust.
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Any reviews yet, BK?
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I’m watching Tron Ares. I’m not overly enjoying it. But some of the action scenes are fun.
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I’m sorry I missed Jeanne. If you’re not getting the colors you want, get a new painter.
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You have to live with it. He doesn’t.
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As for Other Things, the painter is about halfway through. We have an interesting relationship: I carefully explain what I want, then he does whatever he wants. I’ve been trying to somehow get through it and just get the work done. I’ve already cut back on the projects I was planning to give him, but I’m not at all sure I won’t have to switch painters. He knows a lot, but he wants things done his way, despite my initial and up-front specifications. Sigh.
WTH?? He's not going to be living there, so what's his problem?? >:(
He prefers to do things the way he’s used to. Most of us do, but I was very clear from the start that he had to use a special paint, due to my allergies.
Good for him...that's definitely an important rule to follow!
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I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Joseph.
A former local children's theater company (no longer in existence) has produced it, and I've seen the filmed version with Donny Osmond, and Maria Friedman as the Narrator.
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Bill Hutton had nice hair, back in the day.
Definitely. ;)
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Guess what? We have a "feels like" of -12. And it's snowing.
:o
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A solid business model.
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8211.0;attach=28393)
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:)
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8211.0;attach=28395)
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Too on the nose?
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8211.0;attach=28397)
:D
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Do you suppose he called himself T.S. Eliot so that no one would notice that T. Eliot spelled backward is "toilet"?
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Interesting about Washington National Opera. Ward's The Crucible!
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8211.0;attach=28399)
That's fantastic! ;D
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DR Jrand75 - have you considered getting wigs for the keets?
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8211.0;attach=28401)
:))
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Thanks, DRs George and Jane!
You're welcome, Kevin!
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Good, DR George!
Thanks, Kevin!
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My Wordle: Also 5/6
Good for you, Kevin!
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Back from a great matinee and fun talkback, and then a meal. Must do some writing.
Very cool! Can't wait to read about it!
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I’m watching Tron Ares. I’m not overly enjoying it. But some of the action scenes are fun.
I bought the first sequel to Tron, but I haven't watched it...yet. ::)
:)
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Tomorrow, my housemate Shelly and I are going to lunch at the local Plaza Jalisco.
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I got a gift certificate for Christmas and want to use it.
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We were supposed to go a couple of weeks ago on Sunday but they were closed.
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I hope that they're not closed tomorrow with it being Martin Luther King Jr. Day and all.
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Page five my ASS.
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I pass.
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I didn't think about that...that they might not be open on holidays because all of the government workers won't be around.
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It's crass.
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But we'll find out soon enough!
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No class.
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Raise a glass.
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Say a Mass.
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PAGE SIX PLAZA JALISCO DANCE !
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Don't give sass.
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I'd love to write some damn notes, but my hands are spazzing out and locked up pretty good - can't do anything until that changes.
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Oh, no! :-\
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~~~Vibes for No More Hand Spazzing for BK!!~~~
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Spazzing finally abated.
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No reviews yet. I'm expecting the first of them to be bad and the second of them should be good.
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But who knows until they come out?
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Not I.
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Page six my ASS.
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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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They are short and sweet.
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Not a treat.
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Skipped a beat.
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But I didn't cheat.
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Written here, not Crete.
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I did not delete.
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They were swift and fleet.
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Meet and greet.
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With no heat.
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Quite neat.
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On the street.
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Made of wheat.
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Well, at least we got this far.