Haines His Way

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 11   Go Down

Author Topic: THE YEAR THAT WAS  (Read 43928 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

FJL

  • Guest
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #60 on: December 29, 2007, 11:02:47 AM »
So (naturally) one for Mahler
Logged

FJL

  • Guest
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #61 on: December 29, 2007, 11:04:16 AM »
Lunch was quite lovely.  We went to Applebee's, then my cousins went to  see Les Miserables, which should be where they are right now.
Logged

Jeanne

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 29237
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #62 on: December 29, 2007, 11:06:31 AM »
Quote from: Jane on December 29, 2007, 09:36:43 AM

Jeanne, you could be right about a magnesium deficiency, though blood work has never shown one.  My goal in the NY will be to find some sort of extra magnesium I can tolerate.  


Jane, a blood test isn't a reliable indicator of magnesium because magnesium isn't stored in the blood. There are trace amounts there only. The only reliable indicators of magnesium are the magnesium loading test (two 24-hr urine samples back to back), also called the magnesium challenge test, and the blood ionized magnesium test, which is quite different from a standard blood test. This is one of the reasons why magnesium deficiencies are so common (80% of Americans are estimated to have a magnesium deficiency)--they don't show up on standardized blood tests.

Recommended reading: Carolyn Dean, MD's book, THE MIRACLE OF MAGNESIUM. Short, easy to read, usually available in paperback at Amazon for $10 or $12.  I've interviewed her, BTW, and would consider a consultation with her. She's in NY, but does phone consultations. Her website is carolyndean.com.
« Last Edit: December 29, 2007, 11:18:52 AM by Jeanne »
Logged

FJL

  • Guest
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #63 on: December 29, 2007, 11:07:15 AM »
Skip and I will be leaving shortly to see the 3 pm (yes, at 3 for some reason) of Drowsy Chaperone.  Looking forward to seeing Danny Burstein giving that always-hilarious performance as Aldolpho, and of course BK's own Cindy Williams, and also have heard terrific things about Bob saget's performance.
Logged

Jeanne

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 29237
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #64 on: December 29, 2007, 11:09:59 AM »
Hello, everyone.

Jose, yes, I frequent Eamonn's Dublin Chipper, owned by Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve.
Logged

Jeanne

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 29237
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #65 on: December 29, 2007, 11:10:32 AM »
I'm looking forward to BK's take on SWEENEY TODD.
Logged

Jeanne

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 29237
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #66 on: December 29, 2007, 11:17:10 AM »
TOD:

I saw fewer films than usual in the theatres this year. A month or so ago I was trying to tell someone what my favorite film of the year was and nothing came to mind. It's wasn't a very memorable year of movie-going for me! That said,

Favorite films of 2007:
SWEENEY TODD
LA VIE EN ROSE

As for performances, I'd have to think about it--I felt so lukewarm about so many of the films. Yes, a so-so film can contain a stellar performance, but a so-so film also rather detracts in general, IMO.
Logged

JoseSPiano

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 58983
  • Who wants ice cream?
    • The View From A Piano Bench
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #67 on: December 29, 2007, 11:32:11 AM »
Good Afternoon!

Greetings from Steve's place.  We made it out of the grocery store with everything we need for the part in the cart.  Hopefully. Guess we'll find out soon enough. ;)

*And we also made a stop at the liquor store.  What would a Taco Party be without some margaritas and piña coladas.   ;)
Logged
Make Your Own Luck.

JoseSPiano

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 58983
  • Who wants ice cream?
    • The View From A Piano Bench
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #68 on: December 29, 2007, 11:34:13 AM »
And now for today's Cuteness "Alert"...

Emily was "helping" her mother fold the laundry last night, and I guess she wanted to see what it would be like playing Ms. Claus for a while:





:)
Logged
Make Your Own Luck.

JoseSPiano

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 58983
  • Who wants ice cream?
    • The View From A Piano Bench
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #69 on: December 29, 2007, 11:35:20 AM »
And shortly after she posed - yes, she posed! - for those pics, she finally gave her Uncle Jojo a besito, which was the best Christmas present Uncle Jojo ever got.  :)
Logged
Make Your Own Luck.

JoseSPiano

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 58983
  • Who wants ice cream?
    • The View From A Piano Bench
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #70 on: December 29, 2007, 11:35:53 AM »
And here's the gang...


Logged
Make Your Own Luck.

JoseSPiano

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 58983
  • Who wants ice cream?
    • The View From A Piano Bench
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #71 on: December 29, 2007, 11:36:56 AM »
DR Jeanne - I <heart> Restaurant Eve and Eamonn's too.

Logged
Make Your Own Luck.

JoseSPiano

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 58983
  • Who wants ice cream?
    • The View From A Piano Bench
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #72 on: December 29, 2007, 11:37:51 AM »
Well,  I should get started on some of the slicing and dicing and shredding.

Laters...
Logged
Make Your Own Luck.

Ginny

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 35865
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #73 on: December 29, 2007, 11:49:49 AM »
DR Jose - what cute pictures of Emily and a handsome photo of your family!

Have fun at the taco party - I love throwing taco parties!
Logged
"Each of us lives with, and in and out of, contradiction.  Everything is salvageable.  There is nothing we cannot learn from."  --Sr. Mary Ellen Dougherty

Jane

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 146671
  • Have a REALLY nice day!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #74 on: December 29, 2007, 12:10:38 PM »
Thanks you Dr’s Laura & Ginny.

I went for a nice walk this morning on our road and along the dirt trail.  The walk includes a BIG hill & the, very soft, dirt trail worked my legs.  I’m feeling good right now.
Logged

Jane

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 146671
  • Have a REALLY nice day!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #75 on: December 29, 2007, 12:12:59 PM »
Jeanne, I saved the info-thanks-and have it on my New Year’s resolution list.  I’m going to go back over my records and what exactly, or how, I was tested for in the past.  Of course, if I can’t find a magnesium I can tolerate it really won’t matter.  I’ll begin that search, again, first.
Logged

Jeanne

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 29237
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #76 on: December 29, 2007, 12:15:50 PM »
Nice photo of your family, Jose.
Logged

Jane

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 146671
  • Have a REALLY nice day!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #77 on: December 29, 2007, 12:18:39 PM »
Jose, great photos of your wonderful family!
Logged

Jane

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 146671
  • Have a REALLY nice day!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #78 on: December 29, 2007, 12:18:56 PM »
We haven’t seen all that many movies this year, I’m thinking about it.  From the movies mentioned so far, HOT FUZZ rates high on my list.

We haven’t watched ZODIAC yet.  Last night we watched THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER instead.  Such a beautiful, sad, old movie.
Logged

bk

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 161137
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #79 on: December 29, 2007, 12:45:26 PM »
Back from driving about in my motor car.  I stopped for a Jumbo Jim at Dolores.  Now I'm home until Sweeney Todd.
Logged

TCB

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 97748
  • Because I can!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #80 on: December 29, 2007, 12:47:07 PM »
Quote from: MBarnum on December 29, 2007, 10:07:35 AM
TOD: 2007 movies

ENCHANTED
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
OM SHANTI OM
AWARAPAN
NO SMOKING
MITTI WAJAAN MAARDI
SACCO AND VANZETTI


actor performances:
Patrick Dempsey in ENCHANTED
Emraan Hashmi in AWARAPAN

Favorite female performance:
can't think of any



You did know that there were actresses in those movies, didn't you?
Logged
“One thing’s universal,
Life’s no dress rehearsal….”

bk

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 161137
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #81 on: December 29, 2007, 12:48:29 PM »
I received a vile yet amusing e-mail from the producer, co-writer, and director of The Kid From Brooklyn - he seemed incensed that I had lunch with his star.  I don't mind him not being happy with what I wrote, but it's not like I'm a critic, so I can't imagine why he'd care.  Thin-skinned and his note was so childish as to border on the inane.  Perhaps I'll quote some of it, but its first line set the tone - basically, who do you think you are?  A producer, a director, a writer?  As if my not being those things means I shouldn't write about things.  The fact that I AM those things is probably something he could have easily found out so that he doesn't quite look so foolish.  Anyway, I'm going to respond right now.
Logged

DERBRUCER

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 18462
  • Let's hear it for the Bruces
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #82 on: December 29, 2007, 12:56:11 PM »
Quote from: JRand57 on December 29, 2007, 04:51:35 AM
Lots of interesting posts yesterday.

RE:The Restaurant Website - I didn't see a contact email address either, and on the Readers' Remember page, the webmaster says it's a hobby and he doesn't have a lot of time to answer emails or letters, so maybe he doesn't want any more information.
Oh, I think he does:

HERE IS THE LINK TO INFO


Quote
Anyone who wants to contribute a scanned image (you keep the original) of non-copyrighted pictures, menus, postcards or match books, please send them to me as a jpeg email attachment to  latimema@latimemachines.com (or just feel free to recount your memories of these places!).

der Brucer
« Last Edit: December 29, 2007, 12:58:25 PM by DERBRUCER »
Logged
We live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.

Tomovoz

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 15837
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #83 on: December 29, 2007, 12:56:57 PM »
TOTD  (This year at the cinema)

La Vie En Rose
Away From Her
Notes On A Scandal
Pirates - 3 (whatever)
Harry Potter (whatever it was)
Logged
"I'm sixty-three and I guess that puts me with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-three".
James Thurber 1957

TCB

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 97748
  • Because I can!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #84 on: December 29, 2007, 12:57:42 PM »
Forgive me for being E & T for the past few days.  I think I posted on Wednesday, but I am not sure.  Wednesday, Thursday, and most of yesterday I was pretty much out of it.  It took two days for the substitute nurse to get a prescription faxed to my pharmacy, although she continues to blame the pharmacy for the problem.

I actually got out of bed and got dressed today, but I don't know how long I will be up.  I guess you would have to say that I had a major relapse of the pneumonia.  I have got to get well enough to get back to work on Monday or I won't get paid for Tuesday.
Logged
“One thing’s universal,
Life’s no dress rehearsal….”

DERBRUCER

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 18462
  • Let's hear it for the Bruces
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #85 on: December 29, 2007, 01:01:36 PM »
Quote from: bk on December 29, 2007, 12:48:29 PM
... but it's not like I'm a critic...

Yeah, right! Nobody reads this silly blog anyway :)

der Brucer
Logged
We live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.

Tomovoz

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 15837
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #86 on: December 29, 2007, 01:02:34 PM »
Good to see you here DR TCB.

If your son were still around he could go to work and masquerade as you.
Logged
"I'm sixty-three and I guess that puts me with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-three".
James Thurber 1957

TCB

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 97748
  • Because I can!
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #87 on: December 29, 2007, 01:03:29 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on December 29, 2007, 01:02:34 PM
Good to see you here DR TCB.

If your son were still around he could go to work and masquerade as you.


Damn!  What a great idea.  He does have Mondays off.
Logged
“One thing’s universal,
Life’s no dress rehearsal….”

DERBRUCER

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 18462
  • Let's hear it for the Bruces
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #88 on: December 29, 2007, 01:20:44 PM »
TOD - FILMS:

CASINO ROYALE
SWEENEY TODD
RATATOUILLE
ENCHANTED
SHREK III
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
HARRY POTTER OOP
SPIDERMAN III
GHOST RIDER
MEET THE ROBINSONS

Others - not as good

TRANSFORMERS
RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

der Brucer
Logged
We live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.

bk

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 161137
  • What is it, fish?
Re:THE YEAR THAT WAS
« Reply #89 on: December 29, 2007, 01:40:59 PM »
I wrote that website and gave the info about my father's restaurant, and if he lists it as I've asked him to, I will provide him with a treasure trove of images.
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 11   Go Up
« previous next »