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THE CHECK DISC
« on: May 25, 2021, 12:03:25 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know about the check disc, and now it is time for you to post until the Czech cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2021, 12:04:22 AM »

And the word of the day is: PALAVER!
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2021, 12:25:53 AM »

Topic of the Day:  my favorite pizza is a Dirty Dave's pizza of my own concoction:  pepperoni, pineapple, cashews and extra cheese on a thin crust.  The best!
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« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2021, 12:27:11 AM »

Growing up, we would usually get sausage-and-pepperoni or a Hawaiian pizza (Canadian bacon and pineapple).  But one of my suitemates during my first year at Western Washington University (1986-1987) said that his favorite was pepperoni and pineapple, and that sounded real good to me.  I was able to try it and I've loved it ever since.  The first time I went to Dirty Dave's in Lacey, I saw that they had cashews, which I also love, and the combination of the three toppings instantly became my all-time favorite! :D
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« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2021, 12:27:38 AM »

And it still is!
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« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2021, 12:39:22 AM »

Robert Yacko read Some Days Are Murder in one sitting - he couldn't put it down, he said, and he loved it. Then he left this lovely review at Amazon:

A delicious, old fashioned romp of a murder mystery, at the center of which is an unlikely, even reluctant Private Investigator, a charming opera-loving curmudgeon who plays verbal badminton with his sass-back secretary, a woman who, he reminds himself, smells like a tuna sandwich. Painted with meticulous genuine detail, and underscored by its own classical soundtrack, Some Days Are Murder is laced with the ever-changing visceral aromas of a Hollywood past, complete with Tail O’ the Pup hot dogs, Black Jack Gum and Suzy Q fries. The story is fast-paced and addictive, peppered with crackling dialogue and humorous banter worthy of your favorite Black & White shamus films. I found myself, like the worn, bloodhound hero detective himself, hooked on that unstoppable scent in my nose, and I could not put this book down until the final curtain, as it were. So pour yourself a cold beverage, make your favorite classic sandwich, and dive in. Bon Appetit'!
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« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2021, 12:46:31 AM »

That's great, BK!
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« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2021, 01:08:25 AM »

I'm off to bed.

Have a good day, all!
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« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2021, 02:23:49 AM »

Good morning, friends.
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« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2021, 02:25:29 AM »

I think I would like to eat at Dirty Dave's pizza.
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« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2021, 03:55:32 AM »

Good morning, all!
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2021, 03:57:57 AM »

I got very little sleep last night, most likely because of my anxiety over this morning's Access-A-Ride trip. Annabelle left her bookcase aerie to sleep on my pillow with me, and Thatch and Stella did their usual visits, lying down with me for a bit and then running off to create fresh hell for Daddy.
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« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2021, 04:17:49 AM »

Last night we watched the 1933 horror comedy, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, which has been beautifully restored for Blu-Ray. I may be getting some of the facts wrong, but my memory is that it was long considered a lost film, according to Carlos Clarens' wonderful 1967 book, An illustrated history of the horror films. I had seen the 1950s remake House of Wax several times on TV and in one of those 1950s-60s Halloween horror-sci fi film matinees my brother Macbeth and I used to attend with hundreds of school friends on the Saturday before Halloween.

Then in the late 1960s-early 70s a print of the film was found (in Europe, as I recall), and it was finally broadcast on PBS. I saw its first showing with a lot of press at the time in winter, 1971 or early 1972. I hadn't seen it since until last night. It's in color, a fact I did not know when I first saw it, and it's quite a different kettle of fish compared to The House of Wax. It reminded me a lot of The Cat and the Canary and The Bat, two Broadway plays with a mix of comedy and thriller. There's also a bit of Warner Brothers tough cops and gangsters and maybe a bit of borrowing from The Front Page and its hardboiled reporters. I loved Glenda Farrell as the fast-talking comedy reporter chasing down the story of bodies stolen from the morgue. Fay Wray, as her roommate, gets star billing with Lionel Atwill, but her role is smaller than Farrell's.
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« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2021, 04:23:04 AM »

As to the remake, The House of Wax, it's much more of a horror film, and set in the 1890s, as I recall, where The Mystery of the Wax Museum is contemporary, set in 1933 New York, and I think its cast is better. Some of the sets - the city morgue, the museum's workroom - are really stunning.
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« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2021, 05:30:34 AM »

Good morning, all.
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« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2021, 05:33:59 AM »

DR Elmore, I got that restored Mystery of the Wax Museum Blu-ray and am looking forward to watching it one of these evenings. I've owned that in every format, but I only ever really watched it on TCM, I think, several years ago. Of course I want to see the restored two-strip Technicolor, but you sure make the whole design and 'vibe' sound appealing.

Do you also have the just-restored Doctor X with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray? I don't yet. It will be on my next order.
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« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2021, 05:45:18 AM »

BK:  That one-second delay on the audio happens occasionally on my Oppo which is the older BDP-93. Someone posted about this several years ago, most likely on HTF, and the theory was that it's an HDMI protocol or handshake issue.

Usually I experience it on a CD, when I've just loaded the disc and the first track starts to play and the first second or half-second of audio is cut off. I know now to hit the "back" chapter button and it plays normally thereafter. I think it's happened a couple of times on Blu-ray at the start of a film logo, too, but in my experience it's more often on CD.

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« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2021, 05:48:42 AM »

DR Elmore, I got that restored Mystery of the Wax Museum Blu-ray and am looking forward to watching it one of these evenings. I've owned that in every format, but I only ever really watched it on TCM, I think, several years ago. Of course I want to see the restored two-strip Technicolor, but you sure make the whole design and 'vibe' sound appealing.

Do you also have the just-restored Doctor X with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray? I don't yet. It will be on my next order.

No Doctor X!
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« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2021, 05:53:41 AM »

Thanks to recalcitrant bodily functions and a rush to get ready to leave, I have rescheduled everything for this Thursday at a later time, 11:15, which gives me 30 more minutes before Access-A-Ride picks me up.

Calling Access-A-Ride to cancel today's trips led to the discovery that the young lady who registered me with them has given them my wrong birth date. So I need to call them back and correct that.  I also need to learn if "exact change" includes dollar bills. I do not relish carrying $5.50 for transport in coins.
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« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2021, 07:06:27 AM »

I like both Wax Museum and Doctor X......pretty grisly stuff....and the color is interesting....and of course Glenda Farrell!
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« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2021, 07:06:43 AM »

Nice review from DR YACKO.
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« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2021, 07:07:53 AM »

DR ELMORE the music I used is only credited as being from Best of Broadway Volume 3 - Orchard Enterprises - Stars On Broadway Orchestra......there seems to be no other info on the WWW.
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« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2021, 08:04:58 AM »

Good morning!
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« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2021, 08:22:27 AM »

From DR TCB:
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Why didn’t you ask him to either put on his mask, or change machines?

He didn't break any rules, unless he hadn't been vaccinated.
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« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2021, 09:17:42 AM »

DR ELMORE the music I used is only credited as being from Best of Broadway Volume 3 - Orchard Enterprises - Stars On Broadway Orchestra......there seems to be no other info on the WWW.

Bummer. If I were the arranger, I would not be happy.
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« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2021, 09:23:14 AM »

Two handsome males.
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« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2021, 09:54:56 AM »

LOL!
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« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2021, 10:01:16 AM »

This evening I'm meeting my director friend for what used to be our monthly (more or less) dinner meeting, for the first time since March 12, 2020.

This is my first such local outing (I ate at a few places on my trip to Ohio, and lived to tell about it!), and I do look forward to it, certainly with a bit of nervous anticipation, but the feeling is 99% positive.
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« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2021, 10:02:03 AM »

Have a good time.
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