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[John G.]

Two!

[John G.]

My TV is in my office, not the living room. Maybe I could find place in the living room if I rearranged all of the furniture.

[ChasSmith]

So apparently Colin Powell -- public figure that he was, and therefore you'd think he would have had the greatest of protection from just about anything -- suffered from multiple myeloma, the treatment for which severely compromises the immune system.

I don't wish bad things on people (well, just a few people), but it's a bit of a relief hearing that.

[John G.]

The WaPo is making a big deal of the fact that Powell had been vaccinated.

[John G.]

So, covid and a compromised immune system are lethal.

[Jane]

DR John we like our Samsung tv we purchased when we moved here, about six years ago.  At 60 inches it is big.

[Jane]

DR TCB I am a bit surprised you never took a cruise to Southampton.  I suppose then that you haven't been to any of the other Titanic ports.

[Jane]

TOD:

I never saw Panic Room. I should correct that.

Yes you should.

[Jane]

The WaPo is making a big deal of the fact that Powell had been vaccinated.

The news I read doesn't know if he had a booster vaccination.  All of my friends with cancer were first in line for that.

[singdaw]

Good morning, friends.

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED MOST EXCELLENT COMPUTER VIBES~~~ for bk!!!!

[singdaw]

bk, what are the chances of a re-issue of William Finn's Elegies album?  Given the label it was on, perhaps not...

[John G.]

Singdaw, have you heard of a place called Billy Sushi?

[ChasSmith]

I somehow missed a few posts yesterday.

DR Jane asked:

I like the nice picket fence.  Is that a walking path next to it?

No, there's just a wide grassy area next to the road that can be parked on. There are a few gates for entering and walking through the place.

[ChasSmith]

And DR Ginny said:

DR ChasSmith, I love your Meadowbrook photo!  I only went there once with my parents and some family friends, maybe in the summer of 1970 or 1971.

I was there in 1968 and 1969, and would love to have gone back sometime just to enjoy a concert or two, but it never happened. And I'm especially sorry that those are the only times, other than a family trip through there in the late 1950s, that I've even passed through Detroit. I would like to have known it during its prime. During the summer of '68 a few of us drove down one night to see '2001' in its roadshow presentation at the Sutton Theater, and that, I am sorry to say, was my only visit downtown.

[Ginny]

Monday afternoon greetings!  We were awakened this morning by the jackhammers at the bottom of our neighbor's driveway.  Who needs an alarm clock?

[Ginny]

And DR Ginny said:

DR ChasSmith, I love your Meadowbrook photo!  I only went there once with my parents and some family friends, maybe in the summer of 1970 or 1971.

I was there in 1968 and 1969, and would love to have gone back sometime just to enjoy a concert or two, but it never happened. And I'm especially sorry that those are the only times, other than a family trip through there in the late 1950s, that I've even passed through Detroit. I would like to have known it during its prime. During the summer of '68 a few of us drove down one night to see '2001' in its roadshow presentation at the Sutton Theater, and that, I am sorry to say, was my only visit downtown.

DR ChasSmith, Detroit was a fabulous place to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s.  The riots of 1967 changed the city forever.

[Ginny]

DR Elmore, do you also remember (with regard to "Sunday in the Park...") that I sent you a wad of money in 1984 to purchase theatre tickets for Richard and me to use on the September visit to NYC that we felt we deserved after our fathers had both died in the same week that August?  You got us great seats for the show and we saw both Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore, do you also remember (with regard to "Sunday in the Park...") that I sent you a wad of money in 1984 to purchase theatre tickets for Richard and me to use on the September visit to NYC that we felt we deserved after our fathers had both died in the same week that August?  You got us great seats for the show and we saw both Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin.

I do remember that. Did I get you house seats?

[Ginny]

DR Elmore, do you also remember (with regard to "Sunday in the Park...") that I sent you a wad of money in 1984 to purchase theatre tickets for Richard and me to use on the September visit to NYC that we felt we deserved after our fathers had both died in the same week that August?  You got us great seats for the show and we saw both Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin.

I do remember that. Did I get you house seats?

That part I don't remember.  We were way over on the right (stage left) side of the orchestra in the 3rd row.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - seven and a half hours of sleep. Computer is ready and I'm on my way to get it - I've already been told the apps are not there, so that's gonna be my afternoon, I guess.

[George]

I finished James Lapine's book last night, and then I watched the first act of the PBS Great Performances DVD of Sunday in the Park With George. I had watched it on VHS many years ago, but I'd never seen the DVD. I had forgotten how wonderful the show was, and it brought back so many memories: the day Steve cowered in the hall while Patricia talked to Foxy, getting high with him at an NYC Gay Men's Chorus party, gossiping with him in the balcony of Alice Tully Hall, the Sunday matinee of the Sunday in the Park workshop, disliking the third performance on Broadway and loving it several weeks after the opening, the Pulitzer win and the party at Steve's a month after that. He was such a major part of my life between 1982 and 1988 or so.

I always love hearing your stories, Larry!  Thanks!

[George]

Even though I have both the VHS and DVD of Sunday, I bought the laserdisc on eBay a few months ago...just because.

[George]

I also got the laserdisc for Into the Woods.

[George]

The word on Patricia is that she is undergoing physical therapy for at least another month. She is more communicative with my friend Carol now that she’s getting past her nicotine addiction. She seems ready for the fight ahead.

~~~Vibes of All Kinds for Patricia!!~~~

[George]

I am really p.o'd. about this: 

I was a latecomer to Panda Express. We only had it in the local mall, and I figured it was "only" a mall type of chain and I just put off trying it. Also, in my mall-going days, I didn't apparently go there very often on an empty stomach, and I hadn't had a "mall meal" in some years. So it wasn't until just a few years ago that I had finally had it with all the recommendations, and I made a point of going in and eating it, right there, hot and fresh.

It was delicious, and I vowed to be a stranger no more.

And then Covid happened, and no one went anywhere for months. And in the meantime they were renovating the food court at the mall, and then I read that the Panda Express was closing. That was several months ago, and I just checked again, and the closest one to me now is some 25-30 miles away. I can't get their website to just give me a complete list of locations; you have to search one area at a time. Idiots. So -- a mall near Milford, CT; then Yonkers, the Bronx, and Broadway at 111th St. Those are the closest ones they give me for my zip code, damn it to HELL.

I hate it when that happens!  A similar thing happened with Quiznos, but that was quite a few years ago, long before Covid hit.  There are two within 25 or so miles of me...one north and one south, but still, how can a Quiznos survive at a podunk strip mall off the freeway and not in the bustling metropolis of Tumwater?

[George]

DR John we like our Samsung tv we purchased when we moved here, about six years ago.  At 60 inches it is big.

I have two (working) TVs.  One is 50" and the other is 55"...both are plenty big for me.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore, do you also remember (with regard to "Sunday in the Park...") that I sent you a wad of money in 1984 to purchase theatre tickets for Richard and me to use on the September visit to NYC that we felt we deserved after our fathers had both died in the same week that August?  You got us great seats for the show and we saw both Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin.

I do remember that. Did I get you house seats?

That part I don't remember.  We were way over on the right (stage left) side of the orchestra in the 3rd row.

Then they weren't house seats. They would have been in the center if they were.

[Jane]

I somehow missed a few posts yesterday.

DR Jane asked:

I like the nice picket fence.  Is that a walking path next to it?

No, there's just a wide grassy area next to the road that can be parked on. There are a few gates for entering and walking through the place.

Thanks for explaining.  It looked more like a path than a road.

[Jane]

So fully vaccinated did mean Powell had a booster, however.....

"Powell suffered from a blood cancer known as multiple myeloma — precisely the kind of “immunocompromised” condition that experts have said from the start could lead to lower vaccine efficacy. In fact, the vaccines seemed to work especially poorly in patients afflicted with that type of cancer, even after a booster shot. (Powell also suffered from Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition.)"