Topic: THE HAPPY HARDCOVER (Read 688 times)

bk · « **on:** August 09, 2025, 12:06:46 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of the happy ~~hooker~~ hardcover, and now it is time for you to post until the happy cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2025, 12:07:30 AM »

And the word of the day is: WINSOME!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2025, 01:07:14 AM »

Notes Wechtered. Shecktered.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2025, 01:10:40 AM »

I’m home in my very own bed. The cremation convention flamed out about noon. I purposely had a late flight in hopes of visiting my cousin in Phoenix and my Uncle Bill who just turned 90. I’d missed his big birthday party at the family picnic in Indiana, but caught him in Phoenix where he lives with my cousin and her husband. Plus my Aunt. A good visit, many memories shared.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2025, 01:12:14 AM »

Now I’ll sleep.

Freddie · « **Reply #5 on:** August 09, 2025, 04:06:01 AM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on August 09, 2025, 01:10:40 AM

I’m home in my very own bed. The cremation convention flamed out about noon. I purposely had a late flight in hopes of visiting my cousin in Phoenix and my Uncle Bill who just turned 90. I’d missed his big birthday party at the family picnic in Indiana, but caught him in Phoenix where he lives with my cousin and her husband. Plus my Aunt. A good visit, many memories shared.

Welcome home, Rodzinski!

Freddie · « **Reply #6 on:** August 09, 2025, 04:16:40 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 09, 2025, 12:06:46 AM

Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of the happy ~~hooker~~ hardcover, and now it is time for you to post until the happy cows come home.

Brings to mind, related to the adult novels discussion the other day: There was indeed a copy of "The Happy Hooker" in the bookcase in the living room in Luna Park with all the paperbacks, alongside the likes of "The Godfather" and "Peyton Place" and "Marjorie Morningstar."

And of course, the Dark Shadows paperback series, which I recall really enjoying as a yute, as much as the TV series.

Freddie · « **Reply #7 on:** August 09, 2025, 04:33:31 AM »

TOD: I don't recall ever being assigned specific chores when I lived with my parents; we just did what we were asked to do without thinking of them as chores. Or if we saw the garbage was full, we took it out to the incinerator, if it looked like we were running short on a certain type of food, we just went to the store, that sort of thing.

A sort-of chore I enjoyed was "cooking" from recipes every now and then, and when I was a teen, my parents really enjoyed my ricotta with pineapple cheesecake which I'd make as a meal for myself in one of my teenage dieting modes, and it was dessert for my parents. There was also a homemade pizza that I really enjoyed making, using whatever bread we had as the crust, and I'd make it for my parents as well.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:04:23 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:06:13 AM »

I slept in. I was dead tired, and I slept till I really felt like getting out of bed. Three cats wanting breakfast provided plenty of incentive to get dressed.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:08:14 AM »

Well, I'm not happy about this, but such is the way of the publishing world: Jeremy's illustration I posted yesterday exists only in the Kindle edition. The publisher omitted it from both hardcover and paper. I had always wanted it for the title page, but call it Birds Eye.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:08:42 AM »

Welcome home, DR Rodzinski!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:13:01 AM »

DR John G, I love Greater Tuna! When I was doing Babes in Toyland with the Houston Grand Opera, the original writers/actors were doing the Christmas version in Houston, and we all stayed in the same apartment building. They were wonderful people. I was lucky to see them in both Greater Tuna and the Christmas one. I wish the HBO version were on DVD. Maybe it's on YouTube?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:17:56 AM »

And it is on Youtube! I wish the video was cleaner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dgzT1eLRY

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:32:23 AM »

On CBS Saturday Morning, I just sawan interview with the author and the four ladies; it sounds like a true-crime version of The Marlow Murder Club.

Freddie · « **Reply #15 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:33:31 AM »

Elmore's sparkling new posting millstone is really close now!

Freddie · « **Reply #16 on:** August 09, 2025, 05:36:38 AM »

Worth remembering that anything posted here on HHW is google-able and available to be read by anyone in the public.

singdaw · « **Reply #17 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:24:20 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 09, 2025, 05:17:56 AM

And it is on Youtube! I wish the video was cleaner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dgzT1eLRY

A Greater Tuna Christmas also seems to be available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBsawpzAweE&t=2s

singdaw · « **Reply #18 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:24:43 AM »

Quote from: Freddie on August 09, 2025, 05:36:38 AM

Worth remembering that anything posted here on HHW is google-able and available to be read by anyone in the public.

Guilty as charged.

singdaw · « **Reply #19 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:25:01 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #20 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:25:09 AM »

And others.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:29:32 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:30:21 AM »

I am enjoying a fairly "blah" Saturday morning. I need to get up off of my ASS and do a few things outdoors, but that's going to take an effort.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:30:42 AM »

In the meantime,

More coffee!

Freddie · « **Reply #24 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:31:32 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 09, 2025, 06:24:43 AM

Quote from: Freddie on August 09, 2025, 05:36:38 AM
Worth remembering that anything posted here on HHW is google-able and available to be read by anyone in the public.

Guilty as charged.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:36:26 AM »

DR Elmore - That's too bad about the title illustration. I wonder what drove that decision. It wasn't just a mistake, was it?

Do you have a clean JPG or PDF of it? I'm thinking that those who desire to could print it and lay it inside the physical book.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** August 09, 2025, 06:54:13 AM »

Yesterday's TOD:

Last night as I was browsing my shelves for something to watch, a title that I'd been meaning to return to for several years popped out at me: Miracle Mile, filmed in 1988, released in 1989 just as I was preparing to move from L.A.

I somehow never even knew about this movie until Kino released their Blu-ray several years back. (It's fine, but they now have a greatly improved one that I must get.) As an L.A. picture, it's mindboggling that it escaped my notice through those years. And for the likes of moi, who just happened to be passing through the Wilshire/Fairfax and Miracle Mile districts a lot between work and home those last few years, precisely when this was being filmed, it's a damned treasure. It also doesn't hurt that it's the type of weird little story I love, being a sort of Twilight-Zone-ish end of the world type of scenario, and containing elements of Scorsese's After Hours.

Anybody else know this one?

Freddie · « **Reply #27 on:** August 09, 2025, 07:12:11 AM »

Amazon's algorithm is suggesting I add

"Politics & Social Sciences › Popular Culture"

as a category for my book (which basically is: sing-along parody lyrics about major events of first quarter of the 21st century). No way of telling if that recommendation was done by a person at Amazon looking at the book or the computer system looking at buzz words, but it seems nice that the Amazon system is looking for ways to position the book.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 09, 2025, 07:12:26 AM »

Not I DR CHAS SMITH....but I am intrigued.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 09, 2025, 07:12:36 AM »

Good news from DR GINNY.

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