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« Reply #90 on: August 09, 2025, 10:39:58 AM »

After that, I need to go to rehearsal for TAO's The HEAD!!! That Wouldn't DIE!! (I'm running the sound board) because we're going to perform on Thursday in Seattle! at the WorldCon 2025 convention!


Congratulations to George and TAO!

Thanks, Freddie!
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« Reply #91 on: August 09, 2025, 10:40:17 AM »

Oh, look!  It's Page Four!! ;D
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« Reply #92 on: August 09, 2025, 10:43:13 AM »

Congrats, Freddie, on your new book (paperback will be ordered when I decide on what else to order to get free shipping without having Prime)!

Thanks so much, George!

I've been delaying linking it anywhere anyway, so the book isn't technically "launched" yet and is still in sneak preview phase. :)   I'm also trying to figure out whether it's worthwhile to have a hardcover option.
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« Reply #93 on: August 09, 2025, 10:45:23 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.

Did they say why it wasn't included in the physical copies? :-\
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« Reply #94 on: August 09, 2025, 10:47:16 AM »

Congrats, Freddie, on your new book (paperback will be ordered when I decide on what else to order to get free shipping without having Prime)!

Thanks so much, George!

I've been delaying linking it anywhere anyway, so the book isn't technically "launched" yet and is still in sneak preview phase. :)   I'm also trying to figure out whether it's worthwhile to have a hardcover option.

I have several of your other parody books in paperback, so for me, I'd get the new one in paper also, just to be consistent. :)
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« Reply #95 on: August 09, 2025, 10:48:04 AM »

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

PUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #96 on: August 09, 2025, 10:49:26 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.

My tablet takes a pretty good screenshot.
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« Reply #97 on: August 09, 2025, 10:53:44 AM »

Congrats, John, on your new book (e-book has been purchased)!




I'm really enjoying the prose and the descriptions  (doing my these-years-usual jumping-around through the book based on the contents) - even though Skip is more of a wine aficionado than I am, so we'll get the print edition once it's out. 

I put up a review, and if anyone is at that page, it would be great if you feel my review is helpful, to click on that "helpful" box under the review.
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« Reply #98 on: August 09, 2025, 10:58:35 AM »

Congrats, Freddie, on your new book (paperback will be ordered when I decide on what else to order to get free shipping without having Prime)!

Thanks so much, George!

I've been delaying linking it anywhere anyway, so the book isn't technically "launched" yet and is still in sneak preview phase. :)   I'm also trying to figure out whether it's worthwhile to have a hardcover option.

I have several of your other parody books in paperback, so for me, I'd get the new one in paper also, just to be consistent. :)


For you or any of the regular DRs here, if you just email me your mailing address, I'll snail-mail you a paperback for free.  My AOL address is FJL1960
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« Reply #99 on: August 09, 2025, 11:02:18 AM »

Likewise, George or any DRs, if there are any of the paperbacks from volume 1 through 5 that you don't have but might enjoy having in your library, let me know in the next week or so and I'll send it or them for free.  (This new one is the 6th volume in the series.)

I'd love for them to be in people's libraries, just because.
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« Reply #100 on: August 09, 2025, 11:05:48 AM »

The more the parody books are out in the world somewhere, the more likely that someone somewhere will sing some of the parody lyrics, I figure!  :)
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« Reply #101 on: August 09, 2025, 11:06:15 AM »

Gratuitous post #101!
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« Reply #102 on: August 09, 2025, 11:17:04 AM »

Congrats, Freddie, on your new book (paperback will be ordered when I decide on what else to order to get free shipping without having Prime)!

Thanks so much, George!

I've been delaying linking it anywhere anyway, so the book isn't technically "launched" yet and is still in sneak preview phase. :)   I'm also trying to figure out whether it's worthwhile to have a hardcover option.

I have several of your other parody books in paperback, so for me, I'd get the new one in paper also, just to be consistent. :)


For you or any of the regular DRs here, if you just email me your mailing address, I'll snail-mail you a paperback for free.  My AOL address is FJL1960


Thanks so much!  I sent my address. ;D
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« Reply #103 on: August 09, 2025, 11:18:10 AM »

Congrats, Freddie, on your new book (paperback will be ordered when I decide on what else to order to get free shipping without having Prime)!

Thanks so much, George!

I've been delaying linking it anywhere anyway, so the book isn't technically "launched" yet and is still in sneak preview phase. :)   I'm also trying to figure out whether it's worthwhile to have a hardcover option.

I have several of your other parody books in paperback, so for me, I'd get the new one in paper also, just to be consistent. :)


For you or any of the regular DRs here, if you just email me your mailing address, I'll snail-mail you a paperback for free.  My AOL address is FJL1960


Thanks so much!  I sent my address. ;D

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« Reply #104 on: August 09, 2025, 11:22:18 AM »

BK - Does it accrue anything for the algorithm benefit of "Richard and Me" if people click the "helpful" button under the five-star reviews?
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« Reply #105 on: August 09, 2025, 11:24:37 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?


I've never heard if this, but it sounds like it could be a good movie.
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« Reply #106 on: August 09, 2025, 11:25:52 AM »

Today's TOD:

I have to say we were fairly undisciplined as a household. My mom and dad took care of things, and they probably could have used much more help from my sister and me than they ever got, but I don't remember them ever establishing any kind of routine. We were certainly roped into helping with the dishwashing and drying now and then. We had to keep our rooms cleaned or straightened up. I don't recall any outdoors-y stuff. My dad always pushed the lawnmower around, himself.

Ditto...pretty much exactly the same for me. :D
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« Reply #107 on: August 09, 2025, 11:27:11 AM »

I can't figure out why my mini-review of "Annabelle and Thatch" isn't getting a "Verified Purchase" designation.
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« Reply #108 on: August 09, 2025, 11:35:10 AM »

DR George, do you still work? I don't think you've mentioned the library in any of your posts for at least a year now.

Singdaw, you are quite observant...and I've avoided mentioning it because, well, I don't know why. ::)
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« Reply #109 on: August 09, 2025, 11:35:56 AM »

I actually quit my job and took some time to look for a job, then not do any job searching, but I'm officially drawing my retirement, so I have all the time in the world. :) This means I did retire earlier than normal, but the pay difference really isn't that much and it definitely was worth it.  I just got in a rut at work and couldn't get out, so I left.  But my mortgage and car are paid off, so I really don't have a lot of expenses. 
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« Reply #110 on: August 09, 2025, 11:37:24 AM »

On the ROku channel I just watched a Woody Allen movie called Match Point.

I kind of liked it.....it is from 2005.
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« Reply #111 on: August 09, 2025, 11:37:37 AM »

The New York Times is featuring a no-bake peaches & cream cake.


Yum!
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« Reply #112 on: August 09, 2025, 11:42:16 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - could not get to sleep, then up several times. Five hours, though, is better than none.
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« Reply #113 on: August 09, 2025, 11:42:59 AM »

Congrats to Ginny on the cardiology results! :D

Oh, yes!
Ditto!
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« Reply #114 on: August 09, 2025, 11:47:58 AM »

Barstools aren't arriving today because - they haven't even picked them up - apparently, the tracking number was created on Wednesday when I ordered them. But apparently Wayfair didn't communicate with Fed Ex or Fed Ex didn't bother communicating with Fed Ex so the latter didn't know if they were supposed to pick it up or if Wayfair would bring it, to which I say, boys, pick up the damn phone and figure it out rather than letting it sit there. The nice lady I was talking to understood my frustration and she's escalated the whole thing with Fed Ex and internally, but Fed Ex refuses to give a delivery date until they have the package, to which, if I were on the phone with them, would say well, go pick it up NOW. We then had to reschedule the assembly people and we did that in the nick of time because if you cancel less than twenty-four hours they charge you twenty-five bucks. We scheduled the assembly for next Saturday. If it still hasn't been picked up by Wednesday I'll need an immediate refund.
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« Reply #115 on: August 09, 2025, 11:48:18 AM »

That's been my morning thus far.
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« Reply #116 on: August 09, 2025, 11:51:22 AM »

This thing about the missing illustration frosts me but I'll just keep my mouth shut, other than it would take about five minutes to fix it for future purchases.
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« Reply #117 on: August 09, 2025, 11:57:07 AM »

Saturday afternoon greetings!  I went to a very nice DAR event this morning and took a nap as soon as I got home.
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« Reply #118 on: August 09, 2025, 12:00:20 PM »

Thank you to DRs JRand, George, and Elmore for the nice comments about my medical report.

I started my new Rx today, which may be the reason for my sleepiness.  Or maybe it was caffeine deprivation - no coffee on today’s “brunch” menu.
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« Reply #119 on: August 09, 2025, 12:01:29 PM »

DR George!  Had we heard that job news from you before?  Congratulations!
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