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Re: TIME IS A FICKLE PICKLE
« Reply #60 on: September 30, 2025, 09:52:09 AM »

Anyhoo, let's see if I can sneak an upload in while the system isn't looking!

This photo is one of those dated October 12, 2017 - my first ever visit to a cat at West 82nd Street:
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« Reply #61 on: September 30, 2025, 09:56:47 AM »

Anyhoo, let's see if I can sneak an upload in while the system isn't looking!

This photo is one of those dated October 12, 2017 - my first ever visit to a cat at West 82nd Street:


Great photo!
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« Reply #62 on: September 30, 2025, 10:04:30 AM »

This morning, a friend was walking down the street and was hit by a violin, then a clarinet, and then a french horn.

We think it was an orchestrated attack.
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« Reply #63 on: September 30, 2025, 10:19:11 AM »

I don't know what's wrong with this site! I logged on around noon, tried to post and could not, then the site went down and I could not access it.
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« Reply #64 on: September 30, 2025, 10:20:07 AM »

Nice that tomovoz is still around and kicking. It was an unfortunate situation with him from the time when Mark Rothman was here trying to steal everyone to come to HIS newly-created blog copycat site - he was so obnoxious and people were getting irritated and I told him to STOP. Then he began emailing or PMing everyone and bashing me and sadly tomofoz, to whom I'd always been nothing but nice, joined in on the bashing BK - the ONLY one. How do I know this? Because the jerk sent me tom's email to show me that I was hated by everyone, with an especially nasty nod from tom about my books that followed the Kritzer books. I wrote tom, just so he knew Mark had forwarded me his email and told him I was sorry he felt as he did. I think he was so mortified that he never returned. Glad elmore stayed in touch - lovely review.

Actually, I haven't stayed in touch with him. I cut him off when that mess was going on, but he remained friends with the late TCB, who wanted me to mend the friendship.  Tomovoz has actually been a much better friend to me than I have been to him. There's enough water under the bridge; I wish he would come back to HHW.
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« Reply #65 on: September 30, 2025, 10:20:50 AM »

I was going to post another in that series of photos I took of Annabelle upon my first appearance before Her Majesty's throne.

Try it again.
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« Reply #66 on: September 30, 2025, 10:26:10 AM »

Anyhoo, let's see if I can sneak an upload in while the system isn't looking!

This photo is one of those dated October 12, 2017 - my first ever visit to a cat at West 82nd Street:

Nice!
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« Reply #67 on: September 30, 2025, 11:36:50 AM »

I wasn't mean to Tomovoz in my response to him - I just wanted him to know what a scum Rothman was for sending me a private e-mail. I told him I was sorry he didn't like my books anymore but that it did not bother me in the least. That was it. Again, I think he was mortified that Rothman had sent me his privately-penned e-mail. But that was Rothman in a nutshell, one of the most ego-ridden jerks I've ever interacted with.
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« Reply #68 on: September 30, 2025, 11:39:22 AM »

Freddie, yes, he played the Brain. It was a good idea on paper and a terrible idea in reality because a) he couldn't take direction and b) he was a terrible actor. He, of course, thought he saved the show. His idea of funny was walking into the Chance Theater to rehearse and announcing, "I gotta take a dump." Right. He's lived his entire life on the laurels of co-creating Laverne and Shirley with Lowell Ganz. Ganz, with a new partner, went on to be hugely successful. Rothman went on to do "She's the Sheriff."
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« Reply #69 on: September 30, 2025, 11:42:03 AM »

When he saw that I'd written what was then twelve books, he decided he would write books and publish via what was then CreateSpace on Amazon. Amateur and he wrote nothing - they were all gatherings of the idiocy he posted on his copycat blog site. He coerced Cindy into giving him a blurb, even though she told me she did not want to. He then, and this is exactly who he is, used that same blurb on every pamphlet he published - they weren't really long enough to be books.
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« Reply #70 on: September 30, 2025, 11:43:15 AM »

He couldn't take direction because he wasn't an actor, but I heard him give direction to actors doing a reading of an unfunny play he wrote. His idea of direction was simply giving them exact line readings. I kid you not.
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« Reply #71 on: September 30, 2025, 11:43:50 AM »

Anyway, I would have zero problem with Tom coming back. He should never have left, IMO, and I'm pretty sure I told him that.
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« Reply #72 on: September 30, 2025, 11:46:04 AM »

This morning, a friend was walking down the street and was hit by a violin, then a clarinet, and then a french horn.

We think it was an orchestrated attack.


LOL!
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« Reply #73 on: September 30, 2025, 11:50:38 AM »

Anyway, I would have zero problem with Tom coming back. He should never have left, IMO, and I'm pretty sure I told him that.


That would be so nice!
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« Reply #74 on: September 30, 2025, 11:57:43 AM »

Lovely photo of Annabelle.
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« Reply #75 on: September 30, 2025, 11:58:02 AM »

Yes site has been off and on for me today....but now its on!
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« Reply #76 on: September 30, 2025, 12:06:41 PM »

I wasn't mean to Tomovoz in my response to him - I just wanted him to know what a scum Rothman was for sending me a private e-mail. I told him I was sorry he didn't like my books anymore but that it did not bother me in the least. That was it. Again, I think he was mortified that Rothman had sent me his privately-penned e-mail. But that was Rothman in a nutshell, one of the most ego-ridden jerks I've ever interacted with.

I don't think he thought you were mean about it, and of course he felt bad about it.
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« Reply #77 on: September 30, 2025, 12:08:31 PM »

This below is one of those headlines that makes you think, "Really?  You think that might have been a clue?"


"Keith Urban Getting 'His Own Place' Was a Turning Point in Nicole Kidman Split: 'Writing Was on the Wall' (Exclusive Source)"

Yes I wonder if my wife suspects anything since I just bought a new house in another town.

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« Reply #78 on: September 30, 2025, 12:09:26 PM »

I couldn't laugh at that post earlier as I couldn't open the site.
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« Reply #79 on: September 30, 2025, 12:48:46 PM »

I couldn't laugh at that post earlier as I couldn't open the site.


I was also having trouble getting connected to HHW a few times earlier today.
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« Reply #80 on: September 30, 2025, 12:53:06 PM »

I stayed FB pals with Tom. He used to send me tons of CDs he recorded from his collection of 45s. I wasn’t around during the controversy and he never mentioned it, I imagine because it didn’t reflect well on him. Anyway, good heart, and I’m sorry he’s not on here. I think he’d fit right back in.
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« Reply #81 on: September 30, 2025, 12:54:00 PM »

I couldn't laugh at that post earlier as I couldn't open the site.

I accept delayed laughs!
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« Reply #82 on: September 30, 2025, 12:56:47 PM »

I couldn't laugh at that post earlier as I couldn't open the site.

I accept delayed laughs!

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« Reply #83 on: September 30, 2025, 01:06:42 PM »

Sounds like one of you who know him and would like him to come back should contact him and tell him that, and also say that those of us who showed up here later, and didn't know him, agree.
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« Reply #84 on: September 30, 2025, 01:22:07 PM »

I stayed FB pals with Tom. He used to send me tons of CDs he recorded from his collection of 45s. I wasn’t around during the controversy and he never mentioned it, I imagine because it didn’t reflect well on him. Anyway, good heart, and I’m sorry he’s not on here. I think he’d fit right back in.


Using my newly-found rabbit hole of the HHW statistics, his last posts here were in Feb. 2009.

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« Reply #85 on: September 30, 2025, 01:26:45 PM »

Good afternoon.
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« Reply #86 on: September 30, 2025, 01:27:24 PM »

I remember that kerfuffle. I got an email from that guy, too, which I deleted. I don't even remember what any of it was about.
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« Reply #87 on: September 30, 2025, 01:27:53 PM »

I drove all the way to the arboretum this morning, only to find out they are closed on Tuesdays. That's new.
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« Reply #88 on: September 30, 2025, 01:28:13 PM »

Happy Gotcha Day, Elmore and Annabelle!!
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« Reply #89 on: September 30, 2025, 01:29:28 PM »

I drove all the way to the arboretum this morning, only to find out they are closed on Tuesdays. That's new.


Were there budget cuts?
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