Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 01, 2025, 12:15:06 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes welcomed November, and now it is time for you to post until the November cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: FELICITOUS!
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Another 3-fer! :D Who'da thunk it?
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Responding to a couple of posts from yesterday:
Rodzinski of COURSE, I remember Coffee Crisp! I still have some in my freezer. ;D
And:
Thanks, Jrand, for the "Nice photos" comment. :)
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TOD: (I'm sure I'll think of more later)
Heaven Can Wait
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Good morning, all!
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I just lost 15-20 minutes to a computer glitch. I am not amused. Dammit.
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I slept rather well. Lots of dreams but none I now remember.
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Last night I was in no mood for a horror film so I searched Amazon Prime for Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows.
There were more versions of Wonderland available than I had anticipated, and I ended up watching a 1986 BBC miniseries which had everything going for it except a young girl to play the leading lady. Instead of a young girl - Alice Liddell was 12 or 13 when Alice in Wonderland was ublished in 1865 - the BBC cast a 23 year-old (! ! !) Kate Dorning who never once looks like a 12 year-old. She looked like a 20 yeaqr-old lady pretending to be a little girl. I hated her. The rest of the cast and design were excellent.
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Notes panhandled. Grooved.
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Good morning, all.
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Coffee!!
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Last night I did the TCM thing again to see Halloween through the rest of the way.
I caught the second half of Who Killed Teddy Bear?, the first half of Night of the Living Dead, and the middle half of Carnival of Souls, catching bits of sleep through the other portions of those. Finally, there was no way I was up for tackling any of House (Hausu) in the wee hours, and I turned it off and slept soundly.
A disjointed movie watching night, but oddly enjoyable due to the particular mix of films that are a kind of comfort food when it comes to this genre.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Good morning.
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An interesting observation - about artists being able to get their own work out into the world - made by attorney Richard Samson (who worked for the New York Times when he said this in 2017):
"Q: How have you seen the media and entertainment industry change over the course of your career?
A: The entertainment industry has changed in so many ways in the last ten, twenty years. It has gotten so much easier in so many ways to break into the entertainment industry as an artist. There used to be this whole mechanism, this structure that stood between the artist and the audience. Now, because of the Internet, everyone can immediately self-publish all of their work to the public.
I think that is the biggest change. If you are a talented person you can get your work seen by masses of people through social media or through the Internet in ways that just did not exist at all twenty years ago. Now, it is so much easier to create something and to get it either through Amazon, through YouTube, through all of these channels where there is no barrier to entry. ... "
https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/interview-with-richard-samson-vice-president-and-assistant-general-counsel-for-the-new-york-times-1-of-2/
From: Interview with Richard Samson: Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for the New York Times (2017)
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We've (meaning I) have decided to downsize Halloween at home. It was so slow last night. We'll concentrate on the church function instead. I'll still put out candy, but I'll probably just put out a big bowl and leave it at that.
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My DH was having trouble getting the shade frame with orange lights folded back up. Do you think he destroyed it on purpose?
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It's ok. We used it to attract attention.
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I'm just kinda sad to see the fun traditions disappearing.
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Last night, the family who now lives in my childhood home came by. On purpose. I've met the parents while out walking. But I hadn't met the kids. They are so sweet. I'm glad a family that loves that house owns it now.
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Today ... two different veggie boxes. Tomorrow, a nice veggie casserole of some kind for the church potluck.
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Have been out to breakfast, to the post office, and the grocery store. Feeling virtuous.
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Important envelope vibes for MR BK.
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DR LAURA if I had had unlimited treats I probably would have kept the door open until 8 p.m. but I was running low...and I didn't want to take the chance of not having enough if a group came to the door.
Of course this year instead of leaving it to chance, I stood in the door in my monkey suit waving as people walked by.
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And still some folks walked on by.....so there!
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Saturday.
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I watched TCM as well DR CHAS SMITH and enjoyed the Creepy Cinema double bill.
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Page Two.
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Last Saturday performance vibes for DR GEORGE & Co.
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What a day,
What a day,
For an auto-da-fé!
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What a day,
What a day,
For an auto-da-fé!
I suspect that's a song that would never get on a Broadway stage if it were first written today!
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I suspect you're right, DR Freddie.
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Important envelope vibes for MR BK.
DITTO!
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The Indiana FSSA has just announced that it will discontinue Child Care Vouchers in January, 2026.
There is no money.
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I started to watch the latest SUPERMAN movie....last about ten minutes.
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Ugh I have seen both of THE BAD SEED remakes that MR BK mentions in the notes....I feel pretty much the same way about them that he does.
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Last Saturday performance vibes for DR GEORGE & Co.
Double vibes.
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What a day,
What a day,
For an auto-da-fé!
Only if it’s directed toward the government.
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From DR Rodzinski:
My daughter was one of 8 kids dressed as her character at the school.
I should watch a clip from the show.
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Rodzinski, I am glad the rain waited until your evening was done.
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From DR Laura:
Teens are fine with me.
I always felt the same way, and I was once one of those teens.
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From Laura:
Someone on another street gave out onions as a trick. The kids were excited to have a potato to go with it.
This makes me laugh, and I think it is great that they were excited about patatoes and onions :)
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Last night we watched Eleanor the Great on the reccomendation of a friend who said have Kleenix handy. We never needed Kleenix, and we never finished watching the movie.
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Another 3-fer! :D Who'da thunk it?
Wow, congratulations!
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TOD: (I'm sure I'll think of more later)
Heaven Can Wait
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Yes to the first two. I don't remember the third though I am sure we watched it.
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We've (meaning I) have decided to downsize Halloween at home. It was so slow last night. We'll concentrate on the church function instead. I'll still put out candy, but I'll probably just put out a big bowl and leave it at that.
Sounds like a good plan.
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My DH was having trouble getting the shade frame with orange lights folded back up. Do you think he destroyed it on purpose?
;D
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I'm just kinda sad to see the fun traditions disappearing.
I understand how you feel. I used to love Halloween and felt bad when we no longer got Trick or Treaters.
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Last night, the family who now lives in my childhood home came by. On purpose. I've met the parents while out walking. But I hadn't met the kids. They are so sweet. I'm glad a family that loves that house owns it now.
This post is heartwarming.
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And still some folks walked on by.....so there!
Hopefully they still appreciated your waving in your monkey suit.
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The Indiana FSSA has just announced that it will discontinue Child Care Vouchers in January, 2026.
There is no money.
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I just thought about this:
I haven't personally had trick-or-treaters since... oh my god...
Since I lived at home with my family? i.e., since high school?
After that, it was college dorms and subsequent rooms/apartments while at school, apartment complexes in L.A. and Chicago, the condo in L.A., the first apartment complex in Danbury, a friend's guest cottage, and then this house in that same neighborhood which, due to its semi-rural pedestrian-unfriendly nature, simply doesn't get trick-or-treaters. Have I forgotten anything?
For a while, we kept plenty of Halloween candy for "just in case", but "just in case" literally does not happen in this part of town. We've been to, and have thrown ourselves, several great parties over the years, and we always love the season in general. But trick-or-treating hasn't been part of my life - practically speaking - almost since I was doing it myself.
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There are no trick or treaters in my town. The houses are too spread out. Though some mystery person left is a carved jack-o-lantern a few nights ago.
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People go to the Canadian town next door. But what’s happened there is what I suspect has happened to a lot of towns. A particular area of town gets known for being the best, so all the kids descend on it. Other neighborhoods, seeing fewer kids, have fewer participants, so kids stop going there.
We met up with a few school families in one neighborhood near the kids’ school which is sort of a happy medium. Maybe every other house welcomes trick or treaters.
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As for the people who live in the one popular neighborhood, they get used to spending several hundred dollars on candy.
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I wonder if anyone dressed up in black tie throwing potatoes and staplers, and went Trick or Treating as a once-exiled Broadway producer now warmly embraced and welcomed back to commercial Broadway with open arms.
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Maybe it's time to get off of page 2.
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People go to the Canadian town next door. But what’s happened there is what I suspect has happened to a lot of towns. A particular area of town gets known for being the best, so all the kids descend on it. Other neighborhoods, seeing fewer kids, have fewer participants, so kids stop going there.
We met up with a few school families in one neighborhood near the kids’ school which is sort of a happy medium. Maybe every other house welcomes trick or treaters.
A happy medium sounds nice. The more popular areas seem way too crowded.
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PAGE THREE
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THREE!
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As Yogi Berra might have said, nobody's goes there, it's too crowded.
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THREE!
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Ooh, really pretty!
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The one time I can remember going to another neighborhood to - hopefully - take in a better haul of candy was in one of our early years in Fort Lauderdale. My parents agreed to drive us over to one of the "canal" neighborhoods near the ocean, but if memory serves, the haul turned out to be no better than where we lived. Luck of the draw, or whatever. I believe we only tried it that one time.
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I just ate something delightful.
An onion.
No, really. I was making a sandwich and wanted to add onion to it. I had a leftover red one I'd bought for my tuna pasta salad. But how many weeks ago was that? The little bit left was looking a little pathetic, so I tossed it and sliced the new Vidalia onion I'd just picked up a couple of days ago. Normally, I buy and enjoy the sweet goodness of those all summer long when they're plentiful in the stores here, but for some reason this year that just didn't happen. So it had been a while since I'd had one.
Oh man. Delicious. I love all onions, but there's nothing like being able to take a bite of something liberally loaded with Vidalia, and chomp on that goodness without breathing fire. Yeah, it's still onion and you need to cleanse your breath, but what a different and lovely experience.
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Potatoes And Staplers.
It's the new War And Peace.
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I just ate something delightful.
An onion.
No, really. I was making a sandwich and wanted to add onion to it. I had a leftover red one I'd bought for my tuna pasta salad. But how many weeks ago was that? The little bit left was looking a little pathetic, so I tossed it and sliced the new Vidalia onion I'd just picked up a couple of days ago. Normally, I buy and enjoy the sweet goodness of those all summer long when they're plentiful in the stores here, but for some reason this year that just didn't happen. So it had been a while since I'd had one.
Oh man. Delicious. I love all onions, but there's nothing like being able to take a bite of something liberally loaded with Vidalia, and chomp on that goodness without breathing fire. Yeah, it's still onion and you need to cleanse your breath, but what a different and lovely experience.
I went to a Mexican barbecue joint last night. They give you a steamed onion wrapped in foil and grilled alongside the chicken with every order. That onion was perfection last night. I could have eaten two.
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I’m tired.
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I need energy. I have to usher in just a few hours for the theater’s big annual fundraiser party. Niles Rodgers of Le Freak fame is going to disco up the place.
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Elmore, I cannot preorder Moonshine and Mistletoe from the site you posted on castrecl. It won’t let me enter a ZIP code or birthday. Strange
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Been thinking about how the ECHO magazine pages and tracks might be presented digitally.
In the meantime, I found my similarly constructed National Geographic bird songs. These are not the tear-out record pages from the magazines. I think these books were inside a flap in the covers of their earlier hardcover books on birds. (Their earlier books were quite luxurious in comparison with later ones.)
I have no idea how many such things they issued, but I have two: Bird Sounds (of Marsh, Upland and Shore) and Bird Songs (of Garden, Woodland and Meadow). Here's a roughly scanned example of how they did it.
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Size is about 6.5" square, there are 6 records in each book, each double-sided. You flip the record onto the page whose sounds you want to hear, and place it on the turntable that way.
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
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Got dressed and went right to the mail place and picked up two important envelopes and a couple of teeny-tiny packages that I'll share with you in the new notes.
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Back now and am taking a chance on the small Marco's Ultimo Pepperoni. Hoping it will be better than the last couple of times.
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That should be here in thirty minutes.
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Glad to hear about the Important Envelopes.
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I remember records that were on the backs of cereal packages....even on my player - the sound wasn't so hot....and I don't think it was my player.
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Size is about 6.5" square, there are 6 records in each book, each double-sided. You flip the record onto the page whose sounds you want to hear, and place it on the turntable that way.
That looks impressive. I've never seen books like those before. Thanks for posting that.
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Got dressed and went right to the mail place and picked up two important envelopes and a couple of teeny-tiny packages that I'll share with you in the new notes.
Good to hear the important envelopes arrived!
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I remember records that were on the backs of cereal packages....even on my player - the sound wasn't so hot....and I don't think it was my player.
I remember the playable records on the back of cereal boxes.
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Today ... two different veggie boxes. Tomorrow, a nice veggie casserole of some kind for the church potluck.
My DH picked up one box. I went the other direction to get the other one. The place I went is just so disorganized. I won't even bother with them again. Too bad, because although the box is smaller than the first place, it has completely different stuff.
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Elmore, I cannot preorder Moonshine and Mistletoe from the site you posted on castrecl. It won’t let me enter a ZIP code or birthday. Strange
I'm having thoughts that Joy Machine may be a cockamamie company! Perhaps it won't let you order until the recording is officially released? Maybe the damned recording is cursed?
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Here's a BroadwayWorld article from earlier this year on the Joy Machine label.
"A new record label, Joy Machine Records, has launched with a special focus on developing new musical theater projects and solo projects from new artists."
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Veterans-Launch-Joy-Machine-Records-Spotlighting-the-Development-of-New-Musicals-20250113
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I’m dressed.
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Still no energy.
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But I can hustle, if called upon.
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Page turn!
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Four!
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I have started a French movie in French called The Beat That My Heart Skipped. It’s about a small-time hustler who also has a chance to be a concert pianist. I know it’s not going to end well. Maybe I will finish it tomorrow.
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THREE!
Ooh, really pretty!
Thank you.
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Today ... two different veggie boxes. Tomorrow, a nice veggie casserole of some kind for the church potluck.
My DH picked up one box. I went the other direction to get the other one. The place I went is just so disorganized. I won't even bother with them again. Too bad, because although the box is smaller than the first place, it has completely different stuff.
Too bad it isn't worth your time.
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I have now caught up with HELL'S KITCHEN.
One of the few reality series that I enjoy.
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I am watching SCANNERS. Which I have never seen.
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Oh, this other label is doing it - good, I'll stop our prep - I've told everyone involved I wouldn't do it before Christmas - I just stopped everything. So, good that this other label can do it. One less thing to worry about and put out a lot of money for.
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BK, you have a 161,000 Millstone coming. Today, maybe?
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Ooh, I do! I do!
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I'll make that today.
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I just will.
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Nothing can stop me now.
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Oh, this other label is doing it - good, I'll stop our prep - I've told everyone involved I wouldn't do it before Christmas - I just stopped everything. So, good that this other label can do it. One less thing to worry about and put out a lot of money for.
I'm glad you are good with the other label doing it.
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Totally fine. Someone should have let me know, of course, but since it took them two YEARS to actually get me everything we needed and by then it was too late for Xmas last year, and I was never going to release this any other time but the holidays - I mean, imagine if you will had no one said anything. I have a three-year paper trail on this thing. It would not have been pretty. But all's well that ends well. I was doing this strictly as a favor to elmore.
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Last Saturday performance vibes for DR GEORGE & Co.
Thanks, Jrand!
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The Indiana FSSA has just announced that it will discontinue Child Care Vouchers in January, 2026.
There is no money.
:(
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Last Saturday performance vibes for DR GEORGE & Co.
Double vibes.
Thanks, John!
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What a day,
What a day,
For an auto-da-fé!
Only if it’s directed toward the government.
Ha! ;D
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Another 3-fer! :D Who'da thunk it?
Wow, congratulations!
Thanks, Jane!
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THREE!
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Very cool!
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I need energy. I have to usher in just a few hours for the theater’s big annual fundraiser party. Niles Rodgers of Le Freak fame is going to disco up the place.
Have a great time, John!
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THREE!
Very cool!
Thank you.
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Been thinking about how the ECHO magazine pages and tracks might be presented digitally.
In the meantime, I found my similarly constructed National Geographic bird songs. These are not the tear-out record pages from the magazines. I think these books were inside a flap in the covers of their earlier hardcover books on birds. (Their earlier books were quite luxurious in comparison with later ones.)
I have no idea how many such things they issued, but I have two: Bird Sounds (of Marsh, Upland and Shore) and Bird Songs (of Garden, Woodland and Meadow). Here's a roughly scanned example of how they did it.
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8133.0;attach=27781)
Those are great, ChasSmith!
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Got dressed and went right to the mail place and picked up two important envelopes and a couple of teeny-tiny packages that I'll share with you in the new notes.
Good to hear the important envelopes arrived!
Ditto!!
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Elmore, I cannot preorder Moonshine and Mistletoe from the site you posted on castrecl. It won’t let me enter a ZIP code or birthday. Strange
I'm having thoughts that Joy Machine may be a cockamamie company! Perhaps it won't let you order until the recording is officially released? Maybe the damned recording is cursed?
Oh, no! Hopefully, it's legitimate and it all works out!
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Totally fine. Someone should have let me know, of course, but since it took them two YEARS to actually get me everything we needed and by then it was too late for Xmas last year, and I was never going to release this any other time but the holidays - I mean, imagine if you will had no one said anything. I have a three-year paper trail on this thing. It would not have been pretty. But all's well that ends well. I was doing this strictly as a favor to elmore.
But is that other place doing physical CDs? That's a benefit for fans and collectors over downloads. :-\
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Keith got Wordle in three :)
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Keith got Wordle in three :)
Congrats to Keith!
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I am seeking suggestions.
I am driving to a conference this week with the preacher in the car with me. I need some weird songs to add to my playlist, just to mess with him.
I have weird stuff (Fish Heads, Animaniacs, theme from Mario video game, etc.) mixed with classical (Rhapsody in Blue, Nessum Dorma, O Fortuna, Carmen, etc.) and some odd show songs (like Book of Mormon, Avenue Q).
Suggestions?
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Keith got Wordle in three :)
Congrats to Keith!
Thanks.
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I am seeking suggestions.
I am driving to a conference this week with the preacher in the car with me. I need some weird songs to add to my playlist, just to mess with him.
I have weird stuff (Fish Heads, Animaniacs, theme from Mario video game, etc.) mixed with classical (Rhapsody in Blue, Nessum Dorma, O Fortuna, Carmen, etc.) and some odd show songs (like Book of Mormon, Avenue Q).
Suggestions?
;D Have fun.
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FIVE!
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Wow!
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I have a stupid question.
Why are there so many versions of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right?"
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Wow!
:)
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Aunt Sassy has suggested that song about ten times in a row.
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I think I need a good Ethel Merman song.
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FIVE!
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Beautiful!
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I think I need a good Ethel Merman song.
Maybe
Ethel Merman - Blow Gabriel Blow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yOpUkMVz_w
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Perfect. Thanks!
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:)
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Perhaps some Tom Lehrer.
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Aunt Sassy has suggested that song about ten times in a row.
;D
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FIVE!
Beautiful!
Thank you.
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TOD not mentioned earlier.
Father of the Bride
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Good evening!
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Another 3-fer! :D Who'da thunk it?
Great, DR George!
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Keith got Wordle in three :)
Congrats to Keith!
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My Wordle score: 4/6
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Keith got Wordle in three :)
Congrats to Keith!
Thanks.
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My Wordle score: 4/6
Very good.
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I have a stupid question.
Why are there so many versions of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right?"
Because it's a good song, and most singers believe they can sing it better than Dylan?
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Intermission.
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Only twenty more postings.
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Must have a small snack so I can take pill two.
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I have a stupid question.
Why are there so many versions of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right?"
Because it's a good song, and most singers believe they can sing it better than Dylan?
Do you agree with most singers?
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For those who may remember long ago dear reader Panni (aka Anna Sandor), she passed away a couple of hours ago. We were friends for a time until she became a little too nutty for me, so she then insinuated herself with my cousin and they've remained friends, which is fine. I saw her at a few cousin dinners, but that's about it. She left the site around 2004, maybe? Cousin wrote me last night to say Panni had been sick for the last eight months, gone down to eighty pounds (although I don't think she ever weighed more than ninety), has been in hospice and hospital and last night they told her they had to operate but that it was probably way too dangerous and she chose for them to let her die. Daughter Rachel was there with her.
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Back to the movie and then a new plateau.
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For those who may remember long ago dear reader Panni (aka Anna Sandor), she passed away a couple of hours ago. We were friends for a time until she became a little too nutty for me, so she then insinuated herself with my cousin and they've remained friends, which is fine. I saw her at a few cousin dinners, but that's about it. She left the site around 2004, maybe? Cousin wrote me last night to say Panni had been sick for the last eight months, gone down to eighty pounds (although I don't think she ever weighed more than ninety), has been in hospice and hospital and last night they told her they had to operate but that it was probably way too dangerous and she chose for them to let her die. Daughter Rachel was there with her.
:( Condolences to all of former DR Panni's family and friends.
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Definitely recall Panni from my early stint here. May she find greater joy in the great beyond.
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Another 3-fer! :D Who'da thunk it?
Great, DR George!
Thanks, Kevin!
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Oh, look! It's Page Six!
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My Wordle score: 4/6
That's great, Kevin!
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I also experienced the issues that DR John G. did on the website for Moonshine and Mistletoe.
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I don't know why I'm so tired. I didn't do much of anything all day.
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Other than early.
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Tried to watch an episode of The Avengers from 1955 with a very young Diana Rigg, but in the move the remote for the DVD player is missing, so that was a frustrating experience.
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Did my personal benefits for 2026. They've added a legal plan option. For a very reasonable cost, you have access to attorneys should you ever need them. I'm signing up.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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Enjoy your extra hour!
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Did my personal benefits for 2026. They've added a legal plan option. For a very reasonable cost, you have access to attorneys should you ever need them. I'm signing up.
Nice.
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Nile Rodgers (not Niles as I wrote earlier) was amazing. And I got to see him twice. We got to be in the room for the soundcheck, which turned into a mini concert for some very high donors.
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I knew he’d written Le Freak, C’est Chic and I Want Your Love. I didn’t know he’d written We Are Family, Good Times, Like a Virgin and Material Girl. He wrote Let’s Dance, I’m Coming Out and Upside Down.
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So many good songs. Here’s a favorite.
https://youtu.be/VIpd35yWDqk?si=2cgK7C5J-pMhWvZ7
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The singers and musicians in the video were with him tonight.
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The orchestra floor was flat so dinner could be served. I was down on the floor, close to the stage. So I had a beautiful spot and only a few people to keep track of, so I could sway a bit to the music.
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He tells a great story in that disco documentary about going to a club in NYC and hearing his first club hit being played over and over again, and everyone is like, “You wrote this?”
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There was only one incident. I had a person come up to me and say he was the insurance underwriter for the theater. He didn’t like the fact that a man in the back was standing on and dancing on a chair.
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My manager was not in sight, but I saw someone in management, and told him. Then I went to find someone who would handle it. They thought it would be a drunk woman, not a man. He was still on the chair when the manager arrived, and she talked him down.
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He tells a great story in that disco documentary about going to a club in NYC and hearing his first club hit being played over and over again, and everyone is like, “You wrote this?”
Yeah, I can see that. It’s hard to believe just how much amazing music has come from him.
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Finished with my viewing.
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May as well do this thing we must do.
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This new plateau.
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Then everyone can say "whoa".
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And go know.
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And go, man, go.
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Let's put on a show.
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Go with the flow.
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Spend some dough.
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Wear a bow.
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Gotta crow.
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To and fro.
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Pull a Moe.
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Pull a Poe.
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Eat some snow..
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Head to toe.
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And here it is - a new plateau!
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And the proof.
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Well done, 161!
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Listening to Heitor Villa Lobos and/or Branislaw Kaper’s score for “Green Mansions.”
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Unclear how much Villa Lobos remained in this. The movie was a flop, but the book it is based on is one of my favorites.
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The film score is mostly Kaper. Villa-Lobos's original score can be heard on an album called Forest of the Amazon. https://youtu.be/LscWPBPKLhY?si=F6u9Pi08R_E0iosd
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Long notes for tomorrow so I'm holding the package stuff until Monday's notes.
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I have a stupid question.
Why are there so many versions of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right?"
Aunt Sassy has suggested that song about ten times in a row.
I don't know that song. ::) Should I?
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Oh, and I'm home. :)
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Tonight's J&H went well...again.
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Some people even booed the character of Spider.
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Bit it wasn't a natural booing. They were asked to do it, but the actor playing Spider still liked the idea, so he didn't mind either way.
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Well, tomorrow is the last performance, then we strike the set, props, and costumes, and put the show to bed.
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New notes are written.
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They are long.
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Very, very long.
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Listening to the score Rodzinski was mentioning - the original score for Green Mansions by Villa-Lobos - which he re-worked into a concert piece called Forest of the Amazons. He added a chorus and an overture, but the orchestral stuff is what he wrote for the movie - it's great.
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Really great.
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I think I've probably eaten enough today and yet I'm thinking of something light I might snack on. I need some crackers here or something.
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That would help.
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I do have English muffins and peanut butter but I'm not really in the mood.
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One must be in the mood.
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And I am not in the mood.
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PAGE EIGHT DANCE!!
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For those who may remember long ago dear reader Panni (aka Anna Sandor), she passed away a couple of hours ago. We were friends for a time until she became a little too nutty for me, so she then insinuated herself with my cousin and they've remained friends, which is fine. I saw her at a few cousin dinners, but that's about it. She left the site around 2004, maybe? Cousin wrote me last night to say Panni had been sick for the last eight months, gone down to eighty pounds (although I don't think she ever weighed more than ninety), has been in hospice and hospital and last night they told her they had to operate but that it was probably way too dangerous and she chose for them to let her die. Daughter Rachel was there with her.
Oh, no. My condolences to her family and friends. :(
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Tried to watch an episode of The Avengers from 1955 with a very young Diana Rigg, but in the move the remote for the DVD player is missing, so that was a frustrating experience.
NOOOOOOOOOO!! >:( I hate it when I can't find a remote!
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Nile Rodgers (not Niles as I wrote earlier) was amazing. And I got to see him twice. We got to be in the room for the soundcheck, which turned into a mini concert for some very high donors.
Very cool, John!
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Okay, I gave in and ordered two small items from Taco Bell.
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I just did.
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Hope I don't regret it.
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But the pizza thing was very small and only rice pudding and a little soup besides that.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.