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happy wrote: "Tomorrow we're off to Southern Utah for the annual trip to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. This year they are performingTaming of the Shrew
King Lear
Henry IV-2
We have tickets to all three plus..."
That sounds like a wonderful trip!! Have fun!
Mr. Gretchen and I have officially put our house on the market! I'm somewhere between terrified and excited. I have my heart set on this lovely Tudor style house that sits on top of a hill overlooking a river. The only problem with it is that it hasn't been lived in for some time and the outside needs a lot of help. My six year old is of course in love with the house only two blocks away from the community water park.
Itsa slow Sunday afternoon.... surely these were a bit easy thou' am expecting some fellow phd's!http://www.tickld.com/x/guess-your-le...
Andy wrote: "Itsa slow Sunday afternoon.... surely these were a bit easy thou' am expecting some fellow phd's!http://www.tickld.com/x/guess-your-le..."
Got phd.????
I got PhD too. Either these were really easy or I'm smarter than I thought. I prefer the latter but suspect it's the former.
Congrats Gretchen! I hope you get the Tudor house you want. Isn't Mr. Gretchen handy? Tell him to get to work and that once everything else is fixed, that you need a library ;)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Super easy, Andy!!
Andy wrote: "Itsa slow Sunday afternoon.... surely these were a bit easy thou' am expecting some fellow phd's!http://www.tickld.com/x/guess-your-le..."
Since I feel like I will have paid for a PhD by the time I am done with student loans, I will take that result.
Allie wrote: "Congrats Gretchen! I hope you get the Tudor house you want. Isn't Mr. Gretchen handy? Tell him to get to work and that once everything else is fixed, that you need a library ;)I think you have Mr. Gretchen confused with someone else's husband.
Oh no!! Ok maybe you wont be getting that house :/
Allie wrote: "Oh no!! Ok maybe you wont be getting that house :/"There's professionals to handle some of those things. :)
Good luck with whatever you choose!!
Allie wrote: "Good luck with whatever you choose!!"Haha you can stop digging now ;D
Gretchen wrote: "Mr. Gretchen and I have officially put our house on the market! I'm somewhere between terrified and excited. I have my heart set on this lovely Tudor style house that sits on top of a hill overlook..."Good luck Gretchen, sounds very exciting.
Gretchen wrote: "Andy wrote: "Itsa slow Sunday afternoon.... surely these were a bit easy thou' am expecting some fellow phd's!http://www.tickld.com/x/guess-your-le..."
Since I feel like I will have..."
Lol. Ph.D here too but I hate the quizzes that don't tell you if/what you got right and missed. There was one I wasn't quite sure on.
Congratulations, Gretchen, on selling and buying houses.Re. GONE WITH THE WIND
Re-watched it last night and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE this morning. Clark Gable and Marlon Brandon were spectacular in their respective roles. Vivien Leigh had her moments in both movies. 'I'll think about it tomorrow...' was not one of them. Prissy and Hattie McDaniels were the stars of the show. Sometimes I, myself, wonder 'why I made up that lie.'
Where were you when you first saw GWTW? I was a child that year when my father and uncles tried communal farming. The extended family went straight from the cotton field to the drive in theater. There had to be fifteen people piled into Mother's Mercury. Four of us children rode the fenders to town and were put in the trunk before going through the ticket booth. My cousins, siblings and I acted like monkeys once we got out of the trunk. We chased around, over, and under every car parked at that drive in movie theater. I had a wonderful childhood, but the night we went to see GWTW was special. We deserved an Oscar.
Linda,Your memories about the first time you saw GWTW are wonderful. Hilarious and unique. Thanks for sharing.
On my side, seeing it in a communist country where TV movies and shows were severely censored was a treat in itself. I don't even know how this movie was allowed...
Maybe because it was about how an underclass was exploited for the slave owners' greed????
Jane wrote: "Maybe because it was about how an underclass was exploited for the slave owners' greed????"Most likely.
Every now and then a good movie would slip this way through their fine comb...we always wondered if the following day the broadcasting/censoring director would get fired.
Linda wrote: "Congratulations, Gretchen, on selling and buying houses.Re. GONE WITH THE WIND
Re-watched it last night and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE this morning. Clark Gable and Marlon Brandon were spectacular..."
I was 18 years old and had just graduated high school. My mom had just remarried and was planning on moving down to Florida but they had to delay because I came down with Mononucleosis (working three jobs and finishing school wore me out) and was basically bed-bound for a month. After a week or two I was desperate for new entertainment so my mom started renting 'classic' movies from Blockbuster and we would watch in the afternoons while I recovered. During this time I saw GWTW for the very first time. It was lovely.
Linda:
You might enjoy Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
for a perspective other than Scarlett's. :D
Linda wrote: "Re. GONE WITH THE WINDRe-watched it last night and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE this morning. Clark Gable and Marlon Brandon were spectacular..."
Ahhhh I forgot it was Vivien Leigh day on TCM. Blast it!
I recorded it and since I finished the book (Gone With The Wind) I'll enjoy watching it.
While Utah is not getting the wild fires the rest of the Western US is, we are sure getting the smoke! In fact so far it has been one of the least active fires seasons in years. The valleys are filling up with smoke from the fires in California, Washington, Idaho and parts west of us. The visiblity has dropped to about 3 miles in the last couple of days and as of sundown I could barely see the mountains less than 5 miles away. All that smoke does change there color from brown and geen to purple ( as in the song :) )
I need some info and I didn't know where to post my question so hopefully here is OK. To all those readers who still love to turn paper pages in preference to e readers, why is it that some books open magically and stay open when reading them and others have this stiff binding where the book just automatically closes if you don't have both hands on the pages.It is very hard to read in bed but even harder to eat a sandwich while reading. Is it a matter of cost? Is it harder and more expensive to bind a book so that it is user friendly? I have bought cheap books that open beautifully!
A guess or two: the glue that's used or how close the inner margin is to the fold? I think hardcovers seem to stay open easier, but maybe that's just me.
Thank you Jane. It's hard yo know when ordering on line or from the our Local Library just what we will get.
Just throwing up an idea...I'm betting the cheaper the book (hardback) the easier it stays open. Paperbacks often have shorter pages width wise and therefore don't have the weight to hold themselves open until worn in. I would venture a guess that it also depends on any previous readers. Books with their spines "broken" often flop open much more easily.
Thank you Kimber. I think it is in the binding method. I have tried to relax the spines through force but some books just won't budge. I have seen some tightly woven spines that end up having the pages come loose rather than the spine relax (I am talking well read books). I haven't had a lot of experience reading hardbacks as they are expensive. Occasionally I get one from the Library and I haven't had that problem with hardbacks that I have read.
I will have to find a book binder (probably at a library?) that can help me understand the processes used.
Hardbacks are often sewn and so more easily bending.In paperbacks, the cheaper the stiffer. Since the cheapest paper is thick and rough, it is necessary a thicker and unbending layer of glue...if you insist to open widely the book, you'll probably obtain pages falling from the book like confetti...
..ah, the joy of my ereader! :)
Thank you Simona. Just what I suspected. I will have to stop buying cheap books on-line and stick to the Library. I have tried readers and, for me, it just isn't the same.
I'm leaving the little blonde people with grandma this weekend and going to the Renaissance Fair. They are doing Highland Games this weekend! Mr. Gretchen asked what that meant. I told him it means we are going to watch men in skirts throw heavy objects. I would love to see Highland games in their original environment some day.
Gretchen wrote: "I'm leaving the little blonde people with grandma this weekend and going to the Renaissance Fair. They are doing Highland Games this weekend! Mr. Gretchen asked what that meant. I told him it means..."Enjoy it Gretchen.
Mark wrote: "Gretchen wrote: "I'm leaving the little blonde people with grandma this weekend and going to the Renaissance Fair. They are doing Highland Games this weekend! Mr. Gretchen asked what that meant. I ..."I plan on partaking in the refreshments. It's suppose to be unseasonably chilly on Sunday. I might need the added warmth.
Try the 'agiss, a dangerous beastie to catch and cook.
Mark wrote: "Try the 'agiss, a dangerous beastie to catch and cook."I think if I'm eating that I better actually be in Scotland. ;)
Mark wrote: "Try the 'agiss, a dangerous beastie to catch and cook."Aye tis amazing how quick they can move & they fly too! Allbeit only short distances mind...
Andy wrote: "Mark wrote: "Try the 'agiss, a dangerous beastie to catch and cook."Aye tis amazing how quick they can move & they fly too! Allbeit only short distances mind..."
Sounds a lot like our local Snipe. Extremely tasty but rare and hard to catch. Snipe hunts can go on for days. Elusive little birdies.
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Andy wrote: "Mark wrote: "Try the 'agiss, a dangerous beastie to catch and cook."Aye tis amazing how quick they can move & they fly too! Allbeit only short distances mind..."
Har har har..
Gretchen wrote: "I'm leaving the little blonde people with grandma this weekend and going to the Renaissance Fair. They are doing Highland Games this weekend! Mr. Gretchen asked what that meant. I told him it means..."A city near me always hosts an annual Scottish festival complete with Highland Games at the beginning of August and I missed it this year!! Our Renaissance festival starts next week but I go closer to October. That I will not miss!
Am back and cheerfully entering the books I bought in London into my TBR list. :p
Margaret wrote: "Am back and cheerfully entering the books I bought in London into my TBR list. :p"Welcome back, what waa the highlight of the trip (other than book collecting)
I had so many highlights, Ace.To of the list had to be seeing Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet, and also attending the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. The last was a childhood dream come true.
What did you think of the Hamlet - as a play? I read some pretty scathing reviews.
happy wrote: "What did you think of the Hamlet - as a play? I read some pretty scathing reviews."I thought it was excellent. Some of the staging was innovative and I thought manifesting Hamlet's madness as a return to childhood worked particularly well.
The problem for me was, that Benedict Cumberbatch is one of those actors who come along once in a generation, and act almost everyone else off the stage. There was no-one in the cast of sufficient calibre to properly support him. It did make the play slightly unbalanced.
Ophelia was excellent when not on stage with Hamlet. Her madness was an outstanding performance.
Where the play really fell down was in the choice of Horatio. The actor does not have the presence to carry off the final, vital scene of the play, and therefore the production becomes somewhat anticlimactic.
happy wrote: "What did you think of the Hamlet - as a play? I read some pretty scathing reviews."One thing to remember is that cow from the Times broke protocol. You DO NOT review a play during the preview run. The official opening night isn't until this Wednesday. The preview run is sort of like dress rehearsals with an audience. Things may change between preview and first night.
To do what she did is the most incredible bad manners in the theatre.
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Taming of the Shrew
King Lear
Henry IV-2
We have tickets to all three plus one non Shakespeare play
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This year is the last year for their replica Globe Theater. They are replacing it with a marginally larger bldg that has a retractable roof.