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One blog writer mentions that both Paula & Ann were victims of abuse by their father, which her blogging cell-mate does not deny. Leaving the reality of it all out of it, the notion of a "Richard Benjamin type" having a hit put on him by a psycho sister-in-law on him seems like a great premise for a comedy.

Excellent!

What else will you live to see--how about a Janis Joplin stamp, which is coming out later this year. Do not care for Janis Joplin, don't want my mail to be painfully screaming all day long, sorry.

Emergency! is not a "good" show, but it's not a bad one by any stretch. I'm still in Season 2, but there's regularly the whole vignettes with the veteran THAT guy type character actors like on all the other Jack Webb shows, and the rescue scenes invoking high places are realistic enough to make me nervous (I get really freaked out by unattached, unenclosed heights). But mainly it's like Dragnet or Adam-12, teh fun of sitting there watching routine mundanely and waiting for the moment to happen where THAT guy is involved in some off the wall situation..Ann-Morgan Guilbert has already been on a couple of times, great bit roles executed to perfection, and of course, anything with Burt Mustin will be worth its weight in time spent.Stuff like that. Oh yeah, the stock footage is great too, and if you listen through headphones, you can hear all kinds of subliminal background dialogue going on, as well as some moments in the soundtrack where what the drummer is playing and what everybody else is playing are two different things altogether, and huh? where in the control room did they decide THAT was gonna happen? I still prefer Adam-12 (and over that, I still prefer Dragnet), but after getting off to some really god-awful starts, Emergency is gelling pretty nicely by Season 2. Besides, hey, Julie London & Bobby Troup, and very attractive Lillian Lehman as Nurse Carrol giving everybody all kinds of looks for all kinds of situations. And best of all - one of the best shows ever for commentating while it runs, so many openings for so many jokes, and yes, they give you openings to sieze a them and carry it on out. They should market these things as Comedy Minus One joke-at-home records or something. It's on Netflix. Not the kind of thing you want to watch regularly unless you have a reason to (but I did, I got into the whole Jack Webb 1960s870s TV thing, and this looks like Last Stop), but it's there, and if that's what you're looking for, then there big goobers of it all over here. I'm not into it as a"show" to watch, I'm into it as a ,"wow, look at THIS why doncha'" kind of production/direction buffet of life. And the bystanders - every time there's a rescue scene, fuck the victims - watch the bystanders. That's where the real action is, the real acting. Trust me!

So, I see this chick in an episode of Emergency! and I'm thinking, wow, Paula Prentiss, cool, but...why Emergency!? So, it's like, a big role, right, three segments, and she's funny as hell in all of them (Preston Wood script, and oh btw the other big running plot is that Boot is sick, and there is some crazyass ensemble work with that one as well, and as a show-business aside, have any of you ever met a dog's agent? What kind of a guy is that gonna be anyway?) only...the end credits roll and I see that it's Ann Prentiss, not Paula. I never heard of no Ann Prentiss, that would explain why Emergency!? because it's Ann Prentiss and not Paula Prentiss, but how was I to know that? I guess that's why there are credits offered to and for the discerning viewer, eh? So we can learn. So, off to the internet (everybody else I know is asleep right now), and yes, Ann, not Paula, and guess what - Ann died in prison after being convicted of assault and for soliciting the murder of her father and her brother in law Richard Benjamin (not that Richard Benjamin hasn't gotten on my nerves over the years, but geez...otoh, he's not family so I don't see him regularly...still - not allowable by law, andd law trumps all, land of the free, nation of laws end of story, roll credits again, please). Anyway, this is the kind of thing, like, SO glad it's not happening to me, and since it's not, let's pry a little further...internet, go do your thing fetch, internet, fetch...GOOD BOY!!! And it did not take long at all to find this:http://mediafunhouse.blogspot.com/2010/07/sisterly-menace-deceased-artiste-ann.html with the great line: I know from my days of reading obituaries in search of unintentional humor that this is so often true. However, as if like life mirroring reality in internet form, the next click took me here: http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=10104520#page:showThread,10104520 where it must be said that the blog's juiciest, strangest post is indeed contained at the very end, and I quote: And that's where I said, ok internet, you've done your job and done it well, thanks. Here, have a biscuit and let's go to bed. But still....DAMN.

Sounds like one bullet killed one guy, and then the bomb-pack killed the other five...is that bullet available to pose for a David Carroll album?

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Could be identical triplets, in which case, I'm a fan, I'll allow it.

What kind of a show does Bryan Ferry do these days?

This is in Allen, correct? I will try to make that.

Seems to me that there have been a lot of these over the years, but damned if I'm gonna look for all of 'em. this is the one that springs first to mind (and no, the photos don't have to spell "sex" to qualify for this thread: Case in point:

More Flip the Frog, this one with the moral that people should practice birth control, but if they don't, then fathers should be allowed to kill their babies (once they learn to properly shoot a proper gun, that is), otherwise they'll end up being adopted by inept show-biz frogs practicing to be Tibetan monks, never learn any table manners, and life will be hell for everybody. Still trying to figure out why Flip kinda faded into obscurity among general audiences. The message is universal.

Tiny Tim Miss Vicki Bruno Carr

Tom Archia Chia Pet Collector Wayne Shorter

I see something about needing to update my security...anybody know a good service that's available on short notice and will take checks?

Dr. Julia M. Wren Dr. Francis J. Wren Francis Scott Key

The great ones make it look easy...and to reach total mastery of anything takes no small emotional involvement, although not always of the "extroverted" variety. Having said that, I love BC (the later the better, for me, and will fully stipulate to the "eccentricities" found therein), but this is not her best session, not even close. I think it was her first, though, at least as a featured artist? I've always looked at it as "first session hesitation" or whatever you want to call it. And yet, having said that, the title tune is one of those things that gasses me so much, still, because the tune itself is wonderful, the lyrics are so cool, and she is perfect in delivering them. That, and the concept of a "social call" in general is so quaint in its present day obsolescence and so wonderful in its natural manifestation that its disappearance is one thing that I file under "World Gone Wrong" without any fear of being called nostalgic or whatever. Hey, if you love somebody, wrap 'em up tight, ok, but if you got friends of any gender (or species), pay them a good old-fashioned social call and reap the rewards of the intangoible feelgood. Drop by chat a while, have a glass of lemonade or a cup of coffee, bid adieu, and then get back on with your day. It's a good thing, the social call is.

Yeah, the lady at the PO counter from whom I purchased the stamps was no older than 25 or so. I told her that gee, this is proof that in some parallel universe somewhere, everything went right. She didn't really get it, but the old guy at the station next to her's LOL'ed.

Include some vintage Yardley products and triple your money!

You mean it made the mail move 100x faster? Maybe Amazon UK should have used them on them Filmore sets not headed to America just yet!

The whole sheet, front and back, looks like a picture-sleeve 45. Imagine sending your mail with Jimi Hendrix stamps. Now you can.And now I will, thank you, America, I guess, right? So, what else will I live to see?

Yeah, the rock stars fucked up a jazz record, oh well, it's still Warne Marsh, and it's still a good record. I don't really like what they did to his tone (they fucked that up worse than anything else, imo), but I've heard enough Warne Marsh that my brain can compensate. People get pissed off about that sometimes, that their brain has to do the work instead of the record handing it to them. That must be one of those Post-Digital paradigms or something. It's a good record, everything on it s good. Fuck the "sound", the producers, the choice of takes, fuck all that and just listen to the playing. It's a good record. It's not my "favorite" Warne Marsh record, but hell, when it came out, do you remember how many other Warne Marsh records there were to get? Less than the then-total of Sonny Stitt & Lee Konitz combined! It's a good record. Know the history, angst about the fuckups, but dig the music, it's there. Or are there too many Warne Marsh records these days?

Charles Mingus Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass John Pisano

Party pooper!

Janacek: Choral works Reinbert de Leeuw,Netherlands Chamber Choir,Schoenberg Ensemble Janacek: Choral Music James Wood,Critical Band,New London Chamber Choir Janacek Hradcany Songs Machotkova,Depoltova,Cech,Koda Chen Yi/Karen Tanaka: Invisible Curve Azure Ensemble