Aw, I’m sorry your kiddo is sick! Does she just have a bad cold then, since it’s not pneumonia?

ELO is one of my top five favorite bands. And that’s awesome about the chemo! I hope that you’re in the clear from here on out!

I just posted the basics of it in my reply to Otto86. It’s not an exact recipe because I just kind of add stuff in here and there, but it’s got the whole method and ingredients.

Well I’m glad to know that things are changing for the better. It’s baby steps, you know? And congrats on your upcoming anniversary.

I remember you telling me that last week- was anything salvageable from the fire?

You’d be dead of alcohol poisoning within 25 minutes if you made it a drinking game.

Glad to be of service!

The class is called Entertainment in American Life. It’s a humanities elective. It’s worth searching for!

There is so much stuff that the BBC just recorded over that is now lost forever, because they were trying to save money by reusing the film. Whole seasons of Dr. Who, performances by The Beatles, all kinds of things. They even considered recording over Monty Python at one point! There’s a missing Alfred Hitchcock…

Of course! I have a huge record collection, and two turntables- one with a detachable soundsystem, and one vintage self-contained suitcase record player. I love MP3s and all, but I love the sound and smell of vinyl.

Yes I have, and that thing is so convenient when I’m having to do bibliographies for my essays. Older entertainment was just so fascinating to read about, and it’s a shame that so many of those old recordings of people like Eddie Cantor have been destroyed. And I can’t hold back my true feelings about Thomas Edison…

I haven’t yet. I have it on my queue, though! And it is such a great song. That album is such a beautiful piece of work. I found a copy of it on vinyl in mint condition last August for $15 CDN. The guy who sold it to me even played it in the store so I could tell how good of a copy it was. I was elated.

Yeah, beer is definitely more fun. I was just wondering about the Pamprin/Midol because it’s been years since I’ve had to take that stuff, and my periods before my hysterectomy were so out of whack that it never worked anyway. Sometimes my mom would take pity on me when I was younger and we’d drive 45 minutes across…

A dear friend of mine was diagnosed with adult ADHD a couple of years ago. She’s actually off of her medication right now because she’s pregnant, but medication and therapy have helped her immensely. I don’t see her all of the time so I don’t know how she is day to day, but I did notice a big difference when she was…

Something else that was interesting was that a lot of the Vaudeville actors were minorities themselves. Jews, Italians, Irish, African Americans, Poles. So while they would sometimes rely on racial humour in their acts, backstage they mostly got along quite nicely, because they were all shat upon by society and were…

I’m going to be so bummed in four weeks when the class is over. I mean, I can always continue to research this stuff on my own time, but I won’t get college credits for it. I wish there was a job where this knowledge was useful and could be utilized and was lucrative, but other than being a professor which is not for…

Well happy early birthday and Sto Lat!

That’s how it typically goes for me too. I have bipolar 2, so I get more of the depression than the mania and when I do get manic, it’s hypomania. But when it’s bad, it goes from me being emotionally numb and dead and then it kind of spirals out of control. When I changed meds, it took a couple of weeks, but I had…

You know, if the wine is really bad, you can always use it as a cooking wine if it’s a dry wine or wait around for awhile until it turns into vinegar.

Yep, APA. Some classes at this school do MLA, some do APA, and it always throws me off. Can’t they just decide on one format and stick with it? Gah. I really loved this week’s material though, because of the Vaudeville stuff. The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, The Three Stooges, I love all of them. I…