Haines His Way

And one for Dobos!

Great Panni, means I shouldn’t have any trouble finding it.

Yep.  And who do you suppose purchased said item?

RLP thanks for the suggestion.  It might come in handy when I can’t find the case opener or am traveling.

What is inside the Dobos Torta?

Glad I'm not the only one.  I could blame it on Keith since I don't live alone but I do believe I'm the guilty one.  I gave myself a good laugh anyway.

What are you reading and how do you like it?  

I’m reading Steinbeck’s THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT to be followed by Anna Porter’s THE STORYTELLER.  

I thought the first 5-pages of Winter were tiresome and/or uninviting but once I got into the rhythm of the main character I have been enjoying it ever since.

My question is for Panni. How does one judge a script for the emmys? Does watching the show hinder or help in judging or do you just read them?

Jennifer years ago I lost my letter opener and have yet to replace it.  One of these days.

What is inside the Dobos Torta?

According to my Torture Panni website:

Dobos Torte

A Dobo's Delights Specialty!
[ DOH-bohsh ]

This rich torte is made by stacking 9 extra-thin layers of génoise (or sponge cake) spread with chocolate buttercream. The top is covered with a hard caramel glaze.

Available in traditional round  or rectangular shapes.

Dobo's <> dobos
Despite the similarity, dobos is not the same as Dobo's. Our Hungarian name is Dobo, while 'dobos' means 'like a drum' in Hungarian. Hence the drum shape of the traditional torte. However, The Dobos Torte was actually created by Austrian pastry chef Josef Dobos, which also isn't the same as Dobo.

der Brucer

Evening all.  I have to report I had a bit of a set back.  I did not feel good today and was told by several people that I looked quite pale.  I almost used my pass to come home.  I think I just need to rest.  No worries.  I’m sure I’ll live.  

I always see my house number on the digital clock.  I either wake up just in time to roll over and squint at the clock or I seem to always seem to look at the clock on my computer at work at just the right time.  I thought that only happened to me.  How strange but how cool to know that happens to others.

I bought one of those CD/DVD package openers.  After I spend about an hour looking for the darn thing, I always give up and either go get a knife or a fork to get the dang package open.  

Of course, as soon as I don’t need it, the CD/DVD package opener comes out of hiding. Yes, I am firmly of the opinion that it does that on purpose.  And people wonder why I buy four and five of an item.  And I wonder why I STILL can’t find the whatever when I need/want it!

I fear I am woefully out of step/date with the music of today.  I don’t like Rap and most songs just sound like someone screaming.  I’m both floored and shocked at some of the language of some of the “songs” I hear coming out of cars that pass by.  One four letter word after another.  I’m honestly bewildered as to why that is considered necessary.  Gee, do I sound like an old lady?

My question(s) for the day is/are, I wonder what kind of computer do you all have?  What do you do with them besides going on the net and HHW?  Are you happy with the one you have?

I hope everyone else is doing better.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~ just in case they are still needed.  

Danise I’m sorry you had a set back.  You just felt too good to begin with and probably over did it.  Yes, rest for a couple of days and feel better quickly.

Jennifer---
As the HHW resident reality show expert, are you going to watch the new show where they put the Amish youth in with some Hollywood kids and see how they mix?  If so, please give your impressions tomorrow.  Unless Canada has the good taste not to show this explotive show of course.

Notes from MSNBC:


Cast members of UPN's new reality series, "Amish in the City," from left, Jonas, Miriam, Randy, Ruth and Mose.

The Associated Press
Updated: 3:03 p.m. ET July 21, 2004


LOS ANGELES - Television is not part of the traditional Amish world. But the Amish are now part of television, like it or not.

Amish in the City” gives five young adults the chance to explore the big city and discover what life is like outside their Amish communities.

In the first two episodes of the UPN reality series, they hit the beach for sun and fun, visit a mall and cultivate sometimes uneasy relationships with six non-Amish sharing their temporary Hollywood Hills home.

Compared to other fishbowl shows like “Big Brother” or “The Real World” the series is tame, at least in the early going. There’s no drinking, no sex and no knife-wielding roommates in the two-hour premiere airing 8 p.m. ET July 28.

But there are bikinis, they’re scanty and they’re worn by the Amish women.

“Oh, my, really?” said Amish cultural historian Joseph Yoder after hearing a description of the program.

Not something they typically wear?

“Heavens, no, not in public,” he replied.

Yoder is concerned the series will live down to his expectations and justify the protests he lodged as director of Menno-Hof, an Amish and Mennonite center in Shipshewana, Ind. Other groups and political leaders criticized plans for “Amish in the City.”

“Our concerns were that Hollywood would probably get it wrong with the Amish, and just the whole thing of televising the Amish and putting Amish people on TV,” Yoder said. “They don’t even believe in this kind of thing; they’re trying to stay separated from the world.”

Not the two women and three men from Midwestern Amish communities featured on the series, which is billed by its producers as a coming-of-age saga. They include (identified only by first names) Jonas, an Iowa native; Miriam and Ruth, both of Ohio; Mose of Wisconsin and Randy of Indiana, all between 18 and 24.

Sweet sixteen
Members of the Amish sect, concentrated in rural Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio, are known for simple attire and avoiding most technology. But at age 16 they’re allowed to break free of their strict code before deciding whether they want to be baptized as adults.
During the period of “rumspringa,” a Pennsylvania Dutch term that means “running around,” youths often date, drink, drive cars and move away from home. Most then return to the faith.

Most don’t roam as far as Los Angeles and have their adventures filmed by a TV network. But the series’ intent is not to typecast or offend the Amish, said one producer, Daniel Laikind.

“We certainly went in with an attitude that this was about the individual people and individual journeys that were going on,” Laikind said. “We’re not trying to say the five participants who grew up Amish are representative of every Amish person in existence.”
…
For the Amish, exposure to the sights and sounds of urban California life is mostly exhilarating to young people who have lived without electricity and other modern elements.

“If I’m going to go out and explore I’m going to go all the way,” says Mose after putting on a hip new wardrobe picked out by the “city kids,” the non-Amish roommates.
Ruth marvels at paintings in a gallery; such art, she says, isn’t part of Amish life. Even the most mundane aspects of the city, including parking meters, can stop the L.A. newcomers in their tracks.

The challenge to their emotional and religious core isn’t ignored. After a perilous first attempt at ocean swimming, the already baptized Mose fears for his soul outside the Amish community and seeks solace in the Bible.

Roommates receive the harshest treatment
If the Amish are treated gently, their roommates aren’t so lucky. Turns out they needed protection from TV scrutiny.

Ariel, a Los Angeles waitress and vegan who seems to be channeling Jessica Simpson, confronts her housemates about their eating habits. Eggs are “chicken abortions,” she informs them, dairy products are “cow pus” and cattle likely are space aliens.

Hollywood club promoter Reese and salesman Kevan demonstrate their maturity with a brief tussle that includes a sock used as a weapon. Ariel sensitively pronounces herself “a sexy little Amish girl” when she and the other city kids are instructed to wear traditional Amish clothing.
…
The impact on the Amish won’t be lasting, predicted Yoder, who’s Mennonite. But he can’t say the same for the TV audience.

“The Amish will survive this,” said Yoder. “They’re a strong Christian community and a few kids going astray and being lured by big money aren’t going to ruin them. But it will give a very false perception” to viewers.

© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

"...“If I’m going to go out and explore I’m going to go all the way..." - shades of Agnes Gooch!

der Brucer

I have a question for today's Ask BK and Anyone Question Day:  I’d like to put together a Sondheim Tribute CD (for my own personal listening pleasure) and these are what I already have:

"Everybody Wants to Be Sondheim" by Alan Chapman, recorded by Alan Chapman, Amanda McBroom & Guy Haines
"Playbill" by John Bucchino, recorded by Patti LuPone
"A Little Complex" from The Musical of Musicals:  The Musical!
"Sondheim" from In Gay Company

These, plus songs from the Forbidden Broadway series, are recordings that I have that are tributes/spoofs/in the style of Stephen Sondheim’s music and/or lyrics.  Does anyone know of any other examples or suggestions?  I'd like songs that are NOT written by Sondheim himself, but are in his style.

Hope you feel better very soon DR Danise.

Never really understood all that need for tape etc on CDs and DVDs  in America. We don't have it here - Just Shrink wrap if anything. I assumed there was security factor in the tape.

DR Danise. You can use computers for more than email and HHW access? Who'd have thought? I shall have to investigate.

From what I understand, there is The Musical of Musicals.  There is a Barry Kleinbort Sondheim song on his Big City Rhythm CD, and of course, if we record our show, you can have The Yiddish Sondheim.

I have the Big City Rhythm CD...I forgot about that.  I'd love The Yiddish Sondheim.  If you don't do an "official" recording, what's the possibility of a (shh...don't tell anyone) bootleg??