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Capsule
Sunday, October 6, 2019
A dinner party is a social gathering at which people eat dinner together, usually in the host's home.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Imaginative sketch by Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows a formal dinner party, with exact place settings. Guests are being served by a butler. Two men and two women are pictured.
Marguerite Martyn - Original publication: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 16, 1920, Women's Page, Daily Magazine (Microfilm No. 29) Immediate source: https://stltoday.newspapers.com/image/137699760/?terms=Marguerite%2BMartyn
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Commentary
Sunday, October 6, 2019
I think it’s safe to say that Pinterest has joined LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter as social media we are regularly posting our videos onto. These are the same videos we’ve already incorporated into the blog, except, being free-standing, they’re reaching for a somewhat different audience, significantly much larger audience, than the blogs reach.
For example, in the last 28 days the blog has been viewed by near 1,000 people.
This is after 545 posts.
After 28 posts, using the most conservative numbers reported, the videos have reached 1,250 people: that’s people actually opening up the videos.
And we only added Pinterest yesterday.
And the postings have, to date, been sporadic.
It’s more difficult taking a reading of the videos since we have to tabulate about 20 different videos over five different social media, record the numbers on scrap paper, and then enter the numbers into an Excel book for quick compilation.
We’re planning on another reading on the 15th of October.
Hoping for a substantial increase in viewership.
Take note of the Faye lost her head video as well as the Sipping video: the last two done.
There’s a qualitative jump in the ease of delivery, although in the Faye video, I left a drop of makeup on my nose.
Dumbkoff.
On Wednesday, my friend Marc O who has been in theater and video production is visiting me in my home-grown studio taking additional equipment with him and his directorial expertise.
Am positive his visit will lead to further improvements.
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Friday’s Dinner posted on
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Short ribs of beef today, in a stew.
Short ribs gives that deep, satisfying beef flavor at half the price of the dry-aged sirloins.
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Chuckle of the day:
Sunday, October 6, 2019
A doctor vacationing on the Riviera met an old lawyer friend and asked him what he was doing there.
The lawyer replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I bought? Well, it caught fire, so here I am with the fire insurance proceeds. What are you doing here?"
The doctor replied, "Remember that lousy real estate I had in Mississippi? Well, the river overflowed, and here I am with the flood insurance proceeds."
"Gee," the lawyer asked, "how do you start a flood?"
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A “Hello, my friends!” video.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
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We love getting mail.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Exchanged some mail with a good friend with a lifetime devotion to movies who has expressed a strong desire to add a regular movie review to the blog.
Web Meister Responds: From experience, I respect his talent.
Hope to have the first one posted in the next seven days.
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Today’s Thumbnail Sunday, October 6, 2019
At the most formal dinner parties, the dinner is served on a dining table with place settings. Dinner parties are often preceded by a cocktail hour in a living room or bar, where guests drink cocktails while mingling and conversing.
Wine is usually served throughout the meal, often with a different wine accompanying each course.
At less formal dinner parties, a buffet is provided. Guests choose food from the buffet and eat while standing up and conversing. Women guests may wear cocktail dresses; men may wear blazers.
At some informal dinner parties, the host may ask guests to bring food or beverages (a main dish, a side dish, a dessert, or appetizers). A party of this type is called a potluck or potluck dinner. In the United States, potlucks are very often held in churches and community centers.
Hip, Hip, Hurrah! (1888) by Peder Severin Krøyer, a painting portraying an artists' party in 19th century Denmark
Peder Severin Krøyer - photo by UFA66
This is a photo of an artwork at the Gothenburg Museum of Art in Sweden with the identifier:
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Sunday, October 6, 2019
And to the Jokes Warehouse for the chuckle today.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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GoodMorning
Sunday, October 6, 2019
All this talk about videos kinda makes me sleepy.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon