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My good thing for the day is I found some recipes that sound really good to me which I will be trying out this weekend. May or may not try them today, it could be tomorrow, I need to go do some shopping first. A spinach salad that includes blueberries and feta and almonds and apples? Sounds yummy. But I don't currently have all of the ingredients. A Persian pairing of white fish with a rice dish called Baghali Polo , I need to get some basmati rice, dill, some fava beans if I can find them but evidently lima beams work as well.

When I fix this meal I'll post more details in the cooking thread. But I'm looking forward to trying these new recipes. Off to the store now, see y'all later.
 
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Jimi said:
Thank you @SirKadly and @SnapDragon NY for your thoughts, weird thing is I honestly do eat all day, jean say I eat more than I ever have, I have turned into an eatin machine but keep loosin :crazy: , just crazy. Last time I talked to a doctor about it he told me to eat a bunch of stuff that I can't, he says I am crazy that food wont hurt you, so I told him I may be crazy but I am still alive:rolleyes:
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The way I see it, Jimi. Remember, your wifey didn't want to go see the doc, she didn't want the surgery. She sucked all that in and was so very brave and still is brave.
So, this being said along with SnapDragon and Gopher.... just go and if you don't like what the doc says....tell him to Suck It and do what you have been doing going against their stupidity of advice.
Okay, that is my two cents worth, or maybe, no sense at all :teehee: your judgment ;)
 
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2WhiteWolves said:
The way I see it, Jimi. Remember, your wifey didn't want to go see the doc, she didn't want the surgery. She sucked all that in and was so very brave and still is brave.
So, this being said along with SnapDragon and Gopher.... just go and if you don't like what the doc says....tell him to Suck It and do what you have been doing going against their stupidity of advice.
Okay, that is my two cents worth, or maybe, no sense at all :teehee: your judgment ;)
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Thank you my dear friend :hug: been considerin it
 
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Bliss Doubt said:
Do you really eat that way every day?
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Yes pretty much so, for the last 7 years or so it seems like no matter how much I eat I loose weight, weird thing is usually winter is when I pick up weight
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You were talking about being unable to gain weight in February of last year, 2023, in my diet thread.
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yeah it's been 7 years I have struggled to keep weight on but lately it's been real hard and I am eatin things I wouldn't normally eat like bread just to put some on. just crazy. I used to have to diet for a month to loose an ounce
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Do you still exercise two hours in the morning?
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Yes to help fight the beast I have too.
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Finally, can you see a dietitian before you seek out some MD who has had maybe two hours training in nutrition in med school if any at all.
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Yes I tried that about a year ago and every time the appointment came up she would cancel for some reason or another, after about the third time I blew it off.
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It's very concerning if you really are eating that way every day yet losing weight.
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Yes that's why I made this post but I might try a dietitian again and see if I can actually get to talk to one before goin to a so called doctor.
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It wouldn't be an insult, the way you work outdoors for several months of the year, digging in the dirt, with wild critters all around, to wonder if you've contracted a parasite.
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Yes thought about that too gonna get some wormwood and a couple others to flush out anything in there, good for everyone to do that, most Americans have parasites.
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I'm glad you found a way to enjoy some good bread though. Sourdough is a fermented food, with the resulting benefits of the ferment.

I hope you'll keep us posted.
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The sourdough bread is a true treat for me, first bread I have had in 8 years, wish it didn't have the gluten

I will but in our fam. PM, if I woulda realized the response I woulda put it there
I am gonna haveta do something before the spring winds :giggle: :facepalm:
 
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Good afternoon Family :wave:
Finally quit rainin here, suns out, now if it just dries up enough before another rain:rolleyes:
I hope everyone is well and havin a great day:)

On this day in 1965 Bob Dylan's song The Times They Are a-Changin' was released as a 45-rpm single.
“This was definitely a song with a purpose,” he said in the liner notes of the 1985 Dylan box set, Biograph. “It was influenced of course by the Irish and Scottish ballads …’Come All Ye Bold Highway Men’, ‘Come All Ye Tender Hearted Maidens’. I wanted to write a big song, with short concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. The civil rights movement and the folk music movement were pretty close for a while and allied together at that time.”
"A self-conscious protest song, it is often viewed as a reflection of the generation gap and of the political divide marking American culture in the 1960s. Dylan, however, disputed this interpretation in 1964, saying 'Those were the only words I could find to separate aliven
ess from deadness. It had nothing to do with age.' A year later, Dylan would say: 'I can't really say that adults don't understand young people any more than you can say big fishes don't understand little fishes. I didn't mean 'The Times They Are a-Changin' ' as a statement. . . It's a feeling"
Bob Dylan, New York City, 1961Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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In 1968, Micky Dolenz married fashion model Samantha Juste who appeared as the “deejay girl” in Britain’s “Top of the Pops” TV show in the mid-‘60s.

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Happy 79th birthday to MICKY DOLENZ of THE MONKEES. Born on March 8, 1945, the actor and the lead singer/drummer of the 1960s pop band began his show business career in the mid-‘50s when he starred in the children’s TV show “Circus Boy”.
With the stage name Mickey Braddock, he played an orphan at the start of the 20th century who was the water boy for the elephants in a one-ring circus. “Circus Boy” ran for only two seasons, but afterwards Micky made occasional appearances on several network television shows while he continued his education.
The Los Angeles native was attending college in his hometown when he was hired for the role as the drummer in the fictitious pop band The Monkees. The NBC television network planned to produce the series in the vein of The Beatles’ theatrical film “A Hard Day’s Night”.
Dolenz wrote some of the songs for The Monkees, as well as sang lead vocals for their hits such as "Last Train to Clarksville", "I'm a Believer", “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” and “Pleasant Valley Sunday”. At the end of the show’s hectic two-year run, he co-wrote and directed what turned out to be the series’ final episode.
After The Monkees TV show ended, Dolenz continued to work in entertainment and provided voice-overs for a number of Saturday morning cartoon series including “The Funky Phantom”, “Partridge Family 2200 A.D.”, “The Scooby-Doo Show”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids”, “Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels”, “Devlin”, “Wonder Wheels” (a cartoon segment on the live-action / animated package “The Skatebirds”) and “Batman: The Animated Series”.
Micky also provided the voice of Arthur in the first season of the animated series “The Tick”, and was the voice of Snuggle the Fabric Softener Bear in the popular TV commercials. He also has appeared in ten theatrical films, along with dozens of television shows, made-for-TV movies, daytime soaps and stage plays as either an actor or director.
Micky Dolenz is the host of a new television special, “American Pop Flashback! Great Hits of the '60s & '70s” airing on PBS beginning in March 2024. The television program will celebrate the feel-good songs of the 1960s and 1970s and showcase live performances by The Osmond Brothers, Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers, Crystal Gayle, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Tony Orlando, and many more pop music icons performing their signature hits in concert. Check your local PBS listings for upcoming broadcasts.
The former Monkee is also still touring in 2024 with “An Evening with Micky Dolenz” with concerts currently scheduled in Peekskill, New York; East Greenwich, Rhode Island; West Hollywood, California; Clear Lake, Iowa; Des Plaines, Illinois; and St. Charles, Illinois. - Chuck Halley, Classic Music/TV/Film blogger
Photo—The Monkees in 1966 - (L-R) Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith (Credit: NBC files); (inset) Micky Dolenz in 2022. (Credit: Paul Undersinger)
 
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Jimi said:
Mick Jagger in Buffalo, New York, 1975. Photo by Annie Leibovitz,


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@SnapDragon NY might remember this
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Oh yes I loved the Stones, too bad I never got a chance to see them live in concert-
and how about this , it was a big deal here- I loved David Bowie too when he was Ziggy Stardust with his Spiders from Mars, not so much when he went disco with Young Americans

Pot Holds Bowie in Rochester​

March 25th, 2013
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David Bowie's mugshot after being arrested in Rochester NY for possession of marijuana. [PHOTO: Provided by Todd Hess]
It was 37 years ago today when the greatest photo in RPD history was taken. David Bowie was in town on his 1976 World Tour. After giving a performance at the War Memorial Arena on March 20, Bowie was arrested in a hotel suite in the early morning hours of March 21. Three others were also booked including James Osterberg, or Iggy Pop, the “godfather of punk rock.” This infamous mugshot was taken when the rockstar returned to Rochester and pleaded “not guilty” to the felony drug charge in Rochester City Court. This was the story printed in the Democrat and Chronicle the morning of March 22, 1976…
David Bowie's mugshot after being arrested in Rochester NY for possession of marijuana. [PHOTO: Provided by Todd Hess]

‘Pot’ holds rock singer​

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – March 22, 1976
David Bowie, the English rock singer, was arrested early yesterday at the Americana Rochester Hotel on marijuana charges. Three other persons, including a Rochester woman, were arrested with him.
They were charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana. Police said they confiscated what they described as about half a pound of marijuana. The charge is a class C felony, carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
The Rochester woman was identified by police as Chiwah Soo, 20, of Owen Street.
The other two arrested were members of Bowie’s entourage, which appeared Saturday night at the Community War Memorial. The two were identified as James Osterberg, Jr., 28, of Ypsilanti, Mich., and Dwain Voughns, 22, of Brooklyn.
All four were freed on bond — at Bowie’s expense — and were to be arraigned in City Court this morning.
But Bowie, according to his attorney, left Rochester yesterday for a concert in Springfield, Mass.
Lawyer Thomas G. Presutti said there are heavy penalties when concert engagements are broken and he will “request the court’s indulgence” for Bowie’s absence. Bowie also has a concert scheduled in New Haven, Conn., and should be back in Rochester by Wednesday, Presutti said.
The four were arrested at 2:25 a.m. in a three-room suite in the hotel at 70 State St. external link by four city vice squad detectives and a State Police investigator.
They were held in the Monroe County Jail for a few hours. Bowie gave police his real last name, Jones, and listed his address as 89 Oakley St., London, England.
Presutti said he wanted Bowie out of jail early so he could drive to Springfield. The rock star had a fear of flying, he said.
Presutti contacted the district attorney who recommended bail at $2,000 each. That was approved by County Court Judge Andrew Celli about 7 a.m. Bowie’s bail was ordered in cash, and $2,000 in bond was set for the others.
None of the four had a prior arrest record, Presutti said.
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David Bowie's mugshot after being arrested in Rochester NY for possession of marijuana. [PHOTO: Bob Gapspy, D&C]

Bowie: “Not Guilty, sir”​

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – March 26, 1976
After silently walking through a crush of fans, police and reporters, English rock star David Bowie pleaded innocent to a felony drug charge yesterday in Rochester City Court.
Bowie, 28, entered the Public Safety Building through the Plymouth Avenue doorway at 9:25 a.m., just five minutes before court convened, with an entourage of about seven persons, including his attorneys and the three other persons charged with him.
He was ushered into a side corridor by police and was arraigned within 10 minutes, as a crowd of about 200 police, fans and reporters looked on.
Bowie and his group ignored reporters’ shouted questions and fans’ yells as he walked in — except for one teenager who got his autograph as he stepped off the escalator.
His biggest greeting was the screams of about a half-dozen suspected prostitutes awaiting arraignment in the rear of the corridor outside the courtroom.
Asked for a plea by City Court Judge Alphonse Cassetti to the charge of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, Bowie said, “not guilty, sir.” The court used his real name — David Jones.
He stood demurely in front of the bench with his attorneys. He wore a gray three-piece leisure suit and a pale brown shirt. He was holding a matching hat. His two companions were arraigned on the same charge.
Bowie was represented by Rochester lawyer Anthony F. Leonardo, who also represented his companions, James J. Osterberg, 28 of Ypsilanti, Mich., and Dwain A. Vaughs, 22, of Brooklyn. Osterberg, described as a friend and Vaughs, described as a bodyguard, also pleaded innocent to the drug charge.
Osterberg also is a rock musician and performs under the name of Iggy Stooge. Bowie has produced at least one of Osterberg’s album in the past. Judge Cassetti set April 20 for the preliminary hearing for the three men. He also agreed to set the same date for the Rochester woman charged with the same offence, Chiwah Soo, 20, of 9 Owen St., who was also in the courtroom.
Cassetti allowed Bowie to remain free on $2,000 bail, as well as continuing the $2,000 bond on the other three persons charged.
37 years after his arrest, his legend lives on the streets of Rochester. [PHOTO: RochesterSubway.com] Bowie and the other three were arrested by city vice squad detectives and state police Sunday in the Americana Rochester hotel, charged with possession of 182 grams, about half a pound, of marijuana in his room there. Bowie was in Rochester of a concert Saturday night.
Bowie’s arrangement was witnessed by his fans, some of whom had waited two hours to catch a glimpse of him. All remained quiet in the courtroom and scrambled after his arraignment to watch his exit from the building.
But fans and reporters were disappointed as city uniformed and plain-clothes police slipped him out unnoticed.
Using a maze of elevators and stairwells, police took Bowie and his entourage out a side exit, across the Civic Center Plaza and into Leonardo’s office on the Times Square building’s seventh floor.
Only about 30 fans were on hand to yell goodbye as Bowe and his friends left from Leonardo’s office at 12.30pm. Bowie, for the first time, waved to the crowd as his limousine pulled out from a parking space on West Broad Street, made a U-turn and headed for the expressway and the drive back to New York City.
The blue-and-black Lincoln Continental limousine had been ticketed for overtime parking, but a plainclothes policeman took the ticket, and put it in his pocket.
Bowie had remained silent throughout the morning but granted a five-minute interview to newspaper reporters in Leonardo’s office. Leonardo, however, wouldn’t allow any questions directly concerning the arrest, saying it was the first criminal charge he’d ever faced. He complimented city police, though, for the protection they provided him yesterday.
“They (city police) were very courteous and very gentle,” Bowie said. “They’ve been just super.”
Quiet and reserved, Bowie answered most of the reporters’ questions with short answers, shaking hands with them when they entered and left.

Asked if the arrest would sour him on returning to Rochester, Bowie said “certainly not, absolutely not.” He also said he was “very flattered” by the fans who turned out for this arraignment.​

 
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I felt very honored,” he said.​

Bowie and his entourage arrived in Rochester about 4am after performing a concert in the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island Wednesday night, Leonardo said, he will appear tonight at Madison Square Garden, his final concert of his America tour, Pat Gibbons, said.
Gibbons, 25, who described himself as Bowie’s “right-arm” man, said after tonight’s concert, Bowie will return by boat to England, starting a new European tour April 7 in Munich, Germany.
Bowie’s entourage stayed at the Downtower hotel [I think this was at Broad and South] yesterday morning. Before the arraignment, he had a conference with his attorneys in Leonardo’s office.
Leonardo said he and Thomas G. Presutti had been asked to handle the case by Bowie’s business attorney, Stanley Diamond of Los Angeles, who also was there yesterday. Diamond had no criminal trial experience and wanted local trial lawyers for the case, Leonardo said.
Bowie won’t appear at the April 20 hearing for any defense motions or possible grand jury action, Leonardo said.
“We’re talking about millions of dollars he could lose in concert commitments (if he appeared for such proceedings),” Leonardo said.
Bowie would have to appear for another arraignment and subsequent trial if he is indicted by a County Grand Jury on a felony drug charge, Leonardo said. But grand jury action isn’t expected until June, and Bowie should be vacationing in Switzerland then, Gibbons said.
District attorney’s office officials said Bowie and the others can’t plea bargain on any of the charges until an official grand jury indictment if there is one.
Bowie talked with immigration officials here yesterday before his arraignment, Leonardo said. The officials wanted to know his itinerary abroad for the next few months, Leonardo said. There are no problems now with his entering or leaving the United States, he added.
Bowie faces a minimum of 15 years’ imprisonment on the drug charge but could get as little as five years’ probation if convicted.
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David Bowie's mugshot after being arrested in Rochester NY for possession of marijuana. [PHOTO: Provided by Todd Hess]

About the Bowie Mugshot Image​

The Bowie mugshot was recovered by Gary Hess, now 43, while he was working for a local auction house which was clearing out the estate of a retired Rochester police officer. Gary recognized the man in the picture as Bowie and literally rescued it from the garbage. Because he was falling behind on bills and needed the extra money, Gary gave the photo to his brother, Todd Hess, to sell on ebay. Todd says the photo sold in the fall of 2007 for more than $2,700 to an “uber fan” in the midwest who had some connection with the superstar. According to Todd, the buyer made Bowie aware that she had purchased the mugshot; and, she reported, Bowie was pleased that she won the one-of-a-kind item.
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No answer yet as to whether or not Bowie will ever return to Rochester.

No Hard Feelings?​

Although Bowie has said the experience didn’t sour him on Rochester, from what I can find, he hasn’t done another show here since the arrest. One previously scheduled show at Silver Stadium on September 26, 1987 (The Glass Spider World Tour) was cancelled. And he has not yet responded to my tweet 🙁
 
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