The Guild 4-30-2004 Home Alone

[lodwick]

Thanks for the props.

It was our pleasure, and honor, to have you grace our portals for a few minutes...after her initial shock to learn that you would be arriving shortly (and that I had done SQUAT with Mr.Vacuum) she settled back and had a wonderful time visiting with you.

Thanks, again, for making the time to come see us.

Cheers, JL

[Iowa Granny]

I really covet those columns. I guess they'd look sort of silly out here on the prairie, but so what?

[lodwick]

Heheh - they'd look no more goofy in your yard than in ours...I'll see what I can find around here.

If it doesn't break my truck, we'll try to get it going on for ya.

More, as I find, or learn it.

[Iowa Granny]

Thanks, but don't waste your effort. They would look totally foolish here. My trees aren't mature yet. The columns might be taller than some of my trees.

If I ever find an old Queen Anne style home to restore I'll give you a call and you can start looking for some for me then.

[lodwick]

hehen - it's time for this OG to shut it down.

We'll talk columns later.

Rest well, chers up here.

[Timeout]

We ate at one restaurant in the Marais, Ma Bourgogne on the Place des Vosges. But we only had salad and wine for a late lunch, so I can't speak to the menu. On Sunday there's classical music at the Place, something to keep in mind if it's warm and sunny. It would be nice to sit outside and be serenaded.

Here's a thread from Fodor's about Marais restaurants.
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threadselect.jsp?fid=2&tid=34489651&start=0&dirtyBit=1

It's from 11/02, but it would be easy enough to check whether they're still open. La Guirlande de Julie seems to pop up on lots of threads.

When do you leave?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Big trauma here in my corner of the world.

My local republican club is having a $100 a head fundraising dinner and our speaker is US Congressman Mike Rogers.

Bush will also be here tonight.

So Rogers has cancelled at the last minute leaving us with no speaker. The club president told Rogers that he couldn't cancel or else he could speak at the dinner first and then see Bush. The State Party then tried to bribe the club president with a ticket to be on stage with Bush tonight and he turned it down. Good for him. Then the party offered free tickets ( all tickets to see Bush tonight are free BTW) to all people who are to attend the dinner.

Nope, most people at the dinner are well over 50 years old and don't want to stand out in 30 degree weather for 5 hours to see a Rally for Bush.

So it looks like the Congressman who we worked so hard to put in office and bring to our dinner is blowing us off. This will be remembered. He can easily speak at the dinner at 6 and then speak with Bush at 9.

Now my only problem is that I am supposed to be on stage with Bush tonight, but I have been told that I have special VIP tickets and will be close to Bush but not on stage, so now I have more calls to make today to find out what this mess is all about and why no one in the Bush campaign knows what's going on. This is what happens when you put 20 something's in charge.

And we wonder why we lose elections.

[Iowa Granny]

I received a request for money from Rogers last week. If he really wanted to, he could figure out a way to do both events. Why can't he speak to the County group first and then slip out and head for the other Bush event? Stuff like that is done all the time.

It doesn't look like Rogers staff is very creative.

Our Bush event is on Friday.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Of course he can do both. We are holding our event a half hour from the Bush event. Word has it that Bush won't be speaking until 10pm, won't that be fun for all the families who are told to come at 5:30 and doors close at 7:30.

If Rogers speaks at our event at 6, he has 4 hours to go 20 miles. I am pretty sure he can handle that.

[Iowa Granny]

If Rogers speaks at our event at 6, he has 4 hours to go 20 miles. I am pretty sure he can handle that

And we both know HE won't have to stand in line for hours and hours waiting to get inside. He can slip in the back door.

[mountaineer]

We're leaving tomorrow afternoon, but won't spend any time in Paris until 5/10. I think we're going to be fairly spontaneous by the time we get there, after following a detailed itinerary in Champagne and Lorrain the first part of the trip. Since we didn't do it last time, however, I plan to visit Montmartre (actually, the nearby fabric shops).

[mountaineer]

Cindy Adams (NY Post):

BILL Clinton's bio. Out next month, it's still - if you can believe it - in the tinkering stage. At last week's in- house exclusive chat - a surprise visit - with 250 Random House executives and sales force, he said: "I'm just about finished." These hardcore booksellers have seen it all. Still, he electrified them. It was a 15-minute off-the-cuff talk. Not a note in front of him.

"My Life" is so lengthy that, as long as it took him to live it, it could take the rest of us to read it. Longhand, the thing was 4,000 pages. Weighs more than Rosie.

One exec high up in the publisher's food chain asked, "Mr. President, you intending to run for office again some day?" Clinton said, "No." Said the person: "Then, maybe you really do not have to list absolutely every single human being you ever met in Arkansas." (I deliberately say "one exec high up" so the named shivering, quaking creature needn't stammer: "I r-r-really d-d-didn't s-s-say th-th-that.")

Although highly embargoed - meaning precious few have read it - some preferred he winnow it down a tad. No. Clinton won't cut it by so much as a comma.

Ladies cannot schlep this as summer reading. No handbag's sturdy enough. Pack it in your luggage and there's no room for clothing. It's the same size as Ben Franklin's job. For some, exhilirating. Others, daunting. Breaking the work into two volumes was an instantly discarded suggestion because least interesting to us salacious salivating gossip-hungry slobs is its first half. Even extraterrestrials only want to know what happened to her . . . what he did/didn't/or tried doing again and again with her . . . them . . . whoever. The thinking was, nobody'd buy Book One.

Bill, who's seen what hustling did for his wife's memoir, promised to work as hard pushing book sales "as I did when campaigning for elective office." He'll drag city to city on a domestic tour. Unlike his roommate, he's not working for a living. The man has the time so his end-to-end huckstering starts in Chicago. The first Thursday night in June he'll debut at the Book Expo America convention's opening. ...

Clinton's words will sell for maybe a farthing north of $35. Asked isn't that expensive, Random House spokesman Stewart Applebaum answered: "Nobody's shuddering over it. That's the same price as David McCullough's book on John Adams. And it was a best seller. And, as you may have heard, John Adams is dead. He wasn't even around to promote it."

[Timeout]

I thought you were going to Normandy/D-Day beaches. You've changed your plans?

[mountaineer]

Normandy was the 2002 trip. This time we're following in the footsteps of my grandpa and Mr. M's three great-uncles, who fought in WWI (Battles of the Marne, Meuse-Argonne, etc.), so we'll be staying in Chateau Thierry, Reims and Verdun.

[lodwick]

What a great way to plan your trip - in the evenings, please lift a glass to my grandfather who was there also, fighting the war to end all wars...

[mountaineer]

Will do. Do you know where he served, or in which division? The uncles were in the 42nd (Rainbow) Div., 166th Infantry, while grandpa was in the 80th Div., 314th Artillery. It's a lot of fun to research.

[lodwick]

Gramps was a groundpounder, and Rainbow surely rings a bell. grannie9's been playing with her Poser program again:

Wishing everyone a fine new week and month.

[lodwick]

The Rainbow Division became one of the first sent to Europe in 1918 to support French troops in battles at Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, the Verdun Front, and Argonne. On 14 July 1918 the Division, acting as part of the 4th French Army, assisted in containing the final German offensive at the Battle of Champagne. The U.S. Army’s first offensive occurred at St. Mihiel where upon hearing of the forthcoming attack the Germans ordered a partial withdrawal of troops, which was in progress when the U.S. Army attacked on 12 September 1918. Within four days, the U.S. and French troops brought the area under Allied control. Nearly two weeks later the Division participated in an attack at Meuse-Argonne, the purpose of which was to cut off the German Second Army. The German troops held onto the area until 4 November, when additional troops from the U.S. assisted in strengthening the Allied advance. On 11 November 1918, the Armistice was signed at Compiègne in France.

Now you've got me curious about learning more...thanks.

[lodwick]

In memory of the Rainbow Division Veterans in two world wars, the RDV Memorial Foundation, Inc. has been created to preserve the memories, history, memorials and patriotism of the men who served in the Rainbow Division in two world wars. It is the sincere hope of our veterans that in the future when they are no longer living, the Memorial Foundation will continue as a living memorial in the hands of their descendants and other family members. This is the reason why the Veterans Association and Auxiliary members are reaching out to families of Rainbow veterans. Wives, widows and descendants of Rainbow Veterans as well as extended family -- brothers, sisters and their descendants -- are eligible to be members of the RDV Memorial Foundation. Male and female descendants are eligible to be members of the RDV Association. Wives, widows, sisters and female descendants are welcomed to join the Foundation as full members. In addition, widows may receive gratis the Foundation newsletter, the Rainbow Reveille. Rainbow news and information is mailed regularly in the Rainbow Reveille and the National Auxiliary Bulletin.

[lodwick]

Good Rainbow resource page