CM Clay Discussion 22 :: What a Difference a Clay Makes

[Glory]

                                       clay is no.1 on the amazon pre order. way to go claynation. SURPISED WE DID NOT CRASH THEIR SITE IT HAPPENED BEFORE YOU KNOW.

                                    I AM SO EXCITED I AM GOING TO BURST.

[claydevotee]

I'm not sure anybody else has posted this, but here is the latest on this morning's Times Square explosion.  Here's hoping this was just a random act of violence by some crazy individual. 

Explosion hits New York military recruiting center
4 hours ago

NEW YORK (AFP) — A small explosion struck a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square in the early hours of Thursday, causing minor damage and disruption but no injuries, police said.

The blast occurred shortly before 4 am (0900 GMT) and shattered windows and buckled the door of the small booth, a frequent focus of anti-war demonstrations and one of the most public faces of the US military.

Behind the shattered window, the blast exposed a familiar World War I recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam and the words "I Want You For US Army."

The explosion sparked an immediate and large police response -- one of the legacies of the September 11 attacks six years ago, since when the city has been on a constant and heightened state of alert.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the blast was the result of an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or even proved fatal.

"This was not a particularly sophisticated device, it was a low-order explosive in an ammunition box," readily available in military surplus stores, he told reporters from the scene of the explosion.

He added that while a witness had seen a hooded individual cycling around the station wearing a backpack shortly before the blast, no-one had seen the device being planted or thrown at the recruitment center.

The Department of Homeland Security was swift to say there was no information to suggest an imminent threat to the United States after the blast.

The White House said the explosion "doesn't appear to be terrorism," adding that it was closely following the investigation.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg condemned the attack and said the city would not be intimidated.

"The fact that this appears deliberately directed at the recruiting station insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world fighting to defend our freedoms," he told reporters.

"New York City is back and open for business," he insisted. "This city is safe, the police department has kept the city safe."

"People are going about their business... they are not intimidated. Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on our city will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," he told reporters.

One witness told CNN television she had felt the blast from the 44th floor of a nearby building.

The scene was closed off to pedestrians for several hours after the blast as forensic teams and bomb squad officers scoured the site. Dozens of emergency vehicles were at the scene, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.

However, traffic was being allowed through Times Square, affectionately known as "the crossroads of the world," and subway services, shortly suspended after the blast, were back to normal, sparing the city rush-hour chaos.

The recruitment station has frequently been the focus of demonstrations protesting US-led military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A recruiting center has been on the site since just after World War II, in 1946, although the current structure, a glass building around the size of a tall truck, is its third incarnation.

Bloomberg said the recruiting station was deliberately in an accessible, although exposed, position and there were no plans to change its location.

"The high profile of being in Times Square is exactly what we try to do," he said. "We're pleased to have the recruiting station here."

Last October, a crude bomb exploded outside the Mexican Consulate in New York, shattering windows, while in 2005, two powerful devices exploded outside the British Consulate in Midtown Manhattan, again shattering windows. Both explosions occurred, like Thursday's blast, shortly before 4:00 am.
 

[GWENN]

BUSY HERE.  I AM LEAVING IN 5 MINUTES FOR MAH JONGG.  I HAVEN'T PREORDERED JUST YET.  BUT I AM SURE I WILL.  I AM BEYOND EXCITED.  BEYOND.  I CANNOT WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON NEW MUSIC FROM THIS MAN.

EVEN WHEN HE PISSES ME OFF LIKE HE DID LAST WEEKEND, I LOVE HIM TO DEATH.  HE JUST MAKES ME FEEL SO YOUNG.  OY.

TIMES SQUARE MESS--AWFUL.  THERE ISN'T ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY.  JUST AWFUL.

GOTTA RUN.  SEE YOU LADIES LATER.

GWENN

[lorilovesgolf]

SO THE UNNAMED CD IS NOW #1 ON AMAZON'S HOT NEW RELEASES!!!

AMAZON.COM

and the price dropped to $9.99 already!!!

[lovinclay]

Gwenn, did I miss something?  Why did he piss you off last weekend?  

Well, it didn't take long for us to get this new CD to #1 on Amazon, did it!    I can hardly wait to get my hands on it.  I've pre-ordered 2, and will probably buy the rest at Target or Kmart when it comes out.  

Sunny, I think I'd order from Amazon if I were you.  

[Sundancer]

Gwenn, did I miss something?  Why did he piss you off last weekend?  

I didn't hear the whole story, Micki, but it had something to do with him wanting to take Gwenn out on the town that night, and she said, "Sorry, I can't. I'm seeing some friends."

Well, he got all in a snit and words were said.... Gwenn didn't want to deal with his attitude, so she just left and met us at the restaurant. It was the 'tude that ticked her off.

Sunny, I think I'd order from Amazon if I were you.   

Probably not a bad idea.

[clayfannj]

Latest news on the EXPLOSION:

The recruiting center has drawn sporadic protests for many years, including in October 2005, when a group who call themselves the Granny Peace Brigade rallied there against the Iraq war.  Eighteen activists, most of them grandmothers in their 80s and 90s, were later acquitted of disorderly conduct.



SOMEONE HAS BEEN USING THEIR NEWLY DELIVERED TOTE BAGS!!     

[Glory]

                                   WELL IT WASN'T ME WHO USED IT.

[claydevotee]

SOMEONE HAS BEEN USING THEIR NEWLY DELIVERED TOTE BAGS!!       

    

[GWENN]

Gwenn, did I miss something?  Why did he piss you off last weekend?   

I didn't hear the whole story, Micki, but it had something to do with him wanting to take Gwenn out on the town that night, and she said, "Sorry, I can't. I'm seeing some friends."

Well, he got all in a snit and words were said.... Gwenn didn't want to deal with his attitude, so she just left and met us at the restaurant. It was the 'tude that ticked her off.

Suna.ny, I think I'd order from Amazon if I were you.   

Probably not a bad ide

OH, SUNNY, I SPIT MY COFFEE OUT ON THAT ONE.      CANNOT EVER ANSWER THAT.

I WILL PROBABLY ORDER ONE MYSELF.  DON'T USUALLY DO THAT, BUT A GIRL'S GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL'S GOTTA DO.

MICKI--I WAS UPSET ABOUT THE STAGE DOOR THING.  WE HAD AN INCREDIBLE SPOT AND WILL NEVER HAVE THAT AGAIN.  I AM OVER IT.  I WASN'T REAL HAPPY WITH WHAT HE DID, BUT IT IS HIS BUSINESS AND HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE LIKES OR FEELS HE HAS TO DO.  IT IS JUST ANNOYING THAT HE CANCELED THE SD.

GWENN

[GWENN]

SOMEONE HAS BEEN USING THEIR NEWLY DELIVERED TOTE BAGS!!       

    

DITTO

 

GWENN

[dudley5]

I'm not sure anybody else has posted this, but here is the latest on this morning's Times Square explosion.  Here's hoping this was just a random act of violence by some crazy individual. 

Explosion hits New York military recruiting center
4 hours ago

NEW YORK (AFP) — A small explosion struck a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square in the early hours of Thursday, causing minor damage and disruption but no injuries, police said.

The blast occurred shortly before 4 am (0900 GMT) and shattered windows and buckled the door of the small booth, a frequent focus of anti-war demonstrations and one of the most public faces of the US military.

Behind the shattered window, the blast exposed a familiar World War I recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam and the words "I Want You For US Army."

The explosion sparked an immediate and large police response -- one of the legacies of the September 11 attacks six years ago, since when the city has been on a constant and heightened state of alert.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the blast was the result of an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or even proved fatal.

"This was not a particularly sophisticated device, it was a low-order explosive in an ammunition box," readily available in military surplus stores, he told reporters from the scene of the explosion.

He added that while a witness had seen a hooded individual cycling around the station wearing a backpack shortly before the blast, no-one had seen the device being planted or thrown at the recruitment center.

The Department of Homeland Security was swift to say there was no information to suggest an imminent threat to the United States after the blast.

The White House said the explosion "doesn't appear to be terrorism," adding that it was closely following the investigation.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg condemned the attack and said the city would not be intimidated.

"The fact that this appears deliberately directed at the recruiting station insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world fighting to defend our freedoms," he told reporters.

"New York City is back and open for business," he insisted. "This city is safe, the police department has kept the city safe."

"People are going about their business... they are not intimidated. Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on our city will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," he told reporters.

One witness told CNN television she had felt the blast from the 44th floor of a nearby building.

The scene was closed off to pedestrians for several hours after the blast as forensic teams and bomb squad officers scoured the site. Dozens of emergency vehicles were at the scene, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.

However, traffic was being allowed through Times Square, affectionately known as "the crossroads of the world," and subway services, shortly suspended after the blast, were back to normal, sparing the city rush-hour chaos.

The recruitment station has frequently been the focus of demonstrations protesting US-led military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A recruiting center has been on the site since just after World War II, in 1946, although the current structure, a glass building around the size of a tall truck, is its third incarnation.

Bloomberg said the recruiting station was deliberately in an accessible, although exposed, position and there were no plans to change its location.

"The high profile of being in Times Square is exactly what we try to do," he said. "We're pleased to have the recruiting station here."

Last October, a crude bomb exploded outside the Mexican Consulate in New York, shattering windows, while in 2005, two powerful devices exploded outside the British Consulate in Midtown Manhattan, again shattering windows. Both explosions occurred, like Thursday's blast, shortly before 4:00 am.
 

OH MY....SOUNDS LIKE BERKLEY CA.....THEY PROTESTED AND SHUT DOWN A MARINE RECRUITING OFFICE THERE ALSO A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.....PROTESTED INSTEAD OF EXPLOSIVES.....SOUNDS LIKE THE CALIF RADICALS HAVE MORE SENSE.......

[GWENN]

THIS MADE MY DAY FOR MANY, MANY REASONS.  FROM PALYBRILLER AT THE CH:

broadway .com Interview with Hannah Waddington
Snippets
Quote:

A self-described “complete geek” about all things Monty Python, Waddingham was taken aback during rehearsals for the London production when Eric Idle pulled her aside to help revise “The Diva's Lament,” her big Act Two number. “There's a line about the Tony Awards that doesn't mean anything in England, and he said, ‘We need to change this a little.' I thought, ‘Oh my god, I'm rewriting lines with Eric Idle!'" Adding to her excitement was appearing opposite Tim Curry as King Arthur. “He and Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters singing ‘Easy Street' in the film Annie was the reason I wanted to do song and dance,” she says now. “It was unbelievable to work with him.”<snip>
Broadway, Here I Come: At last year's Olivier Awards ceremony, the Spamalot producers asked Waddingham if she'd be interested in appearing in the Broadway production. She was a step ahead of them: “When I took the role in London, I thought, ‘If anything is going to get me to Broadway, it's this, if I do it right.' Broadway is musical theater mecca; it's what I've worked toward all my life.” By the time Waddingham's visa came through, her debut was set to coincide with Clay Aiken's as Sir Robin. “He's a triumph in the show,” she says of the American Idol runner-up. “His accent is flawless and his voice is beautiful. In fact, I said to him, ‘You must get this all the time, but I'm your colleague now, so can I have one of your CDs please?'” As for herself, “Coming out of that floor [as the Lady of the Lake] and thinking, ‘I'm on Broadway,' is everything I dreamed it would be.”

SHE IS MEGA TALENTED.  I SAW THE SHOW WITH HER AND WITHOUT HER.  MAJOR DIFFERENCE.  AND CLAY GOT TO HER.  ANOTHER ONE FALLS. 

A TRIUMPH.  THIS IS BEYOND........

GWENN

[claydevotee]

THIS MADE MY DAY FOR MANY, MANY REASONS.  FROM PALYBRILLER AT THE CH:

broadway .com Interview with Hannah Waddington
Snippets
Quote:

A self-described “complete geek” about all things Monty Python, Waddingham was taken aback during rehearsals for the London production when Eric Idle pulled her aside to help revise “The Diva's Lament,” her big Act Two number. “There's a line about the Tony Awards that doesn't mean anything in England, and he said, ‘We need to change this a little.' I thought, ‘Oh my god, I'm rewriting lines with Eric Idle!'" Adding to her excitement was appearing opposite Tim Curry as King Arthur. “He and Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters singing ‘Easy Street' in the film Annie was the reason I wanted to do song and dance,” she says now. “It was unbelievable to work with him.”<snip>
Broadway, Here I Come: At last year's Olivier Awards ceremony, the Spamalot producers asked Waddingham if she'd be interested in appearing in the Broadway production. She was a step ahead of them: “When I took the role in London, I thought, ‘If anything is going to get me to Broadway, it's this, if I do it right.' Broadway is musical theater mecca; it's what I've worked toward all my life.” By the time Waddingham's visa came through, her debut was set to coincide with Clay Aiken's as Sir Robin. “He's a triumph in the show,” she says of the American Idol runner-up. “His accent is flawless and his voice is beautiful. In fact, I said to him, ‘You must get this all the time, but I'm your colleague now, so can I have one of your CDs please?'” As for herself, “Coming out of that floor [as the Lady of the Lake] and thinking, ‘I'm on Broadway,' is everything I dreamed it would be.”

SHE IS MEGA TALENTED.  I SAW THE SHOW WITH HER AND WITHOUT HER.  MAJOR DIFFERENCE.  AND CLAY GOT TO HER.  ANOTHER ONE FALLS. 

A TRIUMPH.  THIS IS BEYOND........

GWENN

I am beyond verklempt over this.  I hope this gets circulated even beyond the Broadway circles! 

[KSChristian4Clay]

Okay, which one of you is mailing Clay your undies?

*scroll down toward the very bottom on the left side* People

[franniek54]

THIS MADE MY DAY FOR MANY, MANY REASONS.  FROM PALYBRILLER AT THE CH:

broadway .com Interview with Hannah Waddington
Snippets
Quote:

A self-described “complete geek” about all things Monty Python, Waddingham was taken aback during rehearsals for the London production when Eric Idle pulled her aside to help revise “The Diva's Lament,” her big Act Two number. “There's a line about the Tony Awards that doesn't mean anything in England, and he said, ‘We need to change this a little.' I thought, ‘Oh my god, I'm rewriting lines with Eric Idle!'" Adding to her excitement was appearing opposite Tim Curry as King Arthur. “He and Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters singing ‘Easy Street' in the film Annie was the reason I wanted to do song and dance,” she says now. “It was unbelievable to work with him.”<snip>
Broadway, Here I Come: At last year's Olivier Awards ceremony, the Spamalot producers asked Waddingham if she'd be interested in appearing in the Broadway production. She was a step ahead of them: “When I took the role in London, I thought, ‘If anything is going to get me to Broadway, it's this, if I do it right.' Broadway is musical theater mecca; it's what I've worked toward all my life.” By the time Waddingham's visa came through, her debut was set to coincide with Clay Aiken's as Sir Robin. “He's a triumph in the show,” she says of the American Idol runner-up. “His accent is flawless and his voice is beautiful. In fact, I said to him, ‘You must get this all the time, but I'm your colleague now, so can I have one of your CDs please?'” As for herself, “Coming out of that floor [as the Lady of the Lake] and thinking, ‘I'm on Broadway,' is everything I dreamed it would be.”

SHE IS MEGA TALENTED.  I SAW THE SHOW WITH HER AND WITHOUT HER.  MAJOR DIFFERENCE.  AND CLAY GOT TO HER.  ANOTHER ONE FALLS. 

A TRIUMPH.  THIS IS BEYOND........

GWENN

I am beyond verklempt over this.  I hope this gets circulated even beyond the Broadway circles! 

Can't she just buy a CD? 

[mrs. c.]

Okay, which one of you is mailing Clay your undies?

*scroll down toward the very bottom on the left side* People

 

[KSChristian4Clay]

Okay, which one of you is mailing Clay your undies?

*scroll down toward the very bottom on the left side* People

 

I knew! it! That's where that thong went that we thought the mail man was wearing.

[Sundancer]

Okay, which one of you is mailing Clay your undies?

*scroll down toward the very bottom on the left side* People

 

 

[mrs. c.]

Okay, which one of you is mailing Clay your undies?

*scroll down toward the very bottom on the left side* People

 

I knew! it! That's where that thong went that we thought the mail man was wearing.

  you knew I'd jump all over that didn't you