[quote=John McClane]I hear the word needle and I start quaking and jonesing.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]Needles. I’m triggered! 😅[/quote]

[quote=Austruck][quote=ynwtf][quote=Torgo][quote=ynwtf]Can anyone confirm or deny if the same actor played Blasonov, the telegraph operator AND the hotel clerk that kept snubbing his nose at Joanie Stubbs when she rented from him?[/quote]Blasonov was played by Pasha D. Lychnikoff, who only played that part.  Not sure if it's the clerk you're talking about, but IMDB credits Zack Ward as the Hotel Desk Clerk, who is famous for playing Scut Farcus in A Christmas Story.[/quote]

Different clerk. I THINK that might be t he clerk that has a history of soiling himself when drunk, and found Wild Bill's letter after a passing out near the river while washing his pants. The letter was given to him by Wild Bill just before he was shot, and this clerk forgot he had it until after sobering up. The letter was miraculously unharmed and was then given to E.B. Farnum in shame. Looking at your reference, he appears in two episodes. One in S1 and again in S2. SEEMs about right with my recent rewatch. Dude had unmistakable eyes!!! Thanks for the dig into that.

The guy I'm seeing appears in Season 3, around episode 3 maybe. Joanie Stubbs is lost at this point, after losing her stock with the Wollcock event and seems to be renting a $2-dollar room from a new hotel structure in camp. So far there has only been one scene with this clerk, but I believe there is at least one more to come. His features look very much like ----WOAH, Zack Ward's eyes are DEFINATELY those "Scut Farcus" yellow eyes!!! I remember now someone here posting a pic of him from Deadwood and noting his yellow eyes. Funny!--- the telegraph operator's. I see if I can get a screen capture tonight maybe if I can find the scene again. Or at least the episode title.

This is a long reply. I don't want to proof it. Sorry.[/quote]
Just scoured IMDb and can't seem to find any listing that fits in a few episodes I peeked into there. But during the rewatch, I'll see what I can find out. Give me a few days to get to season 3, though. :D Because now that's gonna bug me too. :D[/quote]

[quote=ynwtf]too, it tickles me that some random will see my "LOL on needles" without context and question the purpose of this, now obvious, MOFOchan forum.

Yeah, I seriously hesitate hitting the That's Good Enough button with that lingering, but it made me laugh =\ 

(sorry, y'all)[/quote]

[quote=ynwtf]LOL on needles. Cuz after that last reply, I'm exhausted to quote. =\[/quote]

[quote=ynwtf][quote=Torgo][quote=ynwtf]Can anyone confirm or deny if the same actor played Blasonov, the telegraph operator AND the hotel clerk that kept snubbing his nose at Joanie Stubbs when she rented from him?[/quote]Blasonov was played by Pasha D. Lychnikoff, who only played that part.  Not sure if it's the clerk you're talking about, but IMDB credits Zack Ward as the Hotel Desk Clerk, who is famous for playing Scut Farcus in A Christmas Story.[/quote]

Different clerk. I THINK that might be t he clerk that has a history of soiling himself when drunk, and found Wild Bill's letter after a passing out near the river while washing his pants. The letter was given to him by Wild Bill just before he was shot, and this clerk forgot he had it until after sobering up. The letter was miraculously unharmed and was then given to E.B. Farnum in shame. Looking at your reference, he appears in two episodes. One in S1 and again in S2. SEEMs about right with my recent rewatch. Dude had unmistakable eyes!!! Thanks for the dig into that.

The guy I'm seeing appears in Season 3, around episode 3 maybe. Joanie Stubbs is lost at this point, after losing her stock with the Wollcock event and seems to be renting a $2-dollar room from a new hotel structure in camp. So far there has only been one scene with this clerk, but I believe there is at least one more to come. His features look very much like ----WOAH, Zack Ward's eyes are DEFINATELY those "Scut Farcus" yellow eyes!!! I remember now someone here posting a pic of him from Deadwood and noting his yellow eyes. Funny!--- the telegraph operator's. I see if I can get a screen capture tonight maybe if I can find the scene again. Or at least the episode title.

This is a long reply. I don't want to proof it. Sorry.[/quote]

[quote=Austruck]Well, I'm starting that Deadwood rewatch right now. One thing most HBO series have in common is stellar opening credits and music. Deadwood is no slouch in that department. <3[/quote]

[quote=Austruck][quote=Torgo][quote=ynwtf]Can anyone confirm or deny if the same actor played Blasonov, the telegraph operator AND the hotel clerk that kept snubbing his nose at Joanie Stubbs when she rented from him?[/quote]Blasonov was played by Pasha D. Lychnikoff, who only played that part.  Not sure if it's the clerk you're talking about, but IMDB credits Zack Ward as the Hotel Desk Clerk, who is famous for playing Scut Farcus in A Christmas Story.[/quote]
Wow, I never made the Christmas Story connection! But the face doesn't seem right to me offhand.

See, now *I* have to rewatch the whole series myself. What a shame. :D[/quote]

[quote=Austruck][quote=ynwtf]I had a steroid shot in my shoulder this morning. That was an interesting sensation. I don't like needles at all and warned the doc in a joking manner that I'll try not to freak out on him. He numbed the area then punctured my skin just to the side and behind my shoulder joint. I could feel the needle (and/or solution) prodding around. It was a dull pain similar to the feeling you get if you wedge your thumb tip into the inner soft flesh of your jaw bone. Right around where your glands might swell with a sinus infection. I was narrating the experience for him. I thought he needed it. I certainly did. "Oh, I feel that. Wow. that's an interesting sensation. OOOOh there it is again.... this is strange." At one point, I noticed my right foot rising as a dog might lift its one left while you scratch behind its ear. I would hope this is not the same sensation the dog feels. Anyway (Bullock reference!), my foot slowly lifted to about knee level when the doc asked, "Are you ok?" "Oh yes," I replied wedging in a Saul Star reference that I didn't realize until just now, "I am fine. Just observing this feeling."

As he left my room, he stopped before the door closed behind him, turned back to me and then asked with a confused look, "Are you ok?" I guess he thought I might pass out.

Nice guy. But my arm is crazy aching right now and I'm having a hard time manipulating my work mouse. Typing is rough too, but at least the shoulder is more stationary.[/quote]
Hubby just got a steroid shot in/around his knee last week. Felt better within hours (he was having trouble walking), but he's notorious about being stoic with doctor-related procedures. (Give him the sniffles, though, and it's the End of The World As We Know It.)  :)

Also, did you ever notice that, in Deadwood, they use the word "Anyways" in every episode. (With the "s," and it's not always Bullock. But it's in every single episode. Now you HAVE to do a rewatch just to listen for that in every episode.)

I'm the same way about needles, BTW--well, mostly blood work being drawn. I tell the lab person that I don't mind it too much as long as I don't have to watch it being done (so I turn my head). Last time she said, "Oh, I probably don't have to watch either. I do this all the time."

We both agreed, though, that it was better if she did watch. :D[/quote]

[quote=Austruck][quote=ynwtf]right there with you on all counts. I FORGOT there was a movie!!! I can't remember if I burned through them again before watching Deadwood (the movie) on release or not. But I am now and I'm excited to learn (again) that that closer isn't a closer anymore.

Cut the last 5 minutes from Carnivale and it's near perfect.[/quote]
YES on Carnivale! I said that at the time! Cut out that last weird five minutes and it would have at least felt like an ending with some closure!

And now I'm gonna have to do another Deadwood rewatch. It was definitely fun this last time to then watch the movie with its 10-years-later vibe. So glad they got the original cast back for that (except for Sofia, obviously).[/quote]

[quote=Torgo][quote=ynwtf]Can anyone confirm or deny if the same actor played Blasonov, the telegraph operator AND the hotel clerk that kept snubbing his nose at Joanie Stubbs when she rented from him?[/quote]Blasonov was played by Pasha D. Lychnikoff, who only played that part.  Not sure if it's the clerk you're talking about, but IMDB credits Zack Ward as the Hotel Desk Clerk, who is famous for playing Scut Farcus in A Christmas Story.[/quote]