The frasier files

Director Scott Ellis. Top credits Director Scott Ellis. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 3. Add photo. Top cast Edit. Kelsey Grammer Dr. Frasier Crane as Dr. Frasier Crane. David Hyde Pierce Dr. Niles Crane as Dr. Niles Crane. Hal Sparks Receptionist as Receptionist. Sarah Shahi Reservationist as Reservationist. Monica McSwain Facialist as Facialist.

Filed under: Random. June 05, AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Latest Posts Loading Subscribe to RD Posts Atom. Comments Atom. Blogs of Note. The Agitator. They call it President's Day, but I don't even know what a president is. All I know was that Mama was with me all day and I liked that. I did okay in my crate last night.

I did pee a little bit, but Mama got up more often last night so it was better. And I only had one accident in the house. Mam seems to realize that when I whine, I need to go out. And sometimes I whine often. But she just takes me out every time. Today wasn't so cold so it was much nicer going outside. After Mama took a shower, we went out to PetSmart near our house and Mama bought some stuff and signed me up for a puppy training class.

She got some Nature's Miracle stuff to clean up with when I have an accident. She also bought a new puppy packet that was really cool. It has coupons for free puppy food, a free puppy grooming, 2 free sessions at doggy day care and a free puppy orientation class, plus coupons for money off toys and goodies. I don't know what all these things are yet, but I bet they will be fun. Everyone at PetSmart was really nice and lots of people stopped to pet me and say how cute I was.

A nice lady and her husband even helped Mama decide that my name should be Frasier. You know my roster?

Her name is Norma Boots. She provided the subject for my previous post. She had been reading a book when she came upon a comment the author wrote that was negative toward deafness.

The author responded, becoming a discussion. Norma stayed strong and positive and did a lot to help the author understand Deaf culture. So the two of then discussed what name she wanted. So we did it again and man, what a waste. Finally, she had come up with one.

Her name is The Paladin of Justice! So now it can be added to the roster, meaning there are now two people. I bought tickets for myself, my wife, niece, sister, my mother , and my aunt.

She is very special to me. Both of my parents are Deaf. My father was the oldest of his siblings while my aunt was the youngest. So when she was a kid, somewhere between 4 and 6 years old, my father taught her ASL. He would show her the alphabet and some signs. She started to pick it up, and then just took off with it. Very nice. So we brought everyone to the show. The first performance was the comedy show, which was Wink followed by Keith. Despite that, the show was still awesome. Anyways, during the break we looked around at the school the show was held in.

The same aunt I just mentioned works there, and has her classroom upstairs on the second floor. When we came back down, I noticed my mother hanging around and chatting with the other Deaf people there. It was a very good time. But names? My god, I was just a little kid. It was really nice to see so many people.

It was beautiful of course, and it bent my heart. The words on their own were very powerful, about each person having a candle representing their spirit, and how we should be responsible for finding those whose candles are out, go to them and help them by showing our own light, in hopes theirs will ignite. It was really how he signed it and told the story, though. It was so powerful to see this on stage and realize it was just like watching a music video, like the ones you see on MTV or other stations.

When you watch a video, it has its story in English words, but the video itself tells a story, too, just like a movie does. I just sat there, jaw on the floor in awe of what I was seeing. That performance really touched my heart, and that was a wonderful experience, so thank you. I noticed it was very similar to my family. His father and mine both went to schools for the Deaf when they were 5 years old, so they got to be around other deaf children the entire time, signed, and interacted.

The contrast was interesting to see that his mother and my own, when they were of age for school, were both sent to public schools by their own parents, with nothing more than some hearing aids and a push out the door with the hopes they would learn to speak.

My mother was in public school until about 12 or 13 years old. Her parents noted that her improvement was insignificant, so they felt it was perhaps best to send her to a school or the deaf, and she finally got to go. To see how their stories were similar was really cool, and helped me to relate even more. He told the story of how his parents had met, how his father had fallen in love with her, and that was a beautiful story. Wink was the second child.

In his performance he became both of his parents. The story was so powerful, seeing those Deaf have so much inner strength, love and everything else you could mention. Now as an adult this is how Wink thanks him.

I want to sum up here. Thank you. To Keith, thank you as well. Both of you guys are awesome! So all this rambling about the show and how it affected me by breaking my heart, mending it, yada yada, does have a purpose. When this video or blog is finished, I want you to go to keithwann. Grab those tickets. Bring your friends and your family, everybody. Bring them all and watch the show. I know your hearts will be impacted the same way mine has been.

Until next time,. For the ASL version, click here. Hello everyone,. Here is her initial message:. Hi Fraser!!! How are you??? Not as a reference to a Deaf person, but referring to an emotional state rendered deaf and dumb.

Even though I knew what the author meant, it still bothered me. The book was published last year, and the setting is modern day-cell phones, tablet computers, etc. My response was a follows:.

I'm offended by that. Its likely that the author meant it in the same vein as someone using the word "retarded" to describe an idiot. However, the fact this author has a hard of hearing child may suggest they are straight up oralist.

Its a likely dynamic with a HoH child, even more so than with a deaf child. I think it stuns most of us who have a clue about Deaf, because we have a clue about Deaf. I think our problem is that sometimes we don't remember that most people out there don't have any experience with Deaf, and when we see that they might have had some and still say things like that, it seems to us to be unfathomable.

Either way, it's Audism, and how offended you are should be influenced by whether it was inherently hateful or just said out of a lack of awareness and sensitivity. Do you mind if I use this in a blog post? Norma later filled me in a bit more about the details of this incident that I would like to share with you, so here you go:. I contacted the author thru her website. I wanted to take the opportunity to share Deaf awareness and educate her on audism.

Yes, I would completely take offense if the words were used together to describe a deaf person as being dumb. He was completely overwhelmed which affected his cognitive abilities because of his reaction. Like I said, I completely understand…. I was blown away by this, but at the same time this was the email from her that finally put the puzzle pieces together for me. In my last email to her I stated this to her and attached the following two pics…she has not replied back to me.

I told her twice , that I was anxious to discuss this topic with other Codas. Looking foward to your thoughts on this!!! Again, my response:. It's a typical reaction to first finding out you offended someone, or a group of people, I think Thank you for this Norma, this is awesome stuff, and kudos to you on confronting her in a non offensive way.

That takes a lot of guts, and it hopefully plants a seed in her mind the next time she intends to use that phrase My goal was to try to get her in a calm and respectful discussion and fortunately she responded the same way.

Does that make sense???? I definitely agree with your entire email and I apologize from the bottom of my heart if you believe I was referring to the hearing impaired in a negative way. I assure you that I was not. Thank you so much for taking the time to send me the email….

Thank you Fraser for validating my feelings. It makes me feel better. I wanted to show her the Deaf part in me. My response to this:.