Reuters: Clean-cut men have fewer strokes. I’m doomed, in more ways than one.
Del Close,
the third titan of improvisation
, left his skull to the Goodman Theatre. It’s to be used in performances of Hamlet.Adrants points out didntialreadypayforthismovie.com, a sign of a growing backlash against movie-theatre advertisers.
I just plan to arrive 20-25 minutes after the start time and I am still there in time to see the beginning of the movie.
No Movie Ads, a website for
the lawsuit alleging theft of time by movie theaters
. (via The Shifted Librarian)The word gun was removed from spelling tests in a school near near Smiths Falls, ON, after a parent complained, explaining that
Guns are violent. End of story.
Year: 2003
I yam what I yam
It’s been a while since my last truly geeky post, but I think this makes up for it: I am Slackware Linux.
Which OS are you? (via Eric Meyer)
You are Slackware Linux. You are the brightest among your peers, but are often mistaken as insane. Your elegant solutions to problems often take a little longer, but require much less effort to complete.
My writer friend
Spent several hours with my friend Kym tonight (on a non-date if ever there was one), seeing My Big Fat Greek Wedding (a date movie if ever there was one) and discussing my recent notes on her novel. I’ve got another chapter from her in my inbox right now that I’ll probably read before I head off to bed.
Why is this noteworthy? Because everything about the evening was fun. Because the book is good, and getting better all the time. Because, as I’ve written before, she’s just generally cool to be around. And, before any of you smart alecks start taking this the wrong way, because we’re friends. (Not just friends, though. That phrase bothers me–it implies there’s something unworthy about platonic friendship.)
Dinner and a movie
When a movie is really working, we are always alone, because we are within the reverie it creates…. [One] of the reasons we go to the movies is to leave ourselves behind for two hours and identify with the characters–so if it’s a good movie [we] won’t be alone for long.
A good day
In no particular order, several things that have made the last few days good:
- Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief is an excellent book, and I think I’m enjoying it even more than the movie.
- Jessie (not that one, but there’s a funny story) is as nice in person as she is in e-mail.
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo are even better live than they are on CD.
- Even Walkingbirds’ castoffs are excellent.
- Thinking Putty is way more fun than it has any right to be.
- Kurt Swinghammer’s Vostok 6 and Pink Martini’s Sympathique and Nick Buzz’s Circo are totally different, and totally engrossing.
- Real Roasted Soys are mighty tasty. So is SoyNut Butter.
- Not only a new to-do list but also a new true-blue Story of The Third Floor.
(Links everywhere. It’s been a while since I fed obidos-bot. Nice obidos-bot.)
A bad day
Kym, Jessie, Ed (not the one below) and Anne are all feeling poorly today. (No, you haven’t heard of most of them before, at least not here.) I’m just starting to get back on my feet after hearing news of the Columbia on Saturday, which I heard about this way:
(13:42:30) Ed: did you see the news confreence?
(14:01:09) Peter: Apparently not. What’s up?
(14:01:38) Ed: You haven’t heard about the space shuttle? Columbia disintegrated coming into the atmosphere.
The past several days haven’t been all bad; more to come on that.
A bad day
[When] we have a bad day, we will fix it.
Milt Heflin, NASA Chief Flight Director
A bad day
That’s when we began to know that we had a bad day.
Milt Heflin, NASA Chief Flight Director
Stirred, not shaken
The Floating World is the working title for Pink Martini‘s second CD. It’s a little late: it was originally scheduled to come out in July 2002, and is now tentatively scheduled for
(I’m beginning to detect a pattern.) I wish I didn’t know any of this, because now I know something’s in the works it’s killing me that I can’t get it yesterday.the Spring of September 2003 early 2004.
And I must say I’m shocked (and stunned… but mostly shocked) to learn that Pink Martini and Weird Al Yankovic have both covered the same song: the theme to George of the Jungle.
Screw you guys, I’m going home
Please ignore the following: GNU DTD CSS W3C EFF WaSP
Scott Andrew LePera, Just A Test (whew!)