Actual letters to Dear Abby, randomly selected, with my response: DEAR ABBY: My closest friend, "Tina," who is married, has been having an affair for a few months. She has now decided she’s no longer in love with her husband, "Hal," and wants a divorce. Tina and Hal have been in my life for several years and are like family … Read More
Blogging Traditions
John Cole starts a new blogosphere tradition: your 10,000th blog post should be about your cat. Ok. Well, this is my 5,511th post. Maybe I’ll have a cat by 10,000. But I doubt it.
I’m Officially Weirded Out
Hundreds of pictures of celebrities with their noses for eyes (click through all the pages). Here’s a small sample: Kiera Knightly: Nicole Kidman: Charlize Theron:
From The Family Archives
Is there anything better than a family member finding old faded photographs? Uncle Jack uncovered a trove. You don’t have to know these people to enjoy these photos. They invoke what I imagine to be a simpler time, if only because the world was black sepia and white back then. "The Rough Riders" That’s my Uncle Jack, my Mom, and … Read More
Testing One, Two…. Is This Thing On?
Wow. A coding error of some sort stopped all my posts from posting. I think I fixed the error…..
Swamped
Light and/or intermittant blogging for a while. Work is a bear. And I’m in rehearsal for two shows: (1) The Nebula of Georgia, playing at Open Space Theatre on April 10-12, and April 17-19, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday at 2:00 (for tix and information, call 336-292-2285). I play Lyndal, a goofy filling station owner in rural … Read More
This Week’s “Dear Abby Hijacked”
Today I am introducing, as a semi-regular feature on this blog, a segment called DEAR ABBY HIJACKED, in which I take letters to Dear Abby (printed earlier in the week) and provide my own answers without bothering to read what "Abby" said in response. Simple concept really. Might be fun. So away we go with the debut installment: DEAR ABBY: … Read More
Death Of A Blogger
Fortunately, the blogger was a puddle. Yeah, you read right. A puddle! Located at the corner of Jay and Plymouth, a couple blocks east of the Manhattan Bridge, the "puddle" has been blogging since February 1. It dried up today.
The Monty Hall Problem
I’ve heard of this before, and I think I’ve finally figured it out. Here, in a nutshell, is what logicians have called The Monty Hall Problem: Suppose you are a contestant on a "Let’s Make A Deal" game show. The host points to three doors. Behind one door is a brand new car, he tells you. There is a goat … Read More
Just A Little Too Much Time On My Hands….
Me as James Bond…. Me as Muhammad Ali…. Me as Sweeney Todd… Me as Austin Powers…. Me as Brad Pitt escorting Angelina Jolie to the Golden Globes And the MOST DISTURBING OF ALL….. Me as Kate Moss in a Dior ad…
For The Record, I’ve Never Been To Australia
Must be someone else: More than 65,000 WA volunteers resisted a Sunday sleep-in to collect 520 tonnes of rubbish yesterday morning for the 19th Clean Up Australia Day. Community groups and individual volunteers tended to rivers, bush and beaches to remove glass, drink cans, confectionery wrappers, cigarette butts and other discarded rubbish. Clean Up Australia Day chairman Ian … Read More
Am I Blowing Your Mind?
This optical illusion is a static image. It is not animated in any way. I’ll post a few more below the fold….
That Yeats Could Turn A Phrase
When by my solitary hearth I sit, When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head. Whene’er I wander, at the fall of night, Where woven boughs shut out the moon’s bright ray, Should sad Despondency … Read More
Kittens Will Sing To You
It’s a promotion for an Australian bank. Enter your name, and these kittens will sing you a song.
Elmo Making Death Threats
Ok then: LITHIA – A Lithia family says a cuddly, programmable Elmo doll revealed its dark side yesterday after fresh batteries were installed. Instead of singing songs or reciting the favorite color of its 2-year-old owner, James Bowman, the doll started making death threats, the family says. With a squeeze of its fuzzy belly, the Sesame Street character now says, … Read More