For your enjoyment…
Licking People
If you open up this month’s People magazine, you’ll find an ad for Welch’s grape juice. Within the ad, there is a strip. You are asked to peel it away and lick what’s underneath. Like the scratch-n-sniffs in their heyday, you’re going to be seeing a lot of the peel-n-licks, thanks to new technology, according to this Wall Street Journal … Read More
Bush at CPAC
Love the writing in this column. ALSO: But for the swearing, this could very well be a phone coverversation between me and my Mom.
Positive Spin
Patriots press release: PHOENIX—The self-reflective New England Patriots issued a brief but enlightening statement concerning their nearly perfect season Monday, claiming that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without, and that greatness is measured not in successes but in failures. "What is perfection without fault? Nothing. How can one be perfect without the … Read More
“Can you call the ambulance? Cause, because my mom just had a heart attack”
Pretty cool story. With audio of the 4 year old’s 911 call.
Anatomy Of A Brainfart
Scene: A group of Klansman storm the lodge where Charlie, an Englishman pretending to be a foreigner, is staying. The robed and hooded men are armed with rifles, bats, crowbars, etc. The leader of the racist Klan, Owen Musser, raises a bullhorn to his mouth and addresses Betty (the owner of the lodge) with the following line: Are you prepared … Read More
Busy Busy
Light No posting today, it seems. Lot of things in the fire. Preview audience tonight for The Foreigner, too. You’re not missing much. I really had nothing to say, except for a few rather meandering thoughts about Lost.
Everyman Photo Contest
The annual Everyman Photo Contest is a photo contest exclusively for non-photographers, operating on the assumption that every person has one taken one really excellant photo at one point in their lives. I may be the sole exception to that rule, which is probably why I’m attracted to the site. Anyway, I finally went to the site of the 2007 … Read More
Green
Sometime next month, I’m doing a stage reading of a one-act play called Green by Bekah Brunstetter. It’s about a soldier named Clint, returning from the Iraq war, learning to adjust (not very successfuly — he holds conversations with his gun and cigarettes, who talk back). I play Alex, the soldier’s best buddy from childhood. Alex is artistic, liberal, anti-war, … Read More
Stick Figures In Peril
Flickr has an entire pool devoted to them. Some of my faves: If you happen to be on the set of a Warner Brothers cartoon… And please, don’t slap the penguins. It upsets them greatly, and when you think about it, there’s really no call for it… Jazz hands, people! The approach of large waves will cause Charlie Brown’s limbs … Read More
Dear Boston Globe
I admire your optimism, but this kind of premature hubris is just asking for the Gods to serve up some humble pie. [UPDATE: Link no longer working because Amazon removed it. It was a listing for a book by the Editors of the Boston Globe. Title: "19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots". An article in the … Read More
A Snowball Sentence
A "snowball sentence" contrived by Dmitri Borgmann – each word is one letter longer than the last: I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness. Try to come up with one yourself.
Miss America Drama
Heather’s got the story on a little event happened at Miss America involving the parents of two contestants (who both happen to be from just down the road in High Point, NC).
Read This…
From the NYT Review of Books: Many bloggers really don’t write much at all. They are more like impresarios, curators, or editors, picking and choosing things they find on line, occasionally slapping on a funny headline or adding a snarky (read: snotty and catty) comment. Some days, the only original writing you see on a blog is the equivalent of … Read More