I blogged about it a few days ago: the lawsuit and video in which Tigger allegedly assualts a teenager at Disneyworld. People, it’s not the Zapruder film.
The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers…
…is their devastating left hook: A Walt Disney World employee dressed as the character "Tigger" was accused of hitting a child while posing for a photo, a spokeswoman for the theme park said Saturday. Jerry Monaco of New Hampshire videotaped his son, Jerry Jr., posing with the costumed character at Disney-MGM Studios on Friday and recorded the confrontation, according to … Read More
Google Searches That Lead To Me
The blogger at Brilliant at Breakfast discovered that people who google the phrase "Nancy Pelosi breast size" get his site as one of the results, and that’s how they come to him (despite the fact that he never blogged about Nancy Pelosi’s breast size). So I wanted to see what searches people have done which lead them here. Here’s a … Read More
Theatre Survey I Stole…
… from Emily who stole it from Zac. (I guess it’s viral?) Real Name: Kenneth Richard Ashford Stage Name: Ken Ashford Last Show You Added To Your Resume: "On Goldon Pond" (director) Last Show You Auditioned For: "Daddy’s Dyin’ – Who’s Got The Will?" Did You Get Into It: I did Last Song You Used At An Audition: Honest to … Read More
Certain Words In The English Language Get Pwned
Lake Superior University has issued its annual list of English words which should be banned due to overuse or misuse: GITMO — The US military’s shorthand for a base in Cuba drives a wedge wider than a split infinitive. "When did the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base change to ‘Gitmo,’ a word that conjures up an image of a fluffy … Read More
Questions To Ponder
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak? Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough money in the account to pay the first charge let alone any additionaL ones? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, … Read More
Flashback: Saturday Night Live on Gerald Ford’s Death — in 1996
Ford graciously took a lot of ribbing from that show.
What We Learned This Year
A nice article here, listing 50 things that we (meaning, "mankind") know now that we didn’t know one year ago, probably because we were obsessed with celebrity babies and underpants. I’ll save you the trouble and provide the list here. I’m putting a few in boldface, for reasons I’ll explain after: 1. U.S. life expectancy in 2005 inched up to … Read More
Once Again, The Japanese Do Things Better
Apparently, I’ve been folding my T-shirts wrong all these years.
Twenty-One 2007 Predictions
The Red Sox will not win the World Series. This may not be a startling prediction, but it does serve a function: to prevent me from getting my hopes up. The Patriots will not win the Super Bowl. See No. 1. The situation in Iraq — particularly the U.S. troop levels will remain more or less the same, unless it … Read More
Battle Fatigue And Xmas Photomoblogging
It seems like this is National Let’s-Tell-Ken-What’s-Wrong-With-Him Week. Everywhere I turn –at work and outside — people seem quite content to spread holiday cheer by inserting probes into me and giving me their amateurish psychological assessments, and acting contrarian simply for (it seems) the sake of contrarianism. It’s beyond annoying, and I’m not sure why this is happening. I see … Read More
My December Horoscope
Stunning breakthroughs are rare enough events in your life. You tend to prefer putting one foot in front of the other to the flying karate kick. Looking back, you’ve done a lot of that this year, that is, the moving forward one step at a time, thankfully, without looking back. But the real journey has been an extremely careful assessment … Read More
Short Takes
(1) Lots of video of incredible home Christmas light displays here. (2) A primer on how to fake your own death. (3) The top 50 albums of 2006.
The Playbill Meme
I got it from Emily, who got it from Playbill: Full given name: Kenneth Richard Ashford Hometown: Born in Omaha, Nebraska, but I consider Concord NH (where I was raised) my "hometown" Zodiac sign: Libra Audition song: It used to be "You Are Sixteen Going On Seventeen", but that just gets sillier as I become a forty-something. Now it’s whatever … Read More