For the last about two months or so, I’ve been listening to my MP3 player, in alphabetical order by song title. With over three thousand songs, the effect is similar to random, but you never hear the same song you heard yesterday, which will happen on Shuffle mode. I started at the beginning of the [...]
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Hurt Me Jane
Tonight, I was watching TV, and I saw something highly disturbing. It was Jane Curtin on Third Rock From the Sun. Now, here’s the deal. I’ve never really watched the show, and as far as Jane Curtin goes, she was very good on Saturday Night Live, but I never really followed her later work. [...]
Typo Denial
I’m an editor, and I’ve been working in publishing for about 20 years. I share an office with another editor whom I’ve worked with off and on almost all of that entire time. So we were talking today about the publisher where we used to work and how the quality went down after they were [...]
I Hate Edited for Television
Who the fuck died and made you Grace Kelly?!
CruiseTrek
At work today, an oversized full color magazine appeared in my mailbox. It was published by the company and focused on the people who work there and what they did both inside and outside of work. It was nice, very well produced, full color throughout, even had a couple gate-folded (like Playboy centerfold) pages. It [...]
Sheldon’s Friendship Flowchart
Okay, I love the TV show, Big Bang Theory. On the last episode, Sheldon, the most hyperintelligent and socially inept of the cast, wanted to make a new friend, so he created a friendship flowchart. It looked something like this. Okay, it look a lot like this (I have a program on my work computer [...]
Go Ahead, Mow My Lawn
I’m watching TV with my eight-year-old daughter, and a commercial comes on for the new Clint Eastwood movie, Gran Torino. In it, Clint comes out brandishing a rifle at some hoodlums standing in front of him. Then in his best make-my-day voice, he says, “Get off of my lawn.”
My daughter Jasmine says, “Boy, he sure is [...]
Son of a Beach Movies
All day on TCM, they were showing beach movies. I saw part of Beach Party, and then Muscle Beach Party. In Beach Party, Bob Cummings landed a small plane on the beach, and in Muscle Beach Party, the heiress who lives on the yacht off the beach landed a helicopter on the beach. I don’t [...]