Drinking whiskey clear!
Mad Men returns this Sunday, and I’m so excited I could almost pee in my pants! Let’s hope that doesn’t happen… and in the meantime, enjoy this new promo picture of January Jones, Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks:
Wow… They’re all so pretty!
Don’t forget folks… THIS SUNDAY at 10pm on AMC! Squeeeeeeeeee!
Yeah, it’s photoshopped to hell and back, but still… WOW!
I’ve told this story on the website before, but the original version is tucked away inside a long post in the Old Site Archive, so I thought I’d share it again.
Lisa and I were in London from December 26, 2005 to January 2, 2006. We had a lot of fun the first few days, going to the V&A, Hampton Court Palace, Borough Market, and several other historic or interesting sites. But on New Year’s Eve we joined the throng of 450,000+ people to watch the fireworks near the London Eye. As you might guess, we had a few drinks. OK, more than a few. Quite a bit, actually. But we weren’t stumbling around, out of control drunk or anything.
The next day we were feeling less than 100%. We both agreed that we wanted something greasy and familiar to eat, and lots of it. One of us (I don’t remember who) suggested a Chinese buffet we had seen a few days prior. So off we went to Mr Wu’s Chinese Buffet at 58 Shaftesbury Avenue.
I dunno if I “love” this song just yet, but I spent the past hour listening to it over and over and over again, so that’s a good sign. It’s by the French band Karaocake (MySpace page here) and it’s amazingly hypnotic. Have a listen:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcTOu3R0OA
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I don’t even remember how it happened. Last night I was sitting at the computer, and somehow or the other I started messing around with the headers on this blog. I can’t remember if I found a cool image I wanted to use for a header, or if I found a plug-in that randomized the header or what… but one or the other set me off on a stream of consciousness search for headers that somehow related to my life.
So now the header graphic is randomized. Each time you load a page here, you’ll see a new one. Here are the header subjects so far:
More headers will follow. I haven’t found a good Steelers image yet, and the one good (large) pic I found of The Jam was taken at an angle, so I couldn’t get all the guys in the 940×198 space needed for the header. But the search will continue.
Also, I updated the Links page this afternoon. I added one new link, deleted few dead ones, and updated a few others.
Here’s a rare acoustic performance of R.E.M.’s “Driver 8”. What makes this particular performance so interesting is that it’s supposedly from a July 1984 episode of the show “The Cutting Edge”… which was almost a year before Fables of the Reconstruction was released.
Have a watch and tell us what you think:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjX7udu1SxE&feature=related
There’s an old saying in the broadcast industry that “[he or she] has a face for radio”. The meaning of this is clear: people with broadcasting skills (but not good looks) end up in radio, whilst people with broadcasting skills and good looks end up in television. By and large, the saying is true: all the Photoshop skills in the world just won’t make Sheri Lynch, Cooper Lawrence, Randi Rhodes, Leslie Fram, Don Imus, or even Howard Stern attractive.
I might have found the one exception to the rule in Annabel Port, the sidekick of Geoff Lloyd on Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) in the UK. She’s funny, her accent is sexy… and she’s pretty cute:
Two more pics after the jump.
A friend of mine moved to the Netherlands not too long ago. So I’ve been looking for flights over there, and I’ve been stumped as to why I can’t find one for under $700, no matter what time of year, time of day, or Saturday stayovers I choose. Then I found the problem:
So the ticket is $293 but the taxes and fees are $441? And my math might be off here, but those fees are around 148% of the ticket price?
When did TicketMaster start its own airline?
– A University of Illinois professor has been fired… for teaching the Catholic Church’s view of homosexuality. Kenneth Howell was teaching a class called Introduction to Catholicism in which he discussed “how the theory of utilitarianism and natural law theory would judge the morality of homosexual acts”. One student decided that this amounted to “hate speech” and sent a complaint letter to the head of the religious studies department, who then fired Howell. So now you can’t even teach what the Church believes? The world as I understood it makes less and less sense every day.
– Say what you will about the British, but their soldiers are badass. Lance Corporal Luke Reeson was on patrol in Nad-e-Ali, Afghanistan when an insurgent took a shot at him. The bullet hit Reeson’s body armor and went into his mouth, shattering his jaw. Reeson spit out the bullet and calmly walked two miles back to his camp, where he was given immediate medical attention before being flown home for surgery. Oh, and he’s now back on duty in Afghanistan.
– Rion Harmon is a musician from New York who records under the name The Zax. When he found out that Heidi Montag’s latest album sold 658 physical copies, he decided that he could do better than that. And thus, helpmesellmorerecordsthanheidimontag.com was born.
– Speaking of music, the guys over at Funny or Die recently disguised pop star Jewel with a wig, prosthetic nose, fake butt, and frumpy clothes and sent her to a karaoke bar… to sing Jewel songs! Disguised as “Karen”, a woman in town for a frozen foods convention, and surrounded by “co-workers”, she put on a show… and the crowd’s reaction is priceless. Check it out here. The best part? When Jewel, discussing the prosthetic, points to her own nose and says “yes, this nose got bigger“.
– You ever pronounce a word incorrectly for years and years? Or carefully dissect a kiwifruit instead of just slicing it in half and eating it with a spoon? Or only figure out after 20 years of driving that the little notches on the flap of your gas tank cover are to hold your gas cap whilst fueling? You’re not alone. This thread over at Metafilter has hundreds of comments from people who were doing something wrong for years and years until someone corrected them. My own confession: it wasn’t until last year, while watching an episode of Good Eats, that I learned how to hold a chef’s knife properly.