Open letter of the day: Dear Exergen Corporation, If you're going to market a device called a "temporal scanner," I will expect it to tell me my kid's age, not his temperature ( Read more... )

After enduring an exceptionally misguided Seth Rogan movie, I watched "A Dog's Breakfast," which landed in my Netflix queue for reasons I've long since forgotten. But what a treat. Made for about a buck three-eighty, it's very dark and funny, and the DVD extras added to the pleasure. It helps to be a "Stargate" (TV) fan, since most of the cast is ( Read more... )

Played auditions today. During a lull, the director told a story about the time years before when an actress handed her music to the pianist and started explaining it. The pianist cut her off, and said (with attitude), "I was in the pit for this show." The director thought this was very funny ( Read more... )

WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 3 Jun 2011 Washington, DC ( Read more... )

I'm not a big fan of fast food chains. (My motto: You can always do better.) But every now and then, I indulge a craving for a Wendy's Frosty or an Arby's roast beef. And by "every now and then," I mean "less often than the census is counted ( Read more... )

I've set up my gmail.com account to grab all of the nyc.rr.com e-mail, but I continue to log on to Road Runner Web Mail once or twice a day to make sure nothing gets overlooked ( Read more... )

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Started off great. Borrowed my nephew and his car and headed to Brooklyn. Found everything I wanted, got it home and assembled. Discovered that the Besta Shelf Unit requires one more extra shelf than the two I bought for efficient DVD storage. Went online this morning, figuring I'd have one mailed ( Read more... )

Just turned on my phone and received a voicemail left this morning. Mostly inaudible. Couldn't make out the woman's name or phone number, but was able to piece together parts of the story. Sometime in the past, I bailed her out of a musical jam and subbed in on ... something. She just unearthed the tape of that, and wanted to let me know she was ( Read more... )

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