i just heard an advertisement for a new tv show that is about a psychic zombie who solves crimes. has a show ever jumped the shark during the pitch meeting?

i'm behind on updating, but i need to pause to remark that this has been a really dreadful week if you are a chicago sports fan. three bad injuries to key members of three of the five major teams, and then today minnie minoso's death. as with ernie banks, i don't want to pretend that he meant more to me than he did--the chief thing that is ( Read more... )

When: Friday, March 6, 2015 7:00-8:30 p.m ( Read more... )

i'm surprised by how affected i am by this information, considering that i was not a cubs fan during the time that he was playing, and i have no particular memories involving him. the thing that's getting to me is listening to other people's stories about him--what kind of person he was. there has literally not been a single person with a bad ( Read more... )

the two guest singers that we had with us last week are from this group ( Read more... )

but actually, i'm sure a lot of you will enjoy this--she just came to mind, first:

http://elitedaily.com/music/shake-it-off-hanukkah-best-parody/879262/

it's just what it looks like--a hanukkah parody set to taylor swift's "shake it off."

when you google to find out how to stop flash from crashing and the page that you get keeps crashing because of flash

there was a line in "the hobbit: battle of the five armies" that i recall noting at the time as being a complete...not anachronism, exactly, but it got a laugh because it referred to some other movie. i can't find it in the imdb quotes from the movie--did anyone else notice it enough to recall what i'm talking about?

the subject line is something that i say, not infrequently, based on a joke that my parents told me to explain why they used to say it. (there are a lot of stock phrases in my family that are punchlines to very old jokes.) i went online and found a version of it--not the exact version that i heard from my folks, but close enough to give you all ( Read more... )

does the english language have suffcient words to express how annoying the windows media player can be?