Got a bit of a cold. But I've kept it at bay with green tea, saltwater gargling, vitamin c, and generic Airborne®. There's a soup I made last time; I should do it again. If you are suffering from the Arctic blast here in the Midwest, try this:

1) get a can of chicken breast. Yes, they have that. Pour one part chicken breast and one part water into ( Read more... )

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My audition was quick, and they seemed to like me. I made a point to look on their website and tried to remember a few names. I shook hands with the folks and made them aware that I knew one of them was the costume designer. That mildly impressed them. I gave my head shot and resume, and I then I did a powerful period-piece monologue about 1920s ( Read more... )

A good friend will empathize, care about your well-being, etc. But when I am at a crossroads, I rarely tell my buddies about it. That's because I don't want them to help me get what I want. That's the typical advice that a friend gives. "If you want to get ahead in life, ya gotta take life by the horns, and pull yourself up by the bootstraps,..." ( Read more... )

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I tried to put a list of gripes on LiveJournal, but I have failed to write past my first entry several weeks ago. I won't bother to make another one.

The Maury show. The American public school system. Greasy fast food. Jerry Springer. Corporate greed. Irreparable political corruption. Widespread fanatical evangelism ( Read more... )

So David Letterman was apparently very ill, so ill that he was broadcasting from a table in front of the audience. He did a monologue, which was very funny, and then slowly, somehow, the audience started to join David onstage. He was deteriorating in front of everyone, until he was barely more than a skeleton with a suit on, talking about his ( Read more... )

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I've realized that on an Independence Day long ago, it was likely the first time I really started thinking about my interest in Asian culture. Just like this year, it was a Sunday, and I always hated Sundays. But this particular Sunday morning, I decided to make a change. It was that wonderful time just before sunrise, I was watching a rerun of a ( Read more... )