Just got this email from the director of the library and thought I'd pass the word along:

Today between 3:30 and 7:00 PM there will be sound testing at MI Stadium. The sound will be very, very loud and will be similar to the sonic boom created by fighter jets.

... given that I've never taken any Spanish . Five years of French and some educated guesses ...
Your result for The Spanish Test...
The Native Speaker

73% educado!


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We're looking for a house painter -- interior and exterior.  Can anybody in the Ann Arbor area recommend one?

... it's always hard to sleep."

-- E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

This Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Michigan Theater is showing The Black Pirate, silent with live organ accompaniment, starring Douglas Fairbanks. The description reads:

"This swashbuckling nautical adventure, starring the incomparable Douglas Fairbanks, made film history as one of the first full features shot entirely in Technicolor. Here, he plays a ( Read more... )

For anybody in the area who might be interested: one of my favorite bands, Malinky, is playing at the Ark in Ann Arbor tomorrow.

Here's a sample of their song Edom O Gordon. More sound samples and a short video clip are here.

I've taken singing classes at Goderich from both of their main singers and really enjoyed the songs they taught.

Just wanted to give public thanks to tlatoani for putting together the first draft of a new swashbuckling card game and bringing it out to Mombasa for playtesting. colomon and I were very sorry not to get to play it again tonight after the first tweaking, and we're hoping to get to try it again very soon!

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My iPod has been acting up for the past several weeks. We took it to the Apple store a few weeks ago, and after much pressing of buttons (but no actual hard testing), the Apple guy sent us home. It seemed like he had decided the problems weren't trouble enough, even though I was having to do a hard restart on it almost every time I used it ( Read more... )

Based on its ad campaign's reference to several movies I have disliked over the past few years, I predict the #1 film I will not be seeing this holiday season to be:

Juno

It bumps "The Darjeeling Limited" thanks to its skillful use of unplanned pregnancy. Thanks, Fox Searchlight, you're getting better at signaling.