Bruno Mars advises manipulating the stock of a large-cap company?

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Adjacent to a horrifying story about a "Man Set On Fire At Convenience Store", we see an ad for a "Wawa Sizzli".

Mrs. Ferret and I saw the new Les Mis movie on Saturday, and I'm not ashamed to say I cried a little.  Okay, a lot.  Jackman and Hathaway were very good.  I dialed down expectations for Crowe to avoid disappointment.  Javert's character does provide at least one surprise.

Uh oh, uh oh, hay fever ( Read more... )

Can you identify this song about a southerner's cautious initial response?

Wary S.C. "Mmm"

Partition's impermissible ( Read more... )

We start with a song.  In this case, "Run, Come, See Jerusalem" as performed by the group Clam Chowder ( Read more... )

The games of the 16th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition have recently been released for your enjoyment and amusement at http://ifcomp.org.

Authors are known to be a strange bunch, but they are usually pleased to receive feedback from the audience.

Well, it's been a couple years since my last Interactive Fiction, and it looks like I still had one more inside. I don't think I actually got any takers on my last call for Formless Void Testers, but it's really a very rewarding occupation: almost every goofy thing you try is more work for me, and you get to laugh at the uncut blooper reel. If ( Read more... )

Last night at Nationals Park:

1. Elton John stomped off stage in the middle of a song because his sustain pedal was stuck.
2. Billy Joel crawled under said piano in an unsuccessful attempt to fix the problem.
3. Billy Joel played "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

Hooray for technical difficulties.