Got a haircut today. Now I look like Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episode III.

I just looked out the window and there's two inches of snow on the ground. That's a surprise.

This morning, I mailed out a package and ate a banana.

That's what I did this morning.

Found something interesting last night. It turns out that not only do I share birthdays with John Lennon, Miguel de Cervantes, and The Count from Sesame Street, but also the last of the Revolutionary War veterans - Daniel Frederick Bakeman, born October 9, 1759 ( Read more... )

Clucking Points

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2005. From the casting specs for the voice-over on a series of television commercials for KFC. Auditions for the part were held last winter. Originally from Harper's Magazine, September 2004.

1. The voice should be confident.This is a confident, progressively thinking brand. The voice should ( Read more... )

Oooh! Oooh! I found an unlabeled tape full of Galloping Gourmet episodes! That makes six total! Oh, what a nice surprise! WEE!

Graham Kerr in the '60s totally rules. Oh yeah.

I'm having a very musically confusing day today. I drove around this morning to the library in Brick to look up a William Sidney Mount book for Annie listening to Dervish. There, I picked up Grey Larsen's insanely awesome and huge book on traditional Irish flute and pennywhistle playing, and drove home listening to a new Tim Eriksen CD, with him ( Read more... )

Did my patriotic duty today and voted. As I pulled into the Central Jersey Italian American Club, I was listening to the new CD by Annie's dad's group, Stout, and Yankee Doodle came on. Pretty funny, says I ( Read more... )

Thus endeth the most physically exhausting and painful week of my life. Yes, I know it's Tuesday, but, eh. My back hurts ( Read more... )

Yesterday, 590 years ago, the French and English bashed it out on the field of Agincourt. Nearly two hundred years later, William Shakespeare penned the famous speech which we quote from often, and from which came the title of a certain 10-part series which is a favorite of many of us ( Read more... )