2008
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Save Your Own Date, You S.O.B.’s
I received a fancy envelope in the mail the other day. The names on the return address seemed to indicate that I had received a wedding invitation. (However, sometimes they use a phantom parents’ address just to throw you off the scent a little.) I ripped it open, risking a paper cut; I am a […]
Uh Oh, Nikki’s Tired Again
I’ll spare you the effort to click to deadlinehollywooddaily– THE go-to place for strike information. Here’s Nikki’s latest: DHD Update: Back On January 22ndI’m exhausted. I’m not feeling well. I’m overwhelmed. I need a week away from the emails and the comments and the phone calls and the rumors. Most of all, I just need […]
Clarification for Bernie
You don’t know me, but here’s how I know Frank. I was a year behind him at college, and greatly admired Frank as music director of the radio station. (A staff meeting comment by him my freshman year, about how “some DJs were still playing the music they listened to in high school” I think […]
Quisp
Quisp wasn’t my favorite cereal. I’d say it was middle of the pack. But, for some reason, it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read John’s post on discontinued cereals. From the Quisp web site, I’ve learned that it was discontinued when I was five. That would make this a […]
Timeshare Math Problem
In a hypothetical timeshare presentation which she in fact studiously avoided, Bernie is offered an amazing opportunity: to purchase a timeshare in the resort in which she is currently staying. For about forty grand, she can have it all, a week in the sun in paradise, or, she can go elsewhere and trade in her […]
fourteen years ago today
I was lying in bed, when I felt a blast and saw a series of bright flashes. The bed shook violently, the dresser came crashing down–the oven literally split in two. As a second blast hit, and then another, I became aware of a loud announcement, emanating from the street: “You have violated a protected […]
Not To Be Confused With Splenda® Brand Sweetener
5,000 years in 11 days? This sort of hyper-efficiency is exactly why China is overtaking us as a global superpower. If only Richard Thompson had more stamina….
I want to strike forever
That’s how this inflammatory quote from today’s Hollywood Reporter makes me feel: Meanwhile, studio negotiators must grapple with their own knotty dilemma in deciding when, and how, to resume negotiations with the WGA. As one management-side source put it, “The tough question is how do you reward the DGA for good behavior and not the […]
my all-time favorite cereal
My wife and daughter are away in Mexico and I’ve had three bowls of Cocoa Pebbles so far today. It’s a fine cereal but it can’t hold a candle to Rice Krinkles, a cereal that was discontinued sometime in my late teens, I think. Both are Post products, seemingly made from similar “molds,” but Rice […]
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