They are surprisingly charming. Our dogs desperately want to play with them.
It took a few hours for goats (Daphne, Robert, and Pamela) to settle in. They ate a bit. And seem to be bedding down for evening. High hopes for tomorrow.
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I kidnapped a blacksmith today. As soon as I got him in my house, he made a bolt for the door.
Air Force One came on this afternoon but I had to leave for an evet before it was over. I just got home and it is on again. I'll get to see the ending I missed.
This is one of those movies that I seem to always watch when I stumble across it on tv.
Pulp Fiction
Remember the Titans and Rudy are also on my list.
And the Die Hard movies for some reason.
A Few Good Men, which is a problem, because it seems to get shown a LOT.
It is a blueberry muffin morning.
Sounds like he is at Elmo’s.
So my car was stolen last night and I'm trying to figure out how to get it back. It's an old card. But I still didn't want it to get stolen.
hate to have a useful old car stolen because the insurance company won't give you squat for it. Neighbor just had her car (while sitting in her driveway) totaled by some yokel who took out a power pole and her ride, for which she'll get precious little due to its age.
Probably like it because the football game was actually filmed at halftime, or maybe between quarters, of a Notre Dame game. I like to think about how confused the people in the stadium were when ND and GaTech came out on the field.
Elmo’s rocks.
Random little plug for a Mark Cuban business.
No, some discount medicine business he's starting. It's on the DBR home page...every once in a while, they toss some random POVs into what's generally on brand. I thought when DBR got bought, the main page was more curated but I think they can still toss in some of their personal interest pieces every once in a while.
Time for another sigh...
I have to put on pants for work today!
vacuuming done, sun coming out, icky humid air departing...what's not to like?
My always watch when I find them on the TV movies are Shakespeare in Love, Michael Clayton, and The Bourne Identity.
I have to go to the dentist today, and I'm even less happy about it than usual.
On the other hand, I did not have to go to work, so I guess that balances out my anti-dentite displeasure.
Sorry about your car, CD!
We closed As You Like It yesterday. I've got 9 outdoor Shakespeare productions under my belt now, going back to 2014. For the first time, we had no rainouts, none, zero. It's raining today.
My favorite new show has a surprise guest tomorrow.
Why you going to the airport? Flying somewhere?
That John Denver is full of sheet, man.
As I was heroically mowing the lawn today (no riding mower, not now, not ever) my wife took Holly the dog for a long walk, and upon arriving back on our dirt road, she heard a noise and saw a black bear retreating up a driveway near "ours" (which happens to be French for "bear" by the way) so she waited for it to disappear, then moved forward only to hear a bleating on her left where two teddy bear sized cubs were on their hind legs wailing for mom. A hasty retreat was beaten, the cubs reunited with mom, Mrs Womble got a ride home with a neighbor (whereupon a doe and nursing fawn popped onto the lawn for the third time this week)...
Quite a few people in our area are keeping chickens these days, and they are a surefire lure for hungry bears...
My surprise guest really delivered a twist!
Scaramouch, scaramouch, will you do...
I really hate Bohemian Rhapsody.
I like this version sung by Angelina Jordan.
Due to time constraints it's only about 2 minutes long.
I used to love Bohemian Rhapsody, we had it on 45. Then it became popular with Wayne's World and was played a lot on the radio after that. Now, they play WAY too much Queen on the radio to begin with, and yes, I am quite sick of the song now.
CD, any update on the car situation? Inquiring minds, and all that.
Anyone familiar with the orange head joke? I heard it for the first time yesterday and couldn't stop laughing.
Then I learned it's a very old joke, that some find it hysterical and others simply don't get it and don't find any humor in it. There are websites devoted to understanding why that's so. I find people's different perceptions of, and senses of, humor so interesting.
Carry on...
Edit: Here's a reasonably good version of the joke for context:
It's business as usual for a bartender, and one day as he is cleaning his bar when an unusual customer walks in. The man is dressed in an expensive suit, has a beautiful supermodel hanging off each arm, and has a limo parked outside. Furthermore, the man has an orange for a head.
The customer sits down at the bar and orders everyone a drink. He pays for it from a roll of hundreds and manages to get the attention of every woman in the joint, despite having an orange for a head.
The bartender is not a man to pry, but he feels compelled to ask about this man's life.
"Excuse me," says the bartender, "I can't help but notice that you're obviously fabulously wealthy and irresistible to women, but you have an orange for a head. How did that happen?"
So the man told his story.
"A while back, when I was penniless, I was walking along the beach and saw an old lamp, half buried in the sand. I picked it up and gave it a clean, and POOF! out popped a genie. The genie explained that he had been trapped in that lamp for two hundred years, and that he was so grateful to me for freeing him that he would give me three wishes.
"For my first wish I asked for an unlimited fortune. The genie said 'It is done!' and from then on, whenever I needed money, it was there.
"For my second wish I asked for the attention of all the most beautiful women in the world. The genie said it was done, and since then I have been able to get any woman I wanted.
"For my third wish -- and, this is where I kinda messed up -- I asked for an orange for a head."
I would classify this as an anti-joke. This a long-form version. A common short form of an anti-joke would be something like this old classic:
Q: What's red and bad for your teeth?
A: A brick.
Sometimes those land for me, and sometimes they don't. The more unexpected they are, the better. For me, an anti-joke usually seems a lot better if you've heard a bunch of more traditional jokes right before it, so you're starting to look for funny twists. Once you are anticipating unexpected answers, something blatant suddenly becomes funny. At least in my non-expert perception, having not read any humor-analysis websites.
Saw an interesting article a while back on how most stations choose tunes to be played. The bottom line is that they don't necessarily want to play the songs you want to hear most, they just want to play songs you are unlikely to change the channel on.
The tune rotation on a lot of stations is shockingly limited, which is why I can often find something like Hotel California on two stations (in our limited market) simultaneously.
You can always hear U2 in Boston. I'm not really exaggerating. I collected data one time. If I was going to be in the car for more than 10 minutes, I would continuously scan the local radio stations until I heard a U2 song. I kept track of the number of 10 minute or longer trips I took for a month and scored them yes/no based on whether or not I heard U2 on the radio during the trip. 77% of trips were U2 successful.
U2's Bad is my favorite song of all time from any artist or band. Especially the live version from Wide Awake In America. It moves me every time.
https://youtu.be/4oRGxL42cI8
I had a car stolen from me in another country and was given the police equivalent of a "shrug" when I asked him what the chances of retrieving the car was. I'm sure he was not thrilled with dealing with American tourists but it had ALL our stuff in it. We'd been in the ocean swimming and the perp must have followed us from the parking lot, nabbed all our stuff while we were swimming and then took off.
We had 1 credit card left between the three of us and I had to buy everyone new clothes, shoes, etc just to get home.
Fast forward several months and they did find the car. Almost everything of value was gone but I did get my wallet back minus credit cards. Got my hat back, too, but it was set on different settings so they tried on my hat and decided 'nahhhh...' Kind of offended.
My youngest son chose Bono as the subject of his 3rd grade Heroes and Heroines project, with the Unforgettable Fire LP as his presentation soundtrack.
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Nothing about Hoochie Mama? Who are you people?
Someone in VT won $366.7 million in the Powerball drawing. I wonder if it was budwom?
I don't want to give anything away, but I'm getting a NetJets account and will fly around hurling cow turds at those who have dissed me. You know who you are. Laugh if you must, but consider a four pound cow turd travelling at 120 mph before getting too complacent.
Next stop: Lake Como where George and I will hang for a bit...
My wife and I caught the performance this past Sunday in Longfellow Park. We greatly enjoyed the production -- even if we didn't completely follow everything which was going on (we're not well versed in Shakespeare and foolishly sat on the perimeter where it was hard to hear certain parts).
Am I correct to assume that you were the actor wearing the vintage Duke basketball t-shirt? :)
Does SCOTUS have jurisdiction to keep USC and UCLA from joining the Big 10?
Duke just texted me asking for money. They only text when they want something.
Indeed, you are. I played "The Duke" as well. I've now played 4 Shakespearean dukes, it's becoming a habit.
I regret that I didn't get to speak with you afterwards, but thank you very much for coming! Yes, it was harder to hear from the perimeter, but there was more shade.
Y'all ever have those flintstone push-up ice-cream thingies?
I’m pretty sure that bookending the week with a dentist appointment on Monday and a blood draw on Friday is a human rights violation.
heading to a gathering featuring friends and a brisket that has been slow cooking on the grill since dawn....hoo doggies!
There used to be this guy at Rangers games that would yell “hooooootttttt dddddddoooooggggggssssd” at the top of his lungs in a really nasally, gravelly voice.
I cannot see the word hotdog or have me without it playing in my head on loop.
Cool. One of the other things that took some time to work out was determining when an actor was playing a different character vs when one of the characters had taken on a different persona. The costume changes seemed to help in this respect.
Watching the performance on Sunday made me think I probably enjoy Shakespeare's comedies a bit more than the tragedies. Though, in fairness, Measure for Measure is the only other comedy I have seen.
By the way, a few years ago we saw Macbeth performed in Daheny Park by what seems like a similar company. Any chance you were involved with this also?
I produced that one too although it was with a different company, It's a Fiasco. I played one of the minor lords (Angus), Lady MacDuff, and Lady M's servant in the Lady M sleepwalking scene. Dream Role Players grew out of It's a Fiasco. IaF kinda split into two groups, with the other one, Praxis Stage, continuing to do outdoor Shakespeare in Cambridge. They did Henry IV (both parts in a combined production), Julius Caesar, and Hamlet pre-pandemic. I don't think the company has survived the pandemic. Dream Role went off to Medford for a couple of years but has come back to Cambridge where the neighbors are more receptive to our mission.
We did have some doubling up by a couple of actors in As You Like It. We tried to color code things - all of the Court costumes were business-like and shades of grey. Our fun catch phrase for the switch to the Forest of Arden was "No ties in the forest!". There is, however, the complicating factor of Rosalind disguising herself as a boy and the fact that all of the people who get exiled from Court changed clothes once they went to the forest and then changed clothes again for the wedding scene. Four of the actors played both a Court character and an Arden character and they changed clothes too, so, if one doesn't know the play very well, I can understand not knowing who people are. Our costumer thought it was all too much, to be perfectly honest. For next year, I will have the booklet contain a plot synopsis and a better detailed list of who is who and which actors will play multiple roles.
I don’t understand the stores that want me to hunt for someone to give my money to in exchange for goods. What sort of reverse psychology bull crap is afoot there?
There is a fungus messing up my yard...
Occasionally, people get on my nerves.
Mystic Pizza with classmate Annabeth Gish…
My ears started burning and I felt a sudden urge to check LTE. Hmmmm.
After your next round of appointments:
https://www.mashed.com/914761/nathan...-for-july-4th/
Stolen from Twitter:
Why are there pop tarts but no mom tarts
Because of the pastryarchy
Oh, Israel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nein
i just cut down a tree.