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Posting from my iPad, cause I’m a showoff.
Sooooo much news lately. Lex is ready (way more than ready) to give birth to our second son any moment now, it’s been in the 90′s, high 80′s for like two weeks now (seems like it – hard for Lexy Lou) and I have potentially big news coming after a meeting scheduled for early next week. Swinging times!
Oh yeah: I was recently in a fine production at Main Street Stage of a show called The Baltimore Waltz, which was a hoot and a real gem of a show and experience. I’ll post photos here soon, and update my neglected Gigs section.
Till then, my friends …
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Top 10 Lost Finale Spoilers
This list seems appropriate for people who have not been following the series, but who may watch the finale. It’s cute how awkward the producers look here though, since so many throngs of Lost fans hang on every word they say, me included.
I usually love Letterman, but his glibness had a negative affect this time. How can you tell jokes about Lost? You can’t. How can you even say anything about Lost without it resulting in a meandering, at least twenty minute conversation? Preferably on a couch with Doritos? And, um, a big glass of water. I love water. (See? Even the pot-jokes don’t land!)
Thank god Ben’s appearance partway through completely redeems this bit.
(I admit I’m a little uptight about people belittling my fav TV show. They just don’t understand it, after all, not that I understand it, either.)
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Your morning crazy
Chinglish
“For English speakers with subpar Chinese skills, daily life in China offers a confounding array of choices,” Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports from Shanghai. “At banks, there are machines for ‘cash withdrawing’ and ‘cash recycling.’ The menus of local restaurants might present such delectables as ‘fried enema,’ ‘monolithic tree mushroom stem squid,’ and a mysterious thirst-quencher known as ‘The Jew’s Ear Juice.’ Those who have had a bit too much monolithic tree mushroom stem squid could find themselves requiring roomier attire: extra-large sizes sometimes come in ‘fatso’ or ‘lard bucket’ categories. These and other fashions can be had at the clothing chain known as Scat.”
via Which paw do you use?, Chinglish, we’ll always have pants – The Globe and Mail.
Update – NYTimes.com has a great slideshow: A Sampling of Chinglish
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New and Old Music
Can I share what struck me on the radio lately?
I heard this kind of new-wave-type song coming back from the airport last week and loved it. I was shocked to find it was Linda Ronstadt from 1980 singing a song by Billy Steinberg (the DJ said he co-wrote “Like A Virgin”, go figure).
It’s called “How Do I Make You”. Dig the cover art:

And then (man, I love “The River”), they played a track by a group I’d never heard of: “Joy Kills Sorrow”. To me, they sound a lot like “Hem” or “Crooked Still”, if you’ve heard those groups – both excellent. The song was “All The Buildings”. It knocked me out.

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Cheerleader
Reading Social Studies this morning, this blurb really struck me:
Fight, fight, fight
“After the stress of her job became too much for her to handle,” MSNBC.com reports, “one young woman in Tokyo decided to quit and channel her energy into brightening the days of workers feeling the same stress. Since August, 2009, this young Tokyo cheerleader gets up every morning to cheer for the morning commuters outside a busy train station.”
via Don’t forget your meds, cousin of T. rex?, how we laugh – The Globe and Mail.
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Back to work
What does it say about our society that this amount of time spent at work is an undocumented requirement in many professional positions?
Put in 50 hours? Go home – “The International Labour Organization says that 8 per cent of the working population devotes more than 12 hours a day to their profession in order to escape from personal problems,” Psych Central News reports. “According to the experts, spending more than 50 hours per week working could be a determining factor in [work] addiction.”
via A cheaper type, It’s cloudy? Let’s study, flash mob – The Globe and Mail.
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More. Pythons.
I can’t imagine many of you read my twitter post a while back:
That link again: http://nyti.ms/afCZMD
No matter. Here’s more news on Florida being overrun with man eating pythons. Glad we choose this year to vacation in Tampa. Wow.
Killing Pythons, and Regulating Them via NYTimes.com
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