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Courtesy of an Xmas gift from Hines Bro Brian, I had a royal shave at an Art of Shaving store last Friday.

I’ve had a straight razor shave once before: when I returned from Japan and had to go from the airport to the UCB Theatre to perform in Rob Lathan’s “one-man” show (also featuring myself and John Gemberling) — I had 2 hours to kill. To keep me from falling prey to jet lag, I had a shave at a barber shop. It works, although it is completely harrowing. I keep thinking of Sweeney Todd and how easily these people really could completely murder you with that unguarded super-sharp razor rubbing right near your jugular [...]

Fun quote from Bill James, the baseball stats and analysis guru who just published The Bill James Gold Mine, in an interview in Time:

Time: Getting back to the book a bit — you know, many fans sitting in the sports bar look at Bill James, all this baseball math, this “sabermetrics,” and probably think, ‘Gosh, these guys have too much time on their hands. They’re geeks.’ What’s your response to that type of thinking?

Bill James: You’ve got me.

“Yes” is funny.

Hana Food on Metropolitan Avenue near the Lorimer St. stop. Available only when ordering in person not over the phone.

• Call Me Beeyotch!
• Yankee!
• Kingdom of Heaven
• The Illegal
• Lady in the Water
• Happy Feet
• Dirty Feet
• Cheap Bastard
• Douchebag
• Kiss the Chef
• Rush Hour
• The Grinch
• Mets
• Mr. Hotshot
• Jessica’s Party
• Eagle
• Elephant
• Zebra
• Shark
• Lake House

Chris Gethard and Jacob Knoll.

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I love the typeface used for “The Darryl Strawberry” show, and the idea that Darryl dances at the end of his show.

Here’s A-Rod’s Baby, an awesome sketch by Brandon Gardner which I filmed and edited. Starring Anthony King and Molly Lloyd.

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I’m pretty proud of this one as it looks decently polished. Not in a showy way, but in a “you can hear all the words and the people are well-lit” sort of way. A boom mike helped part one and big open windows helped part two. I like the performances a lot, especially Anthony’s expressions after he has clearly lied to his wife– trying to hide that he is excited about her being pregnant with A-Rod’s baby. Molly rocks that shit too. I’m going to continue to crank these videos out until I hit one right on the [...]

Happy birthday Brian Hines! Both Kevin and Brian are Pisces. Make what assumptions you will, astrologists.

Things that exist in the mind of all Hines brothers and likely few other sets of three people: the image of Zot!, Booyar, the landscape of Clapboard Ridge, They Might Be Giants as seen through a net at Toad’s Place in New Haven, The movie Batman as seen at the Palace Theater on Main Street Danbury, Outer Limits Comics, The Pembroke Panthers and Spite Magazine.

Canada + Cleveland + Connecticut = wryness off the muthaeffin charts!