I’m basing this on people at my office only. The woman who sits across from me gets really excited to talk about television; and the three guys who sit near me don’t. A small sample set, but I’m ready to extrapolate that poorly-founded hunch onto the entire American population.
So: do women like television more than men?
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 [...]
I ordered a new iMac on Saturday, only to discover that there has been a “fraud hold” on my credit card since around January 2. However, there’s been no fraud — it’s comes from my increasingly eccentric efforts to ignore any communication from corporations, including ones whose services I use.
I get a lot of junk mail from Citibank, my credit card provider, offering me programs that give me discounts on shopping at various stores, or rental cars, or credit reports — or other things I don’t want. I long since started throwing out anything from Citibank that wasn’t clearly a bill. Unfortunately, that also means I threw out a new credit card that was sent to me in December to [...]
The Red Sox are going to the World Series for the second time in four years. Pretty amazing. A friend of mine who roots for the just-beaten Cleveland Indians says that he kinda hates the Red Sox now, because they “feel like the new Yankees!” And by “Yankees” he means some combination of “team that always wins” or “bullying team that buys its way to success” or “evil” or so I assume.
First of all, the Red Sox are not truly “the Yankees” until people stop comparing the Red Sox to the Yankees. Second of all, it’s doubtful that any of us will live long enough to see any American sports franchise have as much success for as long a time [...]
This Australian artist had an actual ear grown in a lab and then put into his arm. It’s a statement of some kind, though the only statement I can discern is “Look how much I’m willing to do to get your attention.”
I assumed that as genetic engineering advanced we’d get cool things like clocks inserted into the bottom-right-hand corner of our field of vision, or maybe silver-plated faces. I could go for things like that. But this ear thing just seems creepy and random.
Better use of genetic tampering, everyone!
My co-workers and I were filming outside the Apple Store on 5th Avenue yesterday. It was a fake news bit — filming tightly on our actors, though with the Apple Store in the background. About five minutes in, a security guard came over and (politely) asked us to stop filming. Then he corrected himself and said “Well, please don’t film the building.”
We acquiesced, but I was infuriated. The building is outside in a public space. Really public actually: Fifth Avenue and 59th Street of New York Fucking City. They didn’t build it there to be hidden or demure. They WANT it noticed. We weren’t being rude, we [...]
Today on the way to work I saw a man who must have been over 65 wearing a tight sleeveless grey t-shirt. A muscle T, I believe they’re called. He was pretty muscular, but he mostly looked too old to be sporting the “let’s get in a bar fight” look. It was like someone hit a thuggish dock worker with an insta-aging ray.
Still, I admired the old man’s gumption.
That is awesome.
Wikipedia: Sunken Cities
If you’d like, please suggest some other intriguing Wikipedian categories.
The Journalista blog from The Comics Journal is outstanding. Tidbits linked in just today’s entry:
Can’t beat that! In other linked goodness, Pete Rose admits he bet on the Reds (to win) every night he managed. He also bet while playing. This guy is a jerk, but I still think he belongs on the Hall of Fame. 4,000 hits is 4,000 hits.
And here’s something about a redesigned alphabet.