Crazy gadgets
I’ve seen a few in my day. Fellow crusties will remember typing class in high school, where we used old manual Royals, Olympias, Smith-Coronas or Olivettis to hone our mad skills. f-f-f-space, j-j-j-space. I loved those exercises because they had a definite rhythm. I remember trying to get the “tempo” of my typing as fast [...]
Things that make you go…
…what the –? So, Mad Men star Vincent Kartheiser is in the news — for getting rid of his bathroom commode, and almost everything else. Living off the fat of the land, as it were, on a nondescript street in LA, Kartheiser has given away his car, dozens of expensive gifts, and every mirror in [...]
Bizarro
I gotta write this down before I forget it. All right, all you Davids Josephs out there — interpret. I’ve been in and out of consciousness since 1 a.m. I awoke with a start at 4:35 after having this dream… I was at my Dinner Theatre. For those who don’t know, DT takes place in [...]
From the Annals of Awesomeness
“Some Things Simply Must Be Seen to Be Believed” Division: Russian singers from the 70s — awesome. Russian singers lip-synching a vocalise on Soviet television, complete with gorgeous set tricked out in week-old mustard-colored backdrop and tattered fence-like apparatus — incomparable. Watch it twice. It’s Finkday, after all. Treat yourself.
And then there are the times…
….when you simply don’t know what to say. Daryl Hannah, semi-recently and now ~ Hopefully, it’s just one of those weird-angle pictures, when the paps caught her off-guard, because that’s the only way I can reconcile this thing in my mind. Wasn’t Splash a fun movie? So many facelifts ago… Another snow day, and we [...]