A guilty pleasure this summer television season has been SYTYCD on ABC. Tim and I DVR the series and then review the two evenings of programs at our leisure. I like the new format - fewer contestants dancing with All-Stars from past seasons. The work by the choreographers has been particularly strong this year; a dance last weekend, a Hip-Hop ( Read more... )

Three or four days ago, I mentioned Flavia de Luce, a character in a novel I'm reading, written by Alan Bradley. One page stopped me in my tracks and I've read it again and again. At the time, I made a mental note, memorizing the page number, so as to return to it and capture a couple of paragraphs where Flavia discusses the end of the world. The ( Read more... )

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Borrowed from designerotter who borrowed it from uprightbear ... who borrowed it from _____ :) I think these are inspired ( Read more... )

The 2010 Tony Award nominations came out today. There are quite a few surprises, especially the virtual shut out of "The Addams Family", a new musical starring Nathan Lane and BeBe Neuwirth. Only Kevin Chamberlin (Uncle Fester) and the score (Andrew Lippa) were nominated. Also, Kristin Chenowith, leading lady of the revival of "Promises, Promises ( Read more... )

If you ever feel a little bit stupid or naive, just dig this up and read it again; you'll begin to think you're a genius ... Many of these examples are a few years old. Anyone have new ones to add?Question: If you could live forever, would you and why ( Read more... )

What do the following men have in common?

pbehr - Madrid, Spain ... formerly of Victoria, BC - Brian
cincydave - Cincinnati, of course - Dave
texwriterbear - Houston - Sean
becker_boy - Jacksonville, FL area - Steve
bigreddee - San Francisco - Donovan ( Read more... )

I have no idea whether my title is an appropriate use of the word "memorial", but I'll use it anyway. rock_bear passed away a couple of years ago, but I still celebrate his birthday as a way of keeping him alive in my memory. I never met Russ in person; but, he was an early "friend" on Live Journal, my first overseas friend. We shared a love of, passion for ( Read more... )

These selections always make me laugh. I've even come up with one word that I think could make the list - "mentalpause", though it requires changing two letters:) Here are the winners of this year's Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing ( Read more... )