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Long awkward pose
From the website:
"It's simple, really. People look foolish when posing for a picture. So tell your loved ones you would like to take their photo... then secretly videotape them the whole time."
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excuse for not posting
From LJ's Known Issues page:
If you select Custom security for a journal entry and the checkboxes for your custom friends groups do not appear, please try posting the entry in a different web browser.
Which wouldn't be a problem if my workplace supported Firefox. Or hell, even IE 7.0.
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I knew I became a librarian for the money
I knew the way to make any money in this field was go to into administration, but shit, 800K ?
From the article:
At a news conference with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, library officials unveiled what they called an emergency campaign to raise $18 million in private money to deal with cuts in city and state financing and a multimillion-dollar ( Read more... ) -
Caballe shreds "Singore Ascolta"
Singers: Listen to the ending. Weep. Attempt to sing a high b-flat, pianissimo. Repeat.
I was actually looking for Leontyne Price's live performance of this piece, which induced the above deranged behavior some years ago. If you know where it's hidden on youtube, tell me please.
Thanks to the Times' piece onfinding opera on YouTube, I have ( Read more... ) -
things you never thought you'd say
To the Producers of Heroes,
Could we have more of the cheerleader and the Japanese geek? Thanks.
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Further exercises in humiliation
A fellow singer from my voice class is taking me to an open mic for singers! this Sunday. The bar sits smack in Theatre Row and according to her previous experiences can be rowdy and touristy. She says there's a doughy waiter who performs almost naked, which is fine with me so long as he's there to distract the audience while I do my piece, ( Read more... )
