A star is born
You oughta know that our own Nicholas Watson, a/k/a Mr. Friends, is appearing in Broom Street Theater's current production, Morality Play. He is, it turns out, a terrific actor. I can't say I'm surprised. The title of this blog entry is not quite accurate: after the show last night he told me he has been acting for about three years.
For those of you not in the know, Nicholas is maitre d' of my favorite breakfast spot, the Original Pancake House in Monona, Wisc. A small group of us call him Mr. Friends because once Ereck and I showed up for brunch after our chums had already left, and Nicholas said, "You missed your friends." I misheard this as "Mr. Friends," which I thought was a greeting. The moniker stuck.
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Good word
"All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
--J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
--J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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Friday, June 18, 2004
Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
The New York Times reports that the organizers of the U.S. Open golf tournament in Southampton, N.Y. have banned cell phones from the event. Phones are being confiscated at the gate. To this I say, hallelujah. Cell phones also should be banned from movie theaters, libraries and AA meetings, and the last time I was in an airport I desperately wanted a phone-free concourse.
Needless to say, I don't have a cell phone. I love my land line: it never cuts me off, it doesn't get me into car accidents, and the connection is always great. About once every six months some freakout makes me wish I had a cell phone at that moment, but generally there's still a payphone somewhere nearby. And anyway, I don't deliver babies. I never really need a cell phone.
Come to think of it, though, my inner obsessive-compulsive is a little worried about those payphones.
The New York Times reports that the organizers of the U.S. Open golf tournament in Southampton, N.Y. have banned cell phones from the event. Phones are being confiscated at the gate. To this I say, hallelujah. Cell phones also should be banned from movie theaters, libraries and AA meetings, and the last time I was in an airport I desperately wanted a phone-free concourse.
Needless to say, I don't have a cell phone. I love my land line: it never cuts me off, it doesn't get me into car accidents, and the connection is always great. About once every six months some freakout makes me wish I had a cell phone at that moment, but generally there's still a payphone somewhere nearby. And anyway, I don't deliver babies. I never really need a cell phone.
Come to think of it, though, my inner obsessive-compulsive is a little worried about those payphones.
Good word
"In addition, there were thousands of errors in [Microsoft CD-ROM encyclopedia] Encarta's displays of content. One of the more horrifying to the team showed up when the encyclopedia displayed an article on Bill Gates, featuring a captioned photograph of the chairman. Above the caption was a picture of Hank Williams."
--Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier (New York: Viking, 1995)
"In addition, there were thousands of errors in [Microsoft CD-ROM encyclopedia] Encarta's displays of content. One of the more horrifying to the team showed up when the encyclopedia displayed an article on Bill Gates, featuring a captioned photograph of the chairman. Above the caption was a picture of Hank Williams."
--Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier (New York: Viking, 1995)
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
Good word
"Soylent Green freaked me out when I was a kid, but I watched it again a couple of years ago and thought, what a great idea!"
--Overheard on the dailypage.com forum
"Soylent Green freaked me out when I was a kid, but I watched it again a couple of years ago and thought, what a great idea!"
--Overheard on the dailypage.com forum
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Technical support
Ereck is having this weird problem with my blog: when he points his browser at www.backwithinterest.blogspot.com, he is prompted to download some mysterious file. This doesn't happen on my computer, nor does it happen when he points his browser at backwithinterest.blogspot.com (sans www).
Is this happening to anyone else?
Ereck is having this weird problem with my blog: when he points his browser at www.backwithinterest.blogspot.com, he is prompted to download some mysterious file. This doesn't happen on my computer, nor does it happen when he points his browser at backwithinterest.blogspot.com (sans www).
Is this happening to anyone else?
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