Archive for October, 2007

Musicals!

I am collecting movie musicals. Specifically, great movie musical numbers. Here’s the list so far: Little Shop of Horrors Skid Row Hello, Dolly Before the Parade Passes By Hello, Dolly Hello, Dolly The Sound of Music The Sound of Music The Sound of Music Edelweiss The Sound of Music The Lonely Goatherd Victor Victoria Le Jazz Hot The Producers Springtime for Hitler Oliver! Who Will Buy? Oliver! Oom-​​​​Pah-​​​​Pah The Wiz A Brand New Day Grease We Go Together The Little Mermaid Kiss the Girl The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Texas Has a Whorehouse in It The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Aggie Song South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Kyle’s Mom South Park: [ . . . ]

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Phew

Last week was awful. If one were disposed to such abuses of language, one might assert that it sucked. One would be right. Slightly more than half of my deadlines are now in the past (and met!). I think I only have six or seven huge projects or assign­ments on my plate now. It’s like a vacation. I have, literally, whole minutes of free time now. So luxurious. Anywho. I missed a lot this week. Happy Birthday, Atlas Shrugged among them. And Academy Award Winner Al Gore is now Academy Award Winning Nobel Laureate Al Gore. He should go for knighthood, next. Except his magnum propa­gandum got [ . . . ]

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Under Her Spell

From Drudge Report comes this lovely photo­graph of Female Democratic Presidential Hopeful. Isn’t she just precious? It’s clearly an older photo, but I cannot find anything saying when or where it was taken. Normally, I would have written a bit more, using the witch thing as an analogy for her politics. It would have been witty and insightful. But I’m busy, and I’m sure you can use your own imag­i­na­tions well enough.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

All helpful urges should be circum­vented. Apparently I did so well on my citation check for the Key Midwestern Swing State University Law Review (that’s Key M.W. Swing St. U. L. Rev. for you Bluebook fans) that the editors sought fit to offer me a research check that had been abruptly abandoned by another assistant editor. Always pleased to be recog­nized, I of course accepted. Now the planets have aligned and the Great Confluence of Deadlines arises from the mist. The Day of Reckoning is upon us and I find myself screaming in my sleep: What have I done? What have I done?!

Open Letter to American Moviegoers

Dear American Moviegoers, Like, dude. What the hell? If you keep buying tickets to Crap, Crap II, and Crap III, you will only encourage them to make More Crap. What gives? Have you no taste? Just say no to torture porn. Yours with love, Qwertz

Coincidence?

I don’t think so! From what I’ve been able to dig up on the Internets, “Macgyver” was composed by Randy Edelman and “Rescue Rangers” by Mark Mueller. “Macgyver” predates “Rescue Rangers” by 3½ years. I think “Rescue Rangers” was intended to be evocative of “Macgyver.” Again, both are favorite shows from childhood.

The Secret

I have discovered the secret of high blog traffic! Since I posted about this week’s episode of House, M.D., my hits have quadrupled. Apparently, many people want to know about the phrase written on the chalk­board behind House in the classroom where he grilled his 40 or so candi­dates: Tesla was Robbed! The phrase appears alone on the board early in the episode. But later in the episode, House writes the following above it: SYNRBCTACHPANIC for synes­thesia, red blood count, tachy­cardia and panic attacks. These latter are part of House’s diag­nostic procedure. He’s using the chalk­board instead of the old white­board [ . . . ]

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