Archive for January, 2004
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
Thwee Wittle Fishies
For some reason this morning I started singing The Three Little Fishies song. I remember some old sitcom had an episode where one character was trying to remember how this song went. Someone told a third person that this person was crazy, and when the first person suddenly remembered “And they thwam and they thwam [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
Hail Poetry!
After the Pirates production meeting today, several of us were sitting around finishing up some stuff when I thought aloud it’d be cool to get a neat domain name for the group, since http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/ doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue like one of Gilbert’s lyrics. rlos.com, rlos.org and rlos.net were all taken, so we started [...]
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Saturday, January 24th, 2004
Joe!
I get a big kick out of the Ragu commercial for Sloppy Joes, with Joe Theismann, Joe Frazier, Joe Piscopo, and Evan Marriott (“Joe Millionaire”). I have no idea why.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Wanna buy a car?
I really liked Eb’s new Acura TL. I want one. So I’m selling my Audi A6. Wanna buy it?
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2004
Things are seldom what they seem
Well, it seems that I may have spoken prematurely in the matter of Churchill’s parrot. The BBC report that the staff at Chartwell, Churchill’s country estate, have gone through their photographs and records and found no evidence that he ever owned a parrot. The Straits Times has a story that Lady Soames, Churchill’s daughter, says [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
Google bombing as guerrilla advertising
As this articlepoints out, the dawn of google bombing has broken, and no telling where it will end. I hope to use it to do a bit of promotion for Pirates. If you have an idea for a good phrase for us to use (‘best show ever’, ‘good times’, &c.) and/or would like to help [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
The Eve of St. Agnes
January 20th is the day before the feast day of St. Agnes. Keats wrote a poem, C. 1819, entitled The Eve of St. Agnes, inspired by the superstition that a girlwould see her future husband in a dream if she did certain things this evening. Several interpretations are possible of this long narrative poem; I’m [...]
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Monday, January 19th, 2004
Nifty-keen blogging aid!
Ecto is a cool tool for publishing to a blog. Makes things very simple. Am testing it now, and if it delivers (as it looks like it will), I’ll definitely be sending in my shareware fee.
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Monday, January 19th, 2004
Churchill’s Parrot still alive, cursing the Nazis
This article in the Mirror says that Churchill’s parrot, a female named Charlie, is still alive after 104 years, and still curses in the inflection that he taught it. Heh.
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Sunday, January 18th, 2004
Sing Bass? Call Me!
Tonight is the first rehearsal for RLOS’s production of Pirates of Penzance. We are still short of basses. If you are interested, *please* call me 1t 713-522-0799.
