Man-Biffle Update 2008

Greg Biffle finished 499 laps at Martinsville, and finished 20th. He amassed 103 Cup points, and falls to third in the points standings, 60 behind leader Jeff Burton. I was driving home from work yesterday afternoon, and was trying to find a radio broadcast of the Davidson/Kansas game, when I happened upon race coverage. They [...]

Conversation Hit Man

Around the water-cooler this morning:
Co-Worker: I remember seeing this movie about a boy and a dragon, and half of the people were animated, and half were. . .
Me: Pete’s Dragon?
CW1: Yeah! I was looking for it on I – M – B – D, or I – M. . .
Me: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database?
CW1: Yeah, [...]

I can haz Copland?

Looking up the Czech composer Zdenek Lukas after I heard his Missa Brevis on the great internet radio station Czech Radio D-dur, I found that I’m the last person to know that the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes has ringtones. Not just ringtones, but music nerd ringtones, like John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast [...]

Get on the bus, Gus/Get in the queue, Hugh

A couple of lives ago, when the Wife and I were first married, we lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the south side of Chicago (as opposed to Cincinnati, or New York State). We both worked downtown, and so took the IC Line (“51st/53rd. . . 55th/56th/57th. . . 59th St./University of Chicago” went [...]

You know the rules, and so do I

Oh, my stars and garters, this is the coolest parenting video ever. View and return:

Now, I know what you’re going to say. “Hugh,” you were going to say, “there’s no way that Rick Astley can have that kind of effect on small children. Why, with all the Baby Einstein DVD’s I [...]

Glenn Beck will hate this post

Last night, the Wife and I sat down for our usual round of TV watching. I had gotten home from work relatively late, but we turned on Frontline — Bush’s War, Part One, to be exact. It was nothing I hadn’t seen before, but it made me realize how quickly time passes. There were people featured [...]

This is what I had for lunch

Good Monday morning to all of you out in the blogosphere. Or at least the six people who read this blog regularly. I hope you had a blessed Easter, if you are of that persuasion. Given the earliness of the holiday this year, I was glad we had a nice, temperate, sunny day yesterday. We [...]