This has been a very rough week.
I have to leave my apartment in 2 days.
Very overwhelmed. Too overwhelmed to speak.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
For the record
I've burnt my hand while cooking. So this will be short.
I knew Burris was full of shit from the get go.
I knew Burris was full of shit from the get go.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
More of the Uknown.
I've been severely unmotivated to write here lately. Not exactly sure why.
Maybe I'm overwhelmed by myriad things.
Last Friday they announced 15 layoffs were coming by March 1st, where I work. I don't know what that means for me at this point. The 15 layoffs don't apply entirely to the office where I work, but we don't know how much of that will be dumped to us. If its more than 2, then I'm toast and I honestly don't know what my next steps are.
I've been trying to step up my knowledge of HTML just to add a skill. I think I'm finally beginning to understand it and beginning to know enough to know what to do under basic circumstances.
I know I'm late to the game but a skill is a skill
Maybe I'm overwhelmed by myriad things.
Last Friday they announced 15 layoffs were coming by March 1st, where I work. I don't know what that means for me at this point. The 15 layoffs don't apply entirely to the office where I work, but we don't know how much of that will be dumped to us. If its more than 2, then I'm toast and I honestly don't know what my next steps are.
I've been trying to step up my knowledge of HTML just to add a skill. I think I'm finally beginning to understand it and beginning to know enough to know what to do under basic circumstances.
I know I'm late to the game but a skill is a skill
Monday, February 16, 2009
El Presidente
Spent part of the day watching Moon Over Parador, an old favorite of mine with Richard Dreyfuss as an actor having to impersonate a dead Latin American dictator. Directed by Paul Mazursky, its a very funny film that predates Dave by a few years, another favorite of mine.
Best part for me and the part I relate to most as a frustrated actor, is when he first nails a public performance as the dictator, an acting coup if there ever was one, and then is handed a newspaper right afterwards as he is kvelling about how well he did. He looks at the newspaper and then slams it "They're doing Streetcar at Lincoln Center? Dammit! I would kill to read for Mitch!!"
Best part for me and the part I relate to most as a frustrated actor, is when he first nails a public performance as the dictator, an acting coup if there ever was one, and then is handed a newspaper right afterwards as he is kvelling about how well he did. He looks at the newspaper and then slams it "They're doing Streetcar at Lincoln Center? Dammit! I would kill to read for Mitch!!"
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Dan Ackroyd is a genius
The most brilliant John Boehner imaginable. Sometimes Saturday Night Live actually achieves funny.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Beta be good
There's this blog thing going around where you list 10 things about you that start with a certain letter.
Someone special said to do it with:
1) Big Love and Battlestar Galactica: Two of my very favorite shows on television. BSG is am amazing examination of the human condition in a post 9/11 existence. Who are we? Do we deserve to survive? CAN we survive.
Big Love is an even better show about organized crime than The Sopranos was. It's also an amazing look at alternative ways of looking at love and relationships and it pulls no punches. I will say that polyamory seems a hell of a lot simpler than polygamy.
2) Beacon: This is a small city in the Hudson Valley that I've become pretty much obsessed with. I've been trying to find a way to live there that's workable under the circumstances of my life. I'm finding a way
3) Balance: Something that I might achieve one
day. MAYBE.
4) Beer: My favorite lager is Yeungling out of Pennsylvania, but I'm watching a show on PBS about a beer out of upstate New York that is the first beer since Prohibition to use New York State raised hops (Ithaca Double IPA).
5) Basil Basset Bingo: This was a very strange bingo game that I voice hosted many years ago on old satellite TV. A buddy of mine and I worked for a company owned by the guy that ran 3BTV. At first it was just a continuing series of televised electronic bingo games played by viewers, mostly in the southern states. But they decided to bring in live hosts and my friend and I started creating different characters, all relatives of Basil Basset. His segments were all pre-recorded. My friend and I built on sketches and characters and soon other performers came in. Some did characters, some just had fun schtick.
The idea never really caught on in the way that the company wanted, so to cut costs the they moved the production down from New York to North Carolina. They took out the personalities and hired a group of very nice young performers who unfortunately didn't do much for the show. Playership dropped, in no small part to their missing their familiar hosts (I still have several gifts sent by fans) but also because Bingo in the United States is largely a community activity and not generally done sitting home alone.
I am bragging a little to say that when I was given a severance check (which was very nice and I am still grateful for) I was wished good luck by the accountant who pushed the decision to move. I shook his hand and said "Good luck to you, I can't say I'm confident you will still have a job in 6 months with this move". 5 months later 3BTV folded. It wasn't a hard call.
6) Beautiful: The person who inspired this blog (both in general and this particular entry) is.
7) Beleaguered: Is what I am by my financial situation.
8) Baths: I love them. Deep, hot, eucalyptus and sea salt or just plain sea salt. 20 minutes. I feel new again.
9) Belly: Will be flat by summer's end.
10) Baffled: By weeping drama queens like John Boehner.
Someone special said to do it with:
1) Big Love and Battlestar Galactica: Two of my very favorite shows on television. BSG is am amazing examination of the human condition in a post 9/11 existence. Who are we? Do we deserve to survive? CAN we survive.
Big Love is an even better show about organized crime than The Sopranos was. It's also an amazing look at alternative ways of looking at love and relationships and it pulls no punches. I will say that polyamory seems a hell of a lot simpler than polygamy.
2) Beacon: This is a small city in the Hudson Valley that I've become pretty much obsessed with. I've been trying to find a way to live there that's workable under the circumstances of my life. I'm finding a way
3) Balance: Something that I might achieve one
day. MAYBE.
4) Beer: My favorite lager is Yeungling out of Pennsylvania, but I'm watching a show on PBS about a beer out of upstate New York that is the first beer since Prohibition to use New York State raised hops (Ithaca Double IPA).
5) Basil Basset Bingo: This was a very strange bingo game that I voice hosted many years ago on old satellite TV. A buddy of mine and I worked for a company owned by the guy that ran 3BTV. At first it was just a continuing series of televised electronic bingo games played by viewers, mostly in the southern states. But they decided to bring in live hosts and my friend and I started creating different characters, all relatives of Basil Basset. His segments were all pre-recorded. My friend and I built on sketches and characters and soon other performers came in. Some did characters, some just had fun schtick.
The idea never really caught on in the way that the company wanted, so to cut costs the they moved the production down from New York to North Carolina. They took out the personalities and hired a group of very nice young performers who unfortunately didn't do much for the show. Playership dropped, in no small part to their missing their familiar hosts (I still have several gifts sent by fans) but also because Bingo in the United States is largely a community activity and not generally done sitting home alone.
I am bragging a little to say that when I was given a severance check (which was very nice and I am still grateful for) I was wished good luck by the accountant who pushed the decision to move. I shook his hand and said "Good luck to you, I can't say I'm confident you will still have a job in 6 months with this move". 5 months later 3BTV folded. It wasn't a hard call.
6) Beautiful: The person who inspired this blog (both in general and this particular entry) is.
7) Beleaguered: Is what I am by my financial situation.
8) Baths: I love them. Deep, hot, eucalyptus and sea salt or just plain sea salt. 20 minutes. I feel new again.
9) Belly: Will be flat by summer's end.
10) Baffled: By weeping drama queens like John Boehner.
Friday, February 13, 2009
The Return of The Master
Tonight is the premier of Dollhouse!!!!!
This is the much anticipated return to TV by Joss Whedon who created Buffy the Vampire Slaver, Angel and the criminally shortlived Firefly.
I miss Whedon's twisty sense of humor and idiosyncratic dialog. I'm very psyched.
The show stars Eliza Dushku, one of my guiltiest pleasuriest guilty pleasures and several other terrific actors including Tahmoh Penikett from Battlestar Galactica and some guest spots by Amy Acker who played Winifred on Angel.
I am very very very psyched and this will definitely help pull me out of the February Blues.
However FOX has demonstrated its habit of not promoting its shows when it doesn't feel like it. There's barely been any publicity even here in New York City. So I'm hoping they don't pull the same nonsense they did with Firefly.
Watch it tonight on FOX.
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