Today was a series of naps, with interspersed by short breaks of wakefulness. This is the most slothful I’ve been in a while, but I’m glad to bring down my steady accumulation of sleep debt.
Grr. Would spring please get here already?
From the Times travel section, an essay on a couple of my favorite things, a map and the open road.
The town of Amboy, Calif. is up for auction on eBay. No kidding. Current bid as of this writing: $995,300.
GLBTQ, “an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture,” went online this week. Very cool.
I love PBS. But I hate pledge breaks. I’ve had enough of the well-meaning, but overzealous Suze Orman.
No shortage of guest stars on Will & Grace, no sir. The latest: Justin Timberlake, of whom I wrote just yesterday. He’ll play a “scheming gay gigolo who steals the heart of flamboyant Sean Hayes’s character Jack, and swindles him out of money” (as reported by WENN). No word yet on the episode’s air date. By the way, the resolution of the “Fagmalion” story arc comes this Thursday 13 March, with another appearance by Dan Futterman.
More TV notes: Queen Latifah hosts SNL tonight; and tomorrow on CBS, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole square off in a new “point/counterpoint” segment on 60 Minutes. Later that night the network airs Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt.
Lastly, an audio presentation:
8 replies on “Odds and ends”
Yay! Jeff Public Radio!! Love it!
Thanks for the “heads up” about former twink/current hunk, Justin Timberlake, on Will & Grace… sounds like a fun episode. I don’t watch it regularly enough, but will set up TiVo to snag that one!
I love the audio feed… way cool! You need a fun icon for it, though… something along the lines of RCA Victrola’s logo. Whoa, this is weird, I was just searching for some images of the “his master’s voice” logo and here’s what I found:
Note the composer on this one!
En français!
This one’s cute!
So… maybe a little picture of Rufus with his head cocked to one side, looking at a computer with the slogan, “His Rebel Prince’s voice”, lol!
cheers,
Ahh Jeff and his dulcet tones.
I think you should contact the BBC Jeff and offer to do a “Letter from America” segment for British listeners every week in the mode of Alastair Cooke.
The audio thing is a great idea. Lub it. Well you ten toed sloth, hope you had a great weekend. Hugs from your listening public.
I really like the lil’ audio thing… and I agree with tomg, you need a logo. 🙂
I love PBS, too. The pledge breaks need to take a break of their own though, if you know what I’m sayin’…
“Fagmalion”? This I’ve gotta see. 🙂
Thanks for the comments, kids! Tom, those pics are precious. “La voix de son maître…” I’ll probably subscribe to audblog and make it a regular thing. Good idea, Nate… audblog lets you post audio by phone, so theoretically I can be anywhere in the world, and send in my dispatches from the field.
Linds, “Fagmalion” (which, I’ll readily admit, sounds more like a Cirque du Soleil incarnation) is just the title for the series of four episodes, which chronicle Karen’s cousin Barry’s “Pygmalion” / “My Fair Lady”-like tranformation (courtesy of Will and Jack) from hopeless geek to fabulous chic. For an excellent W&G episode guide, look here.
I know I’m disgustingly shameless for posting a comment on such an old post, but… that RCA Victor dog is named Nipper, and there happens to be a HUGE Nipper statue on top of a building twenty minutes away from my house. When I was little, they introduced a little dog like that, Nipper’s “son” or something, and there was a contest to name it… I, in my 4-year-old wisdom, suggested Jellybean… alas, Chipper won. Sad.
I wonder if the Nipper statue you refer to is the one that disappeared from Merrifield, VA – it used to sit on top of the RCA Building in New York, and somehow made it’s way to the front yard of an old house on Lee Highway in Merrifield, near the intersection with Gallows Road. It was enormous. It sat there happily for many years, the subject of quite a bit of zoning debate. I always wondered what happened to it…