What's funny today?

This is a comedian (comedienne if you prefer) I hadn't been familiar with before this past weekend.  Ms Jackson does have a certain elan, though.  The "rent is due" is a precious little detail.

Glitchin'

Yesterday I was at work and spent half the day with my computer basically useless because most things require it to be connected to the main network, and my connection was out.  I thought at first that someone else would complain, but at some point I found out that I was the only one with a problem.

Today I was doing laundry.  I loaded clothes and money into one of the washers.  When I went back to check on it about 20 minutes later, I found that the laundry was sitting in soapy water.  The washer had filled, and then done nothing else.  The attendant said he had never seen anything like that happen before.

I guess why have regular bad luck when you can have X-Files bad luck?

Oddly familiar/Familiarly odd Saturday Random Ten

It's a little bit mortifying to see people you think you know, go up to greet them, and find a stranger staring at you like you're a lunatic.  Conversely it's a pleasant surprise to be unsure you know the person and then to find out they are the right one.  In this case it was a guy I hang out with frequently anyway, but still...

1. David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
2. T. Rex - Change
3/ Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
4. Sarah Vaughan - Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
5. Edith Piaf - C'est Merveilleux
6. Ladytron - Tomorrow
7. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
8. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
9. The Bonzo Dog Band - Equestrian Statue
10. Sly & the Family Stone - We Love All

How to get something from nothing (sometimes)

Recently I found myself with, effectively, writer's block.  I had an idea, but couldn't come up with anything leading from it.  In effect the idea was just a bunch of words sitting there mocking me, or at least that's what it seemed like.

I got through it by going back and thinking about, and trying to put down on paper, what had interested me about the subject in the first place.  And also writing down my anxiety about having writer's block, plus a bunch of stuff implied by that.  Lo and behold, I started getting more ideas after that.

It's kind of like having stomach flu or something.  Once you lean over and puke your guts out, you feel amazingly better.

collapse

Weird,  sleepy feeling has kept me from doing most of the things I hoped to do tonight.  Of course dinner partly invovles turkeys sausages.  Maybe I've fatally tryptophanned myself.

Anyway, hope to be back tomorrow evening.

Sunny Friday Random Ten

We had one of those days this week when you have thick sheets of rain falling at one time, and five minutes later the sun is out doing its best to dry everything.  In Florida I think that's called "a day."

1. The New Pornographers - Challengers
2. Lou Rawls - Lady Love
3. The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me
4. Sly & the Family Stone - Are You Ready
5. Ladytron - Predict the Day
6. They Might Be Giants - Replicant
7. The Bonzo Dog Band - Postcard
8. Art Blakey - Blues March
9. David Bowie - Love Is Lost
10. Diana Krall - Where or When

Okaaaaay

For some reason I had to come over to Google Chrome to post a comment on my own blog.  Weird.  Frustrating in that it took a couple of tries to realize I wasn't doing anything "wrong."