Cooper: Diane, last night I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop,
and awoke to discover I was chewing on one of my foam disposable earplugs.
Perhaps I should consider moderating my nighttime coffee consumption.
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As I walked past the beer display I thought, man, I ought to be drinking. But how could I? It's now been two and a half years -- that's 30 months, Jack! -- since I drank any alcohol. And once anything has some age attached to it, I just hate to toss it away.
Dan on 01.24.10 @ 06:47 PM CT [link] [No Comments]
I don't know if you're aware of this, but "Lost" is the second-best television show there ever was. No joke. I recommend watching the whole thing, but if you can't spare the time to watch the first 5 seasons, set aside 8 minutes and 40 seconds for this condensed version.
And now you're ready to jump into the 6th and final season in February!
Dan on 01.22.10 @ 08:10 PM CT [link] [No Comments]
Despite my recent contrary comments, I went and auditioned for "Oklahoma!" this week. And I got invited to the callbacks -- although given the level of turnout, that wasn't too surprising. What is surprising to me, after all the auditions I've been to, and given that I did a decent job playing the same part I was reading for based on recordings I've seen of that earlier production, is that I can still go in there and make such a horrible impression. There were 3 other guys reading for the same part and the production staff was, as the kids say (maybe ten years ago), ROFLMAO -- at each one of them. Or something. You get one minute to show your stuff, be amusing, interact with the chick in the scene, and bam!, it's over and I'm thinking, how'd I mess that one up.
But the really memorable part of the night came later when the girls were learning a new audition dance and the guys were just hanging around waiting for their turn. I didn't know any of them and I wasn't talking, but I heard them discussing the casting of shows and one show where everyone was surprised when this 40-year-old guy got cast, which I guess seemed old for the part, but worse, his love interest was played by a 19-year-old. (Oh, the horror.) And everyone thought that was just terrible and poorly done and people in the audience thought it was just wrong, man. My first thought was, what's the problem. It's a show. And even in real life, it sounds like a win-win for both parties. But even more than that, I wanted to scoff and tell them my story of playing Ali Hakim when I was 41. The girl he's with most of the show (Ado Annie) -- and whom he kisses several times -- was played by a 17-year-old. Such an abomination. And there were women and children in the audience!
Dan on 01.21.10 @ 07:51 AM CT [link] [No Comments]
It would be nice if Rock Band's leaderboards were as useful and easy to use as rockbandstats.com and rockbandscores.com. Here's a little banner generated by rockbandstats.com, which includes my 3 best songs by star ratings, which I guess shows which ones are the closest to perfection.
Dan on 01.19.10 @ 11:00 PM CT [link] [No Comments]
This is from an 1899 magazine article about how John H. Patterson got more out of his employees at National Cash Register by treating them swell. Ah, the hard working 19th century American, rewarded by only having to work 52 and a half hours a week, compared to, I'm guessing, those slave drivers over at the buggy whip factory putting in a full 60 hour week. Of course, they didn't have any decent TV shows back then.
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To encourage home life and comforts, the hours of work were reduced for men from ten to nine and one-half hours, and for women from ten to eight hours, while the rate of wages remains as on a basis of ten hours. In addition to this the young women have ten minutes’ recess, morning and afternoon, and they come an hour after the men in the morning, and leave ten minutes before them in the evening. Saturday half-holidays for all employees have been the rule during the past year. A kindergarten for the little children and a cooking school for the older girls and young women have been provided at the company’s expense.
Dan on 01.11.10 @ 10:22 AM CT [link] [No Comments]