Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Awesomeness of Russian literature is frequently brought to my attention

All in all, this is one of the more interesting Wikipedia articles I have ever read:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Чуковский,_Корней_Иванович

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Show Business

A conversation overheard by my father at the Dunkin Donuts in Frederick:

Geezer 1: I will tell you this, I no more care about the death and burial of Michael Jackson than I did about Elvis's.
Geezer 2: Did Elvis die?
Geezer 1: Now that Farah Fawcett, that’s a different story. She was one nice looking woman. Though of the three of them, it was Kate Jackson who was my favorite. That other one was eminently forgettable.
Geezer 2: That other what?
Geezer 1: Charlie’s Angels, the three Charlie’s Angels. Jaclyn Smith, that was the forgettable one. She was the most beautiful of them all, but she had no personality. None whatsoever.
Geezer 2: I never did see that show.
Geezer 1: Well if you had you’d have forgotten Jaclyn Smith. And another thing: I have never seen any reason to get any kind of tattoo or piercing.