The Daily Huff II

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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:26:10 -0400

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Pic of the gunman who entered the Discovery Channel offices earlier this afternoon.

Discovery Channel HQ near Washington evacuated on reports of armed man -

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:41:20 -0400

Discovery Channel HQ near Washington evacuated on reports of armed man -:

OH SHIT, YOU GUYS. I worked Discovery Master Control for more than a year, then ran their libraries. When they moved from Atlanta to Silver Spring, several traffic folk from the ATL went with them—one of whom had a very stalky, scary ex-boyfriend, at the time.

Tenor Fail (via vanhorn21) My guess is it was Roberto Alagna...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:21:07 -0400

Tenor Fail (via vanhorn21)

My guess is it was Roberto Alagna just having an off day (and singing a role that’s really too big for his Pavarotti-weight lyric tenor).

Thanks, Steinbolt1! Many old nightmares came back on hearing this one.

BTW—there are a few extant recordings of Domingo outdoing this one, but I like him too much to hunt them down. Besides, I had a tenor voice teacher who said cracking is actually evidence you’re doing something right, overall. To explain what he means would take too much room, but it makes sense.

Where some people see 11:11, I see Foreigner.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:59:32 -0400

Beginning of our day, singing on the local NBC morning show. End of the day, name-checked on Adult Swim.

Which is all okay, because in the end, I really am just another DIRTY WHITE BOY.

inothernews: Temple Grandin, giving props to her mom during the...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:57:08 -0400

"Mother, I know you're out there...

...please stand up!"

inothernews:

Temple Grandin, giving props to her mom during the 2010 Emmys.

As the parent of an autistic child whose inner brilliance is just emerging, watching Temple Grandin win everything at the Emmys is amazing.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:51:05 -0400

I don't even know who the first winner is and his speech thanking his parents made me tear up. Wow.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:14:41 -0400

bthny replied to your post: The opening number of the Emmys (HURLEY!) almost made up for the vapid...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:12:33 -0400

bthny replied to your post: The opening number of the Emmys (HURLEY!) almost made up for the vapid horrors of the red carpet.

That is literally the best thing I’ve seen during am awards show, ever

I haven’t been genuinely entertained by one of these shows in ages, but I’m looking forward to re-watching video of that opening bit later. Really fun.

The opening number of the Emmys (HURLEY!) almost made up for the vapid horrors of the red carpet.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:09:29 -0400

I promise I won't live-blog the Emmys even though, OMG, Billy Bush was just interviewing Kate Gosselin and he stopped, stared into the camera and said, "This is it, isn't it? I'm really done with. My career is dead. SOMEONE KILL ME..."

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:19:30 -0400

He was last seen screaming as he ran away from the red carpet, something about Aunt Bar clawing his eyes out…?

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Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:59:42 -0400

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Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:07:50 -0400

Hey, leakysunglasses...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:22:43 -0400

No, I wasn’t telling teens to unfollow me. I keep everything but my language PG-13. If you re-read the last paragraph of my post, you might see that I was being silly, there. I was saying, however, that I won’t follow back and just letting you know I’m gonna be an old, dad-aged dude because that’s what I am.

In essence, I don’t mind you guys following me, but I won’t follow back in part because if you’re blogging about stuff you wouldn’t want your parents to know, well, I’m their age and generation and that pretty much means I don’t want to know about it. Unless you’re my kid. If you are, get the hell off the Web and get me a coke.

Twelve 'Unconventional' Ways to Fix the Economy | The New York Observer

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:46:32 -0400

Twelve 'Unconventional' Ways to Fix the Economy | The New York Observer:

I contributed a few of these. Not saying which ones. The funny ones.

We Didn’t Start The Fire (via costacharles) What. The....

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:21:20 -0400

We Didn’t Start The Fire (via costacharles)

What. The. Fuck.

The deadpan chick in the bikini playing the clarinet takes the whole thing up a level.

Man, Leni Riefenstahl is gonna make "Restoring Honor" look sooooooo good...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:52:54 -0400

Do they have editing equipment in hell?

It's sad so many people don't realize Glenn Beck is still a shock jock. He's the most successful shock jock ever, running his longest gag.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:44:32 -0400

Glenn Beck has never changed careers. His one true island of genius is his ability to target and read his audience. He targeted conservatives some time ago and started figuring out precisely how to best serve their interests, honesty and sincerity be damned—because he never gave a shit about them in the first place.

It’s a breathtakingly brilliant con. Only a truly cool-headed psychopath can pull it off. So yeah, he’s the man for the job.

I feel sorry for anyone who went to DC today because they were sincerely motivated by conservative ideology. They’re joyfully buying into the long con, and it’s a little sad to see anyone get so thoroughly and unwittingly fucked.

Look...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:32:58 -0400

I don’t mind folks under 18 following any of my blogs, which are all PG-13 (maybe not the language here, I don’t know). But y’all should not expect a followback. And as the parent of teenagers—at least one who blogs quite a bit—you should understand that since I’m now aware of several teens following my various Tumblrs, I’m gonna freaking well act like a parent of teens sometimes and do the blogging equivalent of shaking my finger at you kids these days. I am your parents’ age, after all.

So y’all get off the Internet, go wash a dish and mow the yard. I’ll give you a Werther’s and $5 and you can go play Pokemon with your “homies” at the arcade later, Pac-Man Fever.

*Pops collar, struts off to trim dead skin, stray hairs and take arthritis medicine.*

"I think she doesn't understand the text. Even with that dress she could at least try to act properly with more than just two face expressions and not just stand there like a bi-color pencil weaving with its...its hands? "

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:41:15 -0400

"I think she doesn't understand the text. Even with that dress she could at least try to act properly with more than just two face expressions and not just stand there like a bi-color pencil weaving with its...its hands? ":

natashavc:

Reading the youtube comments on opera performances is fun for me!

It’s like an eternal bad night for someone at La Scala there; relentless and horrible.

wearing shoes that be talking: How to be Friends with an Extrovert

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:28:02 -0400

wearing shoes that be talking: How to be Friends with an Extrovert:

ultraprison:
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Re #1: I do hate silence. I don’t necessarily need to be talking (it seems like you’re saying this, too) but yeah. Silence is one of the reasons I don’t live in the suburbs. It’s not snobbery. But one person’s “peaceful” is another person’s “this is the part of the movie where…

Co-sign on everything (follow the link).

I’d add that I kind of wish I didn’t feel like I had to apologize for a basic mode of behavior I’ve had since infancy. But I’ve been in situations where I suddenly became exquisitely aware that what I thought was positive, not even aggressive behavior on my part was just jangling the hell out of another person’s nerves just because it was something they couldn’t imagine doing.

Introverts shouldn’t feel apologetic for how they are, either, though—and I’ve known some who did.

On the Internet, it seems like the balance is in favor of the introverted, so fundamentally extroverted people (we’re all a bit of a mix, really) are often subject to criticism by introverts who finally feel they have a safe venue to blow off steam.

And really, it’s all sort of silly, because if there was no balance in society between people willing to put themselves out there and be forward, reach out, even just be obnoxious sometimes and the people who would rather keep it cool, reserved, detached, things would fall apart.

Like it or not, the Introvert and Extrovert complete each other.

The Daily Huff II

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Discovery Channel HQ near Washington evacuated on reports of armed man -

Tenor Fail (via vanhorn21) My guess is it was Roberto Alagna...

Where some people see 11:11, I see Foreigner.

inothernews: Temple Grandin, giving props to her mom during the...

As the parent of an autistic child whose inner brilliance is just emerging, watching Temple Grandin win everything at the Emmys is amazing.

I don't even know who the first winner is and his speech thanking his parents made me tear up. Wow.

bthny replied to your post: The opening number of the Emmys (HURLEY!) almost made up for the vapid...

The opening number of the Emmys (HURLEY!) almost made up for the vapid horrors of the red carpet.

I promise I won't live-blog the Emmys even though, OMG, Billy Bush was just interviewing Kate Gosselin and he stopped, stared into the camera and said, "This is it, isn't it? I'm really done with. My career is dead. SOMEONE KILL ME..."

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Hey, leakysunglasses...

Twelve 'Unconventional' Ways to Fix the Economy | The New York Observer

We Didn’t Start The Fire (via costacharles) What. The....

Man, Leni Riefenstahl is gonna make "Restoring Honor" look sooooooo good...

It's sad so many people don't realize Glenn Beck is still a shock jock. He's the most successful shock jock ever, running his longest gag.

Look...

"I think she doesn't understand﻿ the text. Even with that dress she could at least try to act properly with more than just two face expressions and not just stand there like a bi-color pencil weaving with its...its hands? "

wearing shoes that be talking: How to be Friends with an Extrovert

"I think she doesn't understand the text. Even with that dress she could at least try to act properly with more than just two face expressions and not just stand there like a bi-color pencil weaving with its...its hands? "