Archive for June 2009
Gravel
Kickball season has begun. 
Joe, my in-house healthcare professional, said he couldn’t help me.
First year med school students must not be trusted with raspberry care.
Do The Math
Taking a cue from The Rind, I can now calculate my very own PLAY DENSITY.
Play Count vs. Days in the Library… just another way to analyze all the embarrassing music I listen to. This does a good job of tracking ‘Single Track Obsession Syndrome’ that sets in when one hears, downloads, and then uncontrollably plays said track on repeat. See: #1, #4, #6.
I look forward to seeing where the new Mandy Moore song, I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week will debut once it passes the seven day mark to be eligible for inclusion.
Faculty Fun
I forced some fun on my co-workers and made them do a sway. It’s the second to take place at Miller Park but this time we broke it down post-game rather than pre. There are a lot of first-timers featured here who did a great job. Congrats.
The Zack Attack Roots
I have a theory that all the true Saved By The Bell fans were born between 1982 and 1984. I don’t think anyone feels the same about the show as we do. Here’s to us.
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It’s All In The Name: Rebuttal
I don’t want to knock BMo or JD — they have fabulous names — but Tommy’s comments made me suspicious about the origins of celebrity names that seem so perfect. I assumed many were altered, but I had no idea Hollywood was so anti-ethnic.
Here’s a few of my favorite name-changers:
Amanda Lee Rogers Demetria Gene Guynes
Carlos Ray Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
Other keepers:
Natalie Hershlag (Natalie Portman), River Jude Bottom (River Phoenix), Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (George Michael), Reginald Kenneth Dwight (Elton John)
And last but definately least, would Carey Grant have been such a heartthrob with the name Archibald Leach?
Check out Babynames.com for a full list of imposters.
And finally, my only question for you is this: how will you adjust your name in case you want to take the entertainment industry by storm before the next MTV Awards show?
Tommy, what do you think about Thomas Swan? It has a classy, less “S-C-H-y” ring to it. Kristen Kane, I know your name-doppelgänger is already famous in the adult industry but you could have a serious cross-over career with that given name. Now, what to do with Schmaling…
Hair Twin
I finally found him. An adult male with my exact same hair. I thought it would never happen — but tah dah! — it did. Here’s the unnecessarily round about version of how the road was paved with vampire lust.
1. Discover simple pleasure of Count Chocula as a young child; eat it really fast so cereal grabby brothers can’t get to it.
2. Read Anne Rice novels in 5th grade; inner yearning for a 300 year old boyfriend is established.
3. Watch the 1992 Kristy Swanson version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer at every single sleepover in 5th and 6th grade. Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, Pee Wee Herman, Hillary Swank, and David Arquette give powerhouse performances as I secretly question whose side I’m really on.
4. Yada Yada Yada, I was real tired in the morning.
5. Read the Twilight series ahead of the colossal tidal wave of hype; have to live with the shame of crushing on the same fictional character as my 8th grade students but spread the gospel of Twilight anyway.
6. Meet the beautiful train wreck that is Robert Pattinson on screen as Edward Cullen.
7. Hear about HBO’s True Blood. Read the Sookie Stackhouse novels (the first season is based on the first book) while I wait for the series to hit Netflix.
8. True Blood came out last week. The last disc arrives tomorrow. Rent it — it’s hot and trashy and funny — and you can see Eric, my hair twin!
