Why does everyone decide to call me before 9am on a Saturday????????

Can't get my proofreading done this morning because some bitch in Germany keeps overriding my jobs in the composition queue.

(Music) radio in NYC. Sucks so bad it's not even amusing.

You mean WFMU? Yes, I like that one. And I do listen to WQXR but a lot of the time I feel like it's classical music greatest hits. I am also listening to the opera broadcast. And WNYC's music stuff is good a lot of the time too. WBGO too.

But in general? It's ridiculous how slim the radio pickins are in this city.

Ahhh...this is the Fairleigh Dickinson one, right? I've hit that a couple of times, liked it. I'll go back to it.

On FMU, 7 PM - 8 PM on Fridays, give a listen to:


Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine (Matt Weingarten, who is also an editor of New York Magazine)

Great show, and he's a great guy too.

I was excited that American Airlines finally changed their movies shown on Dec 1st - if I saw Must Love Dogs one more time I was going to puke in my airsickness bag.

I was pissed when I realized that the replacement was much much worse - A Shot in the Dark. I think I had seen this movie as a child and perhaps found it amusing. Slapstick in the worst way. I don't find these Peter Sellars / Blake Edwards Inspector Cleaseau movies to be funny at all but extremely annoying. I'm sure that some people find them witty priceless classics but I found watching this film to be like nails on a chalkboard.

Also why can't domestic airlines have individual seat back tv screens? Jet Blue & Song do and they are discount airlines yet I haven't seen such an entertainment option on a major carrier on a domestic route in coach or even first class. (I did take a united 777 flight years ago that had this but have not seen it since). (I am referring to individual tv screens with options to choose from, not necessarily satellite television).

fucking keith jackson, and his fake fucking folksiness.

insane fucking wind all night long. howled and rattled windows so loudly, and set off so many car alarms that we barely got any sleep.

Who wrote this lyric, and more importantly - why? Note especially the "hap-happiest" business.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you 'Be of good cheer'
It's the most wonderful time of the year

It's the hap -happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap - happiest season of all

There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
Caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
Long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When love ones are near
It's the most wonderful time of the year"

You'll find the answer here.

Let's not forget the odious "Little Drummer Boy."

"jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock"

try getting that out of your head now.

Pola and Wyle. It's especially annoying because it's quite a cleverly constructed lyric. Looks like Pola was the lyricist (Wyle wrote the theme to 'Gilligna's Island"). Maybe I should just let this lie...

Well, he is also responsible for "The Wedding of Mr Mickey Mouse" and a musical called "Woof Woof".

I fear it may be a sorry dead ass by now, given his career highlights.

My car alarm is malfunctioning, which meant that it kept going off last night for no reason. Had to go out in the middle of the night and yank out the fuse to shut it up.

I got my first pair of reading glasses. Just to see. Turns out they are really helpful in low light, but Rancho Gordo tells me I am Officially Old.

The painful swelling of my left big to which leads me toe believe that the gout may be back.

Oh dear.

I know I have probably said this before, but: the E train. And the people who ride it.

That's so funny. I was just worshipping the E train the last couple of days. So fast and convenient.

Maybe I'm one of the evil E-train riders who annoy you?

The E train is only fast and convenient out of rush hour. And it has an infuriating tendency to not run on weekends and late at night.

No, you would be one of the people like me, wanting to murder the stolid sheep who plant themselves near the doors and won't move.

an outside company is coming in to do scanning and storage of all our paper files. The (mostly guys) who are doing the prep work are in 2 offices just across the hall from me. Someone wears cologne so strong it makes me gag everytime they open one of the doors. I feel even sorrier for the poor people who are stuck in a small office with him.

edited to remove quote.

No uptown subway service. No idea why. MTA states all trains running normally. I must have been dreaming.

This morning NY1 was reporting issues with the V train.

Spilling a box full of straight pins on a dog-hair-covered rug.

Renegotiating the car insurance policy for next year.

Woman from agency: you know, a BMW is expensive to insure.

Me: It's a 1985 vehicle. We don't have any theft, collision, or damage coverage. Only liability.

Her: Do you have a car alarm?

Me: We don't have any theft, collision, or damage coverage. Only liability.

Her: What color is it? Certain colors are considered more appealing to thieves.

Me: We don't have any theft, collision, or damage coverage. Only liability.

Aaaarrrggggghhhhh.

waking up to find that the last person to use the car (some days ago, probably me) left the driver's door ajar and that the battery is consequently dead.

fucking toyota for making camrys whose doors don't shut unless you slam them.