That’s right, Ben. Even when things are at their very worst, remember that you are truly a beautiful snowflake. Somewhere under that shifting mass of living orange concrete beats the heart of a man, and that man is more than the sum of his parts, even when those parts might be better measured in tons …
(Today’s lesson has been respectfully borrowed from Bahlactus.) You might climb walls. You might have the exponential strength of an arachnid. You might even swing from rooftop-to-rooftop via ropes of webbing that issue forth from your wrists … but no amount of Spidey Sense is going to save you from being absolutely pwned by the …
Chet Baker was 22-years old when he recorded the song that would make his career and establish him as the prince of West Coast cool. The take was spare, almost tentative in approach, as Chet was a trumpet-player by trade and not a crooner. At the hard-won age of 58, Chet played “My Funny Valentine” …
I don’t know what your Valentine got you for Valentine’s Day. I just know that mine got me Final Fantasy III for the DS. Because she’s awesome like that, you see. Me? I got her a neat-looking bag that she’s been wanting for a little while Maybe she’ll post about it later and show it …
East Ridge is not my hometown. However, East Ridge is located just over the Tennessee/Georgia state line from my hometown. I’ve never considered it worthy of an anthem, but it has one all the same. And a video to go with it. Much thanks to Dorie Turner for finding this incredibly accurate portrayal — right …
Thanks, Lynn. Thanks so much for stepping out and doing your part to set national perceptions of our fair state back another fifteen or twenty years. Oh, you didn’t hear? This is what Mr. Westmoreland, R-GA (8th District), said this morning during his alloted five minutes of resolution commentary: This is a global war on …
The holiday is here. It’s cool to dismiss Valentine’s Day as just another Hallmark high-mark on the calendar. Some hate the 14th of February outright. But why? Leave the date alone. It did nothing to hurt you. You say you’ve got no date? You say you’ve no bouquet of flowers? Then go out and find …
… with another NFDC podcast. This is our 8th, the first one of the 2007 season. I think we’re getting the hang of it. We talk about what we expect out of auditions, how we select the plays we do and why we make some of the character choices we make. Then we round it …
Or maybe I was wrong … Even though “My Funny Valentine” was written by Rodgers & Hart for the stage production of Babes In Arms … and even though the character on stage later played by Judy Garland in the movie sings the song on stage to the character on stage later played by Mickey …
What’s the first line of “My Funny Valentine?” It starts with the title, right? My … funny valentine … sweet, comic valentine … Wrong. The song was written for Babes In Arms by the songwriting team of Rodgers & Hart. In the 1939 Busby Berkeley film of the same name, 17-year old Judy Garland sings …
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