There was a shark attack in Hawaii recently. This surprised me because I thought there weren’t any sharks around the Hawaiian Islands because of something relating to a coral reef. And then it hit me, I was told that bit of info before my family vacationed there the summer before I entered the fourth-grade, and I’m sure it was one of those lies to alleviate my fears of going in the ocean.
That reminds me of another story of my ignorance and this is embarrassing. During my spring semester of my freshman year in college, I needed a sociology credit and took a class named Sociology of Marriage. It was a bit of a popular class because sex was often discussed, and since it was in the context of academia and God, you weren’t sinning. Well you know, kinda. In one class, the instructor was going over the female anatomy and pointed out the urethra and its use. The girls around me noticed the perplexed expression on my face and asked what was wrong, and I told them that I didn’t know women urinated through their vagina, that the vagina was strictly where babies catapulted from. Another girl inquired as to where I thought urine in females came from I said the anus (good time for a TICKET drop for you KTCK listeners). The back of the class (yup, that’s where I sat) erupted in laughter when she said that would be one heck of a stream.
Some days I find Kristen Wiig very attractive, and other days not so much.
Last night’s ‘Big Bang Theory’ had Sheldon’s mother who’s a fundamentalist Christian from East Texas. Her character gave me two big laughs. When Sheldon asked her how the loins were fed on the ark, she said they were fed by drowning sinners. In reference to apologizing to someone after a verbal fight, she said the Christian in her makes her turn the other cheek, but the Texan in her makes her want to shoot her.
I have no interest in the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. I also have no interest in the NFL Draft, which is not like me.
President Obama has no sons, as did his predecessor, as did his predecessor’s predecessor. So the last First Son our country has had was actually George W. Bush during his father’s administration, which ended in 1993. That’s about 22-years the U.S. has gone without a First Son.
Yesterday, UnitedHealthcare announced a partnership with three telemedicine companies to cover video-based doctor visits just as it covers in-person visits. It’s the future of medicine.
Yesterday WifeGeeding accepted a teaching position at our kids’ preschool for the next school year and my manager called to inform me of a raise (albeit, it’s just a merit increase), so we decided to quickly find a sitter and celebrate at her favorite steak house, III Forks. Unfortunately, I’m still recovering from my stomach bug and paid the price afterwards.
I wonder if those controversial Bud Light bottles will become a collectable and what they’ll be worth in twenty years. I also wonder if that last sentence, as well as this one, should end with a question mark.
The perfect website to look for an adjective that starts with a specified letter – AdjectivesThatStart.com
If I were to guess, I’d say less than 5% of new church buildings built this century have an organ.
Last night’s ‘Daily Show’ interviewed sure felt tense, it reminded me of what the late Tim Russert was capable of. I bet it was the most serious and tense interview in the history of the show.
It looks like Bono has gone blond, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.
HBO is shooting a tour documentary.
The tour has sold 98 percent of the 1.2 million available tickets for its 68 concerts
For each city there were suppose to be two concerts, one night and the next, with two different experiences, but that has been modified – The initial idea was to work up two entirely different concerts, but U2 worried about leaving out staples or having fans think they’d gotten the second-best show. As of last week, it planned instead to have a relatively fixed first half and a varying second one — separated, for the first time on a U2 tour, by an intermission.
Stage description – Running nearly the length of the coliseum floor was U2’s triple platform: a large rectangular stage (a strip of which could light up as “I” for Innocence), a smaller round stage (“e” for experience) and, between them, a walkway that’s wide enough to become a third stage, sometimes sandwiched between LED video screens.
They are using the ceiling for their sound system – The tour’s most striking innovation isn’t immediately obvious. U2 has moved its sound system to arena ceilings: an oval of 12 speaker arrays that sends the music downward evenly everywhere in the arena.
The first half of the concert, before the intermission, is supposed to create a cloud of division and make you feel a bit down, but – The second half of the concert breaks down the divide and, true to U2’s past, promises healing and love. “When we undo that division, we’ve got to really glue them together,” Bono said.
