That is, you do not want to read this post unless you are Ed or Beth-Annie or Alexander, because it is y'all whom1 I am writing this post for. If you are not one of them, please go down to the first set of three en-dashes.
Anyway, so I was searching the two most likely Richmond locations where the Nash/Slocum/et al. single might be located: Uber-music-store Plan 9 and uber-CBS Logos Bookstores. Plan 9 was a no go, so I went to Logos. After perusing the music section for too long (I could have gotten the new VOL, the live VOL, the new Poor Old Lu [already ordered], the new Bill Mallonee, the new Over the Rhine [have], and a blah blah blah), I didn't see it anywhere2 So there was this vaguely familiar guy overlooking the music section, and I asked him, and he said he didn't know about the single, but the new album would be coming out at the end of the month, and then some more crap I already knew, and then I ciaoed. All this time while he was continuing to look vaguely familiar.3
So once back at work, on a whim I went to Richmond Logos' website, and I figured out why he looked [awkward phrase removed]: The dude was Harry Gore of quasi-famous CCM indie band Harry Gore and the Measles. How cool is that?
Okay, not particularly.
But it at least partially makes up for the fact that there is no Sixpence single of "Breathe Your Name," nor will there ever be. Nope. This is all one massive, somber practical joke played on those of us who liked the band prior to "Kiss Me." I am sure of it.
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Some have complained about the most recent contest; they have contested that such quizzes should begin at times that, say, high school students could also participate on even footing. To you I say: "Whatever." However, as I am the nicest person on the 1900 block of Washington Blvd.4, the next contest will start at 9:00 PM Eastern on Tuesday. It will be another first-one-who-answers-correctly-wins-the-baby-turtle contest, so please do be on-time.
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I do not like getting my hair cut, even when the hairdresser does a fine job. I do not know why. I just thought I would share.
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Devon: The rest of this entry is about television, and you do not care about television, and I do not want to take up any more of your precious homework-doing time, so please close down this window and do homework. You are welcome.
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Why you should watch The West Wing: In one sentence last night, Donna mentioned Sixpence None the Richer -- the full name, even! -- Aimee Mann, and the made-up-band One-Celled Paramecium. Also, the episode had an intentionally comic scene in which Lincoln, Nebraska was hit by a Chinese nuclear missile. That was awesome.
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Four observations regarding likely the only episode of "Ed" I will see until Thanksgiving:
1) Of course Ginnifer Goodwin is more attractive pre- than post-. I mean really.5 2) I do not like the new bowling-alley worker.
3) Kim and I actually came away with different interpretations of the ending: She thought that Ed was implying that they would no longer be friends, and I believed that Ed was implying that he would remain a friend yet stay out of her pre-marital business. Even watching the previews of next episode, I am unsure which analysis is correct. I’m usually all about ambiguity in television and movies, but this…this seemed unintentionally ambiguous; if it wasn’t, how would Carol know what Ed’s answer was?
4) I’ve mentioned this before to Joshua Edward, but I’m not sure I’ve written it here: “Ed” would be a better show if he just owned a bowling alley and did not practice law in addition, as is evidenced by this pretty-good episode.
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I cannot believe that Craig cut off Charles Nelson Reilly after only three minutes of his story Wednesday morning. That is extraordinarily rude.
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The last five minutes of last night's "Law & Order" were the worst I've seen in television in many-a-month. I officially give up on Orbach & Co.
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1 There is something inherently obscene about following a "y'all" with a "whom."
2 I should not nit-pick about the greatest CBS east of the Ohio, but I cannot think of a crappier way to organize music than by distributor: Diamante, Word, etc. How I am supposed to know who Sixpence's distributor is, hmm?
3 That's right. He never stopped looking vaguely familiar. Thank you for noticing my gawky phrasing.
4 Kim will not let me list our real address, but that looks real enough, doesn’t it? You would have believed me without this footnote, would have you not6?
5 Also, I wasn’t terribly happy with the brash transition she made during the course of the episode; the whole geek-turned-beauty-queen should have been handled with more nuance.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
