posted 2006/05/31 at 20:25
I ask this every couple of years, and in the times in between I do a fair amount of searching of my own, and so help me I don't ever think I'm going to get this solved, but I figure I might as well ask again and see if any new readers might be able to help me:
In the early 1990s Whoopi Goldberg had her own talk show, appropriately titled The Whoopi Goldberg Show. The show was a half-hour long and just featured Whoopi and a single guest talking for a half-hour without any studio audience, and was probably one of the best talk shows I can remember seeing because Whoopi is a natural interviewer. Naturally, the show only lasted one season and was quickly forgotten about.
Now, here's the thing. In addition to just being a great show, the show had tremendous opening and incidental music composed by Robbie Robertson. So help me, I have never been able to find copies of this music anywhere, and it's getting to the point where I'm beginning to wonder if I'll have to ask Whoopi herself for copies of the music. Does anyone have any idea where I can find the music?
posted 2006/05/29 at 20:41
I was so looking forward to a Tigers-Yankees series where the Tigers were coming in with the best record in baseball for once, but of course Detroit then had to get creamed. Sigh. I have no illusions of the Tigers making the playoffs this year, but at least we should finally finish above .500 for the first time in forever. That's something, at least.
Oh, and not that I have any love for Fred Phelps and his family, but I can't agree with Dubya doing this. I realize that there is a tricky balance to maintain between free speech rights and the sanctity of a funeral, and even with me being as much of a First Amendment nut as I am, my own tendency is to believe that protests at a funeral of any stripe should not be allowed. That being said, it concerns me that the legislation just passed only makes protests at military funerals illegal. Not that I don't have respect for the men and women of this country who sacrifice their lives while in the military (even if I don't agree with the reasons why their lives were put on the line in the first place), but just limiting the scope of the new legislation to military funerals just doesn't seem right to me. Sure, now the Phelps family's actions at military funerals will be curtailed, but if we have another high-profile GLBT murder such as Matthew Shepard's then there won't be any laws stopping them from pushing their message of hate there.
posted 2006/05/28 at 14:22
Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up and you know, you just know that you're not going to get anything done? That happened to me yesterday. Even though I didn't have that much on my to-do list, I should have at least gone out to do a bit of grocery shopping. I used the weather (we're having near-90 degree weather each of the next three days) as an excuse, but really, from the moment I woke up I could kind of tell that it was going to be one of those days where I did as little as possible.
On a related note, Google Video has a lot of interesting videos of tool-assisted video game speedruns. A lot.
Anyway, here's hoping that I work up the energy to get off my butt today and actually do stuff, even if it's even hotter out now than it was yesterday.
posted 2006/05/26 at 14:39
I was without Internet access here at the house all day yesterday and up until around noon today. Over twenty-four hours of outage is enough to make a request for a refund from the provider reasonable, right?
Keep in mind here that the family business is operated from here as well, which kind of trumps the "importance" of anything I might have done online yesterday. Still, given that the Internet is the only way I can communicate with most of my friends due to distance and phone-shyness issues, and I've already had huge loneliness issues this break, a day without my usual checking up on said friends via the Internet was more difficult than it should have been. I just wish this didn't make me feel so damn pathetic.
Oh, and those of you who used to read me way back in the day might be interested in knowing that I finally had to throw Joey Absopure out earlier this week. Seriously, the bottle was getting to be so yellow at the bottom it was nearly brown. I held onto him as long as I could, but it just got to the point where I couldn't help but worry how much I could have been messing myself up by continuing to drink from that bottle, no matter how often I washed it.
posted 2006/05/21 at 23:36
You know, so much of what I'm going through right now in terms of my dismay with the dance game community in this part of the country has to do with how I feel people aren't paying any real basic courtesy to other people.
This past week I don't think I can even count the number of times people in this house have been rude and inconsiderate to me, and it's now reaching the point where I feel like strangling someone.
I'm not sure if that's hypocrisy or irony or what, but it sure sucks.
posted 2006/05/18 at 21:55
First of all, I just installed Blogger's comment system on the .org to replace the .forum. You have to have a Blogger account to comment (you don't necessarily need to create a blog, just have an account), and there is a word verification system installed, but hopefully now this will enable people to communicate through the .org more.
Anyway, in response to Joe Petrow's asking, I haven't said too much about the Pistons-Cavaliers series because (1) I don't care about basketball that much to start with, and (2) with the Tigers no longer sucking, they've been holding my attention a lot more than usual lately. Don't get me wrong, I still have zero desire to see any team from Cleveland knock out a team from Detroit, let alone win a championship, but right now the NBA playoffs just aren't on my radar.
posted 2006/05/17 at 22:28
Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the house fire, something that hadn't even occurred to me until a few days ago. Still, given how the fire was the culmination of quite possibly the shittiest week of my entire life, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I've been feeling so rotten this past week.
You'd think that maybe, since the anniversary of the fire has passed, that I'd feel better now. Think again. Like I said, this summer is shaping up to be one of the worst I've ever had, and so far nothing has happened to make me think that things will be getting any better. Believe me, if I could do stuff to make things better I would, but I'm pretty damn helpless in that regard right now.
Yeah, I'll shut up until I have something more profound to say. Whenever that is ...
posted 2006/05/15 at 23:12
How could I have been so dumb to realize that the moment I posted here about not having any headaches despite the low pressure system, I would immediately start getting screaming sinus headaches? Ugh.
Somehow we're not getting that much flooding in Toledo, though. Casa Shannon is on high ground, so we don't really have anything to worry about personally, but given how much rain we've had in the past few days I'm surprised we haven't had lots of reports of local flooding. Given that we still have rain in the forecast for each of the next ten days, though, that may come soon enough.
Yeah, I'll get back to talking about my life once I actually have something to talk about. Poop.
posted 2006/05/14 at 19:34
I will grant you that after the stress of this past semester (hell, I still have some leftover stress from fall semester I've yet to work out), I probably needed a few days of vegetating. I just didn't need the weather to assist me to that end to the extent that it did.
There is definitely something that's been passed down to me and my sister from my mother's side of the family having to do with our reactions to the weather. I don't know why, but me and my mother and sister all get these incredible reactions when the air pressure gets low. In addition to tiredness and otherwise inexplicable body aches, we can sometimes get these tremendous headaches. During fall semester, when the remnants of Hurricane Katrina made their way up here, I can remember having such bad headaches that I actually skipped a couple of classes.
Well, if none of you have looked at weather around here lately, we've had this huge low pressure centre parked over Ohio for days now, and it's not moving anytime soon. I haven't had any problems with headaches, but I know full well that the low pressure is the primary reason -- even more so than post-semester crashing -- that I have been so out of it lately. It also doesn't help that the weather's been so cold (we only reached 48 for a high on Friday when that's the average low for this time of year), preventing me from going out and doing stuff.
In other news, I still fucking hate my life, and this summer is still going to fucking suck. More on that later. Or not.
posted 2006/05/11 at 22:26
You don't know how much I miss making Media Play runs. ;.; However, since I wound up ordering most of my textbooks this past semester from Amazon, they gave me a free three-month trial membership to their Prime (free two-day shipping) programme, and since that membership is about to expire, I placed a big order after I got done with my students' portfolios, and the order came in today. My latest grab bag of goodies:
- Catherine Marie Charlton's Jeweled Rain (I now own all her CDs. Bonus cool points for me.)
- Natural States and Desert Vision by David Lanz and Paul Speer (If you've ever wondered what John Tesh's music would sound like if it were, you know actually good, pick up these two CDs ASAP. Seriously.)
- The Oh My Goddess! TV series DVDs three and four (I'm way overdue to write here about my feelings about the TV series.)
Those should keep me occupied for a couple of days, at least.
posted 2006/05/10 at 22:46
I do so hate it when the weather gets in the way of my DDR plans for the evening ... sigh.
Ever since I had to shut down the .forum after it got hacked, I've been thinking about what to create as a substitute. The whole point with me starting the .forum wasn't just so people could interact with me; I also wanted to create a nexus where everyone who has come to know me through my Internet endeavours and real life could come together and get to know each other. That was the idea, but about a couple of months later the .forum really just became a glorified way to message me.
I would like to create a community like that again, but things have changed a lot since I started the .forum, and now the Web is a lot more fractured than it used to be, with everyone having their own MySpace and all of that. This is why I'm leaning towards just turning on Blogger's comment feature for responses on the .org (people on the LJ feed can already comment through LJ's comment system), and seeing what comes of that. If anyone has any better ideas, though, I'd like to hear them. Just keep in mind that I really don't want to host any bulletin board software on my own server after the hack and the fear that came with it.
posted 2006/05/09 at 20:12
Final grades for my comp students have been submitted. I got a lot of good feedback from students in spite of the problems I perceived I had this semester (namely not really connecting with students like I did last semester), so hopefully I'll see some of them in my Comp II class in the autumn.
I'm giving myself the rest of the week to just relax and veg, but starting next week I'm going to try to get rolling on the stuff I have to take care of over the summer. More on that later. For now, I'm probably going to spend the rest of the evening watching television and giving my brain a well-deserved rest.
posted 2006/05/07 at 22:02
This summer is going to fucking suck.
posted 2006/05/04 at 14:00
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aisu kuriiiiiiiiiiiiiimu ...
I think I'm going to fall asleep the moment I finish grading my comp students' portfolios. Can I leave a wakeup call with someone for mid-August? X.X
posted 2006/05/02 at 16:21
Take-home final dropped off. One last paper to go, which I feel should be the easiest of the three assignments although I've certainly been wrong about this before. At least this last paper is primarily about BDSM, and I certainly am more well-versed on that subject than my professor or anyone else in this class.
Of course, even when I try to get a good night's rest at times like this I'm just too tense to rest properly. I've already had one sugar free Red Bull today, and it's causing me to sweat up a bit here even though it's only in the mid-fifties outside. I'll probably be drinking another one here as I map out my rhetorical strategies and get ready to write.
Making matters worse is that I'm about to be without a computer here for the next two hours as I have to be in my office to pick up final portfolios from my students. I hope I'm able to occupy myself with all the things I printed out here until then.
Somehow I'm just not seeing myself going for my Ph.D. anytime soon at this point ...
posted at 00:32
So, Oilers in 6, anyone?
Damn, I hate it when I'm right. No, I didn't watch, because I tuned into the game on Saturday for a minute or so when the Wings were down 3-1 and I could just tell that it was over.
Well, at least we've gotten to May and the Tigers haven't already been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. That's something, at least.
posted 2006/05/01 at 18:00
I finished the first paper late last night and turned it in this morning. (Have I ever mentioned how disoriented I get if I go out driving before mid-day? Seriously, if the sun's still in the east then I don't have any real feeling of where I'm going.) It was undoubtedly the hardest of the three end-of-term things I have to do (not counting grading my comp students' final portfolios, since that comes later), so now you'd think I'd have the motivation to charge through with the other stuff and just get it done so I can get down to enjoying my summer break. Instead, though, I've mostly been dawdling here on the campus computer labs most of the day. I'm sure I'll have plenty of time to complete the other things by the time they're due, but I sure wish I could just put my nose to the grindstone here and be done with them.
By the way, I think I'm developing a serious addiction to the black bean burgers at Chili's. Soooooooooo good ...
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