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Bloated drama’s 7,486th performance breaks record held by mindless feline flotsam

From CNN: ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts. The American Dialect Society chose the word Friday after a runoff with terms related to Hurricane Katrina, such as "Katrinagate," the … Read More

That’s why He took Lou Rawls today.

Composer John Cage, who died in 1992, is perhaps best known for his musical piece 4’33": It consists of the pianist going to the piano, and not hitting any keys for four minutes and thirty-three seconds.  (He uses a stopwatch to time this.)  In other words, the entire piece consists of silences — silences of different lengths, they say. (Click … Read More

I hear there was a football game or something last night? Was it any good?

I’m convinced of this now more than ever: Three contestants have spoken of their disbelief after being fooled into thinking they went into space for the UK reality show Space Cadets. The three believed they had blasted off from a cosmonaut training camp in Russia, but were in fact in a fake spaceship in a warehouse in Suffolk. They cheered … Read More

"Integrity" No kidding.  "Integrity" was the word most looked-up on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, as reported here.  Speaks highly of us as a culture, don’t it? Then again, maybe people were looking up the spelling, not the definition.  Here’s the top ten list: Top 10 most looked-up words of 2005 1. integrity n. firm adherence to a code, especially moral or … Read More

Valerie Bertinelli to divorce Van Halen. Psst.  Valarie . . . call me!

There exists a never-been-aired 13th episode of Faulty Towers?

A guy takes a car engine, puts it in an art gallery, runs it continuously.  Why?  So that a cactus nearby can thrive. The same guy takes a shed, dismantles it, builds a boat out of it, sails down a river, and then rebuilds the shed. He takes a replica of a sculpture, throws it into a lake, and then … Read More

I’ve been a Titanic aficionado since as long as I can remember.  So this story peaked my interest: Scientists Unveil New Titanic Discoveries Undersea explorers said Monday that the discovery of more wreckage from the Titanic suggests that the luxury liner broke into three sections — not two, as commonly thought — and thus sank faster than previously believed. "The … Read More