Tori Amos

The Beekeeper

Tori has a new CD out tomarrow! It's called The Beekeeper. I've only heard one song (Sleeps With Butterflies) but I think I'm going to like it, it reminds me of a few of her older albums.

Piece by Piece

She's also got a new book out called Tori Amos: Piece by Piece. I've bought but I haven't read it (today would have been a good day to read it).

FYI - There is a regular and deluxe edition of the CD, not sure of the difference (assuming a DVD with the bonus version).

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Posted by Gary on Monday at 7:05 AM on February 21, 2005.
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McSweeney's Revisited

Looking for some humor I jump on over to the lists at McSweeney's. My favorites today are:

Four Ways in Which My Life Is Just Like Pac-Man's.

Food and Drink Combinations That Would Make a Horrible Afterschool Snack but a Great Buddy Cop Team.

Things You Don't Expect to See on a Baby Shower Announcement.

New State Names Resulting From the Coming Wave of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Mildly Upsetting Fortune-Cookie Messages.

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Posted by Gary on Monday at 9:26 AM on February 21, 2005.
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Torn Shoulder

So I'm in the hospital today. Mom's getting some surgery on her shoulder. We had to be here by 6:15 am, did you know it's still dark out then?!? She's done already and the Doc said everything went perfect and she'll be out of recover in a few hours. Yeah!!

I'm posting this from the hospital via their free WiFi! Actually it's more likely it's an accidentally open access point, but I can't be sure, there's free coffee and kleenex, why not WiFi?

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Posted by Gary on Monday at 10:10 AM on February 21, 2005.
Related categories: friends + family, health, me + myself + i, wifi
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Product Placement

So there has been complaints of product placement in television shows. It came up a few days ago in a meme question and I've seen it mentioned somewhere else since then plus I've been thinking about it a bit since Friday. I'm not sure what the problem is? We see product placement in sports all the time, in the background, on the uniforms, sponsorships of the show and who knows what else. I'm not sure what it matters when the hosts are drinking Coca-Cola on American Idol or someone on a fiction show is eating some brand name candy. Someone is going to start drinking Coke because Paula drank it on TV? What about when someone famous is drinking it on an ad? I'm thinking I'm not going to be any more motivated to buy Red Zone deodorant just because I saw Clark Kent with some in his locker on Smallville a few weeks ago. Although the ad stuck in my head (so I guess it worked on some level), but that's just because they paused on it a bit too long the few times they showed it (it was on a banner at the Smallville High football game too).

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Posted by Gary on Monday at 11:25 PM on February 21, 2005.
Related categories: general, television
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