top 5 / bottom 5: US accents

Top 5

1. Minnesotan
2. Old South (Mississippi up through southern Georgia, not including Florida)
3. 1920s reporter voice (i.e. "Oh the humanity!")
4. East Texas
5. upstate Maine

Bottom 5

1. New Jersey
2. New York (all boros)
3. Philadelphia
4. Valley girl
5. Boston

I use the word "Interesting" a lot

New play at A Play A Day (dear god we're behind!)

Going to Becket, MA in 8 days to teach database things to new Pillow employees. This will be fun... first time back at my old job. Plus there's a party there on Saturday night.

That's not that interesting. I'll move on.

I find the elections interesting! What do you think? That's good.

What else? Oh yes, Borat is funny. You should go see that, if you haven't already. Good. Then, that's that.

In closing, I would like to point out that the combined # of Heisman trophies in the Manning family is 0. Their record in NCAA championship games is 0 wins and 0 losses. And their record in Super Bowls is 0 wins and 0 losses. Just some interesting numbers I found. I doubt anybody is interested in these at all.

thoughts about peanut butter

Goddamn.

God. Damn.

Cowboys lose on a late FG block, stupid penalty, and subsequent zero-time FG by Washington.

Aggies lose by one to OU.

Patriots lose to the undefeated Colts.

I got sick-drunk Saturday night and missed my Sunday morning workshop because I'm old and don't power-drink enough anymore to know my stopping point.

On Sunday, I barely had the energy to breathe let alone watch the NFL disasters described above during what will heretofore be known as "Goddamn."

Goddamn.

The plus side is that we had a nice group of about 11 to watch the Neos on Saturday, including Rockford's own Jen. Also, I found out that intern emerita Lauren got married.

In other news, I have had tacos for two straight meals, and I plan on going 3 for 3 tonight.

take note

I'm doing the peepee dance for the Neo-Futurists. Should have a performance schedule for ought-seven pretty soon here. God I can't wait. I've written about 10 plays this week (with a 2:1 shit to good ratio). Either way, it feels great to be writing with a production in mind.

I'll try to post some of these to A Play A Day, but I don't want to spoil the surprise.

* * * * * * *

Jen L is coming to town this weekend! Party in the E Village tomorrow night: Mexican Food + Neo-futurism + karaoke battles.

Dear god. I'm turning into my mother.

Ron Kind 2008
I have never felt so strongly about a particular political candidate as I do about Ron Kind. Run, Ron, run!!

it's about damn time...

... you updated your damned blog. No promises, but I think I'd like to update this a bit more. In the meantime, go to youtube, type in "rusty narcoleptic dog". Enjoy. Don't thank me. Thank youtube! I love you.

oh my!

This is possibly both the worst and best commercial going right now.

I don't even know where to begin.

Oh wait. Yes I do. This is possibly both the worst and best commercial going right now.