Pop collaborations are always big sellers. Here are some musical collaborations I’d like to see. Some may be posthumous, but so what?
· Harry Nilsson and Baz Luhrmann
· Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
· Dar Williams and Moxy Früvous
Any other suggestions?
It’s Monday, and I’m not at work because of some national holiday. This weekend was great. I got a haircut.
Also, it was Denise‘s birthday. The main birthday event was a trip to The Melting Pot, possibly the best restaurant anywhere. Fortunately, I think the other seven people who were there (Denise obviously, M-D, Jenn, Courtney, Ken, Tim and Hilary) agreed.
It’s a fondue restaurant. At first, some people (okay, just M-D) reacted violently to the idea of the waiters bringing out raw meat and requiring the paying customers to cook it. First they start you off with a cheese fondue appetizer. They bring plates of bread, apples, and assorted vegetables to dip into the pot of melted cheddar and swiss.
The second course involves a salad. I highly recommend the California salad with the raspberry walnut vinaigrette dressing. The salad is followed by the main course, where you choose either an oil or vegetable broth in which to cook your meat.
Then comes the dessert (if you have not yet exploded). You have your choice of chocolate fondues: cookies and creme, white and dark chocalte mix, s’mores, and many more. They bring out a plate of strawberries, pineapple, bananas, marshmallows with nuts, and cheesecake to dip in the chocolate or on which to drizzle the fondue. Heaven. Must go again soon if my wallet can withstand the powerful sucking force.
Actually, it’s not ridiculously expensive, but be prepared to spend some money.
After dinner, some how we found a way to make it back to the apartment to play games, open gifts, and miraculously eat birthday icecream cake. Darren, Ali, Sue and Stacey joined us after we got home. Beyond Balderdash is a fun game… remind me to play that more often.
Lance Bass, of the amazing ‘N Sync popcrapgroup has amazingly been approved by NASA to be launched into space.
The 23-year-old member of the popular boy band told reporters the point of his space adventure is to inspire kids to become astronauts, scientists, or anything else — no matter how difficult or seemingly impossible.
Sure, if you’ve got 20 million dollars lying around…
I got this email from my department’s HR contact yesterday: Due to the holiday (Labor Day) on Monday Septemeber 2nd, all overtime and part-time sheets are due in to me by 12:00 pm Friday, August 30th.
The subject of the email was, “Accelerated Pay Cycle.” The pay cycle has not in fact gotten any faster these last two weeks. (In fact, the last two weeks seem to have dragged along at a rapidly declining pace — maybe they meant a negatively accelerating pay cycle.) The pay cycle has also not increased (another meaning of the word “accelerate”). I do not have to prepare my time sheet faster, just earlier. Silly, silly English.
For the next chapter in the tome I like to call Rediscovering People I Knew In High School, here’s Josh.
We have a new addition to our apartment. Unfortunately, he won’t be contributing to the rent. His name is Lou, which is short for Louie, which is short for L’Oiseau de feu. He’s a betta fish.
Just for future information, in case it ever comes up:
The most a landlord can collect as a security deposit is one and one-half times the monthly rent. Cite: NJSA 46:8-21.2. There are no exceptions to this limit.
Notice of security deposit
The Rent Security Deposit Act requires the landlord to put your security deposit in a separate bank account that pays interest. The landlord must tell you in writing the name and address of the bank where the deposit is being kept, and the amount of the deposit. The law also states that if the landlord does not give you this written notice within 30 days after you pay the security deposit, the landlord loses the right to hold the security deposit.
I wish I knew this stuff several months ago. Now I do.
Guess what? The “I am so smrt” episode of The Simpsons was penned by none other than Conan O’Brien who you may remember from such late night television shows as Late Night With Conan O’Brien.
Andy Dick (as Mark): Guys, email me, okay? Freak in Cage dot com.
How is it that I always end up at jobs where people are expected to work significantly more than forty hours a week? Hm.