My ISP’s FTP servers were down for over a day. Once again, I had a less-than-satisfying customer service experience with them. But, for the present, it’s all working again.

Blurring the line between reality and entertainment
One of my cast members recently returned from New York (where he saw a preview performance of the upcoming Man Who Came to Dinner revival with Nathan Lane). He brought back the flyer pictured here, thinking it was cute because yes, there are lots of roaches in New York, and roaches also have a small role in The Man Who Came to Dinner. I finally got around to going to the website mentioned on the flyer, www.bugmap.org. It shows a photo of the bug, mentions how nasty it is, and displays a map of the US showing areas already infested. There is a blank where you can enter your zip code to see when the critter is projected to spread to your neck of the woods. I did so (the map already showed it in southern Georgia), and was let to a trailer for am icky-bug disaster movie premiering next week on the USA cable channel. Nowhere on the flyer is there any indication that this was promotional material. Fooled me. I still won’t watch the movie, though.

Goodbye little darlin’, we’re parting
Parting don’t always mean goodbye
Although we have to part
You’re always in my heart
Goodbye, little darlin’, goodbye
          -Gene Autry

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Words fail
buildings tumble
the ground opens wide
light came down from heaven
she stood before my eyes
she’s actual size, but she seems much bigger to me…

He which repents him not of his Marriage, either Sleeping or Waking, in a Year and a Day, may lawfully go to Dunmow and fetcha Gammon of Bacon. Mmmmmm….. a gammon of marriage bacon….

Do you like Olive Oyl? I mean really, really like Olive Oyl? If yes, then this fanpage, Oodles Of Olive Oyl, will be just your thing.

There’s a most excellent photo essay over at Tomato Nation titled And Then There Were Two -- the story of life with Sarah’s two cats.

The spheres’re in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
And hit me with technology

I’ve just had my first winning bid at ebay. I can now play croquet indoors when it rains. Once I get a dining room table, anyway.