Category Archives: Weird

while my ukelele gently weeps

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I know, it’s not an original title, but after watching this a couple of times I can’t really think straight; I can only sit smiling blankly, Buddha-like, into the face of the full moon. Watch and listen as Hawai’ian Jake Shimabukuro takes the ukelele to places in the human heart and the heart of the universe that we never knew it could go.


When will that stupid network stop taking these videos down and let us tell people how good their stuff is?

Jake on Myspace

Jake on NPR

Shimabukuro named his latest CD Gently Weeps because of his affection for George Harrison. The late musician, whose primary instrument was guitar, also played ukulele and would take one along wherever he went.

“I really believe he got a lot of his ideas from the ukulele because they work so well with the instrument — songs like Something,” Shimabukuro says.

And here’s Jake performing one of my favorite Beatles songs, In My Life. Can’t disagree with the list of reasons he makes the Babewatch radar, either.

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A different view of London

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London from the Underground

Strangely, none of my London friends recognize this part of the Underground route. An unaltered photograph taken by Dave Gorman from inside the Tube.

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quiz: what punctuation mark are you?

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But…em dash or en dash? WHAT IS THE ANSWER????


You Are a Dash


Your life is fast paced and varied. You are realistic, down to earth, and very honest.You’re often busy doing something interesting, and what you do changes quickly.Y ou have many facets to your personality, and you connect them together well.

You have a ton of interests. While some of them are a bit offbeat, they all tie together well.

You friends rely on you to bring novelty and excitement to their lives.

(And while you’re the most interesting person they know, they can’t help feeling like they don’t know you well.)

You excel in: Anything to do with money

You get along best with: the Exclamation Point

Not Abandoned abandons us

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Freedom, so close and yet so far

I guess he’s still bitter about that whole “gelding” thing. Thoroughbreds are so sensitive!

In news that will delight fans of Walter Farley‘s classic Island Stallion books, a winning and winsome registered Thoroughbred racehorse called Not Abandoned has slipped the surly bonds of civilization and apparently either dematerialized entirely or joined a herd of wild brumbies in the Outback. Unfortunately for the brumby gene pool, the horse has long since been parted from his twin tickets to immortality, having been gelded as a colt. Still, I’m sure he’s an excellent conversationalist.

Australian authorities are also investigating the possibility of horse rustlers, although the market around Alice Springs for an internationally infamous seven year old gelding who can’t be raced (no papers) or sold would be less than millionaire-making; he’d be worth perhaps 35 cents per pound, meaning about $400.

I’m sure, however, that this case will be solved. Just as soon as OJ Simpson finds the real killers of Shergar.

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Shine on, you crazy crocheted teddy bear

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Have you seen the cinematic triumph which is Shine? It is the movie that launched Geoffrey Rush on an unsuspecting public. It takes a few of those to make up for chewing scenery in a pirate’s outfit, that’s for sure.

But, perhaps hoping to capitalize on the crossover audience (sure to be huge) coming to serious cinema from the huge fan-making machine which is the POTC franchise, they’ve now remade Shine in a more child-friendly format.

Talking stuffed toys.

Hey, it worked for Pixar.

And now, I shall go back to reading Bridget Jones and thinking what a good Twitter feed it would be…

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