Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I’ve watched Roy Scheider acting out the theme of death over and over and over again, many MANY times. Why? Because I don’t know him best from Jaws. I know him best from All That Jazz. If you’ve never seen this movie, now is the time. I think people who don’t know what it is imagine that it’s a flashy Broadway musical. There’s a small element of that, but this is a brilliant film. It’s directed by Bob Fosse, and it’s a biography of his own life (and eventual death). Anyone who doesn’t like this film maybe just doesn’t get it. So anyway, without further ado, here’s Roy Scheider saying bye bye to life. It’s a celebration, tongue-in-cheek, but about as powerful as it gets. I had actually just watched this movie again last month.

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Update: OMG, just came across a video a friend of mine made. I knew he was a big Roy Scheider fan, particularly All That Jazz, so I logged on to Tribe to see what kind of tribute he had going. Apparently, he’d coincidentally just finished making this video when he found out about Roy Scheider’s death. Check out All That Jaws:

Love it? DIGG IT!

It was a few weeks ago, and while I’ve posted a couple of pictures, I’ve been feeling bad that I hadn’t gotten around to posting any video. But yay for the internet! And yay for this guy/girl who posted much better quality of video than I was taking that day (my memory card was nearly full) and many songs.

If you don’t know who Kimya Dawson is, then the easy answer is that she’s a singer who was in a band called Moldy Peaches, and her songs were used a lot on the soundtrack for the movie Juno. If you haven’t seen that, then I feel sorry for you.

I loved this song she sang that day. It is a song called Alphabutt, which she wrote for her not-yet-released children’s album:

Today in my feeds, I saw two very bizarro fast food oddities:

1. Oddity the first: The “Col-Pop” (originally seen on Serious Eats)
   
   Col-Pop: The Future of Fast-Food Technology from Adam Kuban on Vimeo.
2. Oddity the second: Jazz and Poetry Reading at McDonald’s (seen on Ginny from the Blog)
   

Very odd world we live in, eh?

The Krispy Kreme Challenge is tomorrow. I’m not thinking I’ll go this year. I don’t think that I need to see a bunch of people vomiting every year. Maybe every other year is enough. If you don’t know, runners start at the bell tower at NC State, run to the Krispy Kreme, eat a dozen donuts (each!) then run back to the bell tower. I took video last year and edited this piece together. It’s one of the most viewed of my self-created YouTube videos (outside, of course, a few of my best karaoke videos!).

Click the pic to watch

Wayne Sutton is someone I’ve known online for a long time, but I finally met him in person last Thursday at The Borough. He was there with a group of bloggers from NBC-17, and I was there with a group of Flickr friends. He asked if I would mind doing an interview with him about blogging and social media. But of course! We met up on Monday night at Helios Coffee (Oh, I mean Cafe Helios!). It was packed, so we did this interview in a spot right by the register. It was a bit cramped, but I’m pretty happy with how the interview turned out. I’ll make you click over to his page to watch. Blogging is now part of his job, so I want to give him some link love!

BTW, the title of the story about me cracks me up! I’m soooo mysterious! Oh, and at the very tail-end, you see me do a little head bob. it’s because he said “a little more conversation”, and my mind went straight to Elvis! I know it’s not quite right, but you get the idea.