Day: November 23, 2007

I was getting the following error message in my e-mail program: “Recipient address rejected: need fully-qualified address.”

It was easily fixed — I needed to remove an “x” I’d accidentally typed on the cc line — but it should tell you something about me that my first thought was, “You don’t hyphenate compound modifiers if one of them’s an adverb.”

Wait — today’s Friday, isn’t it? I’ve already lost track. Anyway, here’s the Random Guess 10:

  1. “Carry On Wayward Son” by the Oak Ridge Boys (orig. Kansas), guessed by Betty
    Once I rose above the noise and confusion
  2. “New York City” by They Might Be Giants
    We met in the springtime at a rock and roll show
  3. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Peter, Paul and Mary, guessed by Kim
    There’s so many times I’ve let you down
  4. “Dreaming My Dreams” by the Cranberries
    And there’s no other place that I’d lay down my face
  5. “Ballad of Ira Hayes” by Johnny Cash
    And their land grew crops of weeds
  6. “When Doves Cry” by the Be Good Tanyas (orig. Prince), guessed by wormbrain
    Maybe you’re just like my mother
  7. “Long Black Veil” by New Riders of the Purple Sage (orig. Johnny Cash), guessed by Betty
    Oh, the scaffold is high and eternity’s near
  8. “The Soldiering Life” by the Decemberists
    The call to arms you liken to a whisper, I liken to a radio
  9. “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles, guessed by Eric
    Baby says she’s mine, you know
  10. “The Chimbley Sweep” by the Decemberists
    “O lonely urchin!” the widow cried

If you don’t know how it works, just watch how others do it and you’ll figure it out.

I know I haven’t been terrific lately about posting answers, but I will get around to it, hopefully sometime tomorrow. It’s just…well, it’s a little bit of tedious copy-and-pasting. And that’s always assuming I can remember where I saved the right answers…

Anyway, for now, and as always, good luck!

Update: Okay, at long last, here are last week’s answers. And here are the answers from the week before that. I think I’m all caught up now.

How did I not know that Patricia Quinn, who played Magenta (a domestic) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show was also Livilla in I, Claudius (a miniseries of which I am inordinately fond) and also had a memorable (which is, perhaps, to say memorably naked) role in Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life?

I came to this information in a sort of round-about way.

I was watching this week’s episode of Pushing Daisies — a show which, if it’s never quite again reached the peaks of its first episode, has at least continued to be a lot of quirky and silly fun.

A lot of that fun comes from impeccable casting. It’s tough to dislike for long a show that allows for Kristin Chenoweth or Ellen Green to occasionally break out into song. Most people will probably remember Green best as Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors, and it was after hearing her sing a little of “Morning Has Broken” in this week’s episode that I thought, “Hey, I’d like to hear a little of her singing from Little Shop.” Particularly, I was interested in hearing “Suddenly Seymour.” No real reason; I just remember it being a really good song from the movie.

Anyway, I wandered over to YouTube and played a few clips. And then, because I was in a musical mood, I started playing clips from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And then, because that’s how these things work, one thing led to another and I was looking cast members up in the IMDB.

I’m seriously surprised I never noticed it was the same actress before.

November 23 is too early to string up Christmas lights and start playing Christmas music. And twenty-four hours of that music, for a full month, will be appreciated by no one but seasonal retailers and the clinically insane.

It’s too early, if only because it will get those ridiculous “war on Christmas” arguments trotted out by the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Fox News. We don’t need that, ever, and we certainly don’t need a month and a half of it before the holiday season even begins.