A Variety of Pairs

The best bumper stickers I've seen this week (at the same time, same parking lot, 2 different cars):

• "Honk If You Love Pigs"
• "I'd Rather Be at a Rick Springfield Concert"

I caught a new show on Noggin called Jack's Big Music Show. It's wonderful. Puppets. Music. What more can you ask for? My favorite characters from the show:

• Mel, the dog who plays drums
• Sheldon, the grumpy squirrel

Stupid things I did this weekend:

• Left my flat iron (which I hadn't even used) on Saturday morning when I went to work.
• Stayed up for about 23 hours straight Saturday/Sunday. Really brilliant thing to do when you've been ill.

I'm not a big horror fan. But, I did see part of a couple of horror films that I do like this weekend:

• Return of the Living Dead
• Shaun of the Dead

A couple of tidbits I learned last night:

• Blackberry brandy is kind of nasty.
• Blackberry brandy mixed with Coca-Cola is less nasty.

Fun things I did after work last night:

• I attended the closing night of a play called One West Wacker. Too bad it's over and I can't tell people to go see it. It really was a great show. Congrats to our friends (Wendy, Jeff, Karla, Virginia) who were involved.
  
• I went to an entertaining, if not at times confusing, party. A few photos will be posted on my flickr site. A few of the photos will not be posted.

CDs I'm really itching to buy:

• You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand - got it!
  
• The Hard and the Easy - Great Big Sea
• The Return of the Living Dead Soundtrack