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Leonard Cohen exercises the poet’s prerogative of re-interpreting and manipulating his interrogator’s words and his own to distract and deflect. A trivial but nonetheless amusing example follows:
Leonard Cohen: I always thought I would change my name and get a tattoo
Beryl Fox: Where?
Leonard Cohen: There’s this place on St. Lawrence Blvd.
The interviewer’s facial expression at that point is a bonus.
Check The Fine Print For Noncompliance What’s wrong with this picture? Lots of information that most of us over 55 can’t visualize well enough to read.
A study quoted at the source found: The pharmacy name or logo was the most prominent item on 71 (84%) of the labels, with a mean font size of 13.6 point. Font sizes were smaller for medication instructions (9.3 point), medication name (8.9 point), and warning and instruction stickers (6.5 point).
For the non-typographers among us, I’d included a font size chart below.
There is, as one might expect, more to the story, none of it happy news, at the link.
The Best Song Ever Performed By Dirty Mac
John Lennon put together a nifty group, The Dirty Mac, with Winston Leg-Thigh (Lennon), Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell (the drummer from The Jimi Hendrix Experience), and Keith Richards. The full story of their one performance is available via the link.
Ranger Rules Rule The helicopter dangling those four individuals was part of a demonstration of newly learned Ranger skills - although I can’t quite shake the suspicion that it could be a United Airlines-funded trial of alternative solutions for overbooked flights.
Wedding Rules #7 - #13 8. It’s wise to seek the advice of officiating clergy and legal counsel before committing oneself to wedding vows that include any of the following phrases:
- love you until death do us part or as long as I can, whichever comes first
- as long as you don’t keep bitching about it
- I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might.
- we might as well
- besides, if it doesn’t work out
- after all, two out of three ain’t bad
- I can explain
- just a figure of speech
- years from now, this is something we’ll all laugh about
- hey, we’re all grownups here, right?
- double or nothing
- stays in Vegas
Wedding Rules #2 - #6 Rule #6. The groom who harbors hopes for a long and happy marriage is well-advised to avoid making suggestions such as attiring the bridesmaids as French maids, regardless of how freakin’ hot that would be.
United Airlines Still Owes Me 4 O’Hare Airport Hour Another story of airline errors and, much worse, inexplicably substandard customer service, leading our family to decide that travelling several hundred miles in a minivan is a significant improvement over flying.
The Unrealized Potential of Take This Waltz By Leonard Cohen In The Gin Game
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore Waltz to Leonard Cohen’s “Take This Waltz” in the PSB production of The Gin Game. Post focuses on the role of Cohen’s “Take This Waltz” in the play.
From WSJ - Making Sense of Spaghetti Code A graphic interpretation of computer code used by HP “to make a simple point to customers: your old software is ridiculously inefficient and should be rewritten.”
Leonard Cohen’s First Band - The Buckskin Boys. (That’s Leonard with the guitar at the bottom) From Leonard Cohen - Boy Wonder: Part of the Leonard Cohen Primer, covering the singer-sonwriter’s adolescence and college years.
WordPress Quotation Marks Too Smart For Their Own Good The developers of WordPress, the software I use to generate posts on my personal blog, apparently decided that it would be way cool if the plain ol’ dumb, straight quotation marks and apostrophes keyboarded into the WordPress editor were magically transformed into fancy-schmancy, smart, curly quotation marks and apostrophes. That would be fine except Google likes straight quote, and, more to the point, really doesn’t care for smart quotes. I know this because when I tried to find a Heck Of A Guy post I’d written about the Leonard Cohen song, Elvis’s Rolls Royce, Google couldn’t - or wouldn’t - find it. More about the problem and how to work around it follow in the original post.
Wedding Toasts To Avoid …
Unless you are Hugh Grant
playing the role of Best Man in a movie wedding
