“Strategic decisions have led us to indefinitely deactivate all personal music stations on Sonicnet.com.”
Well this sucks.
My horoscope for the week from The Onion:
Aries: (March 21—April 19)
You will meet a dark-haired stranger next week. Actually, you’ll meet several, but only one of them is important for our purposes.
Some more customer comments from Amazon.com, because I’m bored and for some reason I find this stuff amusing:
About King Lear, a reader from Washington, D.C., offers this sage advice: “Hey Shakespeare: Stick with one topic at a time. Nobody’s gonna think you’re smart just because you use big words and try to be complicated.” Oh, and death scenes are apparently a downer.
Richard III proves no less problematic. “Heres what i would say to Shakespear…” writes one dissatisfied reader from New Jersey, “Welcome to America Now speak english.” So that’s what that is!
Finally, about Julius Caeser, a reader from “Standed on an Island” says simply, “Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, boring boring.”
Well sure…with all those words…
It made him sad, not because he saw some instructive allegory or harsh sermon on the vanity of all human hopes and utopian imaginings in this translation of a bright summer dream into an immense mud puddle freezing over at the end of a September afternoon–he was too young to have such inklings–but because he had so loved the Fair, and seeing it this way, he felt in his heart what he had known all along, that, like childhood, the Fair was over, and he would never be able to visit again. – Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Any given creativity is magic. – Alan Moore, in conversation with The Onion