The doctor said it would take up to six months for my knee to heal, and he was right. It’s almost back to normal, and I’m starting to run again, stepping over the chipmunk roadkill that’s common this time of year.
Let’s talk numbers
Click the picture to see the blog stats for May.
This is yet another record month for the site. I have almost none of the videos posted that got me into trouble with my former hosting service, for using too much of my “unlimited” storage. I’m now streaming video from YouTube as much as possible, and yet nearly 30 GB of bandwidth was consumed. Why? Because of one set of videos I uploaded after switching the hosting service. I wanted to be sure they were online before the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions aired. The hits and the bandwidth were, once again, for Larissa Kelly.
The last time the site stats set a new record was when Larissa’s appearance on the 2009 Tournament of Champions was re-run. Before that, the tournament with Larissa blasted the previous record, which was set when her original appearances were re-run, and before that…. well, you get the idea. You know how Stephen Colbert likes to boast about the Colbert Bump? This site gets the Larissa Bump.
Spencer for hire
Sometimes I think every Hollywood romance — or are they just relationships? — is manufactured. It’s amazing how much coverage they get, especially when there’s a split. It’s as if the breakup is scheduled to occur at a particular time, to get the pair back in the news, after they start to slip from the public’s radar. I don’t know Spencer Pratt, and if he’s a relative of mine I don’t know it, and I’ve never seen anything he’s ever done.
Underground comics
The news services insist this aerial photo of Guatemala City is not a Photoshop fake, it’s genuine.
So you know what’s coming next, don’t you?
Barnes storm
More trouble in Boston radioland. Barnes Newberry has left “Highway 61 Revisited” on WUMB (UMass Boston), a Folk-Rock program that he created. I added a comment to the post at the link below:
http://keeppublicradiopublic.com/wumb/
DOuG pRATt, on May 31, 2010 at 4:32 pm Said:
WUMB reception is marginal where I live, so I was listening to “Highway 61 Revisited” on an Internet Wifi radio.
Feeling that I should pay for the privilege of listening to Barnes online every Saturday morning, I sent $100 to WUMB. Two weeks later he was gone. I won’t try to get my money back, but I won’t be giving any more money to WUMB.
Listening to Barnes was part of my Saturday morning routine, and I had wondered for a couple of weeks why former WBCN jock Albert O. was at the helm. I don’t know what led to Barnes Newberry leaving WUMB, but the show was his baby, I enjoyed it, and I miss him.
Follow-up: Lia Pamina comes through again! Thanks to Lia, I am a Facebook friend of Margo Guryan and, as it turns out, so is Barnes Newberry. I’ve written to Barnes and I’m hoping to find out what the heck happened.
…and stop calling me Shirley
Eating lunch with Samjay at work, probably not a month goes by before one of us at least mentions the movie Airplane! It’s no secret that Airplane! is based on a 1957 movie called Zero Hour!. Somebody on YouTube has done a very nice job of making some shot-by-shot comparisons.
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What’s remarkable is there were only 23 years between Zero Hour! and Airplane!, but they’re worlds apart. It’s been thirty years since Airplane! and yet its irreverent, sarcastic, and subversive tone is still fresh and funny.