3 things I didn't know I needed

My friends Danny and Tao Kai always complain that they can't get me anything, since I have everything I can possibly need. For my 1/3-life crisis I threw a big party, and even though I specifically asked for no presents, I ended up with a few highly useful items I never knew I needed!

And the top 3 are:

1. Lips. You can always use a pair of red lips.

2. A set of 6 self-adhesive mustaches. Don't be caught in public with a naked upper lip!

And my personal favorite...

3. A wine bottle cozy. You've probably seen bottle coolers - used to chill a bottle of white wine, or to keep it chilled while it's not refrigerated. But what about red wine? How can you keep it in room temperature when it's too cold outside, or if you've just brought it up from your cold wine cellar? The hand-made wine cozy comes to your rescue!

My Hot List

Hindsight is Always 50-50

I'm still looking for a title for this blog. In the meantime, I decided to borrow one from Joey. I don't remember if he was a bit under the influence when he came up with it, but I always thought it's a brilliant summary of the impossibility of looking backward and reliving your life. Even if we did know everything that was going to happen, every result of every possible action, would we make the right choice? Joey gives it a 50-50 chance, and he's probably generous. Oh well. We'll burn that bridge when we cross it! (another one from Joey's).

Fox News in the Simpsons

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What makes me switch to a different radio station

Here they are, the top things you don't want to hear on your radio:

1. "You have had some horrible surgeries. Tell us about them." -- heard in a WBUR interview with polio survivors. I was not fast enough, and heard a bit about having all your foot bones broken before I switched the station.
   
   
2. "This is our spring fund raiser." -- is there really a difference between a commercial based radio station like WCRB and a sponsorship-loaded fundraising-every-other-week NPR station?
   
   
3. "My name is Laura Carlo, and I want to tell you about my wonderful new Bose radio." -- turns out there is a difference after all. How come a voice so sweet and full of high-fructose corn syrup just makes me want to puke? (WCRB)
   
   
4. "And now, a symphony by William Boise" -- WCRB has approximately 12 classical CD's. This seems to be one of their favorites. I had never heard of this composer before WCRB, and its main talent seems to be having written 5-minutes symphonies, that fit right in between commercial breaks. Oh well, maybe he sounds much better on a Bose radio.
   
   
5. Anything to do with Lake Wobegon. -- Prarie Home Companion's host Garrison Keillor is the male equivalent of Laura Carlo - hearing his voice creates an allergic reaction in my body. And regarding the so called "humor" of the program, I'm in one mind with Homer Simpsons on that: in one of the episodes Homer and family find themselves watching A Prairie Home Companion with increasing frustration. Homer is finally reduced to pounding the television and yelling "Be funny! Be funny!"
   
   
6. "With us is Dr Montross, a psychiatrist in Brown University, who has released a poetry book about her love of cadavers." -- heard on WBUR On Point.