Is it safe to go outside again?

Sunburn in 5 minutes?! Damn that's cooking the planet... as in a microwave. I can imagine the havoc that would wreak on the atmosphere. Maybe this is kinda old news but not in geologic terms.

Yahoo News article: "NASA: Environmental disaster avoided on ozone loss"

I'm waiting here in Allentown....

Waiting to see Elton John and Billy Joel tickle the ivories together that is. They're going on tour across the States playing "face-to-face" as it's been dubbed, and they've just stopped by Charlotte last Saturday. "How was it?" you ask, assuming that I went, of course, having been a fan of both artists for many years -- both the source of fond memories, childhood and recent. But to your utter shock ... I did not go.

Oh, I bought tickets! I bought them the morning they went on sale in fact back in December when everyone was thinking of Christmas shopping. I got two, because let's face it -- I'm not going alone, and there must be *somebody* who would want to go with me or at least someone who could be persuaded to join me. The sad thing is if I polled my gay friends, most of them would say they don't even like Elton John. I KNOW!! How shameful is that?! It makes me want to reevaluate my friends it's so disturbing. They should go back to listening to the self-proclaimed "hit music station" and drinking their Kool Aid. (Brought to you by Carl's Junior. LOL)

About a month or so went by, and I got several rejections from coworkers and friend's moms alike. (She went with me to Elton's last concert in Charlotte.) None wanted to or could spare the expense in light of this dollar menu economic Roche limit we're rapidly approaching. So the concomitant seat remained vacant until it was learned that the Piano Man and Captain Fantastic would me performing together two months later in the town of a good friend I regrettably, rarely get a chance to see. (Hopefully summer will arrive in the Arctic by May this year. Maybe we can even catch the Aurora and go hit the clubs with his seal friends.) Frankly, I was shocked to hear he actually LIKED the two pianists. A quick check of the calendar told me I was free, and the decision was made. I sold my one uncommitted seat along with my own on the day of the concert to a seemingly overly suspicious young tag football mom on Craiglist.

So while we wait, enjoy this unnecessarily homoerotic music video of Billy Joel's "Allentown". I mean there's a nude shower scene for the love of penis. (New favorite line thanks to Family Gay.)

Lexicomic

I'm not trying to go all XKCD on ya, but someone at work asked me to define for him the difference between "complement" and "compliment" and this illustration came as a result.



You know you want to give me props for squeezing in TWO definitions for "complement." =)