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				4.7.2000/13:55 CDT
				David Henry Hwang is doing a lot re-writing for a new version of Flower Drum Song to be done in L.A. in the upcoming season, after a fall workshop run in New York.
4.7.2000/12:15 CDT
From Eric comes the answer about Wrigley; it seems that it was, eventually, named for the gum man, but more for his owning the team than as a promotional tie-in...
		4.7.2000/08:40 CDT
		Do you remember the horror amongst baseball fans when 3com paid such-and-such gazillion dollars to put its name on the baseball stadium that we had all grown up knowing as Candlestick? This article in the Chicago Tribune, about a bank doing some promo stuff at Wrigley Field, makes me wonder if Wrigley was the first of the commercially named ballparks...was it a sponsorhip deal, or was it simply named in honor of a gum-baron city father? If you are from Chicago (or not) and know, please let me know.
			4.7.2000/07:05 CDT
			"Dogs are being torn apart, sickened, starved, beaten, killed, and extremely mistreated because people want to make a quick buck," we're told at the Pit Bull Rescue site. "It never phased me until I rescued a fighter pit."
	4.7.2000/06:50 CDT
	I've been using Netscape 6 Beta for a day now. Getting lots of crashes, particularly on using any kind of customization that refers back to pages kept at Netscape (much of the navigation scheme acutally works through HTML pages), but presumably once that gets settled down, it will be of some comfort to have a panel on the left of the screen to track the descent of my stock prices while I surf. The look of it didn't come as too much of a shock, since I had downloaded the latest Mozilla last week, but the look of it might not be much of an issue once people start popping up with lots of skins for it. But thinking back, you know what I really liked about the Mozilla downloard? You just download the files, put them into a directory, and find the exe and run it. No installation. No army of new icons to find and destroy. I am coming to realize that I hate the presumptive nature of installation programs.
			4.6.2000/09:45 CDT
			Susan was fooled by the Orkin "Fake Out" commercial which purports to show a roach crawling across the television screen (I, with both the instincts of a reporter and much experience in roach observation, was not so easily taken in). Luckily, she did not hurl a barbell at the screen, exploding it into thousands of pieces, etc. Still, she's eligible to enter the "Orkin Got Me" drawing promoted at www.orkin.com.
4.6.2000/09:00 CDT
The big day is only one month away! On May 6, 2000 , the new Bigfoot Wing of the Willow Creek-China Flats Museum in Willow Creek, CA, is set to have its grand opening. You can plan to stay at the Bigfoot Motel, and in the meanwhile, spend that endless stretch of time between now and the big event boning up on Bigfoot field research.
				4.5.2000/13:10 CDT
				"...commence breeding, America." That's part of the sage ersatz advice in the Onion article which "reveals" that, likely due to not quite everyone turning in their forms, the U.S. population count stands at 13,462. Are you sure you were counted?
	4.5.2000/10:45 CDT
	Now this is a real service: Ask A Gay Guy greets you with a few sample questions, like, "How can my home look faaabulous when I can't even afford a decent meal?" and invites you to submit vexing queries of your own. Lots of info in pre-posed questions about just how okay it is or isn't to wear white after Labor Day. Good sense of humor, yes...but also good advice!
				4.4.2000/11:38 CDT
				"A legion of French Bosoms could not match the lucid beauty of your toenails!" That's what it said. To me. The Surrealist Compliment Generator said this. To me. Made my day better!
		4.4.2000/08:15 CDT
		Luckily, we are able to stomach Kellogg's Complete Wheat Bran flakes, which is a good thing, since we would be eating them in any case, as this brand is the only one to turn up on local shelves in "specially marked boxes" tying them to a new co-promotion with American Airlines. We would have to eat them, no matter what they tasted like, because we are deeply devoted to our airline miles. But wait! That's not all! To retrieve my coupon, I cut up the one box we've already managed to plow through, and inside was what I can only think of as a secret message with a code urging me on to www.kelloggs.com, where I was further lead to a teaser page alerting me that soon, soon, soon, I would know what the codes were all about. Who said eating breakfast in the morning wasn't an adventure?
			4.3.2000/13:27 CDT
			I just finished doing my taxes today (using Turbo Tax, although for some Luddite reason I decline to file electronically), and once again, the single happy moment in the entire proceeding came when I addressed the envelope, as I do every year, to the Internal Revenue "Service." Putting the quotation marks around the word service is my one small taxpayer protest, lame though it is. I suppose I don't want to do anything else too strong for fear of another Ruby Ridge, which would tie up traffic awfully on my otherwise somewhat tranquil street. By the way, have you been to the IRS site, which is all cute and fuzzy and warm and huggable? Your tax dollars at work!
4.3.2000/11:15 CDT
I just can't help but wondering if the Better Value Comedy Traffic School is offering a service that means to technically comply with the letter of the law, without, let's say, overburdening its clients with unduly trying experiences. Like those tax-deductible seminars held on lush Caribbean islands. Consult your tax adviser. Or a traffic cop.
		4.3.2000/10:55 CDT
		The depraved need for attention that led me to begin a weblog in the first place has been further fed by my joining webloggers, the web ring that can send you scuttling from one blog to another (observe the webloggers logo and direction arrows in the upper left hand corner of this page; the longer link with the options to go to random blogs, etc. can be found on my long list). Thanks to Jish Mukerji for taking the time to do all this.
				4.2.2000/19:55 CDT
				What prize do you suggest for the person who can look at Chrystl Rijkeboer's intro page for more than one minute?
		4.2.2000/09:37 CDT
		What with all the Seattle blogs I read, I am surprised that I haven't seen this site before. Two pretty good "games." My favorite touch: the choice of weapons with which to whack rats, which threaten Seattle as they leave the Kingdome's sinking ship.
4.2.2000/08:01 CDT
Always take a really, really careful look at each and every picture when you go to the drug store or the lab and pick up your prints...you just don't know what you might find.
	4.1.2000/22:35 CST
	A most amazing site, from the U.K., Constructor, "animates and edits two dimensional models made out of masses and springs." It's worth spending a bit of time here, as you can manipulate the various figures made available, turn "gravity" on and off, etc. Developers hint that soon, you'll be able to save your own creations.
				4.1.2000/12:22 CST
				In what may be the latest craze for people who have way, way, way too much time on their hands, here is another site for people with Nokia phones to fiddle with their ring tones, logos, etc.
4.1.2000/11:55 CST
No, clog.org is not about plumbing problems...
		4.1.2000/11:35 CST
		The (quite understandable) stir caused by Kathleen Turner's nude scene in the stage version of The Graduate reminds me of having seen that so-so The Blue Room in New York last winter. After having seen the bare bum of Nicole Kidman, I wondered, did that mean that Tom Cruise might come around for an all-bare peek at my wife Susan? When I broached the subject of such tit-for-tat fairness, Susan never did raise any particular objection, but so far Tom has not shown.
			4.1.2000/10:55 CST
			I have been looking at pages that I work on with four different browsers at a time, including the Big Two (or is that the Big One and the Little One?) as well as Mozilla Beta and Opera 4.0 Beta. This particular page renders about the same on all of them, with the exception that NN4.7 treats the columns very differently until there is content in all five columns. Just thought you would like to know.
	4.1.2000/10:35 CST
	About 20 minutes from my house, there is Lake Martin, where just about this time each spring, thousands of pairs of aquatic birds nest and mate. Most of it is protected by the Nature Conservancy, and there is a gravel road that loops around the south shore, full of photographers on days like this, including me.