This Woman's Birthday

Monday, Jul. 30, 2007 - 5:39 a.m.

This artist is 49 years old today.

She once owned a cat named Rocket, and was the first performer to ever use a wireless headset microphone, improvised at very nearly the last moment by untwisting a coat hanger and fitting it over the top of her head.

There was a twelve year gap between her two most recent albums.

Happy birthday, dear Catherine.

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Had a nice quiet weekend.

I backed up the materials I've produced since May in Garage Band, and am refining the songs I am planning to include in my second CD. The music sounds pretty much like I need it to sound, and I'm happy with the results.

However, on the down-side, I think I've ruined a microphone cord.

I don't have a recording studio or anything remotely resembling one. I have Garage Band, this computer, and an external Yamaha keyboard, plus two sound input devices.

One of them got munched the night before last, in my recliner.

I was absolutely certain I had the cords out of the way -- but as it turned out, I did not.

When I folded my recliner closed, it closed slowly instead of quickly, which meant something was in the gears. Usually, it's something benign, like a kleenex or the sash from my robe.

But alas, not this time.

My stupid cord looks like it's been cut with a big pair of dull scissors. Sigh.

I haven't hooked it up to see if there's any damage yet, but frankly, it ain't pretty.

Bulletins as events warrant.

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Saw a paragraph in Australia's Herald Sun about Nicole Richie that made me retch:

Richie, whose elegant appearance echoed screen star Audrey Hepburn in Hollywood classic Breakfast At Tiffany's, refused to comment outside jail about the sentence or rumoured pregnancy.

Of all the stupid and outrageous comparisons.

This reminds me of all the morons who compared poor Anna Nicole Smith to Marilyn Monroe.

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From yesterday: The fictional universes were as follows:

1. Hogsmeade = Harry Potter
2. 704 Houser Street, Queens, NY = All In The Family
3. 148 Bonnie Meadow Road, New Rochelle, NY = The Dick Van Dyke Show
4. Cicely, Alaska = Northern Exposure
5. The 4077th = M*A*S*H
6. Longbourn, England (this was a toughie) = Pride and Prejudice
7. Walkabout Creek, NT, Australia = Crocodile Dundee

You guys did a great job. Everybody wins.

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Finally, a word in tribute to late-night icon Tom Snyder, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 71.

He was classy and funny and kind, -- and I'll miss his Colortinis for as long as I live.

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