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Wicked
April 09, 2006

Wicked posterIt’s been a weird week, and hopefully I’ll be able to tell you more about it soon, but for now, I’ll just tell you how it was capped off.

On Saturday afternoon, Mom watched the kids while Berta and I went to the musical Wicked, based on the book by Gregory Maguire. And in perfect contrast to the showing of Chicago we saw, Wicked was wicked.

In case you aren’t familiar with the idea: Wicked is a story about the Wicked Witch of the West from Oz. You’re familiar with the story from the movie, The Wizard of Oz, right? Well, if you haven’t read or seen Wicked, then you have no idea what really happened.

Love Monkey No More
April 06, 2006

In a typical TV network move of stupidity, ABC has cancelled another promising show. Love Monkey is an oddly-named show that is difficult to briefly describe, and perhaps that’s why it got the can.

Tom Farrell (played by Tom Cavanagh) is an A&R guy for a big record company. And then he gets fired and loses his girlfriend. But it’s a strangely happy story, because he gets more of what he needs in the end, when he signs on with an small but upcoming record company to get closer to the “real music” than he could with the big guys.

Spam Factory
April 05, 2006

I got more spam from QuickenLoans today. This is surprising considering the last message I sent to them regarding their emailing practices.

I have received a slew of unwanted and irrelevant emails from QuickenLoans since we got our mortgage through them. Worse yet, they periodically call me at work, wondering if I would like to refinance. Note that QuickenLoans isn’t actually the finance company on my mortgage, they were just the broker at the time we signed — we have had no reason to deal with them since our mortgage was completed.

I know how you guys love to read these things, so I’ll re-post my reply email here. Maybe someone at Quicken will take notice and get me off of their mailing list. Yeah, who am I kidding?

Your QuickenLoans MortgageExpert wrote:

A lot of my clients have been asking me how they can protect their personal information when they are shopping online.

We are working on a new Internet Privacy Guide to help our clients understand identity theft and other privacy concerns. Please let me know if you would like a copy when it becomes available â€" I’d be more than happy to send you one.

In the meantime, I thought you’d find this important tip very helpful. Please feel free to pass it along to your friends and family.

Question: How do I stop getting credit card junk mail?

Personally, I would like the answer to the following question:

How can I get QuickenLoans and its agents to stop sending me junk email, junk mail, and junk phone calls?