Asymptomatic

A short compilation of audio theatre resources.

Well, Christmas is pretty much over for us here in the Winkler household. It was a fine day with family. But two things have really bothered me today, and I thought I would share them so that we could commiserate.

Number one - We have two kids. They are under 5 years old. Every stinking toy is affixed to the box it came in by these plastic-coated metal twist ties that are twisted into knots by sadistic evil elves. I swear to you that I have bruises on my fingertips from trying to unravel these little metal knots from the bowels of hell.

Worse yet is that when you finally get sick of twisting them with your fingers until your fingers bleed and you get some wirecutters from the tool chest, you end up cutting a few that you probably shouldn’t even though there’s no other way to get the wire out of there. And what’s wrong with that? They leave these sharp little wire thingies hanging out of toys with an age rating of “1 year+”. That’s just stupid.

I guess people were ripping the toys out of the boxes in the stores and pocketing them. Crime has become such a problem in the world that we now have to endanger my kids to prevent the theft of a $5 train car from a set of Weebles. But it’s not just the consumers causing a problem…

I changed some things around here. Hopefully, there is a little more functionality exposed, particularly on the archive pages.

If you’re reading on RSS, please take a moment to stop by and see what you think of the look of the place.

Watch the first ten minutes of 24’s new fifth season.

Want to hear a production of A Christmas Carol via podcast? Maybe not. But here we have the original Dickens text as audio, as read by our buddy DrBacchus.