LennyH, I hope you don't work for Epic because if you do then my wife hates you.

I thought THE END was terrific.

A Brazil, Mexico B Spain, Netherlands C Greece, Ivory Coast D Italy, Uruguay* E France, Ecuador** F Argentina, Nigeria G Germany, Portugal H Belgium, Korea *I will be rooting for England **Uli's Switzerland could easily take place of France walto, a year or so ago you asked about a new kid in soccer...

That's Dame Dench---there is nothing like one. No, that's Dame Judi, DBE, "an honour allowing (but not prescribing) the postulant to use the title "Sir" (male) or "Dame" (female) before his or her first name." [Wiki]. Get it right, Rita, we're all tired of your sloppin...

iTunes never fails to mess up my album art. Should be such a simple thing.

Most of the complaints I hear about Apple, I don't understand. Because Apple products are great. But complaints about iTunes, I totally agree with. Because iTunes sucks.

Cardiff game...can't blame you for drinking....

"Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming." That's the one that always gets me crying loudly and hysterically until I get sullen and abusive. I wouldn't expect a lounge singer to understand my pain. Check please! Hiccough. [Sick].

My dream job is playing in a Las Vegas dive piano bar from 2--5 AM. I want to sing noire songs about carrying torches, or longing, loss, cocktails, cigarettes and angst in the wee small hours. What songs should I play? Certsinly "One for My Baby.... I'd be the guy at the bar yelling requests. ...

I read THE CASTLE and THE TRIAL when I was 19 or so. Defining works for me? I'm not at liberty to say. I worry it wouldn't be right. Plus there's my case to consider.

Get your blue vuvuzela ready, Tom. You no doubt heard the screaming: France made the cut in most dramatic fashion and will be at the party in Brazil this coming summer.

My new hero, England bowler Stuart Broad, on what it is like to have 30,000 Australians singing that you are a wanker: "It was something a bit different but I think I coped with it OK. I'm pleased my mum wasn't in the stadium. But to be honest I was singing along at one stage, it gets in your h...

Next gen consoles are never worth picking up for the first year, or so. The games are usually garbage, high prices, back orders, bugs, the list of reasons could go on and on. I'm encouraged to hear that. I bought an Xbox 360 for the kids for Christmas...it will replace their current game console, a...

Can't believe the French made it. Boo. I mean congrats, but boo.

The Ronaldo v Zlatan final for Greatest Player Ever/WC qualification was great. Portugal thoroughly deserve the win, but I'll be sorry not to see Ibra in Brazil.

I have yet to make a music festival and I expect it will suck.

i'm busy picking up new sports like cricket, which I started investigating about a year and a half ago. Complicated sport! The bi-annual "Ashes" competition will take place for the second time this year (?) starting tonight. Or tomorrow? It takes place in Austrailia and I'm set to Tivo it,...

I used to read anything I could get my hands on. Mad and Cracked magazine, superhero comics, Victor Appleton, Walter Farley, didn't matter. One day my dad says to me, "You should start reading the classics." So I picked up KING LEAR and liked it very much. From that moment on it was all Sh...

Hallelujah on that video, Uli. Thanks for that. Ghana lost to Egypt on the night, but won in aggregate and are off to Brazil for next year's cup. Where, no doubt, they will knock off the USA. They are a bit of a bogie team for us. Love the praise song, though.

The Counselor, by Cormac McCarthy. Wow. You can't read one of these books and feel normal out on the streets. Es muy peligroso en las calles. This is written as a screenplay but it is McCarthy, same black vein as all McCarthy. Terrific stuff. The most terrifying thing about the story is there are w...

Definitely wrote some good stuff.

Arsenio Hall's producers describe this performance as "taking it to a new level."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNPeu0wn8i8

I'm not a fan of Shorter's recent stuff, but this Alex has baryard detritus for brains. If Shorter's recent performance on the time-warp re-do of the Arsenio Hall show is an indication, there is nothing bad you could say about his music that isn't warranted. However, I know he made a lot of good mu...

The Counselor, by Cormac McCarthy. Wow. You can't read one of these books and feel normal out on the streets. Es muy peligroso en las calles. This is written as a screenplay but it is McCarthy, same black vein as all McCarthy. Terrific stuff. The most terrifying thing about the story is there are w...

That just proves that she's young. Lots of young women make bad decisions.

Edit: By "creature," I assume you mean the ravishing young lady and not some rodent hidden in the background.