So, I haven't been here in a while. Sorry about that. Life has been hectic. Work, little sleep and The Merry Widow rehearsals (we're in "tech week" right now). I promise to finish those holiday cards (hahah), mail off my presents (ohgoodness), and call my friends (I swear I love you!). Ugh. I'm not being a good friend or thoughtful person right now.

Buuuuut, until that day rolls around (T minus 7-10 days), here's something to make you laugh your ass off (thanks to Kevin Lawver):

Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXG2uKNLIw to view what I'm talking about.

And, what about this for one of the best responses EVER to Microsoft's amazing ad:

"from a review of the songsmith commercial: 'In 2009, even the lamest cultural contributions have some kind of underlying self-awareness. Like, even the people who work for Bill O’Reilly, or the SkyMall catalog, are aware that what they work on sucks. But a job’s a job and they probably find a way to have fun with it (especially at the SkyMall catalog.) So that’s why this REAL commercial for Microsoft’s new Songsmith software (you sing at it and it creates horrible musak to accompany you) is completely insane. Not only is it apparently earnest and not a parody, self- or otherwise, it seems like it comes from a bizarro parallel universe where irony was never discovered. It’s like Microsoft found some kind of home-schooling Christian commune in the woods and hired them to make their commercial.' "