I thought it was "Hooray."

I do enjoy how all of your Princes appear to be in or from Minnesota.

That's how the dude in the video pronounces it. I can't help reading it as Renee-smee, though.

Pick up your puppy!

Oh, Cincinnati is quite nice too. Columbus has some nice spots, as do Toledo and Dayton, and even itty bitty Lima, but Cincinnati and Cleveland are definitely the best whole-city experiences in Ohio.

I've seen that mastodon. My mom was at IPFW for some reason circa 1980 (endless post-grad summer classes) and my brother and I were just slightly too young to be left home by ourselves, so we went with her. We were old enough to be left just wandering the halls by ourselves, though, and suddenly - mastodon. That was…

Well, not quite. It's true that the upper registers require different breath control than the lower registers, but it's more about shaping the airstream - making it smaller, faster, and aiming it more precisely - than it is about increasing pressure. Of course, you can get similar effects by just increasing the air…

Oh, thank you. I could have used a little more non-giving-up-school back then…

Eh, I was playing baritone sax as an 11-year-old girl. Then again, I was already about 5'5" by then, and I believe they gave it to me specifically because I was bigger than everyone else, and also not very good, so my experience is irrelevant.

I taught elementary music, very very briefly, and used recorder-by-nose as a teaching tool! I showed the kids how you could get a sound by blowing not very much air, not very hard, through your nostrils at the recorder - which was about 1/2 an inch UNDER, not ON, one nostril - and then had them try to imitate that…

It was white, because they were at the North Pole!

Mr. Met beats Brutus Buckeye, though. At least Mr. Met isn't wearing a towel loincloth.

I still have that CD, and there are worse "songs" on it than the Baha Men. Which doesn't invalidate your point about the Baha Men, of course.

As a dudess, I mostly noticed that doing the lat spread thing makes his arms look weirdly skinny and rounds his shoulders. And I am a shoulders/arms/upper torso girl, so, that's not so great.

NewsRadio - Daydream.

Harper's Island was a lot of fun, and they must have thrown a lot of money at it - it was frequently gorgeous, and the deaths were believable. It was one of the last things I really treated as appointment TV - before getting decent internet and not needing that concept anymore.

It really was. I was quite disappointed when it ended. (Were we just discussing Swingtown and Harper's Island in another thread last year?)

In the 70's, we had a record of some sort - maybe an LP, maybe a 45? - that had "Ghost of John" and "In a Dark, Dark Room" on it.

I recently tried to explain the gay steel mill scene to someone who "just never thought that 'The Simpsons' was funny." Nothing is more depressing.

Not at all. I was about 25 when that aired, and had seen most of the show up to that point, as well as a more than representative sample of TV comedy going back to the 60's, via the early days of UHF programming. I read TV reviews in print media, and talked to my proto-hipster friends, and I got what was different and…