The Surreal Life of Singing To Camera

An acquaintance asked me recently for my take on videos he'd posted on his YouTube account. A couple of the videos were of himself, singing to camera.

This reminded me of an account I actually subscribe to, whose name is "wiwibulle." He seems to be in France, and it seems ALL HE DOES is sing to his camera alone in his apartment. Furthermore, he sings over existing songs with the singers' lyrics. And uses what appears to be a baby's rattle shaped in a starry microphone.

I think I found his channel when I was looking for videos or music from Europe, more obscure pop songs that might be in another language, that Americans would have no access to. Though he may be French, of course, he's sung lots of songs that were big in the United States...

Who is Ajax Knox?

There once was a man from Nantucket...

No. Ajax Knox's real name was Arnold Joseph Knox, and he much preferred the dose of mythology once the name Ajax entered the picture.

August wedding ...notes

I don't know if I want to get married or not.

Not that I specifically have a mate-candidate in particular right now.

But for some weird reason, instead of fixing the economy, jobs, etc., same-sex marriage is being pushed as a HUGE, important, we-must-decide-this-this-year thing. For EVERYWHERE in the United States. And therefore, of course, many states are going against it and the country is dividing (further).

Why now? Anybody got an answer for that one? Is it that it's a keep-the-incumbent-president year?

After-Edit, 9/9/12: Okay, I've built a theory.

After years of slow thought and movement, it sounds

like it simply snowballed this year. Or maybe it was last year

and I haven't been paying attention. The year before?

If I was to get married to a woman, she would probably take the lead on planning the entire thing. Well, I mean, don't women usually, with weddings? Unless she was a modern woman or a hipster and made us split up the tasks.

If I'm to marry a man, I'd really try to keep it simple. (And, of course, try to split up the tasks.)

FIND MOR CHIKIN

In the things I read, Chick-fil-A has cropped up in the past several days for being unashamedly anti-same-sex marriage. "Guilty as charged," COO Dan Cathy is quoted in the Baptist Press.

To split hairs, he was only talking about the company's support of a "traditional" family, which, one supposes, has a mother and father. (Why they don't think two daddies or two mommies are a valid, loving family is anybody's guess.)

Regardless of any leaps in logic, the Baptist Press article was followed by such fallout as:

• Boston mayor Tom Menino is talking about banning the business from the city
• the Muppets are now shunning the company after a deal to put branded toys in Chick-fil-A kid's meals
• and, apparently, TV's Ed Helms has said on Twitter that he's boycotting them too 

And all this comes after the Equality Matters report from early this month, saying that though the company likes to support charitable causes in its communities, lots of the money it's spent on charity has gone to anti-gay campaigns.

All this made me realize: when was the last time I'd ever SEEN a Chick-fil-A?

Special and Arresting

I just got an email from a web site telling me to log in to see the stud of the week. I thought, who picks these poor people? Does one get too bored with picking out A-list from D-list? ("Oh, I'm just so sick of staring at hot guys. THEY'RE ALL HOT!")