the voice of a sad angel

Just heard Dar Williams' cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" on the radio, and I think it actually might be one of those covers that surpasses the original song. I know that sounds like sacrilege, and I might be saying it only because we've all heard the original about 1000 million (i.e., a billion) times.

Williams' version is haunting, beautiful, lonely and soaring, all at the same time. Judging by the very little I've heard of her stuff, she's a pretty versatile singer; here, she has the voice of a sad angel.

Comfortably Numb (Windows Media sample)

eli's good

In the midst of his first full year as Giants starting QB, Eli Manning now has two so-so games under his belt (in which the Giants went 2-0), two so-so games with clutch fourth quarters (1-1), and two Peyton-like "Statboy, Jr." games (also 1-1). That's a pretty good spectrum there, and we're likely to see more of all three Elis as the year wears on (hopefully more Statboy, Jr., games, only with a higher winning percentage). Over a full 16 games, Eli is on pace for...

3771 passing yards
32 TDs
11 INTs

And he's only going to get better.

debit card fun at mcdonald's

I don't normally use a debit card at McDonald's, but Thursday night, as I was driving to Kris' house at around 11 pm, I was literally starving to death. I didn't want to waste time finding a PNC Bank ATM, so I just resigned myself to walking into one of DE-2's hundreds of McDonald's locations and using my debit card.

I ordered a medium #1 for $4.09, swiped my card, entered my pin number, and all seemed well - until no receipt printed out. The cashier didn't seem to think anything was wrong, and when I asked for one (I'm paranoid about these types of things), she looked the register over for about five minutes before telling me it was probably broken.

So I asked if there was any way she could help me out... and she took out a pen and wrote me this:



Awesome.

Special thanks to Kris for digging this out of the trash for me. :) You're too good to me, babe.