So, not just me. Excellent.

David, I can't get Old Greg's song "Do ya love me?" out of my mind.

There is a great youtube version with the guys singing on Jo Whiley's radio show. Love it.

Happy Birthday, Laga!

David, I can't get Old Greg's song "Do ya love me?" out of my mind.

Yeah, Emmett does that whole speech with creepy accuracy.

We also tend to look at each other randomly and say things like:

"Make an assessment."

The Mighty Boosh documentary in the box set is pretty fun. Especially where various famous fans talk about watching it with their kids.

Billy Bragg was saying that he was getting on his son's case about something, and his son (referring back to the Arctic episode with the Polar Bear) just looked soulfully into his eyes and said, "Hold me."

Another parent noted that when he was chastising his son, his son responded by turning his back on him, like Nabu. He did the little banjo riff too.

Mr. Susan's "Ooh, it's cold" tends to pop up in my head a lot.

I SO want to do the Nabu spin on someone, but nobody in my real life would get it!

The "Nabulio, why did you have to go?" number from the live show may be my favorite of all the songs, closely followed by Bouncy Castle and Soup. Oh, and the "I like to boogie" song from Vince's blood stream.

Heh. I'm imagining the brains of non-Boosh fans reading that paragraph and squinting.

The "Nabulio, why did you have to go?" number from the live show may be my favorite of all the songs, closely followed by Bouncy Castle and Soup. Oh, and the "I like to boogie" song from Vince's blood stream.

What?! "Ape of Death"! #1

Also, Vince's punk phase turned out the scatological masterpiece that concludes with "Irony completed."

I have tried to watch The Boosh and just not gotten into it, but I know enough to be able to appreciate the fans' squees. It's like, I know I don't like shrimp but I think it's fun when other people at dinner order shrimp cocktail.

There are certainly parts of it that I don't like...frankly, the Crack Fox leaves me cold. But, I love Noel and Julian so much...and appreciate that they get to be so craxy and still succeed...so I lalala past the bits that don't hit for me.

"Charlie come, a Charlie come, he's bubblegum..."

But, I love Noel and Julian so much...and appreciate that they get to be so craxy and still succeed...so I lalala past the bits that don't hit for me.

I agree with this assessment.

Happy Birthday, Laga!

I've been thinking about it, and I have to say the idea of an interview coach is a very good one. I mean, I thought I was being friendly and outgoing, you know? And for me, it was. But I failed to project. I learned to put down my pen, take my hands all the way off the keyboard, not just hover in place waiting for the interruption to finish blahblahblah and let me get on with work. I learned to swivel my chair and focus totally on the speaker, smile till I felt like a kabuki mask. I practiced in the mirror, smiling so that the outside ends of my eyebrows came down a bit, my eye corners crinkled--evidently those are "tells" of a "real smile", and you can teach them to your facial muscles.

The problem seemed to be that while I was perfectly approachable and friendly and chatty on the inside, on the outside I was perceived like Agent Cho. So although it felt extremely fake, I called on my acting background, gritted my teeth, and performed. Yes, it cut my job efficiency, by a significant amount. But the people I worked for and with felt a lot more comfortable around me, and my performance evals actually improved. It was frustrating for me, because I could accomplish more if I was allowed to focus on task. But apparently when I did that I made everyone else uncomfortable.

Wow, that is fascinating, Beverly. I really appreciate you sharing in such detail. I'm rethinking how I comport myself in an office environment. Maybe there is more to work than productivity.