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I discovered engrish.com a few years ago and every once in awhile when I can’t find anything interesting online, I’ll check out engrish.com to see what new stuff they have. What you can find on the website are errors in English in advertising and product designs.

On their recent discoveries is a sign that says “Soul Out” instead of “Sold Out”, a store called Starbutts and a DVD cover for Lion King 3 with a spelling error on it (come on, you can figure it out).

Check it out if you’re bored, or if you’re not bored and just need a good laugh.

Who is Sidney Sheldon? He is a best-selling author, did Broadway theater, movies and TV. I have actually never read any of his books, but when Henry and I were talking about it, we thought he was the author who wrote the kids books in black and white. When we read the actually article, we figured out we were thinking about a different guy. I’m not sure why we both thought it was Sidney Sheldon. But I am sorry to hear that he passed away and maybe I’ll pick up one of his books.

Anyway, I did a search through Amazon and it was hard trying to find out the author that we were thinking about. I did searches for books that had “Sidney”, “Sydney” and “Sheldon”. No luck. I tried searching for “black and white”, no luck either. Then I tried to remember some of the titles and finally remembered that one of them had the word “attic”, finally Amazon returned some results that looked familiar. I was thinking about Light in the Attic and the author is Shel Silverstein.

I decided to look Shel Silverstein up in Wikipedia and discovered he has passed away too, in 1999. And it’s kind of sad, Light in the Attic was dedicated to his daughter Shoshanna, who had passed away at the age of 11. And his wife, the mother of Shoshanna, actually died almost exactly five years after having Shoshanna.

Ok, enough of the sadness, if you want more information on Shel Silverstein’s books, you can go to his website at ShelSilverstein.com.

I would love to visit Stonehenge one day. I would love to discover the secrets of what it is about. It just all seems fascinating to me, and probably makes me a bigger nerd than I already am. Anyway, CNN is reporting that a small village was found about two miles from Stonehenge. The houses in the village may have been for the builders of Stonehenge. It also sounds pretty exciting, I wish I was out there excavating around Stonehenge instead of dealing with ad operations. Maybe some day, after I’ve hit the lotto and can really do whatever I want to do. But for now, I gotta keep my day job.

When Henry and I moved to the city, we decided to save some money and only get basic cable, we’ve been living with it since August. But now we’re at the point where it seems we’re always watching Scrubs, because although we only have basic cable, we still had DVR. We really wonder what our neighbors think. So I finally called up Time Warner yesterday and signed up for DTValue. Now we have all these channels and you know what? We’re still watching Scrubs and Food Network. It doesn’t help that Scrubs not only repeats on Fox, but also repeats on Comedy Central, so we’re picking up all those re-runs on the DVR, and we usually watch them again and again. Occasionally we’ll find an episode we haven’t seen, but it’s at that point now where we see the first couple minutes and know what the whole episode is about and can start finishing people’s sentences.

I guess we’ll slowly branch back out to other channels again, but for now, I’m just so happy to have the Guide and Info buttons on my remote working again. The little things make me happy. =)

Kodama Sushi (301 W 45th St) is right up our street. We go there when we want sushi but feel too lazy to walk far for it. They probably deliver to us, but we haven’t been that lazy yet. We’ve been there quite a few times and have tried to introduce it to other people. The service is good, usually they’ll ask us if we’re trying to catch a show, hasn’t happened yet, but it’s nice that they check. And we’re pretty sure that Kodama is run by Japanese people. We’ve tried a few of the appetizers and have never been disappointed, but we’ve also never been knocked off our feet before.

We’ve tried most of their special rolls too. The Mets and Yankees rolls you can pass on, unless you really like eel that much. The Kodama roll is good, but it usually takes me three bites to finish it. I’ve got Henry hooked on the sweet potato tempura roll, even though he doesn’t like sweet potatoes. We haven’t really tried any of the cooked entrees, but the raw fish is always fresh and delicious. Give it a try if you’re in the neighborhood, then stop by Kyotofu for some dessert.