Key West man wins conch shell blowing title

Do the Conch Shell Dance at your next party!

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

Just what it says. Visit the Selleck Waterfall Sandwich website for more, including animated sandwiches and a random high-speed car. Be sure you scroll down far enough to hear the theme song…and be warned, it will stick in your head.

(Thanks to Nick for the submission!)

BIRD film

If you’ve spent more than five minutes with me, you know I love birds. Like crazy-bird-lady-love birds. Dozens of feeders and birdhouses, can identify all 60 species I’ve seen on our land, and know many of them by their calls. THAT kind of bird love. So here’s a look at some really beautiful birds (OK, some of them just beautiful to me, probably), courtesy of photographer/director Andrew Zuckerman. Cool music, too.

BIRD film from Andrew Zuckerman Studio on Vimeo.

(Thanks to Nick for the submission!)

Balloon bass and box jam

You can make music out of anything.  Seriously.  Anything.

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Alicia Keys & Stephen Colbert

This totally improved my day, probably because it includes so many things that I love:  New York City (where we lived and worked for years, where we still work from time to time, and where we’ll always have great friends), finding a peaceful home outside the City that still lets us “hit it” from time to time, Alicia Keys, Stephen Colbert, great music…and the element of surprise. Be sure the watch the whole thing.  Enjoy!

(Thanks to Chrissy for the submission!)

Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka

(Thanks to Jack for the submission!)

Synchronized dancing robots

Nothing like light-up dancing robots to get you in the holiday spirit–and they even make a Christmas tree…kinda. Watch for the little guy that falls over halfway through. Part of the choreography, or too much robot eggnog?

(Thanks to Steve for the submission!)

Roller babies

There’ve been a whole lotta babies in our circle of friends and family lately.  Lovely little boys and girls, this one’s for you (featuring one of my favorite songs EVER):

Bacon is good for me

I’m not ashamed to admit that I love pig.  My favorite is pulled pork barbecue with hot vinegar sauce, of course, but I also love BACON!

I’m also not ashamed to admit that I’m not a big fan of the reality shows where they paint Southerners as a bunch of lazy, mean, junk-food eatin’,  bacon-lovin’…wait a minute, forget that last part.  However, I might make an exception for the kid in “Wife Swap,” the reality show in which two families (one a Southern junk-food-eatin’ family, the other a family of health food nuts) swap wives. The video of the kid (“King Curtis”) freaking out when the new wife throws out his Cheez Whiz has been an Internet sensation.  And sensations, of course, inevitably result in mash-ups and remixes.

So without further ado–and definitely without condoning badly-behaving children– “Bacon Is Good For Me:  The Remix”.  (DISCLAIMER:  Variety is the spice of the Day Improver, and no attempt is made to decide for you what would improve your day.  Judging from the submissions we regularly get, people like all sorts of things.  I’m just sayin’…sorry for this one, vegetarian friends…you may want to send yourself out of the room. )

(Thanks to Joel for the original submission!)

50 Nifty United States

The “Special Skills” section is probably the most controversial and oft-padded section of an actor’s resume. Besides the usual dialects, ability to drive manual transmission, and sports proficiency, you may see less common skills like nose flute, dead-on with a slingshot, or “aura: caliente” (true stories all…I’ve seen ‘em).

Among the special skills listed on my own actor resume are Fix Running Toilets; Morse Code; and Can Sing All 50 States in Alphabetical Order.  The fixing running toilets thing actually got me a job once at an Off-Off-Broadway theatre in New York City (they had a running toilet that needed fixing…which I did).  The Morse Code thing got me a role on “Matlock” after the director, Leo Penn, challenged me on it in the audition  (Mr. Penn, besides being Sean Penn’s father, was retired military; I was at one time the youngest ham radio operator in the country, and Morse Code is something I can’t forget no matter how hard I try).

Knowing how to sing all 50 states in alphabetical order, on the other hand, has never once gotten me a job.  It has, however, led to free drinks and on-set hijinx, which is good enough for me.  How did I learn it?  Elementary school glee club, of course.

Here’s the song — now you can know it, too! (NOTE:  audio starts about 10 seconds in…and please forgive their spelling of Oregon)

(Thanks to Sita for the submission…we ROCKED it in glee club!)