pakurar dot com » random http://pakurar.com eric pakurar on the internets Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:51:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en the war of northern aggression http://pakurar.com/2007/12/28/the-war-of-northern-aggression/ http://pakurar.com/2007/12/28/the-war-of-northern-aggression/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:45:18 +0000 pak http://pakurar.com/archive/2007/12/28/the-war-of-northern-aggression/ I swear, it didn’t even occur to me that there were monuments to people who fought on the side of the Union in the Civil War until I moved up north of the Mason-Dixon. But then Grand Army Plaza was only a few blocks away when I first moved to the city, and now there is this monument — the Soldiers and Sailors — right in the neighborhood.

]]> http://pakurar.com/2007/12/28/the-war-of-northern-aggression/feed/ embarrassment du jour http://pakurar.com/2007/08/18/embarrassment-du-jour/ http://pakurar.com/2007/08/18/embarrassment-du-jour/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:41:05 +0000 pak http://pakurar.com/2007/08/18/embarrassment-du-jour/ My celebrity look-alike has been hard to pin down over the years. Sometimes I’ve heard Charlie Sheen, other times French Stewart (a.k.a. “that squinty guy from Third Rock From the Sun”). My wife occasionally says Scott Baio. Oh, or one of Rachel’s boyfriends, Tag, on Friends. None are terribly flattering, but at the end of the day they’re all relatively innocuous.

Then we have a baby and everything changes. We’ve started listening to The Wiggles a lot with Lucy… and now my official celebrity look-alike is Greg Page, better known as the Yellow Wiggle. When Claire mentioned it to the nanny the other day, the nanny was like, “Oh sure. Of course.” Like it was obvious to anyone who looked. Have a look:

He’s an okay-looking guy, I guess, and remarkably successful. But he has taken a lot of flack for his line of work — namely, working up a genuine sweat from running around a stage singing silly (and too often, really catchy) songs for kids. So I guess you have to respect that. But still. Now he’s retired from the group because of health concerns. Maybe I can find a new celebrity look-alike? Please?

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Dolly Parton
Mr Belvedere
Sam Sneed
Condoleeza Rice
Teddy Roosevelt (x3)
Medgar Evers
Dylan McKay
Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka
Paganini
Pinochet
Mrs Piggle-Wiggle
de la Vega
George Clinton
Lassie
Amerigo Vespucci
Lewis Carroll
Nicholas Sarkozy

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