Monthly Archives: May 2013

Happy Monday!

A clip containing an interview with Simon Helberg doing Nicolas Cage, Stephen Baldwin and Ben Stiller impersonations can be found in the “What Amazing Looks & Sounds Like” section. Fortunately, for everyone who hasn’t seen it, as well as those who have, the writers of “The Big Bang Theory” made the executive decision for Simon Helberg/Howard Wolowitz to inject his voice-altering talents into the latest episode.

To set the scene: They’re playing Dungeons and Dragons, there’s mysticism, Nicolas Cage and a special appearance from a guy who is famous for having a scar on his face…

http://youtu.be/bQtktQPn3LM

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today, May 10th (I repeat with a definitive and cheerful timber, May 10th), is my Mother’s birthday!

She is very special to me and has been there for me throughout my life. I love you Mom!

And to show her just how much I care about her, I am going to proceed to a performer making his improbable debut on “Jimmy’s Daily Planet.”

Just for you Mom.

Without further adieu, I give you the man who likes to sing, dance, make the girls faint, and, above all, “write the songs.”

Happy Birthday Mom!

http://youtu.be/C-W4imUe-GI

http://youtu.be/1BRVhIS1BlI

Adults Say the Darndest Things

Leaving a coherent voicemail can be difficult. It’s an art. Quite frankly, it’s not as simple as it seems and can be particularly terrifying as it is, in one sense, a type of public speaking straight from the nerve-racking classrooms of high school. In most situations, a name, quick reason for calling and a call back number is all that is required. That’s it. Ten seconds or less is all that’s needed. And yet, there is a kind of paranoid fear of any type of awkward silence on the part of the caller. The open ended nature of a voicemail creates the need to constantly be talking, as if a succinct message would be disastrous.

This awkward form of communication affects me constantly. Back during my freshman year in college, I left a voicemail for one of my new fraternity brothers. Skip forward to our Formal later that Spring and the Taylor Awards, meant to be humorous, were being handed to a select few brothers. Turns out the brother I called was the same as for whom the awards were named. At one point, I heard, “And the Award for Most Polite Voicemail Leaver” (or something like that) goes to…Jimmy Ohio!”

He explained how, surely because I was from Ohio, I left the most polite and formal voicemail he’d ever heard. It included my name, please and thank you’s, possibly even an over-explanation of who I was…

And once the rambling starts, it’s like a heavy cheese wheel rolling down a steep European countryside hill. Once it gets going at autobahn speeds, it’s impossible to stop.

We’ve all been here in some way!

http://youtu.be/wdSo1YQoFLQ

and then there’s the conversation after the voicemail…

http://youtu.be/a3gHpHVYVio

The Century Mark!

This is my 100th written blog post!

To think, “The Value of the Dollar is Rising in the American Restaurant”   was my first post back on July 13, 2012. Where has the time gone…

It all started with attending a WordPress Camp last July at the beautiful student union at The Ohio State University. My Mom saw a tiny blurb in the bottom right hand corner of the Columbus Dispatch in its Friday edition. A validated parking pass and $40 later, the rest is history. Throughout that Saturday, I learned from the ground up about this blogging phenomenon called WordPress. I spoke with a lot of fascinating people who were fully immersed in this culture of building, maintaining and posting to user-created websites.

This has been a tremendous outlet for me to write, post and share on a daily basis on a myriad of topics. This includes food, travel, sports, technology, movies and music, to only name a few. There have even been poems (This Poem Will Be Legen-wait for it… & We’re a Little Bit Normal…& A Lot Griswold). In the section, “What Amazing Looks & Sounds Like,” I’ve put together a collection of sights and sounds that are, well, amazing!

Throughout “Jimmy’s Daily Planet,” you’ll find engaging multimedia, like pictures, music and videos, which makes the entries multidimensional and perfect for the modern reader and curious purveyor of information.

I’ve been thinking of how to properly celebrate my 100th written blog post. For a while, I wasn’t sure. This confusion ended immediately once I re-read three familiar words.

Of course!

This scene was my first realization when I was young for wanting to become a journalist, which is what I graduated from college as. What’s next? I’m going to work hard to continue to write well-written, researched, relevant and original articles with creative and fresh twists each day in the hopes of formally meeting my own Mr. White and Lois Lane.

Does that mean I also have to be Superman? If that’s the case, I suppose I could probably deal with those responsibilities in between deadlines…