corrections

• I was probably thinking about Mary Shelly's stepsister Claire, who was perhaps Lord Byron's mistress at the time, although I don't think she wrote a scary story that summer.
• Also, Frankenstein itself took almost a year to complete - until the next Spring.
• Related to the above, I've been unable to find reference to them being 'stoned out of their minds on laudanum' that Summer.
• Eva Marie Saint starred in North By Northwest, not Suspicion. (Is that the one I said?)
• Unforgiven was `92; Silence was `91. This is the opposite of what I said. (Also, I was never going to remember The English Patient.)

corrections

• The Jersey Junkyard guy did puke in front of me, as evidenced by my camera, but I somehow didn't see it. Perhaps I was expecting more audio?
• There is no sign for I-495 East on US-29 approaching MD-193. A sign says "193 East & West Next Right". The sign that says "495 U Turn" is on 193, but, again, there is no such sign on 29 itself.
• The Postal Service is composed of members of Death Cab for Cutie, Dntel and Rilo Kelly, but not Clinic.

corrections

• In the United States, the suicide rate is about four and a half times the homicide rate, not 'about ten times', according to information I found from NationMaster and the census.
• For most forms of Herbal Ecstasy, the key ingredient is ephedrine, not caffeine.
• I'm still unsure why caffeine causes stomach aches.
• You do not pass by Salisbury on the way to Lewes. It is likely I was thinking of Denton. Denton's population, at less than 3,000, is a little bit more than a tenth of Salisbury's.

corrections

• Darius the Great was Emperor of Persia from 521 to 485 BC, which is pretty long after 'Something like 2000 or 1000 BC', which is what I remember saying.
• While O's pitcher Bruce Chen is ethnicly Chinese (his parents were Mainlanders), he was born and raised in Panama.
• Russian male life expectancy has already dropped below 60.

corrections

• TIGER data is provided not by the USGS, but by the Geography Division of the Census Bureau.
• A martini is gin with a splash of vermouth.
• Alcohol freezes well below -40 F, actually about -173.

People I get or used to get confused (feel free to suggest more)

• Anita Baker and Josephine Baker
• Rex Reed and Ralph Reed
• Neil Diamond, Neil Simon and Paul Simon
• Mary Queen of Scots and Mary Tudor
• Anna Paquin, Natalie Portman and Julia Stiles
• Julia Stiles and Claire Danes
• Ted Demme and Tony Scott
• William Wyler and Billy Wilder
• Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo and Rufus Sewell
• Warwick Davis and Kenny Baker
• Chloë Sevigny and Scarlett Johansson
• Dave Eggers and David Sedaris
• Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware
• T.E. and D.H. Lawrence
• Luis Bunuel and Bernardo Bertolucci
• Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano
• Boy George and George Michael
• John Hughes, John Landis and Harold Ramis
• Aesthetics and Ascetics
• Madame Butterfly and M. Butterfly
• Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Todd Field and Todd Haynes

words I don't know what mean

Or, more specificially, I think they mean something else.

• praetorian
• tyro
• idyllic

Lunch Corrections

• Well, I obviously confused/conflated Anita Baker and Josephine Baker.
• Then, I somehow called 'Covenant Marriages' 'Contract Marriages'...
• ... while introducing the dubious concept of the 'Starter Marriage', something based on a bad statistical analysis with no real basis that I could find, at least not from an unbiased party. However, introducing it did derail the conversation, so my heart was in the right place.

corrections

• According to the imdb's trivia page, it is a common misconception, one which I held, that Happy Days is based on American Graffiti. Happy Days is really a full version of a Love American Style sketch from before American Grafiti's release.
• Saipan is an island in the Marianas. Japan controlled it during World War II, but only from 1914 until the United States invaded. Before that, it was controlled by a series of European occupiers, who wiped out the native population.
• While the Magna Carta did establish limits on the regent's power, and specifically states that legal judgetment or law breaking is required for punishment or imprisonment, there is no specific reference to Habeas Corpus, with the term first appearing in use 90 years later.
• Paper Moon was released in 1973; Tatum O'Neal was born in 1963. That is pretty different from what I said (1970/1978, I think).
• The hottest outdoor ambient temperature was recorded not at Death Valley, but in Al'Aziziyah, Libya, at 58.0 C (136.4 F).
• The Charge of the Light Brigade was during the Crimean War, not the Franco-Prussian War.
• Crimson and Clover is sung by Tommy James & the Shondells. I was never going to guess that; if anything, it makes me want to find some of their stuff. When asked who sang it, I said 'Some supergroup, I think, you know, like Fleetwood Mac, but not them', not a category in which I would place the Shondells.

Words I Don't Know How To Spell

• separate
• embarrassing
• impossible
• vicious
• paraphernalia
• weird
• cinnamon
• whether
• questionnaire
• liaison
• labeled