My friend’s mother sent me this clip from the Ellen Show. I never pay any attention to these kinds of forwards and actually came very close to deleting her email without even opening it up. But something made me look… and man was it worth it. The things people will spend money on. Truly hilarious.
Asparagus is arguably the best thing about spring. Its peak season only lasts from April to July, so I try to make the most of it.
At the market, choose asparagus stems that are not too thick, and whose flowered tips are tightly closed. When you get your asparagus home, store it in the back of your fridge, away from the light (bright light kills the folate). [Read more →]
Is it me, or is everyone on Dancing With the Stars getting more and more orange? Chuck Wicks, the country singer guy, is starting to look like an Oompa Loompa. For real. I couldn’t even look at him when the judges were reviewing his relatively mediocre performance last night. [Read more →]
If you’re tired of the current glut of wimpy, sparkly-shiny vampires, this book is the perfect antidote. Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan have given us vampires that are brutal, disgusting, ravenous monsters — and they are out to take over Manhattan. [Read more →]
Friday Night Lights has been renewed! Two more 13-episode runs for now, to be aired through the 2010-2011 season. And it will, once again, be aired on DirecTV before reaching NBC, something they did this year in order to help finance the whole thing. Fine by me! Anything to avoid another excruciating cancellation for a show completely undeserving…. Amen.
“Any life is made up of a single moment,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.” I came upon this the other day, and it has stayed with me ever since, as much in my heart as on my mind, stirring up my memory and exciting my imagination. [Read more →]
I began playing World of Warcraft (WoW) again recently. It’s my second time around. I played during my carefree college days, averaging 5 hours a day, which would have disrupted my social life except all my friends played too. [Read more →]
Last Week’s Roundup
Samantha Who? (Thursday, ABC, 8:30PM) – Hooray! Sam and friends were back last week. You nearly always get a laugh (or many) from this comedy about Sam (Christina Applegate) who has amnesia and uses it to change her ways, as she learns she wasn’t such a nice girl in her previous life. [Read more →]
TIPs are inflation-protected securities provided to you by the American government although rumor has it you can purchase them in France, England, Canada, or even in variety packs. [Read more →]
From time to time I will write about the short novel or novella. Over the last 100 years, American authors have written some of the finest novellas in any language. For authors like William Styron and Carson McCullers, their novellas, The Long March and The Ballad of the Sad Café respectively, are the best things they wrote. [Read more →]
