I just finished the Uglies trilogy. (Yeah, it’s that young adult series. Seriously, you want to fight about it?) Pretty smart trilogy. I’m sad it’s over, and sort of sad about the ending, although there was no other way for it to end. That happens a lot, I guess. The series takes place in aContinue reading “Ugly, Pretty and Special”
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Not guilty
I enjoy the “new music mix” on the new, ridiculously named Crave 95 radio station. But I object to the automated DJ introducing songs by calling them guilty pleasures. “Dirrty” is a guilty pleasure. So is anything by Britney Spears. Animotion’s “Obsession” is not. (It’s an 80’s classic.) Neither is Lenny Kravitz’ “American Woman.” WhatContinue reading “Not guilty”
R.I.P. Z.
What the hell? One of my two favorite Canadian radio stations has changed formats. Sort of. It has a new name and the on-air staff have disappeared. Apparently they’re taking a few weeks to introduce their “music mix,” which, honestly, isn’t so different from the old music mix. And I guess the new staff willContinue reading “R.I.P. Z.”
I love this song as much as I love you
So it’s no secret that I love my dog. The other day, I decided to look into this Molly Shannon movie, Year of the Dog, and wound up on the quite wonderful website which plays a quite wonderful Cat Stevens song. All (s)he asks from me is the food to give him (her) strengthAll (s)heContinue reading “I love this song as much as I love you”
My footprint
It feels good to look at these suggestions for reducing my carbon footprint, and say that I’m already doing some of them. In fact, I just planted a tree last weekend (after getting it free at an Earth Day event). And I just learned that I shouldn’t leave my cell phone charger plugged in allContinue reading “My footprint”
Dilemma
Should I netflix “Prince of Tides” and risk ruining the experience I had with the book? I didn’t get as emotionally wrapped-up as I do with John Irving’s or Wally Lamb’s books, but it is a powerful story, beautifully written. Please excuse me while I look up some of the words that were pre-underlined inContinue reading “Dilemma”
World Trade Center: The Movie
Oliver Stone directed this movie? How can that possibly be? It was so clunkily directed. And those flashbacks? Laaa-aame. With respect to the real-life people whose story it is, I found myself wondering why, of all the people who survived or were killed, I was supposed to become emotionally involved with these ones. Then IContinue reading “World Trade Center: The Movie”
And rain will make the flowers grow
Spectacular. We’re looking at another stormy weekend. I do have to get outside at one point, though, to plant the shrubs I found it necessary to mail-order from Ohio. My compulsive online shopping is a story for another time. Rob likes to fall asleep listening to audio books. Which, of course, means he rarely isContinue reading “And rain will make the flowers grow”
Excitingly photographed
The marketers for “Children of Men” were touting “The most excitingly photographed movie of the year” in its ads, which I found intriguing, because you don’t hear that a lot, so I thought the cinematography must really be something. I kept hearing “The most excitingly photographed movie of the year” in my head as weContinue reading “Excitingly photographed”
Home entertainment
Yeah, we’ve rented some movies lately. We had to turn off “Lady in the Water” after 40 minutes because it was so stupid. We really enjoyed “Talladega Nights,” which is high praise, considering there isn’t a lot that’s more entertaining than watching Isis run around with a ball in her mouth, chasing another ball. She’llContinue reading “Home entertainment”
Kari Neumeyer 