Most weekends pass by in a crazy two days of cleaning and laundry and food shopping and doing all those things that I never seem to have time to do during the week. But once in a while a weekend throws itself up that allows me to get all the cleaning, laundry and food shopping […]
Filed under: indiana, popculture, englishness, famille et amis on December 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve lots to comment on the final Grand Prix of the season, (it’s just started and although I’m not watching it, I am listening as I manically clean the house due us being gone all day yesterday). So, until I have time enough to comment fully on the finale of what has been a fascinating […]
Filed under: popculture, media on October 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have a secret affliction. I adore country music. I’m very selective in my choices but I do have a serious weakness for a guy with a six-pack , a pair of blue jeans and a cowboy hat, especially one who sings with a sexy Southern drawl.
My current country music crush is Brad Paisley. Mainly […]
Filed under: popculture on August 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
Bob and I are up in Madison, WI for a three day conference on Distance Education and Technology. We drove up yesterday and went through all the registration frou-frou in the afternoon before deciding that our evening was going to be best spent ensconced in a most quaint cinema watching the third installment of Jason […]
Filed under: popculture, tech on August 8th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Me: “Ooo, it’s Doctor Who tomorrow night. Looks like a good one. The Daleks are back.”
K: “I thought he killed them off in the last season.”
Me: “Obviously not. Wouldn’t like to meet them on a dark night. The Doctor on the other hand…”
K: (ignoring my suggestive noises about the Doctor). I think people have the […]
Filed under: popculture, media on July 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
In the car after picking Jay up from school today…
“Mummy, can we listen to ‘Stacy’s Mom Has Got It Going On‘ on your iPod?”
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on July 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
Is there any wonder that I have such a warped perception of reality when I grew up with these tv shows? Were all the BBC childrens’ programme creators on acid? It must have been put in the coffee during writing sessions.
Magic Roundabout
Button Moon
Mr.Benn
Bagpuss
Thunderbirds
Clangers
Wombles
Fingermouse (Fingerbobs)
Most of these shows were actually created in the […]
Filed under: popculture on July 18th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I want one…
The new Fiat Cinquecento (500)
Filed under: popculture on July 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
I lose myself in the drive from dropping Jay off at school to my work. Every weekday morning I whizz down Bass road, windows open to catch the wind in my hair, aching for just a drop of salt-sea breeze that never comes, watching the mid-west corn fields and the west, with all its adventuring, […]
Filed under: indiana, popculture, living the dream on July 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
Oh my God! Someone please detach my fingers from the keyboard and delete Facebook. Who the f*%# thought it was a good idea to create that kind of social networking timewaster? I am getting NOTHING done. I’m supposed to be stripping the remains of paint from an oak window frame and instead I am […]
Filed under: popculture, tech on July 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
We recently put up a big, flat screen tv in our UTS (University Technology Services) area and now have CNN news distracting us all day. For the most part I’m able to ignore it but every now and then something comes on that has me rushing to my office doorway to watch whatever national crisis […]
Filed under: popculture, media on July 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago my grandmother sent Jay some DVDs of Shaun the Sheep. We don’t get it here and Grummns had thought that Jay would enjoy it. Check out his reaction for yourself.
My grandmother also said the theme song was addictive - Jay had it down after watching two episodes!
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on June 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Malthazar (voiced by David Bowie in the US version), Arthur and the Invisibles.
Friday night is movie night at our house. I make pizza (Genoa salami and portabello mushrooms, goats cheese and smoked salmon - scrummy), Keith makes proper popcorn (we don’t have a microwave so no carcinogenic butter here) and Jay gets to stay up […]
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on June 4th, 2007 | No Comments »
Crap, I’m totally addicted to Facebook. It’s worse than being at school as far as the whole popularity/coolness factor goes. For someone who will never go to a high school reunion, hates the whole cheerleading, popularity contest drama that goes on at schools, I am completely and utterly sucked in to cyber social networking. Damn […]
Filed under: popculture, tech on May 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Jay’s current obsession is the Scooby Doo movies. For the last six nights we have watched one of either the first or second Scooby Doo films and while I have little objection to watching Freddie Prinze Jr parading around in 70s polyester garb and with a very fetching ascot; (the scene where he fights the […]
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on May 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I have a huge crush on Ben Browder, aka Colonel Mitchell from Stargate SG-1. Actually let’s make that plural crushes because I happen to think that Dr. Daniel Jackson is one hot archaelogist and Teal’c sure can demolish an alien with that wickedly impressive upper body. But this entry is about Colonel Mitchell…the man […]
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on May 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
Dude, it’s a Golf on steroids…
VW Tiguan Concept Car LAAutoShow
Filed under: popculture, media on May 8th, 2007 | No Comments »
Pixar has totally put their brain jelly-making tools into the minds of all little boys with the movie Cars. I went out with Jim and Carmen last night and they have a two year old, (he is a little Cherub complete with blond curly hair and chubby arms and legs). Apparently, like Jay, he has also been […]
Filed under: popculture, travel, Washington DC on May 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
I picked up April’s edition of F1 magazine, (B & N seem to be notoriously bad at getting the publication anywhere near it’s intended release date and I am routinely a month behind, reading previews and strategery for races that I watched two weeks ago). As always there was the usual car dissection articles on […]
Filed under: Formula 1, popculture, famille et amis on April 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been utterly absorbed and hugely enjoying FX’s new Monday night show The Riches, (kindly televised by FX at 10:00 pm so I can tutor at Literacy Alliance and still come home and watch Digging for the Truth and The Riches,) starring Eddie Izzard. As I’ve mentioned before, I have long been a fan of Eddie Izzard […]
Filed under: popculture on April 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
Both Keith and I had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new FX production of The Riches, starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver and I’m really pleased to say that we weren’t disappointed. While the show wasn’t as I expected from the many months of trailers, it surpassed my anticipation. It’s a bit darker […]
Filed under: indiana, popculture on March 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
I love this video. Even if you don’t understand French I think it’s fairly self-explanatory and I have no doubt it’ll make every woman who has a love affair with chocolate smile! Enjoy with scrumptious pleasure…
Filed under: popculture on March 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
I didn’t watch the Oscars (bathroom tiling and Battlestar Overactica took preference) but have spent a good amount of time trawling the web today looking at the fashions and the highlights and was a bit distressed to see that I missed two of my most favourite comedic actors (Will Ferrell and Jack Black) doing a […]
Filed under: popculture on February 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
From left to right - Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), Taylor Townsend (Autumn Reeser), Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher), Summer Roberts (Rachel Bilson), Seth Cohen (Adam Brody). Front - Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan)
I am utterly bereft - the last ever episode of The OC played last night and now I can no longer spend my Thurday evenings […]
Filed under: popculture on February 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
Ὦ ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
Even better than watching Josh Bernstein explaining the finer points of ancient Greek weaponery and flexing his muscles when showing that with a little coordination shooting an arrow off the back of a moving chariot is really quite simple, is watching 300 Spartans stipped to their […]
Filed under: popculture, literature on February 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
Do workplaces like the Office really exist? I love Steve Carell but really the show makes me wince. I guess that’s the idea. Pam’s brilliant. So dead-pan. Who’d have thought that Ryan’s dad and Julie Nichols-Cooper would have ended up an item? And for that matter who’d have thought Ryan Atwood and Taylor Townsend would […]
Filed under: popculture on February 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
The new season of the History Channel’s Digging for the Truth starts tonight, with the ever so scrummy BOSS President and CEO, Josh Bernstein. It’s like sheer heaven - a delicious chap and archaeology…what more could a Classics enthusiast wish for? Tonight’s episode is a two-hour special on Atlantis. And while he may not always […]
Filed under: popculture on January 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
Recently watched Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, the hilarious Adam Mckay movie starring Will Ferrell, that came out in the cinema in August of this year. It was one of Keith’s Christmas presents and for this I am extremely grateful. The film is a total riot. Of course it helps that I border […]
Filed under: popculture on December 29th, 2006 | No Comments »
Friday afternoons *sigh*.
Having one of those “hmmn-I-should-have-been-a-foreign-diplomat-and-travelled-the-world-or-gone-into-management-for-an-Italian-menswear-company-and-spent-my-days-ball-breaking” moments. The kind that I often have when I feel suffocated by living in a small town and realising that very few of my brains and skills are being utilised and that I am in severe danger of losing any ability I once had at being able […]
Filed under: self-pity, popculture on October 13th, 2006 | No Comments »
So apparently I should have eaten a lot more spinach during my trip to England as there is currently a stop on the sale of all spinach here in the US due to an E. coli break-out that caused the death of one person and resulted in a rather large number of people ending up […]
Filed under: indiana, Formula 1, popculture, famille et amis on October 7th, 2006 | No Comments »
Jay’s Top Ten songs, well, twelve really, based on dancing and air drumming response. Heavily influenced as you can see by what gets played in mummy’s car on the way to school/work. Anything by Def Lepard is enjoyed due to the huge potential for air drumming and air guitar. The new John Meyer song and […]
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on July 19th, 2006 | No Comments »
Ice-cream Zoolander - because I’m really, really, ridiculously good-looking…
Filed under: popculture, famille et amis on July 19th, 2006 | No Comments »
So, I have almost converted Jay from his love of Nascar to Formula 1. Apparently it takes more than actually going to see Formula 1 cars and Michael Schumacher in person for a two year old to be convinced. I am under the impression however that his Nascar obsession is due partly to a little […]
Filed under: Formula 1, popculture, famille et amis on July 14th, 2006 | No Comments »
It seems that I have lapsed already and my well-meant intention of updating my blog dutifully every week has failed miserably! Still perhaps every two weeks will be more doable…
These last couple of weeks I have been particularly sociable, something that is most unusual in this mid-western life I am living. I even managed to […]
Filed under: indiana, popculture, famille et amis on January 21st, 2006 | No Comments »
Happy New Year! Didn’t quite get around to doing the 2006 well wishing on New Year’s day or the day after for that matter, so now on January 3rd I’m wishing you all a fantastic, prosperous and truly happy 2006.
So I was listening to my iPod, (hooked up via my iPod Griffin - […]
Filed under: popculture, literature, famille et amis on January 3rd, 2006 | No Comments »
