The other night Charlie and I were watching Design Star on the HGTV. Which we normally view between The Ultimate Fighter and What Not to Wear. Except during football season. (Our viewing choices, they are schizophrenic.) At the end of this episode of Design Star, the network aired a commercial for a new show. At [...]

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Yes, another video post. Please forgive me, but it WAS Super Bowl Sunday. One of my favorite commercials came early in the game: Who knew Abe Vigoda was still alive? (According to SOME on the Twitter, he made a second appearance during the halftime show. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t him. I think he [...]

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Today’s post is in honor of Beck, who’s STILL writing horror stories based on children’s books/shows. For those who don’t have kids the right age to know the show Caillou (KI-YOO) is, here’s a little taste of the horror : Did you watch? HE’S a kid you’d want yours emulating, right? Well, my son LOVED [...]

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Howdy from the hometown of Brad Pitt! (No, I haven’t seen him yet. I promise to keep you posted on that.) After 12 hours on the road yesterday, a pretty good night’s sleep in our hotel room, and a day spent with cousins and Auntie and Grandma, we are BEAT. A couple hours in a [...]

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What? Don’t get the obscure “3-2-1 Penguins!” reference? Listen, it’s Spring Break here. Between the feeding and the cleaning and the fighting and the entertaining and the furniture scaling, I’ve had virtually no time to even look at the computer. Then today (Tuesday) all my colleagues at Fellowship of the Traveling Smarty Pants decided that [...]

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Today’s post started out as an American Idol recap, since I’ve never done one before and it sounded fun. (And because, gee, NOBODY else is posting about Idol online…) So I started writing my observations about the performers last night in the order in which they sang. Matt: Swoon-worthy singing. Paul: Great performance. Wife who [...]

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