When ITV gets here, I guarantee you people will not be watching that much traditional TV – why would you when you could search Bidu Beat – the new English language blog out of China’s huge search engine and reading things like the top ten most used words on China’s internet. Just envious-jealous-hateful is itself a word worth adding to your lexicon, if you already haven’t. But the prize pick here is gellivable – loosely…
I spent a good hour today speaking to an long-time source of mine who told me that last year – in 2010 – he and his wife bought nothing. Absolutely nothing. And it was liberating – he said. I just shook my head in agreement. Liberating. I tried to reach Cox Cable today to cut the chord. And I’m this close from doing it. There is absolutely nothing we want to watch on TV –…
My sister in law sent me a pic of her and my cousin in the snow in Atlanta – gadzooks. A source of mine is out of the office due to a snow day. Granted it is chillier here in the last two days but we’re hoping this nonsense won’t last. Meanwhile, because we here in the Gulf South are winter wusses outside has been noman’s land so Tin spent yesterday inside painting and today…
China just opened its most powerful search engine to an English language blog on Chinese culture. Their thinking – take over the world. One byte at a time.
Who said that 10% is what happens to you in life and 90% is how you deal with it? I don’t know but I can tell you realistically that there are a lot of people that are not looking at 2011 with rose colored glasses. Almost as if there is a taint on the future because of the recent past. What I can tell you is that I have no great expectations set out for…
When the show was over last night at Snug, we came out to the bar and stopped to catch up with a friend. I went to the bar to get us drinks and there were four handsome young boys at the bar – one kept saying Hey! to me, and I said you better watch yourself I’m old enough to be your mother. We all started talking and I felt like I was seeing the…
The stars aligned last night as Mother Nature whipped large trees like buggy whips and rain came down the better part of the day and without asking, a babysitter came to watch Tin so we could go to Snug Harbor. We sat at a small table for two in front of the stage, spitting distance as we say around here, and the show began. Tom McDermott on piano, smiling a goofy smile as if it…
We pulled Brief Encounters out of my Janus collection that T gave me for my 50th birthday and began watching it last night. It’s a 1945 movie by David Lean about a woman who has an affair – it’s a melodrama – they say this movie may have even set the bar for melodramas to come. It’s a great movie and deserves to be part of anyone’s classic collection. The thing that was fascinating is…
We don’t have a babysitter so we can’t go but if we could – we’d be there with flying colors: Evan Christopher and Tom McDermott at Snug Harbor joined by James Singleton with Meschiya Lake on vocals. Damn!
When I saw that 2000 dead birds had died the same day I was contemplating double digit birds on a wire, I worried the news was a harbinger of worse things to come. Now I read in the NYT this morning that it was 5000 dead birds in Arkansas and 500 here in Louisiana. I read this with great interest because for the 60th day in a row, I woke with a terrific headache. A…