Category Archives: television

A Nod to Our Sponsors

Anne Lamott Last week sometime I positively devoured a book by her called “Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.” It had the peculiar effect of making me want to write. But not in an old-school, “I will … Continue reading

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Shiver Me Timbers

Red letter night; the size – what, 8? – “full figured” Whitney won America’s Next Top Model tonight. Hoorah! But I think the best part of the show for me was when Tyra, reviewing the photos where the contestants posed … Continue reading

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Thursday Random Three

1. Locally (perhaps nationally): All manner of ice cream on sale at Safeway. Make haste. 2. For two years I have been watching “Scrubs,” once one of the funniest series on TV, sink like a poop-encrusted stone and tonight, with … Continue reading

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It’s Verbal Flu!

First, let me say how much I truly, madly, deeply lurve my dear Saint Aardvark the Carpeted. This morning I was doing something relatively uncomplicated on my computer, she is a sweet iBook who is 4 years old, I think, … Continue reading

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Everyone’s a Critic

I heard yesterday that come this new year’s eve, we we will see the last new episode of The Royal Canadian Air Farce. (which, for non-Canadians, is described at its website as a weekly comedy show offering a “…unique and … Continue reading

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