Monthly Archives: September 2011
Friday Recommends: Not Seeing Contagion On Date Night
This should have been our first warning. x Date nights come around only so often, and they get to be pricey once childcare is involved, so by no means should you make the same mistake we did tonight by squandering … Continue reading
Filed under Friday Recommends, marital tension, movies
Wilco, The Whole Love
x There are still a few bands out there for whom we giddily circle the Tuesday release date on the calendar and then, when that blessed date arrives, make a point of going to the music store so we can … Continue reading
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Jersey Shore & Book Suicide
Our friends and alert readers Emily Huie and Audrey Bullar both pointed us to this meme making its way around the Internets: x Several things to say here, starting with 1) the fact we of course find this to be … Continue reading
Filed under books, television
On Nicholas Sparks & Failure.
Newsweek has a back-page feature called “My Favorite Mistake” wherein celebrities share just that: their favorite mistake. Some of these are enlightening and amusing. Some are written by Nicholas Sparks. In the most recent issue, Sparks wrote that his favorite … Continue reading
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The Whole Love, And Vampire Nic Cage
Your attention, please. NPR is now streaming Wilco’s new album, The Whole Love, which releases one week from today. And a Civil War-era photograph appears to confirm that Nic Cage is a vampire. x Whoops, wrong picture. xz x Hat … Continue reading
The Destiny Of The Republic, Candice Millard
x The Destiny of the Republic has one of those subtitles that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the book: “A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of the President.” The Madness is provided by Charles … Continue reading
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Today In Bizarre Nic Cage Behavior
x Ummmmmmmm…: Nicolas Cage is currently at the Toronto Film Festival to promote his new film Trespass. The film, directed by Joel Schumacher, is about the horrors of home invasion and (as any good actor would) Cage went to a real place to … Continue reading
Old Navy & Grammatical Heinousness
Old Navy commercials are the worst. They’re too lame to be ironic, too kitsch to be redeeming. We feel empty after letting them steal thirty seconds of our life. They are just soul-suckingly bad. Turns out Old Navy also stinks … Continue reading
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Catching Up
We’ve been remiss in our posting of late. Forgive our negligence and allow us to do a little catching up. 1. We have yet to sell our house. We have had three open houses and numerous showings at this point, … Continue reading
Filed under books, parenthood, Sam, television
