2008
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Countdown to Lipstick Jungle
One of our Bloggers™ has a show coming out on Thursday: Lipstick Jungle. Brooke Shields is one of the stars. I can’t help but think of my childhood, when Brooke was one of the beauties, and her name was bandied about constantly. Bo Derek, Brooke Shields and Farrah. I remember the ubiquitous poster was omnipresent […]
Inverted commas
Twenty years ago, PC word processors struggled with apostrophes and quotation marks. Back then, I was forgiving, but the problem is still ubiquitous. Why? I spent the morning reviewing graduate school applications in which every apostrophe was converted to a question mark. And look at the atrocious quotation marks offered in the otherwise reasonable font […]
Super Bowl Halftime Show
In light of their past problems with the FCC, I was suprised to see the show start with a giant penis arrow making its way across the field to the heart shaped stage. The penis punctured the heart, Tom Petty came to life, and enthusiastic fans rushed the stage. Who were these young white people […]
I Am Allowed to Say "Super Bowl"
But advertisers aren’t. Unless they are somehow officially connected to the Super Bowl. Hence, this is just about my favorite week to pay attention to commercials and print ads. I just love all the euphemisms for Super Bowl. “The Big Game” is the most common. (“Stock up on soda and snacks for the Big Game!”) […]
Grimace, indeed
Keenan’s class will soon be going on a three-day field trip to Space Camp in Montreal. (I didn’t know the Canadians had a space program; then it occurred to me that this probably was the Canadian space program.) When told were told the trip would include a stop at the mega-McDonalds just on the US […]
Taxes
I discovered last night that I owe the IRS a hefty amount for 2007. My coworker suggested today I check my numbers on the free Turbotax online that her boyfriend had used. On the turbotax site I vaguely remembered that I had once created an account at least years ago. I clicked on the tab […]
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Two Unrelated Thoughts
1) Even though I’ve been single for a while, I’m kind of hoping I don’t have a girlfriend in the spring so I don’t have to see the Sex and the City movie. 2) If you can judge a man by the CVS Pharmacy ExtraCare coupons that are printed at the bottom of his receipt, […]
The I.R.S.
When I was a senior in high school, I drove over the hill three times a week to take calculus at UCLA. At Yale, I was an economics major, studying with a Nobel Prize winner, while simultaneously taking classes at the grad school. In my lean years as a writer, I worked for an old […]
The Millionaire Matchmaker
There’s a new show on Bravo about a dating service for rich men. I’ve checked it out a couple times, and it’s pretty watchable. Patti, the matchmaker, isn’t content to just set people up, she needs to fundamentally change the flawed millionaires, bringing in teams of experts, as necessary. She’s personally offended when these men […]
Jack Silbert, curator