I've never been more enthusiastic about the weird and not particularly catchy "Let's Go, Go, Go, Go White Sox" song! Okay, maybe in 2005, but at that point I would have sung "Baby Beluga" if Ozzie Guillen told me it was cool ( Read more... )

There is a teeny part of me that has been chanting "Halloween, Halloween, it's October! HALLOWEEN!" in more or less the same fashion used by Garfield in The Garfield Halloween Special, regarding Candy.

It is not shameful to Express Warmly about one's favourite holiday and you can't stop me! Just wait - in a few weeks I'll have graduated from ( Read more... )

"He learned to pick up cigarette butts; paint anything that didn't move, and salute anything that did."

I assume I am not the only soul who's been watching The War, and thusly not the only soul who is entertained by their prefatory advertisements. "The War is sponsored by General Motors," makes me laugh, because it's unintentionally terrible and ( Read more... )

Also, in reference to my earlier post, it has absolutely nothing to do with Brokeback Mountain that I once or twice wanted to shout, "Oh, shut up and kiss him already!" Violence and sex are two natural outlets for tension, and I am not a violent lady ( Read more... )

Ideally, the entry I posted at 12:42 or somesuch on September 12th would have been posted a few hours earlier, and I would have explained that the films in my list are those that, to my mind and in their own, different ways, epitomize... not the real New York City, but a certain New York City attitude. Or perhaps aspects of the city that, despite ( Read more... )

This week, we saw two shooting stars, and a spider the size of my thumb. The WHOLE thumb! I hate spiders (still), but the shooting stars were pretty wonderful. They fell right behind the movie screen in Grant Park. Neat stuff! Well, the stars. Not the spider. THAT was terrible, terrible stuff. The stuff of nightmares ( Read more... )

Channel 11, WTTW is one of Chicago's PBS stations. We got it in Kalamazoo (via Western or through a twist of fate, I'm not sure) along with WGVU, Grand Valley's PBS channel, and they may be absolutely the greatest PBS channels in existence ( Read more... )

Have any of you been to a demolition derby before? I had not had the pleasure until a few weeks ago. Holy moly! I regret not wearing cut-off jeans and a Tweety Bird t-shirt, but otherwise it was a hilariously good time. I can't speak for anyone else, but it turns out that deep inside of me, there is a seven-year-old Transformers-loving grease ( Read more... )

Eatin' some pita, eatin' some pita, why are there so many drunk high schoolers on the Metra, eatin' some pita... hope they all fall under the tracks...

STRESS PITA.

Dear Television ( Read more... )