Yep, it would be so cool to hang out with cool people who just won the friggin' Golden Globes for Chrissake, and also to be able to play the accordion yet maintain coolness. I am just bowled over that Ricky Gervais seems to go unrecognized, but then I'm a BBC American, we're funny like that. Seriously – what a fun life, although it's definitely one lived in the public eye. How odd it would be to know that untold numbers of strangers were checking in on your life, and whether you were treating your loved ones right (and wondering who…
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It’s high time I started getting the next England journal entry in (when finished it will pretty much be the entire month of September, with a little bit of story to finish up in October, 2003). I kept the journal in a small, handy Moleskine pocket journal (the kind with the integral rubber band, lined pages, and a pocket for receipts). I bought mine at the local “Container Store;” they always seem to have a few of the small and large blank journals in stock, along with some different Moleskine books that have extra receipt pockets. I’m not sure, but…
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The aftermath of Valentine’s Day left me with a few more extra pounds I don’t need, so on a whim I decided last week to just not eat candy at all. In addition to munching on all the candy normally around the office during any holiday associated with chocolate, I was in the habit of getting a candy bar out of the vending machines. And also David and I usually get favorite candy treats at the grocery store – his is strawberry or raspberry licorice, mine is Peppermint Patty (brought home from the store intact and frozen). Well, something’s gotta…
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Bible belt devoted to Christ film We’re weird about religion in the US – in some cases (as stated elsewhere in this blog) very weird. I’ve been keeping an eye on the controversy surrounding this film. The furor reminds me of the one surrounding “The Last Temptation of Christ,” but as I vaguely recall, the more fundamentalist wing of the US religious spectrum (cough) was up in arms about that film and demonstrated against it. They seem to lurve the idea of this film, because it apparently toes their line of dogma(or has…