Monthly Archives: December 2011
The beauty of a digestive
My husband brought some Cadbury chocolate digestives (graham crackery, chocolate-dipped sweet meal biscuits) home from Cost Plus this weekend and I wasn’t going to have one. I’m trying to curb the excess, at least in the run up to the full fledged eatathon that is the holiday season. I’m consciously scaling back a bit, before I strap on the feedbag and get down, in true American fashion.
But then somewhere in the midst of deciding not to, I ate one.
All shook up
Bodmin - Before Earthquake
Bodmin - After Earthquake
An earthquake in Cornwall? Who knew?
Well, apparently they do happen – and one struck the town of Bodmin early Sunday morning, registering 2.2 and lasting a few seconds, according to news reports.
I’ve lived through quite a few earthquakes here in California, but can’t recall anything along a 2.2. It’s the kind of geologic activity that probably doesn’t make big news here and makes me realize that I really am a hardened Californian at heart. I can’t help referencing the earthquake scene in “L.A. Story.”
So funny I forgot to laugh
“Top Gear” host Jeremy Clarkson is all over the British media for what he now recants as a joke that he made about public sector workers who staged a strike on Wednesday.
But, wait! Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny? At least a little? It’s doubtful that this would even make it as a gag on “I Hate My Teenage Daughter,” which I had the misfortune of catching last night, like one would catch rabies.
As the public is now calling for Clarkson to be fired, maybe he can get a job as a writer for that show. I’m pretty sure they’ll think he’s God’s gift to comedy.
Meet the Scouse brow
Is this a post-Halloween joke or April Fool’s Day come early?
MSN.com is reporting that the latest trend in brows in Britain is the “Scouse brow,” as seen on “Desperate Scousewives,” a new reality TV show that follows the lives and loves of eight blokes and birds in Liverpool.
But is this really a look that Brits are going to recreate? Only time will tell.
I will say that I doubted that the mullet would ever become a fad and then visited the UK a few years back, only to find mullets on the Tube, on the high street, on the bus.
I thought that was shocking, but this? Brow-raising…
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