While watching the Big Brother daily show, I keep seeing an ad for a McDonald’s combo called the McChicken Hunger buster. It contains a McChicken, a cheeseburger, fries, a Coke and a sundae. What’s interesting is there’s a graphic on part of the ad that says “MEAL FOR TWO”. The thing is, it’d be pretty [...]
I went to the opening night extravaganza of the Beck’s Incredible Film Fest. The costume theme was ’80s, and there were some really excellent costumes. The fake pearls, big hair, ripped lace Madonna look was popular for the ladies, and a lot of fellows went for the spiky hair and sweatband look. There was a [...]
I did the movie list. I also changed a few foreign movie titles into their better-known English titles (it had already been done with some, but not all of the titles), and I moved all the “The”s to the front of movie names. I like it that way. And I’ve annotated the films I’ve seen. [...]
I feel like bumming around Europe for a month. Bring back the old days when the only way to get to Europe was a three month boat trip. Back when Europe was “The Continent.” When being “continental” was akin to sophistication, not modern day European cultural icons such as The Cheeky Girls with their “Touch [...]
My great great grandfather was a drunk and a wifebeater. My great grandfather drank away the family fortune. My grandfather was kicked out of a dance hall for daring to dance the foxtrot.
I drove past three car accidents today. The first was just past Ngaruawahia, where a car had driven into a ditch. A tow truck was trying to get in a safe position to be able to tow it out. Then later on I came down the big hills on the way to Raglan, and there [...]
Ruben won “American Idol”. I am very pleased. I gleefully watched the two hour grand finale show. Both Clay and Ruben performed, as did last year’s winner Kelly Clarkson, but when this year’s third place getter, Kimberly Locke, sang “Midnight Train To Georgia” I got goosebumps. I don’t normally get goosebumps. The first “Popstars” TV [...]
You know how when you visit the ATM lobby of a bank after hours, you have to swipe your card to get the door to open? Well, you don’t have to use your ATM card. Any card with a magnetic strip on it will open the door. I usually pull out my Foodtown card. There [...]
TV2 are being very cool and showed the second-to-last “American Idol” episode tonight, only hours after it went out live in America, rather than keeping it until the regular Sunday night time slot. The final is screening tomorrow night, but no doubt I will know the winner in advance thanks to the informative inter-web. Ruben [...]
I wrote this thing in my zine about how those school reunion web site never seemed to have anyone who I really wanted to know about. There were plenty of people I can’t really remember or don’t really care about bragging about their boring jobs, but the interesting, intriguing people seem to never have profiles [...]