Musings: Shirley Valentine

Posted by mimi on May 26, 2008 in dish | 0 comments I can’t remember which female friend advised–nay, DEMANDED–that I watch Shirley Valentine, but apparently it made enough of an impression that I at least added it to the Netflix queue. Shirley arrived this week, and since we’re off from school today, I popped it in.Well, anonymous friend was right. This was a treat. The film is based on a play of the same name by Willy...
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Musings: Twilight

Posted by mimi on May 5, 2008 in dish | 4 comments Okay. So I finally get around to reading the one book that everyone in the world (at least, every female in the world) has read except me: Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. Students of mine have raved, friends of mine have raved. I’ve resisted. I did the same with poor Harry Potter. I ignored the siren’s song until Goblet of Fire, then cracked the cover of Sorcerer’s...
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Musings: Down With Love

Posted by mimi on Apr 21, 2008 in dish | 3 comments I tend to get a little nutty when it comes to presents for DH. Poor man never knows what’s coming when I tell him his theme for the year is something like “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll.” He wonders, of course, but never knows. He wasn’t that confused the year I told him his theme was “Ladies’ man, man’s man, man about town.” That one came...
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It Waz the Bst of Tmz–

Posted by mimi on Apr 1, 2008 in dish | 4 comments Gotta love today’s Zits cartoon, drawn by the fabulous Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman:I cannot text to save my life. My friends Barb and Ans can send the US Constitution back and forth without even looking at their thumbs, but I plod away, letter by letter, two clicks for “b” and three clicks for “l” and so on (predictive text gets me no end of weirdness). Writing a...
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