Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching



The beginning of Parks and Recreation was bad.

Then it got better.

Parks and Rec is my favorite segment of the NBC Thursday lineup. It's obviously better than The Office, and it's funnier and more consistent--dare I say it?--than 30 Rock has been lately ("Don Cheadle on a bed of rice" Jon ( Read more... )

I watched the Rian Johnson movie The Brothers Bloom twice this weekend--once on Friday, while I was trying to knit lace and then realized I hadn't been paying attention at all, and once tonight, when I put everything aside and applied some brainpower and totally loved it. I adore Brick, his first movie--but it's a first movie. The Brothers Bloom is ( Read more... )

- At work, my only current task is to read for YA anthology selections; I'm using the time to (mostly legitimately) read Prep, which I figure is not YA lit exactly, but is about YAs and therefore fair game. I'm almost halfway through, and mostly loving it, though I wouldn't say I love Lee Fiora and her self-sabotaging ways. Reading it, I sometimes ( Read more... )

I could tell you all about the things I did this weekend, but it would mostly be things like, "Hey, guys! I Swiffered the floor!" and "Hey, guys! I worked on photo permissions for the mysterious online project I'm working on!" and "Hey, guys! I bought a rolling pin with cookie cutters insideSo instead let's just talk about all the TV I'm watching, ( Read more... )

Who has two thumbs and finished her book of American idioms? THIS GIRL! I finished cross-checking the index yesterday, cleaned up (for the amusement of all) the accompanying list of ageist/sexist/sordid/overwhelmingly negative example sentences I re-wrote from the draft I inherited, and sent it all to my boss. WHAT WHAT? Don't leave a brother ( Read more... )