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Archive for January, 2007

January chocolate winners!!

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Once again, winners were chosen by the resident winner-chooser, who is presented with a stack of entries every month and persuaded to select three.
So if you didn’t win this month, enter again in February. What do you have to lose?
The January winners are:
Faith!
Michelle!
Kimmy!
Congratulations! Your chocolate is on the way!
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“Patient is extremely prompt and ridiculously modest”

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine’s doctor writes in her chart that she is “difficult,” and then that file follows her from doctor to doctor, totally tainting the way they treat her?
Yeah, well that’s not going to happen to me.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for a variety of tests that all ended up proving […]

Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

First of all, in case you didn’t read the announcement a few days ago, we’re postponing our discussion of The Time Traveler’s Wife until next Tuesday, February 6th. It’s a big book, and one to be savored rather than gobbled down just to meet a deadline.
So my book report for the week […]

Been eating like I’m going to the chair

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I totally stole that phrase from our blog friend Annette, but if the binge fits–
I cannot believe what a child I am on trips like this. Thank goodness I’m only here for a week, because otherwise they’d have to roll me onto the plane tomorrow morning. I cannot BELIEVE how much junk food […]

Sundance winners, or why I’ll be standing in the cold at 6:30 AM

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

There’s some strategery at work in selecting tickets for Sundance. They send you the booklet listing all the movies in early January, you’re assigned a half hour slot a week later to make all your ticket selections, and you do your best. Some of the flicks we chose this year were great, others […]

Let’s give ourselves more time on TTW

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Maybe you, like me, have realized that The Time Traveler’s Wife is a long book. And maybe you, like me, have been busy this week, and haven’t gotten to sit down and read as much as you meant to. And maybe you, too, have been thinking, “This whole reading/book club thing is […]

I want those 2 hours of my life back

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I just got back from the WORST movie that I hated, hated, HATED, and those are two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
I know you’ve been there. What movie do you still resent for having stolen time from your life?
Technorati Tags: Movies, Sundance Film Festival, Worst Movies Ever

Sometimes the people are more interesting

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Than the movies, I mean.
You have to understand what it’s like up here at Sundance. If you’re fancy or a somebody, you get to ride around from venue to venue in private cars, but the rest of us all pack into the buses. And that’s part of the fun. Tonight we were […]

Samuel L.! Christina! Justin!

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

This is what it’s all about. Four movies today, two of them stinkers, one way quirky, and then you get to see a movie like we saw tonight.
Black Snake Moan, written and directed by Craig Brewer, the same guy who wrote and directed Hustle & Flow last year. A white guy who […]

The glamour crowd at Albertsons

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

This is actually one of my favorite parts about coming to Sundance: going to Albertsons to stock up for the week, and looking around at all the movie people doing the same.
No identifiable celebrities, yet–sorry. But clearly the people cramming the aisles right along with me and my crew were New Yorkers and […]