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The fine print

Posted on June 15, 2016 | 3 comments

On my Delta flight back to NYC from Toronto today, I was flipping through Sky magazine, and an article on the Mississippi Delta caught my eye.

Where to go. What to do. All the summer festivals, food and drink.

As I skimmed the recommendations, one bolded phrase caught my eye:

Pull up a chair and have a helping of barbecue at Kentucky’s Fancy Farm Picnic – – the world’s largest picnic – – held in August.

Look at that, friends and family! We’ve got another publication to add to the list!

I almost grabbed the PA from the flight attendant to get everyone to read page 83…but decided to let them discover it for themselves.

It’s more fun that way.

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Posted in Entertainment, Family, Food, Friends, Humor, Magazine, Travel

Tagged article, Delta, family, Fancy Farm Picnic, festivals, friends, Humor, Kentucky, Mississippi Delta, SKY magazine, summer, Travel

Wait for it

Posted on August 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

It’s summer, and that means a lot of reality show competitions have been added to the TV schedule.

Food Network Star has been cookin’ with gas on Sunday evenings for several weeks already, and my beloved Project Runway got underway this past Thursday.

I never realize how much I miss them until they come back on they air, and then, when they do —

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Tagged animated gif, Barney, competition, cookin with gas, Food Network, Food Network Star, Humor, life, Neil Patrick Harris, Project Runway, reality show, summer, Television, wait for it

Hot time in the ol’ town

Posted on July 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

I HATE BLOW DRYING MY HAIR.

I have a lot of it. And in the summer, it is a hot, time-consuming, uncomfortable, thankless job. Plus, I have to flat iron it to get it really straight.

Yes, I splurge for blow-outs at the salon now and then, but tonight, it’s on me.

And I hate when it’s my turn.

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Posted in Beauty, Commentary, Fashion, Humor, Life, Weather

Tagged beauty, blow dry, blow-out, commentary, Fashion, flat iron, hair, hair salon, hot, Humor, life, straight hair, style, summer, weather

Shady business

Posted on May 23, 2014 | Leave a comment

Have you tried to get any work done today?

The Friday before Memorial Day can be a bit of a challenge, as a lot of people start the holiday weekend early.

Makes me think today should have its own holiday…and turns out — it does!

“Don’t Fry Day”

This year the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention designated today as “Don’t Fry Day” to encourage everyone to protect their skin while outdoors this summer.

As a founding member of the PPA (Pasty People of America), I support their efforts — both to keep people from burning and tanning, and to make today a holiday.

‘Cause people are gone baby gone.

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Posted in Beauty, Business, Holiday, Humor, Life

Tagged beauty, burning your skin, Business, Don't Fry Day, Friday before Memorial Day, gone baby gone, Holiday, Humor, life, Memorial Day, Memorial Day weekend, National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, pasty people of america, PPA, shady business, skin, summer, tanning

Living (or dying) a double life

Posted on April 8, 2014 | Leave a comment

Archie is dead.

Or he will be when Issue #36 of “Life with Archie” hits stores in July.

That’s the word from CNN and Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater, the son of the comics’ creator.

Apparently Archie, always the nice guy at Riverdale High, dies saving a friend.

Now, I read a lot of Archie Comics as a kid…so I was super sad when I first read the news. Then I found out that the “Life with Archie” series has been telling stories about Archie’s possible ‘future lives’ and ends, appropriately enough, with his death. The regular Archie Comics set in his teenage years at Riverdale will continue on.

Umm…that seems like a bit of a cheat. Or maybe a stunt to get some readers like me back who don’t know the difference?

Archie — say it isn’t so.

Oh wait, you’re dead. Well, one version of you is dead…or will be soon. I’m so confused.

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Posted in Comics, Commentary, Entertainment, Humor, Magazines, News, Summer

Tagged Archie, Archie Comics, Archie is dead, CEO, cheat, CNN, comics, commentary, death, entertainment, friends, future lives, Humor, Jon Goldwater, life, magazine, news, review, Riverdale High, say it isn't so, stunt, summer, teenage years

Witchy woman

Posted on January 24, 2014 | Leave a comment

I can’t believe The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has been open for four years, and I still haven’t gone.

So I’m going in the next couple of months — before the summer crush of kids and family.

Or am I?

Universal Orlando announced just yesterday that the park is launching a new expansion…

This summer.

Can I really go now and miss all the cool new attractions? We’re talking the actual Diagon Alley, a fully functional Hogwarts Express train that connects the Universal parks, more shops and restaurants from the books, and a new ride called “Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts.”

Of course, if I do wait and go this summer, all those kids will be there….which means ginormous crowds and lines and heat and sweat and regret.

Perhaps I can wait a bit longer — what’s a few more months at this point — and go between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That is supposedly the slowest time at the park.

Decisions, decisions. OH WAIT —

I’ll got twice!

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Tagged amusement park, books, Diagon Alley, entertainment, Escape from Gringotts, Harry Potter, Hogwarts Express train, Humor, life, Movies, park expansion, restaurants, shops, summer, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Travel, Universal Orlando, witchy woman

Sensitive much?

Posted on August 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.” -Steve Martin

I saw We are the Millers this week and did not puke once.

I did laugh a lot — often very loudly.

In fact, I am confounded why a majority of movie critics were so harsh toward the comedy.

Perhaps I have seen too many R-rated comedies, but I think the “offensive content” in Millers pales in comparison to The Hangover trilogy or, say, This is the End.

The movie actually supported family values, for cripes sake…albeit in a subversive, round-the-bend way.

Plus, watching Kathryn Hahn — who plays the wife of an RV family the Millers encounter on their journeys — scream bloody murder for a full minute is worth the cost of the ticket.

So ignore the critics like you usually do and laugh a lot. If you find it offensive…

Well, consider that a bonus.

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Tagged comedy, commentary, entertainment, family values, film, Humor, Kathryn Hahn, laugh, laughter, movie critics, movie ticket, Movies, offensive content, puke, quote, R-rate comedies, RV, Steve Martin, summer, The Hangover movie, This is the End movie, Travel, We are the Millers movie

Water works

Posted on July 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

If there was ever any doubt, The Way Way Back confirms: Steve Carell can really act.

Because in this movie, our favorite nice guy plays an out-and-out prick.

But he’s not the central character in Way Back.

His girlfriend’s son Duncan is. The two of them don’t see eye-to-eye, and it makes for an uncomfortable threesome, especially when they go away together for the summer. Duncan escapes by getting a job at Water Wizz, a local water park, where he finds the acceptance he can’t find at home.

This movie made me smile for a lot of reasons.

Sam Rockwell is a surprising, endearing water park manager and surrogate father to Duncan. Nat Faxon and Jim Rash — who won an Oscar for The Descendants screenplay — wrote and directed his movie as well…but I was mostly happy to see Nat’s goofy face return to the screen after the egregious cancellation of his sitcom Ben and Kate. And most of all, it was fun to see a movie about water slides…

…after a weekend of 100 degree weather. Heaven.

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