The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Feb 16, 2007 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: MARK HARMONSince I’m in military mode, I have to go with Mark Harmon this week. I know, I know, his show is called NCIS, which is Navy, but there isn’t much hunky Army beefcake to choose from on the airwaves these days. Mark is some hunky beefcake. He can be forgiven for playing a squid.DINNER LIST: CONAN O’BRIENI have to admit, Conan’s grown on me. He can be so...
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What I Saw at the Deployment

Posted by on Feb 14, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Early this morning–and I mean early: from one to three a.m.–mom, sis, and I went on base to see baby bro off to his third deployment to the mideast. Ft. Stewart, GA, is the home of the Third Infantry, so there’s a lot of coming and going in the Hinesville area. When you add the quartermasters, MPs, artillery, etc. that accompany the “Rock of the Marne,” that’s...
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Train Wreck in Progress

Posted by on Feb 13, 2007 in dish | 0 comments chez mimi hasn’t had cable for a while, so holing up in a Hinesville hotel room while prepping baby bro to go off to war–again–provides the perfect opportunity to see what I’ve been missing.Turns out, not much. And yet I end up watching several episodes of one particularly icky train wreck, Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County. The tagline: Where the bodies...
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Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

Posted by on Feb 11, 2007 in dish | 0 comments I love Sundays. Something about clear skies and church bells just does it for me. Today, we’re spring cleaning at chez mimi. Well, dregs-of-winter cleaning and mucking out, to be completely truthful.Completed already today: Scrubbed floors in den and kitchen with favorite household toy Swept laundry room (found a dog’s worth of fur and dust, thank you) Wiped down everything in...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Feb 9, 2007 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: THOMAS GIBSONThomas Gibson can play bad (Far and Away), good (Dharma and Greg), and serious (Criminal Minds). He doesn’t have to play at being hot, though. Rawr.DINNER LIST: STEPHEN SPIELBERGStephen Spielberg is a visionary and a genius. He’s provided us with iconic heroes (Indiana Jones), iconic action (Jaws, Jurassic Park), iconic childhood (E.T.), and watchable Tom...
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Fins to the Left!

Posted by on Feb 8, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Caught the middle concert of Jimmy Buffett’s “Blink and You Miss It” Florida mini-tour tonight. Two and a half hours of Parrothead madness. Lucky for us, he was dowsing the deep waters of the catalog. I heard things I haven’t heard him play in years–“Floridays,” “Son of a Son of a Sailor,””One Particular Harbor,”...
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