The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Jun 23, 2006 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: KARL URBANI hate to fall headlong into clichéville, but bad boys are darned attractive. DH has been watching Bourne movies again, and bad boy assassin in The Bourne Supremacy is the luscious Karl Urban, better known as Éomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King. I’d ride his Riddermark, if you knowhuti’msayin’.DINNER LIST: COLIN...
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Viva El Nacho!

Posted by on Jun 18, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Okay, so the kids and I take DH out for Father’s Day. Steak lunch, custom-smoked ribs and pork loin for dinner followed by homemade ice cream dessert thanks to my baby bro, who’s into that sort of thing, and a trip to the megaplex to see Nacho Libre.OMG. Laughed my butt off at Jack Black’s butt in “stretchy pants.” This movie is completely juvenile, as in...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Jun 16, 2006 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: JOSH LUCASI’m a sucker for Southern men, especially Southern men with killer smiles and twinkling eyes. Check, check, and check. Wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating crackers, if you know what I mean.DINNER LIST: KURT LODERDating myself here–I was watching when MTV launched (the first video played, of course, was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The...
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What I’m Doing During Summer Vacation

Posted by on Jun 15, 2006 in dish | 0 comments I have never, in my eighteen years of teaching, assigned a “What I Did Over Summer Vacation” essay. For one, summer vacation would have to be a tangible entity in order for anyone to be “over” it (yes, I also get cranky when people “plan on” something, especially when that something is not corporeal, like a table). For another thing, “What I Did . . . Yada Yada” essays are typically...
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Here We Go Again

Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Alberto is coming! Alberto is coming!And with that, the 2006 hurricane season really begins. It’s pouring outside right now–not that I’m complaining, given the near-drought we’ve been experiencing the past couple of months–but today really felt like Seattle. Gray. Wet. Depressing. At least it’s not 55 degrees, and after Señor Alberto makes landfall,...
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