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Disney Mornings Playlist
Hakuna Your Mornings Do you have a secret desire to be a mermaid? Do you like to hold up your pet(s) and pretend they’re a cub destined for greatness? Does a perfect day for you include pirates, hitchhiking ghosts, churros and fireworks? Honey, are you a bit of a nostalgia whore? Yes! Same. What I am not, though, is a morning person and sometimes I need a little help to get me moving. Ugh. I lied. It’s all the time. All the time I need a help to get me moving. So I figured, why not get help from the music and memories that have been helping me since I…
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Kirk, the Jerk
I remember when I was back in middle school, there were three very real constants in my life: 1. The Price is Right will cure any illness. 2. I will eventually marry Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block. 3. Mike Seaver from Growing Pains was adorable and dreamy. Sadly, none of those things are true anymore. 1. Even though I’m from Cleveland, Drew Carey annoys me and I don’t like him hosting my Price is Right (I have done much better with Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.) 2. Turns out the one thing I learned from VH1’s The Surreal Life was that Jordan…
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Oh Joy! David O. Russell and Friends Are Back!
Could David O. Russell please stop casting the same people in all of his movies? I mean, for real. Like, for real, for real. Hey, who was in that movie The Fighter? Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo. Hey, who was in Silver Linings Playbook? Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro. Hey, who was in American Hustle? Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro. Hey, who is in that new movie Joy? Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro. For fuck’s sake, David O. Russel, it’s like you’re trying to be the grittier, douchier version of Tim Burton.…
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It’s Always Sunny on Criminal Minds
You know what’s like seeing a shooting star on the night of a full moon during a leap year while the olympics are going on? A tv show crossover. And I’m not talking about those very special episodes that network television loves to do in order to force people into tuning into shows they normally might not watch just to see a split second of a character from one of the shows they do watch. Look Dr. Ross and Dr. Carter are having a double date with Rachel and Monica! No biggie that ER took place in Chicago and Friends in NYC. Oh, isn’t life on tv adorable! …
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Short Poppies — the best damn reason to learn to pronounce the name Rhys.
Let’s talk for just a minute about Rhys Darby, New Zealand’s most delightful and enigmatic national treasure. My fiancé and I just finished watching Short Poppies, Darby’s 8-episode faux-documentary, centering on the overly-ordinary and completely unusual fictional small town of “The Bay”. In each episode, The Bay’s mockumentary focusses on one townie of choice, always effortlessly and hilariously played by Darby. Now, I cannot express to you how madly important it is for you to (finish my blog) and then immediately open Netflix and binge watch all eight in a row. They’re each less than a half an hour — you won’t have to call in sick…
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Buddy, The Elf
We just moved from Los Angeles to Portland. Basically. Los Angeles is really Venice. Portland is really Hillsboro. Portland, as in Oregon not Maine. And “we” is my fiancé and I, along with my mom. The move itself was pretty decent although the professionals hired to pack up my mom’s stuff clearly have never packed anything before in their entire lives. They’re also illiterate. Boxes filled with clothes were labeled as books. Breakable items were packed underneath what might as well have been barbells. And they literally individually wrapped and boxed all of my mom’s recycling that she had set aside to take down to the recycling bin in…
