Month: January 2003
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Thoughts About the Non-Football Parts of the Super Bowl: Who the hell picked Celine Dion to sing “God Bless America”? Doesn’t everybody in the world know she’s Canadian? When she sang “God bless America, my home sweet home,” I rolled my eyes and yelled at the TV: “It’s not your home! You live in Montreal…
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Happy Australia Day! Well, I’m a day late actually. It was yesterday. Australia Day is the Aussie equivalent of our 4th of July. We went over to our friend Steve’s for a barbecue. Much homebrew was imbibed. We also continued last year’s tradition of playing “Cups”, which is an ND drinking game I taught them.…
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I was surfing through old Glitter discussions yesterday when I found this picture of a little girl in a homemade “Fluffy the Three-Headed Dog” costume. How cool is that? I’m regretting the fact that I never put a lot of effort into my own costumes as a kid. I was a “punk rocker” for, like,…
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Friday Five: 1. What is one thing you don’t like about your body?Jeez, only one? Let’s spin the Big Wheel O’ Kris’s Body Issues and see what turns up today! Today’s issue is… weight! Yeah, I’m still a little more, uh, voluptuous than I need to be. I’m workin’ on it. 2. What are two…
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The State Department is telling US citizens living abroad to be ready to leave quickly. Whatever. I feel way safer here. In fact, I keep telling people I know in the US to move out. Everyone should get to experience gun control and public health care at some point.
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Attention Sydneysiders! The Snook and I have two tickets to Big Day Out this Saturday that we’re trying to get rid of. Anybody interested? Update: Less than eight hours later, the tickets have been sold! Viva la eBay! I mean, I like the Foo Fighters and all, but there’s no way I’m going to stand…
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The Bloggie Nominations have been posted. Really, what’s the point? It’s pretty much all the same names as last year (with the notable exception of Uncle Willie – I wonder if that was deliberate?). Much like Penny on Survivor, I decided to base my vote on who was nicest to me. Since Bill is the…
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Never, ever wear your big backpack into a crowded bead store with lots of jars of beads stacked in tiny aisles. I’m just sayin’.
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Tonight (Wednesday, actually) the Snook and I went to the Opera House to see Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc. It was fantastic. The film is a 1928 French masterpiece about Joan’s trial and execution. Composer Richard Einhorn wrote a full score (symphony and choral) that was performed live as the film…
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It’s 12:30 am here and Andy Roddick’s tennis match is still going on. I don’t know if I can watch much more of it. It’s just too tense. Plus he looks so much like my brother that I find myself getting emotionally over-invested. It’s weird. Half an hour later: Holy crap. Hooray for Roddick! Obviously…