Posts tagged "tv"

July 10, 2013 7 Comments

Day Trip: Wilmington, North Carolina

I'd like to say that day-tripping to Wilmington, North Carolina with my mom was my own idea, but I was just copying what my friend Shauna did when she visited last year. (But she did it without my mom, of course.) It's a bit sad when someone from Scotland knows more about the vacation spots... [Read More]

January 4, 2013 10 Comments

Reasons I’m Old: The things I used to do just to watch a TV show

If I want to watch an episode of The West Wing right now all I have to do is turn on my Playstation 3, connect to the Netflix app, and select an episode. That's it! So simple! So easy! Alas, it was not always this way. Boys and girls, let me take you back in... [Read More]

October 16, 2012 19 Comments

What I don’t know about WWII could fit in a U-boat

I finally watched Band of Brothers this year, something I've been meaning to do for, oh, ten years. Band of Brothers is a TV mini-series about an American airborne infantry company that fought in Europe during World War II. I'd stumble across it occasionally during a Labor Day marathon on TBS, but I wanted to... [Read More]

June 9, 2012 4 Comments

Longtime blog reader Jacqui to be on Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition on Sunday, June 10th

Jacqui has been reading my blog for a long time. I just searched the comments on my old PastaQueen blog to see that she's been reading since 2007 and has posted well over a hundred comments, so she's earned a high rank in the Macaroni Military. Salute! She used to comment as JEM from the... [Read More]