Hiya and Happy Halloween

I'm back. I took a longer blogging holiday than expected. Probably because my last post was one of my favourites. It's not very often I get to report I'm headed to London.

The trip was great. A special thanks to G, Cinemark, and American Airlines for the plane ticket, Aunt for the form, and the trip mates.

Here is a picture of me in front of Selfridges department store:



I wish I was there right now. I would like to post more, but I need to obtain the publishing rights.

Some random Halloween thoughts:

One little piece of chocolate is enough to satisfy me, but I cannot refrain from eating an entire package of sour candy. The more sour the candy, the weaker my will power.

I love the number of adult costumes that are "sexy." Sexy maid, sexy vampire, sexy devil, sexy witch. No one seems to just dress up as a plain slut though.

I need to start staying home and handing out candy to kids pretty soon in order to make up for the 15 years I went out trick-or-treating. Yes, I went out well past the acceptable age.

I hope dentists still hand out toothbrush kits. With the pink tablets you chew to see if you got your teeth perfectly clean.

I think Trunk-or-Treats are a sad substitute for door to door trick-or-treating.

Don't you wish you had school today - with a costume parade? And maybe a carnival with a cake walk, haunted fishing pond, etc.?

Today's Song: Monster Mash - just kidding. London - Pet Shop Boys (concert at the E Center this Friday)

Nothing Falls Like London Rain.

If you need to reach me, I will be here.

Blogging is hard work.

But apparently not as hard as writing for a television show. Because television writers are so strapped for plot devices that they have to recycle the same three over and over and over again. The top three plot devices I would like to see retired:

1. The love triangle. See: Lost, Grey's Anatomy (a terrible offender from Izzy, Alex, and Denny to Meredith, Finn, and Derek, and Meredith, Addison and Derek and George, Callie and Meredith, etc.), and every daytime and evening soap opera ever aired.

2. Black mail. Come. On. Every single adult walking this planet has seen enough television to know how to foil a black mailer.

3. Dream sequences. It's not so much that I mind the dream sequence. I mind the fact that the character having the dream remembers Every Single Detail of the elaborate dream long after they wake up. There must be a better way to foster a character's development than a dream sequence.

Off topic: Who remembers the song "The Best Things in Life are Free" by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson? To those people that said yes, could one of you YouSendIt to me, please? Thank you.

Today's Song: On the Wings of Love, Jeffrey Osborne (for that poor bird on The Office last night)

The Office Phone-isode

Hopefully you remember this post because it will help you enjoy this YouTube video.

Today's Song: Benny & The Jets, Elton John (I am ready to see Running With Scissors right now.)

The Man Who Gave us Drakkar Noir

weighs in with his feelings on the "thin model debate":



"A model presents an ensemble by French fashion house Guy Laroche, during the presentation of its Spring-Summer 2007 ready to wear collection in Paris, Saturday Oct. 7, 2006.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)"

Take that Jean Paul Gaultier.

Today's Song: Casanova, Levert

I'm Seriously Thinking About Downsizing.

From this:



Mini Cooper

To this:

Smart Car

Today's Song: High School Never Ends, Bowling For Soup

The Vast Universe of Misheard Song Lyrics

Yesterday, in the middle of a telephone conversation with b-lo, she abruptly put me on hold. When I'm talking with friends on mobile phones, I don't care for being put on hold; however, if they are at work and they have music on hold, I am happy to hold. Music on hold is probably my favourite radio station. And pretty much always has been. I remember one time when I was about 10 I called my mom at her office, the receptionist put me on hold, and I don't remember what the music on hold was - probably some Chicago song - and I started singing along. The WHOLE song. Well, I was not aware that the receptionist had come back on the line (to tell me my mom was going to be a minute) and actually waited for me to finish singing. At the end she said, "That sounded really good." I was mortified, as evidenced by the fact that I still remember the incident.

That was a tangent. The song playing while I was on hold yesterday was a Genesis song. I hadn't heard it in ages and decided to buy it on the spot. So I pulled up the iTunes music store and searched for "Taking It All To Heart". My mistake. When I couldn't find it, I figured I had the title wrong so I did an internet search for the lyrics. The song is actually called "Taking It All Too Hard". All this time I've been incorrectly singing that song. And that song brings me to yet another misheard Genesis lyric I discovered yesterday. In looking at Genesis' most popular songs on iTunes, I learned that "That's All" is at the top. I wasn't familiar with that one so I double clicked it and gave it a listen. The song - "That's All"; I, however, have always believed the lyric and title to be "That Song": "Just as I thought it was going alright I find out I'm wrong, when I thought I was rights' always the same, it's just a shame, that's all; I could say day, you'd say night tell it's black when I know that it's whites' always the same, it's just a shame, that's all . . ."

Phil Collins needs to work on his pronunciation.

Today's Song: Taking It All Too Hard, Genesis