Pretty much anything in the Magic Box. I loved the Magic Box.
When Buffy was awarded a sad little decorated umbrella for being ‘class protector’ at the prom that time.
When she tells Angel that Spike isn’t her boyfriend, but he is ‘in her heart’.
When she says, “Mom… Mom… Mommy?” when she finds her mother’s body. Her voice becoming slower and sadder as the truth sinks in is heart-breaking. Continue reading
Fox Mulder. Women want him. Men want to be him.
Dana Scully. Men want her. Women want to be her.
Remember the one in the Florida prison? Mulder asks Scully, if she could kill five people who had pissed her off, who would they be? Her answer: “I only get five?” Continue reading
I was a little crazed for most of the first quarter of the game as I finished up the last of my party snacks, so I may have missed a couple good ones, but I thought the commercials were a little “meh” this year. However, I did really like the RadioShack one where the 80s called, asked for their store back and then numerous stars from that decade raided the store. Continue reading
Does anyone else feel a cold chill of dread run down their spine and curl up in their stomach in a ghastly blob when they press Start on an appliance and nothing happens? I mean a really, really cold, fat thread of impending doom. And a little bit of taking it personally?
If you rent, now you have to contact the landlady/lord and hope s/he is a decent type and will repair it for you in a timely manner.
If you own, you have to find a repair person you hope knows their ass from their elbow and will come soon and give you a window of less than 8 hours. And you have to fret about what they’ll charge. And whether they’ll give you that sad shake of the head that means you really ought to replace the whatever. Continue reading
The FCC, previously worried that your personal wireless gadgets (“hi Ma! we’re on the runway now!”) would interfere with the plane’s wireless gadgets (“roger that, Ground, Keepusintheair device functioning A-OK”), is in the midst of changing the rules. Continue reading
Either as a customer or as a staffer. Do we have any restaurant managers here? I bet that’s a fun job 🙁
I’ve researched this topic inside my head and can’t come up with too many examples of bad restaurant meals. Lucky me! Hunh. Cautious me. There’ve been a few times when Mr. has eyeballed a place and I eyeballed him right back with one of those are-you-even-kidding-me eyeballs that are so useful between friends. Continue reading
Maybe you were broke. Maybe the hotel mis-advertised itself. Maybe it was a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere and there was nowhere else to stay.
Where was it? How did you end up in it?
Once we stayed at a well-known resort in Muskoka, aka Toronto’s Vacation Wonderland. The room had flooded and no one on the staff had noticed. Step inside room. Squelch. Not a good start to a vacation. Continue reading
Business cards are ordinarily plain, straightforward things: name, title, company name, contact information, maybe a nice design. But Business Insider reported that Chen Guangbiao, a Chinese tycoon who recently made a bid to buy the New York Times, has what Angry Asian Man calls “The Greatest Business Card Ever.” Continue reading
This might be Thunderdome-y, and who knows, maybe it might not be. The question at hand is, who, among the celebrity-verse, do you have a non-sexual crush on?
