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Superpowers! Flight! Invisibility! Poison spit! Today’s QOTD: Continue reading
You know how you looked up to that one girl or guy in high school and thought to yourself, “If only I were that cool, I would be so popular?”
We all have a nerve that, when touched, we cannot abide and bite our tongue. Something Must Be Said.
Today’s QOTD: Continue reading
Well, cats, obviously.
I was always a cat girl. My first cat was a Siamese named Tiger, when I was two years old.
We went to the ASPCA and found another little girl when I was in first grade. I put my finger on the cage, and she wrapped her paw around my little finger. My father was not happy I called her Muffin. I thought it was a very classy name. Muffin was followed by Crystal: another name of pure class. Continue reading
Didn’t every kid have moments where they believed they’d been switched at birth or adopted? Create some fantasy that their parents were actually rich star-crossed lovers that were counting the days until they could reveal themselves to you and take you to their private island with its own Disneyland and 24 hour ice cream service? I’m sure most of us had an ideal Mom in mind and they called to us from our televisions, the big screen, and books. In keeping with the Mother’s Day theme, today’s QOTD is:
What fictional Mom did you want to be adopted by? Continue reading
Hi Crasstalk, it’s that time again. Time for us to compare notes and answer our question of the day.
Ah, bad movies. They come in so many different forms. You have “So bad as to be amusing in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 way”. There’s “Bad, but also kind of entertaining”. But then, there’s also the flat out “I can’t believe I just paid $10 plus $6 for stale popcorn to see that garbage” (Think Battlefield Earth). Personally, I’ve only ever walked out of one movie in my lifetime, and that happened when I was in high school. That cinematic atrocity? Copland. Sly Stallone as a deaf-in-one-ear sheriff of a town full up with corrupt NYPD cops? Huh. Sounds nuanced. Guess what? It wasn’t. Plodding, idiotic, and confusing? Absolutely. I went with friends to see this moving the summer after my senior year of high school. We had free tickets from a friend who worked at the theater, I think. We lasted maybe an hour. What about you guys? What’s the worst, actual worst, movie you’ve ever seen?
Oh yeah, I love your little art-house offbeat indie comedy starring Parker Posey and that guy with the strange nose from that one Wes Anderson movie. But sometimes you just need a big-ass, big-budget epic monster of a movie. How the fuck else are you supposed to waste all of Sunday afternoon on the couch?
So for today’s QOTD…
What’s your favorite epic movie?
Dorky songs on your workout playlist! C’mon, we all have them.
What’s on your workout list?
If you’ve read my article about me boxing, you know I get INTO that shit. I like songs that pump up and kick ass.
Tops on my list:
- The Theme to Rocky. Of course. Because that’s the Nor’Easter running past you, through Queens, on her way to Philadelphia, where I’m going to run up those steps someday.
- “Eye of the Tiger” — the Survivor Version and the Gloria Gaynor version
- “I Will Survive” — speaking of Ms. Gaynor
- “We’re Not Gonna Take It” — Twisted Sister. Because I’m not going take it. I’m going to punch you, mofo.
- “Cum On Feel the Noize” — Quiet Riot. Yeah, I said Quiet Riot. Not Slade.
- “Theme to St. Elmo’s Fire” — because I am where the Eagles are flying, higher and higher
- “Straight Outta Compton’ — N.W.A. I could not be less outta Compton. I am a white woman from the suburbs of Boston. But I wrap up my hands and throw punches to this sweet ditty, I am gangsta.
- “Back in the Saddle” — Aerosmith. Because I am Boston girl, and I would love to play horsie with Steven Tyler.
I’m sorry, was that last one out loud?