Posts by Danielle
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Most people end up voting the same way as their parents, in my experience.
But now that we all have two votes, that tribalism can be rather fractured, or non-existent. At one family gathering before a recent election, we went around the room and realised that of the eight people present, no one was voting in exactly the same way. (There was one National Party outlier, and then all sorts of combinations of Labour/Green/Maori Party and - the horror! - New Zealand First.)
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Did you see her interview the dominatrix on her chat show? Jay-sus.
I can only handle thirty seconds of her chat show at a time, usually the clips which are snarked-upon with great relish by Joel McHale of The Soup. Should I seek it out, or would it destroy my soul?
Short, whatever.
Well, a model value of 'short' is similar to a model value of 'plus size' - that is, not very. (The shortest of the bunch is five foot three, and they treat her as though she's practically a freak of nature. It occurred to me while watching last week that *I'm* five foot three.)
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So what do we all think of Coronation Street's new titles and -- gasp! -- re-recorded theme tune?
They should have changed it to this:
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Heh, I once recommended against hiring this guy based on the fact that he mentioned that he was a fan of Coronation Street.
Am I allowed to get vaguely GRAR about that? No? Dammit.
(Not that anyone who doesn't watch it is likely to believe me, but Coronation Street is a very, very good show. The acting is 95% excellent and the characters have depth and consistency; even given the soap opera format, it allows for odd thematic things like 'ugly people on TV'; 'older people with important storylines'; and 'addressing working-class concerns'. It's also camp as a row of tents, in parts, and - really, no lie - hilariously funny sometimes. Deliberately.)
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I can't wait till my kids are watching remakes of remakes.
Do you know how many film versions of A Star is Born there are? 'Twas ever thus.
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TV was always junk food but it used to be good junk food.
Now it blows.I couldn't disagree more with this. I actually think there has never been a better time for television in terms of quality drama series (blah blah The Wire, blah blah Mad Men, blah blah...). The problem lies with finding out when the good stuff is scheduled ( Friday Night Lights at midnight on Thursdays: terrific!), and with the sheer amount of stuff to watch. I'm guilty of being sucked in to Real World: Washington DC when I should really be watching that DVD of Homicide: Life on the Street I've owned for a year, for example.
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doesn't work when it's raining heavily
Seriously, WTF is with that? 'Rain fade' can bite me. (And a power cut zapped our new MySky within a month of purchase, so it had to be replaced. Crisis!)
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Isn't the general scary-alien-ness of ANTM the reason people watch it?
Pretty much, yes. My favourite part of the current-on-NZ-TV season, which is all about models under five foot seven, is how relentless they are about the "petiteness" of the models. "This is the shorty-shortpants season! They're short! Were you aware of their general lack of stature? Do you guys realise that they are challenged in the vertical arena? Oh, by the way: SHORT!" To the extent that, without mentioning it, they've clearly forced all of the contestants to wear flat shoes in the judging room. They are evil, eeeeevil people. Heh.
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I've seen the clip or Tyra and Larry King, and I think they look like scary aliens.
Tyra is a *megalomaniac* scary alien. I do not say this lightly: I think only accidents of birth and circumstance have prevented Tyra from becoming the fascist dictator of a rogue state, like Kim Jong-Il. She is transparently, extraordinarily self-aggrandising, and a complete and utter nutbar. She fascinates me.
Regarding dog-like cats: when I hadn't had a dog for a long time because my living circumstances weren't dog-friendly, I had a cat. And I used to say that my cat was dog-like. Then I got a dog again, and realised that my cat was not actually dog-like at all. Dogs are far too relentlessly... doggy. :)
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How about letting the man blog about his cat, if that's what he feels like doing?
Srsly. Indeed, if Russell wants to blog daily about the size and consistency of his cat's shit, that's his prerogative, Bobby Brown styles.
Pet-owning note: Americans are really into indoor cats, and are likely to look askance at you if you have an indoor-outdoor cat. I have even heard people say that having a free-roaming cat is animal abuse, which I find quite strange.