8 facts about me

Caffeine Sparks tagged me. I don’t usually answer these things on this blog but maybe it’s about time I choose the interesting ones and answer once in a while.
Here are the rules for “8 facts”:
1.)In the 8 facts about [name], you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. At the [...]

TV’s bad boys: Bret Michaels and Anthony Bourdain

I’ve been attracted to the weird type of guy recently. At least on t.v. anyway. At first glance, they seem to have nothing in common. One is a middle-aged rock star, who has probably slept with a million women and whom I wouldn’t think of going out with in real life. Another is a middle-aged [...]

Last week I…

Last week I:
◊ Came back from a week-long vacation in San Antonio, Texas. There, I visited family (as always) and did nothing but hang out with them, sleep, swim and relax.
◊ Started a new job. I quit the old one because I got a better offer that I would have been really stupid not to [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love. -Albus Dumbledore

Just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. My head is still spinning. I read every single page like my life depended on it. I’m still in a state of inexplicable numbness. I can’t believe [...]

Michiko Kakutani on Harry Potter 7

I rarely am able to appreciate book reviews, as I feel like the critic normally makes a forced effort to be too high-faluting, especially in throwing in references to classical works in comparison to the new material reviewed.
Maybe I’m just a big Harry Potter fan, maybe, as her reputation precedes her, Michiko Kakutani of the [...]

Bret Michael’s Rock of Love and Scott Baio is 45 and Single

I’m supposed to be asleep. But I’m up and about because for some reason I switched the tv channel from the usual Court TV program I put on when I’m about to snooze to VH1, thinking that mindless reality programming would make me hit the sack faster. Boy was I wrong.
There are two new reality [...]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It’s been ages since I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I don’t even remember when or where I read it, so it was a pleasant surprise when I headed off to the theater today, on HP’s opening day, and the plot and characters came back to me just as if I [...]

The Police+John Mayer on Live Earth

I wasn’t able to catch the Live Earth concert because I was on a plane for most of its July 7 airing. However, I read that The Police and John Mayer were on stage together for Message in a Bottle and I just had to see how it went.
Watch the video on this link.
Who would [...]

Telenovela at LA City Hall

I don’t get to read columnists as often as I want to. I read Maureen Dowd when i get the chance but her column online can only be accessed via Times Select and I don’t have the patience to constantly look for a blog who has posted her current work. I read Joel Stein when [...]

Another classic showbiz line

In the tradition of the Melanie Marquez quote, “Do not judge my brother, he is not a book,” here is a new one courtesy of my favorite, Ricky Lo and Cesar Montano:

Tell us more about the movie you’re doing in Hollywood.
Cesar: Babylon’s Ark is a true story based upon a novel.

PS. If you have [...]