“Hmm,” I said as I read a fellow blogger’s humble gratitude for an “award” they had just received. Accepting this “award” meant that they had to answer questions about themselves and post them for the whole world to see. It also required them to nominate a certain number of other bloggers for the “award” and [...]
Archive for the ‘Pop Culture’ Category
Happy Towel Day!
Posted in Pop Culture, Silliness, tagged Hitchhiker's Guide, May 25th, Towel Day on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
May 25th is Towel Day. Have your towels readily available and display them proudly! http://www.towelday.org/ A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of [...]
Kitchen Dancing
Posted in Music, Pop Culture, Silliness, tagged Bach's Little, baking, band, Bernstein, bottomless microphone stand, broccoli, Caballo Pelotero, Can't Fight This Feeling, cashew butter, celiac, celiac disease, chef, citrus fruit, closet singer, cocoa nibs, Conga, cooking, cooking with kids, dairy-free, dancing, drums, drumstick spoons, egg-free, Falco, family cooking, Fell On Black Days, Fire Woman, food allergies, food allergy, Footloose, Forerigner, fridge, fugue, fun with food, George Clinton, Gloria Estefan, gluten intolerance, gluten-free, guitar hero, guitar spatula, Hal Sparks, harmony, hidden talent, high kick, Honda Civic, I Want To Know What Love is, joyful noise, Kenny Loggins, kitchen, kitchen dancing, kitchen rhythm, Kool & The Gang, Le Gran Combo, macchiato, Mahler's Titan, makeshift microphone stand, microphone tongs, Mix Stix, Open Sesame, orange juice, oyster sauce, Panama, pink guitar, Princes of the Universe, prosciutto, Queen, REO Speedwagon, rice milk, Right Now, Rock Me Amadeus, rock on, rock star, salsa, Sammy Hagar, sauces, seafood, self-conscious about singing, singing, singing in car, singing in kitchen, Son Cubano, Soundgarden, soy-free, spaghetti, spareribs, The Cult, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, wailing, We Want The Funk, We're Not Gonna Take It, Weird Al on April 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
HEEEREE WE ARE! BORN TO BE CHEFS WE MAKE SAUCES OF THE UNIVERSE (duh dun, dun dun, dun dun) Here WE belong Fighting for the rice milk– We have to make prosciutto for you all! In the privacy of my own car and kitchen, I am a rock star. Aren’t you? This culinary take on [...]
Almost Live
Posted in Pop Culture, Silliness, tagged Alien Gumbys, Almost Live, Bill Nye, Billy Quan, COPS, COPS in Ballard, High Five'n White Guys, Jet Guys, John Keister, Middle Management, Mind Your Manners, Pat Cashman, poking fun at Seattle, Roscoe's Rug Emporium, Seattle comedy, Seattle humor, Space Needle, Speed Walker, The Survivalist on February 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the 1990s, Seattle became known for coffee, grunge, and political correctness. Thankfully one local comedy troupe had the wherewithal to poke fun at every niche of Seattle-area society anyway– no one was spared. Saturday nights at 11:30, Almost Live created memorable characters like the High Five’n White Guys, Jet Guy, and The Survivalist. They [...]
It’s Groundhog Day!
Posted in History, Pop Culture, tagged Bill Murray, encouragement, feeling stuck, Frogger, gift of each day, Groundhog Day, Groundhog Day movie, I Got You Babe, making the most of each day, Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, Punxsutawney Phil, put your little hand in mine, seeing his shadow, Sonny and Cher, Spongebob, spring, winter on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
February 2nd is the day millions of Americans wake up terrified that Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” will be playing on the radio. Why? If you’ve seen the 1993 movie Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray, you understand. I, for one, will be using an annoying digital tone as my wake-up prod, not the [...]
Apostrophe Madness
Posted in Pop Culture, Silliness, tagged apostrophe, catch phrase, colloquialism, conspiracy, corn cob holders, grammar, lost snake, possession, punctuation, python, quotation marks, spelling, superspy, Tacoma, text language, texting, texting symbols, Victor Borge on January 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Do you ever look at a word so long when you’re trying to spell it that you start doubting it’s really a word? Tacoma. Ta-co-ma. Tacoma. Yeah, that’s right. Taco-MAHHH! (like the evil priest shouting “Kali Ma!” in Temple of Doom while struggling with Indiana Jones). Tacoma? Hmm. This is such a simple word, yet [...]
English’s Language
Posted in Music, Pop Culture, tagged Aaron English, Aaron English Band, All the Waters of This World, American music, American [fever] Dream, Believe, Cheb Mami, damp basement, David Byrne, Deep Blue Quiet Places, Emerald City, folk, God Bless You and Your Man, grunge, introspection, lactose intolerance, local music, piano man from Seattle, pop, reflection, rhododendrons, Salish, salt water, Seattle artist, Seattle music, songs from the rain, Space Needle, Starbucks, The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon, world beat on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Seattle, home of Starbucks, the Space Needle, and grunge. Since its inception more than 20 years ago, the Emerald City has been associated with the angst-saturated sounds of modern rock’s wrong turn down a dark alley. Thankfully there is a new generation of musical artists who are helping our area become known for more [...]
