Not a remake of the James Herriott books

From Empire: "We don’t know about you, readers, but when Empire thinks of All Creatures Great And Small, we think of soothing Sunday evening viewing, of the world’s most famous vet, James Herriott, of Christopher Timothy with his hand stuck up a cow’s arse." At times, the writing of Empire is eerily similar to our own thoughts, don't you agree? Glad to read that someone else under the age of 60 has watched ACGAS. Though perhaps I should not be surprised seeing as it is a British publication.

you should try this tea!

am totally loving this new tea I tried by the Republic of Tea called Pineapple Ginger Green tea. It is lovely. Perfect for a Sunday morning. Makes me want to swear off Starbucks...

the wrong box

so I called both of you but neither picked up. I found a first edition copy (from 1889!!!) of THE WRONG BOX. oh am was I excited (not really sure if anyone other than us would be so thrilled about it since I am pretty sure no one else has either seen the movie or heard of the book as it is more obscure robert louis stevenson). I think it is ready for a remake!! (oh young michael caine, how awesome you were!)

Rocknrolla preview

please, please let this be a return to form for Guy Ritchie. check out the preview here. . please let it be snatch, only with the piv and ludacris....it seems to have the same sort of russian jokes and lots of varied british accents. and lots of punching.

wft happened to gloucester??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080619/hl_nm/usa_pregnancy_teens_dc_3
crazy ladies and their pregnancy pact. are they stupid or what? true, I diagnosed 4 teen pregnancies last week in my clinic...but you expect that in DC....

someone else has heard of tasha tudor!

From jezebel:
"When I was nine, I wrote a fan letter to Tasha Tudor. For those of you unfamiliar with the children's illustrator who died yesterday at the age of 92, she was as known for her aggressively anachronistic 19th century lifestyle on a New England farm as she was for her delicate watercolors of children and animals. As a pantaloons-wearing third-grade oddball who'd rigged up a fake root cellar in my back yard, the idea that a grown-up could pursue this kind of eccentricity so boldly was very appealing. Born into an old Boston family (about which she talks a lot in The Private World of Tasha Tudor and The Tasha Tudor Cookbook - what, you don't have them?) Tasha Tudor was in fact a hardworking artist who illustrated more than a hundred books and raised four children as a single mother. That she lived by candlelight, had hundreds of corgis, spun her own flax, raised goats and chickens and wore clothing exclusively from the 1830s was almost incidental - which is what made it so awesome."
the full post

So odd, so obscene

whoa. the whole world is following our election

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VHQS5q6je0

and to get the context watch his/her earlier video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1LEsSeYJw

maybe shrillary would have won if she chose such an upbeat theme song for her campaign!

the word 'prescient' comes depressingly to mind...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=
111816&title=2000-election-coverage

summer songs....

i'm totally grooving to this song in my car....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A

I Capture

I am missing you both terribly having just watched I Capture the Castle (after having miraculously finding a copy at Amoeba). Dodie you must buy the book that Esmee and I are reading called "Devil in the Kitchen." It's pretty great. About Marco Pierre White, whom I've only heard of from having read Bridget Jones so damn many times. It was so funny, tonight Es and I were talking and she told me that she had just read a great book Soon I Will Be Invincible, and I positively shrieked because I had just read the script of it (which is a project we are doing). Crazy, right? We even think we read it on the same day. Well, anyways, I should probably go to sleep seeing as I have work in the morning. xo

excited

I start the new job tomorrow! so excited!!

best album title ever

Awesome new trailer

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/choke/

You gotta love Sam Rockwell. Am very curious to see how they managed to adapt this book.