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Archive for April, 2006

Movie News

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I just got an email from Starbucks, promoting a movie called ?Akeelah and the bee?.

?Coming soon – a must see movie from Starbucks Entertainment.’

Thanks Starbucks, but I don?t need your Entertainment, or your emails. A consistently priced Latte no matter which branch I go into would be nice. Isn?t that what homogenisation is about?

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Funniest Thighs in Austin

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

The Funniest Person in Austin contest has started. In both the prelim rounds so far, a woman has made it through to the semis. That’s not easy, given that there’s only been 2 women and 13 men in each round.

And they made it even harder on themselves by failing to mention the size of their thighs or bums. Of course in both their cases, their thighs – and probably bums too – are a very acceptable and quite pleasing size. So jokes about the horror of trying on jeans in changing rooms and those awful things that skinny step-children say to you might have fallen as flat as an A cup.

As I myself have found, its very difficult to be self-deprecating as a woman when youre neither fat nor ugly. We have to work so much harder at our comedy. Congratulations to Ruby Miller and Lisa D. My thighs may be fatter and my boobs a little larger, but I will NOT use them to my advantage.

Roll on Week 3.

80 and still kicking around

Monday, April 10th, 2006

The Queen is 80. Buckingham Palace has released 80 extraordinarily dull facts about her. I’ve listed the best.

Queen’s website

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Thanks for nothing, London

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

I was sure that my trip to London would quickly cure me of my recent bout of homesickness. Fantasy versus reality and all that.

It started out promisingly. I flew to London on American Airlines. You get what you pay for. I got $500 of crap. Shabby seats (mine next to the bathroom as usual), no movies, a missing meal and a couldn’t care less attitude from the pig-ugly flight crew. Thank god it was a night flight, the cabin was too dark to see them most of the time. Couldn’t get much sleep though, thanks to the spluttering passenger next to me with the annoying case of tuberculosis.

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