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Picture it: Thanksgiving of 2006 (yes, I’ve become Sophia in “Golden Girls”). I was living in Chapel Hill, NC, 12 hours from my family for the holiday, and was just out of a medical leave due to spiraling migraine issues. I had just had a ridiculously dramatic break from my best friend for taking something [...]

There’s been a bunch of celeb talk of abandoning Twitter. Miley Cyrus felt the need to give YouTube a collective migraine rapping about it. Lily Allen was much more succinct. And when someone actually understands what Courtney Love says, please let me know.
I’ve been on Twitter since the Ice Age of Social Networking. That means [...]

Today is a day in American history where everyone spends a lot of time reminiscing, remembering the pain we all went through eight years and hoping we never have that happen again.
This is one of the best of the post-9/11 videos.

Bless all the people who died on 9/11, and bless the friends and families [...]

I’m at Dragon*Con, which is what I suppose I should be writing about. It’s great, very packed, and you can look at pics via @dragoncon on Twitter or #dragoncon on Twitter search.
But what I’ve got on my mind at this second is that a “listening post” for Robbie Williams’ new single.

Also, a 30-second preview of [...]

Oasis broke up last night about 10 minutes before a set at a festival. So classy. But really, what else could you expect out of the Gallaghers?
I am not a proper Oasis fan. I feel certain that somewhere Robbie Williams and Blur are collectively laughing their arses off, and rightfully so. Neither Noel or Liam [...]

I feel like total crap, so this is going to be YouTube embeds and little comment. All I have to say that really the Pet Shop Boys are the reason I’m Brit-obsessed now, because they would play them on WZYP in Huntsville (and I have to say that was probably brave in the ’90s south, [...]

I’ve avoided posting about Oreo more often because it felt like a chiched Nora Ephron film. Single woman meets dog, finds fulfillment and then ultimately meet and passionately kiss some guy she meets at the dog park. The third part is the part of the story that makes me very iffy. Love may come my [...]

Today’s my birthday. This has traditionally not been a happy day for me, but I’m hoping this will be better. Just got birthday kisses from Oreo, and I’m typing this from my new house and in a few hours I’ll be going to work at a job I love. The things that make me sad [...]

I’m on a social networking hiatus. No Twitter, no Facebook and, for the most part, no blogging. Don’t have anything to say about that other than I look at the comings and goings of very important people in my life and that this seems to happen more when I’m using cyber-validation for my self-esteem after [...]

I have quit listening to top-40 country radio. It’s a personal-taste thing. I have little or no caring to
1) watch 80’s hair metal guys somehow relaunch into being country. Seriously, does Mutt Lange want to hurt Shania Twain that much by proving she was basically singing the same songs with different instruments?
2) Pay [...]

This is my very favorite Tori Amos song, sung by the PS 22 choir from a school in Staten Island.




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I guess none of you Lady GaGa haters would like to see Faith No More cover “Poker Face”, would you?

And it’s impossible to mark this sad and historic day without my own favorite Michael Jackson video, “Black Or White”. I wasn’t a fan of the man, but the music lives on.



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I pretty much agree with President Obama’s stance on the Iranian protests - this is Iran’s fight and their decision to make in the end. However, I don’t think that any government should be beating and killing people in the street while they’re in peaceful protest. We were wrong to do it ourselves at Kent [...]

Sirus’ First Wave channel is knocking Radio 1 off of the receiver. The music feels like a folder of music that I used to have that was given to me. Lost the whole folder when my MacBook first gave up its hard drive ghost. But thanks to this album, I’ve been reminded of everything from [...]

Just saw a performance of Crowded House’s “Distant Sun” on Jools Holland’s show that was proof that we need to dust off our old aging tracks every once in awhile.




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I haven’t posted about music for awhile. A big part of that was having my XM Radio receiver stolen in the parking lot two days after I gave notice to the apartment complex. I was very annoyed and suffered from severe Pete Tong and Annie Mac withdrawals.
(I realize that I can hear Radio 1 and [...]

I know, I know that I post waaaay too much Ant and Dec. I think that they passed Robbie Williams and “Doctor Who” in sheer post count. But if you have never watched my videos before or have some contempt for them, try this one. I promise that it will make you laugh.

*thanks the official [...]

It’s kinda crap for me to review a show about 12 hours before the next week’s episode. But it’s been a week. And frankly, I’m ready for the whittling-down-the-contestants show.
- This year’s George Sampson dreamboat entry: Shaun Smith. I’m actually kinda annoyed with this guy, because he should be on “The X Factor” and not this show, and I suspect he has more of a chance of beating Susan Boyle than anyone else. I really hate the advantage that the young kids have on this show. But he’s gorgeous and will corner the young girls as Simon’s “Mick Hartnell, but good looking.”
- Another contender: A guy who looks like he’s getting ready to sing on “American Idol” but busted out in male soprano. He’s Adam Lambert but with about 20 times the voice.
- Ohmigod, I actually never expected to see Gaz from “2 Pints of Lager” on BGT: A guy in Union Jack pants and nothing else named Merlin. And true to form, he had a Janet-like assistant. And like Gaz, he tries to hard to prove he can really be a man by getting himself out of chains, juggling fire and then getting himself out of a helmet full of water. I suspect this couple are rather kinky at home. I also think that Simon Cowell doesn’t really mean it when he wants to see acts endangering their lives onstage.
- This year’s gift to gay boys: The Dreambears. Very cute, and Simon pretended well not to like them.
- This year’s second gift to gay boys (and straight girls too): A male stripper who almost took Amanda Holden home with him. *wipes up drool*
- Really, could someone English please enter the cool gadget contest that ITV is giving away this year for me? I’m not going to be able to watch more weeks of this show without buying a Wii.
- A very entertaining act because of the person, not the act: I won’t spoil this one with comment. Okay, one comment — either she’s watched too much Catherine Tate, or Tate has met her.
- This week’s disgusting act that really could’ve been left

Hello, I’m Dana. I’m 30-something with no kids, and I’m a Miley Cyrus fan. Go ahead and start laughing.
It’s one of the unexplainable things about me, like the fact that I have the first hour of 9/11 on the Today Show saved on my TiVo. And me and my best friend Yola actually watched it and discussed it both in the sense that my favorite weird documentary on UK telly lately was this Horizon special, “How To Survive A Disaster.” I’m one of these people who wants to see both the breaking news aspect of such things and a legitimate desire to live through anything, even swine flu. Oh, excuse me, H1N1 type A influenza. Never seen people so passionate to rename a disease.
Anyway, I had lost a bit of my faith in the Cyrus machine, per se, after all the rumors that she’s misbehaved on the “Hannah Montana” set. That show is kind of the opposite of the 9/11 video — when you’re in news and it’s been a s**t day and a lot of people are hurting, sometimes watching really cheesy homages to the unreality of LA is the only thing that can make you smile. And I dare you to listen to “Life’s What You Make It” and NOT SMILE. Even if it’s a Simon Cowell smile.
But I really like this song. I wish this were the song she’d played on “Saturday Night Takeaway”, because I was expecting her to be better than Britney Spears, which she did on “The X Factor”, and it was a letdown.
First clip’s her normal “playing to a group of screaming kids” crowd. Glad swine flu wasn’t around then.

Second one is her performance at the Kids’ Inaugural, which is nice and elegant.

Note: I went to Clinton’s idea of a Youth Ball back in ‘93. Mine had the Connells and Live. Seriously, where did all the cool alt-rock bands go? Or am I missing something?



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I appreciate making the world a better place while showing us things we’ve only read about in history, Also, this is wicked cool on an HDTV.



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