Kara & Michael’s Blog

I fancy James May. This is the explanation for how one of my birthday gifts this year was the series Oz and James’s Big Wine Adventure. If you’re like me, you’ve never heard of this show. If you’re like me, you also somehow have a magical dvd player that can play dvds from region whatever [...]

I don’t like Ben Stein. I think he is evil, or at least unsavory. And Comcast now has these commercials with Shaq and him, where Stein says, “I know about money, because I’m an economist.”
And I guffaw. That’s right, I said “guffaw.” Because it seems to me if Ben Stein knew about money he’d probably [...]

If you’re a nice guy, the woman you’re dating won’t care if you’re married so long as you have a good excuse.
There are, of course, no consequences to having an extra-marital relationship when you finally get a divorce.
A guy who takes you on a vacation after two weeks of dating and gets one room with [...]

I stayed up late on Friday night/morning watching Lost Highway by David Lynch. At the end of the movie I thought to myself, well that was pretty and intense but it didn’t say much of anything to me. It didn’t even make any damn sense.
Well, today I was watching one of those state-sanctioned anti-drug commercials. [...]

I was watching The Pickup Artist 2 on VH1 last night. I was watching mostly because they referred to the host Mystery as world-famous and I’d never heard of him. The premise of the show is that Mystery is going to help a few dorks to get laid. No, really, that’s the premise.
Before I go [...]

I complained to Michael a lot about how I don’t have time to do anything. Work-out, cook, do laundry, clean the kitchen. Whinewhinewhinewhine.
So I decided I would shut-off the tv for the majority of the week, vowing that I would spend only a half hour in front of it after work, and see what happened.
Well, [...]

The genius George Harrison song is titled “Something,” not “Something in the Way She Moves.”  A quick check on Wikipedia, or amazon.com for the track-listing of Abbey Road will confirm this easily.
I gather that most people aren’t really huge beatles fans anymore (I’ve been rocking out to the mono-mixes in the car for a few months now), [...]

I’ve been abstaining from TV for three days now, with what I guess I would call mixed results. I haven’t completely avoided the medium — Kara and I have watched two episodes of John Cleese’s documentary The Human Face, which I have on DVD, but I don’t really feel bad about that because it was [...]

Two things happened to me recently:

I bought issue 100 of Granta, a literary magazine of some note that I’d never heard of before. I’ve only read about fifty pages of it so far, but it’s all been thoroughly enjoyable. I realized it’s been far too long since I read anything really good — or anything [...]

It’s been two weeks since Flavor of Love 3 started.  I have to tell you, I find it disappointing so far.
None of the women really stick out.  I knew Season 2 would be hard to top since the first episode that season included a brawl and a dump taken on the floor.  But really, they [...]