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Entries from March 2005

Spring…

March 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · Photos and Shutterblogs

Okay, I’ve uploaded some more Chicago Botanic Gardens pictures and jiggered things around. The main albums page is here, and the newest album is “Spring 2005.“
It was a nice day that day, if a little cold, and windy on the southern exposures (Ooh! my Aunt Fanny!). Today, though, was a really nice, actually [...]

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Aiyee! Yes! Nooo! Ouch! Yay!

March 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · Clan: McTiVo

That pretty much says it all for tonight’s double-barreled TAR7 episode - it turned out to be a non-elimination episode first, with an elimination second. Gretchen took a terrible spill and cut up her face something awful, plus they had wandered around looking for the clue before that, so they came in last. In yet [...]

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No. Just: No.

March 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

The latest bizarre, yet strangely compelling must-have item chronicled at Boingboing: Pet pillows made from the fur of your very own very dead pet!
Well, this option is no longer open to us. Which is an extremely good thing.
Besides which, the cleaning ladies would be mystified by the extremely quiet, tidy, and square kitty [...]

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The Kumars at No. 42

March 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · Clan: McTiVo

Now that I’m on the subject of British TV, I’ve recently gotten into watching “The Kumars at No. 42,” a wacky satire on chat shows set in the rec room of an East Indian family that live somewhere in British suburbia. The episode with Richard E. Grant (and Michael Parkinson) had me convulsed, but David [...]

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The New Doctor Who

March 29th, 2005 · Comments Off · Clan: McTiVo

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Doctor Who is Saturday night hit

The reviews are good; I hope it shows up on BBC America soon. I’d love to watch Doctor Who again after all these years - I watched almost all of the Tom Baker episodes and quite a few of the Peter Davison ones, long ago [...]

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