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#12DaysofChristmasEpisodes: day 3 - two more episodes of Friends. Look, I'm tired. I just want to sleep.

“The One with the Inappropriate Sister” – image via Recap Guide Friends – season 5, episode 10 – “The One with the Inappropriate Sister” Decorated apartment/Central Perk = 1pt Total = 1 point Friends – season 6, episode 10 – “The One with the Routine” Trimming the tree = 1pt Decorated apartment/Central Perk = 1pt Phoebe, Rachel and Chandler searching for their presents in Monica’s apartment = 1pt…

#12DaysofChristmasEpisodes: The Last Man on Earth, Ugly Betty, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Nanny, Rev, The Vicar of Dibley, and Friends

The Vicar Of Dibley [image via The Digital Fix] The Last Man on Earth – season 2, episode 9 – “Secret Santa” Decorated house = 1pt Tandy dressed as a Christmas tree, singing “Oh Tandy-baum” = 1pt Secret Santa = 1pt Almost sing-along (“This Little Light of Mine”) = 1pt Sitting around the tree, exchanging presents = 1pt Actual sing-along (“Deck the Halls”) = 3pts Total = 8 points I actually watched…

#12DaysofChristmasEpisodes: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Friends, and The Mindy Project

The One With Phoebe’s Dad [image via TV Fanatic] Brooklyn Nine-Nine: season 1, episode 11 – “Christmas” Christmas music in the cold open = 1pt Miscellaneous Santa x 2 = 2pts Decorated precinct = 1pt Search for the perfect present (variation – card, not present) = 1pt Total = 5 points And so begins the 12 Days of Christmas Episodes, with a not-terribly-Christmassy episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine,…

12 Days of Christmas Episodes is back!

  This time last year, I spent twelve days watching Christmas episodes of various television shows, and writing about them.  I chose to do this partly as an experiment to see if doing so would instill in me some sort of holiday spirit (spoiler: it didn’t), and partly because I wasn’t working very often, and needed a project to keep myself occupied. While my opinions on Christmas itself remained…

A question of “When?”

image via wikipedia   When Anastasia Krupnik decides to become a journalist in Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Has the Answers, she starts every story with the questions “Who?”, “What?”, “When?”, “Where?”, and “Why?”. Basic questions that compile the elements of any story, whether true or fictional. As I work on the structure of my novel, I find myself ticking most of the boxes next to these questions.…

Analysing the Gilmore Girls revival the only way Rory Gilmore knows how: with a Pro/Con list.

Image via Buzzfeed   With the news that Netflix is in talks to revive Gilmore Girls (with Amy Sherman-Palladino at the helm!); I’ve decided to try and process this information Rory Gilmore-style – with a Pro/Con list. PRO CON With Amy Sherman-Palladino back in charge, we can pretend that the seventh season never happened.  It’ll be like Community‘s “gas leak year” all over again. Paris Gellar. …

When Ryan Adams announced he was recording an album of Taylor Swift covers, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  I thought that maybe he’d put together a half-hearted effort, and maybe treat the project as a joke.  But what Adams delivered on Monday was a collection of recordings as earnest as anything Swift herself has produced. Adams’…

Oz Comic-Con Melbourne, Saturday June 27th, 2015. As per usual, I went to quite a bit of effort to put this costume together, and then hardly took any photos. Costume details: Lab coat from Melbourne Uni (via The Co-op), with a fake pocket sewn over the emblem. Old dress from Cotton On, Florence and the Machine hoodie, and Dr Martens boots. Wig from Heaven Costumes (cut and styled by me). The…

21 things I learned from Rob Thomas at #MWF15.

I only went to two Melbourne Writers Festival events this year (living in the country makes these things difficult), and they just happened to both be events involving the one and only Rob Thomas (no, not that Rob Thomas – the other one) –  ‘Rob Thomas: Veronica Mars to iZombie’ and ‘Veronica Mars: The Pilot’.  Here are the most interesting points that I’ve distilled from my six pages of notes……

In which I ramble about blogging and the meaning of life. A photo posted by Britt Aylen (@snapoutofbritt) on Aug 23, 2015 at 12:20am PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js Alright, how’s it going, alright? It’s been a little while, I know. Sometimes I struggle with this blog, because I don’t really know the point of it. When I first started writing here, about five and a half years ago, I…

Hamish Blake and I have many things in common…  Intelligent/attractive wife and adorable child.  Paid to do silly things while travelling the world.  One half of this year’s most anticipated drive time radio program.  Owing successes to humble beginnings at Channel 31 in Melbourne. #fbf #flashbackfriday The ‘Music News’ segment was always my favourite part of being a presenter on 1700 (back in…

A pleasant afternoon on the ZanziBar rooftop. I’ve always stood firmly on one side of the Melbourne vs. Sydney debate, to the point where I once wrote an essay arguing Melbourne’s superiority for a high school English assignment.  And I experienced nothing to dispel this belief on Friday night.  In Sydney for a quick 48 hour visit (the main purpose of which was to see my sister perform in an…