tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336182372011-04-21T16:37:38.938-05:00I promised last December to not write anything serious ever again. I occasionally stay true to my word, this is one of those times. I don't write anything serious. Katherine Miller's blog.katherine m. millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16696088292440895110noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33618237.post-34765495042271942232007-11-06T00:00:00.001-05:002007-11-06T00:17:36.552-05:00

So, another month goes by and another Torch article comes out and, like the Backstreet Boys so immortally put it, that's basically all I have to give right now. Really, my life is boring anyway (I'm literally listening to "Total Eclipse of the Heart," drinking Cherry Coke Zero, and resting my elbow on Shakespeare I don't want to read. Thrilling! Scintillating!) But, on the bright side, it's

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Once again, I am lame and for lack of intrigue, we were out getting Ben & Jerry's for my roommate's birthday. Then it was a like mad dash back when we realized it was 9:15 and The Hills was half over.So, Brody's wearing the shirt that everyone's brother had in the third grade: blue and white striped t-shirt with a thicker yellow stripe going across the chest. Britney Spear's "Gimme More" is

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I was procrastinating doing work earlier by doing the usual blog reading, saw this, and thought "Hey, I could do some more procrastination!" 1. Hardcover or paperback, and why? Paperback...hardcovers are: too heavy, too expensive, and I hate the way the cover always slips off. I don't have time to deal with, like, a book wrapper.2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it… Kitty's Books. Or

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So, I'm an assistant editor for the Life Section of the Vanderbilt Hustler. I had to review the Vanderbilt production of "Keely and Du" the other night, which you can see here (sadly, a few jokes got cut). If you'd like to read a very thoughtful piece on the play, check out Kate Snowden's Torch article this month.Anyway, the play's actually very well done. The objectivity was refreshing, but

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8:01- The candidates' heads float through a hall at Dartmouth University. It’s like Hogwarts!8:02- It seems that BarriO was against the war back in 2002. It feels like I’ve heard this before, but I’m just not sure. Oh, cruel memory. Apparently, 2013 is four years from now.8:04- Hillz is dressed like a ray of hazy, globally warmed sun. Hair looks pretty good, though.8:06- January 2009 has come up

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The next single off Kenny Chesney's new album is out, assaulting me somedays when I wake up to trot off to class (aside: best song to wake up to is most certainly "Firecracker" by Josh Turner..."pack of black cats in a red paper wrapper," indeed, sir). But, you know, apparently we're all just breathless to hear what Kenny Chesney believes is the philosophy behind the secret to life."I turned on

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I'm anxiously anticipating the moment that Elodie leaps up from behind her desk and assaults Heidi with a stapler. I mean, seriously, Heidi, are you a river boat captain? Is it seer-sucker Thursday out in LA?Cleaned-up and sober Jason is geeky and sweet in a way he most certainly was not before.Heidi and Spencer are like our talentless John and Yoko: the obnoxious extreme of pop culture who just

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Watch as Ronald Reagan! takes on La Madame, Tits Magee, an anime John Edwards and fights the DNC Hall of Doom's plan to make us all drive Priuses. Yes, Priuses. Also, get prepared for the preppy Elephanteers and the obligatory "White People All Look the Same" joke. It's a full length comic and it is prepared to do things that few comics have done before.See it here. The comic was written and

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Sometimes, despite all sorts of advice and prizes to the contrary, women go out and join the workforce. Fortunately, this experience will always be negative and just remind them of how much they need a man in their pitiful, womanly lives. I hate Kenny Chesney for making me sound like a feminist. Mostly, I just hate "The Woman With You" because the opening bars sound like "Anything But Mine,"

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If there's one Chesney song I never liked from the first time I heard it until yesterday when I was driving, taking a sip of Diet Coke, which I nearly spit out in my ill-advised, frantic attempt to change the station while turning, it's this one."Well, me and my lady had our first big fight So I drove around until I saw the neon lights At a corner bar. It just seemed right, so I pulled up."

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"Of course this is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"I'll wait a few weeks to say more, but I loved the book, even its (fairly few) flaws. What I really loved about the series, though, is encapsulated in the above quotation, I think; there are some books and teachers that can make imagination and creativity absolutely indestructible, Jo

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My solutions for immigration worked so well, that I thought I would grace the world with 10 Ways to Solve the Iraq War:1. Raid the drug stash of Al Gore III to provide migraine relief during floor debate.2. Put together the Shi'a-Sunni Invitational Hosted by Tiger Woods in Baghdad. Golf seems to distract the hell out of everyone.3. Throw a Harry Potter release party in Iraq. There's nothing ultra

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The other night, I explored the frightening world of unnecessarily poor grammar. Tonight, I'm forging ahead to the saccharine musings on unplanned teen pregnancy of "There Goes My Life.""All he could think about was I'm too young for this.Got my whole life ahead.Hell, I'm just a kid myself.How am I gonna raise one?"When you drag a good Catholic girl (Mary, Katie, Maggie, Lucy, and/or Annie) down

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Kenny Chesney disturbs me in a way that I can't quite describe. If pressed to sum up my distate, it would be the concept of a Hat Room. Where George Strait probably has four or five Stetsons that are on pegs in his closet or sitting on his dresser (or so I like to imagine), Kenny seems like someone who has a walk-in closet lair for just his hats. He has a Hat Room.On the other hand, there are

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Dear China,This about Yi Jianlian, isn't it? We said we were sorry about that. Holding my Mac Book Pro hostage in Shanghai is no solution, though.We have serious weapons that you are not aware of, China.We're breeding mutants. Mutants that can extinguish all human life. You may have heard of Paris Hilton, but we have legions more. As we speak, we are currently destroying those who dare cross our

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Today's just a red letter day for witty people, I guess.Intern #1: Oh, God. 'Jews for Jesus.' They're almost as bad as Greenpeace.Intern #2: Oh I know. Those goddamn Greenpeace harrassers.Random woman: [singing] 'Under the limbo bar! Limbo, limbo, limbo! Ha, ha, ha!' Sorry, Matthew's been watching a lot of Barney.Girl to her friend: That's why I don't want kids.

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Live Free or Die Hard: Bruce Willis kicks ass, everybody is witty (Willis and the bad guy), stuff blows up, Bruce Willis kicks even more ass, everybody is seriously hilarious (Justin Long and McLane's daughter), and all kinds of shit blows up. Whoever was involved with this knows how to make a freaking summer blockbuster that doesn't suck. Also, props to them for not making McLane's daughter a

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7:09- I'm really terrified by Jay Bilas. He's so...chipper. And he does this thing with his voice where he keeps babbling until he's breathlessly panting into his mike and his voice goes really low and gutteral. He kind of sounds like Jim Nance X'd out. 7:39- Boston is sending the number five, Delonte West, Wally Sczerbiak, and Wally's contract to Seattle for Ray Allen. Somewhere, a leprechaun

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I've worked out ten ways to both get the immigration bill passed and solve our immigration problems:1. Avoid any and all close ups on John McCain and Ted Kennedy's faces.2. Serve Coronas (with lime) during the Senate floor debate.3. Send Angelina Jolie some fliers about the, you know, egregious atrocities and violations of the human spirit that these illegal immigrants suffer through silently or

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While I typically hestitate to share my somewhat alarming obsession with Harry Potter with the general public (if by "hesitate to share" I mean "babble to anyone who will listen to me"), press season for the movies tends to be the time I air my thoughts. With Order of the Pheonix premiering on Thursday in Tokyo, I knew it was time for Harry Potter Hair Watch 2007. I was not disappointed.Two

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Volver: I totally love this movie. Super good with a sort of surreal, magical realism Gabriel Garcia Marquez vibe to it that apparently all Almodovar films have. Clearly, I need to get with it here. Penelope Cruz was actually very good (perhaps the permanent joy of getting off the Tom Cruise Express before the stop at Insanity Blvd. where Katie Homes came aboard, has turned her into a good

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In this space, I have discussed the prevalent stalkerish vibe the Vanderbilt frontpage sometimes contains before. Well, the table have been turned, friends. The stalkers are now the subject matter:JESUS.

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I tend to like athletes who above all, win. I don't really care what else they do, so long as they don't annoy me, and they win. I don't typically gravitate towards athletes who are beloved by all (the notable exceptions: Tom Brady and Derek Jeter), and I refuse to support anyone who is inconsistent when the pressure's on in the playoffs (see: A-Rod, Peyton Manning, Dirk Nowitzki). I like

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Yes, that's right: DC Mayor Fenty hired Michelle Wie as school superintendent.Image: WTOP News.

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Things I read about today at work:The plans for Paris Hilton's post-incarceration partyThe Washington Post's four part series on the atrociousness of the DC Public School System [this began as bored reading and then actually became extremely relavent to my job in the afternoon when I had to research it]. The most horrible/darkly hilarious part of it: an American University student taught at a DC

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7:02- Tommy Thompson needs to stop with the hair dye. Like, tonight.7:03- Oh, Mitt Romney. I'm not ashamed to say that I think you're hot. Rudy Giuliani: "I'm Rudy Giuliani and your state's motto 'Live Free or Die' is a good one for our time.'" That's why, slowly but surely, I have become pro-Giuliani.7:07- Mitt's tie is blue. And dreamy. Rudy Giuliani is wearing the power tie. McCain's got, like

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Okay, first of all, I'm still angry as hell that I didn't watch Game 5. Second, the two lessons I learned in blogging Footloose: that the pause button is not my friend, and that I am somewhat incapable of being funny and not describing every minute detail when watching something I actually like. I may try again soon with this. That should be delicious.10:44- I heard that LeBron only took two

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Let's get straight to it.0:47:55- BC Ren takes Crazy Ariel, Rusty, and Willard across the state line somewhere to go dance. "Hurts So Good" is blasting, making this place totally worth it. Willard can't dance it turns out, so he just sits there drinking. Ah, 1983 when the drinking age was still 18. "Footloose" starts up again which seems totally out of character for this vaguely western, honky

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Wrong night to not watch the game; LeBron had a Jordanesque game with 48 points in a game that went into double overtime. ARGH.

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Because I don't particuarly want to watch the game tonight, I've chosen, instead, to liveblog Footloose, probably my favorite eighties movie. Many have not seen it, which is sad, because seeing this movie will immediately improve the quality of your life. After watching it again for about the tenth time in the past two years, I have tried to do it justice tonight. Really, though, it's better to

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As a constant, compulsive email checker I am confronted with the Vanderbilt website and its illustrious frontpage pictures daily. Conceivably, the pictures are intended to be gently alluring, in the typical college admissions tradition of subtlety, like "VANDERBILT: WE LEARN. WE HAVE FUN. COME HERE. FUN FUN FUN." But Vanderbilt's front page excels at making one question why one goes to Vanderbilt

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8:50- Alright, we're at the beginning of the second quarter, it's Cavs 26, Pistons 24. Pavlovic decides to dive, like, horizontally and attempt a shot. Billups responds with a three and Cleveland turns it over two times with consecutive walks. Chauncey's all over the place tonight- fifteen points already.8:54- Daniel Gibson, the rookie from Texas if you will, looks like Chris Brown. Well, I'm not

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10:00- Well, Friends beckoned and I missed almost the entire first half of the Jazz-Spurs game. The first thing I hear? Europe has apparently adopted Argentina and brought it across the Atlantic for a little Daisy Miller sort of adventure. You see, Oberto played 12 years in Europe, 5 of them in Argentina.10:03- The excellence of commentary carries on: "The Spurs just executing the Jazz to death

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8:42- Cleveland is up 7-0 with 8:48 to go in the first. Apparently, LeBron James worked out hard for hours against the advice of everyone in a ten mile radius with a brain. To demonstrate further his incompetency, he wore some sweatpant gouchos. He's scored 5 points, but...it's not as though he's been known for his fourth quarters as of late.8:45- Illgauskus, excepting the fact that he's 7 feet

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9:56- Okay, we've got six to go in the third; Cavs 54, Pistons 49. Varejao and his bouncing ringlets of hair enter the game. This feels like more of the international-may-as-well-be-soccer influence waving around in the Motor City air like the Brazilian flag. It's all very reminiscent of Shirley Temple.10:00- Shirley gets stuffed twice by the Pistons.10:03- LeBron decides to pass through three

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7:34- Yankees are already up 3-0. This is good. I guess. I don't really like the Red Sox and I am predisposed to teams that build dynasties and adapt accordingly to maintain their talent level (Spurs, Pats). But you know, A-Rod does play for the Yankees.7:37- Bonnie Bernstein joins us. I'm constantly confused by what she actually looks like when not under ten layers of fur and leather with a big

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Some random thoughts during the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the Jazz-Spurs series:I still cannot understand how the NBA decided to pick David Blaine as the pitch man for the NBA playoffs. The little rip-off commericals with Jeremy Piven of the too awesome for words Don Cheadle NFL playoff commercials from a few years ago are bad enough. ("The small Canadian man may look like he's auditioning for

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As it appeared in the Vanderbilt Torch (Apr. 2006)Were you aware that March is Women’s History month? I wasn’t either. How fortunate, then, that the Playboy crisis arrived during this time plenty so that critical questions could be answered properly. Would women be able to form conscious thoughts and make logical decisions about posing in a somewhat vulgar publication without the loving guidance

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Running commentary as it appeared in the Vanderbilt Torch (Feb. 2006)7:00- Here we are Valentine’s Day at the Vagina Monologues. Cue up the Monty Python “and there was much rejoicing.” 7:06- It was supposed to start at seven. We all look at our phones, and then at our tickets, and then back at our phones. 7:11- Well, we’re just sitting here, my friends and I. Yes, I have friends. We’re just a

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Running Commentary as it appeared in the Vanderbilt Torch Feb. 2007Another year has gone by. Here's my recap of how our union's doing: 8:00- Katie Couric sits in front of the Capital Dome. Aw, I miss home. Basically all Katie has to contribute is: “The Democrats control Congress now. Nancy Pelosi is a WOMAN. Just like ME!” 8:02- Why is Bob Schieffer wearing a purple tie? 8:05- Congress. Wow,

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Running Commentary as it appeared in the Vanderbilt Torch Dec. 2006I held two convictions going into An Inconvenient Truth: I believe that global warming is happening, and I do not like Al Gore. Both of these convictions were affirmed by the film. And thus, I present this, my running commentary: 7:10 - The film is introduced by a woman with a completely awesome Scottish accent. I decide that I

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