The Bachelor: Jake’s an Okay Guy


The Reality Show I Love to Hate A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Jake Pavelka, AKA “The Bachelor.” I’ve only watched a handful of seasons of The Bachelor, so I knew the basic premise, the cattiness of the girls who “really think they’ve fallen in love,” and the awkward situations that […]

Meeting Keane, and other brushes with stardom in 2009


If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, you know that I love going to concerts, symphonies, operas, plays, and musicals. My favorite concert of 2009 was Keane at the Hollywood Palladium (with Mat Kearney as the opener). My “bosom friend” Esther treated me to my ticket for my birthday, and we met […]

The Bachelor: On The Wings of Love?


The Captain of Her Heart? When I first heard that the new season of ABC’s The Bachelor was going to feature an airline pilot, I thought it was a joke. Knowing what I know as the wife of a pilot, I was baffled that any woman would willingly thrust herself into the pilot wifestyle. Then […]

Cutetulturechic’s Twexicon


My social networking habits seem to go back and forth between Twitter, blogging, MySpace, Facebook, and a couple Ning sites like Pilot Wives Club. Currently, Twitter is my online vice of choice. If you are unfamiliar with the ins-and-outs of Twitter, here’s a handy guide to understanding the 140-character microconversation phenomenon. Many words are melded […]

1992 Music Groups I Liked


Musical Groups/Singers I Like (in no particular order) 1992 Boyz II Men, Color Me Badd, Arrested Development, Extreme, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, Shai, Michael W. Smith, Jon Secada, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Amy Grant, M C Hammer, They Might Be Giants, Michael Bolton, Roxette, Richard Marx, Bryan Adams, House of Pain, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, […]

Nine “Top 9s” of 2009


Top 9 Bands I discovered in 2009Elizabeth and the CatapultPhoenixOwl CityGreg LaswellThe Bird and the BeeVederaThe Airborne Toxic EventPlayRadioPlayFleet Foxes Top 9 Live Performances I attendedKeane , Mat Kearney – Hollywood PalladiumJersey Boys – Chicago, Bank of America TheaterMissy Higgins, Justin Nozuka, Lenka – Atlanta, Center StageMat Kearney, Vedera – Salt Lake City, In the […]

Spartan Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band


During my Junior year at Murray High School, I was a part of the school’s television production crew, SpartanVision (aka SVTV). Each morning we had to be in Mr. Pond’s room at 6:30 am to prepare for the broadcast at the end of 1st period. We had rotating responsibilities each week: camera, editing, script writing, […]