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March 11, 2010

Last week brought yet another situation which illustrates that my wife will never, ever be able to fully understand me.

I’m speaking, of course, about my behavior during the Olympic gold medal hockey game between the United States and Canada, which took place on Feb. 28. And before we delve into what happened, some background is in order.

Let me start by saying that I have absolutely nothing against Canada.  Nothing. I love Canada. I’ve been there many times, and I love it. The people are nice, their money has cute pictures of birds on it, and their accents are adorable.

Sure, there are some things about Canada I have a problem with. There are certain words they don’t know how to spell correctly – words like “...

March 11, 2010

I should warn everyone that I have an open bottle of red wine by my side as I write this week’s recap. You can’t really blame me, can you? This season of American Idol has been horrible enough to drive anyone to drink – if only to help choke down the disappointment of a thousand pitchy notes tumbling from the trembling mouths of reality show stereotypes.

Perhaps it would be more bearable if Paula was still around to drink for us - or with us - but we have no vicarious outlet for our pain. Ellen – who at one time seemed like somebody who could replace Paula’s genuine connection with the contestants – has instead become another head on a heartless panel. Is there any hope when Kara seems to be the only one who even pretends to care...


Talking Points

Entertainment

  • Tuesday night’s show started with Ellen all over Simon and I mean ALL OVER Simon. Ellen’s face was red with passion, Simon’s face was red with mortification and Kara’s face was green with envy.

    Tonight was “Ladies Night” and it was made very clear to the 8 remaining female contestants...

  • I recently had the good fortune to pick up a copy of the Kinks Choral Collection, a new CD of classic songs by the highly esteemed English rock band The Kinks. The songs performed by the group’s main songwriter Ray Davies and a band (The Kinks disbanded in 1996) and a large choir.

    While...

  • Madame Arcati is back in town! And the great Arcati will soon be doing her crazy thing onstage at Howell High School as they are gearing up for a blast from the past with their production of "Blithe Spirit" to be performed March 19 , 20 and 21 at 7 p.m. and March 21 at 2 p.m. 

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News

Life

  • When I first decided to accept Maria Stuart's offer to blog at LivingstonTalk.com, I had a long LivingstonTalk with myself about where the line was between writing about my work as a concert promoter, and what I might consider abusing my journalistic powers and using my blogger status to simply...

Events

  • When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered, "Go home and love your family."

    Fond feelings for our progeny notwithstanding, parenting can often be pretty tough sledding. In fact, parenting is arguably the most...

  • It makes perfect sense having a student design the poster for a student art exhibit at The Opera House. In this case, that's just what happened for Got Art 2010.

    The annual Got Art exhibit, an eclectic mix of youth inspired art K-12, will be held this month. The popular show is in its...

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