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July 17, 2008: TV and ice cream, my favorite things
Comments: 9 | Categories: Music & TV

In new baby news: If one more person tells me how tired I'm going to be, I will stab them with a plastic toddler fork. Read more at Parenting.com. In television news: for those of you whose TiVos, TiFauxs and...

July 10, 2008: For once I watched something educational
Comments: 6 | Categories: China , Music & TV

Thank Ted Koppel from saving you from another nap post. (Although I seriously can't help myself: three hour morning nap, people! THREE HOURS. No afternoon nap and a HELLISH time going to bed! Gah!) But anyway. Ted Koppel. We saw...

April 21, 2008: How I like to spend my evenings
Comments: 9 | Categories: Music & TV

Today marks the start of National Turn Off TV Week. Did you know that? Damn my news obsession. Last Friday morning, for the first time ever, I dug a children's DVD out of the cabinet and turned it on for...

March 13, 2008: Yet another glimpse into my messed up mind
Comments: 21 | Categories: Music & TV

I used to read books. Those books on the bookshelves? ALL MINE. Phillip owns, like, The Simpsons Encyclopedia and the entire score to Cosi Fan Tutte, but those don't count. And those books aren't just from old college classes either....

March 6, 2008: Fierce!
Comments: 11 | Categories: Music & TV

I knew you guys were of my tribe. Seriously, I can get through about half a column of Thin Mints before I decide I need a drink of water. Which I fetch from the kitchen before I sit down to...

March 5, 2008: God bless the Girl Scouts
Comments: 18 | Categories: Music & TV

This is how I watch American Idol: Fast forward the contestant introductions. Fast forward Ryan Seacrest. Fast forward contestant interviews. Fast forward to first song. Make guess about this week's theme. If I like the song, I'll watch it. Most...

February 25, 2008: Where I went last night
Comments: 6 | Categories: Music & TV

Lack of posting today is brought to you by: The Fug Girls and Ryan and Giuliana and The Manolo and the people who invented snark. I watched (and cried through) the whole thing. It was, as they are saying, a...

February 22, 2008: Things that made me cry...
Comments: 11 | Categories: Music & TV

...on the way to my parents' house today. (Because no one reads this thing on Friday afternoons anyway.) Oh, wait, before I make my list I have to tell you that I MEANT to listen to the rosary thing I...

January 11, 2008: An appropriate dose of Prom
Comments: 10 | Categories: Music & TV

APPARENTLY you get your sleep-averse kid to sleep through the night by driving an hour away after his first (two hour!) nap taking him out to lunch going to visit his great-grandma letting him fall asleep in the car trying...

December 20, 2007: Television Thursday- maybe later
Comments: 3 | Categories: Music & TV

I have a new post up at Parenting today about the Sheer Trauma that was leaving my child overnight with his grandparents last weekend. As if you do not get enough of the Sheer Trauma here! I have a whole...

December 13, 2007: A French maid goes to a funeral
Comments: 9 | Categories: Music & TV

Hey there [all four] readers of mine. I've got a new gig. I'd just love it if you stopped by and told me I look pretty. And I will, as always, stoop to bribery. Christmas cookies? Love letters? Laundry? I'm...

November 8, 2007: No, I did not forget to post today
Comments: 7 | Categories: Music & TV , NaBloPoMo07

But that doesn't mean I have anything interesting to say. Which means a television post! Whee! You television-less people (AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) can skip this and come back tomorrow. Ciao! I just started watching Brothers & Sisters....

November 5, 2007: Dear TV and Film Writers,
Comments: 10 | Categories: Music & TV , NaBloPoMo07

What are you doing to me? Don't you know I have a small child at home? Sometimes this small child does not go to sleep when he is supposed to. Sometimes this small child wants to be held all day....

October 19, 2007: A television post addendum
Comments: 5 | Categories: Music & TV

I'm giving my kid ten minutes to fuss in his crib (JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY) before I hop in the shower and get ready to spend the day with Grandpa, just long enough to smack myself in the forehead...

October 18, 2007: What am I missing?
Comments: 8 | Categories: Music & TV

I hate days like today. Where ten in the morning looks like four in the afternoon. Days like today should have warnings on the local news, you know, like when the weatherman gives you the pollen count or the smog...

September 24, 2007: Grumble grumble
Comments: 8 | Categories: Music & TV

Well, internet, I've decided that four months bites. And I would tell you what it bites except this is a family website. My kid could not be cuter. That is not the issue. The issue is: my darling sweet-faced happy...

August 30, 2007: How do I love you, TiFaux?
Comments: 7 | Categories: Music & TV

A very traumatic thing happened over the summer and I will refer to it as The Great TiFaux Hard Drive Crash of 2007. Plainly put, I have not had my TiFaux for over a month. A MONTH, people. I have...

April 20, 2007: A Friday-caliber post, I'm sorry
Comments: 8 | Categories: Music & TV

So I wrote something vaguely related to the campus shooting. Then I deleted it. I decided that pretty much everything Phillip and I have been discussing in front of our cable news addiction (okay okay, MY cable news addiction) can...

April 12, 2007: A small bit of terribly exciting news
Comments: 6 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

Last night was not a good night. Drama at work, meetings without end, getting lost inside an apartment complex resembling military base housing circa 1970 on our [successful] quest for a frame stroller off of craigslist. A phone call from...

March 14, 2007: I got nothing
Comments: 6 | Categories: Music & TV

I have nothing to write about today. I have been staring at the Compose A New Post window for hours with nary a thought in my empty little head. (For those interested, the governor is on the radio right now...

February 22, 2007: More TV! Syndicate me already!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Music & TV

Do you all get Newsweek like me? And let it sit around on your coffee table until you get really bored and flip through looking for the page with the funny quotes? Well I actually read my Newsweek yesterday because...

February 9, 2007: A few thoughts on Friday
Comments: 7 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

Apparently there was a big ferry collision? On Grey's Anatomy? Which I am only recording now because I happened to catch a rerun of last week's episode and was a tiny bit curious to find out what was going to...

February 1, 2007: The first day of the next three-and-a-half months
Comments: 9 | Categories: Cranky , Music & TV

When I felt my face turning green yesterday I decided to go home early and rest (read: catch up on my television.) I was so excited. I was going to curl up on the couch under the big sunny front...

January 24, 2007: I have to post SOMETHING
Comments: 4 | Categories: Music & TV , Phillip

I did not watch Veronica Mars last night. I KNOW, I KNOW. But see, I have a TiVo, or at least a homemade version, and that means I cannot bear to sit through commercials. I could have waited halfway through...

January 19, 2007: In which I fancy myself a TV critic
Comments: 9 | Categories: Music & TV

It's time to talk television, people. What else is there to do on a rainy Friday? Certainly not the things I'm supposed to be doing right now. (And dear God, I never thought I'd say it, but Hallelujah for forty-three...

December 22, 2006: I can see for a long way
Comments: 4 | Categories: Music & TV , Ponder , Project Baby Cheung

I had a lot of time in college to sit around listening to music. Well, that's not entirely true. I didn't have tons of time, due to whatever job I was working and the demands of the Non-Denominational College Fellowship...

December 5, 2006: Fight the queasy!
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Project Baby Cheung

I put forth my question to the Internet and the Internet hath decreed: second trimester "morning sickness" most certainly does exist, even when one has passed through the first trimester relatively unscathed. In fact, one woman told me that feeling...

November 2, 2006: Housekeeping
Comments: 5 | Categories: Music & TV , Rants

Look! I made a blogroll! Sort of! Did I forget you? Do you not want to be there? Are you all, "Oh, God, she linked to ME?" I figured that link to my Bloglines account just wasn't cutting it so......

October 25, 2006: The least that you can do for me is keep it to yourself
Comments: 2 | Categories: Music & TV , Project Baby Cheung

It is a bright sunny morning here in my beloved city (as sunny as you're going to get in late October, shut up) and I listened to Fountains of Wayne's song 'Maureen' about 400 times on my way in (I...

October 5, 2006: Butt-kicking girl superspies
Comments: 5 | Categories: Music & TV

Last night I dreamed I was the Sidekick to a Super Blond Girl Detective. I think this is because I watched Veronica Mars after work, and after that, I read a little more of Kiki Strike, which I finally bought...

September 20, 2006: Another one for the "I Have No Life" file
Comments: 8 | Categories: Music & TV

Dear readers: This is just a small announcement letting you know that unless you love your television, and I mean really love your television, we cannot be friends. For the fall television premiere season is upon us and my entire...

May 3, 2006: I wish I was Kelly Kapowski
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV

So, my choice of morning television programs has changed drastically over the last several months, which is oddly fascinating to me and horrifying to Phillip, because OH MY GOD I am now watching Saved By The Bell reruns instead of...

April 24, 2006: Pedicure weather
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome , House , Music & TV

Oh dear. I just wrote the most boring post in the world. It was all about my garden, how I love it so, and how I finally dug and ripped and stomped and dumped enough this weekend to get it...

April 12, 2006: All of the words in all of my life
Comments: 2 | Categories: Music & TV

I recently signed up for a local writers' mailing list so I am now inundated with legal issues, ads for writing classes, requests for agent recommendations and response group notices on a daily basis. Most of it I delete without...

January 22, 2006: Weekend productivity
Comments: 1 | Categories: Music & TV

You guys, my brain is melting. No, seriously. Put down your palm fronds and help me off my positioned-right-in-front-of-the-television-chaise, for I have absorbed quite a bit more than the recommended level of Krazy Glowing Rays over the weekend. I need...

October 6, 2005: They signed me up for surfing but they can't get me in the choir
Comments: 1 | Categories: Music & TV

In honor of my new Dar Williams album, I present you with a concise yet detailed history of musical influences in the Mighty Maggie Space-Time Continuum. My Mother. I'm told she wore out "The Bare Necessities" page of the Disney...

October 4, 2005: The first six or seven tracks
Comments: 1 | Categories: Music & TV

Are you ever in the car or just kinda going about your daily routine and a song comes into your head and you think, "This would be an excellent choice for the soundtrack"? I ask because I have a little...

September 22, 2005: There's probably no cheese on that island
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

People! THE HATCH. IT WAS OPENED. Last night there was a little slice of heaven in my living room. Me, Phillip, our friend S, a table full of bread, cheese, wine and chocolate (the four major food groups), AND THE...

September 20, 2005: The nerdery continues
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Music & TV

After last week's no sleep stretch, I've reverted back to my Prevention Comes First self and have stocked up on the following items: 1. Wine 2. Benadryl 3. Computer games Although I have waxed rhapsodic about computer games in the...

September 16, 2005: The meaning of television in the Mighty Maggie space time continuum
Comments: 3 | Categories: Music & TV , When I was a kid

The big news today is that Renee and Kenny are broken up and the reason Renee cited on her application for annulment was "Fraud." And because I grew up on military bases where there was one American TV station and...

June 29, 2005: Sing, sing a song
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV , Phillip

So I have eighty frillion things to do today, but not before I treat the Internet to a sampling of the music I'll be listening to on the airplane tonight when I can't fall asleep. Unless I bring a flask...

May 30, 2005: Not for those who have a limited intake of Sappy
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Ponder , When I was a kid

I'm very fond of country and bluegrass music which is not terribly popular in my household or among my group of friends. Well, I do have one friend who had a long ago sordid love affair with George Strait, but...

April 13, 2005: Travel the world and the seven seas
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Places , Ponder

Near the top of my Must See TV list is The Amazing Race, the only reality show I could ever see myself doing. Except not, because, hello, it's on television. Also, I like taking showers every day and people like...

April 11, 2005: Fifteen random thoughts do not a post make
Comments: 1 | Categories: House , Music & TV

Welcome to the latest edition of My Husband Is Working Late So I'm Drinking Wine And Reading The Best Of Craigs List. And also? Wasn't the world a sad place before Instant Messenger? With Instant Messenger I can sort-of-pay-attention-to my...

February 2, 2005: The state of our union is strong
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So continues the week so boring that nothing seems post-worthy. We could talk about how revolting it is that Rebecca and Adam weren't booted off The Amazing Race last night. Or how I get sucked into Judging Amy every week...

January 7, 2005: Crush #47 (this time on a famous guy)
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV , Rants

The snow, it has not arrived. Unless you live north or south of me and all of you people are at home in your pjs eating pop tarts and watching all the goodies TiVo caught for you last night. It's...

October 7, 2004: Blades of singing grass
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Phillip

Had Phillip been born a few years earlier, had he been born English, if the laws were a little different, and if he had more of a tolerance for ridiculous nicknames, this is the person he surely would have married:...

August 12, 2004: There's Nothing On
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV

Here is something you should know about me: I love TV. Especially now that my brilliant husband turned one of our forty-seven spare computers into a TiVo-like machine, thereby making it fairly conceivable that I will never have to watch...

July 28, 2004: Reading at the zoo
Comments: 0 | Categories: China , Music & TV

I bought the plane tickets today. I walked into the travel agency and Charlotte didn't remember me. It was a little disappointing. But I walked right up to her and said, "Hi, I'm Maggie, I'm the girl who reserved the...

July 24, 2004: All Folked Out
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

I had a good friend in high school who graduated a year before me. She went off to college, learned how to be a conflicted and introspective college girl, and tried to introduce me to conflicted introspectiveness when she came...