Did you read the wonderful "Microserfs"? In that book, Doug Coupland had his characters list their Jeopardy categories--the areas that they were obsessed with lately, and which they'd have no trouble being quizzed on.Here are mine as of late:
--Buying vintage Tell-A-Tale books for Kelly (we love "Peppermint," about a sad white kitten who has a magical transformation and wins a cat show)
--The creepy apocalyptic-virus movie "Carriers," which oddly went straight to DVD, and really is less a horror-gore-zombie movie than a drama about people in a creepy situation.
--XM Radio's Fantasy Sports channel. I normally haaate sports call-in shows, but because the people calling a fantasy channel all have a specific, non-emotional question to ask, I don't hate this. Also, the hosts sound like normal people you'd like to know, not ESPN blowhards.
--Roger Ebert's always-fascinating, always smart Twitter feed. (Don't miss Attack of the B-list Monsters!)
That's the pop-culture I'm obsessing over lately. You?
1 comment:
Oh my gosh! "Peppermint" was one of my absolute favorites when I was little. Man, the image of the poor little sad, forgotten kitty on the cover always makes me tear up, even after 30+ years. Yeah, I'm a sap.
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