Truly mad
Since I had the first season of Mad About You on DVD, I figured I'd watch it. Then I wanted to see the second season, so I hopped over (well, Webly speaking, of course) to Netflix and put it on out list. As an aside, I have to wonder what those Netflix people think of us. I add all these girly movies and TV shows and David's on there getting stuff like High Tension, Bullitt and The French Connection, while I'm listing things like Frasier and Next Stop Wonderland. Yeah, we could set up two lists, but then there's the matter of how many we get from which list and blah, blah. It's just easier to keep it all in one place. And really, I'm sure they see stuff like that all the time. But it's still funny to think that as they're (People do it, right? It's not robots, yet?) checking to see what to send us and then exclaiming "Wow! These people are insane. They just returned Texas Chainsaw Massacre and now they want When Harry Met Sally! Bah hahahaha!" Whatever. Laugh it up.
Here's an even funnier one: Once I went to Amazon.com to look up a book and it had some recommendations for me. Aww, thanks Amazon! There was The Food Lover's Companion, a wine book and then... some Metallica cds. I wondered how the hell that had gotten into Amazon. Really, he's (she's?) usually better than that. And then I really started to wonder how they got that. Sure, lines between people who are married sometimes get blurred. But I didn't think anyone would mistake my musical tastes for David's. All I could figure was that I must have ordered something for him at some point and Amazon remembered. But I don't remember ordering any Metallica. Because, see, I think he has enough Metallica already. (hee hee) When I told him about it, we couldn't figure out whose page of recommendations that was -- his or mine. Ah well, I'll chalk it up as another mystery of marriage.
Now, the business at hand was just this: I've (re)watched two seasons of Mad About You. And they go to this place called Riff's where Ursula (Friend Phoebe's twin, of course) is a horrible waitress. And yet. They. Go. Back. A lot. Why? Why is/was that? Sure it made for some funny moments, but really, it's just -- well, I was going to say a word that begins with an m- and ends in -ism. It may have the letters -ascho- in the middle, but if I actually type that word, I could get lots of unwanted attention. So I won't spell it out all together.
So, to sum up:
1. Netflix and Amazon are probably confused by our wide variety of film, music and reading interests.
2. Jamie and Paul Buchman should have eaten dinner somewhere else.
4/26/2006
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The rage meter
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Rave
The rain! WOO and HOO.
Rant
The new neighbors. WHY do we always get idiots as neighbors? Need to post about that. With photos.
I really need to...
Clean out the guest-room closet
Latest obsession
Sleeping
Ancient history
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But annyoing all the same: the seat-heater saga, start to finish
- Back in time I recently took a tour of the Capitol...
- Smooth move I've been on a smoothie kick lately be...
- Are you unpoopular? Do you pop out at parties? Som...
- I am the cheese snob, Part II So, yes. A couple da...
- I am the eggman, I am the walrus. No wait. I am th...
- The Rorschach test Monday morning, I opened my eye...
- Where've I been? I know you're wondering. I wish I...
- Depressing or hopeful? At the gym, I see people tw...
- One thing I might do different if I could I'm stil...
- When a chocolate-chip waffle goes wrong
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⢠Sept. 2004
⢠Oct. 2004
⢠Aug. 2005
⢠Sept. 2005
⢠Sept. 2005 II
⢠Sept. 2005 III
⢠Sept. 2005 IV
⢠Oct. 2005
Literati
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Reading
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
A Year in the Merde
Last thing I read
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Eventually...
Something nonfiction
Now for the important stuff
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Cast of characters
Listening
Nothing really
Watching
Project Runway, Design Star (Somebody stop me! No wait! Don't. I love it!)
Doing
Not a hell of a lot
Eating
Peaches and cherries. Lots and lots of cherries
Making
Coffee
MMM Good. Make this stuff
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⢠Baked chicken breasts
⢠Banana bread/Choc. chip banana bread
⢠Cheddar crackers
⢠Chocolate-chip cookies
⢠Chocolate truffles
⢠Green bean casserole
⢠Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai
⢠Smoothie
⢠Spago Fudgy chocolate cake with chocolate glaze
⢠Strawberry jam, Strawberry sauce
These are people I know. These are people I know on blogs:
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⢠bucktoothed varmint
⢠i'm not a girl, not yet a wino
⢠maliavale
⢠nabbalicious
⢠no pasa nada
⢠jurgen nation
These are people I don't know. But they're on blogs too:
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⢠big red blog
⢠dispatches from france
⢠guiness girl
⢠i'm so important
⢠princess genevieve
⢠poppy cedes
⢠stephanie says
⢠this black girl reads
Some things I heart
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⢠Designher Gals
⢠Knock Knock (Organizey stuff. Love, love, love)
⢠Sew Michelle
⢠Ballard Designs
⢠Frontgate
3 Comments:
Oh, I love that show! I've got the first two seasons on dvd - are any others out? The first season is so different - what happened to Shelby? He kinda got replaced with Ira in Paul's friend circle.
I thought they kept going Riff's because it was either in their building or right next door. There's a lot to be said for proximity.
Amazon keeps recommending mysteries to me because I've bought a couple for my sister as gifts. I'm not really in to the mysteries. I wish there was some way to code what you were buying so it wouldn't use that in your recommendations.
I never missed Shelby. It's funny though that after the first season, he was never mentioned again. Maybe there's a lost episode, "The Big Fight."
I loved "Murray, get the mouse!"
All I'm sayin -- it's NY. There's nothing else around?
And yeah, that would be awesome if they'd do that. You should sell them that idea and make a million.
I'm sure the Netflix people/robots just think you're quirkily well-rounded. I wouldn't sweat it.
Amazon's always remembering stuff I bought for my ex-boyfriend and suggesting based on that. With music it's no biggie because we have really similar tastes. But the other day it recommended Pee Wee's Big Adventure because of the Pee Wee's Playhouse tape I got him long ago, and I just thought, "Um. No."
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