In Wednesday’s episode of “Pushing Daisies,” Olive (Kristin Chenoweth) sings a bit of They Might Be Giants’ “Birdhouse in Your Soul” in duet with aunt Vivian (Ellen Greene):
What a voice Chenoweth has: gorgeous and rich, yet quirky and fun. “Kristin’s singing interludes complete me,” writes Rickey Yaneza, which feels just about right.
Chenoweth’s voice [...]
“It would be criminal,” says not-so-bad guy Lem to Chuck in last night’s episode of Pushing Daisies, “not to like pie.”
Amen to that. I demand secret prisons for alleged pie-haters (this is America, after all). Or maybe we should make them stand for hours in Marie Callendars.
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A recent new episode of “South Park” has residents of my household all atwitter. William tells me the story over and over of the record dump of Stan’s Dad. And I even found myself speaking to William this morning in a bad Scottish accent, trying to imitate Bono (who, as far as I could tell [...]
My whole family was looking forward to the first episode of Pushing Daisies on Wednesday because we cherish its younger sister, Dead Like Me. I had no idea, though, that pie would have a starring role in Daisies. I liked Daisies from the moment it began; but when I saw The Pie Hole for the [...]
I don’t usually get excited about new technology, but every now and then something comes along — like TIVO — that changes the way I address the world, if only just a little bit. Because TIVO quickly altered the way I imbibe media, I frequently find myself reaching for the rewind button on the car [...]
I had intended to officially launch this blog yesterday, on the 201st anniversary of Captain William Clark’s “We commenced wrighting” journal entry. But, in the spirit of what’s a sort of procrastination diary, I didn’t make the deadline. I was too busy reading Household Gods, watching the end of “Journeyman,” and not writing my California [...]
