tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55159832011-12-08T23:00:44.438-06:00Hi! I'm creating this blog as a way to inspire me to write about anything and everything thats strikes my fancy. Topics could include everything from politics to movies to sports to TV shows. This blog is primarily focused on pop culture with an emphasis on television--including soap operas. If you have found this, please take a look. Hope you enjoy!Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-42009292734939957462011-12-08T22:57:00.001-06:002011-12-08T23:00:03.348-06:00

This brief by Charles P. Pierce is Daniels in a nutshell.

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-31149030309429213012010-12-06T17:38:00.002-06:002010-12-06T17:46:08.013-06:00

Apparently not. Indianapolis lost more jobs in the last two years than any city on the planet other than Johannesburg, S.A. Even Detroit is doing better on the jobs front. Looks like Mitch Daniels is going to need a new lie. Thanks to the Not My Man Facebook page for the link.

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Mitch Daniels is lying and half-truthing so much that his short pants ought to have spontaneously combusted by now. Lesley Stedman Wiedenbener explains in her recent Courier-Journal article. Unfortunately, Typically Ignorant and Uninformed Hoosier Comments (TIUHC) follow the article.

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Are Gov. Mitch Daniels' pants on fire yet? HT to the Not My Man Facebook page.

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Blue Indiana catches Gov. Mitch Daniels voicing "concern" about the national debt. The same one Daniels had no concern about, apparently, when he was the OMB Director in the Bush administration. Thomas at Blue Indiana says that Mitch thinks we're dumb. Daniels may be right, at least if the comments at the Palladium-Item are any reflection of the "thoughts" of a majority of Hoosiers. Maybe

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-81197055406792749202010-05-16T17:38:00.002-05:002010-05-16T17:46:42.583-05:00

Guess who was profiled on ESPN Radio this weekend. Mariano Rivera, perhaps the best MLB closer ever, handsome, humble, and not one to seek the spotlight. Alas, he (or his handlers) made the mistake of agreeing to do an interview with ESPN Radio that aired yesterday (05/15) morning. The result: Rivera gave up a grand slam homerun that gave a win to the Twins, ending that team's twelve-game

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-39920748237519366662010-02-16T22:02:00.004-06:002010-02-16T22:14:48.914-06:00

Sadie the Scottish Terrier just won the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show! She was the favorite going in, won the Terrier Group, and then pulled out a win in the final group of seven beautiful dogs. Link here. Looks like the AP stole my headline--an obvious one, to be sure. :) Sadie was adorable: as her handler did an interview with USA Network, she went up on her hind feet as if to

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-66378542671051465252009-12-02T22:47:00.002-06:002009-12-02T22:51:56.686-06:00

Ms. Hellmuth, collage artist extraordinaire, has discovered a new way to do image transfers. Check out her blog! I guess I'll have to buy some of her sticky-back canvas. I'm almost out of her matte multi-medium (love it!), so I could make it a twofer. :)

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-79883158563220863372009-12-01T18:43:00.005-06:002009-12-02T21:47:36.827-06:00

Here is another version of Stéphane Lambiel's Otoño Porteño program.While there are a couple of mistakes, I like this performance. The audience here is much more subdued than in the Festa on Ice video. Even with the mistakes, this performance is precise and dramatic, whereas Stéphane's Festa version is skated with abandon. I like both versions, but I hope that his Olympic performance is much

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-332519837027187522009-10-21T18:58:00.002-05:002009-10-21T19:29:07.964-05:00

Made my first attempt at an art journal this evening. I've been ruminating about doing one for a long time, but didn't want to use up my stash of watercolor paper or go out and buy an expensive journal. For the last few days, I've been thinking about using my stash of National Brand Eye-Ease notebooks as journals. This was just a thought floating around with no impetus toward action.Yesterday,

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This program captures all of Stéphane Lambiel's wonderful qualities--easy musicality, fluid and dancerlike, expressive and dramatic without being cheesy, inventive, and the cherry on the sundae--he's absolutely gorgeous!Enjoy the program below. Otoño Porteño is translated as Autumn in Buenos Aires. The composer is Astor Piazzolla, whose most familiar work is probably the melancholy tango,

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-19371729113746213352008-12-06T18:57:00.003-06:002008-12-06T19:24:23.707-06:00

The posts below this are imports from my old blog, Brand New Day. I'm letting that blog go, mainly because I don't want or need to pay to maintain a blog I rarely post to. I've preserved some of my most recent posts, which really aren't all that recent.Just to add something here: I have nothing against Beyonce, really, I don't. It snowed for much of the day, so I stayed indoors and did

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-9377490651996819232008-12-06T18:43:00.001-06:002008-12-06T18:46:27.079-06:00

Is there an ESPN Jinx?We’re all familiar with the Sports Illustrated Jinx: athletes have uncannily started losing, become injured, or even died within a short time of appearing on the cover of the magazine. I woke up on June 7th to hear one of the ESPN Radio blowhards going on and on about how Big Brown, this year’s winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, was a shoo-in to win the

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-35350399878871625792008-12-06T18:37:00.001-06:002008-12-06T18:48:54.647-06:00

I'm not sure. I tried making the no-knead soft wheat bread from a recent article in The Washington Post. (The article can be found here.) I'm about to start my annual holiday baking/candymaking bonanza, and have also been wanting to get back to baking my own bread on a regular basis. The weather forecast was going to call for staying in this weekend, so I thought, "Why not try it?"I've been

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-23862599532719250252008-12-06T18:33:00.002-06:002008-12-06T18:50:01.802-06:00

With Thanksgiving dinner just a few short hours away, I’m waiting for the rolls to bake and dreaming of dressing. My family usually eats dressing only once a year, although I was able to talk my mother into making it last April for my birthday.I guess I should make something clear from the beginning. What occupies my dreams and makes me salivate in anticipation more than any other Thanksgiving

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-43454567638058621462008-12-06T18:30:00.002-06:002008-12-06T18:52:22.885-06:00

It feels strange to be writing again. To be doing much of anything again. I’m going to depart from the usual topics and write about cooking, specifically, what I made for Sunday dinner recently. I’ve been watching Nigella Express on the Food Network the last few weeks. In one episode, she made pork chops in a creamy mustard sauce, the base of which was hard cider. I liked the idea of it, but didn

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-12866017222157304982008-12-06T17:53:00.001-06:002008-12-06T18:53:00.724-06:00

I've been commenting (way too much) about DST over at Masson's Blog . I'm not going to reiterate all of my reasons for intensely disliking DST here. It has struck me though, since we recently returned to Standard Time, that DST isn't only a twice a year nuisance. Under DST, there is no longer the long slow decline of daylight as summer changes to fall, which changes to winter. Nor is there the

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-11569112067940218032008-12-06T17:43:00.001-06:002008-12-06T18:54:09.219-06:00

I know it is summer because my arms and legs look like they belong to two different people. Actually, my upper arms and lower arms could belong to different people. My face and neck are pretty tan, too, despite constantly using sunscreen. I have what is sometimes called a farmer's tan. Since I don't farm, but do raise herbs, flowers and vegetables in a raised bed, my tan would more accurately be

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1144353138772442542006-04-06T14:47:00.000-05:002006-04-06T14:52:18.790-05:00

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunkWith apologies to John Keats, the opening lines of "Ode to a Nightingale" are an apt description of how I've been feeling since Sunday, the day all of Indiana had to go on DST for the first time in thirty-odd years. Unlike Keats'

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1105238345184376542005-01-08T20:38:00.000-06:002005-01-08T20:39:05.183-06:00

Happy New Year! New posts will come--eventually.

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I am now officially hooked on Find! the PBS show that follows antiques experts Leigh and Leslie Keno as they travel across America, searching for treasures in people's attics, living rooms, and basements. Find! debuted in the fall of 2003 and looked like yet another reality show about experts coming to your house and going through your things to critique them--and you. While Find! may at first

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1090101151847206362004-07-17T16:47:00.000-05:002004-07-17T16:52:31.846-05:00

Well, I see that Blogger now has more editing and formatting capabilities.  I am just trying things out with this post.  My opinion thus far:   I like some of the changes at Blogger."They" still need to make it easier to add links to the sidebarIf Blogger continues with the upgrades, I will continue to post here, at least occasionally.  

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1085532915184026922004-05-25T19:45:00.000-05:002004-05-25T19:55:15.183-05:00

Actually, that is Blogger's title. I'm too lazy to come up with anything else to call this post. My feelings about nuBlogger have been summed up pretty well at this blog The new look of the site and the new templates are just what the doctor ordered. Also, making permalinks, now called Page Posts, appears fairly easy. But I must say that making people have to mess with typing code just to

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1085353841952965132004-05-23T18:03:00.000-05:002004-05-23T18:13:54.543-05:00

Isn't that something legendary football coach Vince Lombardi said? The phrase is apt now. I'm back with a new post, so that comment about maybe coming back in the future has come true. Whether I'm back to stay is another matter. Props to Blogger for providing some new features and better looking templates that don't take lots of knowledge of HTML, web design, etc. to apply. I did lose the

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1083188509187954572004-04-28T16:41:00.000-05:002004-04-28T16:44:54.390-05:00

I just typed a not-very-nice good-bye to Blogger but did not save it. Without going into details, I am leaving Pila Posts behind. I've a new blog that can be found here. If you happen by here, please check out the new blog, it needs friends and readers. It is probably not good blogging etiquette to use one blog hosting service to invite readers to check out another. But that's what I'm

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1076638431136791712004-02-12T20:13:00.000-06:002004-02-12T20:15:40.686-06:00

Happy New Year, six weeks late!! Haven't done any blogging here this year. I didn't realize it had been so long. Bad weather always limits my computer time. However, new machine should be here soon. I did watch a good chunk of the Grammys this year, which is unusual. (I had sort of sworn off of them years ago when "Ten Summoner's Tales" lost Album of the Year to "The Bodyguard"

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1072579381963751122003-12-27T20:43:00.000-06:002003-12-27T20:44:04.280-06:00

A year-in-review type article about my favorite soap, As the World Turns, can be found at a blog called Brand New Day. The article is still under construction, but worth a look. I haven't posted here in almost a month, but the holidays are a good enough reason. I am also holding off on doing too much with this until I get my "new" computer. Once that arrives, I should be able to update more

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1070061184031376362003-11-28T17:13:00.000-06:002003-11-28T17:17:06.496-06:00

I am really getting into ATWT lately, despite the misgivings about follow-through noted below. However, just as the Rose and Paul wedding story is builiding to a climax, we were "treated" to two pre-Thanksgiving episodes in which "Butterball" turkeys were mentioned at least four times--an obvious and awkward attempt at in-show endorsement of the brand. Toward the end of Tuesday's episode,

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1069287620251715602003-11-19T18:20:00.000-06:002003-11-19T18:20:45.296-06:00

Well, it is official. Boomtown, my favorite new show from last season (next to Without A Trace) will not be returning from "hiatus." NBC has dumped the show, treating it like yesterday's leftover dog food. I hope that the few fans the show had will have the opportunity to see the episodes that have not aired yet. Maybe there will be a DVD. There is so much dreck on TV, so it is a real

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1068936316422171442003-11-15T16:45:00.000-06:002003-11-15T16:45:37.076-06:00

Not much to say. I've started another blog. 'Nuf said on the subject. This one is becoming a soap opera blog, although that was not the original aim. But yet here is more soap opera commentary. I have to say that I pretty much agreed with a recent "Dueling Divas" column in Soap Opera Weekly . Hinsey and the guest columnist were discussing minorities in soaps, which really means

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1068308262623947572003-11-08T10:17:00.000-06:002004-09-05T18:05:12.720-05:00

I ordered a shortwave (also called world band) radio last spring. I receive mailings all the time from Publishers Clearing House. Usually, I ignore their efforts to sell Ginsu knives and such. But their offer of a Bell & Howell world band radio for chump change intrigued me. By the time I received it, I had forgotten about ordering it. What a nice surprise I had for my birthday. However, not

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1067812149704724292003-11-02T16:29:00.000-06:002003-11-02T16:31:06.050-06:00

Whoa. Just saw that Pila Posts is listed as one of the ten most recently published blogs. To anyone who happens by, please note that the update is in the article about Even Stevens, which can be found in June archives in the sidebar. By the time that anyone reads this, the "Ten Most Recent" list will have changed. But just in case.

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1067479099503177422003-10-29T19:58:00.000-06:002003-10-29T20:06:31.403-06:00

Well, I really don't have much to say. I just thought it I may as well use the computer to post something to the blog tonight. Don't have much to say about As the World Turns, other than that Alison and Aaron sleeping together was something I saw coming. Afterall, both had just been dumped. And although they have had little contact lately, Alison has been able to revive her friendship with

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-106712667316303222003-10-25T19:04:00.000-05:002003-10-29T19:08:44.026-06:00

Just peeked at the Bambino's Curse blog. Another blog that I am envious of. The background is a cool black and white photo (really almost sepia-toned) of Babe Ruth in his civies. The writer is a Red Sox fan who is refusing to acknowledge this year's World Series. I am not a Red Sox fan, being one who roots for the Cardinals and Yankees. (However, my fervor for the Bronx Bombers has waned

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1066957527225112472003-10-23T20:17:00.000-05:002003-10-29T19:19:24.406-06:00

I am at the library--probably will be kicked out soon due to the computer room being almost full. Anyway, I "googled" Carolyn Hinsey's name just for the heck of it. A couple of references to her in this blog came up on the first page. That is scary and very unexpected. Either more people are reading this than I thought or this blog has way too many references to Carolyn Hinsey. I fear the

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1066497353358298522003-10-18T12:15:00.000-05:002003-10-23T18:30:11.300-05:00

Well, I certainly was not planning on posting anything about Boomtown today, but curiosity got the better of me this morning while doing some web surfing at the local library. I was curious as to why one of my favorite shows has not been broadcast the last two Friday's on NBC. Since I don't keep up with the business side of entertainment news (at least a venial sin for a pop culture blog, but I

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1065994909970491262003-10-12T16:41:00.000-05:002003-10-12T16:41:49.716-05:00

The Blog Herald: More blog news more often Well, I was not going to post anything else today, but had to add a link to The Blog Herald. I've a feeling I will visit the site often. It is a news site about blogs. Pretty cool stuff.

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1065992403539271522003-10-12T16:00:00.000-05:002003-10-18T12:43:33.833-05:00

I had half-promised myself that I would not discuss soaps until the end of the year, but recent articles in Soap Opera Weekly have prompted a response. In the September 23rd issue, Carolyn Hinsey mentioned coverage of prime time shows in the magazine's "Dueling Diva" column. I think SOW has gone too far with that. A reader whose letter was printed in the October 14th issue agrees. She said

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1065302498250468252003-10-04T16:21:00.000-05:002003-10-04T16:21:38.193-05:00

Not the good news but good news nevertheless: I was pretty psyched this week to find out that Pila Posts can now be found on both Yahoo! and Google. I had submitted the site a few months ago, but had little hope that either search engine would ever list it. But it is there. If anyone types pila posts in the search window on either site, a link to this blog will come up. Now of course, not

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1064787399174891762003-09-28T17:16:00.000-05:002003-09-28T19:28:49.616-05:00

I don't ususally watch reality shows. But today Lifetime's Sunday line-up of trashy movies was not as compelling as it was advertised to be. So, between running the sweeper and flipping channels I happened upon MTV's Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. The show follows Nick Lachey (of the boy group 98 degrees) and Jessica Simpson, teen pop sensation. The two stars married recently--I'm not sure

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1064689045813405772003-09-27T11:57:00.000-05:002003-10-18T12:54:22.280-05:00

I am a weather buff--not a scientist at all, however. There are some pretty cool weather sites on the net. One site I used to frequent is Weather Underground (Wunderground). I don't go by there as much anymore because the people who run it now want users to pay to see radar. Since radar is available without charge from other sites, why would anyone pay Wunderground? Other sites worth

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1064181486758406552003-09-21T16:58:00.000-05:002003-09-21T17:01:57.433-05:00

Just some random thoughts on blogging. Nothing particularly insightful. It occurs to me, however, that this blog is not typical. Pila Posts does not have a mile-long list on the sidebar of cool blogs by friends and internet acquaintances. The facts that I have few friends and no internet acquaintances, as well as no friends with blogs (that I am aware of) would account for that. Yet I could

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1063566905228747892003-09-14T14:15:00.000-05:002003-09-14T14:15:05.256-05:00

NOAA - National Weather Service I am trying out BlogThis for the first time. One of my favorite sites is the National Weather Service's Home Page. I am an amateur weather buff. I can look up forecasts for other parts of the country as well as for my local area. And there are seemingly endless links to other neat weather info.

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1063320871704406112003-09-11T17:54:00.000-05:002003-09-12T16:50:34.333-05:00

ATWT is getting good, although I have some concerns about Dusty. He started out as shady, but supposedly was trying to go legit, to prove himself to Rose He promptly got into illegal bookmaking and was arrested because Craig squealed about it. Just yesterday he started bashing women. He told Craig that women are always trying to get into things that aren't any of their concern--or words to

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1063226505663111962003-09-10T15:41:00.000-05:002003-09-10T15:45:07.383-05:00

Not a particularly creative title, I know. Today's entry is another departure, more of a personal entry. I am writing this in the computer lab of my local library. It is interesting that the library's quiet rules fall all to pieces in the computer lab. People talk--sometimes loudly. Of course, as I write this, everyone has pretty much shut up. Even the library staff do not feelcompelled to

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1062977001409463672003-09-07T18:23:00.000-05:002003-09-10T15:13:37.326-05:00

This blog seems to be--no actually is--focusing on soap operas right now. I guess the blog reveals one of my not-so-secret pop culture obsessions. I do wish that soaps were taken more seriously in the media, including in the magazines that are supposed to be devoted to them. Soap Opera Digest and its newer sister publication Soap Opera Weekly are fine for gossip, puff interviews, casting

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1062972001478354282003-09-07T17:00:00.000-05:002003-09-07T17:02:19.980-05:00

The following is a departure from the norm for this blog. My sister, who refuses to create a team blog, wanted me to post this review of a recent Justin/Christina concert in Indianapolis. So here goes. Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera did not simply come to entertain when they brought their "Justified and Stripped" tour to Indianapolis last Sunday night (August 31, 2003). The two

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1061768818744386192003-08-24T18:46:00.000-05:002003-09-07T17:04:43.660-05:00

A parenthetical paragraph in the Boomtown/Without a Trace article below refers to this blog not yet being listed on Blogwise. Well, just today I received the nicest confirmation e-mail from Sven, the person who runs the Blogwise site. Pila Posts is now listed there, and I feel more than a little sheepish for semi going off below. I really was not being critical of Blogwise. As stated, I just

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1060822463323520872003-08-13T19:54:00.000-05:002003-09-16T20:00:29.043-05:00

Not much time to type tonight. Boomtown, NBC's point-of-view cop drama is fast becoming one of my favorite television shows. I never watched a full episode until Bravo ran a mini marathon the first weekend of May. I was home sick and unable to do much of anything other than watch TV and take pain relievers. I was hooked almost immediately, even though it took a few episodes to match up actors

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1060551549693503962003-08-10T16:39:00.000-05:002003-09-07T17:12:19.526-05:00

This post is to notify anyone who happens by of articles that I have recently added to. That way, if you are following a particular topic, you can quickly determine if it has new material. If the editing is for grammar, spelling, and style, I won't include the article here. Pending Topics and Updates will be a list of articles that I plan to post and update soon. There are no guarantees about

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1059598539466869592003-07-30T15:55:00.000-05:002003-09-07T17:14:07.106-05:00

Lest anyone think I am anti-Carolyn Hinsey, let me assure you that I am not. I just think she is misinformed about what constitutes the crime of rape. Actually, most of her recent columns have been pretty good. I'd link you to them, but it appears that the SOD site does not have them archived. If you want to send her your opinion about any of the soaps, you can reach her at sodopinion@

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1059515158767557722003-07-29T16:45:00.000-05:002003-09-07T17:26:18.030-05:00

Carolyn Hinsey writes the "It's Only My Opinion" column in Soap Opera Digest and serves as one-half of the "Dueling Divas" in Soap Opera Weekly. I would love to have her job. She gets paid to watch soaps and write two catty (kinda) columns in two national magazines. Of course, I'm sure there is much more to her job than that, but wouldn't it be fun to find out. Hinsey's SOD column reads

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1058039932609067412003-07-12T14:58:00.000-05:002003-09-07T17:28:34.850-05:00

The following is a list of links to websites I like to visit. I'm just a bit too lazy to construct links using HTML in the sidebar. This list will be updated periodically. Update: August 10, 2003 Please note that I have updated this blog's template. Since I wanted to try out my HTML skills, I also added a list of links to the sidebar. It did not take as long to do as I thought it would,

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1057527425714160772003-07-06T16:37:00.000-05:002003-07-06T17:32:04.983-05:00

The Half Year In Soaps Port Charles Will End In October The cancellation of "Port Charles," one of two soaps that I tape, has to be the biggest soap opera story of the year thus far. My original plan was to do a brief overview of the first half of the year in order to avoid trying to cram things in at the end of the year. I was going to start a review of the half year in soaps soon, anyway.

Pilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14802590674812637124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515983.post-1056658275728767952003-06-26T15:11:00.000-05:002003-11-02T16:16:27.046-06:00

I have recenlty discovered and become mildly addicted to the Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens. While I had heard of the show some time ago, it was only after watching Shia LaBeouf win an Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series that I decided to watch the show. LaBeouf, who plays lovable goof Louis Stevens on the show, was genuinely surprised about his award. He had

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