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I'm also going to note today that I promise that I plan to expand my topics in the next few posts...I think I have been blogging a little bit too much about my unhealthy TV habits. The realization came to me this morning when my boyfriend sent me the CNN story "Are you afflicting with 'TiVo' guilt" and said that it reminded him of me. But this Hiedi Klum picture was simply too fierce to resist. Even my bf can agree with that.

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My usual Tuesday night routine is to watch my TiVod Gossip Girl, but since Gossip Girl did not air this week I settled for watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

I had low expectations for the holiday classic that I've seen many times before. Charlie Brown serves his friends pretzel sticks and jelly beans amongst other delicacies and then they all realize the true meaning of the holiday (unforeseen I know, I prefer the Christmas version with the reject Christmas tree).

After the classic Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, ABC broke out a Charlie Brown film I've never seen before, The Mayflower Voyagers. Living half an hour from Plymouth, Massachusetts, it takes an impressive story on the pilgrims to catch my attention. I have seen the Plymouth Rock and Plymoth Plantation on far too many school field trips. For all who live nearby, I'm sure you can relate that the area loses it's historical significance after a night of Margaritas at the Cabby Shack down the road.

But, The Mayflower Voyagers, as cheesy as the name sounds, was an simple recap of the story of the pilgrims and the hardships they endured on the first Thanksgiving. When I think Thanksgiving, I think food and shopping. So it was nice to have a little reminder of the historical significance of the holiday. Those days of dressing up as Pilgrims and Indians just aren't around any more (they are actually banned in most schools I believe) and sometimes you just need a classic American cartoon to get the message through.

In case you missed the special, it's on again tomorrow at 8 p.m. on ABC. I'm a pretty big advocate for holiday movies in general, so I was happy to find this holiday TV schedule guide as well!

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Happy Halloween!

I love this holiday. Traffic was light this morning, I started eating candy corn at 10 a.m., and my work day has consisted of printing numbers for my Deal or No Deal costume and taking an extra long lunch break to check out the dressed up college kids in Harvard Square. Bonus of working in a family friendly office is that the kid's Halloween sugar high totally rubs off on the parents. The NOT fun part of the day was me sleep walking through Central Square freezing at 9 a.m. when a freakshow Scream costume jumped onto sidewalk. Boo hoo.

It wouldn't be Halloween without the cliche slutty costumes too. I can't hate though, we've all been there. KISS 108's Matty in the Morning had a hilarious discussion about Halloween promiscuity this morning. Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll came by to speak about the city's Halloween festivities and increased police presence. She noted one of the main problems of the partying to be the lack of underwear on girls. I guess it's good that the Mayor is addressing the problem but really? I would NOT forget that part of my costume ever, no matter how many Keystone's or SoCo shots I had in my dorm.

One Salem resident called in to note the joy she gets from watching all the girls strut around in their skimpy costumes at 7 p.m. and then seeing them at 11 puking their brains out in the gutter while their bumblebee friend in some lame costume holds their hair back. I guess that as I reminisce back on college Halloweens I had my day-I pulled out the minuscule "gangster" (a.k.a. pin striped lingerie) costume I wore freshman year which you couldn't pay me to wear now.

Wednesday's Lipstick Jungle had a insightful comment on the holiday too:


Kirby: I love Halloween.

Nico: Oh come on it's just an excuse for woman to dress up like sluts and for men to wear makeup without their masculinity questioned.

Kirby: ...and there goes my Jack Sparrow costume.


You hit it on the nose, Nico.

But I guess Halloween is all about being someone your not, so put on your skimpiest costume while you still fit into it and rot your teeth out. Meet you in the gutter around 11 :)

Happy Friday! This morning I am working from home and I have been planning my entire week around one thing, morning TV! It's a shame that all of us working girls miss The Today Show, Regis & Kelly, Rachael Ray, Ellen, and The View which are all so much more enjoyable than the post work tabloid shots from Inside Edition and E!

I forgot how good morning TV was until the other day my co-worker and I had a discussion about how much we miss watching all of our a.m. favs (we initially got into this conversation because Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl (aka Chuck Bass) was on Regis & Kelly and did you know he is from England? English accent? See the things we miss!?).

So I thought for today I'd let you in on my so cool plans while I chill at home in my PJ's, and leave you with a little Ellen to sneak onto your work desktop in case you missed the real deal. It's Friday after all, enjoy people making fools of themselves busting a move :)

[Photo: Macbook by _ES' on Flickr used with permission under Creative Commons Copyright.]

I’m not one for littering my Facebook wall with crazy applications, but a new application that launched yesterday caught my attention.

Slide, Inc. launched FunSpace Channels, which will allow facebookers to share TV shows and other videos directly through posts on Facebook. You can view videos from Hulu (which has every TV show you could ever imagine), CBS and Warner Brothers.

Translation: now not only can you watch Lipstick Jungle and Gossip Girl online, but you can post full episodes on your friend’s walls for quick reference. “Check out the skirt Serena is wearing after the third commercial!”

Ok so I probably won’t really do this. I guess it’s a cool thing to be able to watch videos on a site that you frequent almost daily anyways, but I think I’m going to stick to Hulu.com. I’m a big fan of watching TV online and Hulu’s been good to me in the past.

Anyways, is it really that much of a hassle to open up a new window to watch your favorite show on it’s original site? Will we soon be hooking up our email to Facebook?

Also, I thought the catchphrase of Facebook was “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life”, (referencing the new facebook’s homepage), aka encouraging person-to-person communication. Not sitting on your Facebook page for hours on a Saturday morning watching every past episode of The Office.

I think Mark Zuckerberg is just encouraging us to be zombies in front of the Facebook screen (think ad revenue) instead of zombies in front of the TV per usual. Slide, Inc. is already the most popular third-party application, with 20 million active users monthly.