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My uncle’s ‘book without a title’

Caroline — Sat, 28 May 2005 01:41:16 +0000

Last year my uncle featured in a TV show about ‘miracles’. He told the story of how he found a photograph of himself in a book he picked up from an antique shop, while on holiday in England. It’s a true story. This month the show is letting viewers decide which stories should be repeated in a clip show to introduce the new series.

Do me and my kin a favour and vote for ‘De foto’ on the ‘Wonderen bestaan’ website. You’ll find the poll on the right hand side and ‘De foto’ is the last option in the poll (which doesn’t give it much of a chance of winning!).

It’s a great story and my uncle, who is an author and lyricist, does a great job of telling it (well, duh, he does readings and theater shows for a living). In short: About 20 years ago he was on holiday with his girlfriend L. and another couple. It was a miserable day and he hadn’t even wanted to go to England anyway. When they stopped for lunch, they came across an antique shop.

My uncle had a thing about ‘a book without a title’. He had been talking about this obsession during the trip, of wanting to find this ‘book without a title’. His friends had said books without titles didn’t exist.

Looking through the books on the shelves in the antique shop, he didn’t find anything he wanted. But there was one more book, sitting on a table. Picking it up he saw the book’s cover didn’t have any marking or lettering. It was a book without a title! And when he opened it, he found a picture of himself taken when he was a young man.

Cue theme of the Twilight Zone. Vote now. Vote often.

Who’s your favourite Desperate Housewife?

Caroline — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:37:38 +0000

Mine’s Lynette.

I’m asking, because ‘everybody’ hates Lynette, especially after the lastest episode. Bree seems ‘everybody’s favourite. She comes second with me. (Susan, Gabrielle, Edie are next.)

People hate Lynette mainly because she can’t cope with / doesn’t like her kids and regrets having had to give up her career in favour of motherhood. Same reason why I think she’s fabulous. She’s the only person on the show who is ‘real’. If I were a housewife, and desperate, I’d be Lynette and I’d be putting those horrible boys up for adoption. So there.

I completely agree. Especially when I saw her asking why nobody told her that it’s not that easy, and why everyone made it look so easy.

I don’t like Bree so much, but I think Gabrielle is very very funny.
Rogue – 19 February 2005 – 22:02

How bizarre! I didn’t think anyone would actually like Bree – she is, I think, the most unsympathetic character on the show. Lynette is my favourite, too, if only because you can see that she’s this brilliant, intelligent, feisty person who’s being trampled on / ignored by the kids (and the husband, in a different way). Susan is next, but she’s a bit mimsy for my liking.
Meg (link) – 20 February 2005 – 16:52

Bree is horrendous, yet compellingly well portrayed. Maybe it’s more a case of favourite depiction than favourite person.
Hg (link) – 20 February 2005 – 17:55

Glad to find I’m not alone :-) The ‘everybody’ I am talking about are the folks on the DH forum at TWOP. They genuinely like Bree (perhaps they’re all card carrying NRA supporters?) and the hatred towards Lynette shows up in the recaps too.

How far into the series are you all? Because people at TWOP started out liking Lynette, but have come to hate her over the last couple of episodes. (I’m at episode 13.)
Caroline (link) – 20 February 2005 – 18:05

I… have no idea what episode we’re on here in Ireland. The one where she cracks about the ADHD meds was the last one I saw.
Rogue – 20 February 2005 – 21:53

UK wise we are at episode 4/5?

Lynette is great – as you say she is the only ‘real’ one in the show (so far at least).

Have to agree that Bree is the most watchable though, so twisted and dark as all the best characters are.

(I’ll forego any comment about Gabrielle… )
Gordon (link) – 21 February 2005 – 14:26

People at TWOP hate everybody, so when I read their latest reviews totally hating on her I felt even more justified loving her. I’m also at episode 13, Caroline!
lia (link) – 21 February 2005 – 19:09

I think most of the viewers at TWOP are parents. We’re not. Makes all the difference, I’m sure. (the hating started after a montage during which the voice over implies Lynette’s embarrassed about the drawings and other ‘gifts’ her kids give her – ‘how could she say a kids’ drawing is crap?’) Lynette does pull some stunts the episodes most of you haven’t seen. It doesn’t matter to me, though, I still like her. As Meg said, she’s smart :-)
Caroline (link) – 22 February 2005 – 11:15

Lynette’s alright. It’s Gabrielle I can’t stand. And Susan’s slapstick antics are getting kinda tiring.
Milo (link) – 22 February 2005 – 12:08

Why are we waiting

Caroline — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:52:47 +0000

10:27 AM. ‘If you are receiving this notice the current demand on the site is too high to allow you to continue at this moment.’

No tickets for the prol yet. Too many people online these days. Why don’t they all f.o. to wherever they were in their pre-connected days.

Update 4pm: No joy whatsoever. I can’t remember not being lucky with online sales. The problem lies in U2.com’s presale code. Once there’s an error, the system thinks the code has been used and renders it useless. Oh well, next shot on the 28th when general sales start. Wasted 40 dollars on U2.com membership. Bono can give another round in the Clarence. But someone I know will suffer greatly for this.

Meanwhile, USA pre-sales are starting. The first complaints are trickling in. Wheeeee.

Update 6pm: One of my mates got through for Brussels. So I’m sorted for that gig. London, however, not yet.

seven comments:

Ik heb 4 kaarten, maar die zijn spijtig genoeg allemaal al gereserveerd.
eric – 25 January 2005 – 13:19

Oh well, there are ALWAYS tickets no matter how sold out a gig is. It would just be nice if signing up and paying 40 dollars for a sub to U2.com would actually be useful.
Caroline (link) – 25 January 2005 – 13:59

we just got 4 cards
and we are in the red …

http://194.7.45.68/nl/u2/zaalplan.html

hurray!
missy lemon (link) – 25 January 2005 – 14:52

(for the brussels’ concert that is)
missy lemon (link) – 25 January 2005 – 14:54

Do us a favour and tell him to kick Sebastian Clayton quite hard too, woulja?
Rogue – 26 January 2005 – 01:35

Already did, RogueVox :-)
Caroline (link) – 26 January 2005 – 07:08

Now that’s the kind of customer service I like ;) Do a good job? Get a biscuit. Fuck it right up? It’s kicking time.
Rogue – 26 January 2005 – 22:05