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The Year I Didn’t Turn 30

I realize this is my second 2015 year-end post, and there will be some overlapping highlights. I guess the double-post of sorts is testament to how remarkable last year had been.

And I did turn 30, technically. But going into 2015 I thought that’s all this year will be: the one when I turned another decade, wherein I would embark in a more serious hunt for anti-aging implements that worked, and I would solemnly swear that I’d watch what I eat, and that I would figure out if I like my day job enough. But I think it’s that fear exactly, of aging, of a bucket list I can’t keep up with, of being more than ever required to be an adult, that pushed me to take the leap on things I’ve only dreamed about. This year, I looked at some of those dreams in the face, and went ahead and grabbed them by their slippery tendrils. Continue Reading

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New Girl Season 3 is on

September 17 in the US. Hopefully only a few hours after airing it will be available for download.

Excited. I have missed you, Schmidt.

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The Cutest Elvis Has Ever Looked

Jessica Day dons the pompadour for a change.

Jessica Day dons the pompadour for a change.

After last week’s episode of Quick Hardening Caulk, endangered fish with perfectly round breasts, and magnificent sexy times, the geniuses behind New Girl have decided to pour cold water above our heads with a funeral episode. Good thinking, I believe. Viewers are on the point of combustion and we need a moment to fan ourselves.

Elvis drops by to personally console Nick.

Elvis drops by to personally console Nick by virtue of their being ‘roomfriends.’

This week it looks like we will be entertained with a Jessica Day version of the King himself as she, Schmidt and Winston go on a trip to Chicago. Nick Miller is not complaining.

Photo and video credits to their owners

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The Aftermath of the Kiss

Nick and Jess New Girl

Better articulated as “OMG happens now??” after the “kiss that rocked all social media” by the show’s fanatic Newbies (raises hand). I personally wasn’t there when Ross and Rachel were unraveling their romance in the sitcom game-changer FRIENDS, but I think it wouldn’t be as adorably dorky, fall-off-the-couch funny and witty as it is now with New Girl‘s Nick and Jess. Major props to showrunner Liz Meriwether for the genius timing and the awkwardness that followed suit. Critics be damned while the rest of us are glued to the tube and cursing the hot summer day this season ends.

As for the never ending comparison to the FRIENDS royal couple, no I don’t think they are the new Ross and Rachel. They are their own Nick and Jess. Did Ross ever write one and half zombie novels? I don’t think so. Rachel too was never “old-fashioned below the belt.” As only Jessica Day would put it, “I’ve got a Civil War-era piece of equipment and that’s all she wrote.”

Cheers to that.

Drama Review

Nick and Jess’s First Kiss Went a Little Like This

There are a lot of times you would wish you didn’t answer the itch to know the spoilers. Like in every Twilight movie (because you know how it will all end anyway, you fan girl) and in watching every movie preview that when pieced together basically already spills the entire story (most recent, annoying case in point: Nicholas Sparks’ Safe Haven).

Like in the kiss presented above between zombie-novel writer, bartender and underachiever extraordinaire Nick Miller and short-in-stature-but-not-in-spunk Jessica Day. Despite the subtle flirtations and that easy chemistry planted so wisely into the series as early as the New Girl pilot, I really did not see this coming.

Thank you Liz Meriwether. And thank YOU, Nick Miller. Where have you been all my life?

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Happy New Year from Zoe and Joe

Since the universe has officially answered my RobSten desires, I am now going to be recommending this next couple. Fell in love with them in 500 Days of Summer. Apparently Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are real life BFFs. It’s like Leo and Kate all over again, only just a little bit cuter.

Happy New Year to all! Sharing the gift of song from Zoe and Joe! <3