Entertainment

The time of my life

I was 12-years-old when Dirty Dancing came out on the big screen.  It was perfect timing due to the fact that I had recently announced to my family that I was going to either dance on Broadway or be a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader when I grew up.  I was infatuated with MGM musicals, going to the theater and the Mickey Mouse Club on the Disney Channel. Clearly, my Mom saw

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TV Crushes

Every once in a while, I like to share my inappropriate “never-gonna-happen-so-get-over-it” boy crushes with the lovely readers of I Hate Green Beans.  It’s therapeutic.  Join me in my own personal fantasy, won’t you? Tim Riggins   He’s the bad boy on Friday Night Lights who every girl in Dillon wants to fix.  I prefer him in his fullback attire.  Those brooding eyes.  That hair.  Go Panthers!  Billy Abbott  

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  For those of you who don’t know, John Hughes passed away suddenly yesterday of a heart attack.  For those of you who don’t know who John Hughes is…that makes me very, very sad that you don’t know the name of the man who more than likely holds several special places in your DVD collection.  1.  He wrote the entire Home Alone series.    2.  He wrote the entire Vacation series. 

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Three reasons to see the new Harry Potter

I was one of the dorks who went on opening day to see the Half-Blood Prince this past Wednesday. It’s a tradition that I’ve kept since the first movie. That time, I went by myself (because none of my friends were cool enough to know that this is a pop culture phenomenon they NEED to be a part of) and made friends with the kid behind me who was dressed

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Mama Say Mama Sa Ma Ma Coo Sa

Over the weekend, my sister, her husband, webMAN and myself sat around my parents’ living room to discuss our favorite Michael Jackson memories. For some reason, I was the only one who could blab off about 20 different times that Michael Jackson’s music touched my life in some way or another. I thought I would share my favorite ones below. Feel free to include yours in the comment section. 1.

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