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But I can't do that all day, and I'm on doctor-ordered bed rest for my poor foot. I have been reading but after a while my eyes cross. So last week I borrowed some DVDs and fired up my DVD player to discover, oh no! It was broken!
More online research and some discussion with Smarty Pants led me to buy a blu ray player. And I decided to go ahead and spring for one with a wireless connection. I got a 30 day free trial of Netflix and joined the streaming video generation. I'm sometimes slow, but I catch up with technology eventually.
And so far I'm loving this! I look through the available programming, click to put it in my Instant Queue and then watch while I'm propped on the sofa with an ice pack on my foot.
And what have I been watching?
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Next up was "Spirit of the Marathon," which follows six runners on their marathon
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After that, my queue had "The Eyes of Tammy Faye." It's a combination documentary and parody about Tammy Faye Bakker whose husband Jim Bakker ran the PTL Ministry in North Carolina. I grew up very close to where they were and followed the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy in the newspapers. I learned a lot about the duo, like the
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Still in my queue is "Ancient Aliens" from the History Channel. This show attempts to answer this question: "Is it possible that extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations?"
And what is entertaining me now?
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Don't recognize him? Try this photo.
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If a stranger looked at my instant queue, I'd be rushed to the nearest mental facility for therapy because my genres are all over the place. And right now I am watching a show called "RuPaul's Drag Race." It's a combination of America's Top Model, Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor and American Idol with 12 drag queens competing in different challenges each week to be named America's Next Drag Superstar. I am positively amazed at the effort to which these men go to look like women. And talk about cat fights and dissing! Oooooooh girl!!!! They can fling the insults and barbs. And then they help each other with eye shadow and hair and cry when one of the group gets voted off each week. It's wild and crazy and has fabulous guest judges like Debbie Reynolds, Cloris Leachman, Jackie Collins and Kathy Najimy. Netflix streaming only has seasons 2 and 3 and I'm going through a couple episodes a day.
It's been fun, but once I'm through with it, I'll move onto the possiblity of
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So now I'll sashay away to my recliner and heating pad. Got Netflix? What's in your queue?
7 comments:
I watch Ancient Aliens and RuPaul's Drag Race all the time. Actually, if you have the LOGO channel, season four is starting up soon.
You better werk!
I loved, loved, loved Secretariat! Imagine that, me loving a horse movie! I think Diane Lane (isn't that her name? loved her in The Tuscan Sun) is wonderful. I will watch anything she's in. As for Secretariat, I was a young girl when he raced and I followed him every step of the way to the Triple Crown. One thing I read about him (sorry to be gross) but when he died and they did an autopsy (he had tetanus), they found his heart weighed 30 pounds (average is 15). Such a big heart for such a wonderful animal!
And I love RuPaul! His Drag Race gives me a lot of tips on make-up. Wish I could get some of the "queens" to make me up sometime.
You are having too much fun on this down time thingy! lol
Loved Secretariat. But RuPaul?
Good laughs makes one feel better
Try "Unstoppable" too, if you haven't already seen it. Secretariat and Unstoppable are the two movies I have recorded on my DVR, so I can see them (again) any time I want.
In the same vein as Cheryl's post, Secretariat's heart was so much larger than normal that he was officially a genetic freak -- which is probably why no other horse has come close to duplicating what he did.
If you can, try to see War Horse, PM. It's fabulous!
Hope you're mended and ready for action soon. Take care of yourself. You've been and continue to be in my prayers. ;)
I love Drag Race! And Ancient Aliens. Good choices. :-)
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Yhat ancient aliens thing is just too goofy - these guys take random occurences or things with perfectly rational explanations and then postulate it was aliens. Then suddenly it becomes a "given" that it was aliens and all of these other things could be interpreted as aliens, etc. haha, good fun, just don't let go of your logic.
and you don't have to go to netflix for it, it seems like the history channel is aliens 24x7 these days.
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