2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 200,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at […]

Wizards in Winter – Christmas Light Displays

OM-freakin-G, this is absolutely off the wall crazy, I fckn LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! This display was from last year, and over 29,000 computer animated lights were used. It goes without saying, the McNamara family from Arizona are very well known for their awesome light displays. Their official website is: http://www.gilbertlights.com/ They also get much Kudos for using […]

Darlene Love – Winter Wonderland

Even if I ignore for a second her awesometastic name, I have to say that I think that Darlene Love’s version of Winter Wonderland is my absolute favourite! (well, my favourite of the several dozen of the 150 different recording artists who’ve covered this since 1934 that I’ve heard, anyway!!) ❤

Royal Variety Performance: Wizard of Oz

Now, I have to say that in the past I have not championed the upcoming West End show, Wizard of Oz, one tiny bit. I don’t like the idea of trying to revive it in the usual 18 month flash-in–pan way that these reality shows tend to produce, and I dislike the idea of there […]

Ellie Goulding – Only Girl (Cover)

Despite there being something about Ellie Goulding that I don’t quite like (perhaps it’s as I’ve known about her for quite some time now as I was getting the press releases before she made it ‘big’ ), I have to say, I absolutely ADORE her version of Rihanna’s Only Girl, recorded as part of the […]