2010 December | Table for Five

Why you should watch tonight’s episode of Community

December 9, 2010 By Elizabeth

Because it's awesome, that why. Thanks to One2One Network, I got to watch tonight's special Christmas episode of Community, titled "Abed's Unconrollable Christmas". It's the last day of classes before Christmas break at Greendale, and while Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) makes the announcement that everyone is invited to express their holiday sentiments in their own constitutionally-approved fashion in specially designated zones (ha!), Abed (Danny Pudi) joins the group in the cafeteria and after wishing Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) and the rest of the group a Merry Christmas, asks what everyone is doing over the break. Annie (Alison Brie) plans to read all of the books required for a class, Troy (Donald Glover) wants to make locking himself in his room with video games a new tradition. When Abed is disappointed, Pierce (Chevy Chase) asks him why he even cares about Christmas, as a Muslim. Abed tells everyone that it must be a special Christmas because everyone has been turned into … [Read more...]

The other Elizabeth Edwards passes away at age 61

December 7, 2010 By Elizabeth

For six years, I've had people say to me "oh, your name is ELIZABETH EDWARDS" and then some comment about my husband running for President or more recently, a comment about my cheating husband. Or they would ask me if it was hard having the same name as a famous person. Well, yes and no. The only hard part really has been all the comments. I mean, does every person who has the same first and last name as someone famous for some reason go through it? I don't know anyone else who has the same name as someone famous, so I don't have anyone else to ask. When I first joined Facebook it was while John Edwards was campaigning for President, and I got a bunch of friend requests with messages that said things like "I love your husband! I hope he gets elected!". After a few weeks, the friend requests stopped, until this morning. I woke up to a Facebook inbox full of friend requests and messages from people who were praying for "me". I was confused, because I hadn't watched the … [Read more...]