You know how it is when you find something you love and instantly you want everyone you know to love it, too? Here is a list of things the Beehive is into at this very moment. We invite you to share your obsession in the comments.
Kathy: I can't get enough of "Chelsea Lately". The show cracks me up, especially the monologues and snarky round table. It is the perfect way to unwind after work before jumping into weekly shows like "American Idol." Plus, it's worth tuning in to see Chelsea Handler's slammin' shoes. So envious.
Mike Oz: There are many things I like right now -- Matt & Kim, South Park, the weather -- but there's only thing that's at full-blown obession level. It's not much of a surprise, really -- 24." This season has really brought back the luster and thrust "24" back into the top tier of TV. I bow to you, Jack Bauer, and I can't wait to see how you save the world this time.
Heather: Lately I've been obsessed with reading Kathy Reichs' crime novels. Reichs is a forensic anthropologist and the inspiration for the TV show "Bones," which I am also slightly obsessed with, and mostly not just because it stars Angel. The books aren't exactly great literature, but they're interesting, and I'm pretty sure by the time I finish reading them I'll be able to commit the perfect crime. Mwah-haha.
Donald: I am currently obsessed with Istanbul. As in used to be Constantinople. As in Turkey. I'm just finishing up a novel by the Turkish writer Elif Safak titled "The Bastard of Istanbul," and through it I've gotten completely caught up in the colorful, turbulent rhythms of this ancient city. Set in the present day, the book focuses on an extended Turkish family living in Istanbul. When a distant Armenian-American relative -- a young woman trying to make sense of her own mixed Armenian-Turkish identity -- arrives for a visit, it opens up old wounds.
What I like so much about this book is the way it handles the hot-button issue of the history between the Turks and the Armenians. In a passage that will stick with me long after I've finished the book, an Armenian character living in Istanbul explains why he never wanted to emigrate to America. In Turkey, he says, he lives alongside Turks and interacts with them on a variety of levels: social, personal, official. The topic of the Armenian genocide -- and, yes, Safak uses that term, for which she was ultimately prosecuted by the Turkish government for "insulting Turkishness" (with the charges later being dropped) -- is still present, but decades of Turks and Armenians living side by side in the country have smoothed some of the subject's raw emotional edges. But for members of the Armenian diaspora who have literally never met a Turk, except in stories about their atrocities, it's much easier to keep the hatred white-hot, the Armenian character in the novel says.
So, besides turning me on to the intricacies of modern-day life in Istanbul, and introducing me to some of the delectable foods and customs of that culture, I've also been thinking about the heavy burden of historical memory. When does one learn from the past, and when does one try to move on? In the meantime, I've wasted several hours online researching package tours to Istanbul and dreaming.
Your turn. What's got you obsessed?
Yea Yeah! Matt and Kim, I thought I was the only one who obsessed with them.
My current obsession is planting (and replanting) my vegetable beds. Generally, playing with dirt.
Chelsea Handler? You too, Kathy? Geez, I just don't get the hype on her. I've tried, but I just don't think she's funny.
I concur.
I am gunna have to go ahead and say Dolhouse. It is Joss Whedon's latest show and I must say that it is a something new for TV and I love it.
Sorry, KM: I agree with Mike Oz on this one. Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman can both take a long walk off a short pier (my next obsession: outdated clichés).
OBSESSED with Imagination Movers, the Disney Channel kids show. Totally appreciate that its a pre-school show that doesn't irritate the crap out of its adult audience (ie the moms who watch it day in and day out with their kids). I actually really enjoy their CD Juicebox Heroes (Yeah, have to love it for that alone) and well, you know, the fact that they're 4 attractive guys singing about snacktime and cleaning their rooms is pretty hot, too.
@Mike & Heather: I love it when she calls people out for stupidity. And, the other comedians on the round table, so funny.
I am big into the fiber arts and right know I am obsessed with knitting cardigans. I am working on two, February Lady and the Katharine Hepburn Cardigan, and I can't put them down.
My obsession...you mean BESIDES the Beehive, I take it?
It would HAVE to be Breaking Bad. This is a completely creepy, yet enthralling show I stumbled upon about a High School Chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with lung cancer and he decides to cook meth and partner with his former student to sell it so he can leave behind enough money to provide for his family and pay for his chemo...
Anyway. The second season is on AMC, Sunday nights at 7pm, but I record it so I can fast forward through the commercials. heh.
um...
-sleep (grabbed 14 hours the other day, THAT was pretty slammin.')
-Tunin' up the bikes for Spring (worked on 'Sword of Grace' last night, think I'm going to repack all the bearings and put more miles on her this year (great run up to 'the Well' and back 10mi... not bad, bod's not quite used to it.)
-Django Reinhardt
-New U2 (No Line on the Horizon.)
-Footage of old abandoned East Coast Amusement parks
-and I think I'm gonna go up to Yosemite with my camera and just see what happens.
iPod Touch, iPhone (want one), Netbook (want one), Twitter, SLR camera.
As you can see, I'm obsessed with computers, Internet and gadgets.
Right now, I am obsessed with Jake And Amir and Chuck (NBC) and The United States of Tara (Sho) and The Decemberists' The Hazards Of Love. They are all awesome.
As usual, Mike stole my thunder. This season of 24 has reaffirmed my love for the show, especially after the dismal season that was Day 6.
And I know I'm late to this show, but I've been hooked on NCIS. Mostly cause USA airs 5 episodes a day. And still being fricken unemployed and bored off my a** I watch them all.
Seinfeld on dvd is a constant obsession.
These blogs
1001 rules for my unborn son
The Impossible Cool
Hedi Slimane's diary
English Premier League
* Old 97s "Blame it on Gravity," which is almost a year old now, but whatever.
* Ernest Hemingway. Currently reading "A Moveable Feast. A writer writing about writers writing. What could be better?
* The Crest Theatre. I really hoping this will become the it place for bands to play.
My current obsession is the Downtown Community Arts Collective.
The things they are doing is just amazing.
And they let me be involved so that's always a plus.
Actually, any organization that knows me and still wants me is pretty much my obsession!
Mike Oz, you are my hero of the day. I have never wanted to ditto someone's post verbatim as badly as yours above. I feel EXACTLY the same way. Can't wait until people are over her...she just tries way too hard.
I watched the first episode of Free Radio (I'm not html-savvy enough to post a link), and I'm totally hooked. Can't wait for the next one.
Oh, and boobs...
P.S. My current obsession is Lady Gaga...and I LOVED her performance on Idol Last week. Bring the hate!
Thanks, Danielle. I wish I could ditto yours, but I HATE Lady Gaga.
My most recent obsession: making a Hackintosh out of a Dell mini 9. Once the netbook finally gets here, I want to change it to dual boot Ubuntu or OSX. I saw one recently and immediately had to start the investigation on how to make it. It's just taking Dell forever to send me the netbook.
Also, I've been a little bit addicted to Powers. It's an amazing comic and I got in on it way too late.
I live at Quail Lake, I am obsessed with its beauty. However Quail Lake is a Private gated community where the residents cannot get the gates closed. The Developer has threatened injunctions, it is a continuous daily battle. The HOA Board will not make this a gated community. Attorneys are engaged, yet the board refuses to listen to the greater community.
Quail Lake is beautiful, the drama and politics make this a place that is difficult to live at. Tonight we hare having another emergency meeting, I expect the Board will try and convince us with reasons why they cannot close the darn gates.
http://sites.google.com/site/quaillake/