❮❮prevnext❯❯

drinkin' rum and coca-cola...well....coca-cola anyway.

sidebar of the people

Ah, Americans. You may have pretzels, Fisherman's Wharf and those tasty sweets that look like corn, but what you don't have is Eurovision!

It's like Heaven in televisual format.

Obviously you can't enter (actually, since Israel enters, and they aren't in Europe, there's no reason you shouldn't) but I don't know if you can see it.

24 countries from the European area compete in a singing contest to see whose song will be most popular...and they're generally the tackiest Eurodisco with stick thin girls and obviously gay boys. (Except this year with the JOY that was Norway's Glam entry).

All the voting is very political between countries, and in Britain we have Terry Wogan doing the gently sarcastic and ever more drunk commentary just for us, and many people have parties and play drinking games, and it's such fun.

And it just occurred to me that you miss out on all of this! And I couldn't think of a similar event that you have - can you?
--Catherine
(7 comments)
(1 comment)
2005.05.22
Not much of an update today, kind of hectic schedule.

One random thought: I can't wait 'til the current cocacola promotion ends, the one that makes all the caps green. For one thing, it used to be much easier to tell the "with Lime" versions that I like so well apart from the normal types. Secondly of course, I never frickin' win free coke, despite the 1-in-12 odds...well, I did once...and of course the prize is "one liter", despite the fact that few places actually stock much between the 20oz and the 2 liters...I think it's all part of nefarious plot.

I guess that's just cosmic justice...at work we'll a bit too quick to exploit the way the machine will give two cans for the price of one. (But not bottles so the former always runs out before the latter.)

Quote of the Moment
I learned, never date a Jedi. It makes them crazy.
So many people are so down on this flick, even though most of the people I talk with think it was pretty good.