Riot and Frolic

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

On Not Owning a Television, #@@&#!@

I don't own a t.v.

I do have a computer and the interwebs.

I stream shows I like from Netflix (thanks, Nicey-Nice Lady!) and [gasp] occasionally stream new episodes illegally.

I generally do not read or listen to the news, see commercials, or watch movie previews.

My conversations are… interesting because of this.

Not having a t.v. has made my frame of pop culture references very small.

On opening weekend of Magic Mike (of course I knew about Magic Mike, it's MAGIC MIKE), it was also the opening weekend for a movie called Ted.  My friends were discussing the plot of the movie and I thought they were kidding.  

The only way I hear any world news is, sadly, if it's mentioned on The Facebooks.  

On one hand, have you seen the news?  It's depressing.  Just fires and murders and riots and war and then a story of a water-skiing squirrel to round it out.  Thanks for the balance, newsfolks!

On the other hand, maybe I should be more up in arms about fracking and political climate and other things that raise your blood pressure.  

More importantly…

What if I miss an awesome movie because no one I know saw it?!

And I miss TMZ.  When I do see it, I don't know who they're being snarky about anymore.  [lé sigh]

justin bieber

is this a thing?
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