A Duggar Update!

John and Anna Duggar are having a baby!  Woot!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/duggars_grandchild

Super Bowl Eve

Today was a great, lazy Saturday.  Jess and I did some shopping, watched a movie, and caught up on the Tivo.  Nothing terribly exciting. We caught two episodes of "Seventeen Kids and Counting," in which the Duggars went on vacation to San Francisco and a wild animal park.  We have some preparations left to make for our Super Bowl get-together at our house. There is grocery shopping and cooking to do but I did mop the kitchen floor, which was badly needed. My folks called me this afternoon to report that my dad is going to the hospital on Monday to have a catheter put in so that he can begin dialysis.  His years of ignoring his diabetes have caught up to him, and he will be having dialysis three times a week, beginning on Wednesday, now that his kidney efficiency is down to about 10%.

This evening we have been reading and watching Austin City Limits.  Nick Lowe (who I never heard of but really liked) was on, and so were The Swell Season.  I really enjoyed "Once," so it was nice to see them perform, and in HD no less (thanks WPSU!). 

Update! More Duggar news!

I tracked down the official wedding website of Josh and Anna Duggar. Things I like about this website:

1. Pictures of the happy couple wearing matching golf shirts.

2. You can watch the video of them awkwardly getting engaged at a family restaurant in Arkansas anytime you like.

3. If I wanted to, I could send the Duggars an item from their gift registry. Yes, even a 20-ounce bottle of soda.

In all, this really adds to the mystique that is the Duggar family. I never knew Josh Duggar was the proprietor of a car dealership!

DUGGARS!

Being the omnivore for pop culture that I am, on Sunday night I decided to Tivo "A Very Duggar Wedding." For the uninitiated, the Duggar family is a crazy, exceedingly-conservative family with 18 kids (all biological). The Duggars have their own show on TLC, and all of their kids have names that start with the letter J. For this special, the oldest Duggar child, Josh, married his sweetheart Anna.

Without a doubt, this was the most entertaining TV I have seen in weeks. Here are some of the things I learned about life and love from this TV special.

1. If you want to make sure that you have a sexually unfulfilling life, grow up in the Duggar household. Josh and Anna had their first kiss (not just kiss together, but kisses in life) during their wedding ceremony. Throughout the show, Josh made it very clear that he wanted the wedding to move quickly so that they could get out of there . . . . presumably to bump uglies. Prior to the wedding day, JimBob Duggar , patriarch of the Dugger clan, finally gave Josh "the talk" about the birds and the bees. He described the process as "kinda like Legos." And last but not least, as a gift JimBob gave Josh a CD entitled "On Your Wedding Night," which featured a medical doctor describing the technicalities behind it all. Comic gold.

2. Two of my favorite things about weddings are dancing and drinking. There was room for neither of these activities at the Duggar wedding. As we all know, dancing encourages unclean thoughts. Everyone knows that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding, but according to the Duggars, this was a mistranslation. A more accurate translation would be "grape juice" And did they ever have juice . . . 80 gallons for their 300 person wedding!

3. Men and women are inherently different. JimBob Duggar made many references to this, when explaining that men focus on the physical aspects of a relationship, while women are focused on feelings and other mushy stuff.

4. A wedding for 300 people requires 200 pounds of crab salad.

5. When in doubt, sing your bride a song at the wedding. Bonus points for singing badly. Anna - Just remember, Josh will do his best to be faithful to you. If that isn't reassuring, I don't know what is.

On the whole, this was a gem in the vast wasteland of reality TV. A+++