Last weekend Wooley and I went to the Opera, I made him, after struggling to find the Dallas Music Hall, which is in Fair Park, a hilarious place in Dallas, simply because its a huge, old and a random place with museum's and a Music Hall, they hold the State Fair, there every year, ask Deepa about that one! Also somewhat randomly they were holding the Northern Texas Irish festival on the same night, I think Wooley may have actually have preferred the Whiskey to the Opera but anyway it wasn't all bad in the end it was an entertaining but very sad Opera and we had great seats, Porgy and Bess.
But as you know we are an eclectic pair and not all about the highbrow and so we have just got back from, America's got Talent, they taped in Dallas tonight and so we went along as audience members, it was free and we went with friends. It was a lot more fun then what I thought it would be, we were way in the back so I doubt if they got us in any audience shots. But what I can't believe is that they let Piers Morgan be a judge on that show. For "Apprentice" fans you will be shocked to hear he is a judge on celebrity Apprentice in the US also, its funny how a lot of the UK "talent" gets shipped to the US?!
We went to an Obama fund raiser last weekend which was an interesting night, and it got me to thinking that due to the very busy lifestyle in the USA, even social activities are organized and have to be useful in some way. There is very little just chilling, I think they think of that as a waste of time or something, it's all about spending "quality time" and making the most of the time you have. So even a walk becomes a "fitness event." I am not the only one who thinks this: on NPR (National Public Radio, one of the best things I have discovered in the USA is NPR) the other day they had a lady talking about how Americans in general socialise less than in the 1950's. Another day I heard a radio story about how kids nowadays have so many activities planned for them that they don't know how to just play by themselves, use their imagination and their own resources and that has led to children being less able to exercise self control, use their own initiative and this may have led partially to the rise of the diagnosis of ADHD. Jigna
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yes Piers Morgan - there was an article about him last week and he said he had dinner with Simon Cowell and that led to the subsequent offers of employment on talent shows. You see, its not what you know.......which explains precisely why I am in still sat in office in deepest darkest Bradford...not that I know alot either!
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