Word: skies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SEEING Excuse Me While I Kiss this Guy... You know that part in U2's [She Moves in] Mysterious Ways where Bono starts singing about "Shamu the Mysterious Whale" and ... Wait a minute! Chalk up another entry on KissThisGuy.com(as in Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze lyric "kiss the sky"), the archive of misheard, misunderstood and mangled song lyrics. Perplexed by the Ramones' "I want a piece of date bread"? What they really sang was "I wanna be sedated." If this doesn't change the way you hear music, then "the ants are my friends is blowin' in the wind...
...Call it MyTv. Viewers will be freed from broadcast schedules and able to create their own programs. Already subscribers to Britain's Sky News Active can select individual news stories from a menu instead of having to watch an entire show. Those with personal video recorders (PVRs) can decide when to watch movies and TV shows that were originally broadcast live...
...stayed for a couple of party-filled weeks (actually, it was one continuous party, interrupted by the occasional be-in in Golden Gate Park), crashing with people I had just met. But I fell in love--with brightly colored gingerbread houses, staggering vistas and a robin's egg-blue sky that licked the bay and gave off a diaphanous light unlike anything I'd ever seen in the bricked-in East. I promised myself that someday I would return for good...
...Clay, now 29, has beaten me to it. After a few postcollege years in Boston, he hightailed it back to the only city in America he deems worth living in and found an affordable but tiny basement apartment before the rents went sky-high. But as my husband and I toy with the possibility of joining him there, it's becoming clear that the San Francisco we once knew is in peril of disappearing...
...look out the window again. Blue sky, buildings rising to meet us. We're coming down. I collapse against my seat. It's over...