Be Part of the Pulse

Hey Pulse Readers,

We want your voice in our Entertainment Section! The Door County summer is upon us, and we want you to help us paint the picture of the scene in 2010. Each issue, we’ll post your responses to one of the following topics. Feel free to email or post to Facebook any thoughts and experiences on any of these topics, at any time, and we’ll put the best of them in print!

Here’s a list of several areas where your input would be invaluable!

Overheard: These are little bits of entertaining eavesdropping. It can be something funny you hear while out shopping, waiting in line for a movie, serving a table, at the coffee shop…anywhere!

You are out to dinner, and overhear a strange snippet of conversation: “So what did he do with the underwear?”

Tell us about it!

Pet Peeves: What’s driving you crazy? For example: “Couples who insist on holding hands across the table while the meal is being served,” or “Using double negatives, i.e. ‘ “I didn’t do nothing!’ ” or “When ice cream drips out of the bottom of a sugar cone,” or “Too much perfume.”

Shout Outs (SO): These are moments when you witnessed someone do something that made you laugh, smile, cringe, want to hug them, etc. “SO to the early-bird tourists who were trying to get to P.C. Junction, and somehow ended up at the Peninsula Players,” or “SO to the tiny 80-year-old woman who walks her Newfoundland downtown everyday, you are my hero,” or “SO to the people who tried to eat the marbles we use to weigh down the bill, because they thought it was candy.”

Obsessions: Anything you can’t stop thinking about, listening to, watching, eating, drinking. From a wild enthusiasm for Glee and those Snickers Betty White commercials to a 15-year cheddar you can’t stop eating or a song you’ve got on repeat – send us your fixation-of-the-moment.

“The best thing to sip on after (or during) a day at the beach? A nice white wine. It’s hard to imagine something better than a crisp, cold, post-fun-in-the-sun glass of wine, but it just got better. Frozen fruit makes perfect ice cubes, gives the wine a refreshing sweet flavor and adds a tasty treat at the end, like an ice cream cone with a piece of candy at the bottom. Frozen strawberries are delectable, raspberries are divine, and blueberries will do the trick in a pinch. Just go to the Farmers Market and grab some fresh fruit, freeze it, and use it the next time you pour yourself a glass of wine. You won’t regret it.”

Framed: Where have you been? What have you been doing out and about? If you took a picture, send it to us!

Books: What are you reading? What’s your ideal beach book?

Music: What are you listening too? Songs of summer 2010? What’s in heavy rotation on your iPod? Or, what songs are you sick of hearing, and summer’s not yet begun?

It’s easy to join the conversation! Email your thoughts and ideas to [email protected], or find us on Facebook and write on our wall!