Posted in Celebrity, Favorites, tagged Karen O, make-up, perfume on May 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
GLAM: I used to work in a boutique in Newark, Delaware called Bloom, and every time I visit the First State, I have to go see Mimi and have her show me all the cool new things she has to tempt the dollars out of my wallet and into her antique cash register.
Working as a Bloomer [...]
Posted in Interesting Internet Finds, Kids, Movies on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I teach first grade in a bilingual school in Germany. So, I was looking through of my first graders’ finished “work”, and I came across this little pearl:
You have to read it using German phonetics. So, it says “I play every day”. Then you see a little figures, one saying “I’m your dad” and the [...]
Posted in Los Angeles, Movies on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I attended a 70th anniversary screening of “Gone with the Wind” last night. Based on Margaret Mitchell’s book by the same name, “Gone with the Wind” premiered at the Cathay Circle Theater in Los Angeles on December 28, 1939.
When the film was in production, industry insiders said it was destined to be a failure of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Being that I live in MN, I am not sure if this story is as popular around the country as it is in my state. The controversy is written about here in which a 13-yr-old is denying cancer treatment due to religious beliefs. He has a very curable cancer yet his parents will only agree [...]
Posted in Meditation, Poetry on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is my monthly allotted steal from Writer’s Almanac. This poem makes me feel very celebratory about the bullshit I’m getting done today.
Praise
by Michael Chitwood
Physical therapists have opened a clinic in the office next to mine.
This morning one of them is treating a cystic fibrosis patient. The
patient lies face down on a table, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I saw the new Star Trek movie tonight and I’ve got to say: I loved it. The only downsides were a shitty theater and a poor turnout.
I am not a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination, so this isn’t coming from someone with a strong bias. It’s just a visually interesting pop corn movie [...]
Posted in Celebrity, Movies on May 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I saw a film last night called Little Ashes. It’s a tiny film based on the young lives of Federico Garcia Lorca, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali when they attended school together in Madrid. The film explores Lorca and Dali’s changing relationship, the political climate in Spain during the 1920s and Dali’s rise among Surrealists. [...]
Posted in Familia, food on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Living in a small town in Central Pennsylvania for the past two years has been, to put it nicely, a surreal experience. While I have appreciated wandering around a multitude of antiques shops on Sunday afternoons among the oddities and objects of other people’s lives, and while I have managed to find an excellent coffee [...]
