My new favorite commercial!
Monday, 30 November 2009
Friday, 27 November 2009
Here! Here!
Asuko Doi had a subscription to Time magazine and because she (or he?) didn't cancel it before they moved... Now I do!! I look at the pictures. I read an article or two. But there is no horoscope and thus, it is not a real magazine! But every once in awhile, something in the publication makes me say hmmmm.... And this week's essay is a perfect and fantastic example. The essay is called The Gospel of Glee by the delightful, Nancy Gibbs. The link to the article is at the bottom and I say READ IT!! It is all about the moral aspects to today's TV obsessions. And you know what they... and despite the fact that one of the main Christian points is "judge not",
it does seem to be a huge part of their lives- judging, I mean.
(Scratch the Nots!)
It was this quote that made me need to share the essay just as Asuko shares the Time with me...
"The point is not whether there is a moral message to be found beneath all the
snark and snideness in this show or any other. The point lies in the surprises that jostle us out of our smug little certainties and invite us to weigh what we value,
whatever our faith tradition!"
Thanks, Nancy. And thanks, Asuko.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Sunday, 22 November 2009
A Strawbery Shortcake Travesty!
Strawberry Shortcake and her pals were thought up by American Greetings in 1977. By the early 80s they were EVERYWHERE! TV, dolls, books, clothes- everywhere! They smelled delicious and they were cute as buttons plus they each had a pet!! And I loved them. My favorite doll, hands down, was Raspberry Tart! She had a monkey called Rhubarb and she smelled of raspberries which I also LOVED! I still love raspberries and I can sometimes be a bit of a tart
so it all makes perfect sense!!
I even thought bringing the gang back was a great idea. Sure, the gals are thinner and dress more like whores but kids today would be weirded out if they didn't. But I just saw something that made me change my mind.... Sure, being at a Target on a Sunday already makes me wanna kill myself but seeing this travesty was like salt in the wound... Raspberry Tart has been renamed!!!
WTF?!?!?! I am not pleased with this. She looks 100 times more Tart-like but apparently Raspberry TORTE is much more PC!! Such horse shit.
I bet she can't even have a monkey anymore.
Congrats to The Happy Parents!
The calf's birth isn't just a big deal to the park and its visitors, but to the rhino population at large. Busch Gardens is a participant in the American Zoological and Aquarium Association Species Survival Plan to ensure genetic diversification among threatened and endangered animals in zoological facilities. The International Rhino Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos, estimates that there are just over 14,530 white rhinos in the wild, and fewer than 170 live in zoological facilities across North America.
In fact, just last year, the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, which is a registered non-profit organization, donated $5,000 to Friends of Conservation, $15,000 to International Rhino Foundation, $10,000 to Rhino Fund Uganda and $10,000 to Tusk Trust to support rhino conservation efforts in the wild. Since it began in 2003, the Fund has granted five million dollars to more than 350 projects in the U.S. and around the world.
Don't you love it when something this precious also brings a bit more hope to the world?
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Been Scannin' & Picnikin'!
That's my beautiful Grandma posing for her fella (my Grandpa) at Niagara Falls in 1942...
They weren't married yet but clearly having a delightful date!
The most impressive thing is how very close they are to the Falls themselves!!
Nuts!
Clearly, I got my ladylike posing from my Gram as is evidenced in this
pic of me at the Falls 66 years later!
For Douglas!
THIS is Jason Statham.....
Born in 1972, Jason Statham has done quite a lot in a short time. He has been an Olympic Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman and finally of course, actor. He got the audition for his debut role as Bacon in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) through French Connection, for whom he was modeling. They became a major investor in the film and introduced Jason to Guy Ritchie, who invited him to audition for a part in the film by challenging him to impersonate an illegal street vendor and convince him to purchase fake jewelery. Jason must have been doing something right because after the success of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) he teamed up again with Guy Ritchie for Snatch. (2000), with co-stars including Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina and Benicio Del Toro. After Snatch. (2000) came Turn It Up (2000) with US music star Ja Rule, followed by a supporting actor role in the Sci-Fi film Ghosts of Mars (2001), Jet Li's The One (2001) and another screen partnership with Vinnie Jones in Mean Machine (2001) under Guy Ritchie's and Matthew Vaughn's SKA Films. Finally in 2002 he was cast as the lead role of Frank Martin in The Transporter (2002). Jason is also in the summer 2003 blockbuster remake of The Italian Job (1969), The Italian Job (2003), playing Handsome Rob.
Everything a girl could ask for in a second husband....
Cupping & Poking!
So, in the continuing saga of the ridiculous Hip Kerfuffle.... Thursday I went to get poked. (Yeah, I said poked.) By my favorite poker in all the universe, Douglas. Now Douglas may prefer to call himself an Acupuncturist but it's my blog!!
Let's get this on the table- I HATE NEEDLES! Part of the reason I never go to the doctor, is that so often the diagnosis requires a needle of some kind. I fear that we have only put off the needle in my current Kerfuffle but putting off= not now so I am pretty please with that! So, physical therapy? Fine. Drugs? Yes, please. Ice Packs and Anti-inflammatory patches... well, that sounds like a hoot! But when I broke my arm, I did all the same shit (after the plates and pins and casts to the shoulder, of course) and still had this crazy swelling. At the time, they thought "one of the plates had shifted" causing the swelling and requiring more surgery! Holy Tectonic Plates, Batman. And that is what drove me straight to the arms of Douglas. I don't understand the theories behind the acupuncture. My chai teas was stuck and the needles were going to blast open the pathways. Great.
Here is what I know for sure:
1) The next day, after one session- the swelling went down by 70%!!! Insane.
2) I hate, hate, HATE the teeny, tiny needles anywhere near my ankles. Weird?
3) After continued sessions and for other new and exciting reasons- I went in with a lot of sinus issues. At the time I was readying for my one woman show. Douglas put a needle in the top of my head for the congestion and at rehearsal that day, I was supposed to belt an G and overshot it. NUTS!
4) That Douglas is the best no nonsense, "stop being such a baby", caring, loving, "bend over an take it" poker anywhere! I also learned of my father's heart attack by the elevator leaving his office and I ran back to his office to look up flights and lose my mind and he held my hand and my heart until I knew I had a way to get to my Daddy and for that, I owe him the world. And because I love him and his Eastern witchcraft, I tolerate the needles.
So, why wouldn't I go for my current Hip Kerfuffle. He had seen the show the night before and he has met me- so he is aware at how good a faker I can be and how much I will tolerate so the show can go on. (He also knows my love of the Vicodin so...). And of course, I burst into tears seconds after entering his office and we got down to business. There was some prodding to find the epicenter of the pain (pretty much my entire left hip/ass region) so that didn't take long. Some needles in the low back and hip/ass region with a little electric stimulation to boot! Some chant-y crap music to "calm me" (he is funny, My Poker) and some Cupping!!!
Cupping to me either involves balls or celebrities. (Or both if Jason Statham would just drop by!!) I had seen the pics of Gwenyth and Madonna being cupped but never did I think I would be a party to this nonsense. But Douglas being Douglas didn't actually make it optional and thus out came the cups! They look like this....
Aren't they pretty?? I thought they would make lovely terrariums or fish bowls....
But then you have to add these things....
And now they just look like space age pasties! Or devices for smoking some kinda herb??
According to cuppingtherapy.net
Cupping therapy is the method of using glass or plastic cups to create localized pressure by a vacuum. The Chinese have been doing this since ancient times by using heat inside glass or bamboo cups. Nowadays, cupping sets use suction to create the vacuum. The vacuum inside the cups causes the blood to form in the area and help the healing in that area.
According to me- it hurt. Not a lot a lot (ie: not enough to make me knock off the pretty little glass orbs and run screaming out the room) but enough that I didn't like it. And maybe they released some toxins and stuff- they definitely made Douglas happy with the amount of work they were doing) and I am unsure how much they helped as I left his office and drove to the Hamptons where I got stuck in traffic for hours and had to all but crawl into the house!
But they did make my skin look like this...
Cute, right?! Almost sexy if you are into that kind of thing... There are 5 of these marks altogether- these are the two worst and easiest to photograph (hee hee) but apparently my hip gots some toxins to kick out!! They look even worse today, FYI. I won't tell Douglas any of this because he will just remind me of what a baby I am and then he'll say more mystical, ancient Chinese secrets about how long cupping has worked and he will threaten leeches next time
and I will cry.
'course then we will make some cocktails and laugh it up because that's how we roll...
Yeah. So- Cupping.
I am not so sold yet but it was only the first time... and it is the rare first time that had me convinced doing it again would be a good idea.
Though I imagine the whole Cupping + Jason Statham would work! :)
Thursday, 19 November 2009
A Little Slice of Heaven...
On Lexington and 87th... The Cupcake Man outside of a Wine store?
Do you take reservations???
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Laters, Dick!
The Buffalo Bills have decided to part ways with head coach Dick Jauron with the Bills stumbling to a 3-6 start despite making significant personnel upgrades in the off-season. Jauron will be replaced by defensive coordinator Perry Fewell who has never been an NFL head coach. Jauron compiled a 24-33 record and never led the Bills to the postseason.
I'm Not Sayin' It's Not Delish...
I just got this new menu (we get a ton of menus... empty promises of dinners unfulfilled... I'm starving!)
Anyway- Never ordered from 'em but I sure appreciate them putting the Complaints Division Number smack on the front!!
It doesn't bode well, El Rey. No bueno.
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Final BBQ of The Year!
With all this OWWW nonsense, I forgot to discuss the final surprise BBQ of the year! Hanna, Mark and the kiddos were coming by to play with their injured friend! (Well, Mark likes the football on my big, fat TV, too!) I showed Hanna how genius her idea to plant
some hens&chicks around one of the stumps turned out...
The kids did some fine, fine hop scotchin' while I cheered!
(Hop scotch not so good an idea for me at the mo'!)
Abby & William spent some time filling my beloved childhood gorilla bank,
Mike Fox, with coins!
And though Jenn Ritchie missed the hot dogs we decided to grill given how glorious a day it was and how awesome a Grill Master Mark is...
she did get there in plenty of time to celebrate the power of the fire!
It was time. And how blessed was I to have not just my gorgeous girls with me but Abby, too who announced it was "time to pick up the chalk" before any of us could do anything silly
(like get all weepy and woe is me and OWWW)
but watch the past go up in smoke!?
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Backyard Of Many Lands!!!
In addition to the ultimate cuteness that is my nephew.... This is the first iMovie I made ALL BY MYSELF!!! And doped out of my mind to boot so GOOO ME!
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