Pippa Middleton looks like Robin Tunney circa The Craft. Who’s with me?
I’m calling it now
May 19, 2011Sad Sunday Poem
May 9, 2011Mercifully
He let me sleep
and in my dreamful slumber, I could do what I couldn’t awake ––
wash my face, brush my teeth, and greet the day.
When Family Members Go Native Nutso
May 4, 2011My friend Lady B sent me this hilarious email she received from from her aunt, who divorced her uncle a while ago and has now found a new path in Native American spirituality. (She is not, fyi, a Native American.)
P sent you a message.
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hey Lady B it has been a very long time since I have seen you and your parents…quess I didn’t realize when i had to divorce Steven I end up losing 3 great people. You are all grown up… I heard you can speak several languages including sanskrit…way to go !
i don’t know where you are at spiritually( not religion) in your life…but I have been following the native path for a very long time and it has evolved to I guess you can say to the origin where religion came about.
My first vision I had was in 1996 and pretty much i have been evolving since. I have been following this path of awaking since and it has been very challenging. Hardest part right now is being away from L. We talk each day..but miss hugging her… But we both know she and I and others have a greater task that involves the earth and all that inhabit it in the next year and half.
Guess I am putting out there for you for spirit has a reason for me to contact you after all these years…. I have a feeling you are experiencing things that you may or not understand…. Is your ears been ringing unusual? Seeing sequential numbers like 11:11… Not matter what let me how you are doing.. say hi to Mom and Dad for me.. Many blessings to you and your family P
Phone # …live in North Dakota now near my husband’s reservation.
Number One Best Moment of my Life
April 28, 2011When Charles Shepard, the Charlotte Observer reporter who blew the whistle on Jim Bakker and Praise the Lord Industries, gets Tammy Faye to sign copies of the tell-all book about the scandal ’cause he thinks it would be “a hoot” to give it away at his graduate school auction.
Gem from Disney World
April 25, 2011My friend NZ just attended what sounds like a great wedding at Disney World (who knew?!) and regaled me with a tale of drunken Magic Kingdom antics…
NZ: So after this whole wedding reception we went to a dance hall and i got bombed of jagerbombs and champagne…we ended up getting kicked out of the bar (disney banned they called it) at around 1:45 am after drinking since noon… so I have to pee and I am on the look out for a bathroom and running all over (everything is shut down at this point) All the boys are trying to stop one of our friends from beating up the bouncer and the bride and groom are by the water having a romantic moment. ….
i stumble upon a “concession stand” that seem likes there may be a bathroom inside.. there isnt..but there is 1000 stuffed animals
that i start collecting like the building is burning down
after i grab 2 jumbo sonic the hedgehogs 4 flamingos, 2 toucans, a giant monkey and a minnie mouse
i flop out of the tent
and scream
WINNNINGGGG
fall over straddling the hedgehog
the bride and groom were on the floor crying they were laughing so hard
security didnt even stop me
they let me have all the stuffed animals and i handed them out to cab drivers and children checking into the hotel
didnt remember any of this until i woke up in bed with sonic
lol
and was paranoid the wholleee entire day i was going to disney jail
ID: that’s the best story i ever heard
NZ: apparently there is a picture someone took, i have yet to see it but i will send it to you if i it turns up 🙂
May 21st, 2011
April 24, 2011Apparently there is a “new” (at least to me) theory that the world is coming to an end on May 21st. Some reasons I think this may be valid:
1. According to my boss, since the stock market has recovered the rate of divorce has risen 60%.
2. This “blind item”
Wait… what happened?! I wrote a fucking polemic here and WordPress deleted it, and doesn’t WordPress know that a) genius, like lightning, doesn’t strike the same place twice and b) I’m lazy?
(Summary: I don’t believe tween star Demi Lovato was ever in rehab, and if she was, it was for probably two days and for drug abuse and self-mutilation more than any eating problem, which is becoming the new “exhaustion” –– excuse for being troubled/acting strangely if you’re famous and want, in the end, to appear ultimately NOT GUILTY)
Parisian Menu
April 17, 2011A list of meals enjoyed (or considered) by New York Times writer Amy M. Thomas while in Paris:
1. creme-filled pain aux raisins
2. the Cornet Vegetarien –– a sandwich of fresh greens, grated carrots and fennel, marinated onions and thinly sliced avocado, dressed with olive oil and honey and dusted with chives and lime zest
3. Sauteed squid with oranges and green olives and a “delicious” bottle of Cotes-du-Rhone
4. A dollop of mozzarella dusted with black pepper and vanilla
5. Pear crumble served with buckwheat ice cream and grapefruit compote
6. Oyster tapioca with blood sausage and dried duck meat
7. Smoked herring marinated in olive oil and served with pickled onions
8. Steamed cod and baby spinach
9. Bespoke millefeuille
10. Rose, chocolate and pistacho macarons
11. Endive, walnut, Stilton cheese, apple salad
12. John Dory with coriander, lime, and tomato compote
13. Black cod with daikon
14. Brochettes of Parmesan covered salsifis
15. A melange of banana, passion fruit, rum, granite, and cream
Thoughtlets
April 15, 2011Apparently I’m having a “thoughtlet” week (Kay Ryan’s term for Twitter-friendly half-ideas) which is bad but we’ll roll with it. Two things:
1. In my dream last night I had a pair of peach-colored leather pants? And they actually didn’t look horrendous.
2. Not one but TWO people on my subway car this morning were reading Rhonda Byrnes’ The Secret. For shame.
I also (this could be 3?) came up with the skeleton of a theory about the Internet, blogging/MySpace/social networking, and the notion of “audience” in the work of David Foster Wallace (after reading reviews for The Pale King, which I’m awaiting anxiously) but I think it’s either not fleshed out enough or too obvious to unpack.
Twitter-esque
April 14, 2011A poem? as “slim as [a] runway model…”
Very few things annoy me as much
as women who blog about breastfeeding
Reblogged
April 14, 2011Doesn’t “re-blogged” just mean “stolen” or “plagiarized”?
Thanks, JG, for "Overheard on the Titanic"!
