Monthly Archives: August 2006

PhotoFriday #7: circle

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I do love circles. Here’s one of my fave types of circles:mmmmm, moist delicious cake!!! There have been times that I’ve puréed up some fresh strawberries, & folded that into the whipped cream to use to frost the cake; or added in bananas. This one is just plain whipped cream, sliced up fresh strawberries, & chocolate syrup. It would’ve had bananas too, but we ran out.

Next week, I’m making one of my famous creations; I’ll post a pic of that cake after.

To see other (& more talented) PhotoFriday pics, click he-yah.

radar comes back Sept. 5th

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Guess what?!? Radar‘s not dead!

They’re gonna re-launch the website September 5th; then the mag itself is set to return next year.

I did love the site, they were always informative & entertaining.

Here is an example of classic entertainment from their archives. It’s a couple of excerpts from an feature titled “$tars for $ale”, where they try to find out how much it’d cost to get Star Jones to participate in an eating contest, how much to get Anna Nicole Smith to down shots and drop Ecstasy at a country club gala. You know, fun stuff like that.

If you liked Sassy, you’d love Radar.

I do miss Sassy. I loved how the binding always had weird stuff on it. Like the endings of Chuck Lorre productions. I know I can read Jane now, & Jane Pratt’s still in charge & all, but it’s not the same; & ever since she had her baby, she seems more hands off now.

don’t let the milky way hit cha on your way out!

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Sa-weet! How excited am I? I, for one, have been of the persuasion that Pluto wasn’t a planet for the last 10 years.

As many of you know by now, I went to Kent State. It’s a fairly liberal school; & in my Astrology class there, my prof gave us a huge laundry list of reasons why Pluto should never have been considered a planet. If I took good notes, I could reiterate them to you. But I do remember his points making complete sense. And he said that they just didn’t have the technology back then to see Pluto for what it really was, just a shriveled up ole ball. Ok, so that last part wasn’t completely historically correct, but the technology not being as advanced back then was true.

V even mentioned it on his blog. Plus he made a funny. Go read it.

I mean, seriously! Do we want Pluto w/ it’s blatent disregard to orbit correctly. It’s like a drunken Chris Columbus, thinkin he’s in India when he’s really just in the Carribean.

♫Na-na-♫na-na♪♫, ♫na-na-♫na-na♪♫, hey hey hey♫, good-bye♪♪. Sing along, y’all!

Related articles:
News.com.au | Reuters | BBC | Scientific American

bring on the grants!!!

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This is fantabulous news! If there’s a new method that would keep the commie-conservatives all happy-like, then there’s no longer a reason to block all the cha-ching-age!

If you don’t want to read the article, it’s about how the super-smart, good-guy biologists have figured out a way to get isolate & get a stem cell at only 2 days! Thereby keeping all the other healthy cells (actually called blastomeres, at this stage) so that the embryo doesn’t die. Before they couldn’t extract until later on, when there were 150 stem cells present, & so the embryo became a dead-bryo.

What this means to me is that we may have a cure to cancer in my lifetime! Yes, I’m a “glass half full” type of a gal. Don’t try to burst my bubbly.

Bring on the research grants. Ain’t no one vetoing this; there’s no longer a reason to.

Related articles:
NY Times | BBC News | UK’s Daily Mail | Reuters

my motivational poster

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As some of you may know, Liz has sent us this link (via email) &…. Wait. This seems like a good story-board story-time. Ready? Here we go.

I was sittin at work, doing work-type things. Ok, so I was really reading a mag, but it was an industry mag, so it totally counts. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but an email from my girl Liz. I call her Liz-gurl. I don’t know if y’all are allowed to though. She calls me a name that ends in ‘la’; it’s sing-songy. That’s a story for another day. Anyway, here’s the email:In case yous guys have forgotten how much I just love participating in these kinds of things, let me remind you of our fun-filled pig-drawrin days of yore. You can relive them here & here.

SO, of course, I was totally giddy & knew EXACTLY what my motivational poster creation would be. I don’t really think it needs any explanation, so here it is. A warning to all you kids out there.This is one of my dearest & oldest friends (oldest meaning I’ve known her forever, not oldest in age, folks). You can visit her site here; she’s also an artist, & so if you have good taste, you might want to check out her stuff yo.

And of course, you too can go here & create your very own motivational poster. Just don’t forget to send it to me, cause you know how much I love seein ‘em.

Go, create! If we can just help one kid, one child, then we will go to bed knowing that we’ve made a difference!

i’m gettin annoyed…

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Did I miss the memo where ‘passive-aggressive’ was declared the new black?

I’m so incredibly sick & tired of ppl asking me stupid, idiotic questions that I know damn well they know the answers to. And if they really don’t know the answer, well, that’s even worse. Don’t go around asking or wondering how something happened when you know damn well how it happened.
When I respond to the aforementioned dumbass question w/ “Well… remember yesterday when I told you about…”. Yeah, you pretty much should realize that I don’t have time to repeat myself.

Camcorders are pretty cheap now-a-days. Go get one, & just record everything I tell you; b/c I know you’ll need to refer to it later.

I’m really sorry, this isn’t addressed to anyone who even reads this site, but GEEZ-LOUISE!!! I’m sick of incompetence. Incontinence? Whatever, I’m sick of both! Anyone else out there dealing w/ the same crap I am? Can I get a “Hellz Yeah”?!

So, I’m sendin out this Happy Bunny to all the ppl who’ve annoyed me lately.

It’s funny how no matter how mad or upset I am, the happy bunnies always bring a smile to my face.

UPDATE: Not that this means much, but I’m sharing. I’ve decided to pick up some brie & have brie & whole wheat crackers & fruit tonight for din-din. I do love brie. mmmm.

PhotoFriday #6: friend

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This week’s PhotoFriday challenge is ‘friend’. I have just a million pics that would fit this theme; however, none that I really feel comfortable posting online for all the yahoos to see. Not you guys, the yahoos who find my site by doing searches such as ‘best stripper’ or ‘wife milk husband’ (wha?!).

So, I finally decided that I would post one of my fave pics of me & my girls. This pic was taken about 5 years ago! This was before my relationship w/ my digicam started, & therefore is a scanned in actual photograph. Just like they did in the olden days. “Ooooouuuu”. I know you just said that in your head.

Anyway, I (obviously) was still too chicken to post the clear pic, & I ‘sandstormed’ it instead. But I still think it looks cool.

This was at one of my fave spots to go dancin at; it was called Touch, & they used to play the best music downstairs. We had put the camera on the floor & on automatic timer to get this shot.To me, there are very few things more fun than going out dancin w/ your girls & having them play awesome music all night. Oh, & I’ve decided to call this “cirque d’amies”.

Don’t forget to click here to see other Photo Friday pics.

snakes on da mutha&!@# plane!

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It’s about snakes…. on a plane. I got that. We’ve all heard about it. It sounds like an absolutely horrible movie; I mean that in the best possible way, of course. You wonder what that original concept meeting was like; when they were trying to pitch the idea to the execs.

But beyond that, it seems like everyone who’s seen it, has loved it. I’m pretty sure it’s cause a lot of ppl go into a movie like that not really expecting much, & when they’re hit w/ something, anything, they end up pleasantly surprised.

That Joel Siegel guy who does movie reviews for a living for GMA loved it, I heard. They didn’t want critics reviewing the movie, so there were no pre-screenings of it. So, Siegel went to the 1st showing they had (Thurs night), & shelled out $10.25 to see it. I’m sure he can just get a receipt, & GMA would cover that cost for him, not that he can’t afford it anyway. Oh, back to the point, he loved it & gave it a really great review.

Slate’s calling it the 1st great 9/11 movie:

Snakes on a Plane doesn’t need to be conscious of itself as a 9/11 movie to effectively function as one. It plays on all our fears—the dangers of air travel, the death of innocents, the random appearance of evil in our daily lives—but it allows us to master those fears, and, ultimately, to achieve some measure of control over them…

Anyway, I prob won’t watch it myself, cause to be honest wit cha, it does look scary. Plus, I’m not too super-comfortable flying, & snakes give me the heebie-jeebies. But, I’d love to hear what any of y’all who’ve watched it think.

Oh, & did I mention that NPR loved it too?

see? I knew it wasn’t right

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Yeah, ppl say that if you’ve got nuthin to hide, then what’s the prob? Well, b/c it won’t stop there. It just won’t.

Remember how we were talking about how the NSA had tried to set up the phone tapping/monitoring/patroling (slash, whatever the correct “friendly” propoganda word is) like 7 months before the 9/11 attack?

Yes, Mr. Snow, we do expect the gov’t to detect & prevent terrorist attacks before they are carried out. But we do also expect the gov’t to do it in a manner that is constitutional. Don’t cha think?

Well, one of the Federal District Courts judges thought so, & ordered the NSA to quit it. Not in those words, mind you. She was much more eloquent & composed in her wording; & she gave it in a 43-page opinion!

I know that my friends think I could prob write that much about something, but I really couldn’t.