22 Nov 03:05
I'm not a big fan of Nicolas Cage, so bear that in mind when I say this: who turned him into Steve Buscemi?



Don't get me wrong, I think it could be an improvement. Put him in another Coen Bros. movie and I might consider taking him off my personal black list. I'm not sure who else is on that personal black list, let me think for a minute.

Personal Black List
Keanu Reeves
Hugh Hefner

Buh?

I'd go onto imdb.com and troll around for actors who make me squint with displeasure, but I think I'd rather drink this glass of wine and think good thoughts about a pussycat. As the saying goes.

20 Nov 01:25
NPR's compiled an argument for "The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings" and they've set it up so you can listen to one song from each of their album choices, and then embed your choice of their choices in your website. So here's one:

This song always sort of chokes me up.

So that's fun! For you.

Other thoughts: The dying hydrangea I posted on the first of the month has gotten so much more brownly-yet-pinkishly elderly, it's like the Lillian Gish of the neighborhood, fading so graciously that every time you look at it your heart still sees the bee-stung lips of its youth. I'm regretting not having set up a tripod and putting little chalk circles around its tripod feet so that I could set it up in the same place at the same time every day to capture the hydrangea's elegant demise. Instead, all I have is before and somewhat less before:



Lastly, if anyone is waiting along with Peevish for my thoughts on the Mamie Minch album, I haven't listened to the full thing just yet but my impression thus far is that she is going to get somewhere! She just hasn't quite figured out how to get everything in gear and floor it. There are some wonderful duets with her and a woman named Dayna Kurtz over on a certain MySpace page that have been a lot of fun to listen to, and so then I downloaded Dayna's "Postcards from Downtown" album (so far so good!!), but I can't find any joint releases from them so far, despite some talk about a 10-inch, which does me no good whatsoever, my turntable's been packed away for a decade. And no, I can't think of a better word than "album" for any songs released as one whole stack of pancakes by an artist, I think it's still a good word -- I like the way "album" lets you think of a book with page after page of photographs somebody else took of the inside of your head* -- so I'm keeping it.

*Too labored?

02 Aug 01:21
Back in 2005 before the first BlogHer conference, two amazing women- Jenny of Three Kid Circus and Meghan of I'm A Bloggin'- were asked to be on a panel about mommyblogging by BlogHer co-founder Elisa. I was honored to...

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13 Feb 03:15
This is an essay by John Taylor, the superintendent of Lancaster County School District in South Carolina. I wish every school board in the States had to hear it read by a parent at the start of every board meeting....

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